Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1913-07-03
Our Farmer Friends.


wheat last week, and the output
is quite gratifying to him. His
wheat averaged % bushels to the
acre, and he had 20 acres. 1t
tested sixty and half pounds,
which is mighty good. He raised
the Early Prolific.
S. E. Gle, who lives just south
of town, tells us his prospect for
good crop is good. He says
only a small part of his corn is
hurt by bugs.
Buck Williams, who lives on
the Pete Clabber place, on Route
2, is a reasonably busy man. Be-
sides attending to a lot of breed
ing stock, Mr.. Williams is look
ing after go acres of corn, so
acres of oats, and 300 acres OF
hay land. Yet he says he has
time to do more work. \
Felix Dardenne is keeping his
thrashing machine busy out on
Route 2. And aside from this he
has big corn field to look after.
He also has 20 acres of hay to
put up. Felix has recently paint
ed his property.
G. N. Pliler has some of the
incest corn it has been our pleas
ure to see. He is living on the
Walt Sullivan place south of town.
J. F. Pliler is another man who
is reasonably busy these uncom-
fortably warm days. He has in
100 acres of corn, has just cut
so acres of oats, and is at work
putting up 160 acres of hay.
]. G. Hicks, road .overseer just
across the line to the south, is
rrising some good corn. He had
an experience the other day that
he is not going to forget soon.
He got one of his fingers caught
in cultivator spring, and yelled
himself hoarse trying to attract
the attention of a neighbor who
was blowing near by. But the
neighbor could not hear, and Mr..
Hicks had to drive the cultivator
to the fellow, in order to get the
finger released.
Ed. Allen is one of the gentle
men farmers on Route 2. So as
to not work too hard he only put
| in 40 acres of corn and six acres
of oats. But his corn is fine.
He will put up forty acres of
grass.
Will Overton, who is farming
a part of the Abrams land, has
in 100 acres of very fine corn,
and he also had 20 acres of oats.
Mr.. Overton will put up 100
acres of grass.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Walker of
Route 2 are enjoying a visit from
their daughters, Misses Myrtle
and Edith, who have been at
tending school at Haskell Iusti-
tute, Lawrence. The young la
dies got home last Friday night.
Mrs. Ed. Miller of Route ? is
visiting friends in Chetopa this
week.
Leonard and Valley Stoskopf
are able to be out, after a severe
tussle with the measles, They
were pretty sick for a few days.
J. E. Weakley, out on route 4.
tells us he has IS acres of mighty
good corn. He is farming in the
bottom at the mouth of Five Mile.
The farmers south of this city
are surely having tlne growing
season. They have been getting
a rain a week all spring. That
section has been favored with
rains which did not reach Baxter
Springs.
w. A. Van Glider is raising
corn this year in the right way.
Although his corn is higher than
his horses he is still blowing.
The corn is tasseling and shoot
ing, and has a fine color.
Frank Pierce has in IS acres
of corn on the Henshaw place.
Frank is working that corn, too,
and if he does not have a good
crop it is not going to be any
fault of his.
We have not been able to get
into communication with Mr.. r.
o. Thomas to verify the report,
but as we get it, he thrashed the
wheat from % acres the other
day and got $50 bushels, or a lit
more than 40 bushels to the acre.
Which is going some.