Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-03-03
STOCK AND FARM,
Kansas Fruit Reports.


STOCK AND FARM.
Kansas Fruit Reports.
Topeka Fruit Farmer.
Hon. Fred Wellhouse, the largest ap-
pie grower in the United States, who
has orchards in Leavenworth and Shaw
nee counties, says: "Condition of apple
trees with us is first class and the pros
poets for the coming season are good:
peaches have been seriously injured by
heavy frosts."
Samuel Reynolds, prominent Doug
las county horticulturist, says: peaches
have been damaged by frosts but I think
not destroyed; think we shall have
full crop Of apples; small fruits of all
kinds apparently all right; you can say
that the outlook in old Douglas was new
er better at this date"
E. F. Walter, of Clay county, reports
the prospects for apples, pears and
plums to be excellent. Peaches, he says,
are mostly killed. Small fruit planta-
tions he reports as in only fair condition
and the outlook for the strawberry crop
not first class
Frank Holsinger, of Rosedale, Wyan-
dotte county, says: "Apple trees are
in good condition and promise a full
crop; peaches are generally killed; Keif-
fer pears promise well; plums are all
right; strawberries have made poor
growth and plants are scarce; raspber-
ries have suffered from rust and scale
and plantations generally look poor; I
predict not more than half crop; black
berries in splendid condition and prom
Use full crop; vineyards never in better
condition"
A. L. Entsminger, Silver Lake, Shaw
nee county, says that apple trees are
healthy and vigorous and promise big
crop. Peaches have been killed by frost.
Strawberry beds look bad on account
of drouth and cannot yield more than
half crop. Raspberries and blackber-
ries promise we'll. Vineyards, he says,
are in the best condition he ever saw
them and the prospect for grapes is
most fattering.
F. w. Dixon, of Jackson county, re-
ports peaches and apricots all killed;
cherries and plums in good condition;
apples never gave promise of better
crop; small plants look we'll and large
crop in proportion to the acreage, which
is small, is looked for.
The reports from Nebraska, Iowa,
Missouri and Oklahoma are in the same
general tenor and indicate a big apple
crop, plenty Of cherries and plums, few
peaches, fair crop of raspberries and
blackberries, half a crop of strawberries
and an immense yield of grapes in the
west this season.
Kansas City Live Stock Indicator:
Notwithstanding all that may be said
against Kansas by people who live sew
eral hundred miles away, she always
comes up smiling at the end Of the year
and is never afraid to compare results
with any other state in the union.
While Kansas, in common with all other
states in the union, has suffered from
the general depression in values, both on
the farm and in commercial circles, and |
while on the whole the last season was
not SO fruitful as some which have pre-
coded it, yet when it comes to the wind |
up of the year Kansas has never need |
to be ashamed.
Topeka special: The grain men all |
say that the recent heavy snow will
make a wheat crop of 100000 bush |
els in Kansas Despite the low price of |
wheat and the dry weather last fall the |
area seeded was over 100000 acres,
according to the latest report of the |
state board of agriculture. That is a
greater area than produced the phenom
email crop OF 1892 The area that year
was 100000 acres. The official crop |
estimate was 72,5OO,OOO bushels, but
many of the best grain shippers in Kan
sas do not hesitate to declare that the
state produced 100000 bushels that
year. Wheat from that crop is still
coming to market.
Leona, Brown county, has an orchard
list, J. d. Hazen, who has $500 apple
trees planted. Seven thousand of the
number are Ben Davis, 1000 are winesap
and 1000 Genet.
A Douglas county farmer last year
made 5000 gallons of wine, which he
can sell for 81 per gallon. The same
farmer also raised large amount of
other produce, making the value Of his
years work amount to the neighborhood
of $4,000. He made all of bis money
out of farming Kansas lands.