Cheyenne record., 1913-10-09

| it and what was left of the early corn
the grasshoppers ate. Many farmers
planted late corn and some of it made
a surprising growth.
j. N. File, who is an optimist, has
made the claim that l00,000 bushels of
corn will be harvested in this county
this year. He said he had 5000 bush
els on his own place. Evidentely he
feared his word was doubted, for he
remarked that his visitor was from
Missouri he would show him, and he
did
Fike had 500 acres in corn. most OF
it late. The grasshoppers cleaned up
what the hail left of 100 acres, but the
balance is green from the ground up,
as green and fresh as though it had
rained yesterday. Eight out of every
ten stalks have ears all the way from
six inches to two feet from the ground.
Some of those ears would be good
ears in year of good crops in Mis-
souri, or eastern Kansas. Most 81
them would be too short, but they are
filled better than the corn in the Kaw
Valley. and are maturing solid. The
stand is not good or would not be in
a corn country, but there are thous-
ands of ears on it eight to ten inches
long with fourteen rows of well filled
kernels.
An estimate that some acres will
II IT, Is In nd
one field of 200 acres>will average tif
teen bushels to the acre seemed rea-
sonable. There are few Thousand
acres of this kind of corn within thir
ty miles of Colby and twice as many
thousand of acres with scarcely an ear
in the whole field.
Those farmers who haveplanted and
cared for alfalfa have good feed, bu
there is no very great amount of it il
the country. There is rough feed fo,
cattle. but the trouble is there are moi
a great many cattle. The shipn ents
to the Kansas City market camelarge
ly from points farther east.
What are the people doing about il
every merchant and banker to whom
that question was put gave the sam.
answer: They are going back to til
COW and the hen. To feed the COW
they are building silos.
On the farm of w. S. Ferguson, neal
town, is silo, sample OF dozei
built in the county.
After what has been told of the mis-
fortunes of the people of Thomas coun-
ty it seems superiluous to say that they
have no surplus money to spend, SO
they are building underground silos
because they are cheaper.
The Ferguson silo cost S15 but that
is because Ferguson is u banker and
had to pay for all the labor. Some
farmers who do the work themselves
only spend so in mrney-to buy the
cement.
The corn is chopped up and poured
in the top. ~ board cover will pro
tect it from the weather and small
crane and pulley will furnish tie
means Of drawing the silage as nee d,d
OF course, that means the silage used
will come from the top, which has its
disadv antages, but the difference is
not serious.
The silage VII be fed, for the most
part to milk COWS. The male stock
will rustic its own feed most Of the
winter as there is pretty good sup
ply of buffalo grsss.
The value Of a COW was EXPIRE ssod
by Il banker who remarked: 'I know
several farmers who, with fifteen COWS,
keep their families and pay their ia i
es, and their balances in the bank are
Il little larger ut the end of every
month.
There are doubtless lonesome places
in this county where the family looks
upon the approach of winter with
dread, but unless you bring up the
matter yourself you will nese hear
of hard times mentioned on the street.
There was not as much volunteer in
formation on this subject in IL day
spent in Colby as one may hear in
half dozen trips dp or down in one
of the elevators of the Commerce
building or the New York Life build
ing.
Those who have caDital will max q