Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-08-13

farmers in this vicinity who have nm
ished threshing report their wheat yield
at thirty to forty bushels to the acre.
Joseph McCrum, a citizen OF Atchi-
son. who owns several hundred acres Of
land in Osborne county, says his wheat
yielded tWenty-one bushels to the acre
this year.
Centralia Journal: Farmers say the
hay crop is the heaviest ever known in
the state. There are several pieces
of timothy in this neighborhOOd being
cut and bound with self-binders.
Jennings letter: Crops are immense
in this part of Decatur county. Grain
is turning out better than was expected.
Rye that has been threshed is making
forty to fifty bushels and wheat twenty
to twenty-five bushels.
Hiawatha.-Tbe amount of hay grown
in Brown county this year is simply
enormous, most of it going from three
to four tons to the acre, thereby chang
ing in a period of sixty days the price
of hay from ST to $3.50 per ton.
Ellinwood Advocate: John Schnei-
der, one of the rustllng farmers of the
south side, informs MS that he has fifty
acres of wheat which will average forty
bushels to the acre, and forty-five acres
which will go about thirty-tiye bushels.
jamestown letter: Andrew Peterson,
aged 70 years, living near jamestown,
has fifty acres of corn without a weed.
He tended this alone with a team of
horses % years old. Mr.. Peterson is yet
considered one of the substantial farm
ers of Cloud county.
Long Island Leader: Dyatt brothers,
living ten miles northwest of this city,
sowed ten bushels of rye last fall, and
after letting the stock feed from the
field all spring, threshed 348 bushels
from the same sowing, making about
forty bushels per acre.
Arkansas City.-The Texas fever has
at last got into the state and a large
number of native cattle are sick. Twenty
head belonging to different farmers have
died. Many men viii be ruined, and
people are very indignant that the
southern cattle should have been allowed
so close.
Dighton Journal: W. A. Tyner
threshed out some of his barley, which
made ninety bushels per acre. A great
many could hardly believe that Jacob
Graves yield of seventy-two bushels
was correct, but now that Mr.. Tyner
has made ninety we presume they will
have to swallow the former.
Hazleton Express: J. P. Lynde sent
us samples of his Hale's Early peaches,
Wednesday, from his orchard in the
northwest part of town. They were
nearly white, fine favored, and one
measured 81 inches in circumference.
Mr.. Lynde has five acres of fruit trees
and vines, and all are burdened with
fine fruit this season.
Dodge City Globe-Republican F.
NJ Cruise, who lives ten or fifteen
miles southwest of the city on the high
est table land, says he has forty acres
of corn, much of which is over six feet
high. 1t is in the silk ard promises to
be heavy yield. His barley will go
over forty bushels to the acre and oats
about fifty bushels to the acre.
Leavenworth Standard: A farmer
from Kickapoo was in the city for a
horse doctor. Some kind Of distemper
is affecting the horses of that locality
very seriously. Tho disease affects the
throat, causing swelling in the neck,
which binders breathing. Fred Hoberg
has six horses with the disease, while
other farmers animals are more or less
affected.
Concordia Empire: Kentucky Smith
remarked to us this week: ''I have
been here for thirteen years and have
not in that time seen anything like such
crop and prospect as we have this
year. Mr.. Smith has 240 acres Of corn
which he says is not as large in stalk
as corn usually grows in wet years, but
he thinks it will produce the heaviest
crop he ever raised. He says corn in
this section is good for an average OF
fifty bushels per acre.
Washington Register: Harry Bond
is doing something in the way of farm
ing this year. He has two fields of
corn of 120 acres each, one of so acres,
two of forty acres each, one of 20 acres,
one of Is acres and one of 10 acres,
making a total of 415 acres of corn, and
he says it is the best prospect he has
had in thirty years farming in the state.
Besides the corn he has 80 acres of
wheat and 40 acres of oats which have
given a most excellent yield. Harry
says it has taken grit and management
to worry through the past year with
his great amount of stock, but the crisis
has been safely passed, and the pros
pect of prices is cheering to every
farmer.
Kiowa journal: A visit to the farm
of RObt. Fran, one-halt mile north of
town, will well repay anyone. Five years
ago this magnificent farm was a raw
piece of prairie; to-day it is covered
with large, bearing orchards of peach,
apple, plum and apricot, to say nothing
OF small fruit, such as Strawberries,
black berries, raspberries, and grapes.
In addition to this he has large mar
ket garden of all kinds of vegetables,
besides fifty acres Of wheat, the same of
corn and two acres of watermelons. Mr..
Fran says he does not believe there is
another place in the United States where
he could have secured such results in so
short time and with the same amount
of labor. He will this season dispose Of
about $4,000 of produce from his farm.
Caldwell Journal: The writer was
talking with farmer who had just fin
| ished threshing seventy acres of wheat
/ that had turned out in actual measure
ment thirty-fve bushels to the acre, OF
total of 2,450 bushels. Figure tina;
at the low price of 60 cents per bushel
i and you have S1.5I9 or little over $40
an acre from the land. There are thou.
sands and thousands OF acres that car
| be bought for less than that and land
/ that is Just as good in every way. There
are very few pieces of land in this part
/ of Sumner county that are going less