Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-03-29
STOCK AND FARM.

One Barton county farmer has 10000
bushels OF wheat in storage at Great
Bend.
The Fullington Live Stock company
will put $500 head OF cattle on the
range in Kiowa county this season.
The Kansas City, Kan, Stock Yards
company will build a $4,000 mule barn
Immediately. The new structure will be
the largest OF its kind in the world.
Kinguan Leader Courier: Joe Kirk,
Of the firm Of Horner e. Kirk, live stock
dealers, and also of Kirk Bros, grain
buyers, estimates that 100000 worth
of grain and live stock were sold and
shipped from Kingman county last year.
From Sedan: The fine spring weather
is being improved by the farmers in
pushing their work. Oats are nearly
all sown and blowing, which was largely
done last fall, will soon be completed.
WI eat never looked finer at this time
of the year. We have an excellent out
look for good crop.
j. T. Crump of Chautauqua county
has contracted to pasture 1000 head Of
cattle the coming season for a Kansas
City party. One thousand head are cat
tie wintered in the territory and were
taken at $1.25 per head for the season.
The other thousand are Texas cattle
and are to be taken from and delivered
on the cars for $1.35 for the season.
Judge s. W. Vandevert of Kinsley
said that in nearly all of the southwest
ern counties there was larger acreage
of wheat this year than ever before and
the prospects for good crop are fine.
The judge is interested directly in know
ing too, for he has thousand acres Of
his own planted to wheat. With a good
yield this year Judge Vandevert says he
believes Kansas will raise 20,000,000
bushels Of wheat this year.
The Kansas City, Kansas, stockyards
are attracting shipments from all parts
Of the west, south and north. Some
weeks ago a shipment of cattle from
Mississippi. was received, and five car
loads Of steers were in from North Da-
kota. The indications are that it will
not be long until Kansas will have a
more important stock market at it's own
Kansas City than Illinois has at Chi
cago.
Wyandotte county note from the Kan
sas City Times: "The prospects are
bright for big crops in this county this
year. The heavy snow in February and
the recent rains have soaked the ground
thoroughly. The wheat crop will likely
be the heaviest in years, while the fruit
crop will be above the average. The
farmers have commenced planting oats,
and within ten days, il the pleasant
weather continues, ground will be bro
ken for corn and potatoes.
H. o .Hinckley, consulting engineer
of the Kansas Irrigation association says
that in area of 25,0OO,0O0 acres not more
than 100000 and probably not more
than 100000 acres can ever be perma-
nently watered. As a natural result
those lands that secure the permanent
supply will increase in value to $50 or
800 an acre, and 100000 acres in
western Kansas with water assured will
raise more than 30,000,000 that depend
on rains in eastern Kansas.
Ex-senator J. W. Rush, of Larned,
says that he had long talk with one Of
the most extensive wheat raisers Of Paw
nee county and that he assured him that
both the early and late wheat we're in
good shape. This farmer says that from
his own observation he knows that some
of the best wheat years that Kansas has
ever known were those when the spring
rains did not occur until April. The
wheat, in its present favorable condition,
can easily go month without suffering
for moisture.
Great Bend Register: Joseph Goet-
eel, Of Cheyenne township, sold his farm
Of 100 acres to Mr.. Liebel last week for
$4,000. Mr. Goetzel will remove to the
Strip. Mr.. Kohler, of Logan, who is
also going to Oklahoma, disposed of his
eighty acre farm for $1,000. Here are
two real estate deals, the average price
beng SIG per acre, which show the
value our own people place upon Bar
ton county realty, and it is but fair to
say that some of this land is far below
the average in quality of soil.