Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-06-25

to 40 bushels to the acre, as the grain
is large.
Hope Dispatch: More farmers than
ever are thinking this year that listed
corn is ''slip-shod" way of farming.
The sunhowers grow all the better if
the crop is only One-half put in
Dighton Journal: There is being
more sod broken this summer than at
any time within two years. There is
hardly farm but there has already
been broken this season from ten to
twenty acres, and many more than that.
Cedar Vale Star: Elmer Carmichael
and C. W. Zimmerman started their
binders first, and wheat harvest
is now on. The sixty new machines
bought in tins neighbcrhOod this
spring, and all the old ones will have
all they can do for a couple of weeks or
more.
Kiowa Journal: R. L. Groundyke,
living twelve miles northwest of town,
last year bought farm of 800 acres.
Last fall he sowed 27O acres of wheat,
and the result will be, providing some
Unforeseen calamity does not overIake
him, this one crop alone will more than
pay for the place.
Smith Center Pioneer-Bulletin: Al
Mathes, a farmer on Crystal Plains. last
fall mOrtgaged his farm for 5000 and
/ bought Il hundred head Of young cat
tie which he brought through the win
ter. Now they are getting as fat as
butter, and would bring double the
/ amount. What are We coming to any
way?
Cherokee Sentinel: Unless the winds
or insects destroy part of the peaches
and apples now growing on the trees, it
will be necessary for the owners to
gather a part of the fruit in order to
relieve the trees from the overload Of
( fruit that will cucumber them. Never
before in the history of Kansas has
such large crop of all kinds of fruit
grown.
! S. Dixon, the Sumner county grain
man shipped the first two cars of new
wheat from Kansas. One went TO Gal
weston and the other to Chicago. the
latter is to be sold at auction. Mr..
/ Dixon says that there will be 4, 500, 900
] bushels of wheat thresbed in Sumner
county and 2.500.000 bushels in Har-
1 per- anu Il4dg lie lc6 IOECL 6OOA a AiOI0
magnificent crop.
Kirwin Independent: Arthur Hardy
brought to this Office bunch of rye,
grown from a single head of grain. with
( 10 stalks and heads; also bunch of
wheat grown same as above, with sixty
seven stalks and heads. The rye was
| taken from the field of Mr.. Benton,
seven miles north of Kirwin, and the
wheat from Mr.. Bailey's farm in the
same neighborhood.
Lakin Index: There are 2,1S8 acres
in alfalfa in Kearney county. The fact
that it will be cut three or four times
this season makes the acreage equal
to four times that amount of hay land
IN any other section. Then when we
remember that alfalfa is far superior to
timothy or any of the clOvers of the
east for fattening and feeding pur-
poses, makes this small acreage a very
valuable crop.
Minneapolis Commercial: Ottawa
county has nearly twice the acreage oil
wheat this year she had last; 43, 765 acres
last year, this year 1907. This will give
Ottawa county the greatest number Of
bushels ever before raised in the conn
". There is scarcely a field of wheat
in the county that will yield less than
fifteen bushels, while hundreds of others
will yield from twenty-five to forty
bushels per acre.
Gypsum Advocate: John I. Tucker
from near New Cambria, reports the
greater part of the wheat in his locality
badly injured by the Hessian fly. He
was surprised to see such q fine pros
pect in this valley. He thinks the rea.
son of the wheat failure in his neighbour
hood is that there has been too much
sowing of wheat after wheat. He plant
ed an apple orchard five years ago, and
this year he will have large yield from
his trees.