The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-10-14
Valuable Experiments.

can accomplish on high and apparent
ly dry prairie land. We allude to the
farm of Mic Mayrath. Mr.. and Mrs
Mayrath are well known as having sup.
piled the tables of our city with garden
truck and vegetables in the early days
when this soil was regarded as only fiji
for grazing. Mic Mayrath generally
stayed at home and worked the fertile
soil while ..his good wife Kate brought
the product of his toll to market. He is
not only tireless worker but we'll edu-
Gated. close observer and continually
experimenting with different kinds OF
plants and trees. He came early to
Ford county and took up all the govern
ment land the law allowed, including
both river bottom and upland. On the
latter he built his dwelling, and it is
upon a ridge eighty-tive above sheet
water he produced those fine vegetables
and made experiments upon the cultiva-
ton of fruit and forest trees which it
would be worth hundreds of dollars to
every real, genuine farmer to 80 and in
vestigate for himself. He has about fifty
acres in thrifty fruit and forest trees.
and in the few hours passed with him in
his groves and gardens we learned many
valuable facts which it required Mr..
Mayrath years of hard labor and iutelli-
gent experimenting to find out.
For instance, there are two rows of
apple trees standing side by side. Both
look thrifty and healthy, but in one row
the trees are twice as large as the other.
The smaller trees were from the finest
imported nursery stock five years old,
planted carefully three years ago,
while the larger are root grated trees
only three years old, raised from the
seed right on the place and root graft
ed by Mr.. Mr.. Mayrath with his own
hands. He also showed US groves of
handsome peach trees for which he
planted the seed and budded the young
sprouts.
This was not a good year for peaches,
but Mayraths had a surplus over all re-
quirements for family use, of this juicy
fruit, almost entirely from Seeding trees.
He finds Seeding trees more profitable
than budded, here in this favorable cli-
mate. The former never entirely fails land
our Seeding peach is the equal, if not
superior in quality to that from budded
trees east of Kansas. A number of trees
still had few samples of late fruit
adornlng their branches or scattered on
the ground beneath.
But that which impressed us as worthy
of special consideration were the groves
of plum trees. These stand along those
little breaks where ground is too rough
to cultivate. All kinds are mixed together
in ir regular profusion. They are from
seed planted in rows right where they
stand. Some are from various kinds of
choice plums from California, purchased
at the fruit stands of our city, while |
others are from common native sand hill |
plum bushes.
Mr.. Mayrath said every acre of these
plums was better than $4,000 in
National bank stock. They never fail
and are exceedingly prolific. The beau
ty of them is they begin to bear fruit the
second year after seed pits are planted,
and do as we'll on the steep bank of a
ravine as on the beautiful smooth prairie
which constitutes most of his place.
1t would take this entire paper to brief
~ describe the various interesting things
we saw and information acquired in this
brief visit, but those fifty-seven acres of
trees and the go acres brought under
high state of cultivation by Mr.. May
rath's hand, besides the hundreds of
stock which roam at will in his pastures,
all acquired since his advent into Ford
county, prove that he must have worked
with his hands and used more than ord
mary intelligence IN planting. But any
Industrious farmer can do as we'll if
hey will take the trouble to 60 and learn
Mr.. Mayraths methods, then 60 and do
likewise. If farmers would take the
lime to personally visit such places and
zee what has been done and how it was
it would be worth more
o them than years of hard work.
The Sixty-One Bushels to the Acre
Farm Sold.
Mr.. Chas. E. Record, of Jacksonville,
Ill.,, was passenger on the recent bar
rest excursion to the wheat fields of Kan
as. Before leaving his home he was ur- .
gently importuned by his friends not to |
invest in real estate here. They even
vent with him to the train, making this
! last parting request, and especially re- :
ninding him of the terrible tale of want {
md woe that has reached their ears q
trough public speakers and some of the
'ress of the country who are trying to