Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-16
Notes from Nebraska Fnrms.


Valley county will make an exhibit at the
Bushnell, ILL.,, fair.
The Verona elevators are running day and
night in order to handle the big rush OF
grain.
There is some complaint in portions of the
state that grain which has been left in
shock is beginning to sprout.
The millet crop in Boyd county this sea-
son is out of sight and will average over
three tons to the acre. while the hay crop
is also unusually large.
The hay crop of Brown county is large
this season. 1t Is better than it has been
for q number of years. The cattemen are
getting after it right now with a vengeance.
Xavier Toillion of Hershey threshed 745
bushels of wheat this week which he sold
to Kelsey & Co. for 55 cents per bushel.
Toillion's wheat averaged twenty-six bushels
per acre.
The apple crop of this section promises to
be large, says the Lyons Sun William
Everett is reported as saying that he expects
to gather at least 500 bushels from his or
chard this fall.
Fifteen bushels to the acre will probably
be the average yield of wheat in Dixon
county this year, and that is considered
very good as an average. Some threshing
has already been done.
The recent rains, says the Valentine Re-
publican, have placed the soil in a thor
oughly moist condition and indicates that
the prospects for favorable conditions to
profitable farming next year are almost as
sured. Such conditions are indeed encourag-
ing.
Mr.. McKelvey, north Of Cozad, has 4S0
acres under irrigation and Is the laet man
on the Gothenburg irrigation canal. He has
1S0 acres of irrigated spring wheat which
is averaging thirty bushels to the acre. lis
irrigated corn is fine and promises a yield
IF aiu ty-H -H,ya httSh +hn
The Valentine Republican says that David
Hanna sold to a buyer at Wood Lake the
fore part of this week 100 head of 2-year-old
steers at S42 per head. II Is also stated that
j. NJ. Hanna has contracted about 175 head
for October delivery at a good figure Cat
tie are as good as the cash every day in
the week now.
Reports from the harvest fields In Sarpy
county indicate that oats are yielding all
the way from fifty to sixty bushels per acre.
Wheat is also yielding a good crop. Henry
Zimmerman recently harvested 700 bushels
OF wheat from twenty-acre field. All
small grain is as a rule, well filed out and
comparatively free from rust.
Some good small grain stories are cur
rent and here is one of them, well authen-
ticated, says the McCook Tribune: James
Doyle of Perry precinct rented a piece of
land which he determined to plant to corn
By the time he had the crop on his own
placo IL was, ne thought, 100 dry 10 plOW
for corn and he decided to let the volunteer
wheat on the tract unmoested. He has
just threshed 1000 bushels of wheat from
that land Deducting the one-fourth rent
he has strong $50 bushels of wheat for the
mere harvesting, as he never narrowed the
land. W. s. Hamilton had the tract in
wheat last year.
There are many localities In the east
where the potato crop is complete failure
and our Sheridan county farmers who have
such magnificent prospects for big yield of
tubers this fall ought to get good returns
for their labor. says the Gordan Journal
NO locality In America can produce potatoes
mat VIII compare in size and quality with
our sandhll spuds. We challenge the world
TO equal us In this particular II we lived
IN Iowa we would import our potatoes from
northwest Nebraska, where they grow in
sahd' unirrigated, and have a richness of
havor possessed by the product of no other
country or cline. The sand hills country
Is as much the home of the Irish potato as
Georgia Is OF the watermelon and sweet
potato.