Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-11-24
raised fifty bushels on less tns.n one
fourth of an acre of land.

fourth Of an acre of land.
About 10000 stock cattle that have
been contracted to Kansas parties to
feed will be delivered between November
10 and 20, but they will not come upon
the market this year.
Kansas Farmer: Some OF the farmers
of Mission township, Shawnee county,
are now engaged in threshing their
clover for seed. The quality of the seed
is excellent and the yield very salts
factory.
From April to October 81 the people
of Lyon county have paid of mortgages
70 the amount of $39O,479.1O and
given new mortgages to the amount of
1928. 1884, making a net reduction in
their Indebtedness of $161, 1906. This
does not include partial payments on
mortgages, for the records do not show
them, but many such payments have
been made.
Cedar Vale Star: J. o. Sullivan
brought samples of corn to this Office
from a field planted the 21st day Of
June, and it Is good corn, too. The
best feature about it, aside from matur-
ing in so short time, is its extra lonS
kernel, a point which seems to have
been too much overlooked by our corn
growers. Too many big cobs and wide,
short grains.
B. D. Hanna, of Cowley county, gives
his plan for preserving wheat in the bin
free from must or weevil. In 1891 he
had 1000 bushrls of wheat and placed
it in his granary. He first placed a
stalk of green hemp in the bottom of
the granary, and for every load Of forty
bushels he placed another stalk or part
of stalk of green hemp, covering the
top when the granary was full with ten
or dozen stalks. When he removed
the wheat one year later it was bright,
plump, and without a sign of must,
mould or weavil
The mutton business, as we'll as
dressed beef, is growing one with the
packers of Kansas City, Kan, and
Messrs. Swift & Co., who do a large
mutton business, contract many of their
sheep in the country and feed great
many more, that they may always be
sure of supplies. Mutton sheep have,
perhaps, paid better than any other
class of stock the past two years, and
there is no reason why sheep-raising
here in the west should not continue to
pay, as the taste for mutton is growing
with us, and packers will demand in
creased numbers of sheep each year for
their mutton trade.
Delphos Republican: John I. Brown
shipped in bunch of cattle for feeders.
After unloading, some of the Texans
made break for liberty. In trying to
head them off, the horse ridden by JEFF
Feather slipped and fell on a crossing Q,
breaking the left leg OF its rider between
the knee and the ankle. One of the
steers look run up Custer avenue. At
the grounds of Mayor Duncan the en-
ragged animal tackled his dogs, and after
disposing Of them caught his daughter
Georgia, who was playing near by, on
his horns, and tossed her several times
high in the air, then threw her over his
back, kicking at her as she fell. 1t was
wonder the girl was not killed, but
fortunately she received no serious in
Jury. though her clothes were torn to
shreds. While on their rampage they
broke down the inclosure fence where
John Whites cattle were and stampeded
them. 1t turned out to be lively day
in Delphos.
Topeka Capital: Land Commissioner
John E. Frost, of the Santa Fa, has re-
| ceived some reports of heavy wheat
yields in various sections of the state
that are interesting. Here are some of
them: In Ford county S. Burrell's
crop averaged thirty-five bushels pei
acre; j. M. Shain's forty-five bushels;
@. NJ. Blossoms fifty-two bushels. The
postofice address of all these gentlemen
is Dodge City. J. Minor, of Snyder,
raised field averaging forty bushels to
the acre. In al these cases the wheat
weighed sixty-two pounds and over to
the bushel. In Kearney county George
Dodds, of Deer6eld, raised a crop of
wheat averaging thirty seven and three
/ fourths bushels per acre. It was irri-
gated once. A field irrigated twice. be-
longing to Henry Entz, yielded thirty
eight and one-half bushels to the acre
In this county farmers report eighty tc
eighty three bushels of oats per acre
that weighed thirty-six pounds pei
bushel, on land irrigated twice. Re-
| ports from six farmers in Finney county
show an average yield of twenty-sever
and four-fifths bushels of wheat pei
acre, two fields yielding respectively
forty and forty five bushels per acre.