Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-06-17
STOCK AND FARM.

All reports received by the agricul-
tural department show that there will
be an immense corn acreage this year.
In western Kansas where winter wheat
was damaged by dry weather, many
thousand acres were plowed up and
planted in corn. Secretary Mohler says
he has no means of knowing exactly
what the acreage of corn is, but in al
most every county in the state there Ia
an increase over last year, and he thinks
it is safe to predict that there will be
from 25 to so per cent more corn
planted than last year. Secretary Mob
Ter says that thus far the corn condi
tons are very favorable and he believes
it is going to be big corn year. He
says also that the reports show there
has been great acreage of broom corn
planted-the greatest the state has ever
known. It has been proven IN western
Kansas IN the past three years that this
is profitable crop, and this year, they
are going in on it heavy.
Kansas City, Mo-, Journal: The way
Texas cattle come into the yards il
looks dis if they had now commenced to
run in earnest. The receipts were $50
cars, which is forty-three cars ahead
of amy previous day Of the year. Nat
uraIly prices were low under such re-
ceipts and a decline in Chicago. Yet
they are selling better than this time
last year, and that, too, in the face of a
close money market
ElDorado Advocate: More sod is be-
ing broken this season than has been
known to be turned over for many
years. r. 81. Hazlett lis breaking 200
acres on his farm IN Clifford township,
q. w. Robson, is breaking 100 acres on
the Whitewater, and 400 acres are being
broken by the parties who recently pur
chased land through the Trice syndicate
! Butler county win soon he turned bot
tom side up.
According to the fun official govern
ment report of the gram production of
the United States IN 1892 Kansas stood
first in production of wheat with 70, $751;
600 bushels, Minnesota second with A.
100000 bushels and California third with
80, ISL, 600 bushels The crop of Kan
sas rivaled the combined crop of the next
| two states and exceeded the greatest
yield previously recorded for any state
IN the union.
The total volume and value Of the
staple crops in Iowa, illinois and Kan
sas entitle them to rank alone with no
rivals among the agricultural states in the
union and with the greater cheapness of
Kansas land and the greater area of it
not yet under cultivation it will not be
long before the Sunfower state out
strips Illinois and rivals Iowa.
ElDorado Advocate: Harvey Kee
received train load of 800 head of New
Mexico cattle, purchased through Cal
Becker and were loaded at Englewood,
Kansas. The run to E1Dorado, 206
miles, was made In nine hours. These
cattle will be summered on the Rayburp
pasture three miles northwest of town.
EIDOrado Advocate: The wheat
crop, of Butler county, is far below an
average, but NJ. NJ. Vandenberg has in
the bottom, east of ElDorado, 165 acres
of as fine wheat as any one would wish
to see. IL anything, it is above an aver
age and seems good for, from thirty
to thirty-fve bushels per acre.
From Fort Scott: Crops are looking
we'll the county over, but there has
been too much rain for the farmers to
properly tend their corn. Wheat is look
ing fine and Bourbon county has fine
acreage this year. Some of the farmers
are complaining Of chinch hugs but it il
not thought that they wiz do serious dam
i age. Some of the farmers have sent to
Prof. Snow for some inoculated bugs
and several of them have sent him live
bugs from the fields here to be inocu-
lated