The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-15

David Clarke harvested II, 500 bushels
or wheat last fall from 400 acres, an
average of twenty-nine bushels per acre,
and banked about $4,000.
Joseph Duffey'S last seasons wheat
return was 1000 bushels from 800
acres. or 80 bushels per acre, with a
cash result approximating $500. One
hundred and twenty acres of Mr.. Duff
fey's wheat ground were leased from
the Union Pacific Land company under
the terms of one-fifth of the crop, the
Union Pacific Land company realizing
1894 therefrom. or, in other words,
wheat land cashed in their last years
harvest at $3.50.
James Sturdevant harvested last fall
$500 bushels of wheat from ia acres,
or over 80 bushels per acre and fig
ures up over $4,000 in cash.
c. H. Howard threshed last fall $500
bushels of wheat from $50 acres "a
bushels to the acre, and about 81 600
SHERIDAN COUNTY.
Isaac Clusters last years wheat har-
vest was 5000 bushels from $50 acres,
or over "a bushels per acre, with an
approximate crop value of $780,
L. Havercamp cropped last year 2S0
acres with a return of 10000 bushels of
wheat and 5000 bushels of other small
grains, his harvest values approximate
ing $4,000.
COVE COUNTY.
Chris Beougher harvested last season
Il, 800 bushels of wheat from 300 acres,
30 bushels per acre, for which he re-
ce1ved ss cents per bushel, or 1920
Joseph Ort threshed 5040 bushels of
wheat last fall from 100 acres. or in
excess of so bushels per acre. Mr.. Ort
devoted, in addition, three acres to ex-
peflmental culture under the Campbell
system and harvested therefrom rs
bushels per acre-more Turkey red
wheat than ever before raised on the
same ground area either in North
America or Europe.
A. A. Phillips threshed Il, 900 bushels
last year from $50 wheat acres, with a
crop value reaching $4,000. Wayne
Davenport's wheat last season covered
zoo acres. yielded 35 bushels per acre.
and sold for $1,000.
LOGAN COUNTY.
The Schultz brothers raised last year
SooO bushels of wheat on $50 acres. or
81 bushels per acre, with an approx
nation of $1,000 harvest sale.
George Albion cultivated last season
80 wheat acres under the Campbell
system, reaping therefrom 81 bushels
per acre. while large acreage under
usual crop method returned 80 bushels
than ne was this time last spring.
AURIFEROUS AVERAGE.
+h me sixteen farmers scattered through
Trego. Logan, Cove, Thomas and Sheri-
dan, and enumerated above in this arti-
Gle rn,;,, harvested last year an aggregate, in
with an aggregate return to these six
teen farmers Of. in round figures. 144.0o0
again, of thirty-one bushels per acre
These $4,000 bushels of wheat command
ed market value of from IS cents to
IS cents per bushel. with 20 cents per
bushel as a fair average, which means
that these sixteen western Kansas farm
ers realized an aggregate of over $4,000
in cash from their 4,60O wheat acres, or
an average, in round figures, of over s21
TIII1 cAnrDprTT cvcru,.r
The Campbell system of agriculture,
from which such rich results are being
nothing more or less than a cropping of
the concerned soil every other year with
a careful and scientific preparation of the
term. The farmer pIows his ground to
a depth of from seven to ten inches in
the fall. thoroughly pulverizing the soil
next early spring the soil is again har-
rowed, the harrow being. thereafter used
result being the formation of a dust de-
post or crust, which effectually CON
mospheric evaporation. the moisture gar
nered in the soil during the winter
snowfall or spring rain precipitation. In
guarded soil is sown to winter wheat.
for instance, with a next year harvest re-
suits which rivals, if not actually sur
passes, the most prolific returns of west
ern canal irrigation. Distributed beneath
the western dry divide areas at, perhaps,
subsoil deposit impervious to water. The
Campbell system of dry region agricul-
ture is therefore really scientific appli-
cation of natural irrigation, the winter
and spring moisture being thereby con-
verged and actually reservoired upon the
broad surface of the impenetrable clay
subsoil. fact which fully explains why
western Kansas soil under the Campbell
system is yielding high seventy
eight bushels per acre, while Immediately
adjoining acreage, farmed with usual sea-
son conditions. returns from twenty TO
thirty bushels per acre.
At least % per cent of the farmers of
western Kansas have already realized the
bell system, and it is safe to say that
within the next five years this system
will completely revolutionize western
Kansas farming. with the undoubted re-
suits of a practically doubling of the
wheat harvest per acre, a heavy increase
in wheat weight test and the adding of
at least so per cent to the market value
of the lands of the new Kansas wheat
belt comprised within the limits of Trego
county on the cast and the Colorado line
on the west, with the coming of a still
later Campbell system wheat belt to
on the Union Pacific railroad to within
S'SA' . sM MAC l1sofSI WHEAT
Macaroni wheat is a recent Introduction
from the steppes of Russia to the plains
of the Great American central west and,
borne onward and upward by the broad
and free pinions of the American eagle
already bids fair to snatch the center of
macaroni wheat cultivation and market
Macaroni wheat is essentially a late
spring sowing and a short summer har-
of strong and early ripening. Sown on
the facile and fertile soil of the broad
American central west from the middle
of April to the list of May this wheat
fully natures in Augustus later and fervid
suns, the yield being from forty to sixty
the early fall for excellent winter stock
pasturage, in which case a drilling of adj
ditional seed in April will insure full
season crop of the grain itself
Macaroni wheat derives its name from
the fact that its flour excellence has long
ton of the superior flour necessary to the
manufacture of macaroni-a production
vest monopoly.
This wheat is under United States gov
eminent patronage and the national de-
partment of agriculture is now figuring
on the. establishment at Kansas City of
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