The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1910-07-19
RAISE MORE ALFALFA
in old KENTUCKY
WRITES bud" REYNOLDS. BACK
FROM kANsAs-FARM CON-
DITIoNs OUT THERE.
keOla. Kan. July IL

N'"t NoAifs JhAg -
Dear readers of |. j., will again
write a few items that hope may in
I terest someone First I must thank
the editor FOR the compliment he
paid me in my letter of April Bro
and correct the statement he made
that ! had bcome a prosperous" far.
ruer of Kansas am far. from being
prosperous farmer nut hope to pros.
per at least enough to pay all nv
debts and again make a start in life.
Wheat and oats harvest Is over and
the hum OF the thresher is now heard
in the land. A great many OF the
thousands of men who came to Kan.
as to assist in harvesting The great
wheat scrops have gone. yet a great
rnahy are still here helping to run
threshers and to do all kinds of farm
work.
IL is estimated that about 10000
men came to Kansas this year. They
began coming about three weeks be.
fore harvest began. Every train
both passenger and freight, brought
harvest hands. They we're here from
everywhere. A great many farmers
employed their hands and boarded
them free several days before the
wheat was ready in order to be sure
CT them.
! will say right here that If the
farmers had to harvest the crops with.
out any outside help lots of II would
go to waste $3.50 to 50 and board
was the price paid man to pitch
wheat and So to 81 for stackers and
$3.50 TO s. for man and teams. All
other work was dropDed and every
nan who could do a days work was
in harvest. Harvest lasts 9S0ut - to
is days. I harvested with Mr.. W. f.
Marcum aud our force Il men and
ho-ses) put on IN average of little
more than 80 acres a day in stack.
We began at A. M. and quit at 7
y. m, and rested one and a half
hours for lunch |
II was very dry through harvest
and a nice breeze every day. Conse-
qunteiy neither men nor teams SUI.
fred, and the wheat went in the stack
in fine shtpe or those who have
threshed, IS bushels per acre is the
best yield reported. OF what that
tested 81 pounds from black land. it
10 selling now at IS cents. The Ag.
ricutural Commissioner claims the
crop In Kansas will be about 40 to IS
million bushels. or about % million
less than last year.
Corn is looking fairly we'll. but
was beginning to suffer for rain, but
Saturday tthe 9Th night we had a
nice shower that will do lots of good.
II Is claimed that there is the largest
acreage planted IN corn, that has
ever been planted in Kansas.
The second crop Of alfalfa has been |
cut and is a fairly good yield. Yet. IL
we don't get more rain soon the third |
crop Is going 20 be short and I want |
TO say that the alfalfa crop in itself |
Is an immense crop. Kansas raises |
more alfalfa than any other State in
the Union. II seems TO me that II the |
farmers Of old Kentucky would give
alfalfa more attention they would be
better of.
The price Of land is climbing sky
ward pretty fast here. Mr.. Harvey
Tubos obught a tract OF land near Tu-
ron a few DAYS ago. with the i'm
provements paid 800 per acre, Mr.,
Hardin Newell bought a tract five
miles north of Neonla with the build
ngs: both these men are from Pu-
ASK county and doing we'll.
Our old friend. II. Bruce Newell and
wife spent the day with US
yesterday and he told me That ne was
offered $4,000 last week for 100 acres
hat he bought for $500 just five
Years ago. He has 100 acres of wheat
hat he thinks will make above rs
bushels. II the weather is favorable
ie will put 200 acres in wheat this
all. Just as soon as II rains enough
o put land in shape. Farmers will
be very busy listing wheat land. Nov.
quite a few are cultivati&s their corn
again since harvest. Two-row cult
.ators are coming into use fast. Most
III the new ones bought this year
ire the tworow kind. Made espe-
,iaily for listed corn. They could
rot be used on surface planted corn.
md quite a few two-row listers were
,ut out this year. They are operated
With one man aud eight horses.
..g.oaA a. haing Cradad