The Globe-republican., 1891-08-19
Echoes from the Farm.

Farmer Knight of this county has just
finished threshnig a forty acre field OF
wheat which averaged fifty-two bushels
to the acre.-COffeyville Journal.
WIN. Stoughton and VIM. Anderson
threshed % 1-2 and 30 bushels per acre
respectively from their wheat fields this
week.-Gove County Gazette.
We hear that the wheat of NJ. 5. Chap
ell,i Asherville, yielded over forty bush
els per acre. Last year Mr.. G. Threshed
fifty-four bushels per acre-Beloit Ga
zette.
E.A TaylOr Of BelOit will have seven
or eight thousand bushels of peaches to
market this season. We uOtice some OF
his peaches in the stores at this place,
and they are very fine.-Gaylord Herald.
Bowles brothers th:eshed piece OF
volunteer wheat raised on their place
about fourteen miles west of here which
averaged twenty-six bushels per acre
and tested sixty-twO pounds.-Gove
County Gazette.
The reduction of duties on American
flour sent to Cuba is S4.73 per barrel.
Still, the st. Louis Republic is quite mad
about it, and says how much reciprocity
there is about it is easily Inferred
Brooklyn Standard Union.
Several years ago J. G. Warren plant
ed some prune trees on his farm east OF
this city. The trees made very thrifty
growth, and this year are loaded with
fine fruit, plainly showing that prunes
can be successfully grown here.-Man-
Eat0 Monitor.
The Wa-Keeney Irrigating company
have twenty four acres of rs fine corn as
ever grew in Kansas. They have. also,
three acres If Irish p"tatOes.Oue OF sweet
potatoes and about Que thousand tomato
plants. All The above are looking well
About three acres uf early potatoes were
devoured BY Colorad" beetles.-West-
ern Kansas News.
G. w. Rector finished threshiug last
Monday. lie had forty five acres OF
wheat that yielded him l.lO5 bushels
or nearly twenty-five bushels per acre,
aud fifteen acres Of oats that made "a
bushels Der acre, machine measure. In
addition to this he has in twenty-six
acres of corn and six acres Of Miilet. A
good seasons crop for one team and
man of his ag-.-CetIar Valley CONNER
cial.
The peach crop is imnnense. in fact it
is exceeding all expectations. Large guam
titles will be shipped. hut with the best
that can be done much of tue crop will
90 to waste. The apple cl"p is ais" large
and many of tue trees arc bcadiug and
breaking beneath their load Of fruit.
There is probably no section "f the ce0n'
try anywhere that surpasses B"tler
county in prolific abundance Of fruit this
seasOn.-Lathsm Times.
Ii. Stamp Was in town Tuesday wear
ing broad smile all over his face. He
had just finished cutting his wheat,
oats. rye and barley cr"p aud is elated
over the abuadant yield. Early in the
summer he went to Sedgwick county to
work. thinking his crop here would not
amount TO anything. He says he will
have one thousand bushels of wheat and
five hundred bushels of other small
grain. He will put out an iMmense
crop of wheat this fall.-Greeley County
Republican.
Europe is buying wheat this month as
wheat was bought in August. 1879. and
in September the price jumped in week
to figure which made the average ex-
port for the fiscal year worth Sl.24 u
bushel. This was third larger than
the price in the crop year just closed,
and it raised the total value of an ex-
port of lS3, ,OO0s6O0 bushels in 1850 to
1926, COX, 600. The wheat sarplns this
year is large enough to repeat the gold
en- months of lS9.-Philadeaphi Press.
Although the wheat crop just harvest
ed will bring more money into the state
than any previous crop of the same kind
has ever doae, the corn crop now prom
ises to far exceed the former, both in
quantity asd and total value. There
never was tsiaply because there never
could beg a mere favorable month for the
growth of conn than the 0eatA OF July
just past, and che prospect for still fur
ther favorable conditions is very flatter.
ing. Notwithstanding these conditions
of an immenee yield, the prospect for
good prices was never better. as many of
the states which usually have large
surplus wili net have enough this year
for home eeassmption.-Weste En-
pire.
The Germans who a few months
ago were soaking American pork,
cu,,,nnl lo<1 mt, f3,o,,, oo,,Dfrv. a., Eovr,