Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-08-06
STOCK AND FARM.

Jewell City.-O. j. Smith, one of the
most successful sheep raisers of Jewell
county, has sold over 81, 600 worth of
wool this year. r..
Independence Tribune: HUncle Billy"
Joyce is cutting fax and has a splen-
did prospect for a big yield. He attrib-
utes it to deep blowing and putting the
ground in fine condition.
Cedar Vale Star: Forty bushels OF
oats to the acre is low average for L..
this year, and IN many cases the land
they were raised on can be bought for
the money the oats will bring.
Osborne News: B. d. Thompson, Of
Bethany township, threshed few acres
of his poorest wheat, which he had cal
culated would make about twenty BUSH
els to the acre. He was agreeably sur
prised when it went thirty, machine
measure.
Morganville Advance: John McAtee,
west of town, has 40 acres of corn.
He also has 100 head of fat hogs that
he can now sell for 4 cents per pound
but he has 1000 bushels of old corn
and he will feed some Of it to them and
sell them later for cents per pound.
Atchison Champion: Kansas is now
furnishing horses for the eastern states.
A carload billed TO Buffalo, n. Y, from
Efinghahi passed through Atchison
yesterday. w. s. Knight, of Filing ham.
says that neighborhood has furnished
several carloads lately for eastern mar.
kets.
Beloit Courier: Reports differ as to
the yield of wheat. Some threshers
place the average yield at about twenty
two bushels. while others state that
they are threshing wheat that turns out
thirty and tbirty-five bushels per acre.
The oat crop is turning out an Immense
yield.
Leavenworth Standard: n. Conean-
non, of Delaware township, who oper-
ates small farm near Lansing, picked
2,640 quarts OF blnckberries on his
place one day last week, and sold them
to a commission merchant in this city
for SI.25 a case of twenty-four quarts.
This is a case in point of the money In
small farming.
Osborne Farmer: The first reports
from the few pieces of wheat that have
been threshed are extremely gratifying.
1t is all turning out better than the
most sanguine had anticipated, yielding
all the way from twenty to forty BUSH
els per acre. We now begin to realize
that Osborne county will this year have
the biggest wheat average ever known
in her history.
Hoxie Sentinel: The Sheridan county
bank of Hoxie, under the management
of Grover Walker and his overseer,
corn, six miles northeast of Hoxie, OF
$40 acres. that bids fair to require sew.
eral trains of cars to transport the
product to market this fall. They have
about twenty hands employed in the
cultivation of the crop. and estimate
that it Will require 100 hands to harvest
the same.
CALDWELL. W. Nyce, cashier Of the
Stock Exchange bank. this city. is very
enthusiastic over the magnificent crops
in Sumner county. He had seventy
acres, of wheat and threshed from it 2,
103 bushels, an average OF over thirty
bushels per acre. He sold the wheat
direct from the machine for IS cents
per bushel, or 81, 1885, 50, each acre OF
the land bringing him in nearly $40
Even at that low price. he thinks wheat
raising pays in Kansas. He says that
the wheat IN Sumrer county viii Prob
ably average twenty-five bushels 70 the
acre for the whole county, and if js ol
On excellent quality.