Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-07-02

County has been drc xned out BY tn
Vet weather. Mr.. Carson's folks 10
Pl anted sixty acres of theirs, many NOR
will be compelled to plant portion o
their crop over. The wheat is ripenin(
fast and will yield fair crop.
A Chautauqua county farmer, Mr.
Christian, says that last fall he sowed
two kinds of wheat, Little May and Full
caster, side by side, on the same kind
of land, one Immediately after the other
and now Little May is twice as good q:
the Fulcaster.
Independence Reporter: E. P. Colt
lieb, of Montgomery county, says that
thousands of acres of wheat in the Ca
ney bottoms have been ruined by The
floods. On the uplands, where people
were considered crazy last fall for SOW
ing, the prospect is good.
It is estimated that the fifteen coun-
ties composed of Wallace, Logan, Cove,
Trego, Ellis, Rocks, Graham, Sheridan,
Thomas, Sherman, Cheyenne, Rawlins,
Decatur, Norton and Phillips, all in the
northwest, will produce twenty million
bushels of wheat alone this year.
Sample item: Every man who has
strength to sit upon machine and
drive, and all the boys big enough to
ride horse arc out helping to harvest,
the women come to town to get supplies
of groceries, ETC., and nothing is allowed
to interfere with the taking care of our
immense wheat crop.
Garden City Imprint: All small grain
crops put in on well plowed and Guilt
waited land will be plenty long for the
binder. Headers will only be needed
where the grain was put in on ground
that had not been plowed for year or
two. This, of itself, is the best argu-
ment that it will pay to pillow and cult
vate
The Greensburg Signal claims that
the Kansas City Times of the 18th inst.
misrepresented Kiowa county as to its
wheat crop. The Signal wishes to in
form that paper and the people in gen.
eral that proof can be furnished that
there are at least 10000 bushels of old
wheat in the county, and also $4,000
acres in growing wheat.
Neal Pickett. of Cowley county, is
He estimates that he will
have 10000 bushels of wheat this year,
and plenty of oats, corn and barley.
April 1, Mr.. Pickett thought his wheat
crop would amount to nothing, it ap-
peared SO poor, but it has come out
He thinks it will make
twenty five bushels to the acre.
Parties who recently passed over the
northwestern counties of Kansas say
they never saw such fields of wheat. On
every side fields containing hundreds of
acres are covered with wheat which
stands four feet high. The crop of oats
will not be small, although the chances
are that it will be rather slim. The
corn, too, is rather backward, but that
which was planted early is coming along
n good shape.
Baxter Springs letter: The farmers
If Cherokee county are indignant over
The crop report published by the Kansas
City Times. They commenced cutting
wheat on the 18th, and the crop is uni
conceded to be the best in ff-
teen years. There are no poor wheat
fields in Cherokee county this year, and
oats are looking as we'll as usual. Corn
is backward, but very promising, and
farmers as rule are jubilant.
Mud creek, Douglass county, from
it's confluence with the Kaw, is NINA
ture potato patch. "Why, just think
Of it for a moment and say nothing
about it," said farmer to a newspaper
man; lust think of ten acres of pota-
toes yielding 1900 bushels OF potatoes
at $3.50 per bushel when taken to mar
ket. Look over yonder at that man,
dark as midnight, with two acres of
and, sold $3.50 worth of potatoes and
never plowed after he planted"
Mcpherson Republican: M. P. Simp-
son has the finest and best piece of
wheat in the county, just west of town
near the Tennis brick yard. It stands
as tall as a mans head, and is already
made, the grains being filed plump and
nice. 1t is new kind of wheat for this
section, called Fulcaster and ripens
about ten days earlier than any other,
thus escaping the dry weather which
usually comes q week or two before har-
vest. Nothing can now hurt this field
Of wheat except hail storm. This seems
TO be the wheat for this section of the
country.