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five bushels. One German farmer, on • summer cultured ground, had 

 seven acres of winter wheat which gave him 336 bushels of fine quality 

 wheat. Twice the acreage of winter wheat was seeded this fall which 

 had been put in in any previous year. One farmer who has seeded 365 

 acres writes that he has 100 acres which make the finest showing he 

 ever saw for fall grain, and all of it going into the winter in good condi- 

 tion, although that section had no fall rain after September 15th. What 

 is the explanation? He began preparing his seed bed last April, and re- 

 tained all the moisture possible by tillage methods. 



Wray reports a dry season, but no crop failure. Feed crops — cane 

 and millet — gave one and one-half to three tons harvest, and corn fifteen 

 to forty bushels per acre. E. L. Ambler, twenty miles north of Wray, 

 had four acres of corn which gave him 240 bushels and wdiich he sold 

 for $30 per acre. Wheat, fifteen to thirty bushels per acre. W. S. Callo- 

 way, on sixty-eight acres of summer cultured ground, grew forty-two 

 and one-half bushels of wheat per acre — thirty-two acres drilled in on 

 corn stubble yielded twenty-three bushels; seventy-five acres fall plowed 

 gave fifteen bushels, and fifty acres Volunteer produced twelve and one- 

 half bushels per acre, 



I found many farmers in this section with from 2,000 to 4,000 bushels 

 of grain from this year's harvest. The wheat was the only grain for sale, 

 corn, oats and barley being fed to hogs and cattle, some ver}^ fine herds 

 of each being found on these farms. These farmers propose to show in 

 the fat classes at the Western Livestock show as a proof of what they 

 were able to do in 1907. 



Thirty-five miles south of Idalia is Burlington. Part of the farm- 

 ing district north of that town was hailed out, and the portion which 

 had a harvest had lessened yields. Wheat, five to twenty bushels per acre; 

 corn, one and one-half to two tons fodder per acre, some fields givinv^ 

 fair yields of good, marketable grain. 



Joe Bauer, three miles north of Burlington, raised twent}^ acres of 

 cane that yielded two tons per acre after being cut tight to the ground 

 on July 24th by hail. One acre of alfalfa that yielded two loads on a 

 sixteen-foot rack after July 24th. 



Arriba, west of Burlington, reports a very dry season, but fair 

 harvest yields. The farming district has kept five threshing outfits 

 busy all fall. Wheat ran five to eighteen and twenty bushels, corn from 

 five to thirty bushels per acre. One farmer near Arriba claims he has 

 sixty acres which is yielding thirty bushels over the entire field. An- 

 other neighbor claims thirty-five bushels as his yield of corn per acre. 



Around Arriba and Bovina flax is becoming quite a crop on sod land. 

 There is now 3,000 bushels of flax at Bovina ready for market. Oats 

 ran from ten to nineteen bushels, emmer (speltz) fifteen to twenty, po- 

 tatoes fifty to seventy-five bushels per acre in the Arriba-Bovina dis- 

 trict, the Divide district on the Rock Island between Limon and east 

 line of the state. Some careful farmers of this district the past season. 



