Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-10-18

nature SOWeQ Lne wheat.
Ford county farmers. who were dis
ccuraged last summer when the grass
hoppers, hail and high winds visited
their wheat fields, are finding out now
that the elements were only planting
their next years crop for them.
For since the recent rains hundreds
of acres in western Kansas have been
made green by the sprouting wheat
where the farmers have not planted.
The hail threshed the wheat out of
the standing grain. The dust covered
it and the dry weather prevented it
from sprouting at once. But the rains
have brought it up and the volunteer
crop is of the widest extent and the
most thorough planting that the farm
ers here have ever seen.
Fred Boyd, who lives in the south
part of Ford county, says there are
hundreds of acres in his neighbor-
hood that the farmers will not at
tempt to plant, the crop that has
sprung up without cultivation will
make a good yield. S. o. Albright
has two hundred acres in one field
and will not attempt to better the
sowing that was done by the hail and
wind. When Louis Johnson went out
with three drills and three wagon
loads of seed wheat he was astonished
to find his fields already green. He
says 4SO acres OF his land is planted
well enough to suit him. He will
take a vacation in the time he had
expected to spend in blowing and
drilling.
Charles Deniston and Howard
Leimbrock are two of his neighbors
who are large raisers of wheat whose
only complaint on the seeding job
done by Nature is that the sowing rs
too thick in some places and will have
to be thinned out. Many of the farm
ers have disced their fields or har-
rowed them to bury the seed thor
oughly, but many others have not
touched their fields and will take
their chances on a wheat crop for
next year on the seeding as planted
by the wind
This early sprouting of the volun-
teer wheat solves the problem of win
ter feed for cattle for many of the
farmers The ground was so dry they
could not get their seed in early, but
the volunteer crop came up before
the farmers could get their seed in
after the rain. This early wheat will
soon be ready for winter pastuTing.
University's Apple Crop.
That the crops of Kansas apple
orchards are safe from drouth if
properly cared for was proved this
the University of Kansas. The K. O.
trees will yield crop but slightly be-
low the normal, the decrease being
y Nv In 70
Of the trees overbore last year and as
a result did not bloom this spring
"A glance will convince anyone of
the advantages of scientific cultivation
of orchards says Prof S. ]. Hunter,
head of the department of entomology
and entomologist, who is in charge
of the K. U. plot. THE apples are
of fine quality, solid, and perfectly
regular spraying system used, they
are entirely free from worms or
growths.
Spraying was carried on from the
time of blossoming. The orchard was
disced and narrowed once week dur
ing the summer Many farmers might
suppose that we irrigated the orchard
during the dry weather; on the con-
the soil each week.
There is no secret about our sys-
TEN of protecting the orchard. 1t is
simply matter of paying as much
attention to the fruit as to the other
crops
Last year the University experts ex-
perimented on the orchard and were
able to increase the crop six-fold by
scientific spraying.
Death Due to Fire, Not Foul Play.
The coroner's investigation in the
death of c. F. Joy, killed in fire
that destroyed a feed and sale stable
at lola. revealed NO evidence of foul
play.
Anti-Frat War at End.
Forty-two students who were barred
from the Wichita high school because
of meInbership in secret school socie-
ties during the summer vacation, will
be readmitted to school after they