Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-04-09
STOCK AND FARM.

Ellis letter: It is now thought that
the loss of stock will not be SO heavy
as feared, though feed is very scarce in
this county.
Humboldt Herald: Farmers pay par
ticular attention TO potatoes this year
Merchants claim that on account of
Ecarclty of cash there will be small
crop planted.
Hoxie Democrat: T. NJ. Walker, of
Osborne county, will plant upwards of
LOCO acres of broom corn in the vicin-
ity of Hoxie, he having great faith in
the raising of that crop in Sheridan
county.
Sharon Springs Republican: A good
many farmers in this part of the county
have successfully grown broom corn the
past three or four years and this season
will greatly increase the acreage over
that of last year.
Arkansas City Traveller: A. J. Kim
NELL, who resides half way between this
city and Geuda, is one of our best
farmers. He has beautiful farm, well
improved, and has fine wheat pros
pect. His peach crop Is also good and
safe.
Osborne News: George and Frank
Smith, of Osborne county, have $50
acres Of the fnest-looking wheat they
have ever seen, and they have farmed in
Kansas several years. Reports of like
nature are received by us every day
from all parts of the county.
Atwood Citizen: Already quite
number of wanderers are returning to
Rawlins county and are proceeding to
the work of putting in the largest crop
ever attempted in the county. It looks
as if the year 1891 would more than
retrieve the losses inflicted by past
failures
Jewell City Republican: Last fall
two young fellows from Lincsln coun-
ty brought up herd of $50 young cat
tie TO winter on the Hitz place, near
town. The calves have had no shelter
and but little feed, and as a result the
butcher has bought forty-fve of their
hides and says he expects to get the
rest after this storm.
Manhattan Nationalist: S. NJ New
ton, of Ogden, will soon go to Mexico
to purchase 10000 head of sheep. He
will drive to the north slowly, and will
have them at Ogden in time for next
winters feeding. Mr.. Newton has made
the handling of sheep a success. The
importation of this large number will be
a good thing for the corn raisers about
Ogden.
Hoisington Dispatch: Quite a num-
Der of farmers have engaged their
hands for the coming harvest. From
present indications it will be hard to
obtain help to garner in the golden
grain. Last year the farmers from the
western part of the state came in and
assisted during the harvest season;
this year they will have a large har-
vest of their own.
Kansas Agricultural College Indus
trialist: The college farm is increased
this year by nearly thirty acres leased
from the WIlliston place and adjoining
the north line of the farm. This addi-
ton to the tillable land is made neces-
sary by the extensive experiments in
progress. Last year there were thirty
six hundred plots under observation.
This year there will be even more.
Abilene.-Reports from South Dick
inson tell of serious damages by hog
diseases, which have spread with alarm
ing rapidity among the swine Many
farmers are losing heavily, and owing
to the scarcity of proper feed and the
late starting of the pastures the dis
ease is proving destructive. The ami
malls Threats swell up, causing death in
few hours. George Channon, living
near Lost Spring, reports the death of
fifty out of herd of 100 in the past
week.
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 $6.05 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. 1t was learned that
they were taken for export purposes.
Sterling Gazette: John E. Holmes,
an old soldier and member of Meade
post, who lives three miles north of
PleVna, Reno county, came to Kansas
nine years ago, and when he bought
bread for his last supper before reaching
the house of his brother William. near
which John now lives, he had ten cents
left, with three horses and an old wagon.
He now owns a half section of land,
well improved, five acres wired hog
tight, sixty acres of pasture fenced,
eighty acres of wheat in the ground,
looking very well, aud $50 bushels of
old corn in the crib. He has sixteen
head of horses, twelve, head of cattle,
and seventy head of hogs. He has Just
paid of a mortgage of $500 and has
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