Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1913-11-06
Our Farmer Friends.


north of Baxter, put in eight
acres of alfalfa this fall. He did
not get it in until the 10Th OF
September, but he tells us it is
up and doing nicely. He says it
came up thick Mr.. Stout Timed
his ground with pulverized lime
rock from the Carthage stone
quarries, and has also top dressed
it. He plowed the ground for
the alfalfa a long time ago, and
has kept it disked all summer,
so as to kill out vegetation.
Levi Bowles, up in Quaker
Valley, has in a small patch of
alfalfa which is doing nicely.
He will put in more of it.
L. C. Wellman is going to
raise alfalfa on his farm in the
Quaker Valley. He is going to
get his ground in first class con-
dition first.
Tom Lee has had a fine lot of
alfalfa on his farm east of town
this fall. And he tells us he is
going to put in more of it.
Minis Tindall has been raising
alfalfa for several years, and his
yield this year was good in spite
of the dry weather.
VIM. Brugger has II acres of
excellent sweet clover, which he
tells US he has been pasturing all
summer. He says it made a fine
growth, and if he had not kept
it pastured all summer. He says
| it made a fine growth, and if he
had not kept it pastured down
would have been three or four
feet high.
Mr.. Stout, whom we mentioned
as raising alfalfa, has had a
big yield of feterita this season.
He says it beat anything he has
ever tried to beat dry weather
with. He tells US it did not fire
when the weather was so hot and
dry.
H. H. Stout was in from his
farm five miles north of town
last Thursday to have a finger
dressed. He got it into the cogs
of a binder and ruined it.
There was a big crowd out at
the sale of J. E. Gaines last
Thursday. The buyers were
from all over the country, and
the stock sold at good prices, in
fact perfectly satisfactory to Mr..
Gaines. He tells US only four
notes were given in settlement,
everything else bringing cash.
Karl Kahn tells us he is going
to put in some alfalfa on his
place northwest of town. Mr..
r. w. Jordan is going to test his
soil for him and see if it has the
requisite amount of lime. Jor-
dan is going to superintend the
alfalfa operations for Karl.
Frank Hartley has joined the
ranks of the alfalfa growers.
He has bought a spreader, is 60
ing to get some of his ground in
fine condition, and then raise al
falfa. He says he will raise it,
too.
| F. S. Hall tells us that the
farmers up around his home town
Iof Fulton are raising lots of al.
falfa, and he says they are rails
ling it on the hilly and poor land.
He says more farmers are raising
alfalfa up there than are raising
wheat.
We hope every one of our far.
mer friends will attend the meet.
ling at Blue Mound school house
on Friday night, November H.
At this meeting R. w. Jordan,
the land and soil expert, will
tell us how to grow alfalfa sue
cessfully and profitably in this
country. He says alfalfa is be-
ling successfully grown over in
lLabette county, and that there
is no reason why there should not
be thousands of acres of it grown
lin Cherokee county. If you are
skeptical about this, attend the
meeting. All it will cost you
will be the time it takes to attend.
Have your wives attend with
you. Perhaps they have more
sense than the men folks have.
Most any kind of a woman has
more sense than some men we
know. =
Dick and Jess Fancher are do
ing some deep blowing this fall.
They are blowing nine inches