Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-07-08
STOCK AND FARM.

A Coffey county farmer will cut GOO
acres of blue grass for the seed this year.
Garden City Imprint: A. G. Powers
favored this office with handsome sam
pie of White Russian wheat now ripen-
ing on the Powers farm four miles west
of this city. The grain was sown in
February. The stand is good, although
there is considerable difference in the
length of the straw in the same stool. In
one stool we counted 81 good wheat
heads. This wheat was grown entirely
without irrigation.
Stafford Peoples Paper: Harvest is
commenced. The great difficulty now is
to save it. The wheat is so short that it
cannot be bound, and while header
will catch the heads it gets SO little
straw that many of them fall through
the guards. Some are fixing brooms on
the reels to sweep the heads back on
the carriers. Much of the wheat, how
ever, is long enough SO that no such ar
rangement is necessary.
Garden City Imprint: We we're shown
a letter from Mr.. Bixby, postmaster at
Speareville, who, this spring, put in a
centrifugal pump for the purpose of IT.
rigating his farm crops. The well is a
square one 16 feet deep, and the power
used is an oil engine. In speaking of
the capacity of his pump, he states that
he has been able to successfully irrigate
SO acres of corn, nine acres of potatoes
and three acres of garden, and does not
think that he has yet reached the full
capacity of his pump. The cost Of his
outfit was about $3.50. This does not
include the sinking of the well. It cost
$3.50 per day for fuel to keep the pump
going, and the attention of a man to
keep it in repair. =
From Burlington: The farmers of
this county have SO much faith in the
efficiency of Prof. Shows chinch bug in
lection that they think the use of it by
every farmer should be made compulso-
ry by a state law. Under present con-
ditions few in each locality use it and
partially or completely rid their own
farms OF the pest, but the bugs from
their neighbors' farms may invade theirs
and largely destroy the results OF their
work. To obtain the best results all
should cooperate and infect every field
at the same time, and such cooperation
can only be secured by law. The farm
ers here are in favor of requiring every
farmer to use the infection at certain
seasons or pay tax for his neglect,
Just as he is now required to work out
his road tax or pay its equivalent In
cash. They think that the passage of
a law of that kind would be justifable
now, because there is no longer any
doubt that the remedy win destroy the
chinch bug pest if properly and persist
emily used. 1t has passed beyond the
experimental stage, and its use at certain
times is inst as much necessary ope-
ration in Kansas farming as is the culti-
walton of crops. -
Senator Dan, McTaggart, OF Mont
gomery county, has gone to the worlds
fair with samples OF new corn raised on
his farm near Independence. The stalks
were full eight feet in length, cut from
the field June 10.
Ex-Bank Commissioner Charles F.
johnson will take a trip to the Shes-
land Islands, where he will buy lot u
Shetland ponies. He viii go to Liver
pool, thence probably to Aberdeen, and
from there to the islands, some 200 20
800 miles of the coast. He viii prob
ably be gone about two months.