Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-08-19
STCCk AND FARM.

Ex-Bank Commissioner Charles F.
Johnson has shipped car load of Shet-
land ponies from the Shetland islands to
his farm in Jefferson county.
Railroad Commissioner John Hall has
recently purchased a flock of 1900
sheep in Greenwood county and taken
them to his farm in Neosho county.
Frank Moss, whose farm lies between
Lawrence and Richland, threshed six
teen acres of wheat which yielded GAO
bushels, an average of forty bushels per
acre.,
Garden City Imprint: The water came
down the dry bed of the Arkansas on a
boom and all the bitches are now full
of water, and farmers are not backward
about making use of it.
Winchester Star: J. E. Weir has fin
ished hauling in 1000 bushels of corn
that he sold some time ago for Sic. Mr..
Weir says that he has 60 acres of grow
ing corn, the finest he ever raised.
Topeka Capital: D. G. Jones is ex-
hibiting fine specimen of corn grown
on his farm in Tecumseh township, op-
Grated by NJ. T. Crews. 1t measures
over twelve feet and is fair sample of
4O-acre field.
Oberlin Eye: The corn and the cane
and the millet and the potatoes and the
cabbage and the turnlps and the pump
kins and the squashes and the cucum-
bers are now rejoicing as the strong man
to run race. The farmers are revealing
in succulent roasting ear and are bring
ing their old corn into market.
Bourbon county is all right. The
fine rains insure bountiful corn crop.
About Fort Scott there are hundreds of
acres ofsugar cane, more, in fact, than was
every planted before, and the crop is in ex-
cellent condition. Work will commence
at the sugar mill in about two weeks.
The paper mill will soon after commence
operations The farmers of Bourbon
county were never in better spirits over
their crop prospects.
Atchison Champion: NJ. H. Barber,
who has the large apple orchard near
Parnell, says that while his apple crop
will not be large this year the quality
will be good. Until the last three or
four weeks he had expected at least
1000 bushels, but the apples since then
have been falling off of the trees at
fearful rate, and cannot tell how many
will ripen. His orchard has yielded
10000 and $4,000 bushels of apples.
Meade Globe: The American Mort
gage Trust company are making con-
tracts to furnish seed wheat to parties
who desire to SOW the same in Meade
and adjoining counties. The president
of this company, Mr.. Heber, is always
looking around to see how he can help
the people in this country. He has
rented all his land in the county to put
in wheat and on terms that parties can
afford to take it. The company is very
liberal to the farmers and is always
ready to do all they can to give work to
all who desire it.
Garden City Imprint: VIM. Moore, of
the Pawnee valley, is one of the success
full alfalfa farmers of that valley. Last
year he sold in this market some of the
finest hay brought to this city. He has
% acres in alfalfa and cut the first crop
this season for seed, which made 63 |
loads, and men who saw the crop before
it was cut estimated the yield of seed at
from seven to eight bushels to the acre.
He finished harvesting this crop 25 days |
ago, and says that the new growth will |
now average two feet. This crop now in
bloom will be left for seed. Mr.. Moore
says there are thousands of acres in the
Pawnee valley that will produce alfalfa
Just the same as his farm.