Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-08-27

ing twelve bushels Per acre, While b
has raised twenty EIGHT bushsls pel
acre. He says he thinks LII crop Co
eighteen years viii average ssvsnteer
bushels per acre. He has raised COR
for twenty-one years with but one fail.
ure, which was @grasshopper" year; haa
frequently made sixty bushels per acre;
thinks his average for twenty-one year,
is above thirty bushels. Never failed to
cut but one crop of oats. When asked
as to the profit in raising oats he re.
piled: ''Oh, yes, it's profitable crop;
oats are sure thing here"
The Topeka Daily Capital has reports
from seventy of the log counties Of
Kansas on the corn crop. These re-.
ports show that the state will average
IS per cent of full crop. In some
counties the yield will be the largest fol
years, and in others not moro than one
fourth of q crop will be raised. This
condition will not apply to over four
counties. Farmers are threshing wheat
and the yield is larger than ever before
in the state. Grain men fear car fam
inc when the bulk Of the crop Is thrown
on the market.
Leavenwcrth Times: R. L Lee, OF
Topeka. brought string of seven fine
horses to the stock breeders stables yes
terday, for the coming races. -Four run
ming horses arrived yesterday morning
from Hiawatha. Two carloads arrived
from Sedalia, Mo, last week. The Off
GERS of the association think that fully
$50 horses will be on the grounds dur
ing the races, and that there will be co.
600 people on the grounds on August
25. The entries have nearly all been
made for the races.
Garden City Imprint: Last season
W. II. Cox, farmer in Pleasant Valley
township, finished cutting his wheat in
the center of the field, and to get bis
binder out to cut other wheat, he found
that he was under the necessity of NOV
ing several hundred shocks before he
could drive out, 80 thick did they stand.
This season he caught on and cut from
the center to the outside, 80 that when
he finished the field he was at Liberty
to drive to other fields. Had he fol-
lowed the plan of Q year ago he would
have had many more shocks to remove.
Seneca letter: While the rest of Kan
sas has been rejoicing because of boun-
tiful rains, this vicinity has been suffer-
ing the severest drouth experienced for
years. We could hear of rains all
around within a few miles, but none
came to cheer the despairine farmer on
an area OF about ten miles square hav-
ing Seneca for center. But now all
this is changed; glorious rain has
fallen and despair is changed to rejoic-
ing with the rest of the state. Corn
and pastures have suffered considerably,
but now that the drouth is broken farm
ers feel assured of more than half crop
Of corn.
Newton Kansan: One of Harvey
county's leading farmers, living near
this city, contemplates planting field
Of corn late in the fall as an experiment.
He has from year to year made observa-
lions with reference to volunteer corn,
after having laid in the ground all win
ter, and finds that with proper cultiva-
tion it always makes good corn. This
fali he proposes to prepare field as for
spring planting, and plant the seed late,
and believes that he will not only save
time in the spring but that the corn
will be matured before the dry and hot
weather sets in.
Dodge City Globe Republican: s. T.
Cornell, at the north line Of Ford coun-
y, does not believe in blowing for small
grain after ground is once under good
Last week he threshed out
,wenty-six bushels of wheat, machine
to the acre, on q tract of
twenty-five :acres, which had not been
plowed for six years. On hauling the
grain to market it weighed about 20
per cent more than the measure regis
;ered, making the actual yield thirty
bushels to the acre. It graded No. 2,
and sold for premium above the mar
ket on account of the extra weight and
quality. Last year the same tract was in
barley, which yielded between thirty and
forty bushels per acre.
Dodge City Globe-Republican: John
A. Webster, Of the johnson City Jour-
nal, says the farmers have raised big
crops of wheat, but feel the need of q
railroad. The estimated yield in the
territory tributary to the extension of
the d. c., NJ. & T. would be one million
bushels ofwheat and rye for export this
year. In Jtanton county alope they
have 100000 bushels from $4,000
acres. The yield was about five bushels
per acre more than was estimated at
harvesting. He thinks southwest Kan
sas will be the great natural wheat and
rye producing region Of the United
States.
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