Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-05-12
STOCK AND FARM.

Clyde Herald: John Kennedy esti-
mates his sales of eggs to be worth So
per month He has 200 laying hens
Scandal Journal: A careful farmer of
White Rock township, says he can raise
from ten to fifteen bustels of corn more
to the acre by listing than by planting
with check rover.
Lyons Republican: A great many
peach trees which three weeks ago were
reported frEtless, are out in full bloom,
prepared to prove that the wiseacres
did not know what they were talking
about.
Goodland Republican: Brooks Irione
will soon have twelve acres of wheat
and oats in. He will put in 400 acres
of wheat on sod and thoroughly disc
and harrow the same. This is a new
venture, and We wait the result with
much interest.
Cedar Vale Star: L. w. Curtis re-
ports his wheat not over half a stand.
Thinks the acreage of his section of
the country about 60 per cent of last
year, and the prospects good for about
three-fourths of an average crop on
what they have in.
The annual production of the farms
Of Kansas in grain and stock is nearly
three times the annual production in
| this country of gold and silver, and is
! 100000 greater than the annual pro-
duction of both the precious metals in
the world. This is taken from official
figures.
Blue Mound Sun: Richard Felsing
has one of the finest and best little
farms in Linn county, south of town.
| There arc forty acres in the farm and
the whole is seeded down to timothy
and clover. There is a good orchard, a
neat little house, a new windmill and
plenty of outbuildings. Felsing informs
us that his forty acres paid him over
5000 in hay and pasture during 1891.
Dighton Herald: We have taken
pains to mabe inquiry of the farmers at
every opportunity concerning the con
dition of the wheat and rye crops, and
in every single instance the report has
been that the prospects have never been
more favorable at this season of the
year. The success of the barley crop
last year has stimulated farmers to put
in a largely increased acreage this
spring.
A Kansas 3-year-old has just set the
! sporting world ablaze with excitement.
About three months ago, P. II. Butler,
of Shawnee county, sold the colt, Van
! s., for $1,000, and fiattered himself that
he had made a good sale, the colt never
having won a race. A few days ago
Van S. appeared on the Gloucester, n.
| j., course in a race with nine other en-
tries, some of them with good records.
Van had no backing at the start, the
pools being to 1 against him, but he
| passed under the string four lengths
ahead Of the next best horse. His win
nings are said to amount to over $4,000
already. Keep your eye on the Kansas
| colt.
Clyde Herald: Hugh Cool told us
that he had 145 acres in wheat, all look
| ing well; also 40 acres in oats. He does
not intend putting out much corn. He
already has a combined reaper, for
which he paid only S135. So he can
cut and put into shock his large crop of
small grain within his own family help.
We will suppose his crop of wheat will
average twenty bushels to the acre and
that he gets three-fifths of the crop
and only 60 cents a bushel he will
realize 81, 044. Besides this, on a fair
estimate he will get S162 for his oats.
How much he will make on his corn,
potatoes, garden and melon patches,
besides the increase in stock, or how
much he will make in selling butter and
! eggs, We cannot tell. But surely things
look pretty fair for the old man and good
wife this year. Mr.. Cool is an old
farmer and has been farming in Kansas
for some time, and thinks there never has
been brighter prospect for the Kansas
farmer than the present.