Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-04-18
STOCK AND FARM.

Atchison Patriot; B. r. Blakesley,
living south Of town, will plant nearly
100 acres of gorghum this spring
Wellington Mail: j. G. Davis, Of
jackson township, was in town to buy
seed oats. He says he has only forty
acres Of wheat left out of two hundred,
and is going to put the "frozen out"
ground into oats.
Oak Valley item in Westphalia Times:
There will be quite an acreage of fax
sown here this spring. Most every
farmer will put in from ten to twenty
acres, and few of them from fifty to
one hundred acres
The receipts of sheep at Kansas City,
Kan, for six days we're 25,48S against
1850 the same time last year. an in
crease Of 6,519, much OF which came
from Texas and many Of them shipped in
by parties who are new to the trade at
that place.
Kincaid Dispatch: There will be a
larger acreage of fax sown in this local
ity this year than ever before. B. +.
Blaker & Co., have already run out Of
contract seed and we understand that
the demand could not be supplied at
several other points.
A. T. Biggs, who lives on West Twin
creek, four miles southwest of Sylvan
Grove, has put in an irrigation plant
on his place which he homesteaded over
twenty years ago. Mr.. Blggs intends
to irrigate twenty-five acres. He esti-
mates the cost of the plant at $75.
Clay Center Times: Corn in Clay
county has averaged, in round numbers,
twenty-nine bushels per acre, for twenty
consecutive years At an average price
of twenty cents per bushel, which is a
low average, it would have brought
$3.50 per acre. Corn ground rents
readily at two-ffths of the crop, so it
will be seen that the rent would have
paid II per cent on land at 500 per
acre and left - cents per acre, which
would pay the taxes.
Hugoton Hermes: Norton Hockett
of Voorhees, township has contracted
with firm of nurserymen for 1,000apple
trees. Payment is to be made with two
crops Of fruit from the trees, any time
within fifteen years, the vendors to
determine when to take the crop. Mr..
Hockett has fine peach orchard in
bearing, and will succeed with apples.
We miss our guess, however, if he
doesn't rue his bargain when the nur-
seymen claim their pay.
Grant County Republican: The South
Fork Ditch company turned the water
from the Cimarron into the ditch. 1t
worked like charm and the permanent
success of the enterprise is assured.
They only turned in a small part of the
water at their command, and the water
filled the ditch for little over q mile in
few minutes-a mile being as far as
they had the ditch ready to receive it.
The main ditch will be four miles in
length when completed, and several
thousand acres of land will be opened
up for irrigation. The owners of the
land are already beseiged with applica-
tions to rent, but 80 far have refused all
corners. The supply of water is mex
haustable, coming from the famous
Wagon Bed springs. The South Fork
ditch to-day is the pride or Grant county.
More office room is needed at the
Kansas City, Kansas, stock yards, in
order that the increasing number of
firms doing business there may have
offices in the Exchange building. There
is now from $80,O0O,OO0 to $100,000,000
worth Of business done in the stock
yards exchange building, and this vol
ume is rapidly increasing With the
increase in volume of trade the number
of firms doing business there also in
creases of course. while those already in
business naturally expand and demand
larger counting. room facilities. The re-
suit of all this is that large addition
to the present Exchange building will
be built forthwith, it is said, and the
plans are already being prepared by the
architect. The new structure will be
three stories and basement, and 245x48
feet, containing 100 new offices. twill
cost $4,000.
NJ. B. Tomblin, one of the members
of the irrigation board, is just complet-
ing ON his farm, near Goodland, the put
ting in Of pumpage plant, consisting
of 16-foot windmill and 5-inch tubu-
lar pump and reservoir holding $780,
900 gallons of water, the we'll being 200
feet deep, producing over one barrel of
water ger minute, AND having an irri-
eating capacity Of twenty acres. The
work Of this plant will include the irri.
cation of fine 10-scre VEchard.