Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-05-28

miles of corn rows this year-enough
to reach around the world eleven times
Enough to go around the world two OF
three times is already up and growing.
Fredonia Citizen: NJ G. Stokes, the
colored farmer who lives just northeast
of town. is putting in nineteen acres OF
cotton this spring.
Stafford Republican: Joe Spaulding,
of Sylvia, is re-planting his melons, as
he has very poor stand. He has thirty
acres and intends to ship for the early
market.
Harper Sentinel: Frank Carver, whe
lives near Attica, will plant 200 acres Of
watermelons this season. He has been
making speciality OF this crop for sew
eral years, and finds it very profitable
LHwrenee.-The fruit growers are ju-
bilant over the prospect for heavy
crop this season. There is every indi-
cation that the quality will be equal &c
any previous year. Strawberries will
not be SO much later than usual as was
anticipated, home grown berries having
been on the local market for eight
days.
Lindsborg News: J. P. Duncan
brought in samples of wheat yesterday
which was badly damaged by the Hes
! sian fly. Insects from g. 16 to 1-S inch
in length are found IN the stalk about
one inch from the ground. And from
the numerous reports the past few days
from farmers from all sections, leads us
; to believe that the damage from the flv
is more extensive than most people are
inclined to believe.
Atchison.--Joseph McCrum, a wealthy
citizen of Atchison, who has six
hundred acres of wheat in Osborne coun-
ty, received word from his agent that
there had been no rain in that section
for month, and that chinch bugs are
rapidly destroying the wheat in places.
1t has turned yellow and Is SO dry that
lighted match would set the entire
field IN flames. This dispatch was
just before the last general rain.
Kansas City Gazette: Orchard-grow.
ing is destined to become the leading
industry of eastern Kansas. The splen-
did results of the last five years have
demonstrated to the farmers of eastern
Kansas that fruit-growing is the most
profitable branch of agriculture. Farm
ers having five or ten acres in orchard
out of their 100 acres are constantly
saying that they make more on their
orchards than on their wheat, corn and
stock combined.
Gypsum Advocate: The amount of
acreage, the appearance and general in
dications of the coming wheat crop two
weeks ago warranted the belief that
within a marketable distance of this
city there would be harvested 1000, 900
bushels. But a consultation with a con-
siderable number of farmers and a drive
into the country last Wednesday salts
ties us that this estimate is 25 per cent
too high for the present outlook. The
presence of the Hessian fly is the prin-
cipal cause for the destruction.
Lawrence Chancellor Snow has re-
turned from a two days inspection of
wheat fields in Cowley and Chautauqua
counties. The examination was with
special reference to the result of the
chinch bug experiment. In spite of the
unfaYorable weather the bugs are rapid
ly dying from the infection, and it is
evident from the fields visited that the
CAiHCA DuB IS IaPluly uyiHBs Lie
wheat fields visited are in a very -four
ishing condition, and indications point
to a crop above the average. Little
damage from the Hessian fly is re-
ported.
An average Wabaunsee county farm,
with moderate improvements, was sold
at public sale for spot cash. A number
of non resident bidders, and also some
neighboring farmers were present.
William Dorman, a Wabaunsee farmer,
bought it at S4.78O, which was the fair
value of the farm. Among the bidders
were nine Wabaunsee county farmers,
each of whom had the money in his
pocket with which to pay for the farm.
A gentleman present who is intimately
acquainted in that section made careful
inquiry and satisfied himself that but
one of the nine had borrowed any to
make up the required amount. Getting
interested, he pushed his inquiries
further, and is satisfied that there are
at least 100 farmers now in that county
who can command $4,000 or more at
any moment without borrowing one
dollar.