BBTABt.ISHED, IN 1.868.l .1898. VOL. XXXVI. NO. 30. f TOPEKA, KANSAS, THURSDAY, DECE�BER 15,

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,BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. CHlIlAP-Ten bead of COts­ AW VALLEY HlIlRD POLAND-CHlNA$--()ne ·FOR BALlil ram ten he..d of line Ver­ K' of the best sOns of Cblef I Know at tbe bead. C'RESCENT HERD POk,AND-CHINAS. SHlIllilPwold lambs, 111.00 eaoh; line Jie.. Pain and triOS not akin; of all the le..dlng str..lns. mont lierlno ewes, 16.00; three, vy sheari"l1 Boars and gilts for sale. kes the three bead. Wrlte M. Rossvllle, Xas. Vermont rams..-t26.00' t.. Tatman, .. F� Xas. s, W. HILL, Hutchinson, Kas. oon to II. H. Hague, WaltOn� COUNTY HERD BEItKSHIRES. BOURBON HERD of J. 8. MAGER8, Proprietor, Ar�dla, B.all._ RIVERDALECbester White swine and VATTLE. Oorrespondence Invited. • Light Brabma Poultry: J. T: VATTLE. B!'tl.tao.tlon �aranteed ... LAWTON,' BURRTON, )[AB., Breeder 01 Reglltered - �. HILL HlIlRD OF SHORT-HORNS Gross M. H. .�. ALBERTY, - -� r:g�er�an�\::;O:�f��::; and ROCKbred Bootoh and Waterloos, ha.ndsome beefy. CHEROKEE, KAS. DUROC�JERSEY SWINE. Topella, my former pjaOe. Have for s..le twenty-four he..d tboroughbred red Teeth '83' centll man. . 6 to 12 months old" ten of whlcb a.re by the Baby PiC VUppers, by bulls, Q •. L. BUTTON, North a car-lo..d .."at Linwood Lord Mayor. Also bave breeder of . 8tock. Topeka, Kalli, very higb-grade Short-born bulls ..nd sev')nty'bIBh- HOG8'-lteglstered and two thoroughbred Hereford bulls for sale. DUROV-JER8EYSen� stamp for IU-page oatalogue, Illustrated. Improved Chester. Whites. F. Kas. Prices and history. fadeTrue, Newman, for sale. Farm 2 miles ,J. M. 8TQNEBRAKER, Panola, m, Btook nortbwest of Reform STOCK FARM:-Relrtsterell Sbort­ Behool: born oattle. R"v.. 1 Bate. 2d No. 12«04 at bead of FAIRVIlIIW PEDI- . VER.DIOIUS VALLEY HER.D ' bord. stock for s..le. 1Il. H. Llttlelleld, New­ MAPLE LAWN HEREFORDS� Young POLAND·CHINAS.' Standard Herd of 'Poland-Chinas kirk, Okl..boma. 'OR.EED E. A: 6 Son, Prop... Rosemont. Osage Co., Kil. - 160 Eagle Two hundred head, four herd boars, spring pigs. Has some line 1 year old this ,fall, alr:ed by, Te­ sows, For, tlve :roung pure-bred bulls of, servlce..ble POLLlIlD CATTLlIl-PURlIl-BRlIlD. An extra boars and for s..ie. and are bred sale, lot of September gilts cumseh Chief (he by Chief TeCumaeh 2d); and orders solicited. Ad­ ,&gil Also one oar-lo..d of high-llrade oows one for sale. Your •• ' ENGLISH'RlIlDYoung .took Prices reasonable. Farmers and Stook Hog to Look Over Me (he by Look Me Over);'also, an'extra .. Green Mo. 'oar 'bull oalves. dress L. X. U seltlne, Dorobe.ter, Co., Raillen oordlally Invited to write or visit -DS. lot 01 Spring 'Qllts, bred the 1Iall1e, and some good .. when WAIT. EA8T or Mention this p per writing. Spring Males of theaame'breedlng. Come and see, Altoona, WUlon ce., Kall. "III.Tl!lOSHO VALLIllY HlIlRD OF SHORT-HORNS.­ Lord Lieutenant 1200lD at head of berd. 'Geo. &' .&., Imported ,PURE-BRED POLAND-CHINA8. Breeamiller Son" bulls and heifers for s..le. AddrUss D. P Young Wb..t'a orop of pigs by Wren's Model, ' Franklin Co., Kall., Counoll X.... Spring ��t;:d�;�;sE;,�:r;�Ut;';;�:"�;�, ' ,'Ventropollll, Norton, Grove, Dama . Wanted Wilkes ..nd Tanner by Hldestret"her. ,RED pCH.L"D VATTLE BI..ok Corwln"Wren·. Medium; Protection Boy, -. '.' � POI�AND"CHIN'AS'"La BRBEDERS OF VOT8WOLD !!HEEP and HOB8E8. G:� lo�r:s:f:::tro':.ta�:��Yls:,tOr'U:�Wf�:� { FANCY POULTRY. of tbe taabloDable 'cilief I Xnow' Maid boar before my sale this f..Il, Some extra line 'Prl":wl�nlng tew also bucks. strain. tiillef I Know at b8ad of berd. 'For Bale-A bulls; youn� Ohene:r'. " . FARM.-CLYDlIISDALlil gilts for sale nOw. Ta;nner pigs are m..rked perfeotly '[)llOSPECT STALLIONS, Pigs for sale. Prlce.s low.. Write me p..rtlculars.. • L: BHORT-HORN CATTLlIl, ..nd POLANIHJHlNA' a,nd.have tlnllllnisb. .fo� . In J. R. 'WILL80N, Marlon, Rail. SILVER CREEK HERD BOGS. Write for prices of tlne.t anlmala Xansas. . .. - Kas. , H. W. MoAfee, Topek , T•. A. HUBBARD, Rome, Kanilall, Po1and-Chinas Breede'r of 8WINE. SHORT-HORN OATTLE. BRED AND FOR SALE P01.:t:8iiJv:gt�lnd 8cotch and Scotoh-topped, with the rlcbly-bred ABILlIlNlIl, KAS., famous Dnroo- BERK8HIRE8. Two hundred bead.' 'All &lies, Champion's Best lHb7l In service. Also blglMll&lls At -home of Model '18545 and A.'s Ohlet ..n on Santa Boy .' SWINE. C • and Pol..nd-Qhlnas. 23 boars and 43 sows for DUROC-JER8EY sblp D TROTT, Jerseys either sex. Also a readf, bnyera. 21014. onotce spring pigs, Fe, 'FrIsco ..nd Missouri PacifiC r..l1ro..ds. sows to either of tew well-bred and gilts, bred • U. HOWE, Wlohlta, XaS., Maple Ave., Herd Du­ Imp'; CiIi.ellterWhltell J. F. 8TODDER. Burden, Cowloy Co.:Kall above boars, at reason..ble prices. Brood sow J• rOOoJersey hogs Cbolce atook for s..le. Rea.son­ Her'd and, Poland-Chinall. .. sale Jan S, 1899. E. E. AXLINE, ',:'� Person.. 1 nd uary Wamego " Inspection correRpondence ' 'r:�Tt����s. Oak Grove, J..ckson Oo., M..ted for best CLIFF FARM. . CLOVER MO,,,), Also Barred Plymouth - and , Registered Galloway Cattle. GLASS, Marlo�, Kas., breeder of thorougbbred Bock ohlckens eggs Also Germ..n Coa.ch, S..ddle and SF.• Jersey oattle, Pol..rid-Qhln.. ..nd Large lIlngUsb - Rock and 0 1�:lt:��e'Me��f�s��:�:," : borses. World's Berksblre hogs, M. B. turkeys, B: P. S. C. ,amsM· 'Herd 0f P,pIand Chimas.. nspecuon reSUlts.*- Trotting-bred White 1'68.COCks, Pekin duoks and C. HUGGINS', Falrprlze Oldenburg Coach stai Leghorn Chickens, Cblef Tecumseh 2d, Klever'. Model, U. S. Model, ,,' Propr�etoi', Wa�ego. Kall� Italian bees. lion. H..bbo, and the saddle Moorish M..ld and Chief I Know strains. A selected iI\, st..IUon, Rosewood. .. til-hand, Ilnd stock for sale at very rea- .Iot of bred SpWI young THe SEDOWICK, NURSERY.CO;;. son of In HlIlRD OF POLAND-CHINA SWINlII.­ ' l.lllO-pound Montrose, In tbe business. ""'.__ '. ·son..ble prices. Over thirty years -- .. Addres. sows to ,: " ..I", welcome. KANBASHas tlve choice yearling bred my black . 8edgwlok, Harvey Vo.," .', set'f'l:oe. VI�ltors ys to BatlsfacLion , and ..r and Srock equal any. given. B. bo.. �eonm8eh bo , U. r, one thlrty-tlve '. -Breeders of- , JAME!! MAINS" .:,' �LACKSHERE BROS., Elmdale. Chale Co.. Kal. tall pigs by MOdel S..n1er. (20492)' by Klever'. Model. Osk..loosa, Jefferson Co., X..S. have e8 rs and show tlne and Poland.Cbina Swine The:r typical marklngi./4 Short.bor_.. Cattle ' • . dress F. P . .lII...gulre, H..ven, Xas,. :' , Of the Bellt 1.\11:. c. VANIS £�L, ., strit�!!I' .,," PARK FARM·. Stook sale.. Correspondence and inspectlon.ln- Muscotah, Atchison, County, Kansall, for ..

'" , V. B. KAS;' vlted. , HOWEY, TOPEKA, S�· Breeder of Pure-bred Poland-Qhlna Swine and Short- H. E. BALL, Proprietor. Breeder and of thoroughbred Poland-­ hom C..ttle of the IlIOSt deslr..ble strains. Shipper SUNNYSIDE Jersey c..ttle. Young bulls swine ..nd HERD , Regl.t,ered Vhina and Large English Berkshire . and"'DEERbetfers for s..le. �llver-Laced Wyandotte ohiokens. For R.eady '., sa��e�hJ�tolan""Chlna PEDJCREED POLAND',;,CHINAS� Registered Poland- China bo..rs for s ..le. for faU f.. ...swl"e.-, Young One ..nd two ye..rs old, bred rrow; very Herd Boara are (kand SOfI.8 of J. H. SANDERS and -,- POULTRY. If ordered .oon; must make room Farm two mlles east of To- low Prize Bred 1', • choice; price BnoRT STOP, the World'. Fa(·, W(ntUr.. 'IY h..nd. Come ..nd see or write. on Slxtb street road. " '\.� for 170 pigs now on to 20 large m..ture sow. of Oorw(", Black U. 8. and peka , . ..1m to 'the Black BOB. blood. We produce money" T. P. CRAWFOBD. MI{I'., Topeka. Kaa. MUNGER STRAIN M. B. TURKEYS THE WILKES QUALITY OF m..kers, not s..crlficlng size and feeding qu..lltles to �.�RD pOints. Choice young .tock for sale at re..son- for sale at S2.iiO for cockerels, '2.00 for fancy able M. L. 80MER8" Nine ..rs' as a prices. Altoo�, B,�. pullets. ye eIperlence - SWINE� ,SUNRISE STOCK FARM. breeder. I guar..ntee my birds as repre- POL�ND CHINA A. sented or money refunded. Write me. Kall. C. 8TANNARD, Prop_, Tholl•.8Yplns, Prop.:UutohInSon, C. H. CLARK, Delphos, KaB. Hope, Kas. . cHerd .bo.. Darkness' QuallW' ..nd Reno Wilkes. Poland·· Breeder of out Nation's e 46 obolce of 'Bessle Chinas.; For rea'dy sars\' very pigs ,'Wilkes, BeantJ Sedom, Chief, 1 Know, St..ndard Fifty boars and gUts for tlll. lleason'lI trade. Herelord Caltle and PURE-BRED POULTRY. . WlIkes, Ide.. 1 BI..ck _U. S. and Chief Tecumseh 2d My herd boars consist 'of ,Darlmess QuaUty 14861, Large Englilh Berklhire Hoga near ..r 'and S..rred Plymouth ROCks, White Plymouth Roolls, one mile west of HutohlJison, St .l:'i'lnceton Chief 14048; Col. Hldestretchel 87-247 Buff Standard Wilkes. sows"are Individuals Partridge CocbIDS,White Cochlns, Cocbln.,.Llght ��l't":,,:'��� My sp'lendld. BusnII I service: Xod..x of and of the Personal Inspection and. Wblte . Brahma.s, Sliver Wyandottes, Wyandottes, rlgbt breedl,ng Rocldalid 4

Buff ... BI..ck J..v.. s, Brown Legborns, White Leghorns, F.'L. and C. R. correspondence invited. more IIrst at lo..d- . OARD, Proprietors, premiums H.. Pekln Ducks II. " Leghorns, Sliver Spanilled mburgs, LAWRENVE NATION, Hutchln8on Ing St..te f..lrs In p..st six ...... rl Guinea.. Trio. and and Pe Single Bird., Pairs, Jears, than any, other bull In (,1�1"""r ,. I ,,;� I Breedlng,Pen.. Extra Fine Breeding and Exhibition HEDGEWOOD HERD OF POLAND-CHU{A8 O� K..nsas; J..va64045. Thirty- HERD " me RIDOEVIEW FARM, . Deer. Prices rea.sonable. Write ..,. Birds. Alao, Pet KANSAS. live yearling belfers ..nd seven bulls 3 to T years 014 your w..nts. .A. H. QUFF, VAS5AR., Larned, Kall. Popular Blood. 'Individual Merit. ======Brood sows of tbe moot popul..r· strains and 'Indl­ BE R K S H'I R f==��,sr.,I�e., The best th..t c.. and eI­ WHITE and vldual.merlt. ' money n.buy E:� ..lJib perlence c..n breed. F..rm one and one-balf mUes Youngbo..rsold enough forservlce, sows&n(\ STOCK RIVEDSIDE. I\. FADM.I\. BLUE BARRED east on Missouri unbred for sale. Sired 2d 'ROCKS: south aJid half mile of Vassar, Kas., gilts bred ..nd by Sev,)D ' r..llro..d. .. Mills Prince Majestic 40000, "nd'oth-:' Empire, Lash and. Conger 8tralns. Paoillc O ks, Col. 45718, Perchel'on and Roadster Horses and Shelland �rs. Write for prices, or come ..nd Inspect stoCk. : In breeding Rooks exclu­ 1Ilight years experience MANWARING ': also one Denmarl( Saddle Stallion; also sively. Have the best young stook this ye..r I h..ve BLUE MOUND HERD BROS.;Lawrenee,�Bs. .Ponies; ever' raised. Perfect, hh::b·scorlng, prize-winning Callie. Stock of each cla.ss for sale • • Shorthorn birds. Two bnndred pullet. and cockerels now re..dy ! for A few oookereis from 1Il. B. Thompson e • Also a car-load of Shorthorn bulls sblpment. BERKSHIRE SWINE • BOARS" B'OA' R','·S.•. young nd BOARS ell1l8 for s..le. Write for descriptive Circular .. tor sale. guaranteed. Address Barkls Pedigrees .. Vlotor 417911 ' m..klng ..nd uslnll Llqnld Herd bo rs, Hugo (alre Imp.), .. " 1IIlO40 (weIgbt 800 lbs.), Prince Jr. 17th, from World's £��e�I����i�g. rex!f:..!�� ' to 18111 f..rrow, good conilltlon and Kas. T. E. LEFTWIVH, Larned, Kall. Fair winner. Cholqe pigs from tlve dUrerent strains. July September O. L. THISLER, Chapman, for service. All sired Also breed �hropshlre .heep, M. B. turkeys and B. P. ready eligible. Poland-Qhlo!,s' choice Rooll ohlcllens. Write. by Wren 17172, '16. SUPPLIES. AllenThomas,BlueMonnd,LlnnVo.,KBII. POULTRY Kas. AMERICAN GALLOWAY BREEDERS' J. W. HIGGINS, JR., Hope; ' " Bone Mills, Mica Crystal Orlt, PJ;,.EASANT VALLEY HERD ASSOCIATION. Clover Cutters" Exblbltlon Coops, I ,. ..lIow.. In all ,: 'Composed of breeders of G ys Oround Bone, .shipping Coops, "HICHLANo,i. . ..rts of the United St..tes ..nd Canad... 011 Meal, I . Oyster .shells, REGISTERED POLAND-CHINA SWINE p M. Winslow, President, • ,- Oskaloosa, Mo

. 'Stephen For.ale,KlngPerfect!onHh187HS. and Lambing . FOR THE POULTRY YARD - EVERYTHING POLAND-CHINA':', ...." B. Independence. Mo .. ,Fta�k Hearne, Sec'y·Treas., Ideal 140iiO S. Also sow. bred roabovebo rsorDandy , U. S. by Frazur's U. S. by Fra.lir's Black U. B., dam Ten choice f..ll bo..rs and a number o'f llne 'spring" FOr any Intorm...tlon rel..tlng to the breed, write to At EXCELSIOR BI..ck Beauty by Ben H..rrison, Sire Charley F., boars sired by Knox All Wllke.18l7DS.and Hlgblan,d tbe Seoret..ry. FAUM, brother to Look Me Over. Write for p..rtlcul..rs. Ad Chief 18384 B. by Chle'f 'l'ecumseh 2d. Youni! sow. of

. .. ' '. 'C:-B. TUTTLE, Prop'i-: jopeka, Kan.... dress either s..me blood bred or open. Write us. .... , DIETRIVH. 8PAULDING, 'When writing &4vertlserll please mention Bend 10 oents In sliver or 2-cent st..mps forGulde W. E. JOBN80l!!t E. A. BRIVKER, Kall. Rlohmond, Kall. �JI'ann.r. (Poultry Culture and prlce list. Colony, Aall. Welltphalla, ", �ead ,made from it is tiona made by �e State have averaged .about ,18,000 per'annum, or 6 cents for each farmer taxes on and ,\ ,lion. 0/ ,llout' and lit'fad, payln� ,1,000 therefore, about ,3,000. ' "" .worth, '" ' '�NUTIUBNT8, e ... Is it too much to ask that the State ".. g 1lI s ..J >'J - materially increase its a..pproprlatlons? '" ,,1lI '" e&l ","", ji!; ('8 CD a";l CD!: <1>"" ,,� ..,VU� .... 1i� . '"iI" COLLEGE NEEDS. � FOOD ,Al'II,IJ .. , " rl> r� : ll.- g.. .,�g<> .,�� •• .. CD., �!"".,£" " CI' " [; ...... luerl8.1S .... � :, lli i I=. :>NOMY ergy, Hence Lnt: _��... w u next some of the needs that ' � Note, : 'g llI' : 1lI. '1ll1iil : £0 least water ' ., presented lead to the have the most 'fat and the ':_.:_'::_ � � should, be met If the institution is to ms: (1) Food Is that have the highest fuel value. Butter and do its,best work for the people of Kansas. 1 1640 at k consi aImost of flour...... 12 88 12 1 74 ') the body, builds tts- f por �t exclusively Wb!!!'t 'ulB Idings and' Improvements.-Dai-ry fat. read other food materials They Bakers'q bread.". 82 68 9 2 66 1,800 barn and mergy; (2) the most ;,the 1, buildings; dairy Improve- 011ve 0Il In fue1 vaIue Lard , sue,t d _-'--'-_-'-_-'-_ class added that which Is best fltted, .• an, menta; 'boiler' house; rooms, and exceed have even less .water, hence, In a Ilttle' butter to addition to college ' library building,' 'he user' the making=the bread, , (3) cheap- In the butter t!lls respect, Oleomarga- or and and considerable chapel,' or new chapel; 'college dorml- ,furnishes the lard, salt, yeast, .t which rlne has the same composition, about' water, either by Itself or in milk, are tory; engineering laboratory; chemistry of at least as butter. JJ.u�rlment th� fuel value and food value, added to the, flour. The yeast causes and physics building; prestdent's rest-

' which is . oest food Is that meat differ even donee , 6 The different k.'In·,..."s of carbohydrates (sugar, etc.) to ferment, (burned April ,.1895) J.IthfU1 and cheapest. more in' of fat than 'one alcohol and carbonic acid In the Appliances and Equipments;-Dalry prop'o'rtions yielding ' to consider the kinds would from their appearance. makes the school equipment-cows and buildings; then, . suppose" form of gas, which (lough por- ants of nutrients in different The flgures given in tables represent the ous. In the 'baking, the alcohol Is steers for experimental feeding; hortl­ and averages of thus far made of to "and the, carbonlc acid .cultural department-additional equip­ .."'"., ...aaterials, their dlgestlbll1ty, analyses changed vapor American meats. Comparatively few bread still more equipment en­ the kinds and amounts needed for nour- 1,-1 expanded, making, ment; 'shop replenished; samples have been ,analyzed, however, and both are mostly driven off. gines, boilers, dynamos, .ete., to heat and ishment by people doing different kinds porous, and probably future -inveattgattone wlll Part of the 'water escapes wIth them. light additional buildmga; sewing ma­ of work. change these figures more or less. In- The amount, of sugar and other carbo- chines; steel.noors, stairways and racks VALUES OF DIFFERENT NUTRITIVE 'deed, meats are so variable In compost- hydrates lost by the fermentation Is not In library, tor upper aIcoves; library FOOD MATERIALS. Instru­ Uon that It is very dimcult to say just very large, generally from 1% to 2 per books and magazines; graphic nutritive value of foods depends The what are the average figures., Generally cent of the weight of the flour used. ments: microscopes for veterinary de- mainly upon the amounts and proper- speaking, veal 1'iI the leanest and pork With Increase.In the proportion of water partment. is tlons of actually nutritive materials. the fattest of ordinary meats. Mutton In the bread as compared with the fiour Teacldng Force.-Assistant veterina- Of which they contain. Of course the diges- apt to be a 'little .ratter than beef. the proportion of nutrients is dimln- rian (on account of work assigned to the different cuts of beef the loin, rump, addition of and veterinarian by State Live Stock tlbillty and the ways In which they Ished, but the shortening college the ool ss addltronal and shoulder ite among leanest, saIts brings up the fat and mIneraIs I'n ",anltary CommI ion); two gree and disagree" with diff,erent peo- "a, are the fattest. whUe the ribs iiid flank the bread, so that the proportions are professors. pIe are Important factors of the nutritive Mutton and lamb furnish about the same larger than In the flour. In practice 100 Sewer.-From college to Kansas or value. We wlll consider fltst the chem- amount o{-prQtein an-d have the same pounds of flour wlll make from 133 to Blue river. Ical The composition. fuel value as the fatter cuts of beef. 137 pounds of bread, an average being for the above can be furnished. MATERIALS, the fatteti of beef and mutton. FlguI:�S COMPOSITION OF FOOD loin Is part about 136 pounds. ,COLLEGE' REQUESTS. that of This Is espe'clally'the case with mutton, such as is used bakers, Is now It must be remembered many Flour, by The college realizes that all these because the leaf fat Is usually included In the Eastern States at not our food materials as they are bought In purchased wants cannot be met immediately and with the loin as it is sold in the markets, barrel. This would make the with the edible over $4 per therefore asks for the three' most the market include, along and things while In the case of beef the tallow cost of the flour in a pound of bread more or less of what Is called needed. Portion, and in ute case of swine the leaf one-half cent suet, about 1% cents. Allowing such as like the bone of meat, the shells 1. It asks, flrst, for a mlll tax refuse, lard, are cut out.,: Pork Is so much fatter for the shortening and salt, which is Materials many States have allowed their higher of eggs, and akin of ,068.potat than the flesh of beef and mutton that the materials for certainly very liberal, educational Institutions. Such a tax, too lik ilk flour, and bread have no re- even the stricti"! "lean cuts," as the lean would cost not more em, �'a pound of bread the would is light to be felt by taxpayer, go fuse. after the removal of the leaf called, than 2 cents. 'Of course there should be far toward putting the institution on Its consideration Is contain as much fat as the In- Another important relatively , added to this the cost of rent, labor, feet. is one of the fairest forms of case is It edible fattest cuts of other meats. The on of the amount of water in the portion tcrest Investment, expense selllng, Increase or dl­ the taxation, for its proceeds animal foods similar with smoked ham, though ete., to make the actual cost to the baker. of the food. In general, mlnish ,with the prosperity or adversity " large proportiQil of fat Is due In part to few accurate welghings and an- contain the most water and vegetable Very or the State. The Regents ask for one­ the loss of water In preparation. Among of bakers' bread have been made po- alyses sixth of a mlll the assessed valua- foods the most nutrients, though canned corn upon the prepared meats, beef, In this country, so 'far as I am aware; are the Uon. The yield from this. would be, at, tatoos and turnips exceptions, which Is cooked before can- the ordinarily but the above statements represent and three-fourths and the noUce. It has present, about $53,000 per annum, former being nlng, is worthy.or-espectat facts as nearly as I have been able to r in the State tt on would cost each farmer Iatter nIne-tenths water. B11 er, a large amount of both protein and fats. obtain them. about 16 cents per year. With this In- other though one of the ant- Llke most other, kinds of canned meats, The of a number of the hand, average weight could for the free from bone. It fur- come the Regents plan mal ten or more per the corned beef'is specimens of 10-cent loaves purchased foods, generally bas growth of the institution', could meet its It is nlshes more protein, pound per pound, was one and one- cent of water. The milk from which - In Middletown, Oonn., avoid and stands needs as they arise, and spending than most klnd� of fresh beef, quarter pounds. This makes the price made is not far from seven-eighths time and money lobbying for college ap­ very high In fuel 'value. to-the consumer 8 cents per pound. The water. Meats have more water in pro- proprtattons at each session of the Legla- Chicken and�'tur'key have less fat than price of bread and the size of the loaf as they have less fats, 'and vice lature. portion the fatter meats. In spite of their large are the same now as when e practically needs a Iess th. 2. The State high-grade dairy versa, the fatter the meateat the furnish amount of they ' as refuse, ,bone, etc., flour cost twice. much. her sis- it. lean school. Kansas Is badly behind amount of water In Thus, very 'qUite large titles of protein. The cost of bakers' bread is a compara- qUli.',n" tel' States in this respect. The dairymen beef the muscIe 0f a Iean animaI from Fish have In" so much refuse'small matter to the who ( , general tlvely person and creamerymen want It; the patrons which the fat has been trimmed off) may and the flesh 'contains so much water only buys a foar now and then, but in want it; the students want it; and, we cent of water and only 22 per that the proporttons nutrients are the Eastern States and In the larger have 78 per or. believe, the State should grant it lmme­ The rather fat sirloin smaller than In ordinary meats. The towns throughout the country many peo- cent of nutrients. diately. It Is estimated-that the work of as cod and with moderate fat white-fleshed flsh, haddock, ple, and especially those increased may have two-flfths, and very pork the Minnesota dairy school has "" with darker of " of have very little fat. Fish incomes and the poor, buy their bread one-tenth or less of water. The flesh the price of all Minnesota butter 1 to 2 meats, Eluch a� shad and mackerel, are the baker. Six cents a pound, or even more than ordl- cents The Kansas dairy flsh is in general watery has considerable the manufacture per pound. rich in fats. '''Salmon half that amount, for Kansas."' The that of saImon being five- school can do as well for nary meats, fat and apprOO;:ches beef in composition. and distribution seems a very large sum asked for on this account Is $40,000. eighths water, codflsh over four-flfths, in between' The difference;' composition less than 13 cents for Flour This wlll mean and flounder Qver six-sevenths. dry salt cod and fresh cod Is due chiefly a��u��e cities competition has larg� each far�er in the State, or 1% cents and meal have but little water, and su- to the loss oftwa:ter in the drying and made bread much cheaper, but even for each -tub of butter made by Kansas when well has almost none. salting. ManY( persons are surprised to there the difference between the cost of gar '4i.'led creameries, or $5 for each country school Indi- learn that oys,ters have about the same bread to the well-to-do family who bake In examining the proportions of district, provided nothing were paid by proportions ot nutrients as milk. In- it themselves and to the family of the nutrients, fats, and car- the cities: With this appropriation It is vidual protein, the un- deed, there -..z:ery little difference in poor man who buys it of the'baker is the-most striking fact Is the Iii! proposed to erect and equip a dairy build- bohydrates, nutritive values of the two when esti- fortunately large. the meats and flsh on and purchase a dairy herd. difference between the of nutrients and Ing mated by quantities (To Qe continued.) endowment fund of able f00ds 3. The college the one hand and the veget Milk however, more nearly energy. Is, one-half million dollars was re- foods are about on the other. The vegetable a :01' "normal" food, If it Is "perfect.', Needs of Our celved from the federal government by like starch and food or Agricultural Oollege, rich in carbohydrates, right to call any single perfect State The Students' Herald, an able paper the State on the condition that the while the meAts have not enough normal. Oysters are so richly prized sugar, published by the students of Kanas State should maintain the fund Intact, and the because of their flavor. Cheese made of to be worth mentioning. On other to the annually, a rev­ all of the Agricultural Ctlllege, has the following guarantee college, In and whole milk contains nearly hand, the meats abound protein to about the needs of the college: enue of 5 per cent, 1. e., about $25,000. nutrients of the milk except the milk su- say fats, of which the vegetable food,s usu- The object of the Agricultural College The State has left the investment or this gar, and hence comes very nearly being have but little. Beans and oatmeal, Is to fit students for actual life in the fund to the college loan commissioner ally a concentrated form of milk. Cheese rich In while fat lines of horticulture, me- elected by the Board of Regents. If he however, are, protein, made of skim-milk has less fat, and agriculture, chanical architecture and the work makes' a bad Investment the State is pork has very little. hence more protein. arts, relatively contract with the federal of nutrl- of creating and maintaining the home; bound by its In the first glance at a table Among the vegetable f90ds the chief and also to furnish them with a general government to make it good. The" col­ tlve constituents people sometimes ob- dIfferences to notice are the proportions education. The students believe the col- lege is now deriving over $28,000 a year taln a wrong impression. For Instance, of water and of protein. The quantities lege Is honestly seeking to accomplish from this fund. We believe it would be of about seven-eighths and of water range from 90 per cent. or more rice consists this object; therefore they believe In it. wiser and more economical for the State nutritive ma- In beets and turnips to as low as 10 per po:tatoes only one-fourth They recognize that it is growing in at- to invest the endowment fund with the cent. In some kinds of flour. In general, terlals. The first Inference is that rice tendance and hence they State school fund and guarantee the col- like and effectiveness, dry seeds, wheat, corn, beans, The amount' Is more than three times as nutritious are proud of it. They want It to con- lege 'a lump sum in return. and the different kinds of fiour and meal one sense this is tlnue t0 i but th rea11'ze that it asked for Is i. e., about 6 per cent. as potatoes. In true; contain not far from mprove; ey $30,000, prepared from them, tax of rice contains can no more grow without means than a Of the above three wants the mill that Is to say, a pound water and seven-eighths nu� one-eighth most without it or an as nutrl- steer can fatten without feed. Most of is Important, for, more than three times much trlents, Beans and peas contain the the income upon which the college lives equivalent, the institution would be ents as a pound of potatoes. But if we largest proportions of protein, and corn comes from the Federal government, brought practically to a standstill. This talte of potatoes to furnish as meal, potatoes, rice, turnips, and beets enough rather than from the State. Following want includes the pay of the Regents, the much nutritive material as the pound of the least. Among the cereals wheat Is are the flgures for the year: repair fund, and other Indispensable value the tichest protein. Doubtless' this Is current rice, the compOSition and nutritive hi items. Next In importance Is the dairy so used OOLLEGE INOOME. reason it is - be about the same. one chief why largely all of the two w1ll just From the federal government: building and equipment, and last of has rather more for food. Oatmeal pro- Interest on bonds de- In cooking the rice we mix water with it, " Income fund, I S the request for a fixed annuity in ex- teln than wheat flour. rived from sales of lands donated a that and thus make a material not'very federalll'overnment, variable, .$25,000 to 1211,000 change for the' endowment, change may of wheat bread with by The comparison Morrill fund fixed 2' 000 2'" 000 w1ll it dl- different from potatoes. will cost the State Iittle; give ,in composition fiour is The chief dlf- Batch fund: lor ';s,;'iO""',,perl,;;e';i' wheat Interellting. control a fund for which It is now could be station exclusively. bed , 16,000 16,000 rect of By drying the potatoes they In the of and f('rence composition f)�)Ur From tbe college Itself, on acoount and will remove the and 'responsible; specu. made very similar In composition bread Is the proportion of water', w'hlch of sales, etc" varlable,...... 7,000 to 10,000 From the State of Kansas latlve element from college flnanclng. we flnd f00d vaIue tiT0 r ceo aken as makes about one-eighth the WEllght of __6_.050_ _6_,050_ them, a pound of rice and three and one- flour and one-third that of the bread. half pounds of potatoes would contain The average composition of wheat flour 1891. �,

I' -_�, • - .. ,� ': • Is used durin the. sum- of the old campalper 1.& as hard,:-as �It smaller quantity •. � ' - marble· under his sleek, .hlnlnl·coat; ;hl� \IIiIn� � �"dJ�ntiWt.-'.-�ga. mer. �to�l)_ and are as and bones cholel'a. muscles hard Iron, hJs _�_�_�_�_...,.__��...,.__�. ,The experlmenta upon hOI

" steel. ., -. .nave been' so are .'., • swine 'plague' graWylng sprlnl " Bureau of Animal be' continued. the above I·n view, It Is very Work of J.nduatry. J?uring that they wlll Keeping Not '. Symptom of the Affllctloll, ' the Fi.8cal Year June SQ, 1898. In conneotton with the examination of easy to see how a green; growing colt; . �de� . Since by Hood's., from German'Y, It W&II that whose. muscles and' joints: are not yet Cu� ot the Imports fou1:ld cc Dr. D. E. Salmon, Chief Bureeu W·hen our was two old' toys and colored goods were hardened by moderate use, can be easily daughter years of Animal In his report',to"the Ge�an' Industry, . and all highly painted Injured. The safer way to develop fW&ed ahe tiroke out all over her face and head fiscal poisonous, Ger7 Secretary of Agriculture for the . mile start- man toys may be regarded as very dan- Is to drive a sixteenth of a by with scrofula sores. Nothing that we eiid June states, th,at and faster year ended 30,. 1898, gerous' to children, who may suck 'off the Ing up the colt, going faste� for her seemed to do any good. We be­ of work to a there was a great In or swallow pieces that may be and then slowing ·down gradually but one laW Increase paint . Cla,me �Iscouraged, day and a walk. Increase the dose each day, until connection with meat inspection, chipped off. Hood'. Sarsaparilla so highly r&C9m­ with refer- colt Is at of his for number of employes were appointed. The study of tuberculosis, the going top speed mended that we to it. The large . ,decided try ence to both men and animals, has been the sixteenth of a mile. Then'go eighths, the year. .drat bottle and after . during helped her, taking r, and received 'indicate and quarters, and all the' time teach meat was in continued reportll face was we the Inspection - six her smooth and During year faster. bottltl!l that in Incipient stages of the disease him to go faster and , at abattoirs, as against 128 not seen of scrofula re­ operation 131;1 of over half a mile for 'Julve any signs the serum is of considerable value. The Never go heats , and in 36 cities, as BILAS for the previous year,!, trained or raced. turning." VEBNOOY, West par]!::,,;" results also Indicate that further experl- a horse not regularly " Inst In 1897 . 'for New York. Get Hood's because aga 33 meats should be made, as there Is a pros- A mile at top speed Is too mueh any' only number of animals Inspected be- ,.' The pect of stili more satisfactory results. horse not carefully prepared, by' grad­ Sarsa- fore slaughter, either In the stock yards This division contemplates beginning In- ual development, to' stand It.. Any f9C)1 numbered 61,336,398. fever an- can take out a valuable last horse and parilla or at the abattoirs, vestigations relative to Texas ' H·00d S were that best-In fact the One True Blood Purlfter. Of this number 9,228,237 ca�tle; thrax, and other diseases. "bust" him up. And, unfortunately, III the and has con- Is the usual end of three out of four fast 10,028,287, sheep; 468,199, ,calves;, The Division of Pathology cure nausea, Indigestion, over 1897 train­ a hands of , 31,610,676, �ogs, showing gain tlnued the experiments of dipping cattle horses put Into the cheap HOS.00' PillI S blllQusness. constipation. himself can better of 1,178,212 cattle, 1,983,932 she�p, 1�,216 with a view to destroying the ticks which ers. The owner get calves, and 6,043,9:11 hogs-a total' gain the Infection of Texas fever and results than. the .cheap trainer, .and still spread be Inhaled and _thus Infect the' of 9,02Q,291 animals. substance has been .found In which the have a sound horse remaining. 'If you fungi a disease ant- ride at the head of .lungs.. Hence, we see, that the At,the time of slaughter 31,116,833 cattle may be' Immersed without suffer- wish to tneproces- re- Is of a distinctly Infectious nature, but, mals were Inspected and 63,662 were serious and which wlll slon, be patient and plodding and make Ing any Injury, disease Is and W' j,{AFFET. as 1ar as observation goes, the jeeted; 91,608 carcasses 48;180 parts destroy all the ticks on an animal In a spaid slowly. GEo. '-', not 1. .e., affected animals of carcasses were condemned. ate now ..Lawrence, Kas.' eontagtous, single dipping. Preparations ,'" do not tend to spread the disease, but all The meat inspection tag or brand made to the dipping method adopt '.' being affected animals become Infected from was on 14,816,763 ,quarters and means of which the cattle placed generally, by straw carcasses AotinQmyooilia (Lump-Jaw, Big..J'awl'. the same source. Stacks of barley '"' 968,014 pieces of beef, 6,448,477 from the Infected districts maybe shl I Bulletin Kansas shelter of ExperlmilDt used by cattle as food and often, \ of sheep, 217,010 carcasses calves, 680,� north of the quarantine line dur g ped Pfte::. ��. . sacks seem to be the cause of this disease carcasses of and 394,663 while are at . . i 876 hogs, the entire year, they present one of the common cattle dls- 'ihis Is The 'writer observed a herd of twenty of pork. restricted by quarantine during ten Kansas. ea!les of Although oeeurrtng heifers and steers every Indivld-_ The meat Inspection stamp was affixed of the observed' In,:'yearlln$' months year. pigs and In rare Instances In affected with actlno­ of and ual of which was to 14,683,780 packages mutton, 'The' preparation and distribution of and tMs horses man, d�sease atta�ks: mycosis In various parts of the head and beef and of which 374.131' vaccine have been continued blackleg chlefiy cattle, and Is concerning was pork.productsl examined neck and the only assignable cause contained microscopically during the-year. ,The demand for It has which the ment of the Veterinary O�h a straw stack which served. as The certificates Issued for meat More than depa, ba'rley , pork. greatly Increased. 366,000 Station receives many In- i ordl- shelter and In part as food for these products which had received the doses .have been distributed, and the animals. All animals should, of course, numbered These been ·reduced qE:.��:!ment . nary Inspection 36.267. losses from blackleg have Th dlseaseI s ch t'ler d b the be kept away from such suspicious covered amounting to 339,650,091 an of from 10 to' 20 per' exports from average gradelua appearancearacf·0 ZlerreguYlar1y- exist on of mutton pilaces when cases of Iump-Iaw Pounds of beef 324 996 pounds cent h 1 t.' after a certain shaped tumors, which" .the farm. and 244966 482 of pork Elghtee� tea I s I po�nds In tOh leDss It aDn IP�r c�: development, become In the Interior, this to a cars !,'oft The treatment of disease, up " sl'x hundred and thlrt'y-one on 0 e a n us . con ry dsur-_ thousan'd. vey of the rYdltlv onf the dgelneral break at one or more' and dls- , points, a, meat . few years ago, was almost entirely were sealed containing Inspected the at large has been con- nI of country ' a strI mass 0f contal ng ' try ch pus arge ngy surgical one, consIstlng' 0f' extl tlon s t t0 klng-h and as-to F,Pa for hipmen pac together 'with Inquiries spe- nu 11 ow 1 ch can b.e ous�, tlnued,' mI' te granu es, w.h'l - ye of the affected parts when the""J'were . mllk 1 other places'. cial such as the supp y branches. recognized, by careful /e'xamlnatlon, small and circumscribed enough and not of this work was $409,138.09, This dlvlsloll The cost of cities and large towns e unaId d wIth th eye. too near vltai organs or-large blood ves- cent for each of the . ; an of 0.8 to In-vestlgate tire prospects of 1 hiden averal!e proposes Th l� granu es, ,w and of the application of strong and inspections, besides cover- of the United sels, .ante-morteJtl trade In the dairy products undereS�h smal vtew�0 work of dangerous causttcs. Ing all the subsequent post-mor- States In the Islands of the Paclftc, Japan, a de fm crOBco�, aJ� Iren U For the past few years great success etc.. sam- tem Inspection, tagging, and and also In the West Indies as c no- T.he China, colmbPohsec u -s ape°d gbrod°uIPses, Okranown yarAratlnge the Internal use of . has been had with of examined microscopically pIes pork and South America cause In ten- certifi- todlde of potash administered numbered 2,802,846, and 20,168 In reco�mendatlons for the making �y�:s0 e ��VIS,seaseWh(�c�llconsti\,�t;7)the0 nger.. doses fol' 'anlmals of one - '. per day as- r. a1 gram cates were Issued covering shipments fisca1 endlng J'une,30 1900 , D S year 'l'he tumors 0f'actInomycosIs appear thousand pounds weight; For heavier r. 373,366 packages, weighing mon asks that a sufficient appropriation gregating most on the ,bone" the dose can be ad­ amount frequently jaw: or lighter animals 120,271,669 pounds. The for and developing forelgrt low�r .ex- extending or In and under the skin that to the difference an region: j\,;sted In proportion for this work was $171,040,94, markets for of the United o!, pended dairy products The the ear, Each dose of Iodide of ex- parotid gland, �low In weight. potash average of 0.142 cent for each pound States be made, and that legislation be }ylng between the and the neck, Is Is dissolved In a 'of water and given In was cent. of lower pint ported. The cost 1897. 0.2�6 sought by which the existing system ja'!lof attack. Some- also favorite point as a drench, the dose being repoated During the year 869,346 Amerlc�n and Inspection and certification a, government times the muscular portion of the tongue dally for ten days to two weeks or until Canadian cattle, 297,719 American and meat for export 19,397 of meats products with minute tumors of . Is fairly riddled recovery sets In. Sorgetimes symptoms, and 29,497 Canadian sheep were Inspected from the United States may be extended the same character, causlnlr; that organ of Iodine poisoning develop as a result for export. suitable modifications) to include (with to become stiff and hard (woody tongue� of continuous dosing with potassium The Inspectors of the bureau stationed butter cheese and condensed milk. " ,and Interfering seriously wJth mastica- Iodide. These consist of discharges In Great Britain Inspected at the time of tion. Often the teetli are affected, get from the nose, watering of the eyes and cattle and 179,776 sheep, landing 398,684 and and' In'many In- of skin These :Make Slowly. loose drop out,. peeling. off of thin layrs .. an Increase of 20,898 cattle and a decrease Speed ·Farmer:-A horse Is stances the tumors on the jaws orlgi- symptoms disappear soon after the drug, of 9408 sheep as compared with the pre- Editor Kansas nate In the sockets of the teeth. In- are not serious. Local In A ma- Is withheld, and vlo�' year. The number of cattle lost just like a' piece of machhiery. ternal organs, the throat, lungs and first applications of tincture of)odlne on the, and In run true and smooth transit was 907, sheep 1,618, 1897, chine wlll perfectly • and stomachs may be the seat tumors are also advisable, The aniJ]lals 2676 were secon!! 2 323 head of cattle and " sheep to a certain well itself. up speed within of the disease. When lungs' are In the herd of twenty yearlings above. l�st. and the the. When speeded higher higher affecte.d the symptilloms are s m ar t0 referred to were thus treated. and, al� During the quarantine season of 1897, machine wlll begin to labor-still,thosehigher, of tuberculcisls, but. the charac- though some were quite seriously af- 36,317 containing 972,224 Southern cari\ and joints will shake loose ang'; bearings terlstlc yellow granules Indicate the ac- fected, all recovered comple.tely. cattle were received and yarded In the and higher and some- tinomycotlc nature 'of the This Is not an infalllble specific, but divisions of the various stock cut grind-still disease,. quarantine results are ob- breaJ�s-stlll higher and: the ma- The external tumors (lumps) when as a rule very excellent yards; 36,280 cars were cleaned and dis- thing on the bones are from Its use. Advanced cases of chine files to pieces, a helpless wreck. first appearing jaw talned infected. less can be often mistaken for resultS of accidental long standing are; of course. alwaYIiI non-infected area In Texas 226,- The speed of a horse developed In the than cases to the where blows, and are then d6l!.cl'i:bed as such, likely to result in recovery 096 cattle were inspected for the Identifi- by gradual stages up point "shows itself. however, readily be dlstln� treated In the first stages, cation of brands prior to removal to some structural weakness They can', former are animals affected with. or but usu- by the fact that the The fiesh of other States for grazing. Very rarely It Is heart lungs; gulshed acute tumors. tendon or usually cold and free from pain, 'strictly localized actinomycotic The animals imported from' Mexico ally It Is some muscle, jOint. from bruises If otherwise l-n good health, cannot a.t "makes . while swelllngs resulting and Ins'pected at the port of entry along Now, a skillful trainer speed"- warm to the touch be conslde�ed as unfit for human cat- that gradually gets the horse togofaster and blows are usually present the boundary line comprised 177,772 Is, them- befor'e-so slowly (Infiamed) and painful, and these symp- consumption. The affected parts' tle, 64,207 sheep, 104 swine, and 3,063 each day than the day soon applications, of must be discarded. and watches so closely that he can note toms disappear upon selves, course, goats., FISCHER. to before of cold water, pain Increasing and the PAUL There were imported from Canada and a weakness beginning show, the I slows the swelllng disappearing. In case 'of true not subject to quarantine detention 79,90,( any harm Is done. He up speed cold water applications 374 swine, 2,998 a llttle, and by massage treatment-rub- actinomycosiS, Oatarrh Oannot be Outed cattle, 184,362 sheep, the and by have no effect, but, on the contrary, horses and 17 other animals, and 1,496 bing, pinching, kneading-or LOCAL' .as. they to increase in with APPLICATIbNS, at the dlffer- or by bandages or tumors' continue size, stimulating . animais were quarantined liniments, cannot reach the seat of the disease and breaking. In: various places, pro- ent stations. other supports, he strengthens finally quarantine a blood or constitutional dls­ until It is able raw sores, and discharging Catarrh Is . To the dissemination of sheep hardens the weak point, duclng ugly, prevent The abscess to cure It you the strain of and their characteristic pus. ease,' and In order m�st scab, It was required that sheep Intended to stand present speed, Is cavities thus formed often 'heal, only to take Ihternal remedies. Hall's Catarrh_ or purposes should fiually of' Increased speed, Progress for feeding breeding acts di­ until· the next weak .break out, soon after, In an adjacent re- Cure Is taken Internally, and be dipped In: a solution to klll the para- then made point and mucous surfaces. Is . on the blood sites which cause the disease before be- ShOWS'; and this in turn carefully glon. rectly Increased As already stated, the cause of this Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack med­ permitted to leave the stock yards, strengthe�ed, and �he speed' lng as one of the limit of endurance Is reached disease is a fungus known' Actina:- Iclne. . It was prescribed by If they were affected wHh the disease or until the " to bovis, This fuqgu� grows on va- In this country for years. had been exposed to contagion. Accord- or some weakness refuses to yield myces best physicians on It Is com­ some other cause rlous kinds of grasses, but espeelally and Is a regular prescription. Ingly, 536,501 were dipped under the su� treatment, or develops. or the awns and glumes of barley and re- of the best tonics known. combined pervlslon of the inspectors of the bureau. A rest of several weeks. or months, 'posed lated and when these have the best' blood purifiers, acting dl� In accordance with the provision of the a year or two, may then allow of still g:rasses, with on swampy or fiooded fields, bot- on the mucous surfaces, The per· appropriation blll for the coming fiscal further speed development. grown rectIy limit Is and the tom lands In particular. feet combination of the two Ingredlentl:l year, in relation to the Inspection of Finally the reached, num- When these are fed In their dry state what such wonderful results horses, regulations are being formulated great race' horse' becomes a back' Is produces few hor.semen realize the ter- (winter and early spring) the awns In Catarrh, for testimonials, to govern the work of inspection of bel'; for a�d curing �nd a horse at fast other sharp pOints of the grasses pro- free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., l'rdps., horses at abattoirs and of export horses.. rillc strain endured by wounds O. and mal- for there Is a. limit to the wearing duce, and find access Into, small Toledo, The preparation of tuberculin speed, . division continues of of blood of the cheeks, gums and other 'places, Sold by druggists, price 76 cell:�' biochemic machinery composed . lein by the qualltr : the with them and thus During the winter and spring, and fiesh, and muscle' and bone. Few carrying fungus steadily, . the animal with the·,fungus. Three" tuberculin sufficient to Inject about 6,000, people realize the hardening process Inoculating Look up 'our "Blocks or .propo' fiesh The also exists that these In "Special Want Column.'" animals Is sent out· each month. A w�lch t't"SuIts from training, for the posslblllty sltlon, "'THE' 'tUNsAs :F�,'-' DECEMBmti 1&; i

. II. J. :R. LeWil, .. D. 'llr1llB 760(0, yea.rllng; Archlbald J ,Eadea, Gro�e , 11th. 801168, cal(;. - Sale .. SuOoe.; S1lDD.y Slope Warrensburg;, Mo." nOli. ,,10, V. " yeai'll old, with Hereford Archibald 12th calf; W. N. Kilburn, Miss Weillngton 60983, of Blope 80959, ' The publle .aale Sunny Stanton farm, $660., Kas., $200. ,calf: Breeding on last Wednesday, at Kansas City, Sterling, 3 years old; of the "Meadow, 67322,' cattle, Archibald 14th 80960, calf; D. C. Hall, Misty In every particular, was a- grand succeas Kas., $l3Q., J. E. Logan, $325. to the friends of ¥'armlngton, 4 C. A. and It Is very gratifying 15th J. R. Lewis, $225, Nutbrown X. 60988, years old; Archibald 80961, calf; ' 'I Cross to know that his last $296. " the late C. S. Archibald Wlltori 75973, yearling: John Stannard, favor­ Nutbrown XII. 80981, calf; R. M. Dobson, enterprise resulted In so Minneapolis, Kas., $310. projected Stabon, - In view of the Stanton Breed- $200. able an' outcome, especially yearling; ' �taxer.xes 75974, Olivia 80982, calf; C. A. Stannard, $235. never before In one season has $280. fact that �ng farm, MadiSOn, Neb., Parlee II. 60989, 3 years'old: Thomas Clark, In excess of all beef Ben, Lomond yearling; J. R. Lewis, so many Herefords, 75983, $305. been oltered for sale, both public '225.' Maid 3 yell-ra 91d; �homas breeds, R. G. Mc- Pretty 659�O, season. Beau Climax 75976, yearling; as during the present $1,055. and private, ' Clark, Manhatta'h, $280. R. Introduced by Mr: Anlsh, ,Kas., Princess Sylvia II. 47118, 7-years old; J. Anothllr Innovation Tug- the Beau Lomond 75977 yearling'' George Dunavant, Kas., $310.. Cross In tlie public sale business was Smith, Kansas City, M�., $205. II. 2 J. R. Lewis, both sexes, gle, Robertha 71110, years old; Including of twenty-four calves, Beau Real's Prince 5979, yearling: B. S. $350. _, one-fourth the entire olterlng, which nearly' Culbert, Aberdeen, S. D., $245. Robertha III. 760.6, yearling: C. A;, 8tan- benefit of Southern Stanton Breed- ' , was done for the special Brlckmason 76946, yearling; nard, $235. sa1e " Breed- cattlemen. The detailed results of .tne Ing farm, $460. Rosa IV. 60998,4 years old; Stanton Here- Caesar 19)" calf:' R: L. Faulkner, ' show that all these sold well, and 104 (Vol. Ing farm, $2O!i.. 'l'he Jamesport, M9... $2l,5.' Archibald yearling; J. R: .. fords sold at an average of 5333.17. SaJJy 76060, Cecil yearling: R. L. Faulkner, $200. man asks a fol' hi! sale w111 benefit 76401, Le:wls, $155. W]1en !l young fath�r success achteved' by this Wood & Ban- Cedric (Vol. 19), yearling: Idalia III. 60963, 4 years old; K. B. Ar- haud marriage, if the father of Herefords In America. daug�te,r:s i� every breeder Madison, Neb., $210." _ breeders croft, mour, $290. ," is a one, he thinks ot one thing equal. The 'attendance of representative Sir Bartle 80963, calf; 'J. R. M. H. Wools- w.Ise . (iharmlng " IV. 71118, 2 years old; as as the man's seen at a ,Sylvia ly Important youn� morals, and visitors was the largest ever Lewis, $155., Lake, Mo., $350. Breed- ton, Sugar sOcial IU!d busiaess stauding' and intelli, 4 old', Stanton J. R. and the - sale In Kansas City, olterlng Climax 60942, ' years Victoria Regina 71131, yearling: cattle gence. A young man who suffers from ill, over several States. The Ing farm, $900. $210. , was, distributed K. B.'Ar- Lewis, health has no right to marry until his health from 'Climax 4th '71031, 2 years old: Belle yearling (owned per- Kansas, ' 75981, cattle went mainly to buyers Mond,e To do so is to a crime $1,025. J. R. Lewis, $515. is J'!!stored. CC?mmit Nebraska, Tennessee, mour, sonalty bY,Mrs. Cross); Missouri, Texas, Don Pedro yearling; R. L. Faulkner, agatn!9t the human race. Whtle all disease. I111nols. 75994, SUMMARY. Indian Territory and not be the eonstitu­ South Dakota, $215. - may directly inberitedl In commenting ,average $307.10. ,The Kansas City Journal, Duke Alexis 80967, calf; Stanton Breeding 57 bulls brought $17,505, tendency to acquire tnem is Inher­ nota­ average $3114.78. !ional that Itwasthemost $200.' 47 females brought $17,145, Ited, If a mau is· a consumptive the on thlssale,stateil average sale of Geneva 71055, yearling, J. R. 104 Herefords brought $34,650, children will ble cattle sale ever held In the pavilion faDrm,uke chances are that his 'have stock One hun­ Lewis, $200. $333..17 undersized and a predisposi. yards. ' at the Kansas City , lungs, Duke of Hereford 75997, Imported, year- ,,!eak, four head of the famous Cross bon to acquire the same disease. dred and R. L. Faulkner, $320. the show herd ling; About StOck, The man who suffers from bron­ herd of Herefords, Includlng ArChibald 75998, yearling; F. Rock­ Gossip young Elvira's of blood or were sold at auction. has weak Inngs, spitting any of Sunny Slope farm, efeller, Cleveland, 0., $555. Mr. S. J. �oss, of Quenemo, Kas., chitis, total stock Hereford herd, disease of the air-passages which if neg­ sale was notable In the receipts, Felix 76004, yearling; Ellemac farm, laid a good foundation for a 'l'he leads to take a total of $34,650. It , a bull of Van Natta's breeding. lected up consumption �ay the cattle sell!ng for MemphiS, Tenn., $206. and Is using W. R. Slaugh­ more to of this herd later. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical A. cow was sold for the 32d 663

know'of or &'iris DUB EDiTOB:-Do you boys r. A View of �e POiitiOD state Oomm�� Fipn's ' 'hat'wanhr"tctiesorcameraa? 'WehaveqUlte A�cujtur_I,COliege, , of Com. numbell to- give ir,W&'7 to bright 'boYII or girls School ,a ' � Manhattan, . .' Kansas, Fann.er:-The GOvernment do an hour's worlGi:·foiollB in their own Dairy', ..,..: Edltor·Kansas wJio will last DO has Its and cap­ - . Agrlcult\lral Department p)ade looallty•. No e][perlence·ne�iB!I!la:'ry . as to -the outcome of the' corn ·crop It wm.maks mllntlon ot guess ital required. 70u ' and while It can find very few whQ U8 11'111 re- 3 fio -1899, of 1898, this In your p�per thosll'who w�te MA�CH 25, especially . JAl'l'UAR� will agree with Its conclusions, by return'lnall. Is to.lnves-. cel'!e'fuU parJilculars .... among those whose business It Yours truly,... trons and P IvatedatrYmen, otrerlng In the selection" has at .leaat re- For creamery po. thorolllh Inlt�llctlpn crop conditions, It .r { tlgate ·PUB. .". - Talll GlII!lTLlIIWOIiI�lf 00., mar- of and best methods of handling her products. I .; moved one factor from the. breeding and care .the dairy cow, disturbing New N. Y. feeding, �. Bldg., Otty, " ket, a,nd the trade will now lie more apt .Germa�:a«:i:ol�· ��rH.

those Influenccs of " to gtves.proper, value to BoOb at eo.t. For full particulars address PRES. THOS. B WIL.L. ".'. .... Tuition Pree. SOard and '. which make and demand ultimately . In addition supply . Is there-.ls 'Ule husk$ng, correct, :======�=====�======':: all prices. to the shortage of 217,000,000' bushels, as on. November 1, In a undertaken' The Governm.ent .before, shown by the Government figures, an ad- stra,tegy was .requlred war, thought Farmers' lii.'atitute, , to relieve Cuba of ·mls­ a bushel of corn 'had- been gathered, to 200,000,000 primarily Spanish dltlonal shortage of 100,000,00\1. had"the out a' total yield .of about Kansas Farmer:-�lie 'annual than would have been required It could figure bushels to be taken care total short- Editor rple of;.a .war been one for the direct satisfacUon 1,900,000,000 bushels. The best posted private for institute wU'1 be held at Oak age so large as to. force extreme prices' farmers' of our own against Spain; the ex". of grievances the trade journals, crop on the market. Shawnee authorities, com before another crop Is Grange .Iial], Mission, Center, and It takel! up and considers, under this and best posted grain' perts, the larger' whole new each of the earlier movements But .do the December' 21 and 22, aspect, . now that ,�{!t. �ell county, Kansas, firms throughout the countrv, th!lse)lg�lI;es war.' A the visible supply o! !lorn at 7:30 in the evening of .the , a story. '1898 commencing the farmers have been .gatherlIlg corn ye�r,f!,go bush- . was 22,000,000 ". until the Government estt- 42,OOO,OOO\>b�shelsf.,.a!{a.lnst of. the and continuing .... believe that the 2�st ):898-99•. month, a'lIhortage In our 1mme- Rates for �e Holida.,-, too els to-day. show-Ing 23d. A interesting Oheap. mate Is from 100,000,000 to 200,000,000 high, evening of the very will sell tickets on dlate available suppltea of 2O,OOO,OOO·bushels. .. The Missouri Pacific estimate or the . arm and and that a conservative and instructive program un f December 26 and 31, 1898, and January poInt not 1'1nc uded In the 24, 25, to A year ago every for return crop would not be over 1,700,000,000 1,760,- will be :rendered. Dinner 1 and 2, 1899, limited January 4, vtstble statement, ·w,as loaded with home' topics lIupply 1899, at rate of one fare for the round trIp. 000,900 bushels. Mld- will be served as usual. ,All - corn. The lake ports of CO.lIlngwood, and supper between· points within 200 miles distance. The husking has demonstrated that �so Kingston, Ogdensburg and are to come and have a good time' rate 60 cents. of the land, Prescott, invlted the crop In.. large portions surplus bushels .' Erie contained at least These institutes at Oak Grange hall haY�1 •Mlnl�um and con- 4'000,000 mO.re , corn States Is the poorest In quality , , and not . corn than at the present time, and we· ieet th tit' 18 the last ten years, that' a State reputation Ohnatmas ComlDg dttfon of any during . a. one .bushel ot It appeared In the vtstbte eX;pec for hog. feed will be this year ever before" 'tickets much of It will be fit' oniy elevator better. .tb.an and the' Union Pacific will sell supply. A year ago every private .- and that the balance will be late In como. FRANK, LOGAN,· on s Ilnes t tl reduced . here and elsewhere was tull to overflowing it � grea y rat�.:,'" . -Prestdent.:" Ing Into condition to market. ·IRWIN BROBST. limits 'and to: with' corn. they are practically . For dates of sale, points re- To-day • ',rhe reserves of old corn have been . ,'" empty, these stocks being a;(' least 8,000,000' Secretary. ·which tlcekts will sold to F. duced to a minimum. The low money rates b� ,apply A.:. to 10,000,000 bushels less than last year. Ticket Agent, or J. C. Fulton, so sttmulated the of cattle ,i Lewis, City have' leedlng . corn crib at ratl- - .' every . fed In A year ago every and n·,.ft·, " Topeka. that more cattle 'are being' to-day ht' Th' s .... Depot Agent, In the corn States WW!. 'Th'oug' has ever be" station surplus ..., the corn States than 'rqad on' -. surplus of the corn T·he Kansas Farmer Company.:has .. To-day a -large majority .. tore been known. The receipts of fattened' filled Rates for·Ohri8tmas 'and New·yean ,.'.' conservative several of··:the· .book .Beduoed , , at this time cribs are empty, and a very hands coples ,'';' hogs, the largest ever known ". the In this crib supply and Thrift," it contains about. Holidays, .: Indicate where' a large portion eatlmate of shortage �'Thought of the year, roa will BeII Cketa remembered that the gov- bound, in -eloth. The 'NlckeI PI. ate d ti must be well . favor- rt and is.' ot old corn has gone, and the (and '350 pages .t . ,the do not Include corn that 25, 30, and 31, 1898, and , Insures ernment figures is,·Joshua 23, 24. .� able season and absence of disease The author and publisher Hili;·: 'D�cember lett tarmers' hands) would be' some- . at rate of a fare and a thJrd -\'� equally large consumption during the com- has of Cinicinnatl, Ohio; The ,reader need "January 1, where from 30,000,000' to 40,000,000 bushela, Hlll- for. the round to any point on their log year. Every corn-consuming Industry not to' agree with Mr. i� trip, to that we enter the exepect . demand for so that It Is sate say and Is busy, the Interior eastern He not agree with him, line, good returning' to includ-ing' with a stock ot corn In ever-ything. may which Is always In exact.' proportion present crop year 1899. Address J.� Y. corn, some it 'seem pe- January 3; Calahan,',' at least 400,000.000 bushels less in anything. To may to the business activity of that section, all postttona ', twelve Mr. HlII should dedicate his General Agent, 111 Adams St. 1.8, than we actually used durlng the ctiliar that with more prosperous conditions Is grow- March to March '1, his but here is and to continue at months from 1, 1891, book. to mother-in-law,· Ing .steadily, promtses Lawnvllle-Which would YQu In other words, consumptfbn has over- he did it.· Mrs. high-water mark throughout the year. 1898. the way with our to or 'me taken the supply, -and aa.eompared er-in_I Mrs, Levi rather do to-day. go. sebool help The. continued shortage of teedlng stulls ·"To .my .mothO aw, corn of 1898 Is the, neeCl.s the crop ------....._ United actual -.;...------.... on the Continent and In the Klng------.... ever ·ralsed. On the has . - smallest country .'. . last three has stlm- . _ doin during the years time to these facts It would be sate at any .._•••••••••• ulated the demand for corn, both for hu- .••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• . and a higher Innu- predict a broadening market, man and animal food, and opened up of values; . but at present, when new uses and new markets. Last range merable Investment In every dl- of corn from money Is seeking saw the largest export ' year . when the countrr Is entering an This will more than rectlon, , yell,!, this country. . expansion ana' pros- .• since 1 to we Jlra ot unprecedented ree" It. Already July date, Th equal 0' outcome to OC S' f one k there Is but logical BI verity, have exported over 1,000,000 bushels more the situation. Our actual needs will carry than for the time last year, and the samEl and speculation will for in ad':" corn prices Jtlgher. . new *2, and, demand seems to Increase from week to .• Two subscriptiOllELfororie year them stili higher. stimulated In a measure by the par- <>arry to old week, FRAZIER & CO. a renewal for' FREE, any corn BARTLlllTT, dition, o�e year tlal failure of the Danubian crop, Chicago, III., Dec. 9, 1898. and $2 .in which leaves Europe almost entirely de" subscriber who, sends :two new subsoriptions pendent on us for Its corn supply. one order.' of our corn Is con­ Eighty per cent crop Book for jL Soldier Son, sumed on ihe farm� and there the fecdlng, than Doctor:-I want you to help and consequent consumption, Is larger Dear Family for my' boy balance Is con­ 'me select a Christmas present '. Kas.· ever before known. The book--one Kansas 'Farme·r Topeka, a In the army.. I want It· to be '�o;, sumed In the Eastern States, where In­ It that shaH make him a better soldier pos­ means' In­ "book creased business prosperity �It-lp You have glven.us many fine the creased demand, or Is exported to talks" In the Farmer, and I have bought where on of United Kingdom and the Continent, a number of books your judgment and never was disap­ in the Little 'Boy-I'd rather go the, demand has never been equaled. their good qualities this book. is· inscribed.. She is garden? me advice through PrewItt, ...Please "Cause estimate pointed give are true'· tc. school. "Would you? Why?" Allowing that the very highest others as well as a of those 'who the paper. It may help representative . to' that we have . teacher's' sick and there ain't agoin' of our crop Is correct and A FARMER, mothers to the motherless, and who are the myself. . raised 1,925.000,000 bushels, as stated by Kas. be' any;" Osage City, as genial and at home in the sewing- would be about ======:= Government; the situation and more There are many good books•• room or kitchen as in the drawing�roQm I as follows: to army lite and war hIdsa t an· true CANCER OF TWENTY·FOUR poor ones, r,elatlng or parlor; They are t e CURED OF YEARS: corn In farmers' hanal! Amount of experiences. Some are light and humorous, shown the of the earth," STANDING. March 1, 1897, as by are serious and' beauty even to frivolity, and some Government of March 10, '. 2 th,l89s. report I have book is of the size and mak'e-up' INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Sept "". even to stupidity. Ot course, The Ind.: .. 1,164,000,000 sober, Indl..n.. 1897...... While the stock DR.:J!l. llLNEHART, polls. ac­ all of but, ot the goodly that usually sells at $1. AmQunt of corn raised In 1897, not read them, the one tllat 'to subsflrlber �g�����uf���:e:�':'�:! cording to Government report. .1,903,000,000 number that I have read, we will mail it any te�t������T��f: �f";��r lasts, tre..tment·Of c..noers. I was for twenty-four years Ii the want you ex" aIid . comes closest to filling for 15 cents to pay for postage wrap- Bulrerer trom 0; c..ncer the slzll of .. qu..rter of·a·dol- available for con­ selected sut- 'I'otal amount and the one I have a.lready ·Iar".on the temple, and It possible. I was more.a months press, ping. I>Umption for the twelve like In the tor my own son, who Is: yours, trom March 1, ·1897, to March 1, that f�r:::;J;. m�'l.�...t:.f�f :��rdi:e��I<;'� �!,����e:�:sc!�'!:r service of "Greater America,!' Is 1898...... 3,067,000,000 Inimitable ot army life, Publishers' Paragraphs, ���.?�:!,::.:J.,�:�:��n�!"'�j�?:e:?� corn In farmers' hands quaint and story �r.�� Ji�\ItO ��:., A.mount of ' F. Hln- has an bear "ltnelJS th..t under your clue and tre..tment the March' as shown by Gov­ "SI and His Pard," by Wilbur The Omaha Hay Press Company 1, 1898, Klegg disease eradicated !lud perm..nently cured, and. The book tells In this Issue "that wilT Inter- I"!lS crnment report of March 10, man, hlmse_lf an .Qld soldier. advertisement but evidence. even hy scar, tha t'� _ feed th'ere:remnlns sllll'ht '. 783,000,000 answerEffl pr�sses .. I,lt.eam- ....n most reo- those hay ,. . 1898...... the story of a raw recruit who est nl'edlng a cancer ever existed there. I he&rtUy and ·englnes.· Lincoln's call. for "300,000 more," The tale ers, boilers, consumed and to the ..�':tdJhtl��p�!�I:':..�:��� . of corn to an number .of subscriptions �::!.':,':.?gl�t'\��Jr:,��:r,t Am,\>unt at least A large a 'Is en- Is very delightful reading, All all letters of 'Inquiry. If stamped envelope . during the t1velve Farmer. expire with the year. "x.ported Kansas ... wl'i-o comes across something advan- closed. Yours v.ery respootfully, to o.\d soldier, the . mQnths from March I, 1897, should avail themselves of BENJAMIN CARBET, recalls to him some such shown above .. 2,264,OOO,OOO on every page that "Blocks of'Threc". of- March 1, 1898, as tages otrered by oilr 225 Douglas St., Indlanapolls, ind. wlt- ...... himself . consumption 190,000,000 of life that ne . Average monthly Phase arrri'y fer. ..mlcted or full Information In re- In Persons· desiring nessed the three or fou," years d as a, for .. I!'�e;o B(}ok to during The Kansas Farmer w1l1 regal' It ·.gar

.. 1898 of diction schoolboY lI�e, - consumption during 1897 and thQught and stupid ponderoslty series of stories 'of English bushels per books. It Is free from and wholesome Ii. =Y!:!:::�l:;:' at 'rate of 190,000,000 we find In too milny Is as hearty taI� of':schdol". ' n.· adventure 'as p., tII.rre...... month...... 2,280,000,000 and asslnlnlty and· on the one hand boy Ingenuity Oar Spoelal"'" . .vulgarlty .. ". I� .Jt�. . corn for wish to read, and, While completeone,.could. ,n.50, I... til•.,l shortage of supplies other.' Would' you -know ·the-IIght . Showing on the keen for more of . the ' established cen­ saved thou- self leaves appetite 1899, as compared with and levity of soldiering, that Miss the'same. sort. first' o'f '. ··�t�:::1:rd.��::��:::dl!�J:l'::l��, of bushels; leaving from with home- ,'rhe Tarb�l,i·s.'Is' ii.d. rro_ ...."1,'_•. sumptlon 1898. 217,000,000 sands of the· boys dying on the Later Life ·of Lln�oln_ iu.«; height, 28�. articles centen, heavycome�, a bushel In our reserves Novem­ found and If you would tnljoIi largelloes,cut'top.,lieavycut us without 'It Is here; . even more dlst'n!!,u1shed. beginning sickness, . an unless· there Is tire Inclte- .storles. ber 1, 1899. In other words, know the patriotic Impulses and the first of Mr., Kipling's LlJ,1.c!lln. ,r:;-vYJ!l�a"!shwith �'iI.re t:!;ih.pB��O�J:J:"�� heavy Un-lined Instead of the expected Increalle that saved the In the I\nd pouch f��n door kicker, a decrease ments to herOism and ,valor' fu!l.sanlty tendep�es�.of. Bhe'rr', ndsomenlckeltrlmmlngsondoors.fro.nt, appear� his .. with a are' character In her account of ovendoor,h our home consumption, together. they also Ms superb' In country and upheld·the'·flag, .. Extra large, utterances and bearlng'durlng ·the decrease In our export de­ orderiy.· So, I say,' actions, Bldesc;,�to.· doeP;Claln-lIn8j1retJenolr., most Improbable here, well balanced and between h.!!l.·flr.st..,E!I<;!c�lon· ·���te·!':::�iid:,"'!.,!,f:" woor�=:.traWoocl, basis of our monthly con­ and Hls·'l>ard.... perplexing period. with on the "SI " OUAR.lIiTEIl every �:oe. mand, send your boy Klegg his first lr"Il'IBSUB A 1I1liDIlifl nnd Inauguratll;>':l.. a!!! Pr_e�I?en� .. forlOeli a etovel twelve months, there It first or Yearl_lde.ler ••ald ••1< aU.ut 810,00 for the .. yourself. a 'senes sum'ptlon past You will, If you read we have the first of 'S.OO.· The· l!'lnally, order this ..nd will eave at least In' our corn sup­ ROBY. War on :you ... an actual .. Mahan on""rhe will be shortage HENt:;t,Y W' papers by' Captain is about Il.OO.tor.eachIlOOmn " .�ht only which will have - and Ilil Lessons"-a: cAntrlbution ply of 217,000,000 bushels, --��-__ the Sea O"r New Free Stov" .t,:atalogue of some other literature of .that, :::.:.:�.::'::. the substitution to' the the rece.nt wE.l;r .. 'rillS 1111' 11111. to be met by ..d , DAY •• I al,l.Vi p. . .TO (lURE A COLD II'( ONE member of tl1e Strat'egy _ d stuff for corn, a substitution that coming froJ;Il a, IOOoPOUlIOA4l1lllqUJn!Ii'RIlSIlRVOIROOAL feeding on tire 8TO'Rat'l1� Tablets Board and the highest authority with wonder of value. an advance Laxative Bromo Quinine '" one dollar order,1� .. can be brought about by Take o�.rB· only science of·naval warfar.e cannot fall to be' torce slich a sub­ -if it fails corn values that 'wlll All refund the money ot • tdda:. ��� !n . druggists with eagerness a,H parts the. :.B�o'ir."�� ':r:: .::.:-�� Ip � ... • .read ••• Sto., has L.·B.·Q first Is devoted _, "�loJ"" d\t.,_ stltuUon. cure. 26c� The genuine . world. This pap.er » . ,to olvlllzed ... 3'l*OA��� esti­ iPMnt ...... "'Clo. � If,"however, the generally accepted. to showing how a 'qulte dltfe¥'ent :.: tablet. . especially ascertained by 'on each mate of the co�n crop. as 189 [61 DECEMBER 1'5,

differ In almost every way from the other people Qf the country. The Hlooques are �fte, lome (l,ircfe.. small and squat, with high cheek bones, broad thin Ups and large mouths with THE HANDS OF THE WORLD. Healthfulness have . teeth. ------prominent They straight hands of the world-can you see black worn and braided. The of the on cleanliness The. them hair; long ba� 4ependa largely to-day? . men wear no clothes, save a small breech of the bath tub. Court health &ad mUD The useless white hands, kept so Shapely . woven from some native and fair: clout, generaUy aic:kDese by using The' hands of God's worker, orre lifted to plant. The !E;J;icoques' food consists gen­ erally of wlld game and roots, though And �r:l'reaChlng down for the burdens have a and of care; they occasionally few pigs • 'l'he hardened, brown hands, so deformed sometimes cultivate' a small patch of and unsightly, corn. The latter only happens when they Yet beautiful stili with the pathos of toll; 'rhe hands of power, used wrongly. or have llved unmolested for a long time In great . rightly; one The men are. quite skillful , place. The hands stained with sinning from with bows and arrows, and with these ------... which you recoil; 'lhe cultured; deft hands, that are busy weapons obtain most of the meat eaten adorning . the (jOkls1 by famlly. .. of learning and 'l'he unfinished temples The is unknown ,WASHING PoY/Dft marriage ceremony art· ; 'rhe In dark that for. the among them. The selection of the bride hand� places. grope for all household cleansing purpoeee. morning,' having been made, the woman walks over . ' And the poor, strl'cken hands that appeal Largest peckage=-greatest economy. and takes possession of her new home to the heart; Sold everywhere. Made only by All these, If they'd clasp one another to- and the ma�:gflts out a trifle earller in FAIRBANK .. THE N. K. COMPANY, day, order to for two. Polyg­ . reach 'round the world In a wonder- prQ(:ure topd Could. 8t. LouIs. Bodon. Is not but the intermarry­ CbtCAlW! ful way. amy practiced, New York.. PhUadelphla. Ing Is carried to a dangerously ,close no lot No one would be lonely, wholly lIoint, and' inbreeding ha.s doubtless dreary, The thrill of our love would magnetically had much to do with the Indians' imper­ give fect development. ,The same cause has Foot. They begin August 8, '1776, and s�iect camp sites in Cuba, and to.arrange A to the faInt and a joy to the strength retarded thei'!i growth 'in intelllgence and run to October 30,.1781. for sanitary improvements there. He paid , weary, , A lightness of being and courage to live, their increas� In numbers. The letters are filII of Interestlng and special attention to the problem of clean­ how Then come, clasp 'these handa=on, It is not fielleved that these Indians instructive reading. In,volume II, page .jng Havana, and there Is some comfort In selfish to tarry have any .... form of the news that his In that 'When all the world needs you thIs mo- ...:...··rtlculat religious 46, written from Cambridge, New Eng- report Impor­ ment so much! worship, but they are full of superstition, land, November 25, 1777, Is a history of tant matter was practically finished, and and the RIse strong with the will purpose which leads, them into doing many pe­ that the conclusions which he reached are , the word Yankee. to carry culiar For when sick­ available for use. . The help of your presence, the warmth of things;' instance, Before the Revolutionary war the Vir- government , one your touch. . ness of them, the in­ called the New Yan- �;"Colonel Waring," writes .E. S. Martin, low overta�� ginians Englanders They want yours, the hands that drop valld Is was a . provided with food sumcient for war Harper's Weekly, delightful In their Kees; from then to the Civil every- ip. .. weakness, or four and is then left to and a writer, Those heavy wlni burdens and empty three days, body that was not of the New England cQmpanion very agreeable it out as best he the bal­ he some Civil war with loss; " fight alone can, States called the New Englanders Yan- Long. ago published to with spIrit of They pray you poInt the. ance' of the retiring to some other stories under the title of 'Whip and Spur,' meekness f�llY kees, and during the Civil war everybody as other To Love's Burden-Bearer who dIed on the house. Their knowledge of medicine north Of the Mason and Dixon line. was as 'well sketches, but of late seems conflIied to the use of not more called Yankee. years his writing, as well as his work, has one another w« allc��s�uch need to-day than four lierbal decoctions of the sim­ been In the line of his His with our hands In thts As the Lieutenant profession. To girdle the globe r to word, Auburey forms. , work, though of Immense value to his plest wrote Im 1777 :'"The 1ower cIass 0f these _]�ila H. Thayer, In Union Signal. Another' singular trait Is their super­ .fellow countrymen, had not enrlched Yankells-apropos, it may not be amiss" stition in regard to expectoration within him. He died in the service of his eoun­ here just to observe to you the their houses. Should a stranger enter try, at the height of his reputation, but lIiooques of Oentral America; of this term is derived from a�tymOI���Chero one of their houses and so far forget him- without having accumulated even such The history of" the various Indian word, which signifies coward self as to spit 'upon the floor, no Hicoque i}llankke, a fortune as would avall for the modest of Oentral America has never been and This epithet of Yankee was tribes would ever euter It', again. st�ve. 'support of his widow. The proposal that Be- upon the Inhabltatnts of New arid probably never'will be written. It Is extremely diMcult to learn much besto��d eomes from ex-Mayor Strong, of New Engla�d 'by the Virginians for not as- fore the march of the armor-clad Span- about their language, owing to their retl­ York that a fund should be raised In his sistln!!; them in a war with the Chero- native tribes faded away as the cence and In for Mrs. benefit Is l'ard the shyness. many respects have In deri- t!iem�ry Waring's kees, �nd they alWaYS beep. I sun. those who re- their tongue -sounds like that of out timely and suitable, and is likely to find mist before the Only slon by it. the name has been or Western that it is softer B�t prompt and cordial support from thou-. treated to the inaccessible swamps the Indhms, except prevalent since the of hostili-more. and more quickly blended. They seem beginnIng, sands of citizens who feel themselves to fastnesses of the pi�e-clad mountalns es- tles; soldiers at Boston it as a to have complete vocabulary, and t!te u�ed be Colonel Waring's debtors." the torture and slavery which tol- qulttt'� term Qf reproach, but after the affair at .eaped when their conversa­ among; themselves In lowed submission to Spanish power. Bunker Hlll. the Americans gloried it; don' Is animat�il and lively. Music seems � It Will It, and torture, where It failed 'Y:ankee Doodle' Is now their paean, a' Surprise You--Try That slavery to be unknow,�, and no musical Instru­ the left favorite of ravorttes.. played In their In order to prove the great merit of to exterminate conquered peoples, ments have ever been found among them. of the army, esteemed as warlike as 'Tile' Gren­ Ely'£: Cream Balm, the most effective them with but few, It any, char- The mothers. seem devoted-to their chtl­ them be- adiers' March.' It is the loon's spell, the cure for Catarrh and Cold In the acteristics which distinguished In: this the Head, dren, and, respect, Hicoques nurse's we have a fore the came. To-day In parts lullaby. prepared generous trial size Spaniard are perhaps' better than many of the etv- "A-tter our rapid successes we held the fol' 1& cents. Get it of your druggist of Central America little visited by other Indians of this country. lIike the or send 10 cents to of once Yankees' In great contempt; but It was lIlzed man remnants powerful squaw of North the HI­ America, not a llttle to hear them ElLY BROS., 56 Warren N. Y. now feeble and almost extinct, are mortifying play St., City. tribes, coque mother' straps her child upon her but this tune when their army marched down t Ely'p Cream Balm has completely occasionally discovered. Gradually back and on her This is goes journey. to our surrender."

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- FARMER. 1898. THE ·KANSAS

the we immedIately granted and soon we.'were miles on' either side. '. To right wheelhig' 'over li smooth road l'letween' saw the unpretenttous Bummer home' of C1fae lolll. Which had htd the view the present royal family.· 'It is called '1!toung two high 'heages " �. been told of th� castle. '''Fredensborg,'' and bad GRANDFATHER'S that there was little to be F�RM. A half-mile ride brought us to tile o.t impOrtancll seen in We could not have gained entrance to .the grounds of Fredericks- it. Visions often haunt the mind. seem several admi1ltance even if the greatest curiosity Ii And bring back days that 'borg Castle, and after passing that we love to find, in the world had been' contained therein, Like 'Stories large and ancient-looking gates, and over Or some fond. tender dream; were then occupy- we were in the outer court- for the royal family ' But of the visions that appear two, moats, , it. None has a greater charm, yard in front of the large gate in which ing and -clear None Is to me so sweet Is the official to It is at Fredenshorg where the aged farm. the castellan lives, who. '\ As my grandfather's had gath­ or refuse admission into" Lue pal- Queen Louise f9r many years' admit . grew, of Emper- 'Twas there the sheep-nose apples ace ered her large family. Kings, ' yard. 'Twas there "1 always found around' her to the edifice known as l"rtlder- ors and Princes' enjoy I'he peppermint I loved to chew, The massive beautiful summer months. A few years And minnows did abound I leksborg Palace. was built in 1602 by brook which there did pass, Princess ot· Wales with her Within the Chrl.stian and is located .on ihe site ago the . and so clear, lV., So gently Frederick the dowager:Empress of Rus­ had II. looking-glass of an older castle erected by I., daughter, That flowers Czar­ the sia with 'her son, the Czar and his Through nearly all year. a hundred or more years Wlier. This .and of Greece, location has been the royal ina, the King Qu�� 7ith The flocks upon the rugged hills fa�orite all . of Den- lesser Princes !ind. Princesses, I always loved to see,'- home tor the Oldenburg line many robin's with their mothe'r and grandmother I loved to hear the trills, mark's Kings, which began'to rule with were bluebird's month's' in sum- The melody, continued on at Fredenshorg for two three and one-half seemed Christian in 1488, and the distance is hut For there all nature content,. I., mer time. The is so simple that 'and Protected from all harm; the throne till the death ll>f Frederick pa1ace mtles, Both countries are civilized, there a was quickly spent, have nothing but ordinary lamps am not 'Twas day VII. in 1863, when the pr�sent. King they Christian in their religion, yet I Upon grandfather's farm. tallow.cand.les for lightIng, and not cities (Christian IX.), of the Scllleswig-Hol- and certain that the naming of their , bath-room in the whole palace. The barns with mows of well-cured hay stein-Gluecksborg ducal family, was even one and towns woUld indicate it. The depot There bade me to explore, one That would not snita Kansas Congress- is also the chosen. Christian tv, was the only . at which our train stopped Like Stanley In far Africa, able man, even, but the Kings of. England, We learned that the Their jungles o'er and o'er; of the Oldenburg Kings. who was steamer landmg, Denmark and Greece don't seem would not The corn-crib with Its yellow ears, to accomplish much for Denmark, and Russia, next steamer for Sweden The straw-stack and the sheds; to find flI.ult. The Czar and ·his five under his rule the coun.try was one of the any wife. leave until 6 p. m., so we had fully These were enough for boy careers,. Fre- are said to be frequent visitors at with the of Ham­ while at tbe . hours memory And eagjlr feet and heads. most powerful in Europe, to spend and there spend their happiest. and death of Frederick VII., it had been re- densborg, let, who .used to live at thfs place, Grandmother's were the best, court doughnuts days, away trom bombs and other afterward became quite famous by rea- And best her pies did seem; duced to the weakest. formalities ot Russia. since grandmother Is at rest, an son <.of. the "write-up" which Shakes- had . But, In my opinion, Christian IV. are but a dream; of These, too, a But to continue my description him. as this palace is very . peare gave The smiling kiss she always gave, eye tor beauty, I would say that tIle And the entwining arm, handsome piece of architecture. It has Fredericksborg, are -In the grave, and handsomest ot the rooms teaches the value of Hood's The "good-bye"-they four stories, with many gables' and pretty prettiest Experience' Near by grandfather's farm. hall and. banquet­ It Is accomplish­ towers. It is built on the three sides of are the Knights' Sarsaparilla. constantly the same a� - similar rooms Wonderful cures and people in "all No more shall those sweet days pass, a square, the left wing being the "Chapel room, Ing was made will do them For one sad day the tower {Jf which is are in ail" castles and' palaces affording sections take it, knowing it beneath the of the Kings," Another grave grass . such In Knights' hall the. I' Where grandfather was laid; shown on the left of the picture herewith, luxurtes. the. good. trimmed hi colors and And now as I go here and there. we had entered the near' the walls are' gOld and gate Hood's Pills cure all liver ills. Mailed I flnd no place to charm, two windows are very; the As the old castellan between every often prayer front of chapel. cents C. I. Hood & Lowell, And arter-eventng almost '''me�slze'' paintings of for 25 by Co., farm. us to the inner court-yard, and good and Think of grandfather's admitted Mass. admiration the vartous of Denmark-Chris­ we were looking with great Kings Let others eat the apples now, The is beautifully-decorated exterior, the tian and otherwise. dining-room Let others watch the sheep, at the and finished in dark and the fire-place Not Ohristmas New-years To time and fate they, too, shall bow, chimes in the chapel tower' announced oak;-; Why Spend like grandfather, sleep; to accommodate it Kan- at Home? And, tAe hour of 11. This huge and handsome is large enough' But J shall still sweet visions have­ Nickel road will sell tickets I'm sure It does no harm- The Plate. a and And while I on the e�rth do live, to any point on their line at fare I'll dream of that old farm. ;- 11 third for the round trip, account of -Cleveland Le�der. Christmas and New-year's holidays, on December 23, 24, 25; 30, and 31, 1898,. and WrltteD for KanBas Farmer. January 1, with return limit to and includ­ YOUNG POLKS IN THE �LD OOUNTRY. ing January 3, 1899. Students, upon pre­ sentation of proper credentials, can obtain BY ANNA IIARIII NIILLIS•. tickets at the same rate, good to return NUIIBIIR51. until school re-convenes. Full informa­ I _ or ad­ I FREDERICKSBORG. tion can be secured by calling on dressing J. Y. Calahan, General Agent, I The village of HlIlerod Is twenty rn Adams Chicago. 77 I miles northwest of Copenhagen, and that St., ··for place was the next on our program Inspection. Before leaving our hotel, I :\ endeavored to learn a llttle of the Dan­ IF THE be able to ask I Ish language, sulllclent to . tickets at the station tor the, -plaee DA '·JlP for . the . \ we wished to visit. I thought I bad AND sentence In and repeated it firmly mind, FREDERICKSBORG, CHILL . seven or more times on the way to the cere­ • When I approached the �Icket sas ox desiring the barbecue PENETRATE,LOOKOUT depot. castle, which has been the home, of many prize 'was FOR AN ATTAOK 01' agent's window 1 found my' memory mony. The chairs are ponderous, heavy Kings and Queens, Is now used as a na­ confused and all I could say was: "Zwel affilirs that would require two strong tional museum of antiquities. We pur­ no two them: single billets til Hlllerod,' men, apparently, to move SCIATICA. chased our tickets of admission (25 ore except the last two, being of the We wandered through the different words, BUT DEEP AS THE the ticket about 6 and started on our of same language. However, each, .cents) apartments devoted to the memory SOIATIO NERVE •• No seller understood that we wanted tickets way through the building. guides various Queens, each fitted out most stationed OIL to Hillerod and supplied us accordingly. are furnished, but guards are sumptuously and in differently-colored ST. JACOBS door. • The railway train was made up of the on every floor and at nearly every silks and satins. Certain of the royal two­ satisfied not to have a exhibition and we saw ordinary cars, and, besides, had one We were perfectly jewels are on one exhibited iii to the story or double-deck car and open guide, as nearly everything them. We paid a visit beautiful of several tor finest I have - in consider or observation car. The upper story plainly marked languages chapel, which I the 'stair­ ot the one was reached by an outside the benefit of visitors from any country. ever seen. In this chapel the Kings we several columns of line way. The day being very pleasant, It would require Denmark of the Oldenburg (since curiosities and found seats in the open car where we space to tell of the many the reign of Christian IV.) were crowned, this and al­ an unobstructed' view of the beautiful objects displayed In royal and It Is gorgeously decorated could have M.at amoked ID' a r... bODrs ..Itb The country, museum. most entirely overlaid with gtldlng, KRAUSERS' LIQUID EXTRACT OF SMOKE. informed the palaces and ruined castles is of and embossed silver, So far as our experience us, Of many pulpit ebony :!.".��.�:o'''::d��r��rrb:���;' oPdb:.��r'S���D:; I think Frederlcksborg is "Oruclflxlon" over the King's KRAUSER .. 1111&0., .... there is no dust in.Denmark, and our ride I .have seen and the OlroDlar. E. RKO., handsomest and most nearly like of embossed silver. for an hour was enjoyed without the the oratory Is also for a which what my imagination had pictured' The "King's oratory" Is where royalty appearance of this annoyance, WATCH AND CHAIN fOR ONE DAYIS WORK. the same of inter­ , America have to en­ royal home. I had thought was supposed to pray at regular travelers in usually i but has never been used Ole' !!!:::L� dure, But the railway travel In Den­ the castle at Meissen (near Dresden), vals. It evidently a Nlckel-Plaled Watch, situated in such a beautiful was in excellent It Boyl and Olrlo "D get mark is done at so slow a rate that there that is not much, for it repair. 1 and it was almost entirely containing ::'bo"!'.:�. no occasion for the' dust to be dis­ park as' this, is a kind of gallery room, ;}:���nm':3n�ITo �d= is we will forirard full oddr... by return moll and unfurnished and In Fredericks­ in wood and ivory LIlt. turbed, Few countries are swift enough empty. much fine carvings the Dluloo. poll-paid, and. large l'romIum • n1nllpy ,...,.. America no two rooms are alike. In one we and has several. fine paintings rep­ . No died. to raise the clouds of dust that borg very M.... BLUINB CO. MIl Concord Junctlon, numerous suits of some over "Passion of our Savior." Box easily produces, saw armor; resenting the in the next half dozen We would like to have lingered several Pretty 'llttle villages, with neat houses 400 years old; saw the mementoes of several but the chimes In the tower. and neat-appearing people, are liherally rooms we hours longer, different each room devoted to announced 12 and we Anew we scattered along the line of railway' at Kings, o'clock, King, and showing his a few minutes left In which to intervals of two or three miles, but the one particular had but medals and other articles Iden­ train. train stopped at very few of them, When swords, reach our this or that Christian or Freder­ the train did stop at any station it. cQuld tifying HELSINGOR. ick. In the rooms of Christian IV. we not proceed again until an officiaL with two hours be­ which that monarch Although using only had the bell saw the bed upon a very red coat rung huge tween we felt we had Industri­ . mementoes trains, notice and many treasures and on the platform, which was due died, minute to our en­ is given ously employed every: "look out for the cars of his reign. More prominence to . . reached the sta­ to everybody is tire satisfaction, and we to his memory in this castle than when the bell rings." time to spare to walk . tion with enough we accorded to any other King. , at HlIlerod, we found tti"at take our seats Arriving beau­ across ,ue platform and be­ But what makes the palace so had just two hours for slght-seelrig started. Our route now was mural paintings and as the train Award. next train should arrive, by tiful is the exqutstte fore the northeast toward the sea coast. An Highest woods In ·northward. At the different finely-polished Gem which we wished to go us to the beach, Diplom...md Med..l were awarded CIty are hour's ride brought of a which the. various rooms finished, BUSiness (JollE'ge. Quincy. illinois, at the great the station there was no appearance which we a fine view ot to be had on all along en,joyed Om..ha Exposition, tor B"lit [xhlblt ot Pen­ and the real life and the lovely vlews village or city, only the sound separattng Denmark rrom munshtp, Oou-se or Study. Btudenta' Work, and sides of the palace. A small lake almost I about the place, after the train lef,t, was Commerclut- ·!l'ext Books. Beautltul 6O-pag� extrem­ Sweden. mullen free. were surrounds the castle, and tJie two J;llttltrated Cat..logue will be a carriage, team and driver, whic)l. Is .the narrowest part of 181l11; are connected the At Helslngor Winter tt'rm begins January 2, . lake by ' chance passenger to Ities of the there to convey any the BOund which connects the Catte,at Addrel. D. L; MU88I1lLMAN, lPre.'t, two moats over which we had crossed. the town and castle. The driver ad­ In had a ftne with the Salt1e l!Iea: From Helaln,or, Cit, Bu.lne•• CoUeS., QUID.,. �. asked the From one or the towers we O,!m dressed us in German and to Hellln.bor" III Iwld.n, vi." over til. beauUful park alld' for l).�ark, prlvU", to ClOIlTl, UI, Hil Pttition wu THE KANSAS' . F.AIiMER� . 'i

- some for each unit added to Britain's stock of BEATEN PATHS. Infrequently the case, .was served to antmale . saHor w\th a super-sehsitive nervous or- horses or cattle, and that 'these who other than Every person, explores were. as indispensable in civ1l1zed iUe FARMER makes of KANSAS beaten of him- comes a with the paths thought, .. as wheat. Yet here erdtte, ' gtoanblzeatainonentthlere S'!?eirnittitSyP"��a"nildY wa�sPeaonrelyd 1863. attack ar- ESTABLISHED IN se1f a target for criticism, and for reduced to a "mere abstraction" by, be- the. Forum and Northwestern Miller that I -in various ways, from those who know ing placed in irons and subjected to ticIe before him, and says ignore the Published Every Thursday by and then comes at me with. only to follow, who 'have not the instinct, some hours of rigid discipline. these fp.ctors, RE- an: "I confess I do not like his -(·Mr. UNIT . or the power, to look for truth, except PRACTICAL ESTIMATES OF ,KANSAS FARMER COMPANY. QUIREMENTS. - Davis's) sweeping use of average acre as it Is laid down in the books of ac- Used in 1II. B. Cowgill, Pres. J. B. McAfee, Vloe Pres. who London with production (yield). complete authorities. 'Time was when peo- The dairymen supply and Treas. cepted economic conditions it '" D. C. Nellis, Sec'y milk proceed, unconsciously probably, disregard of (?) burned at the stake for thinking pIe were seems certain to land' him in er­ upon the fact that given numbers of the wholly OIi'Ii'ICB: that their new Christian religion was an Definite infor- require a regular ration of roneous conclusions." No. 116 West Sixth Avenue. of population improvement on the accepted teaching what was meant milk, although It may average less than matlon of by '''complete time. Galileo 'was compelled conditions" would D the Later, fluid ounce unit. The. con- disregard of eponomlc A YE'An. a daily per O'BSCRIPTION PRICE: ONE DOLLAR to drink because he had discov- know of what polson and does vary with 'the enable the criticised' to all sumption may, B. B. COWGILL, Editor. ered that the earth 'moves, while ac- was a suit­ offense he . and make season of the year, but for any. series guilty. H. A. HEATH, Advertising Manage�;':':'· was that it stands still. but In the absence of the cepted -teachlng' of years, and for each year, the quantity able defense, we In modern and more humane times', definition one can but ask how consumed per average unit is a remark- desired . a man's life . even' though he be a without 'resort to ADVERTISING RATES. spare ably constant one. As "lncreaaes Lon- the gentleman would, in. In science, or even In Display advertising. 15 cents per line, &!late (tOUI'- herefrc religion, so 'must increase' the "average acre yields," measure the pro- ". dou's population . 'een lines to tbe Incb).· economics... .But the orthodox in any of areas? Your cents line. . the nite K' ducUve power given' Special reading notices, 25 per number 0f cows.in U d' lngdom, miscellaneous advertisement. of do their best to anni- Business cards or realm thought Holland, Belgium and 'elsewhere 'which Major Craigie, of the Board of Agricul­ W'l11 be received from reliable advertls.era at the rate -In the cen- hilate the innovator. present your Sir .Tohn Bennett Laws, and serve that population.. In other words, ture, Director,.; oon. Michael. was compelled to all re- Of..rn·:.:r�!��: f�rt��e.)��';;del'1l'· turv, Faraday the number of animals engaged in. con- the late Sir .Tames 'Calrd have that an ,defend his assertion !IJS' a use" of r!�\!'�oc:,r/��r�::f�t;!sa�o;:l;�.peryear,lnclud' vigorously vertlng grass, grains and brewers; re- sorted to quite "sweeping mov mUBt bave metal base, current can be produced by as Bleatros electric ruse into is directly and "average acre production" (yield) my­ advertiBements or orders from unre- dairy products Objectionable a closed wlre circuit In a magnetic difference that liable wben such Is known to be tbe ease, lng proportioned to the number ot self, the only being they advertisers, to exactly not be at an1 price.' The fact which Faraday had ,,111 accepted field. people to be supplled, although in long have usually confined Its use to a single defend during the infancy of electrical I have tried to it to .e�� �����rtr��J:,t J'r':!���t����!r�����:����'::�:� terms of years the average unit' require- country, while apply be wbo are basis of the wonderful paymeuts may arranged by partleB knowledge, is the milk and does each of the countries growing the bread- or wben acceptable ment for may probably terlr electrical which came 75 then to the' "bread- ::'��"::c�':�r�ogl�:lubUBher., development change-just as it changes for wheat making grains, and Intended lor the current week, ....All advertlBlng years later. and other foods. None recognize this eating world" as a whole. Only in its of statistics, especially "aver- 8�:��t;,���:����r� ':.��!�;:rat���y��ntt,!!pap6r The treatment tendency to change in unit and national wider appllcatlon does' my use of of the advenleement. and tnte during tbe publication statistics of cultivated areas, crops dietaries -more clearly than I do, al- age acre yields" differ from its constant been Kala. food consumption, has long frag- use the of Add'il'1��r:e;.�RMER VO.. Topeka though I also recognize the slowness with. by great agrlcultural lights This sufllced fairly mentary treatment. which such changes proceed. They are, Britain. Having.used this, the only pos­ there were independent am well'while many changes in national sible, measure. of productive power, I enormous receipts of especially dietaries, Notwithstanding markets. But improved transportation deemed of .reprobatlon. This is visible comparable tn thts respect with changes worthy w.heat at primary markets the of com- faclllties and the broadening surface due to the usual reward of the innovator, and that of recent in the earth:s geologic supply lags far below made the world one "cock­ merce have recently forces. , for 10 years I· have been made a December 1898, it was 24,115,- yt'ars. 3, market. The. world's producing areas, of the scholastics who would date RELATIONS BETWEEN WHEAT AND shy" by 000 bushels. At the corresponding to be into cultlva- the acres yet brought OTHER FOODS. never venture from a beaten track. in 1896, . in, 1897 it was 34,845,000 bushels; the world's average yields, the a�- tion, friend says that I pay no atten-] WHEAT AN ECONOMICAL FOOD. 56,312,000; in 1895, 63,786,000; in 1894, the of the your erage .requlrements .of people wheat undue promi- in whatever to a' class of conditions, Far from giving 85,159,000; 1893, 78,091,000. entire world, the increase of population, tton "economic. relations between nence, or ignoring its economic or other have assumed importance not reallzed a mainly James Secretary of the wheat and other foods," but absolutely relations to other foods I have con- Hon. Wilson, generation ago. It' is not strange that them. He must have read the and stated, that the statistician who has the temerity to ig�ore stantly held, frequently articles in the Forum and Northwestern �:Jt�1s�t�:.s ge��r��:�:,f t��c�:��� consider the world's relations as they it required as much, and in most cases Animal Indus- when.in a state of mind nutrt­ United Bureau of .. were Miller singular much land to furnish Btates are to-day, rather than as they more, given have each promised Secretary Co- to reach such a conclusion, and values in other forms with the pos­ try, yesterda:y, to consider the questions of es�ecially tive if of the public ser- Forum article, as pages to maize districts ot burn that exigencies 'productton and consumption 1;Iroadly_:_ 1?4 '�77 sible exception of 'in at all of their away nclusive are almost wholly devoted to as was vice will permit being it is not strange that such stattsttclan. �he exceptionally large yield required will and national .'. ;' at tHat in unit dietaries, wheat. To . from Washington time, they should draw the fire of persons who 'have changes to furnish it in the for� of and make addresses at the and the 'of wheat to other the fact we be present not the world's changed "relation see' that this is absolutely of compre'lle.nded dietaries. I meeting (January 11-13) " .. in such have to the acre or land forthcoming . compare and changing r.elations. . ,foods, a.p�ar only .the Kansas State Board of Agriculture. sctentltlc treatment be th.e person cost of wheat and oats in the fields of The a.�d -; only,; who':�;�as, address will be upon the ��ern .t�.as out with any of an acre Dr. Salmon's population statistic!", »y Mr. yet, �ointed degre",. Great Britain, where average serum treatment for hog ,of crop. aJld ..' of of "The exactness· .. of wheat and but subject C. Wbod .Davis, of Kansas, has, as was the, ehanglng' relatione will yield 1,740 'pounds cholera." .and other. I while there is' to be expected, drawn much .criticism. �hea.t.3()onsumption' , fOOds.:: 1,020 pounds of oats, vaStly have emphasized waste' in the 1,520 This has led.J1� English scientist of pa.rtI(�lUlarl�. redu�ions more converting General Garcia, of the Cuban army, In supplles. of buckwheat, s,P.6It, of oats into human food than in world-wide farll"e to inquire of Mr. Davis unl] , pounds died in Washington, D. C., last Monday. potatoes, and directed at- 1740 of wheat to to for wheat. 'I'hrough maslin, rye.and converting the pounds in- as substttuttons The old General had fought for Cuban tention .increases of the no account of· this the courtesy of Mr. Davis we are eJ).,� to: con�equent the 'same use. T�klng dependence during a large portion of his unit of in various coun- waste in converting abled to place his reply before the read- supply- :wheat excessive and costly Ufe. He was in Washington, Informally, tries, and show an Increase 4 per 'cent smaller it appears that the era of the Kansas Farmer: ?f the product, interests. His death in unit of wheat representIng Cuban in 6 years consumptton average acre when in wheat produces In an FOR WHEAT IMPRAC- and a related removes a prominent figure epoch 'SUBSTITUTIONS in the United Kingdom 220 pounds, or 14 per cent, more of food andfnnuence BECAUSE OF ADDED jUljlt closing. His counsel TICABLE reduction in unit consumption of pota- than does the same acre when employed were COST. were valuable to his people,Jl.nd ap- toes. Possibly your friend, like so many in the growth of oats! Is it permissible His re- December 8, 1898. preciated by the United States. Peotone, Kansas, others, exception to my methods to ask the critic what is the effect of this the land for 8ir:--I am in receipt of your .takes mains will be returned to My Dear -:-he falls to point out better, or even "economic relation of wheat to oats" and a In a of November and, as you sug- show the which he had sacrificed lifetime, letter 25, equally as good-because they how much would be gained' (or lo'�t) by States. The to the critIcisms of your held- war ship of the United gest, reply baseless character of beliefs long substltutlng oats for wheat In the na­ the man which are kind enough to honor is fittIng to-the memory of friend, you and cherished because so held-and that tImial dietary? Would it not require at occasion. me. is and and. to the copy.for is, that wheat ought least 14 per cent more land to supply the admit that there is con�umption I unhesitatingly to be decreasing (mstead of increasing) oatmeal substituted for wheaten bread? con- have no average minimum and The events of the present year necessary because of the abundance cheap- It is true, that in a very large northern of of among any people, given a great impetu's to the project sumptIon wbeat ness of other foods. sectIon 'of Britain summer heats sufllce Pacific this I have clearly shown in table joining the Atlantic and the and In the Forum artIcle and elsewhere I to ripen oats but not wheat and that SOIDe of the Miller article, and on page oceans by a ship canaI.'across part No.8 have pointed out clearly that recent here long since obtained th�t national the 178 of the October (1897) Forum, nor of. the narrow neck of land joining changes in the economic condition of the custom of living largely upon "haggis the ever supposed or claimed two Americas. The importance of have I stated, of the 'population, notably in Aus- and porridge," although this diet slowly minimum. m�ss and naval Is there was such a necessary had re- condi­ canal, In a military sense, tna-Hungary and Scandinavia, gives way to :wheat as economic rela- In the tables named I have made it clear greatly" increased by the changed suited In great changes in the relatIve tions, as affecting the great mass of the of other foods diminish tions brought about by the Spanish war. that as supplies amount of wheat and other foods enter- population, improve. to be de- -bread-gmlns especially-consumption That. such canal is greatly ing into natIonal· dietaries, just as I was On November 14 wheat and oats were the centrai of wheat increases, and that the con- sired, by the producers of probably the first to direct attention in London at exactly the same be true should to_ selllng of North is undoubted. verse would, impliedly, enormous in the .raw valley America, an change opposite price per 100 pounds, and, in tlie con- ·of relatively to popula- Though the farmer should never supplies wheat, direction in change which re- the "economic relation" of it would Russia-a. condition, of to through diminish. I ,had supposed over� tribute a bushel grain go tion; suited in giving western Europe the two grains, or foods, was, as meas­ to commerce be comprehended that was t}le inevlt- the canal, still the impetus abundant supplies of the bread-making ured the money' cost pound, that data in the by per would so develop able implication from the last 16 through Gulf ports grains through most of the years. of parity. However; if the "economic from. our tables now referred to. to and . transportation this; J not only pointed out the fact relation" was determined by the power sev- unit consumption, or the haye . that we should be If, however, nearest seaboard, that given proportions of food staples of iand to produce nutritive elements the market than now.' available unit supply of wheat, as dealt eral per cents than wheat must be provided and was as 6 is to 8. In this case at near�r ab- other ratio with in' my articles, is but a "mere that, in consequence, all the land could 'Ieast "economic re)atlons" were not such for the first ten' straction," as your friend so emphat- The Treasury report, not be converted into wheat fields, but as to the substitution of oats for have dl- promote shows amount­ Ically states, then those who months of 1898 exports have been -roundly denounced for sug- wheat, 'Or to prompt people to expend amount�' rected the armies and navies of England Ing to $970,613,257, and imports that conversions of other crop in securing 6 pounds of oatmeal been the gesting money a balance of f·or more than .,100 years have Ing to $527,734,608, leaving areas to wheat-growing could, at .that would buy 8 pounds of the best worst if not deluded, of men, �ost, . in favor of the United States.. mistaken, as such converSlOns ,442,879,649 . be but temporary, wheaten fiour! of as they have continuously and persist- The balance of exports and impor.ts would scarcity in other directions, so swift to attribute to when bring Has' the critic, same months is ently acted upon the supposition silver for the $20,293;659' and result in so enhanCing prices for others the complete ignoring of the the total men were put in the field, given in favor of this country, making 1,000 other products that the diverted land "economic here indicated be­ coffee, relations," when silver is treated as a com­ proportions of bread, meats, tea, former em- blilance, would shortly revert to its tween an acre of wheat and an acre of this the ex­ sugar and other foods must be provided modity. $463,173,308. Against ployment. ever attempted in this way, by the in the force. When the oats, of over exports of gold for each unit cess imports ACRE PRODUCTION-UNIT REQUIRE- use of sweeping average acre yields, to this placed 800 men on a ship, say amounted to�129,409.320. Subtracting admiralty MENTS. cost as well in ad- ascertain tlie relative money that . total leaves to the Royal George, ·they knew . above $333,763,988 from the Not have I pointed out the close as the acre cost of given nutritIve equiv- of propor- only, be accounted for In expenses of Ameri� dition to given supplies food, relations between wheat and' alents, and thus to determIne the "socio­ tioned to the crew and the length of the existip.g cans abroad, the payment of I'ndebtedness "economic" relations other and the imperative neces- logical" as well as be voyage, there must be provided .foods, abroad and in whatever balance may proposed wheat and other foods? Pos­ unit of for symmetrical agricultural devel- between this It is in a quantum of rum for each the sity still due to country. thought that would be far better equipped to The opment, but have demonstrated. sibly he financial circles that amounts of se­ crew to be doled out dally. bread, large must be de- criticise the work of others in this direc­ the and the anti-scorbutics given proportions of land curities have been returned to this coun­ the meat, rice, such edu- fo voted to pasturage, and have very re- tion after going through some during the ten months. or the ex­ may have been, and were according tr:;r 2.65 . abstractions" or cently pointed out the fact that catioriill process. a little over two­ the critic, 'but "mere ports, 67.38 per cent, to the fields of Britain, 'case a acres of the exceptionally productive Turning' barley Is estimated to have been of ag­ of the brain, but in thirds. filPIlents acre useful, then lands of Britain be set apart we find' average yield again ricultural products. double 'ration of rum, as was not grass must The 00:, Boyle; If as it shows El_ven Uie' l�ve of money, or' the� require- Meriden; Ore�ery. even "sweepingly used," The Meriden Creamery 00., 'Ozawk1e� of that wo.uld work as the average- acre growing but 1,700. ments theories Kanaaa. Creamery Co." Wichita.. sentiment and ancient eus- .pounds of barley as against 1,740 pounds expected if L. :N. Mqor,e".Fulton. ., 'l'he Creamery AssoclaUon, we find that on No- toms were not stronger than economic Tonganoxie of· wheat. Still, ) Tonganoxie. '- .

mankind have . was laws of which the mass . H()w" vember 14 English malting barley o� Paola Creamery· Co., Paola. 308 which ren- selling in Mark Lane at prtces ranglng litt1e, know1edge, and to they Geo. W. La Rosh, Spring ani. or obedi- A.. McKillup, ·Manchester. trom 26 to 38 shillings per 400 pounds, der no sort ot. conscious fealty W., W. C. WolCott, Tonganoxie. Peo/J!:�. as ence. Yours very. truly, or an average 'of 32 shillings against H. C. Hoffman, Talmage. C. WOOD DAVIS: an average of 31 shillings for 480. pounds State of Kansas, general diLlry exhibit,· 'WOn . tlurir college . . medal. . of wheat, That is, while .the silver En�lish The Meriden Creamery ce., Meriden, course and edu-: more of . average acre produced 4Q pounds KANSAS AT THE OMAlIA EXPOSITION, Kas" second highest average score of but- ., the t sUver medal. cation 'in music.: wheat than of barley barley.brough, Complete list of medals and diplomas ter, 5 exhibits, The Meriden Creamery Co., Valley Fall!!, about 264 shillings as against some awarded exhibitors from the State. of Kan� .:withoUt butter scoring above ,9'1.polnts, sUver. medal. expense.' for the of sas at -the and' Interna- product ., Trans-Mississippi 227 . shillings' . The- Meriden Creamery Co., Meriden, in w eo.t Neb.: sliver the average acre empIoyed h tlonal Exposltlon, Omaha, Kas. butter scoring above 9'1 points, l' On- the other hand, the AGRICULTURAL EXHIBIT. medal. productlon! The Me.rlden Creamery Co." McLouth, cakes A. E. Case & Marlon, grains, bronze consumer of barley 'would, Son, butter above 9'1 points, silver Kas., scoring . medal. '" waste in . aside from. the greater bronze medal. To. Any . Jij. D. King, Burlington, wool, ex- more for The foregoing Include everything won grinding, pay 21 per cent given medal. .' the gold medal to the. Kansas Salt the consumer of the J. N. Ashervllle, wool, bronze cept than would Grau, .. 'weights Company and the premiums, dlplomu.8 and Oollege medal. material from which wheaten bread was medals won by the Ka.nsas breeders of live Wm. Wichita, corn In ear, Matthewson, . e economic reIa- wh-lch have already been published made! Obviously "th bronze medal: _ 'stock, Without Cost In detail In the- Farmer .but are . here briefly" tions of wheat and barley" preclude, at CItizens of Sedgwick county, ear corn, summarized as follows:' . .: , oats In straw, wheat, etc., bronze medal. least at the present tlme, the substitu- For Poland-China male'·under'6 months, illuS-. Horner & Ross, Burr Oak, corn, bronze .:A 48-page· Ich Alfred's first' to 'H. G. Sims, :Smlth :.Center. tton of the grain from wh medal. premium, Poland-China sow under. 1 ,. now so silk For "year!-"sec-. were made for the wheat , Kansas State Commission, cocoons, :tffi;ted PftmPkle��" cakes S" cook; Wlchlta.,': _- .. and bronze medaL qnd premium ,to,�. are critics field garden seeds, . much used. And yet, there For aged Poland-Chlna herd, diploma to :Will H. Hanson, Lindsborg, broomcorn, bronze bemaikitfree have no attention Elm'Beach farm;·.Wlchltil.:" :'. who say that I paid medal.

. to For P9la,nd-.Chlna·m",le felllales, . to these most and . pop corn, bronze and·threll �1,Z.Y girl sen,t:!�'. whatever interesting F. H. Glick, Atchison, . to R. $. Cook, Wichita. medal. diploma to facts! It was vllth tlie idea ot For .l:"oland-China d1- .: potent . sweepstakes' male, .:;,inglWnadd,.ess bronze '. G.' W.' Glick, Atchison, wheat, ,,' ::,: this from a chem- to H. ,G. -Sims,' " dealing with question " ploma medal.'. . economic 'l�or Delaine .. Merino ·sheep.: thl1,e6·· head· CompaDY leal standpoint as well as an Greenleaf & Baker, Atchison, wheat, : ;'fbO, Cu�� fubllahlDc J;'. N. Grau, fiMt, pre- Po. and the of efforts bronze medal...· sh«;lwn," Ashernllej'l'on. Pblladelpbla, one, showing tutllty mium on 2-year-old ram: t,hiru-on ·'yearllng. . FoSter,Washlngton, corn, bronze

. SI!-_mpson and that it would require • for ewe under '1" year " "anu at > ewe, diploma substitution, 'medal. ,: . �#u�_""fVV"uv.__"'_""__'" sweepatakee for ram, anY' age. . more land under other grains to sUP-. Chas. B. -Laml:le.' Wellington, wheat and- second •. .the . :Ill" D King, Burlington, had, gl'llB.t a that I .applled to grasses', bronze. 'medal." ' .... port given population MerinO:, sheep exhlplt o�: �he .ExI?QSltlQ.�" .. P. H: Albright, Winfield, corn and wheat, _. for data In relation to nutritive with entries In every section the- of:.ralsIAg ·.-a.ibale: of cotton, the p�- you. fn: '�erlno_ 'CO)lt. bronze medal. anil Merino .. . the', . classes entry and One .. ln. the such other (A) (B).' 'of"sulJar . .Unlted States, equivalents, in the shape of L. Miller,. )3elolt, wheat, bronze d�tlon Hllgh In. the .Delalne Merino of.- '" ,class, w1�nlngs wodd's and. ' .HIIJ' . ' consumption med·al.. production '...... for wheat. ' . grains, 1 es" , ' - were phenomenal-In al forty-sEIV... !!p. n.rlz. corn 'dl "'1 'th" .. , Vincent & Sofield ' Washington ' .ll 8,JlPlicatlon o�. the prlnc,pl!l maize of nineteen fffteen second'i :'lf09., aJ:l�, GoI to France, where is grown , consisting first, or for the ng ... .' to fat:mlJ1g .. ·ploina.· "', dve prizes; 0,. fat'm-:, dl- third,. apd eight. Bweep"t�e8 . (looperatlo� we find the comon stalk, . first-mentioned In-" somewhat largely, average M. C. Neff; Washington,. . benefit. The two aggregating $49'1 In �ash. ers" . acre 17.6 bushels ot plotila... owned: 0;';. $. have been completed' and "the growing imperial wheat dt-. Sunny Slope 'Herefords, by vestlgathJiis Sam'l Detwiler,. _HIawatha,' .. The others" . been or· 17.4 bushels of and ' Cross, :constituted the.:on\Y:.�II1.ttl.jI results ha.ve, published;'· maize ... ," lilmporla, wheat, ploma.' :" dl- exhibit Kansas except the nop-regjs".·i\re:lnprogress. With a vlew'of obtalnln,,,-': as relative are as 56 to L.. Garden alfalfa, froUl the 60, I. . City, weights Dlesem, . ' of .. , tered special Ka'nsall cat� reliable Information as to tite e:l!'hlblt Polled. " . that the acre 70 plomaJ .-: absolutely .. it follows produces tle by Hon.· W. W. Guthrie, ·Atchlson.· !l'he , O. C. Daisy, Wichita, wheat, diploma. I"p.e.r' i conllumptlon of whea.t. more of wheat than it does of Hereford cattle show was the largest and· ,annqa. cap, .�, Pounds of Sumner trom to. CItizens county, corn, diploma. . the .amount. produced yeal' . and, under such best ever made In' America.. Every ring maize. 1,8 It probable that Atchison county, corn, diploma. Is to extend the work ot. was hotfy contested; and yet ·:Mr.:'Ci'oss 8UC- year; 'It' 'propollild France as. a W. A. Renn, Wellington, corn, diploma. "economic relations" will, l'essfuUy secured Bull; _-tlte': ,estabilsh' a' recor'd: ot: ot KanslJ,s, State exhibit' agrlcul- ,41�lslon "�nC; substitute maize for wheat-or State. 1 and undert�e·follOWlng,pr1.es:third premium, .cow, and' which the Statlstl-· nation, silver medal. year- 2, movement supply tural products, second 2 food in sense that 3 years. or over" .premlu-n.; lIE!l�er>, Clan would a valuable' check a dearer the :prove" . wheat for . EXHIBIT. say.!. .'.' . HORTICULTURAL years·and .under 3; fourth ,premium an� dl- .' .' values upon) tbe ,statistics of production. and pave·. to supply given nutritive requires· Kansas .collection 1 year and under 2, tlrst"pre- S. S. Matthews, City, ploma; helter, of the con�· 1 second ,the.w.at ·for 'an.lnvestlgation more land? of grapes, bronze medal. mlum; heifer 'under year, pre-. third young, sum.pt�4;)� oJ; lYpeat SI:! ,!;,ertaln·ty.plcal com�· next to the fields of Ger- Otto Kuehne Preserving Works, Topeka, mlum; aged herd, I>remlum; G'oing rye would be of the· ·sta· .. fruits, jellies and pickles, bronze medal. herd, second premium; four -s.nhnlJ,ls, !tet ot. -munIUes.that highest many, it is found that the average acre collection of third B. F. La.wrence, sire, an.,' v:ai).ui: ;:.. ," Smith, premlum;'.sweeJ,>sta.:kes'cow".any. ;tllj#CP;� ii(l�n�mlc .' ..... ,.'" as medal. third grand sweepstakes •. .attentlon t'o the 880 of rye against 1,190 bronze age, premium, ... Mr calls' ' 'Impor" pears, ,.HYde . yields pounds "' • .. ".' , ... . '. _' ':' .' .,;' S. Dickinson, Larned, collection of ap- aged· cow, sepond premhun; _-grand' awe,ep-. , "._' pounds of wheat, the difference being S; and ot m.a'!tlng adequate, � .. .necess,lty Rtakes premium; ..ta_nce plEis, bronze medal. yearling cow, first fjtr.!Lnd ·for' the a.n 310 or 35 per cent! An!l still� the third ·.provlslon E!stabIlshment Of. em-.- pounds, State exhibit fruits, sll- heifer' calf, . pre·Ittlum; State of Kansas, . sweepsta)tes secOnd'. clent:

etc.. silver medal. obtained and thos�' of wheat and or 4 bushels of each, work, maps, drawings, prematurely actlially. , rye, Severance, Doniphan Co.; Kas. .' Public' Schools of Seneca, maps, drawings, the department halt been" whlle.ln Denmark wheat and rye, in the published by . etc., silver medal. marked Is a matter of congratulation and average um't ratlithon, are n e ratl0 of State of Kansas, educational work, maps, should confirm the falsity of any such alle- The annual institute at Indian Creek'· -- 3 to 10, although the proportion of wheat etc., silver medal. . .' gations In the future.' Shawnee will be than Newton public schools, educational work, school house,' county, is now 128 per cent greater twenty- the collection and' publication reaps, etc., gold medal. Although excellent Holland the held December 19 and 20. An five years ago. In average Atchh30n public schools, educational work,. of Information In relation to the condition, has been provided, including unit appears to consume 28 per cent more gold medal. acreage and production of the principal program . educational wheat t.han in the eighth decade. Pittsburg public schools, products of the soil, and the number, value dinner. relief gold medal. work, maps, etc., and condlt1on of farm anhllals Is the prIn- Not only have I taken note of the "eco- CREAMERY EXHIBIT. work of this a number ot BLO'CKS OF THREE.-Two new sub­ clpal division, '. nomic relation existing between wheat to each ot addl·· Bronze medals were awarded other �ubjects have been Investigated by scrlptt'oris for' (lne year for $2, and, lIt' other but I have taken cog- the named creameries for butter tree· ro and foods," following the experts of the division. Among these don;· a: renewal .. for one year any scoring above 95 pOints: nizance.' as well, of usages older than. subjects are. the consumption of fertilizers, old subscrlb.er .who sends two new subscrlp­ F. H. Teeter, Wellsville. Ilational and which still seem the In the rate of for rall- ana $2 In one Qllde-c,. KII..lmIl.% l!l\I,rmer. history, M. O. Aws, EureklL: changes charge .\Ions the Co more powerful with great numbers than O. A. Praeger, Claflin. way and other transportation servlc"'-l. .• ,;J.'oPeka. ,K�_ 824 [101 THE ,kANSAS FARMER: ,3

eagles and 70ur owls-your' birds of prey c1orlicufture. are rapidly disappearing and your 'ground vermin and tnaects are as rap­ idly increasing, and what you are suffer­ ON, .AMERIOA'N ROR­ now is to what will suf- OBSERVATIONS ing nothing you ' TICULTURE, fer twenty years hence. '. "What the birds lire is a mere THE WASTED FORESTS. eating bagatelle to what is destroyed by blights An English horticulturist, Peter Barr, and by insects; all birds are partly insect V. M. H., of London, who, while making eaters. It by any means the sparrow a tour around the world, was recently could be swept out of your land, you interviewed by the horticulturists of Cor­ would, in the next six months pray God nell University, at Ithaca, N . .Y. The fol­ to send you a shower of sparrows. First lowing excerpts from the interview pre­ o� all, he gives life, active life to your sent sonie of Mr. Barr's observations: cities. because' he is the only bird who "The one and most pressing question wlll stay in the city. He has a cheering in America, at the present.hour, and the Influence, he is always with you, and sooner It is taken up the better, is refor­ according to Prof. Lloyd, of Cincinnati, esting where trees have been destroyed, he is death to the larvae or the grub that and foresting and planting new forests destroys many of your trees. I am aware where forests never before existed,such as " that it is said that he is of no use except on the prairies. In Kansas; for example, THE "ECONOMIC WATER-TUBE BOILER for eating corn, but if that is simply a EHRSAM where the were entirely destroyed crops fact he is worth preserving for the cheer­ this year by the winds that swept across fulness that he imparts to the cities. But ECONOMY IN FUEL. them I. am of the opinion that forest Prof. Lloyd asserts he is so valuable belts of flfty or 100 miles apart and sev­ IN TIME. tbat on one occasion when some one pro­ ECONOMY eral mlles in depth would temper the posed to import one of the German bird atmosphere, save your crops and main­ ECONOMY IN SPACE. destroyers into this country so as to de­ tain your water supply. If the foresting vour the sparrows, he wrote to Washing­ and reforesting question is not ,taken up ECONOMY -IN REPAIRS. ton begging tbat {hey would hold their comparatively soon, your western eoun­ hands, as a savage would not content tries wilI' be a howling wilderness. and himself with k1lling sparrows, but would as it is said of Spain, 'A land of rivers to cent. in fuel. No take all the other small birds as well. 20 RO per saving without water.' The result was that this savage was not walling or mason w-rk required. Econ­ "In Germany foresting is done by the imported to this country: Now if It is in Will last a lifetime. government for profit, and It takes sev­ omy space. true that the sparrow drives away other and enty years before a forest In Germany Easily cleaned inspected. birds, he has this bad habit is But the dire necessity of aequtred profitable. since he arrived in' America because he foresting is of less Importance in Europe Built in sizes of 6, 8, 10, 12, 15 horse-power. does not harass and drive away other than It is in America. Spain as a coun­ birds in Great Brltain. Shipped to responsible parties on 30 days' trial, try Is a lamentable instance of deforest­ THE HORTICULTURISTS' CONDITION. ing. With its tropical climate, and its Cheese Fac­ . The Boiler for Creameries, absence of trees, vast districts are ster­ "The horticulturists are a prosperous ile and can never be otherwlse because set of men and I should say that they are tories, .Blevators, Pumping Plants, there is no rainfall for' vegetation. For­ doing good work as far as they go; but Hoisting Plants, Etc. merly Madrid was surrounded with for­ like all men in business they are endeav­ for and to ests. Now these forests'have' almost dis­ oring to get bread and eheese because FaoNT VIEW. Wl'lte prices pattlculurs appeared and it is said in Madrid that luxuries are not in sumcient demand to the winds from the Guaderrama are so be worth attending to and those of them J. B.' Ehrsam & Sons, Mfrs., Enterprise, Kansas. gentle and subtle that 'they w111 ktll a who grow a collection of plants because man yet w111 not blowout a candle.' they love plants, You may say are hang­ I area west to vir- V CASH eo.ch WI'1!k �oalslnl, IIa in America is on the skhi.'·of their while the wheat keeps going "But I repeat, foresting ing by teeth, We '" I 11 you Bell sta; k �ocbIrt. lis. solIs. The evil now is. PIA 1,}3 the most pressing question o( the day .If those who are catering to the masses in gin .crylng your TUBS. Outfttellsolutely free. �l6MR 0imIIIe, II.Y. trees. At the time it is not a this grand country Is to eoutlnue Its un­ the way of palms, growing roses, carna­ present of how can the largest "'. paralleled prosperity. I am aware that tions, chrysanthemums for cut flowers question you get number of bushels off the smallest there is an awakening of interest but the are all doing well. I spoke to one man piece CARMAN. EnrU.rthan Elb.rta; skin that of For instance, States that toul!'h people are only rubbing their eyes. They in Philadelphia aad said 'how is it ground. • good shipp.r. Consult our bud­ used to be States dad list of Peach Tr... (over have not yet got to the point of seeing you have only 30,000 feet of glass and wheat-growing grow wheat no Dairying has followed, the evll that is bearing down upon them your neighbor whom you brought out longer. k�'���, v"�i:�f:; ir::-a��� and that in Its turn is followed by fruit." o\:PDI. Tr•••. Send for ""tAlOII"R. and during the whole of my travels from some years later lias 90,000 feet of glass II.lBIIISON'S NVIISERIEB, 8.rll...... Salt Lake City east, I have been preach­ and is a rich man; and how do you Editor Kansas Farmer:-I would like ing the gospel of salvation for' rhe coun­ stand?' His reply was suggestive, 'Oh, to through the Farmer, wHat try by renewing the trees and' that of very well; I. do love my plants, but do know, would be the best varieties of best planting trees where they 'never exlsted, not make so much money as the bread apples to a sandy or black­ with a view to profit. In Boston when I and cheese men.' adapted loose, red, solI. It is we need' discovered that the destruction" of trees "As to the horticultural press of Amer­ jack my opinion coarse-rooted varieties for a sandy solI. was abnormal and I drew attention to It, ica, it is too much under the control of JII UIlUlllll1 I would like to know if there are such the answer that I invariably got was that the trader. It has .not been free and in­ The"Open Door Policy" that varieties, or do the roots grow and shape 011 Arbor day all planted trees. I thought dependent and a horticultural press in politic. we may not fully understand. hut themselves to suit the solI they are grow­ in the fence bll81lle..s we "turn in" wherever that splendid, but I heard this Arbor day is likely to be a success to the reader in? I would like to hear from some there's a "gap." How is your neighborhood? so often repeated that I inquired, and must diassociate itself from trade influ­ ing l'Ata: WOn:N WIIU: .'.:Nm:C:O .. of fruit for I know you AIIIIIAN,mrH. found one man who actually had planted ences absolutely; and the trade should your good men, have of them. two poplars in front of his house for the be known only in the advertising col­ plenty Peaches, grapes SEND ONE..DOLLAR was never and blackberries are entirely at home purpose of shade. After that I told umns. The letter press should OUt tb1oad. out and ••nd here. I. W. POLING. to .tete number Inches (when I found that the men did not crack up any man's goods. Be free and UI, Oklahoma plant trees) that the school chlldren did independent and give the readers good City, Okla. =rn��':,\'i��in�':.��e to outside, and we WUl send it.. but the trees all died that were stuff and never too much of it." For the cedar trees of the planted by the chlldren. I therefore Speaking of the country, Mr. Barr said: many years b?nD��u'l.�{T:g bll��\t�'n. Agricultural College grounds have been 'loa eaa e.&alIIII It at 10ar lrelsbt came to the conclusion that there was "America is a very great country-great d.""" and If found p.rfectly sat­ fun­ the ...... and that It was natural beauties attacked by the well-known brown Isfactory, Ift.tel' bars_I. 70a e,er no reality in Arbor day In its extent and in its •• ttiat t::e� Some four w. and equal to retail at gus, the so-called cedar apple. 'U.OO 1 oar •• maintained by people who wished to de­ and a land to be desired. I should say •.pI,lb. ""'Jlhtors.... .p JIJprJ••• 56.80,le88 of horticulture tbe 11.00, or 5$.80 ..d ""'I«hhhlrr... The freight No one to and years ago the department ceive themselves. was likely more of a 'land flowing with milk will ave� about eoe. tor GOO mDee. the ��e buy trees, and fewer, if possible, were honey' than that paradise that the Jews began hand-picking fungous growth tPfi... on certain of trees to determine ;!'��TJ.\\l\!oe�Y a9�lJ� V�� disposed to prepare the ·ground for a entered into. The people are as great groups wAp'o'lt�Slo!O!.! whether or not this means the at­ Arbor is one of are by �t�I.r:�:;-t�n����u:��rsl't�:..:f:'�p�;:��.� tree. day the.,:prevaiUng as their country. They hospitable; bows. japanned prop nuts. wrought Iron .blttlng rail, tacks could be reduced and injury pre­ whlcb make. It full humbugs; it is a sentimental idea they are pursuing a course of develop­ bntton., length vented. From that time till the present t:!"nt �usteble; and nothing more, and will remain ment by which within fifty years they will •.0:0�'it""in8W��l��� ...:.g�:",(j�::f!J�:'t�Tfi these trees have been over FOB FREE BUGGY CATALOGUE. Addre.� so until the authorities of each State before the world as carefully gone stand representing ROEBUCK & CO. (lNO.) ILL several each year and the fungus ...!�RS, CHICACO, take the thing in hand and work It out. the one country of the world; assum­ times t--. IlGebaell.1Jo. an &110.01111111 nUabJo.-1IcIHor.) removed from them. It has not, with At the present time every dollar that Is ing that in the meantime they are true to few been allowed to spent in tree planting wlll save $100 in themselves. Their universities are nur­ very exceptions, reach the spore-bearlng stage. There has, ten years and a $1,000 in t�enty years, series of development, intellectually and been no diminution in the at­ after that period the losses w111' prob­ physically, and nursing all the inventive however, tack. The disease appears as vigorous ably be irreparable. At Salt Lake City powers that can be brought out from a at the present time as at any time in the at the present time you cannot buy a race which for the last 200 years have [�'Ui'liHIt;J The trees are more than load of lumber except that jvhich has felt the necessity of self-reliance. The past. thrifty they would have been had the fungus been brought from a great distance, and farmer. has had to be able to do every­ been allowed to grow undisturbed, but GREAT' the same conditions prevall more or less thing that was neeessary in connection

' are no freer from the disease than all over the United States. The destruc­ with his farm, and this same necessity they others that have had no attention. Ce­ tion of trees during the last ftfty years had led up to the great development and dars cannot be. freed from this disease ROCK ISLAND has been something that n'6 one can ingenuity in the way of inventions, so hand picking, at least if there are credit unless he go from POrdt to point that when your universities took up the by other trees of the same in the and ask people of fifty years of age what teaching of mechanics they found in the species neighborhood that are untreated. was the state of the country as far back people that they were about to teach, ROUTE as can be remembered; he wlll be told an heredity which greatly assisted them. LOW RATES ON OUR PERSONALLY CON­ that hundreds of mlles that were covered "I have found no cause whatever to Want·d. A of and DUCTED TOURIST EXCURSIONS. with trees are now deforested. modify my opinion of the country and system creameries, skimming stations In the best field in a BIRDS AND CROPS. its people from what I expressed months Kansas; Leave Kansas City every Friday via Col­ that is as rather am I more strongly set. The territory yet unoccupied. A orado Springs and Scenic Route. "You have more diseases compara­ ago; more I see of the more I see the splendid chance for the right person or Southern Route leaves Kansas City every tively speaking in America: than else­ them, the more I am convinced that company. For further information call Wednesday via Ft. Worth and EI Paso to where, except in the southern part of country, on or write C. V. Kas. Los when they can kill that monster, the' po­ Kinney, Oakley, Angeles. . Europe, owing, I have no doubt, to the litical will stand in These Excursion Cars are attached to fast .fact that.you ·have destroyed the balance man, they very high of nations. ORCHARD BY passenger trains. and their popularity Is evi­ ot nature. The balance of nature is not the family YOUR USING dence that -we offer the best. INDUSTRIAL' ·AGRICULTURE. Tree Protectors', to be trifled with. You are shooting SAVE Jessup ' Write for handsome Itinerary which gives. your birds in a most reckless manner; "The time has not yet come when eco- Absolute from oft' protection rabbits; keeps full Information and new map, sent free. birds are destroyed in immense nomic farming is a necessity, otherwise borers and bark-lice and being preven� sun-scalds; For complete Information, rates and Lerth In some the western the alternate Of Is indestructible and Write for quantities. parts of husbandry wheat, beans,' cheap. . ctrcu- . . reservattone, see your local ticket agent' or districts the would the The ground squirrel is eating up etc., perfect rotation. lars and prices. addrelll! that comes eon- everything before it and staple of the Illnd is exhausted by J. D. BACON CO., !C, E. M�oL1ll0D. A, G. P. A., Topeka, Kal, why' BellaUI. you have deltro1ed your tlnuaUy takin, oft the lame crop; hence MOlin" �Iir, "",, "OliN SfCBAlil'lAN, G, 1.'. A" ClhlCla.o . ,1898: " � �SAS FARMEIt� .';

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, the barn or lot. In other words, they eat there Is of securing profitable additions • and lOOK lIke cows built for buslness- to the dairy herd. 'Eilmlnate all possl­ CREAM 'SEPARATORS- whose very occupation Is the production b1Uty' of a' poor heifer calf-It can be De of butter fat every minute of the twenty- done. Ag�In,: not l>uy an Inferior, Lavlt"Alphl" Ind' "alb," Seplralors; D. H. OTIS, Assistant In Dalrylq. do Cond�oted by four hours of almost in the bull. An If All Kansas JIIxperlment Station, Manbattan, Kas., to every day Ilniimil costing '100, properly ,Flrat--B�t-Obeapest. 8tyles-81ze8. whom aU oorrespondeooe with this department year, and anythhig which tends to de- bred, along Dlilk and butter lines, 1s ' '",PBICES .150 TO 88,00. ahould be addressed. tract attention from the work Is .sure to cheaper than one � a, gift if of no espe- �,. "0 � cow per ,..r. Send for Catalogue decrease the clal 'A butter bull: ',. ' yield. breeding. milk"'and THe 'QE LAVAL SEPARATOR CO. "'Oanal INOREASING THE PROFITS. As these cows are not won- capable 9f producing hel1:ers worth ,10 StII., 'n Cortlandt 8treet, producers BandOWlC YORK. a more as a: herd-of, I NEW, The Meriden Creamery Company" of ders, yet each is profitable and I believe head' 'cOws will. 'In IO�GO.

sea- , above the are fifteen cows, for 'himself In one " Meriden, Kas., find that their patrons average. They "perslstent pay milkers 'and in several instances refuse son's use, and put liundreds of dollarS; tor the reason that cows seldom, who know how to feed get from $40 to l1-ext; to be dried. Last the herd-not a in your pocket If, you continue In' the' !f ever". go onto the winter's feed in the year ' $55 income per year from each cow, selected Iot, mi-nd yoU, but the heifers milk business. :' r '-flame cdp.dltlon consecutive yeal'S; ana the who do not know how while patrons from first Holstein Heifers .five or six, or even last, that' a ration which will cause one this cross-produced producing - cow , to to feed get from $18 $25 per per an average of 309 pounds of fat, or 355.6 four pounds, of av-erage milk per day cow to do her best at the pail 'wlll not received year; and that the net profits pounds of butter, and this year the yield more than their dams should be regarded 'produce', such fiattering results ,in 'the from each cow by their best patrons are w111 be ,increased. The average test of as a fiattering improvement In 'a herd .of case of a second or third cow. The one 'eleven times those received per cow by the lndividual cows Is 3.9; the highest common, cows for the first milk cross. I great lesson 'learned is, that'the dairy-, 4.9 and lowest am an advocate of the -man must deal with the individual stom- their 'poorest. 3.4. .: The average test of not theory of,per- milk is 3.75 The sistent from common cows the Individual and not the produced per cent fat. grading up' ach, ' appetite, , They also -flned that some of their pa-: - and common Lite too to herd. the largest producer of this, breeding' Is a bulls. Is shor� trons get no profit whatever from seven-eighths cow, from the original undertake it. Any, farmer can better at: (To be contliiued.) while others.. who know how skim-milk, three-tourths coW, last year giving 12,000 ford to buy a good bull of some favorite' to feed it get from 25 cents to, 50 cents , pounds 'of 3.4 per .cent inilk, or 4M milk breed and gef'into the- dairy busl- Relative Profit Oows. hundred of skim-milk fro,m, Feeding Dai1iv-J from each pounds pounds of fiLt or '476 pounds of'butter. ness properly in from two t8 four years. there-are of skim- feed their cows on fed. 'As 5,000, pounds The next highest yield is from a three- 'The rough feeds consumed by our So�e da,iry f�rl:ners milk from each good cow yearly, the the that the less 'feed, con- fourths cow which, with 4.6 per cent cows are such 'a,s/can be gr6wn upon supposttton it is handled makes a great differ-, sumed the the It is:inter- 'way milk, produces as much fat as the other any upland farm In central Kansas. and greater profit. from ence in the profits dairying. for the first six months of the milking the list includes; all' the principal esting in th1.s connection to note the dif- The Meriden Company believe that if period, but' is not such a persistent drought-reslstlng-'plants. It Is necessary feren�e- in quantity and quality 9f the their thoroughly instructed employes are milker.: These are records made on the that the dairy far-mer grow such' crops feed to poorest herds and in these lines of feeding they can help JP'ven .the ,five usual f�¢d and care given the entire as are reasonably' sure to produce a' fair contrast It, with that given 'to' the best the farmers who sell milk to the cream- herd. In,� the hands of competent feeders yield and so diversify his' 11st that a five' herds out of eighty-two, herds of to largely increase the farmers' .ery and bY,�Jorcing they doubtless eould. be complete failure is almost an, Impossl- Meriden creamery patrons investigated and at the same time increase the profits, made tel exceed these figUres. 'In the biUty. That this ean be done' has been the Kansas Station dur­ reason ,by Experiment of the creamery. For this ' profits case of eaeh 'cow we note that the nearer demonstrated on our farm during a pe- Ing tii'e summer of, 1898. One herd out 'of the ,,��ckholders of the Meriden Com- she I!.pp!,!>aches pure -breedlng the heavier riod covering the last six years, which the pOorest' five received no grain during pany have decided to send all their em- producer' and more persistent milker, Included several droughts, threatening 'the year -three received ear corn as their to the Kansas Dairy School at ployes indicating that the more highly Improved destruction to every growing' thing. ,Ii: sole and the fifth herd re- them there - grain, ration, Manhattan, and require while th bl e' failure 0 an aba undance 0f rou eo".od th bettt'er "the cow, if care Is t 'grow ap gh celved a little oats and rye in connection to make a: special study of feeding! dairy taken -In the selection of males and the feed hLLs not occurred. Aside from grow- with corn meal. For roughness only one cows and or skim-milk to calves feeding treatment' is given' the calves. Ing a variety of crops to assure bountiful of five received H. M. COTTRELL. proper, ',herd out, the, 'any clover, and hogs. Our we for vart- pU.f�-bred cows have not exceeded fOO� supply, grow variety the r�st being fed oll mlllet, prairie. hay s is for these records but their performance in- ety sake, and thls, too, necessary or corn fodder. With one exception the HOW WE BREED, rEED AND HANDLE dlcates that they wlll equal the figures the best resutts.. best 1lve herds received oats, bran, or and sown and OUR' OOWS-RESULTS. given. .Not all of these cows have calved Sorghum Kl,llllr thickly shorts In connection with the corn fed, at a ti�� of year .when the greatest yield cut before the seE!'d matures make vatu- and 'In: most cases the of corn - '. read before "the Kansas State Dairy roughness Paper would but to the Kansas almost Association, November- I'l, 1898, by T. A. b� possible, barring accident able, and, farmer, fodder or mlllet was balanced with al­ Borman, Navarre, Kas. they will next year. The pure-bred Indispensable fodder. Prairie hay, early falfa or clover. The composition of the millet and alfalfa In March of 1892, my father sold his heifer aborted a month, before being cut, oats in the sheaf, feeds' given to the five poorest herds for the first milk to a creamery. His herd was due to calf and for a time her yield was hay conclude the list, which, show that they contain entirely too much composed of such cows as he could buy ferty pounds per day, even under these western Kansas. dairyman, wlll l\fford a carbohy'drates and fat in, proportton to ' " and I think were unfavorable liberal milk fiow, if fed in the proper through the country, elrcumatances. , the amount of protein, the element in combinations the to eoneen- below the average milkers of that day. As stated, the first Holstein- bull was with grains feed 'that is absolutely necessary In the trate in This winter we are The best cows of the lot were an old red succeeded- by a Short-horn, and from the rtch protein. manufacture, of milk. The feed given to first fed to milch cow (but bearing the marks of a most latter's calves three Qf the most promis- using our alfalfa hay the" best five herds approached more and we are not excellent producer) and a three-fourths lng heifers were selected for future use- cows, whil�" receiving nearly to a "balanced ration," for the the best 'on account our fail- Holstein cow, also an excellent milker. fulness in the dairy. The heifers came results., of, reason that bran oats shorts alfalfa and Later two Holstein heifers, one three­ fresh and 'the result was gratifying, from ure to cure it p}.'Qperly, each day of Its, clover contain 'a la�ger of pe�centa:ge , use value. As a fourths and the other a five-eighths, a beef ,'#tan's standpolnt, Indeed, they emphasizes :�s pasture, 'Protein.' alfalfa affords came into the herd and were fresh a year were beefy and, on our feed; took on fat an,:extreme1y early spring Now let us 'look at results. Not all the feed and in the a abundant later. A few months at patronizing a like hogs, and, to be sure, gave very "fall m�re difference between the income of these than fed either creamery-milk then sold at $1 to $1.15 little milk. In no case was the milk pasture rye. Again, berds is to be attributed to the feed, but green or as hay it is as a sup- per 100 pounds in the winter-favorably season longer than five months, and unequaled 'a larger part of it can. Suppose we estl­ to . short or impressed him with the idea of sellrng after the first month In milk they failed plement dry prairie pasture, 'mate' the cost of keeping a cow at $15 and even In-}' milk, so he sought to improve his herd to pay for the grain consumed. But we wonderfully sustalnlng, per annum for, the poorest five herds. the fiow the erlt- by the purchase of a pure-bred Holstein had hopes and gave them a second trial, creasing mi!.� during which sum is doubtless below actual leal times of which with bull. The animal was not high-priced but soon after, the second 'calvhig they dr!?llght, OCCl;l! cost, ,and one-third more, or $20 per cow, considerable in Kansas. In- and his pedigree was not one that would went to the butcher. God might have re�,tJlarlty for the best five herds. There would then deed it is the farmer's friend. It place him in the list of bred milk or made a cow which could convert the dp.lry be $3,04 annual profit per cow froni the is an almost milk eombln- butter bulls. From him all the heifer same food into both milk and beef but perf,ect food, poorest herd and $34.38 annual from the as does no we calves were kept. he never did. In the case of one of these Ing, .other plant grow, best herd, a difference of ,$31.34 per cow. the food nutrients in the At about this time creameries be­ heifers, I can make a comparison Indi- proper proper- "Phts means that one cow from the best tions successful milk On gan buying milk by test, and while eating the value of breeding for what �or production. herds' brings' as much clear cash to a the farm It will soon become the father's was an average one, public opin­ you want. The orlgtnal old red cow prtncl- inan as eleven cows from the poorest for ion liad it that .Holstein milk was ex­ dropped two heifer calves in succession, pal hay cowe· herd. If we take the average of the The feeds enumerated are fed tremely thin and that the steer calves one a half-breed Holstein, the other from aboye ;poorest five herds, there is a profit of alternately, in" such as the would not sell. So father's attempt at the Bhort-horn bull. The Holstein heifer quanttttes $8.59 per cow; while from the best five cows wlll clean in weather breeding Holsteins was ridiculed to such with third calf produced an' average of !II> nicely, fin� herds the.proflt amounts to $25.13, a dif­ in an QPen lot on stormy days and an extent that he sold the bull and re­ fifty-two pounds of 3.8 per cent milk per ��d ference of $16.54. In other words; one always at the barn. In feeding, placed him by a Short-horn of so-called day for ..!l_even days, and for the same time night'};n cow from the best herds will bring a. we the of "milking strain." Those were days the red heifer with second calf gave twen- always con�lder palatablllty man as much clear profit as three cows ' the food. Be hay, fodder or grain, ' .. when every breeder had milking Short­ ty-seveti');lounds of 4. per cent milk per day �� .from the poorest herds. and clean' and served in horns. After a season the animal be­ for the'same time. The cows were half bright mangers It should ever be borne in mind that cleanly swept. We endeavor to make came crippled and was killed. This bull sisters, 'one producing 2.3 pounds of but- It requites a certain amouIit of feed to feed insisting always was succeeded by a Polled Durham, ter per day, the other 1.2, the first mllk� extremelyte�ptlng, keep ,up the animal machine, just as' it upon the greatest whose sIre and' dam came from the cele­ ing eleven months of the year, the sec- possible consumption requires,a certain amount of feed to run by the cow. iShe must eat heartily brated Elgin district of Illinois, he also ond dry at five months. This instance an,d an empty locomotive, and that the profit abundantly, if the proper digestion of "milking strain." At the end of a only serves to demonstrate the value of and, comes from the feed eaten over and above and follow, the milk yield year his c!Llves gave so little promise a sire bred for milk and butter when the assimilatlop. that necessary for- animal sustenance, wlll be Milk and only that he, too, was disposed of. farmer is rearing'a dairy herd. satlsfactpry. butte� just as the efficiency of a locomotive come from the food and If At this the firm became G. W. In the fall of 1895 we Violante consumed, from the fuel consumed and point bought ' c�ml!il be not large the profits must be corretha�i oyer Borman & Son, and concluding that we Gold Dust, a pure-bred bull from a cow '.above that necessary to move Its own

spondingly small. , could produce butter fat at a greater said to have produced twenty-two welgl\t. Economy along the line of with­ In the of a grain ration, profit than beef,- and would give it first pounds of butter in seven days, and we preparllti?n holdipg feed from a good dairy cow 'is we have experimentM considerably dur- place on the farm, we set about to rear have cllosen eight heifer calves from two false', economy., It is 'simply extrava- ing the past three years, and have, con- a dairy herd, and bought Violante's Gold lots and, we know they wlll be as good D. H. O. the ration de- gancEf.' cluded, first" grain -,c---,--� Dust, and with him a pure-bred cow and milkerS, as their and we are thllt f" ..... mothers, Dr pends, first, entir.ely upon the rough� ..PUU'M Cough Syrup has cured whoop- heifer. The heifers from the first Hol­ n'asonably sure that they weeill b 'b tter. ness fed; that a ration which is success.. ,il.!l1;,C,RUg!i, when no o�her tre:ltment would give, stein cows are the cows, aside from four Four of these are yearlings and are ;r!l��_: croup th s remarkable remedy bas ful one year is' not necessarily so the' no �orIt 'pUre-bred ones purchased, which consti­ showing up remarkably. Those were eqijal. conquers croup at once. tute the present herd. The herd is com­ reared on skim-milk with bran feed from posed of two seven-eighths, one fi.ve­ early fall to late spring., They were eighth!?, one three-fourths, and the re­ given roilghness in abundance to develop maininghalf-breeds. With one exception; stomach and not allow to fat­ capacity WHAT IS THE BeST SEPA�ATO�? the five-eighths cows all are fairly good tEm. It is with great anxiety we await types or the dairy individual. The average their coining fresh a year from this time. weight of these cows is probably 1,200 This herd of eight heifers; all ,better THE IMPROVED UNITED STATES. and the entire lot one is than three-fourths and two ,pounds, o.r only pure-bred, Why-Because it has the Triple Current Bowl to on and that not dur­ w111 be· headed a wonderful calf we inclined put fat, by which reco,'e�s all the cream in the milk. ing the milking season, but she carries bought last spring. Our little knowledge Skim. Perfectly 'CIe.R: I. Very Easy to Operate. too much fiesh to be an economical pro­ of improved blood created a desire for ,

, IOWA. 2B ducer. They are' good feeders, always still mQre, so we purchased at three WILLIAMSBURG, July IBgB. Th!, Improved U. S. Separ�tor is 'giving splendid satisfaction. and the enormous weeks Overton's It hungrYr consumption oid, May Mechthilda Sir sklll,ls perfectly clean and IS very easy to;operate. We would not of eacll is recognized by the capacious Henry, ,the best bull calf we could buy tll1nk of handlirig any milk withol1t the Improved U. S., Which I consider the bE'st on stomach, distended almost to and few In America. Separator the 'market. deformity witl!. equals J. W. THOMAS, Steward Iowa Co. Poor Farm. when filled. All are extremely quiet, in I woij\d Impress upon farmers dairy Write for and further'lnformation to several cases bordering on stupidity, the absoiute necessity of the selectiol1 Of cataloguks , 'VElMONT FARlIl IiACHlNE' 'Bellows Yt•. i sensible to all changes In sur­ well-brM males. The stronger the mttk CO.. Falls, ,. � or _,-ndlnrll unullua1 occurrencell about and butter breedina the rreatel' certainty ,� ... (� DECEMBER •. " FARMER. 1� "";'828 [121 THE KANSAS

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.../ - CIOJIU.VVN() 7 to whom ConduoLed br A. H. Du-rr, Larned, Xu., ad Vaccine shonld De inqnlrles relating to this department dreaaed. Cau·stic Blackleg Write for particulars, official indorsements and Bees as Pollen �butors, testimonials of thousands of American stockmen dls- ·Balsaml '. The value of honey bees as .pollen last three and a half 1111'1....., ... hllUnCUt who have during the years Is becoming better known as trlbuters " vaccinated." their cattle and their losses and . ���Jf:,-.:*eD\Ll�t".�:=� stopped more thorough "investigations experl- Belliov... •• are be- UB1lDObeaor·l!lemlah froli."�r." from mente are made. Fruit-growers ·p."=Me�Ieca�OI'� Blackleg. and are n =:1.-0. with this fact ' tlBfaotloD coming familiar ....err bottl.lOld I. "'Inanted to .....e .. boUle. Sol4 Ii},' dl'Dllllllte. 01' culture of honey bees in, I'rIaIi per fostering the '" e"_. paid, "ItII fnlldlrec&lo_ 52 Fifth C'HICAGO.' tarms.. III tor delKltlptlve ClrouJara, PASTEUR VACCINE CO., Ave., the near vicinity of their fruit 01' 1&11.�.._': WILLtAllB OIe...elaDcl Vacolne bears trade-mark. Beware of Imitations. In the LA: B.-Eaoh of our orlgh;al and �nulne our Many experiments have been 'made N. packet were ratstng of frl,llt where many bees where In reach' of. the same, and also ' Home In al- Students Returning there were no bees in the vicinity. [email protected] Vaeoination, were In vacations can, upon presen­ , most every case where the bees enterprise; for holiday . Sclenc�,·.backed· by prtvate credentials,' obtain reach of the-oreharda the fruit was tation of proper <,ready so In this -progreasive age; .has better fertile tickets via Nickel Plate road at a. rate of '''-�not only more In quantity, but also not neglected theeattte industry. Knotty and one-third for the round trip: In-quallty. a fare it tatrue; still unsolved, ",-ill be sold on date school closes This is not only so with fruit, bu.t problems are; Tickets both wild American cattlemen have been quick and following, With, limit to nearly all seed-bearing plants, but day return derivable from school reconvenes. and domesflcated. One would be aome- in grasping the benefits and Including day information cheerfully given. at what surprised to see the different well- the practical application of scientifically Full Adams Chicago. Telephone enumerated that bees fact of No. 111 st., . , known. cereals establfshed facts. An important , from. There Main 3389. 79 work on and carry pollen Interest to Western stock growers is the of the wJlll-know.n cpreals Is not one prevention of blackleg by vaccmatton. that they do not that furnlsbes pollen to IfAH1U. Durtng a long and busy life devoted U."lJAH HILL w.ork on and dlstr.lbute the pollen. They In the A 'Bunch of Craven out of Nor­ bloom of corn. scientific research culminating Keys Goldpn Knlgbt 108086 by Knlgbt, work extensively on the min­ 241 Godo" out of des"rlpt've ·of the ILjrrlcultural and ton's Gold Drop. and Baron Ury by sor- of the cure for· hydrophobia will be whlcb or the - wheat and oats and all the different discovery erai reaourees of Western Canada Mysle 5Olh, bead tbe berd, I!l. composed bu-ts of line y for found time to sent to all frl!e. le"dlng families. Young quatlt Pasteur . and all the different clovers. It and diphtheria, applloants heifer ghqms also olrer a ebotee lot of grode burl and ule; - extensively. arid •. Is true that they do not work study. some of the: most Important The Experience of Settlers Sborthorn .po Ing calve I C. W. TAYLOR.: Pearl, DI�klnson co., Kas. common red etover.. but to some among them on the fatal diseases of live stock, and Reports of Delegates do, and on all other vegeta�le complaint,'. degree they anthrax and Its ..erosely allted and If' ". , '. will mOllt Intere.tlng readIng. of .. prove I do not now think one npw home 8UrrllQDffed blossoms. our friends . you are seek Ing ... by blackleg. Perhaps aeientlfte lond work on In the vegetable th� 0' ndlt.[ons mdklng life fll' YI,urself tbey do not a cure for wfll· sooner or later discover f"m'ly agrPelLble, w.th .. certain joru.p"(·t . and an Haaur­ Une. that of, omnetenee for your.elf these .dtseaaes; .but unttl Y"U of course, are pol- mOll}ent anoe for your children'. pro.petlty. Some other insects, CanadR's one of contend­ will take up 1110 "",es ot Wesl.t·rn not as gen- arrives there Is only way len dlstrlbuters, but nearly gr,."t wbeat IHnd. "dlll,�d �Iso to dalrylna. prevention by Thpseland.areglv('u bees. These _ with them, namely, and mlxedf"rmlng. eral as the honey Insects ing fur· free to every bona ftfle settler. For as certain The of vaeelna­ have more of a specialty .�o vaccination; prlnclple tber Information apply to the Department Canada, or to .' see them of Interior, Olt"wa, . flowers, and you will scarcely tlon dates from last century in its appll­ the -) J. S. CRAWVORD� on more than one variety ,of blessoma, In the .human being; cation to smallpox 2U Wpst Nlnl b St., Kan... City, Mo., bee Is the general 110 that- the honey only are Indebted to Pasteur for the <'t9ve.rnment Agent. but we . and her field Is so ' , distributer of pollen, . . vaccination of .lIve stockagatnat anthrax The honey bees take In a .' much larger. used In- France. the wlll and .blackleg, 'FIrst wonderfully wide territory. They VALLEY HlGItElfuIU)S. their these cattle vac­ SPRINU over a six country of -blrth, do a thorough work territory ., 470\16 Beau Real. and Klondylle �2001, a.t ' cines or remedies for .anthrax Llnooln by in diameter. preventive Binds the herd. stook of line quallt:r mUes The" Tie That the head ot Young In- is the frult-grower's were gradually Introduced and extra breeding for sate, Per.onal Inspectton The honey bee and blackleg TBIII Ka8. an'ci vited. ALBERT DILLON. Hope, best friend and one of nature's great gifts Into 'every ,coqI\try,' ofEurope, durlug a debt .of· like to men: so that all owe them. the last fourteen'. years somethlng gratitude. and should treat them aeeord-. 15,000,000' head of llve stock have been GOLD IHDAt Ingly. There Is not a neighborhood oc- successfully ....vaccinated" and the pre­ stocked' cupled by man' but should, be vlous heavy percentage of loss from the FENCE. with honey bees. The honey they gather <\Isease!l in question haa been reduced to lIIADE ,BY 'l'HE are vac­ Is all clear gain. and while they gath- a nominal figure. Australia adopted it they are, In addition, carrying ctuatton in 1890; and although the sub­ Anchor fance Co., «:rlng thus pollen from fiower to fiower, doubly ject had been cas,ually mentloned by a 1820 GraDd' A...e.,

it was not .. r doing good. few Amer.lcan wrlters.. yet , [OPEN.] KANSAS CITY, MO. until private capitalists, in the person .ot . Makers of Purity of Honey, the Pasteur Vaccfne Co., took the matter In that stOCk vac.clna,tlon WIlS "The Anchor Clamp" All consumers of honey should take hllnd, liVe. In the· of .The Tie Tbat Bind•. themselves introduced Into America spring the pains to thoroughly post of 1895. True anth.r.ax ,,is, fortunately, Also dealers In that may. • on the purity of honey, so tll-ey but GLENDALE SHORT-HORNS, Ottawa. Kas very rare occurreMe in. the, Wes.t, deceived into high prices' 'w·Ire Fence Amerloan fami­ paying . not be symptomatic. anthrax, or .blackleg, as it Leadlnll Scotch and Scotch-topped beaded by the Crulckshanlr for and cheap sirups. There Is the bane·of stock· Material. lies compose the herd, glucose is commonly called, is. bulls. Glendon 119310. Ii)' Ambassador, dam Galan that enters Into the cattle·,States west and Scotland's Charm 127264, by Imp. Lavender nothing, perhaps.) 'raisers In all the gr,eat Gold medal aworded thus, dam Baron Crulokshank. Young bulls adulteration of honey so largely. as glu- t� Ancbor Fence at I he Lad. by Im",- of the Mississippi. for sale. C. F. I/: SON,..Proprletors. Itx· WO�F and in the sirup lin. that vacchia­ Trans-Mississippi cose, nothing cheap It was not to .be supposed position, OiQ"ba, 1898. That adul- so cheap and so unhealthy. tlOJi although largely an!} .'extensively 'l'be best wIre fence on there is no tbe market.' [CLOSED.] teration is largely practiced abroad for no fess than ten pra�tlced Mention Kansas Farmer and write for full partloular•. and it becomes consumers to learn in this doubt, years, would be ·g�nerallY adopted constitutes honey. what pure country without 'preliminary experiments considerable de- Sale Real Estate.

. It said, tests mll;Y with or confirmatory tests. These 31ere AciJ:Wn.istrators' .of �e that adulteration of gree of podtlveness, made during 1895":by quite a number of Pursuant to the will of the late' David R. occur In first hands. and honey does not enterprising' stockmen, located notably Youngs. I otter at private sale all :the rear or are estate to his eBtate, as. follows: that the bee-keepers pr.oducers In Missouri, Iowa, Colorado and Texas, belonging • or the 1. The "Home Place." w. hf. of nw. qr. not guilty. The middleman large .the .result showed that vaccination' and sec. 26, and e. hf. ot ne. qr. sec.' 27. t. 12, is at the bottom city speculat?r usually for,blackleg was eft'ectlve, practical and Extracted Is the Qf the mischIef. honey economicat·· With the llroofs thus af- �n15, ���I�t�uth����:�n�ot;:��rs.h�:I�B b:� cisterns, wagon scales; three orchards. and article that suffers most In this partfcu- _forded, vaccination. rapidly extended. The adulterated, comb lar. as It is easily work was assisted byomclnl'tests made, t!lr���'f6���nl��sa���:t�I':,�nfa:d��t-i��::" to countr.rfeit. arres alfalfa. remainder pasture honey being more dimcult particulallly in-Texas; by :the Department clover,.5 that Imitate land. timber land and creek, all well and Mixtures of these sirups of Agtlcu-lti11'e (Washlngton,·',D;. C:,), and for are put on the pure in the fall KNIGHT honey ma�ket which'induced the dep'iutment; ����t����n�is6���::thl��I��, t'!�ea;:�'::i Harris bred bull, GALLANT one nalance on time. Interest on'deferred Linwood honey. but do not contain. perhllps,. and recommend long THillUI4.4.66. a SOD of Gallahad. out of 8th of. 1897, ·to·.endorse pre- secured Crnlck­ There payments 7 per cent. per annum. Qolden Drop. heads berd. Females by the of genuine 'vacchi'atlon for' Cor- Illarl of Gloster drop t�e are. 'Ventlre blackleg. hy mortgage. shauk bulls. Imp. Tblstle Top 8.'1816. article.. - that contalu a small per constitution and feeding qual otber mixtures I'cspondlng tests were omclally Iilade In H62H. eto. Size, oolor, Itleo tbe standard. A few good oows for sale now cent of genuine. but are principally' In cor- ,l a����. th'l�r.�r :'of ��e�rft�:t��':s:e�io� sevel'al States and, which resulted to Gallant th.e and about 40 acres land. Wen bred Knight. else. I have seen land bay of somethmg packages. respondlng'endorsements; 'but, after all. fenced. Price; $3,200. Terms Address KANSAS. of what was to be broken 'en-d6rsemehts come from the ,���:e:sli�'h�t�. T. K. TOMSON I/: SONS, DOVER, cla!med the best . butco�ba In honey, but which was nothing thousandS "'of Am"ai-ican c'aUlemen who 3. Also about 101 acres of pasture land comb ·IDe body. well fenrt'd and well watered small piece of dry honey dropped have used the v'aceine 'on a large scale Glass Into a can of glucose sirup. pack- and testify that It Is art effective .preven- h�l.n�r?f'rl�ro�ofs�l� ��·c.fri,. a��ds':bXi � used for this Icres orr tbe east side of the nw. qr. frl. -of ages, of course, are special tlve and at ·the same time 'remedy; prac- acre. Terms �ald st'c.. 27. Price, $20 per. high�grade honey.. tical and economical-in a word, a sUc-. Pure will not remain long in honey cess. So far as progress is concerned, '''���I�� a:�:�i �01 acres of good prairie once· removed w. hf. of nw. frl. of liquid form after being this Is "summell., up' by stating that, at hay land, being qr. from·the �ald sec. 27, and about 34 acres ott the west from the combs. Honey taken be dimcult to find a this tlwe, It; 'Yould side of the e. hf. of nw. qr. frl. of said Be( summer will In hives during granulate .in State 'In whl'ch the "'ac- 27 Price, $25 per acre; Terms' same w- IvcO'unty" any coo. en th weather turns above. . autumn wh � cine Is needed to stop severe tosses frOm 5. All of the above described land Iylns The exceptions are so few that we may where 'l't is not used and the blackleg . one and .'" contiguous and constltutlng .laTge that no extracted honey remains say pure stock. owners. reap the:. c.(lrrespondlng cl'mplett'· farm and Situated about seven form after this tlme:of year so milE'S southwest. of·Topeka' near the Bur- In liquid benefits. :. ... :", . will be sold for from this time on, all liquid han'ey _,,__ ' IIngllme road. together thac, .. $15.000, oli the' same terms already stated. . ,.-'-. found on the market may be looked upon ;if.:..: in � 6. Also 42 acres In se. qr. of lIec: 9, t: 12, and Big Drop Dr�l!ln:tMdB,; with suspicion. These cheap sirups r. 16; near Six Mile ('reek.·· Mostly- first· SHORT·HORN CATTLE. Evprv one now' every will not thus but re- Cl\ll buy Di'ess.:Qnodii'of class plow land; well .fenced. ·Small ·house glucoses granulate, ana from one. vard·"·U:pwarc'ls. for wltb herd t,be Chamber. Short ilescrlp'lnn nnd some other Improvements. Price. $1,260. I have oomblnefl mr In so that the common 11." mnnev "s Ihe :In.rIlPst· nip.rchn.nts . the best blOOd IIneo of tbe Bates main liquid form, just llt,tlp Terms snme as ·above. �. horns and have very frpe Herd beaded by Ba"rou' common test of c�n buy In quantitIes. Ynu ·wlll. rpcelve and Crulokshank families. rule to guide us, and the For further Informatlon write 'or call on Duke of Sbannon m·.11 nn"toald. n. hook of ·6(l'elnt,h·.iuY'p1es of and KlrklevlnlCton by. thp at hIs: of To- 110811 Purity in extracted honey, Is granulation ht""t thin!!''' In all klnc'ls of' nre�8 Gooc'ls, at undt'rslgned ofllce,: '!lank ri��eI26M:3� Cruickshank Kas. Ambassador_ heat- to varil. also ful] Instruct'ons peka building, Topeka, lately In se'.....I;:;,�e of the same.· We may liquefy It by 1'lli�1l '1.2.� ppr .- F. SPEN"ER. Be-tot facilities on the A T." S. F. and eliAS. . sblpplng hOW etc .. I, ,vou -v1ll ('ut this notille back to to·order, Parties met b. apo ,n hut will soon granula�·. Mo. Pac. Rys. lng, It go mAil tn 'he rpl »blp houRe of AdminIstrator, with will annexed, of 8al4" twO branohes of out And btl!' - poln'mento. B. W. GOWDY, Garnett, �a.. :!I t1on. SEA�B, ROEBUCK & uo. (Inc.), Chicago. estate. 1898�

. , MARKET . REPORTS. ���:t!�:;Nl�y g:�:�'���o�� 4:-:0: 'OHOlliE' A ·CI,I�L'J'S,'" F'OR" ;"TS'.ALE.- white .lobe, .LOO per bu.· CabbaJl'e. ··PO.lAND.,-,BtI:iN· lM!r-bIL; Weston 1l1li74. 1898 farrow. If' .. Poland-()hlnllo sired Wren'111�1,,'Bberle:r'slllodel28M, aDd Duke of H...n.... 1.IYe toe... • 401D&Oo gilts by (lIt,. home Il'Own. "O�\Oo per do&. Celery. one to I' on thl. klnd. . yon want .. oholoe JonDIR IIonlDoal, send, t9r Of.tJ1,eae-18 '10. lI'Darantee I,tlsfaotlon SioM · Kansas City. Deo. "12.-

:ro •••••••••• 4.86 17 •••••••.. 1.834 to.OIl 1.88:1 THE STRAY LIST 9 1.166 4.40 18 1.341 4..i() HEAD OF BUllS AND HEIFERS. _ 4.25 . ·THIRTY-FIVE' 10...... •••• 9as 4.25 7 I.�1 FOR SALE.

22 1 1.MO 4.00 . 1.076 _4.10 FOR WEEK ENDIBG J,090 Prlce.8aalow';"·a.DY Address' .��rIa.. . Theyaree'xtragood.one8. DEOEDElf1; H' L lED' &..aB. prloe.INO. -. WlIISTlIIBN s·rlllIliBB. breeder, Farm adjoins city.' ..•• LE.IBFR· , Morris J. &Immel Clerk.' responslhle t.h,e ,. 92 1.289 .4.6. 1.220 f4.8� CountY-M. 24 1.860 4.16 2U 1.148 4.21> HBlFER-Tsken up Frank Fyfe. three-quarters 70 940 H.70 96 stk 688 3.M mile nortbwest of Uom,br.skey November 1. J.IIU8. one on R. on 99J 2.90 . pale red heifer. 8 Jears old. "P. S." lett side. 27 84.; 3.20 2D 'rex . 161. left hlp. right hom orr; v&J.ued at 816. NATIVIII BlIIllI'EBS 'Labette County-B. H. HugheS. Clerk. 860 ·'3.00 . 1. . 760 ea 4 BBBD':BUliUI MARlil-Taken A. B. Whlteslde. In Canada THE B(lOT(lH 6 .. 100 3.DO 4 987 8.40 up by (P. O. Angolal. No,emb8r 1.1898. one bay mare. 15 62 . 817 3.3; 8...... 863 3.00 tp. 7;"I hllnds high. star In forehead. len hlnd tOut whlte. 12 NATrVlII oows. Lord 112727 and years old. shod· In tront. Mayo.r f3.33 I.� 940 .3.7� I.IO� HOK"B- By same. one brown horse. 15 hands hlgh, 10 8.l!5 20.... 980 2.8J star In .• shod In and about 7 J.ears old; I,U74 forebe d. front. - Laird· of Llnwood 127149 2.;...... 9;,0 2. to 1. t.uin 2.l!5 ..alued at 140. 1...... 960 2.00 I.... 78J 1.7ii Clerk. ,HEAD OF THE HERD. . 126 Wallace County-Qlat·N. Thorene. NATIVIII 1I'1III11DBBB. MARlIl�Tak"" np by Berry Fogelstrom. In·8haron 115.... 1...... 91U sa I!O , ip. (P o. Sbliron Springsl. t!eptember 24.1898. the Vloior boll Baron LaT8nder 2d, . Springs BarOn . MAYOR w;.. by - __ ... 0 .. one fllir all brandod breed- 99945 ,3.3. 76") I five buy Hnd graY !Dares. slz"d. LORDout ot Lady ot the Meadow and Is one ot the IP'eateat center Imp. Lluwood Golden Lord lIIayo]! NATIVB with diamond with perpendicular bar through Laird of Linwood was bJ Gallahad out ot lltb Drop. STOOKIIIBS Ing bull& ot the 11018. Invited. Corre same. one hurse colt. branded Linwood tor sale.' Also breed Shetland ponies. Inlpectlon I. 41lO .4.15 �8 : 6!1 IUS COLT-By yearling h.Uere bred to Laird 01 ' same as mllres; appraised vlllue of mares lind colt a50 bulla sired Lord MaJor tor sale. 83.... 881 3.tl6 6. 86.1 3.00 8l1Ondence solicited. A tew JouDir bJ 1147 3.0) 1. 7W 3.10 8 FOR WEEK ENDING' DEOEMBER 1898. Addres8 KAS. 1 600 2.7.; I J 630 2.50 8, PROP.,:DOVER. SHAWNEE CO., .. T. P. BABST, - I . Hogs Receipts since Saturdav. 10.379; WlllIOn ConntJ-C. W. Isham. Clerk. shipped Saturday. 15f. The market wa9 strong MULE-Talten np by A. J Reynolds. In Cedar tp to sell out horse In order to 60 higher. The following are representative (P. O. Dunn). Nuvember 8. 18118. one IIgbt bay mule. abont' rears Old. nu mllrlla ur brands. I will sales: my . surplus, Clerk. 60 R82 '8.42% 68 298 ts. 40 24 278 ts.40 Cbase ';ollnty-M. C. Newton. sell boars, bred or 80 300 3.40 72 296 8.40 U W 8.� HOR�III-Taken up by A. 111. Coote. In Falls tp. (P. POLAND-CH.INAS. 2;4 3.40 November one brown norse. sows fall 87 .• 242 8.40 274 8.4U 71 O_Strung City). 12. II!1I8. and . open M 31O 340 16063 8U5 840 70 821 3.40 ·"bout fuur feet four Inchea hlgb. apot In forehead. 3 yellora uld; valued at 1:10. 71 284 lI.a7% Ih2 .. 2iif> 8.37% 66 286 8.:17", pigs--.::either breed, 64 �73 3.37%.73 2711 8.37% 12 a ... 8 :i7% 088ge CountJ-Wm. H. Thoma8. Clerk. or eligible- -at prices 57 256 8.36 83 20J 8.3. 84 22·; 83;; In Olivet tp. (P. 0 registered COW-1'aken np by Wm. Carr. ,

.. a.S. 69 265 3.S5 81. 23,1 8.a5 '1'8 2JI OllvetJ. Nuvember 13. IbDS. one red cow. a yeara old, that will make buyers r.t 336 33:; 87 213 3.82% 8.1 2!1 3 ;i2% .nv�rted T on lett h,p. 1 un right hlp; valued at 0125. 70 234 65 210 72 281 8.S�% 3.3!% 8.a2% Neosho County-B. W. G;'rvln. Clerk. 87 2:18 92 189 .8.S21io 64 2.6 a.8l% 8ERKSHIRES. 3.32% H. L. In 20 184 lI.M 80 202 8.30 '1'8 284 asu PONll11t1-TlIollen up by Reeves. Tioga tp. . O. October 23. 18DS, ooe b..y horse pony. 14 lfl9 3.27% 64 223 8.27% 89 20� 8. :7% (P. Ohamne), 6 years old; 1I0d bla"k mare pony, 6 yellors old. 3.,5 �lDe . 86 171" 3.l!5 60: .. 168 a26 96 225 with tresh barness marks wheo taken up; both val­ MONEY. 815 BIC 199 10'7 189 8.20 66 ... 171 3.15, 14 to ued at$aO. Write before buying 1�:::m ;g� �::-::�gg �� Ml:j� �g� Smith County-Jotm A. Crabb. Clerk. 10 Lane ... 124 ... 112 2.80 CALVES -Tallen 157;.. 113 2.85 10 :{OO :!.8i up by Perry Frazier. tp; two helfer8nd one steer Sheep-Receipts shl�Saturday.. 8�2; sblpped (P. O. Atbol).OcLober 27, 18DS. calvea, about tl montbs old. heifers red wltb white TOPEKA. KS� none. was The P. Saturday. Tbe..market steady. all have round holes In no o. UPDEGR�FF, spots. steer red. rlgbtenrs. following are representative sales: other marks or brands; 'valoed at f86. 77 r4. 75 19 nat. lbs 98 �4.8;; nat. lbs Crawford County-F. Cunningham. Clerk. 189 W. yrl 7D 4.35 2 nat. sb 111�1 4.10 STEER-l'aken up by D. S. WIlliams. In Sherman 248 76 3.S5 212 Kau ew 115 3. 111 tdrs red steer. under- and In tp .• one light upperblt right. ELI ZIMME'RI\1AN., 119 T. tdrs 116 2.75 25� T. ewes 68 LBO 17S ear.....pperblt In lett ear. Indl.tlnot sign of brand on valued left hlp. has bllod lump on ·left jaw•.2years old; Herd ot Poland-Ohlna:Swine . of the Brown Oounty .... Live ..tock. at Proprietor , Chloall'o "0. and Gene'ral Live Stock prepar.ed to make sales Chicago. Deo. 12. -Cattle-Receipts. 15.000; Lellovenworth Connty-J. W. Niehaus. Clerk. Auctlonee�.ls on the' oows and B. In He Is a salesman and keeps posted. market steady: beeves•.,8. 8 J.'lD5. 80; 8TElIIR-Taken up by B. Keck. Tonganoxie anywhere. f1rst-qlass one red steer. has and when not helters. f2. [email protected]; 'J'exas steers. .8.3U@4. 25; tp. (P. O. TonganoxIe). yearling prices ot live stock an4 tlie best time. when to s!lll. some whIte on eod of tlill. lump on back pllort of Rtookers aud feeders. �2.80�4.10. Rwlne ot both sexes ot the tbroat and lump on back pllort of jaw. to sell. Registered POland-Ohlna. Hogs-Receipts. 60.000: market talrly active, on him at Colfey CountJ-Dan'K. Swearlngen-;Clerk. best strains of blood always A,ddress firm to 50 higher: 1Il'{ht. �[email protected], mixed. ,8.80 hand: STEER-Taken up by P. H. Smith. In Key West tp. rough••8.S0�.8;. @ii.4S; heavy. [email protected]; (P. O. Hall's Summit). November 16. 1898. one red­ best steady. other. steer. wblte In . Sheep-Receipts. 20,000; ronn two-year-Old deborned. SPOt lower; natives. f2 [email protected]; west\lrns. forebead. small white spots uoder belly. two hog KANSAS. .Ii,,\q: ,lOo. .. '- ..._"'- •. '. no brands ..lIolued 'at 186. FAIRVIEW, "'([email protected]; lambs. ,8. [email protected] rlogs In left ellor; vlolble; S'rBER-Tliken up by R. O. Gawlhrop. In Ottumwa tp. (P. O. Burlington). Novomber 16. 1898. ooe red lit. Lonts LIve "tock. steer. 1 year old. line-backed wblte face !Pond belt.'. St. Louis. Deo. 12.-Cattle-Recelpts. 8.000: braoded with letter L on rIght blp; valued at 116. market steady: native shipping steers. 14.25@ DEOEMBER 190. STOCK YARDS butoher WEEK ENDING CITY aud dressed becf aUd. steers, FOR KANSAS Ii. 40; lIgbt 15, THE --AR;I!l TRill-- 18.00Ill6.SO; stookers and feeders. &SO 8 17.,. 8 15 8 16 1897 ;.. 1,9ZI.96Z i,J50.796 1,134,236 orescent cut out of eacb ear; valued at 0120. Offlclal Receipts for ...• 9 9 9 Jan. 9 47� 87% 47!oi . 87% 1897 : : 1,847,673 30348,556 1,048,233 May.... 9 6i� 9 7U 9 6t% 9 7� Wabaunsee CouotY-B. Bucllil. Clerk. Sold 18 Kansas ,CIty Lard -Deo. .... lJ 17!oi MULE-Tak�o up by Ulysses Frank. 10 Farmer tp. JIm..... 5 20. 5 25 5 20 5 20 olle hor.e mule. ban"s hlgb. (P. O. Alma). bOLY 14� RZC"'ARnSON. H. P. C'HILD, EUOENE RUeS1, 14 Old. scar 00 rlKht front fetluck. mllnt< C. F. MORSE, E_ E_ about . yeurs I.flM. HA.' Mil" 1'.....ftlr M"nlUl'el' at 120. P l'ip".... ",nol "'re..... Rlbs-�:l:::: .. �.�:� .. �.��� �: sllort. tlilo trlmmed� valued \"1'''' ...... nd Gfoon. l'tWr Jan. 4 6i% 4 70 4 67% 4 10 Mooigomery County-D. S. James. Clerk. May 48�,.• '4�O 48�� 490 "�'�:�I PONY":'Taken up by C. W. Peck. In Parker tp .. 00:: tober al. 1898. one sorrel mare pony. 4 years old. no KanR.'" .. Ir.y Uraln. marks or braods. one three-yellor-old mule. no Kansas City. Deo. 12.-Wheat.-Reoelpts here MULIII-lly sOLme. mark. or brands. were 287 a wetlk 31.6 oars' a to-day cars; ago. MULIiI- By .ame, one bay Inule. 4 yeAr. old. no year ago. 248 oars. Sales by sample on track: mark. or brands; the three animals valued at 145. Hard, No. 1. nOlllinally 61!4c: No. 2 hard. 6U1j Woodson Cuunty-W. O. Bades. Clerk. No.4 @61%0: No.8 hard. i>8�@61�c; hard. b6% STEIIIR-TlIollen up by Ge... Bng;ebrecbt. In Owl 3 (ij,57Yoc. Sott. No.2. nominally 670; No. red. Creek, p. (P U. VlIotes Center). November 12. 18ll!1ry-Reodipts here to-day were S6 cars; 8 pendlx contalnlDg tahles'p:lvln!l' the IlverHge composition or A mer­ week ago, 64 oars a year ago. 75 oars. Quot� Icau feeding stutl's.· their dlge..tlble Dutrients are: Choice [email protected]; No. I, tlons prairie. arid tertllizlng constituents, fe..dlng staDdllrds �7.00. [email protected]. . Timothy, choice. Clover, for farm animals and 110 glossary ot sclf'ntlOc [email protected]. Alfalta. �7.oo�7.50. terms. The volume closes with an extended iudt:x arranged tor eaRY and quick reterence. KanA... Ult,. Produce. Througboutthe work there are numerous cross Kansas City. Deo. li-Eggs-Strlotly fresll, retereuct's so that anY' subject may be quickly studied. Of this work. Thos. 1110 per doz. and exhaustively Shaw. Protessor ot Animal Husbandry. Mlnne­ ':autter-Extra tancy separator. 190; firsts, .. sotu,Qollege ot Agl'iculture. tlIlYS: Y u hllve 150: d .• tanoy. 160: oountry 1�0; seoonds. iry. made the pntlre llv... stock community your 's riill.12�130; store paoked, 110; paoking'stock, debtor." This valuable book will be sent by ' n' ,'.. lltirilo. ex pr",ss to any address tor $2. or with n 'prepaid old KANSAS. FARlllllR oue y"ar tor .Z.'US. Cows' barren. 3 years Il Poultry-Hllns.5%0; springs, 60; roi>s�rit, tbe KANSAS FARMER CO., llio each; youn� i·oosters. 20c; ducks, 11%0; Address MADE TO BREED. Kas. . . menU.�� Topeka, ,W,hen writIng 'a4�er.t1Sers please , d lurkeys•. 7%01 old turkey.... _" weose. 11%0: young Moore Brothers, Alban:r. N. Y. Kansas Farmer. : po- �o; pigeons, DOo per doz. +++'1' 1 1 1 1 1'1'1 1 1 'H' :·4-+-1-+++++++ P;: J .:r'� '., �P.. e,nd it 18 bred BO callefully'and Intelll- 0 -gently that there-need lie no fear of Its \!Vnf. ,. uftru' B.-::""'.llmI,".... 'beecmfng too much ::Inbred. Judicious ���-�-�-....,-�-�-._,.- : Inbreeding Is what has procured for our Conduoted O. B. TUTTL., Bzoelal� "arm, the:blrds of flne sym- b, foremost. fanciers be ad- ,-" J[... , to whom all Inqulrt88 1h01l1� rOpeD, and faultless which com­ dressed. We oordlaU, Inrite oar readen to ,jIODIUU .metry plumage us on an, point pertalnlq totbe poultrr in!1l1!1trron .mand and obtain �e so-oalled fanc� ' whloh the, ma, desire fuUer Information, ..iJijIOIaU, . 'a' red whloll ·.PrIces, and' carry Oll' :the much-desI .. to the dileases aad tbelr s,mptoml poultrr SHOOTERS SHOOT tbus ..slat In thle on ;of the shows. SUCCESSFUL II heir to, and mak.iq •. 'premiums at the poUltry . of the' , and beaellolal departmeat� - moat Interestlq Anotberer Itemtem to be taken Into consId Kana.. Farmer. All repUel throalh thll .iIolumn . "", . and Is are free. In wrltln, be .. ezpllolt .. poeelllle; el ation, however, In ,this connecti'on, If In repM to dise..es,lIve I,mptom.ln fall;trnt.- and WINCHESTER ,lie the fact that poorly-kept. poorly-fed ment, II aDJ', to date, maDDer of oartal for llook, addrell mu*' be btrds wlll not make ones or flne eta. Full name and poatalIIoe liven good Rifles, Shotguns, ·Ammunition and la e&olllnstanoe to .eonre reooanItloa:. -: though wei care not of what �peatmr' specimens. and strain or breed. Good food and care Loaded Shotgun Shdls. Winchester guns A88OClIATlOB. KANSAS STATE POULTRY make good birds ind flne feathers. . _ ammunitiOn are the standard of the world, hut A. M. Manhattan. stand a .' Presldent, Btor7, Young, growing blr� ,wlll large . J. W. F. makes. Becret�7, Hughes,.Topeka. amount of forcing. th�y can scercely be. they do not Cost 'any more than poorer O. B. become stunted Poul�rr 8bow-,At Topeka, lanuu, II to U':l8IIlI. overfed.. Once let them Winchestu • AU rdiab1e dealers sen goods. RhOdes, judie. . through lack of feed or through the 158 illus­ ravages of vermin, and they remain In­ FREE: Send name on a postal for page ever trated all the guns and ammunition son HINTS ABOUT KATIIG, ferior -specimens for and aye. Cataloguo describIng made the ' by As the' time Is' near at hand when the BroilerS WIth Hens, flocks wlll be, or should be, mated up for Early WINcHESTER REPEATING ARMS Co., of proper The more hens that begin to- sit from the comhig'season, the question 188 Wlnoheate, Aue., NEW HAVEN, CONN. of mating Is ot Importance. To the f�I;lcler now until March, the greaternumber the at least, this Is quite an important sub- broilers secured and the higher for his ability to properly mate prices, as from March 1 to May 15 is the ject, upon the money with which to buy, for the his ultimate success as period when the broilers are in demand. his birds hinges reason that a fowJ.. that is good for any­ wlll his Unfortunately, the hen cannot be com­ a breeder of poultry that please thing will have paid for herself before Even to the ama- pelled to do duty as a mother until she fastidious customers. a .half year has passed.-Farmer's Re­ is so and no time can be relied teur It is a question of no small impor- inclined, view. she is concerned. But as tance. on, so far as to sit and To begin, the male should be as· flne some hens wlll beglJi 'early, our readers wlll to have them Splinters, and vigorous a specimen of his kind as some of try it is not too soon Early maturity for market means. a It is to procure. A flne specl- hatch and raise broods, possible tne a few hints as to the best mode great deal in making up proflts. men is not to be understood as mt_iilUling to give It must be Too much corn for the chickens' will the -largest obtainable male, for "size in of caring for the chicks. kept an on indigestion and liver troubles. the sire Is of little importance If lle be in view that winter. is 'unnatural pe­ bring his riod for and the farmer Cayenne pepper is a drastic thing to fully up to the medium. weight oJ raising chicks, to some of his time give If you don't believe it take race." An overgrown male oftell �akes must be wllling glv:e poultry. or she wlll hatch a little yourself. a worthless breeder. This applies t9 the to the hen and brood one one. Keep your best layers when culling the large breeds. With the small breeds It. them only to lose them by fiock and remember that' there is proflt Is different, for, as I. K. Felch says, "It Do not put eggs under a hen until you such as in rigid culling. Is 'a singular fact that in the largest have endeavored to select you If you have nothing but dungl:.llls on specimens of the Asiatics and the small-: bl)Ueve are the best for the purpose. True, the farm kill off the roosters and grade est specimens of the smaller breeds wlll: no one can judge of the fertlllty of an egg fol' the flock with thoroughbreds. be found .the most faulty birds." ,This: until the chick within has developed ,up be Do not crowd those young pullets that point in regard to size of male cannot be' four or flve days, but something wlll are expecting to keep for layers, hut too strongly emphasized, for nine per-. gained by discardfDg all imperfect eggs. you or bleui­ aim to them growing steadily . sons out of ten-regular breeders' ex-, The very large eggs;. timall eggs keep . be to the over- ished should not be used. Select As chicks grow they should given The Most first place eggs, give Money. cepted-wlll obt"lnable from " given room the brooders. of normal uniform in appear- more in Crowd1.ng amount of feed eomelltrom jl''l'own male. .'. El8gs size, chicks In a space flt only for twenty- eookl... It. It make. "ll a ance and as free from defects as possible. flfty . In times past the size of fowHI}j.'gely· grain eDtlrel;y dlce.tlhla wlll stunt the whole lot. .nnueneed and even at thill Make the nest In a warm place, give the five -none pas... tbrougb the judges, day,. wbol.. Tbe heot to Boiled oats is an excellent food for "n1mal where an unquallfied judge is engaged to hen only room suftlclent to permit her to cook and do not laying hens. When oats are fed the ::!:t�:lr:!..�& pass upon fowls, the very largest sized eat, drink and diist':herself, fowls wi.Jl need lots of sharp grit. See bird Is pretty sure of the premium; re- 'disturb her more "than possible. Feed RELIABLE that are provided with same. gardless of superiority in color or sym- her on a variety, but-keep corn and wheat they if are al­ FEED where 'she can herself.' When the In warm weather, the coops metry. , c' help' lowed to remain in the same place, the Since it is claimed by good alit1l9r1ty chicks hatch, tak;'them to the house COOKER. becomes foul with the ex­ Fumace m&d. of best C&IIt that the sire is half' of pen, until the hen her work, and ground soon the breediIi�. ha�� f1qished iIT'" tron witb No. 22 gal- that he her warm crement and the wasted food. It becomes at once apparent then place in: jI. clean, new, b��:�·�::r��e'io �"ft;!,�o�lz�z;I':.·� should be as perfect In symmetry, color,' nest, and give her the chicks after dark. markfngs, etc., as possible. With "this Do not feed the chicks for twenty-four POULTRY SUpPLIES. �:��:e:'!..rl:·p�eu,:-!'e ;:!�r ;�� e: jOlCrlptlve oIraulara at once-FREE. sire should be mated 'females of gO()d av- hours after they are' hatched, as. they The Peerless brand of Orushed Oyster Shells. Tarred Roofing, poultry foods and Reliable lacubator Ind Brooder Co. Box QaIaq, III; size and dark in counter- need rest, but give the hen all the Bone M1lls.l.. 62..:. erage color, to. only remedles, roultry Netting, etc., etc. WrltefO!' since all the hen and act the loss of color In breeding, corn she wishes. Keep PJ'lce llst to T. Lee Adams, 417 Walnut street, fowls have a tendency to grow li,hter in chicks in some covered place, as damp­ Kansas OIty, Mo. color. Pure-blooded fowls of �nr: va- ness is fatal to chicks, and do not allow riety if left to themselves, or even.care- her to carry them about. A small space, lessly bred, tend to grow lighter colored. if dry and warm, is sumclent. The flrst KANSAS ECONOMY INCUBATOR. Light Brahmas wlll lose' their flne _dark feed of the chtckssbould be rolled oats, Tbls Incubator Is a bome product and bas been In for ten It Is still made and grow: almost flve times a day; �with one feed of stale successful operation years. hackles, cOIIl.I,>!etely, and sold In No I, or 300 egg size, by tbe Inventor and white; Buff Cochins grow paler;·: Ply-' bread dipped in mMk and squeezed dry. Yost, Arkansas City, Kas. mouth Rocks, very light; Partridge C()-· Atter the first weel{ give them anything �dul:��::�\a�.acob chins lose their flne black breast�( and they wlll eat and omit the rolled oats 'dark mahogany markh�.gs; Lang�han substituting s�reenlngs and cracked corn: and other black fowls 'lIlultiI?ly YfhLte Wl!.ter must be glven in a manner to etc. ,.' of bills reaching It,'or ,-�; . � only feathers, . '. .,i prevent th�lr The habit of mating ei€remes ��olor, they wlll become_;wet, chllled, and die. because the chicks I. e., very light Plymouth �...males Do not suppose that, aD11 sell direct to th., farmer with extremely dark females,' d09!l not are large and ready to wean, they are and 8t.ock rallJel' at the aamtt price the de:dtsr hu to pay. but Such a will do for summer, obtain among flrst-<;lass br�ders, safe. plan We S.... e You rather a medium--colored male is mated but In winter the chicks must be kept Dealere' I-pol'. The l;"eed Cookerwtl1 double with females not too color With well fed and un­ dark,In .. warm, carefully guarded the nutrltlve value of grain TIlE IltIPBOVBQ. , Light Brahmas the male should �ave a til they go to InlJrket, which wlll be and fotider.Stnd fOf'dn:ulu. rich, black striped hackle, when they weigh. one and one-half CELERY CITY ttar�:'�beak, VICTOR Incubator FEED COOlER black wing flights and tail, bluisH white pounds each. l\f.a)(e the hen stay with BoIcbel Oblekenl b1 Bleam. .l.blOlnlell CD., Th. ....001 Box 4, Klllmuoo,Mklt. with Hens and let the HIr-_alatl... IllIIplell undercolor, deep bay eyes. them as long as 'possible, reliable, and che.pen Ink)". Bat4her I'RE£' .... may be very· much like the above but main .object be, both day and night, to In &b. markol. (lJretIIa-'!!! 8EO. ERTEL ClO.o QUJ1l(CY. IU.. with white undercolor. There are keel> them warm and dry. ' for _ ':/: other rules to be followed mating II) /'" for different results, but for all practical Purchasing Good Fowls. purposes of the amateur the abOVe wlll CHICKENS This Is the time of to HATCH serve as a guide, while the fancier wlll year purchase BY aT.AM-wlth lb•• It is the .., of course seek a more extended expla­ fowls for next year's laying. IImph, perree!, HI'.relnl_IIL, elsewhere. time of year when on every farm more INCUBATOR nation . EXCELSIOR wlll sold off. It is true Tb.a_l. I_lUI oper_lIen. .., One great error that seems to have a or less stock be firm foothold within the minds of thoSe that on·'many farms the stock to be sold Low'Bd���T':l,-IIlr.4·· .., 114 .. 188 8. 8th It.. Qalaq, III. who have not given a great deal of at­ wlll be that least adapted to future oper­ FIELD AND HOG FENOE. but there are ex­ tention to the subject of poultry-raising, ations, always .many With or witboutlowercable barbed. AllbcrizolltalllDee is that 'must the blo-od of ceptions. Here and there are farms .... cables, not elfected b;y: heAt and cold. Steel Picket they change lAwn and MoMoS. Poultry Felice, Steel Oates, Posts, ete. Ii. where surplus must be sold off, A BUSINESS INCUBATOR. their f9Wls every time they make pur­ the_ 1JNION FEN(JE (JO. DI. or bad in and DeKalb, chase of eggs or fowls. So many times whether that surplus be good The Sure Hatch Is BU8ineS8. . Brooders wltb the we receive letters from our customers quality. Among the marketable product birds that Therma.tatlc asking if we ·can send them something in wlll be found many very good Ovar iiOO In use. 'UR'HAT( Heat Governors no manner related to for­ may be at a very reasonable . ITALIAN BEES� something bought Low In price and are wbat need. from us.. We can usu­ price. Agree to pay so much per bird, "InCUbator.sizes. you from from Full colo merly purchased guaranteed. All Bred queens Imported Ital,. need a little to the tbree and tour frame nacleus sblpped an,­ ally do this if It is insisted on, but it Is and it be a\ld price !:lend 2-cent stamp tor catalogue wortb dollars If nleo; two, where and safe arrival guaranteed. We sblp Bees tlie run or want to run an Incubator. It contains In- neither wise nor Some even for the privilege of going through you from Marob to November. hives nec�silary. not an, time Queens, birds. and . carry the idea so far as to think they flock and picking out the best Very fOl��:��� t�'}!': �'!.������':!0f�:':.���:�o., supplies generally. A. H. DUFF. Larned, K••• must purchase from a dlft:erent breeder often excellent specimens may be ob­ Clay �enter, Neb, birds with every time. It is needless to say that tained in that way. Pick out no particular type or strain can be per­ good combs, bright eyes, clear mouths,' fected in such a haphazard manner of and smooth legs. Be sure that no con­ breeding. tagious disease prevails in the 1l0ck. This A Lillie. lold Dollar The ·best breeders are very careful how fall purchasing is economical and a help they infuse new blood, of which. they to both buyer and seller. If a man really and Our Book his Big Poultr, know nothing, Into their carefully-bred needs a bird to put with laying flock, represent about equal value. This book contains every to know to succeed In the flocks. It is perfectly safe to assert tlla� the money he pays for a healthy bird . thing that It Is nece88l\ry paul try business. All about Incubators and Brooden, the if the stock sent out reliable this fall will be a good investment. It with illustrations of each breed by any best kind and the best WI10Y ta 'handle them; thoroughbred poultry, a to hatch We send It ta aU on receipt of 10 centaln stamps. breeder has pleased purchasers at one never pays to wait for bird and a complete line of POUltl'y supplies. Inquirers B ILLINOI8. time, It can be relied on to do it again, and mature If. we have use for her and R.LIABLE INOUBATOR AND BROODER COMPANY, BOX 02, QUINOY, - ,

PoultJv 'ShOwl. , 00Dii,ng; Kanllu State Poultry MlIOClatlon.-J. W. Sh'arples Quality. Secretary., At F. Hughell, Topeka1_Janu!' It costs no more 't.o ary II to 1&, 1898. C; H. Rhodl\lI, JUQll"e. Garden City 'Poultry' and P,et-Stock Aseacl­ make good butter than atloD.-A. S. Paraon, Secrete.rr.,. Garden to make poor �l1tte,r. City. Kall. Show' ,December :&1-80. 1898. - There Is profit In the John C. Snyder. judge. Abilene Poultry and Pet Stock AIIIIoclatloD. former; every pound of -Roy O. Sha.'dlnger, Secretary. A�llene. the latter ·the farmer annual at Abilene. Kas. Second ' exhibit, produces makes him January 26-28. 1898. Thea. Sternberg. judge. ' poorer. Topeka Fanciers' Aasoclatlon.-L. V. Marks, Secretary. Topeka. Exhibit January 8- A LITTLE GIA�T 14. 1899. In connection with State .how. SEPARATOR Ma·tter' With Garfield County Poultry A8soclaUoD.-A. F. Rusmlsel. Enid. Secretary. Enid. will 'enable the farmer Okla.. December 24-26.Okla'i898. C. H. RhodeB. ' to make good butter. It judge. Chase County Poultry AssoclatloD.-C. II. Is the latest Improve­ Kas Rose. Oottonwood Falls. .• Secretary. ment In' the dairy field __r"'!!1 'Cottonwood December 27, 1898. to Fall!!.o ' alid the mOlt Important. - KansasP 1,.;. H. January 1. 1899. Rhodes. judge. '/ AssoclatloD.-N. N. Rooks County Poultry RBAlI'OBlI8: P. M. SH:A,RPLES, . Stockton. Kaa.• Secretary. Stock­ Nehe!J Pa. 1\.as 1898. C. H. Rhodes. ,Omaba, Neb. West Cheater, ton. •• January 2-5. ' ' TOledol'o.Elgin, 11. St. Paul, Minn. judge. Ia. Sari Cal GlaBco Poultry ABBoclatlon.-M. E. Potte., Dubuque. FranlllBoo, .. , KaB KaB.. GlaBco. •• Secretary. Glasco. and -..': . owns round' horses , January 6:-7, 1899. C. H. RhodeB. Judge. Kansas (in numbers) 90'0,000 Central Oklahoma Poultry ABBoclaUon.- H. F. Stephenson, Klngftsher. 'Okla., Sec­ O. K, FEED MILL. mules, 55Q,000 milch cows, 1,600,000 other cattle, 2-,400,- Okla.• 16-21 retary. Kingfisher. January • 1m, c. H Rhodell. Judll'e. . 000 and .. swine 225,000 sheep.

. BUGGY WHEELS this include bush- $6.50 Its Farm Products year 150,000,000 , HIOH ORADE SAB'fBII'S PATBIT, Ured u« bud... 3 ft.,' In 8 ft. Sin. or. ft. , height .• els of corn, 60,000,000 bushels. of wheat and millions ���:.�Jtgr':l.l�: �Ui:ii .::f�:; snd send to us with ONB DOLLAR, state millions of dollars in value of other fruits, size wheel wanted and we will send them mall:e 8teel Wlndmllia. 8teel UpOJl, grains, O. D. hy freight C. BX.t.llIIDITHB.aty"nr To....ers and Jl'ee'd Grinders and are •• po, Inll _a' selling vegetables, .eto, b.I...... 10 ' , , �'�I d&����:.hen than 14 '" CO.(loe)CH ICACO, n.&.. tbeaper .EARI, ROEBUclf be obeapest.. Our productions are standards; In debts alone it a _---E� (JOOK Your FEED and Save has shortage. Half the CClat-wlth the ,re Dnt-olass .u everr reapeot PROFIT FARM BOILER �nd are sold OD t a. 8end na a With Caldron. "....I and .... wl,1 teU yon allthem�'about, them. Send for free of "What's the :Matter With Kan­ Emp aWe copy , CURRIE WINDMILL ties ItsDumr.lngkett e 11\ one minute. Tlie CO., A.GENTS WANTIllD. Manhattan. ,K.... , simplest and beat arrangement for sas � "-' a new book of 96 of facts cooking food for'stock. Also make pages .. Dairy and Laundrj- 8tov.es, Water and Sl>eam Jacket Ket· tles. HQJr 8calders. CaldroDII. etc, IT Send fo. circulars. ' D. B. S:rElUtY &; co., Batavia. IU GBmmAL PASSENGER OI'I'IOE. HEATER THE ATOHISON,TOPEKA & SANrA FE RAILWAY,' S2,90Bf:'�OATANK TOPEKA. F'lve cents worth of BOft coal per day and this tank beater will health. ".terror 60 head or'dock, can't burn out, maderrolll h...y GALVANIZED '8TR�L, I!6lnche. high, ...... I4II.t4 M .. will keep the water from freezing In larg. est tank in zero weather, fire never goes out, ushea can be removed without dis­ turbing the flreor removing heater from tank will barn anl.bln" no heater made Latest-Improved Triple Geared Cob and 'Grain Orlnder. 'The Blue Valley :;o;g�Jr�!r.J,�e.'lt\�eRI;�te;�lfni"lVt°t�t�I�'i A Powerful Two Horse Machine, ",lIlKICULTIJRAL IIJI'LKIIKNT CATALIIGU!!,' Grinding Rings go, four times Add...., SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO. (Inc.), Chicago. around to one tum oftearn; grinds Mills' "'.ro •• F,ed (1Ioan, Booba" '" 1:0. are ....I' nllabl -Bdllor.) at a rapid rale. Has been thor­ Sweep oughly tested and proves to have no in any respect. equal ' Sold direct to farmer. T_ L. PHILLIPS, MFA. AURORA. ILL. , Port WRITI '0" TERMa. ITO. MILL.

Arthur's Guaranteed to grind more corn and cob. shelled corn and all The Only Praotloal Mill for farmen' nse; Made In two sizes.' :rower applied direct to grindIng small grains In a plates. No gears to ....ear. lIet out of order or In-. 'given time,' and orease the draft. The faatest grinding mill made Grinds alll

lars' worth of .. sold in ' property March. WINDMILLS. Wood Wheel and Go to Port Arthur and see Eclipse Fairbanks' Oalv.anb:ed Steel what the of, a 1,227 backing FOR PUMPING OR GRINDING. mile trunk line means.

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to a 25-1nch ma­ and . Equal double-geared Irrigation Supplies. chine. No gearing to bind or b.bal<. All pow­ For information write to er applled dlreot to duplex burrs. Double auger foroe feed and steep cone. Corn and oob will not lodge or "hang up" In bopper. War' fAIRBANKS·MORSE ranted under 1I1';:'"G�nera,1 Manager Waterloo, Iowa. vloe.. lIIstlmatea made and oomplete plaMs Inatalled. We, sblp t�m Omaha, Neb;; Kansas City or Port Arthur Townsite Co., St. Louis, Mo.; Bloomington, Ill.; Indianapo­ MORSE & lis, Ind.; MinneapOlis, MInn. .FAIRBANKS, CO., KANSAS CITY, MO. Il11'7-19 Union Ave.. KANSA8 CITY, 110. "

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...... ··...... ·•..··....·.._········..•···..··· d. I. 'appard C:��::AN. r· I_·� u.io. A ...... TIMOTHY SEE'DB Watch Advertisement. KANIA. CITY. MO. ORAl••••D•• for Sunny Slope ..II· Is certain it you sow our Alt..lt.. Seed. We .. uIso sell choice qu..lItles ot Cane nd Millet SUCCESS Seeds, K..lllr ..nd Jerus..lem Corn, ete. All Sow Alt..lt.. crop '98. Our book. "How to ,�' free. McBETH 11& KINNISON, Garden WITH ALFALFA Clty;Kal.

SALE-A limited number ot the I....t edition FORot Prof. J. O. H. Sw..n'a great book, "The Future a ald until the Want Column. By the P...t." Prloe '1.00; post ge p .. .. F..rmer Special supply is exh..usted. Addres. K ns s Co., . Topek.. , K..s. II Wanted," "lor 841e," u.J'of' Bzc::ha.nge," aM .man SALE-Five ye..rllng boars. Also fine line of lId"ef"tuemmu .horl Ume, tD(U � CA­ ". ",eMI lor boars ..nd gilt. by Chief Edlter 17U9li, 10 centl FORspring Ierted CA tIW eolumfl., w(tllout 1UlpIG1I, lor Teoumseh ShOrt-Btop 1I71iO ..nd High Hadley 202IIIl. w_k•. ImUclIl E. T. W.. /,ter llne, 01 ,.",m WOf"IIa Of" Iu., per Choloe blood. C..l1 or write. rner, proprte­ wet" the Of"­ Herd Poland-Qhln.. Swine,· Dr 0 fl.umbet" _ted 01 one W0f"4. 0"," tor Fr..nklln County Kas. dar. It well pav. 2'r1I "1 Princeton, Of"lIar"rom our noUu, - SPECIAL�Ufl.UllurlMr SALE Pure-bred Pol..nd. ..nd Berkshtres rcclWw ot 1 cent 0 w0r4 or 7 P. oub.enbet". well � FORtrom we..nllngs up, ..t very low prloes. O. Up­ to""'. u Kaa, emu 0 lme, eoo" wet" Of"dar. Btomp. degr..lr, North Topek ,

..de r..m lambs, ..Iso fltty New SALE-Gr Shropshire WANTIIID-Loc..1 or travellng. a ..d. Ad­ FORewe l..mbs, at iii, and 160.ewes t 16 per he th..t ahead of competition. s. SALESMENInduoenients put you dress E. W. Melville, Eudor.. , K.. tbe .I..ck season. L..wrence .. .lIlake good ....ges during Nursery Co" Lawrence, Kas. STOCKMEN - Feed Mill. and Corn-Sbellers b.. ..Ins. Toused as s ..mple...nd ..t f..Ira, speolal rg .. a ..lns .. WILD 'rOM 51592, MIIIN-Our llIustrnted o t logue expl or see us. S..ndwloh Mtl!. Oo., 1205 Union ve- Write . a uade In eight ..eeks. tbe YOUNGho....e te..en tbe b rbar nue, K..n.... City, Mo. The gre..t son Of the gre..t sire, Be..u Real 11055, beads nerd: brancb. Mailed free by addresslng most, convenient arber Ne.. York, Cblcago, St. Louis, HERD.-I ....nt·to olose out tbe entire · Moler B College, Clnolnnatl, Mlnne..polls. RICHLANDberd of Pol..nd·Clblna sows and berd boars, In Klever's 1st Model 18246 S., Wh..t'. Wanted . oludlng .. .. III. An- cane ..nd ..If lt seed. Jr. 2d 18534; and B;'s Black U. S. 1119b7. Tbe breed­ . . suit .. WANTED-Millet,n..bU &; Co., McPberson, K..s. Ing ..nd qu..lIty of these bo..rs ougbt to nybody Come and Inspeot; the only w..y to get sulted__ F. W Morrla X.. b..ve on one of our t..rms elibt B..ker, Counoll Grove. Co., bc..rs tb..t went BARGAINs.-wefine ye..rllng Pol..nd Cbln.. ..t we will sell bred sows Imported Lord . througb choler.. I,bree ....ontbs "jlO tb by Kas. ..re ..11 In fine ..nd boars re.. tor servloe. Wm. B. . tor next ten d..y ...t '12.1iO e"ob. Tbey BlIIBXSHIRES-CholoeComel}" dy Mrs. Wilder Cross, Emporia, All ..nd sired Hljlbl..nd Chlet, Knox Sntton & Son, Kas. �ate oondltlon by tbls ch..nce. Wilkes ..nd Look At Me. Don't miss K..s. SAL1!l-Thirteen fine Pol..nd-Qbln.. boars. can Dletrlcb &; Spaulding, Richmond, •••••••• FORon or address H. W. MoAfee, Topeka, KBII. (Farm SALE-FERRETS-Wblte, brown, old, young, three miles ..est ot Xans.....venue.) or untr..lned. Write Fr..nk PlLrker, V. S , · tr..lned FOR ' BULLS"':'" Three Individuals Abilene, K..s. ABERDEIIIN-ANGUSof servlce..ble BiOS; rel{!stered. Wm. B. Sutten BULLS FOR SALE-Cruloksb..nk­ & Son, Russell, K..s. blliis rlgbt, prices �Igbt. Come or write. SHO,RTBORNtepped: LIIIGHORN COCK­ Mound Linn K..s. COMB PURE WHITE Kellermall & Son, City, Co., Great Weat. Seven at the World'. erels for s..le ..t ,I each. A. F. Hnntley, Paxloo, The Prize-winning Herd ot the prbes SINGLE . twelve Orats ..t K..nsas State F..lr; eleven flr.ts ..t the K..nsas Dlstrlot t..lr, 18D3; FOR SALE.-J...rge; black. with wblte pOints. Kas. home of the Orst and seven second at K..ns..s St..te f..lr, 1896. The COllncll Grove, KI\8. talr, 1894; ten JACKAddress J. C. Hume. FOR SALE-W. Guy Mo­ ..rs In tbe ouob as B..nner Boy RAMS gre..te.t breeding ..nd prize-winning bo 28«11 ..n extra olloloe lot or .. Cotton..ood F..n., K.... 28603 World Be..ter and H..dley. Forwe.t.Sa tr"ck. M. C. COTTSWOLDC ndles., Bl..ok Joe King ..tl1n. on corn, your 0 extra large, rlohly-bred. weh-m ..rked by these noted sires ..nd out e1 thirty-live , · WANTED-QuotHemenway, Hope, X..s. TO EXCHANGE-Thepure-bred Crolok­ rlohly-bred so.... Inspection or oorrespondenoe gig.nvlted WANTEDsh..nk bull, My Lord 116568, bred by Col. H..... SALE-M..mmotb Bronw turkey., blgbest rl.: sire Imp. Sp..rt..n Hero 77932; d..m Imp Lady Into X..nsas. FOR8corIDg ..nd I..rgest size ever brougbt Winners wberever .bown In Missouri and Kuns..s.ln­ ��!:� rg:��o':.��0�8�i.rm6!�y ���:a���!�eg�:d�I�- ..... •. cludlng Missouri St..te Poultry Show. scoring 97)11. w. McAtee, Topek.. , K Corwin 14520 and Jr . t once. -Charles orders .. Sir Faultless, fl! and fl! 1iO. Send Harry Prloe, young birds, D. W. Stone, KlLs. MAKE A GOOD FARMER'S SPRING WAG­ HEAD. OF' ·HEHD. J.JYODS, . . ..n .. tor - .... WEon, t..o I,,"y-�aoks and let-do end-g te, , to been In the .bow tor the last t.hree years, always wlunln, orchlrd;cont..ln­ 156. W..rranted. We will .hlp on approv..1 re We have ring SALE CHEAl'-�'lne peach ..nt ..lnners ..nd· plllll bred ,', nn.. 424-428 J..ckson I the lion's sh..re of the premh:ms. It you w prlle- ElbortlL trees In blgb .t...te sponslble p..rtles. Kinley III L.. n, _}l' ._�" FORlog about 11,000 yuung { h.. them. All ages of Poland-Qhln.. s..lne for sale, r. .. X.... l in the purple, we ve cultivation. Will be full be..rlol{ next ye.. Lo­ street, Topek , .' 1 and 2 ot 1/ Write or ooine and see ns. We h..ve ..n omoe In the olty-Rooms on line ot . c..ted ..bout Ove miles north of '1'ltlOn,. Ga., '. Firebaugh Building. railroad, In f..mous peach belt. About twentY-Ove Will cres ..red ..nd ..bout 226'aore8 In pine timber. -�.:. .. cle LIVE STOCK AU(JTIONEJCRS. ""-., -=:" ELM BEACH Wichita, Kat., ..nd time. Owner FARM, sell cbe..p and on e....y terms long � S. C. DUNCAN, Nortb ..nd c. M. IRWIN. Snpt. wants to sell. as he Is In bU81ne8s hi the - .. to It: Onc of tbe b·e..ltb­ .. ... h..s not tbe time to ttend W. BARNES, Auotloneer, V..lenol , K �'Ioe fruit ..od vegetable both ..s lest place. In tbe South. GEORGELo..est terms. Extensive experience Address Box No. BR2. Pa. country.. 'Plttsburg; breeder ..nd s..lesm..n. AU oorrespondel)oe given prompt ..ttentlon. ul.o .. ------..lfU. c..ne Rl)d millet seed; N�1s011 & of Jerusalem porn seed. Cor- Doy1�' WANTED-Alflimited quantity G. W. STORRS, re.pond·wltb F. Barteldes III Co., L..wrence, Ka.. illER, BURLINGAME, KAS. THIRTY Room Stock Yards Building, KANSAS CITY, MO., Extensive .. ..lntance . Exchange SAL1!l-IOO cars cotton"licd meal. Also corn AUCTIONyears' experience. cqu 220, Addrcss Western Gr..ln and StrlnlJ Prloe List. 160 Cheyenne ". will be looked after. Trusting that we may friendly support .. Missonl'l. be Address 80 Texas nity In this, our first e1l'ort. we Invite all such to present. .. Texas. HOUS1ll-Opposite Union depot, K..ns..s 164 Lamar Texa.s. BLOSSOMCity,.Mo., I. the best ..ce tor the money, for City Lots In ·Cla.rksville, In me..ls or ole..n ..nd comlolort..ble lOdging, ..hen Address E. L. CALT, Sterlin", III. K..ns..s City. We ..Iw..ys stop ..t th� BLOSSOM ..nd WILLIAMS & NORTH OKLA.' Mention thl. .. C. . p per. S. ENID, our mone 's ..orth. SONS, iet y