Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-04-11
STOCK AND FARM.

| STOCK AND FARM.
Topeka Capital: c. NJ. Bruce. man
ager of big cattle company in south
ern Arizona, is IN the city arranging
to bring his cattle to this county to
fatten.
Osborne county farmers, says the
News, are planting large acreage in
alfalfa It mentions Will Clemmons,
who has 100 acres, and Joseph Whitson,
who has thirty acres and will SOW
more.
Wellington Monitor: The stock of
all kinds have been taken off the wheat
and are turned IN the pastures. Feed
is very scarce and stock would have suf-
fered had it not been for the wheat pas
ture.
The Sedgwick horsemen-and there
are several of them are fixing up a
good half mile track on the DR.. God
dard place north of town, where they
will speed their horses during the sum-
mer season.
Wellington Standard: A great deal
of sod is being broken this spring.
Miller, of South Haven, owns 800 acres
two miles west of Guelph, and is gong
to have it broken and put in wheat this
fall. He wants it broken five inches
deep.
Downs Chief: Our farmer friends
tell US that the ground is soaked to a
depth of from fourteen to twenty
inches. A good wheat crop this year
is sure. Everybody in Osborne coun-
ty is predicting that wheat will yield
twenty-five to forty bushels an acre.
junction City Union: F. E. David
son, who lives north just over the line
in Riley county, remarked that some
people imagined that it did not pay to
raise corn in Kansas. He has Just sold
the last of this years crop of $500
bushels, which brought 46 cents They
have 5000 bushels of old corn which
they are holding for the May market.
Hartford Call: O'Connor & Evans
shipped two car. loads of hogs and one
car of cattle to Kansas City. recently
The car of cattle was the finest that
has been shipped from this point for
many day. They were bred by
I. j. Hewitt. One car of hogs, raised
by J. ". Osborne, were the finest lot
we ever saw shipped from any point;
the balance were-well, just hogs.
Kansas City Gazette: A lot of forty
nine head of shorthorn Kansas steers.
dehorned, and averaging 1892 pounds
in weight each, brought on the Kansas
City market 5000 a hundred. This
was the highest price paid for fat cattle
since 1882 and 1888, with the excep-
ton of about two weeks in the spring
of 1888. The bunch of cattle that sold
at S6.O5 yesterday was an exceptionally
fine lot of beeves. It was learned that
they were taken for export purposes.
Oberlin Opinion: Dave Royce and
Henry Rathbun came in for alfalfa seed
this week. They will each of them SOW
considerable of that grass this spring.
They were the first settlers on the
Beaver IN northwest Kansas. They
came here eighteen years ago this
spring, fresh from their Illinois homes,
and hunted buffalo and antelope on the
ground where this city now stands.
They are the owners of large, well-im-
proved farms on the Beaver creek, near
Cedar Bluffs, aud prefer Kansas sun
shine to Illinois mud.
junction City Union: We doubt
very much if there is another county in
the state that can show as many we'll
TODD farmers, for the size of the county,
as Geary. We can count farmers by the
hundred who started here with only
few hundred dollars, and more with
nothing but good appetites and plenty
of ambition, who are to-day worth from
$4,000 to $4,000 and $4,000. Among
them is Mr. L. Leithoff, of Dry creek.
In 1870 he landed in Junction City with
$500. For two years he worked in the
city by the month and then launched
out as a farmer. To-day Mr.. Leithoff
has 700 acres of good land, provided
with plenty of wood. water, barns,
sheds, windmill, yards and pastures;
twenty head of good horses, 100 head
of cattle well graded, and 100 head OF
hogs Last fall he erected and partly
finished a handsome residence, two
story and basement, IN which he has
already expended $4,000. Mr.. Leithoff
is another illustration of what industry,
perseverance and good management will
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