Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-07-19
STOCK AND FARM.

OlOCh AMI fAhWs
An Ellsworth man has Just returned
from Texas, where he bought 1000 head
Of 2-year-old heifers, which he will feed
next winter.
A bunch OF cattle, mostly yearling
steers, and numbering seventy eight
head, was found at large on the SAILING
river in Ellis county. Whore they camQ
from is mystery. II is thought by u
few that some party from the western
edge OF the state was driving the cattld
east, and that the owner was murdered
or killed by lightning.
Leoti Standard: Mr.. Koontz has been
estimating the probable yield of out
wheat crop, and his figures were some,
thing like the following: On the low
average Of five bushels to the acre there
would be 100000 bushels raised in tho
county, and taking out 100000 bushels
to bread and seed the county for a yea;
would leave 300 car loads to ship, on
100000 bushels, and put 100000 into
circulation. These are, indeed, low fig
ures, and in case we shouldn't have an
other rain it would not be surprising lt
the yield should double or even treble
the above figures.
W. q. Alexander, living close to Leav-
enworth, was arrested on the charge of
stealing car load of cattle while en-
ployed on the stock farm of w. II. Hewett.
He cut about twenty head of fat steers
from herd and drove them to the San
ia Fe station for shipment. He could
not secure transportation for them on
account Of the strike, and had to hold
them until Saturday, when he got them
to Kansas City and sold them to Digel,
WEIGH & Clawson, who are said to have
since resold them. The owner of the
cattle missed them Sunday and securing
track Of them sent to Kansas City and
identified them. He will get them all
back or be paid their value.
Wichita Eagle: d. L. Hite brought
to this Office sample Of the quartz of a
Kansas gold mine. The mine is the up
land farm Of j. H. Munns, four miles
east Of the packing houses. The quartz
is in shape of magnificent sheaf Of
Mediterranean wheat, strong Of stalk
and with bursting heads full of the
finest grain to be seen anywhere. The
wheat was put in last September. There
are forty acres of it, and Judging from
that reaped yesterday it will average
twenty-five bushels to the acre. Mr..
Munns has been on this farm twenty
one years and would not trade it for
any mine in Colorado, despite the al
legged vicissitudes Of Kansas drouths and
hot winds.
ElDorado Republican: D. W. Heath,
of Fairmont township, put in 1OS acres
of alfalfa on his farm in that township
last spring He sowed forty-fve bush
els in all, and put it in with flax, mixing
it thoroughly and sowing it with an Or
binary broadcast seeder. Both crops
came slowly at the beginning, but the
late showers have brought it out Won
derfully. He says it is the best stand
he ever saw, that the alfalfa and flax
are thick on the ground, that the flax
will yield ten or twelve bushels to the
acre, and that he will have a world Of
aafalfa hay from the first. He expects
to harvest in about two weeks. The
ground was top dressed with 900 loads
of manure, last winter, and that is what
puts the crop in snch fine shape. The
main point with Mr. Heath is to get
good stand of alfalfa and he thinks he
has got it, The land is not bottom, nor
is it the highest upland sort of a be-
twixt and between. The whole under
taking, while expensive at the start,
may prove to be splendid investment.
The ground was in corn last year. He
cultivated it twice this spring, then
sowed the seed, narrowed it twice with
common smoothing harrow, then rolled
it. Mr.. Heath says it takes work to
put in alfalfa, but 'that his crop shows
it now. We believe he will have a fine
stand. The alfalfa is now about a foot
high, or as high as the flax in places,
and he is confident the flax crop will pay
all expenses, counting the flax seed at
$1.00 per bushel,