Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-05-09
STOCK AND FARM.


his land shall be rich. He has spread
seven tons Of phosphate, at $lS a ton,
on sixty acres Of wheat.
R. H. Hazlett is raising this season
on his several Butler county farms TAO
acres of corn, $50 acres OF oats and mill
let and forty acres OF sorghum.
Farmers in the eastern part OF Doug
las county report chinch bugs very thick
in that neighborhood, and that young
wheat is literally covered with them.
Farmer Wishart, OF Linn county, who
sold thirty-two head Of fat steers for
Sl04 apiece the other day, figured out
clear profit Of 500 on each one. He
bought them last October at SAL.
Wellington Mail; A Haysville farmer
has secured the torches used by the
Wichita Republican Flambeau club and
keeps them burning in his orchard at
night to destroy the moth that usually
destroys his apple crop.
Samuel Reynolds, Of the Douglas
County horticultural society, says
that the reports showed that the straw
berry crop would be short this year,
on account Of past dry seasons. The
crop Of peaches, apricots, plums, goose
berry, pears and similar orchard fruits,
however, promises to be the largest in
years, and il nothing happens phenom-
email season is looked for by the growers.
There was a heavy rain along the
western portion Of the Central Branch
road April II, and the wheat was never
in better condition than at present. Re-
ports received at the Missouri Pacific
offices in Atchison indicate that there
has been much greater rainfall in
northwestern Kansas than in northeast
ern Kansas. 1t is believed that there
will be a good yield OF wheat in the
northwestern portion Of the state. The,
ground has been plowed and in excel
lent condition for rain.
Howard Courant: Captain f. A. Du
Bots, from five acres OF alfalfa, raised
last year on his Longton township bot
tom farm, sold $165 worth of seed, be-
sides harvesting and feeding three
crops of excellent hay, the last crop,
from which the seed was threshed, be-
ing the best for feed Of the three. Mr..
Du Bots is sowing forty acres more this
spring and says he considers forty ceres
worth more for feed and profit than 100
acres Of corn any season, and in dry
years it is out Of sight Of all other crops
The captain is practical farmer and
feeder and his Judgment is very good in
matters of this kind.
Garden City Imprint: The acreage
given to potatoes this season is likely to
be larger than in any former year in
this county. All Of the early sown
barley and oats are up and looking fine,
and farmers are greatly encouraged
over the prospects of good crops. AL
falfa is climbing right up since the
snow storm and will beyond doubt,
reach very early harvest. The pros
pect for good fruit crop in this county
still continues good, not having been
damaged by the storms Of last week.
In fact, it is even better than it has
been since the severe freezing weather
in February for there are many peach
trees in and about tho city that now
show heavy crop Of bloom buds in the
best possible condition.
Lebanon Criterion: G. W. Peckham,
of Haven, Kan, offers practical sub
stitute for irrigation. Last year he broke
ten acre field to the depth Of seven
inches. Following each furrow with
subsoil pillow he stirred the ground to-
the additional depth Of seven inches.
This last process required heavy team
Of four horses and the extra expense
of farm hand, but the result is that
it paid well. Part Of the land was
planted to corn which yielded forty
bushels per acre. On the other land
not so treated in breaking, but after
wards planted and treated in exactly
the same manner, the crop, owing to the
severe drouth was almost total failure.
On investigation he found that the corn
roots had gone down the full depth
of the fourteen inches and the stalk
was supplied with abundant moisture.
ElDorado Republican; F. NJ Myers,
one of the most successful fruit raisers
in this region, says that he never saw
such fine all-round prospects for fruit
as we have this season. There is not a
failure in anything. HIS manner Of rid
ding his plum, cherry and apricot trees
Of curculio is to shake or jar the limbs.
He first takes two fishing poles, fas tens
them together at right angles then
spreads sheet together over theiG A
man helper holds the sheet thus fixed
under the limbs while he jars them, the
little pests let all holds go and fall onto
the sheet, then you choose your own
mode of torture in putting them to death.
The curculo is about the size and color
Of a grain of wheat and has wicked
proboscis with which it digs semi-cri-
cular hole into the growing fruit. He
says that the trees should be Jared
about four times per season. The num-
Der Of curculio on each tree will vary
from none to twenty.
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