Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-11-06
Reno County Orchard Produced
$50, ZOO Bushels of Fruit
- This Year.
HARVEST is NOW UNDER WAY
pIoyed in Gathering the Crop
900 Freight Cars Required.


to make five apple pies for every man,
woman and child in Kansas. 1t will
take 800 cars to haul the crop to mar
ket- More than 800 men are now at
work picking the apples and they will
not finish until the middle of Novem-
Der.
The harvest of Jonathans, Grimes
Golden and York Imperials is over
now. AT present the regiment of APP
pie pickers is busy with Winesaps,
gathering what is said to be the pref
test crop of these apples ever grown
in Kansas. Besides these, there are
the Ganos and other winter varieties.
I'VE have $4,000 bushels more of
winter varieties to gather within the
next twenty-five days. remarked Mr..
Yaggy- at will be necessary to get
the crop gathered before a heavy
freeze comes"
Picking apples on the Yaggy planta-
ton is vastly different from the way
it used to be done in the back yard
at the old homestead. There it was
a matter of climbing the tree, crawl
ing out on the branches and shaking
the fruit to the ground, and then
picking it up.
Mr.. Yaggy would fire a man in a
minute if he caught him shaking fruit
from one of his trees, or taking
chances of breaking limbs by climb
ing into the trees. Those choice
Winesaps and Jonathans are all hand
picked and are handled as carefully as
any fond mothers darling child. The
slightest bruise on an apple would
probably cause it to spoil, and so
every effort is made to avoid bruising
the fruit.
Twelve cars can be loaded at a time
ing dock, and the others ON the
switch, and during the rush there is
almost a trainload of apples day
shipped away from the Yaggy sta
ton.
Short Kansas Wheat Area.-A great
reduction in the wheat area in Kan
sas for next years crop seems certain.
The casual observer travelling through
the country might think that there is
a splendid outlook for wheat, but APP
pearances are deceptive. About seven
out of every ten fields show a fine
growth, but it is volunteer wheat that
shattered from the heads during har-
vest, which has sprouted and is max
ing the fields green. Many of these
fields would make a big crop, but for
one thing-Hessian flies. Farmers
say that all the volunteer wheat is
full of the pests, and is likely to be
destroyed by them.
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Big Kansas Oil FIow.-The Wichi-
ia Natural Gas Company no longer
denies that it has struck an unusual
flow of oil on lease few miles north
report that the flow was a good one
when it started putting in rigging for
another well on a farm a half mile
west of the present well. The flow
is estimated at 800 barrels day and
the test was 35 per cent gasoline.
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Wichita's 1915 RainfalI.-With the
recent heavy rain this years rainfall
reached 4O.37 inches. In 1898. the
nearest to this figure. 1910 inches Of
rain fell, but 1915 has over two
months to go yet
Gives $4,000 to Y. M. C. As.
Nicholson, a banker at Ellis, recently
gave $4,000 for the construction of a
Y. NJ. c. A. building in his town as a
memorial to his wife. The announce
ment was made at a dinner given in
honor of ]. E. Manley, state secretary
of the association.
Dixie to Reclaim 800 Acres.-After
spending two days inspecting the sew
eral proposed high water routes across
the Marias des Cygnes bottoms, State
Engineer Gearhart reported to the
Pleasanton Commercial Club the route
that he deemed best. 1t calls for
dixie that will reclaim 1900 acres of
fertile lands from overflow and at the
same time provide dry road. The
| land owners are ready to begin at
once to organize and build the dixie.
Dead in a Motor Accident.-Mrs. S.
ID. Waynick. As years old, wife of
| conductor for the Atchison. Topeka &
| Santa Fe Railroad Wellington, was
killed when her motor car struck a
culvert a mile south of town and over
turned
Two Octoqenarians Dead.-Mrs. A
Wilgus and G. H Patton, each 81
years old, died at Paola recently.
Mrs. Wilgus was born in Kentucky in
1858. She was one of the first persons
| to locate in Miami county. Mr. Pat