The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-21
Total
Crops mai Pay.


To continue the discussion of the
reasons for the advance in the price
of near Topeka tracts for farming pur-
poses. on a small scale started in last
Saturdays issue of the State Journal;
A communication from G. Hayes of
the Hayes Produce Co on the North
Side to the secretary of the Kansas
Association of Real Estate agents, W.
J. Rickenbacher, who is preparing to
publish a booklet showing the remark
able success attained by shawnee
county produce growers, is of interest.
There are several things that we
grow here to perfection" stated Mr.
Hayes in the letter. 1.-The first of these
is pop corn, which is regarded by some
farmers as the boys end of the farm
crop, but which nevertheless out pays
any corn crop grown. Shawnee county
will produce tn season between ten
and fifteen car loads of pop corn The
yield is from 80 to 0 bushels per acre
and the stalks being less tough than
ordinary corn stalks are devoured
readily by cattle.
I'VE grow and ship in this country
more horseradish than in any other
state outside of Missouri and it goes
from coast to coast and from Canada
to the Gulf of Mexico. 1t will yield
from two to four tons per acre and the
value is from $50 to 500 a ton.
another good paying crop here is
the sweet potato Sweet potatoes Will
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! acre, their value being from rs cents
to 50 a buslleI. We have the sale of
the largest number of varieties in the
United States and we ship them every
where"
J..R. SpeiInan of Granville realized
! $500 per acre for three successive
seasons on red raspberries.
B. M. Adams, near Tecumseh, re-
ceived last spring SITS from one-half
acre of Grandy Strawberries
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school house received from one grocer
last spring $212 from half acre of
/ Senator Dunlap Strawberries.
A b.. Smith of Highland Park in
1910 marketed IS tons of cherries,
which were picked on a five acre tract
He reported but one absolute failure
in 6 years.
sales of the Week.
Sales of Shawnee Agency: To Chris
tian Closer, a four room cottage (neW)
at SIC Larch street for the constdera-
tfcn of 1850; to Frank Benton, six
room house which will be completed
Dsc. 90 at 500 Scotland avenue,
$1,000; to Herman johnson. a six room
/ cottage in course of construction al
444 Scotland avenue, $1,915; to Franz
| Sawyer, a six room two story dwelling
now building, at 426 Scotland avenue
81 900: to RAYMOND 0. Wales, a seven
room modern dwelling at 1914 West
Euclid avenue. $500; to H. c. kurtz
a four room cottage in Cherryvale
Kan, for $1,100; to w T. Dawson
/ from Charles DarneH. six room
dwelling 1T 171O Park street in Elm
Grove addition. $4,000; to Charles Oar
nell two cottages at the corner OF
Morse and Topeka avenues. $4,000.
c. H. ASKING has sold, through ths
Barnes Real Estate Co, six room
house at ST. Garfield avenue to Orsor
Baker, for the consid Grafton OF $4,000
The work of clearing off the bushes
on the Pinehurst tract is about com
pleted and the surveyors also are com
plotting their work of putting in th'
corners of the tracts which have nov
all been named. If the weather con
tinues fine the tract will be put on th'
market by Nov. 1, but the chances are
that the work Of preparation viii b.
delayed somewhat by a few days o
unfavorable weather.
The Building Permits.
Permits were issued this week 70
the erection Of nine new dwellings a