The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-01-10
FARM NOTES

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Denison, Tex, last s,riug planted
four acres of peanuts as a sort OF ex
pertinent. They did well and when
| he dug them he got rs bushels per
acre, He had a load In Deni.on, the
other day, that sold quick for 81 per
bushel, He is greatly pleased with
his peanut profits and will plant
many acres next spring. Seventy
five dollars per acre comes close TO
our alfalfa profits and Kansas will
have to be looking cut or Texas will
get ahead of us.
Mrs. Monroe Coleman had last sum
mer patch OF tomatoes which lacked
just little OF being One-tenth uf an
acre. From this small patch she sod
tomatoes to he value of $5l 80. II
she had had 10 one acre and had sold
the product at this rate. 1T would
have brought her $519. Besides this
she canned IA quarts and they had
tomatoes on the table all summer aud
fall Now you $75 an acre alfalfa
men, will you quit making so much
noise? You night have known that
it was impossible to get ahead Of
wide wake Kansas woman.
The northeastern part of the state
held the edge over the rest OF the
state on the corn crop this year and
it is from that part that the wonder
full husking stories come, Those of
US who have claimed that the human
race is falling down la endurance
will have to take a back seat for the
husking records grow larger every
scar. Now comes one J0h1 Full
bright, who husked this year up near
Moray. Doniphan county, and Gays
he averaged 100 bushels rer 10 hour
day for six days In succession. He
has one months wages that he wants
to bet that he can husk 200 bushels in
10 hours If he DOESN'T have TO unlosd
it. Tive hundred bushels is all we
care to scoop, let alone husk.
The hog raisers up around Hi& va
ha have been losing more than the
daily 25c per hundred that The pack
ers have been taking off lately. r
Nj. Hill, who had thoroughbred p
land Chinas aid who was just tettinl
ready for his annual sale lest 65 heat
out of IS with cholera. Close by w
NJ. Cue lost lC4 valued AT $500; Jerry
Miller last 30 Duroc Jerseys worth
$3.50 and Dan Shober lost % valued
At 800. The disease was brought in
by six head from Robinson township
Toese hogs dy ny and being hauled
out. the usual combination OF crows,
dogs and dead cholera hogs soon did
the business. Experiences like this
are what conYince the average farmer
that his lot is not without the usual
ups and downs that fail to most
people. ge
The corn husking machine seems
to be proving a success up IN the
northeast corner OF the state, where
( This years crop Is heavy enough TO
1 make farmers feel the need of m
chine help. Up there they are able
10 husk 10 acres day with one ma
chine, which Is pulled by five horses.
Two teams and wagons are needed TO
keep the corn going to the cribs.
What Is said to have been tue larg
est amount ever paid In this country
to one man for one crop was the
$40 1910 that a Pendleton, Ore,
farmer got fer his wheat. 1t was
paid by check. We don't know
whether any Kansau ever beat this
record or not, but IL they didn't 1t
was because they didn't feel like II,
aud not because they couldn't. The
returns are not yet In from that
Brown county man who raised 100
bushels of apples this year.
Larger and larger the black spots
on the landscape, The folks are
getting blowing done this fall as
never before. But never before was
there such a fine fail for blowing.
The plan Of many who are blowing
now is to disc we'll 10 the spring,
then harrow and plant with planter
equipped with the disc furrow open
ers. This leaves field Ia fine shape
and it does not dry out as quickly as
plain, top planted fall blowing does.
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