Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-30
Notes from Nebraska Farms.

| Notes from Nebraska Farms.
| Blair people are raising money to build
and operate a creamery.
Herman grain buyers are paying out ar
| average of $4,000 a day.
! The wheat crop of Valley county is worth
more than 500 per capita this year.
Valley county has sent an exhibit of it's
products to some of the Illinois fairs
| A number of farmers in the vicinity of
| Howell have lost hogs from the cholera.
The Harding Creamery company of Nor
| folk has leased and will hereafter operate
| the Battle Creek creamery.
That Grafton is to have a creamery is no
| dream. All the stock has been taken and
| work on the plant will be started in about
| two weeks.
Hog cholera is getting in its work in the
vicinity of Madison. Chris Schwank has
| lost 100, W. ]. Forney 100 and Jud FIGHTER
| twenty-five hogs by this disease.
| Prospective cattle buyers from Missouri
and southeast Nebraska have been numerous
| in the vicinity of Benkeman OF late, en-
deavorng to buy cattle, but meet with poor
success.
| The Santa Fe and the Northwestern have
| the contract for the transportation of 80, 900
| head of sheep from New Mexico to northern
Nebraska. They will begin to run through
| Superior next week.
Tuesday the elevators at Cedar Bluffs
took in about 5000 bushels of corn and
nearly 1000 bushels of wheat and car of
hogs, making a train of nineteen carloads
and putting into circulation among the
farmers nearly $4,000 in day.
H. Widdersheim sold 656 bushels of winter
wheat on the market at Campbell Monday
for which he received CT cents per bushe.
He raised this amount of wheat on sixteen
acres of ground. 1t averaged forty-one
bushels per acre and tested sixty-one pounds
to the bushel.
1t is thought that the beat crop will be
sufficiently ripe by the 18th of September
and the management of the factory expects
to start the machinery whirling at that
date The crop Is immense in all the terri
tory tributary to Norfolk and the factory
will be kept busy until late in the winter
One of many such samples of what can be
done on Nebraska soil comes from near Nc
Cool York county. John Stellar bought
eighty acres of land paid small sum down
and gave mortgage for Sl,500. He has just
thrashed wheat raised on the place, 2200
bushels, worth $1,320 at 60 cents bushel
nearly enough to pay the mortgage.
Frank Peterson is collecting the Cunning
county exhibit at the state fair to be held
at Omaha from September II to "a. Mr..
Peterson has canvassed the greater part OF
tho western half of the county and has met
with a great deal of encouragement from
the most enterprisIng farmers and business
mon, and a fine exhibit can be expected from
that locality.
Nebraska News Notes.
The new Touring mill at Branard Is to
be ready for business September 10.
The mill of the Crawford water works
system fails to supply water enough for the
town.
Reports from Grant county are to the effect
that grouse are more plentiful than for sew
eral years.
Andrew Akerson of Ong was thrown from
a wagon by runaway team and had one of
his legs broken.
John Dorian of Nemaha has discovered
he cannot stop a thrashlng machine by stick
ing his fingers in the cogs, but 1t cost him
two fingers.
horse stepped on the foot of Will Hayes
little daughter of Red Cloud, Tuesday, and
smashed the member 30 badly as to necessi-
tate amputation.
County Treasurer Crabb says that the peo-
pie of Cherry county are paying their taxes
more freely and rapidly than they have
for some time past.
j. Pusey Chapman of Aurora lest $1,000
worth of horse last Monday night His
famous stallion. Logan" got into the cats,
ate bushel or two. and then fell over dead,
Miss Lillian Gerecke has been rendered
and has accepted position as instructor
In music and elocution at the State Normal
school, Spearfsh S. d., and has resigned
On last Thursday after dinner Phillip
Thurtle of Fairfield lest eight stacks of
wheat, being ignited by a spark from the
engine. The separator belonging to Mr.,
Ronzo, was also consumed.
Colonel Plckens of McCook, under secretary
OF the State Board of Irrigation, has been
In Cheyenne county several days looking after
irrigation matters. With the assistance OF
County Surveyor Willis he has been measur-
ing the waters of Pumpkin Seed creek and
other county streams.
State against Frank Hepperly was the title
OF case tried in Judge Fosters court at
Madison, Thursday, Hepperly was charged
with shooting prairie chickens in defiance
OF the state law, and. by the evidence, was
adjudged guilty and fined $40 and costs
amounting In all to SS5
One man in North Platte boasts that so
far this season he has killed 800 prairie
chickens, AS all of these have been killed
out Of season, it might prove quite expensive
to him should ii happen that someone should
file complaint against him and have evil
dence to support the charge.
FilibusterinS Expedition.
TAMPA, Fla, Aug. "a large Cuban
expedition under the command of Colonel