Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-05-20
STOCK AND FARM.

STOCK AND FARM.
Linn, Washington county, recently
shipped a train load OF fat cattle Il
Chicago.
Linn item: The largest acreage o
corn ever known in this part of Wash
ington county is now being planted
The wheat crop is short, but what il
lacking in that will be made up in COTE,
Leavenworth item: A number o.
Leavenworth county farmers were in th'
city and they reported wheat as looking
very we'll in this section. They also
said the prospects were good for a big
nay crop.
Mcpherson Republican: ". 81. Cary
showed us some wheat from Russell
county. 1t was sown last fall and was
taken from the drill row few days
ago. It was as fresh as when sown.
Not a grain had sprouted.
From Syracuse: The Lombard COM
pany, of Kansas City, owning $4,000
acres of land in Hamilton comfy, are
breaking eighty acres on each section
which would be in the neighborhood Of
1000 acres. They give parties doing
the work what spring crops they car
grow, three-fourths of the wheat CROP
and $1.50 per acre for breaking.
Topeka Capital: Attorney Genera
Little, who took trip with the railroad
assessors to the west line of the state
says there will not be much wheat in
western Kansas. He was on the Union
Pacific, and says that for distance OF
1872 miles, coming east from the Color.
ado line, he did not see any wheat that
amounted to anything. The assessors
also made trip through the north
western part of the state, and Mr.. Lit
tie says there has not been much wheat
planted in that section. He thinks,
from what he learned along the line that
it will be great corn year.
Beloit Gazette: Colonel J. q. Sum-
mers, of Bloomfield, reports as to his
winters work. He has been feeding
stock quite extensively, and has sold
275 head of cattle for about $4,000,
and $50 hogs for So, 600, clearing in the
neighborhood of 1000 for his winters
work. He has fed about 5000 bushels
of corn. The colonel has implicit faith
in Kansas, and has added $40 acres to
his farm, and now has $50 acres in one
body, and is figuring on another quar-
ter. Such men uphold the credit OF a
country, and show what can be done
when one has the sand, sense and per-
sistency.
The demand, at the Kansas City.
Kan, stock yards, for stockers and
feeders picked up quickly on a declin-
ing market. Fifteen cars were taken
for the country, in one day, against sew
en- cars few days before. A number Of
orders are here for young cattle to go
on grass, but prices have been too high.
Even now farmers claim that too much
money is being paid for feeding and
grazing cattle in comparison with the
butcher market. Choice stockers sold
az high as $415@420, and the best
feeders S465@475. These figures
suggest q belief in higher market in
the future.
Mcpherson Republican,: The wheat
is not up to the usual standard for this
time of year. It has, however, good
clear color and seems to be growing.
1t has not stooled out as it ordinarily
does and consequently does not stand
as thick on the ground. It is rather
spotted, but if it rains within week or
ten DAYS and ID seasonable from that
time on We see no reason why it will
not make eight or ten bushels to the
acre. The soft wheat is not quite a.
good an the hard. We saw no field
which we thought would justly the
owner blowing up and planting in
corn, except one and it had been pas
tured down so close that no amount Of
rain would bring it out.
P. G. Noel, of Topeka, close OBJ
server, says Kansas wheat growers have
lost more money by too much rain after
harvest than by too little rain after
seeding.
Oswego Times-Statesman: We think
our correspondent is badly mistaken
when he says the strawberry crop il
badly damaged, we don't think We
ever saw q finer patch than that OF
Skinner Bros. Just west OF town. They,
have % acres that viii be bearing this
season and IL acres that we're set out
this spring.