Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-08-04
STOCK AND FARM.

Salina Republican: Some of the
farmers living in the Saline valley north
of town, who are threshing their wheat,
say that it is running about thirty bush
els to the acre.
A farmer living near Emporia mas
$40 acres of wheat which will average
thirty bushels of Ne. to the acre. He
has contracted it to Chicago firm for
60 cents, and will realize the snug sum
of $500, or $18 per acre.
Salina Sun: j. B. Grant, of Arvonia,
brought us samples of this years apples
and also samples of last years apples
for comparison. This years fruit is
only about half as large as last years
All kinds of fruit is scarce this year.
but with a good wheat crop and a
splendid yield of corn the Sunfower
state will pull through.
Dodge City GIobe-Rerublican: J. 81.
Bowers was in and reports the harvest
more than verifying their most sanguine
expectations. In the entire region to
the northeast of this city wheat is uni
fOrmly we'll filed with exceedingly plump
berries, and not sign of rust or smut
anywhere, and this dry spell enables
them to save it in perfect condition. He
says farmers could not ask a better
thing than they have this season.
Wichita Eagle: Charlie Smith,
steam thresher man, who was at the
court house, told Clerk Carvin that he
has been in the field after his machine
every day since the harvest commenced,
and that he has yet seen no field of
wheat tnat has yielded less than twenty
bushels to the acre, while he has seen
many fields which have yielded as high
as thirty bushels. He has been follow
ing the threshing business for many
years and AYERS that he has never seen
as good a wheat crop as this years one.
Wichita Eaglo: G. W. Bale, the
gentleman who has Just threshed his
wheat, amounting to forty-three bushels
to the acre, will realize from tie same
this year sum equal to $50 per acre.
Yesterday the county commissioners
bought eighteen bushels of it and paid
him So per bushel for it. They will use
it for SEED on the poor farm. Mr.. Bale
has now practically sold all the wheat
for 50 per bushel, and still people are
clamoring for it. Mr.. Dudley, the
manager of the poor farm, pronounces it
the finest wheat he has ever seen. 1t
was absolutely clean when it left the
thresher and would grade No. 2. in any
market in the world.
Emporia letter: Texas cattle fever
has broken out in bad form in this
county. Recently about 1900 head of
Texas cattle were brought in. the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas to Mr.. Bro
gan, of Hartford, and were driven across
the southern part of Lyon county to
Mr.. Brogan's who lives in Chase county
Along the roads over which these Texas
cattle were driven the native cattle be-
gar to die of Texas fever. Up to Sun
day last fifty head had died, and about
that many more were down sick yester-
day, and to-day Mr.. Hurst, of the state
sanitary commission, Sheriff Evans and
S. V. Butter, chairman of the Lyon
county board of commissioners, made an
examination of the infected region and
established quarantine along the route
Travelled by these cattle. The distance
this drove was driven through the coun-
" was about twenty-five miles. A
quarantine was not only established
along the road, but over such sections
and pieces of ground as the Texas fever
breeders were allowed to Craze. 1t is
believed that the measures taken viii be
effective and the spread of the fever pre-
vented.