J!� I Weather-Orop Bulletin

TOPEKA, KANSAS, THuRsDAY, MAY 14, 1896.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: SWINE. SWINE. T. 'PAGE 806-AGBIOULTURAL MATTEB8.-Ex LAWTON, North Ta J• breeder at With Oorn. ... 'pelr&, Ku., R. S. COOK perlments Improved Cheater WhIte PAGE 8O'1-TBB STOOK J:'NTBBB8T. - What I Wlohlta, Rae.. � awlne. Cholae.19nng 1010., Know About Berksh1res. Dispersion of bred to order. BraIl Breedarot _'- _- .LoIIIh' Linwood Short-horns. Prize Pens for Swine. ma chlokena. Kaftlr Oorn. Poland - Chlnas.- PAGE 808-IRRIGATIoN.-The Water Supply . , tor ilrrtgatlon. Irrlltatlon Farmlug by Ar BELMONT STOCK'·FARM. , WOD MTeD P� at tesian Wells. Geo. Cedar .... Oolorado for Fruit. ToppinS, Point, Kan World'. �.ON UlaIlIloll7. .lnIIle bree4er ...... ot Irrigation IMPROVED CBESTER JudJre Emery In Oklahoma. BWlNlII-Pure-bred Breeder of OllJo. Omoand registered. One hundred at berd EngJIsh Berbblre and Poland-Ohlna PAGE 809-Potato and Pasteur spring pigs swine, B. C. Brown B. Bugs Slugs. times prices. Alao a few boars ready for servloe. ,Legbornl. Plymouth Boclu:os: I;a�e SWIMB. B. P. Rock ahlokl. RED POLLED CATTLE AND COTS Cun --�'fi-"""li'H.�� nlngham's Cholae 18'181 ��':J �r� ��o��' ENGLISHwold sbeep. Young stock for sale, pure-bloods B., Price .1.23. and ·JIl'IIdes. Your orders solicited. Address L. K. 18116; his grandsire Ask your hardware mer- Haseltine, Dorcbester, Green Mo. Ict��OO�? 1f:s':'�'::m�:::B':re ...... Co., Thoroughbred Duroc-JerseyHogs fair, 1895, on RoCkS. FIfteen cbant for It. Belll8tered 1Itook. Send for PJymouth _eggs for D. "-page catalogue prlcu Ward A.. Baoey, 1170 E.16th St., WiChita, Rae. VALLEY HERD OF SHORT-HORNS. and Iibtory, oontalnlnll mnch other 11I8fnl iii'iorma Russell Hardware • Implement Manul'g Co., • NBOSHOImported' Buccaneer 10fl668 at bead of berd. tlon to yonng breeders. WID be MD' aD receipt of Kanllal City, Mo. Betrlatered bulls, heifers and cows at bed-rock prices. .t&mpand addreu. J. M. BTOlDBB.A.JaB, Panola, m. TOWER, HIl.L HERD Ad� D. P. Norton, Council Grove, Kas. BLOODED Cattle, Sheep, = FINEHop,Ponltry,SportJngDoge. Bend Poland Chinas. CATTLE AND SWINE. Registered 173 head, 80 brood sows. Herd boars are Black ��P:6�«ff�:, J:��r.: Stop 10650 S.; U. S. Butler 18888S.; George Free Trade Farmers·Threshers STOCK FARM HERD OF THOR 21068 A., and a grandson of J. H. Sanders 27219 O. ASHLAND POland-China Short-horn Young boars ready for service and bred for ouahbred hogs,. cattle gilts Bale. and Plymouth ROCk chickens. Boars In servloe, BERXSHIRES.��:'.:!�� B. R. Adamson"Fort Scott, .Hal. ® SOME' OF OUR PRICES: ® Admiral Chip No. 7919 and Abbottsford No. 28361, Spring Pigs.

A . full brother to second-prize yearling at World's FaIr. few bargam8 lu Bred Gilts. Sections, all kinds-each...... $ .06 No Boars. .' IDdlvldual merit and gilt-edged pedigree my motto. VERNON COUNTY HERD Oyllnder teeth, all kinds-each...... 06 inspection of berd and correspondence solicited. PEDIGREED Oyllnder teeth nuts, all kinds-per 100.. .75 M. O. ' Vansell, Musootah; Atchison'Co., Kas. - Mower all makes- POLAND OHINAS. knives, ' BERKSHIRES.='--- 414 feet 2.75 We olrer oholae eeleotiona from our grand 5feet 3.00 SWINE. New - b:�r;l��v:'�:f"ifb�.s=� 6feet 3.25 out of - clasa t�!i'�.J:"::'ab::::::.aported bou:' high dams. 7 feet Write or vlalt herd. 3.50 Holsteln - Friesians. WM. B. SUrrON & Harvester sickles, all makes- M . H . Cberokee, Kansas. ALBERTY, SON, Russell, J. M. TURLEY, Vernon Mo. Co., . Stoteabury, ...... Duroc-Jersey swine. Kansas. 6 feet...... 3.25 T.A-HUBBARD 614 feet...... 3.40 POLAND-CHINA BOARB--flO to 110 apleoe. J. R. KILLOUGH &. 7 feet...... 3.150 TENJ.B. Taylor, Pearl, Kas. Rome,�, SONS, , Franklln Breeder of Blchmond, Co., Kallllll, Pure White Sisal Twine, quality !!uaran PLUMMER & CO., Osage CIty, Kas., breed ,POLAND-CHINAS and teed, freight paid to any point in Kansas or WM.ers of, Poland-Chinas of the best families. Also 7 cents LABGE ENGLISH Missouri, per pound. line ,poultry. Pigs for -tbe season's trade sired by POLAND-CHINA SWI'NE. BERKSHIBES. Two hundred head. All l1li8'. II2IP'" , Oomplete Buggy Oatalogue, prices way live di1rerent boars. 116 Herd headed Wilkes 13246 boBrii and B �WI read, for buyers. by Upright S. and J. H. down, sent to any address, 4 cents In stamps. Sanders Jr. 13739 S. 26 brood sows"I00 spring pigs ; 10 young boars,6 Sanders and 4 Wllkes,ready for servloe. Edwards' Self·Feeder, SIlS. Weighers, S70. P��l:.e�!Pn��=�ra= SELECT HERD OF BERKSHIRES Orders for youngsters being booked. Write or oome. IlIl'OO8ln the U. S. Choice animals for sale. Address Thresher's For ten prOomplete Supply' Oatalogue, H. Davlaon & Son, Franlilln Kas; years winners at leadinll faJra In oompetl- PrInceton,' Co., tlOD with the 4 cents In stamp's. belt herds In the world. Vlaltors 8&Y: ELM BEAOH "Your hogl have such line STOOX FARM OHEBTER WHITE PIGS-Twelve heade, good baol. Turkey G.W - TopMa. .Berry.BerryCon,8hawneeCo..Kaa. The eills, ,,; ducilll, II. JERSEYS Twenty-one bulls Kansas,..City Machinery Co.; for aale, live oows, twenty heifers, all registered. 1006 St., Mo. S. H. Null, ToUghkenamon, Pa. OheaterWbita, HI&:kory Kansa� City, JIIrID Bed • � I. Jer.e,..� • POLAND ClIllU AB1L1IlNE, KAB., headquarters llteln Cattl.. Thorc bred of D• T'R"omT,'.L, tor . .l'OLA!llD-VlUNAS ,and hogS the best blood, the famou Duroc�lJerieys. Mated-to ,the ::nt:-��.Pol""�dDa Including some of the most noted prise-winners In .,..tln all partIaulara., Obolae breeden • Write. • �Uoe' _J!�', ranlliii,�� =�a�e;s��if�g�T��: Farmers·Threshers

.- MAY 14, 806 [I]

The season the butt kerneli in all oases. The results are as past light· the the gave the best yield and tips aattm. follows: aI- Over Years' CORN. rest. This result. oorresponds Thirty FOR TABLE V.-SUBSOILINO _ ..,;;; ' j\oricufiutaf results of 1891; .. with tho three for I'AUlh treatment.-l89lP ·ost exactly Average 0/ pIaU In .� may be seen from the averages. EXPERIMENTS WITH OORN. the 'Without Sickness. Rate of 1892 the butts gave the poorest and State /la . Ii'rom Bulletin No. 56, Farm Department, acre tn"f1:_'dushe�r in 1893 the M. se., Pro Fodder tips were intermediate; a well-known, rloultural College. C. C. Georgeson, SubHotlru 'In inter :Mr. H. WETTSTEIN, of per acre the best and the butts of and Superintendent tips gave fessor Aarloulture sprl1lfl 0/ 1894. tom. citizen of Byron, Ill., D. H. Otis, 'In Good Nub- To- not safe to draw eon enterprising Farm; F. C. Burtis, M. Be., Assistant; mediate. It il:l ear8. btnll. tat. as "Before I much atten B. Assistant. in favor of one or the other writes: paid -- -- olualons se., . -- last week.) the I ( Continued from 6.42 8.79 15.21 the. case stands at present. tion to regulating bowels, Subsolled ...... 1.116 CULTURE. 5.1S 9.19 14.32 COMPARED WITH but since I METHODS OF ...... 1.99 RED KAFFIR CORN a well Plowed . hardly knew day; CORN. The following series of experiments learned the evil re SIIb801led tn /aU of 1894. of an de in methods of planting and cultivating The details' experiment sults of constipatiov two varieties of season as to see how the were carried on the past signed and the efficacy of 1.111 corn named below oompare in yield for some .pre 13.65 8.40 22.11 --.._._ years . .. 1. been .. 40 have .. . .. they Plowed.. 19.05123.75 with Red Kaffir corn are given in the vious: lIMO were but subsolled·········1 table. There AYER'S 1895. accompanying Corn listed and j{iven deep eul Sub80fled tn spM1IfI of were 1. two plats of each kind. The plats Pills, I have not had ture•. seeded 20 and they ripened as IIJ.56 32.18 May sickness shallow cul Subsolled ... 2.17 show one day's Corn listed and given 35.26 noted in the table. The averaa'es 2. Plowed...... 2.38 22.56 12.70 Red Kaffir corn nearly for ovor thirty years ture. ·1 112.621 that the yielded . ·.····1 - attack and given twice as much grain as the beat yield not ile 3, Corn surface-planted that the sub It is noticeable plats oorn. to this culture. ing that did not read; jield deep of 1894 and in the VII.-RED KAFFIR CORN VS. CORN. and given soiled in the spring TABLE wife had been. previ 4. Corn surface-planted months r�medy. :My fall of i. e., twelve and six culture. 1894, an invalid for shallow was � "'J ous to our marriage. respectively before the corn 5. Corn surface-planted. and given She had a prejudice against better than the �. la years. culture planted, gave yields ;:,o;! S'� both and shallow .. � ., as soon as she began deep with which are Date 0/ cathartics, but and plowed plats they � 6. Corn surface-planted given Varietll. : � Pills her health was compared; whereas, the.plats subsoiled rim:- � to use Ayer's surface culture. l in the of 1895, just before the � � restored." and are terms spring Listed surtace-planted IImaller the corn was planted, gave a yield : .Sl ::.:;� _ but --- which' explain themselves; -11------than the plowed plats. These results methods cf culture require an explana Brazilian Flour corn .. Se��.11 the experience, . 2161 .. •. 5591 meant the agree with general 1�" Dole nlnety-day 9077 11 culture is 40.25 1.53 tion. By deep corn from H Red Kaffir corn Sept.20 that to get the best yesl ld 0f the old-fashioned Bra.zllian Flour corn .. cultivation given by time to Sep'�.l1 soil should have .., .• was subsoillng the 1156 Dole nlnety-day...... !·.2691 11 6699 cultivator with shovels. It 1.53 large s t in. 17 Red Kaffir corn Sept.20 tG.05 sett1e we11 before the crop i pu into the ground to a depth of sb put These have been marked perma- shallow culture is meant plats Inches. By iron and the effect Average. .,{�B:'and at World'. Pair. with stakes, 1Iec1al Diploma the of the surface soil to the nently stirring has on future crops wlll shallow and 'his subsoillng I.M tlk. Sanaplrf", of two inches; by Brazilian Flour corn...•.. '22.76 'I Ratore SIre.gtll, A,er'. depth Sep.�.l1 1.60 that the be noted. Dole ninety-day... 18.47 culture is meant plats 1.53 . 20 411.07 deep shOUld be Kaffir corn...... Sept. culti The method 0f subs0iIing Red were with a spring-tooth plowed inches ------1---1--1- A furrow ten deep vator the first time going over them, explained. that Extra fourteen-inch COMPARISON OF EARLY, MEDIUM AND It should be noted Early cultivation was· was fint turned by a and the next given LATE VARIETIES� Huron Dent is a small variety, its the subsoiler followed very with the shovels and these run walking plow; to large five It is so frequently advocated plant only merit beIng its earliness. Early the of in the furrow of this plow, running to to a depth of six inches, purpose early corn that we have attempted Mastodon is a gOOd medium variety of' inches so that the depth of the this to loosen the soil as deeply deeper, test the of three varieties named the as it being fifteen inches on yield corn, but Gold�n Beauty, rami measured were as before the roots had subsoUing below. surface-planted the can possible while the turned out here past season, All the land side of the plow, 27 an in all treated as fied through the surface layer. April The/lats respects be called a late although inches The dates of scarcely corn, cultivations were loose soll was eighteen deep. in other experiments, given was later than either of the others. succeeding used in these and the are it run shallow. The subsoil plow experi- tasseling, ripening yields with the spring-tooth The Extra Huron Dent was ob- the John with a herewith: Early the ments was Deere, given . By surface culture is meant that wedge-shaped shoe, which loos MEDIUM AND LATE VARIETIES. surface was worked very shallow with large, TABLE VIIl.-EARLY, the treatment. ened in a measure displaced Average 0/ JIve pIaU for I'AUlh the Tower surface cultivator. Each and after one of the on tive ar soil. Investigations method was tested plats Rate 0/ lIield per the summer hereinbefore heavy rains in .showed acre'{n bushels. ranged as explained. Date the subsoiled ground was wet Date of The used was the St. Charles, that Varietll· when variety a.foot than tas8el·(na. results are from six inches to deeper 7ipe. Good Nub- To- a white corn. The large 007'8. Mm. �I•. the ground. --.---- table: plowed --- shown in the following ------.------.- 8 12.68 8.20 20.88 .. 1 IV.-METHODS OF OULTURE. Huron Dent , July Aug. TABLE Extra Early 15 14.71. 8.25 22.96 Mastodon July Aug.2S Averages for thru llear8. Early July 15 Aug. 31 17.1J.i 7.37 211.31 Golden Beauty

Total 1895. 1893. 1892. IX.-VARIETIES OF CORN. average TABLE acre Rate Rate per Rate per T·l'cat11lcnt of platH. per per Yield 0/ s(1IfI1e pIaU. (n acre, in acre,in acre,in bushels. bushels. bushels. bushels. Nub- Sound Total bin8. 18.37 30.33 23.22 Hei{Jht 007·S...... 23.97 culture Yield Listed, 15.91 26.13 27.14 He'lght 01 ear Yield ...... 23.06 1I��d sha low culture When When in i1l Listed, deefJ 17.94 26.25 28.02 0/8talk from bushels ...... 24.07 culture Vm"let'le8. ripe. bushels Surface-planted, 1i1.80 29.16. 30.02 tas8e1ing. 'In fut. ground bwohels ...... lU.32 per deeEsha low culture 28.74 in per per Surface-planted, 16.17 26.87 feet. acr.�. and shallow culture ...... lU.59 Surface-planted. 10.31 28.60 17.62 acre. acre...... 22.17 Surface-planted, deeEsur ace culture 29 8.4 4.0 16.67 11.38 28.05 . 15 Deland's July Aug. Improved .. .. 29 7.8 4.5 16.77 12.04 28.81 .. 12 . KERNELS OF Nebraska Whlte MIDDLES AND TIP .. 5 7.2 4.3 5.29 8.98 14.27 The season the listed corn gIven BUTTS, Plour' Oorn .. 19 Sept. past Stooling " 29 8.6 3.8 23.29 17.« 40.73 CORN FOR SEED. .. 12 Aug. culture the best returns; Big B\lckeye .. 29 8.8 a.s 54,.30 11.04 65.:14 gave . 9 deep King 65.65 as what of Early'Pralrle 2 8.1 3.0 55.26 10.39 next and deep culture. The old question to part . 9 surface-planted Early Thompson Sept.• 2 8.6 4.0 :14.79 13.82 tG.61 the best seed corn Yellow Rose . 9 In the shallow and surfaoe-cul- the ear produces Early 8. 6.8 2.0 31.64 11.54 43.18 fact, Huron .. 1 Aug. Extra Early " 13.30 45.28 for · 19 8.0 3.5 31.98 returns the been tested in this experiment . 3 ture all poor has Gold Mlne .. plats ga.ve 23 8.3 3.3 36.82 10.« 47.26 . 9 has been not Iron-Olad .. This is not in .several years, The plan Nebraska 12 7.1 2.6 32.57 10.25 42.82 past year. altoge�her Yellow Dent .. 2 from the White Oup and harmony with results in former years. only to use the kernels por shallow- ear but to select In 1892 surface-planted and tions of the named, Averages of s(mtlar plat8. in from the raised culture plats gave the best yields; the tip kernels crop kernels 8.3 3.4 35.11 12.27 47.38 butt . 1893 the listed and deep culture gave from tip kernels, the July 9 Aug. 27 Leamlng .. 8.3 4.5 17.07 7.26 lU.33 . 17 7 and in order Blount's Prollflc • the best and surface-planted raised from butt kernels, etc., .. Sept. 2 7.5 3.6 28.93 13.53 42.tG yields White Pearl...... 10 deterioration in Ohamplon .. 3 8.8 4.0 20.38 11.:14 31.72 shallow culture gave the next highest. to see 11 there was any .. 15 Hickory King •• 8 11.1 4.9 12.92 10.13 23.05 our . 15 seed. In 1894 all Mammoth White Surprlse .. corn with shallow culture has the and butt .. 15 8.8 5.5 10.00 15.77 25.77 Listed tip . 27 23.43 we therefore Mosby's PJ,'OlIfic 1 U .9 5.28 18.15 1895 .. not the best results in any year. seed was lost, and in FlInt June 26 Aug. given New England 5 8.2 4.1 16.57 11.56 26.13 . 18 selection of seed. Oharles July Sept. like manner aurface-planted and had to make a new St. .. 26 8.2 4.0 36.04 14.11 50.15 In Yellow Dent .. 8 Aug. the Dole Ohamplon .. .. 30 8.3 3.4 43.8:1 11.86 55.611 not selected was Mammoth . 11 surface culture has given high The Ohester .. variety Oounty .. 8 7.4' 3.1 27.38 9.73 37.11 of seed was Butler . 1 The season and nature of the Each kind Early 2' 8.7 3.9 41.47 10.03 51.54 yields. ninety-day. Mastodon .. 10 Sept. Early 8 6.5 2.5 27.61 11.60 39.21 the . June 30 soil exercise much Influ- on five plats, arrangement Flsk Aug. undoubtedly planted 2 8.9 iI.8 38.02 8.47 tG.49 and methods of Golden . Sept. 33.81 ence on the result. That one method of these distances Beauty J'!}y 29 7.7 3.4 20.35 13.46 . 1� Aug. in other Sterling .. 2 9.5 4.7 :14.07 8.67 42.74 another in seasons were as Mammoth . 14 better than given explained Peach Blossom • is planting' .. Sept. 6 9.3 4.4 15.52 9.93 25.4.', in .. 15 is evident, but just what the conditions experim�nts. The results are given Reardon's Oross shallow herewith: are which demand deep or the table Lee be out, KERNELS OF CORN FOR SEED. tained from Delano Bros., Park, plowing cannot yet pointed TABLE VI.-BUTT, MIDDLE AND TIP and the other two from J, C. SUBSOILING FOR CORN. platH for each trootment.-l895. Nebr, Average of JIve Ill. The results this two Suffern, Voorhies, We attempted experiment the acre tn show that the late variety gave but on account of crop fail Rate of years ago, �'t'l!; and the one the poor subsoil best yield early ure have nothing to report on Nature of seed. est. The observation of the writer on until now. The used in this ing plats \ Nubbtm. Total. an Good ears. this point is that, one year with experiment were one-eighth of an acre 18.82 medium to late varieties give were =�== �97 � other, in extent and only three plats kernels Butt 11.31 5.54 16.65 better returns than early corn, al to each treatment. We oom- Middle kernels... 9.114 6.20 16.14 given kernel!!...... corn in some land Tip though the early may pared, the past season, plowed before seasons pass the critical stage with land whioh had been subsoiled in Averages forfour ueas«. the hot winds and drought set in. The the spring of 1894, in the fall of 1894 instance8 are but few where early corn of the treat 1891. and in the spring 1895, Total ,1895. 189i!. 1892. has much when the late corn ment the same in the average produced being except Rate Rate per acre Rate per Rate per per failure. The grown Nature 0/ 8eed. per a complete time of subsoiling. variety in acre, 'In acre,m acre,(n acre,'In ,was Charles. It bushels. bushels. bushels. bu8hels. VARIETIES OF CORN, on these plats was the St. bushels. was tested was the rows being 3.5 30.116 27.40 66.11 A short list of varieties surface-planted, kernels...... 35.82 18.82 Butt 31.M 62.51 stalks sixteen inches :14.79 16.65 26.19 of which were feet apart and the Middle kernels.... 61.U the year, a few 35.64 16.14 :14.73 30.57 past T'11e i ldi were kernels.... apart in the row. ye Tip ." 1886. [81 807

grown on single plats,while others were for the market at an early age, to pro- Diokinson cOunty, and T. P. Babat, 'j,l� grown in duplicate. Table IX. gives duce such hogs with reasonable eer- both, and along with the yields it also tainty and the highest profit. Do;:!'f:�::'�':::t��t��ultof the sale In detail: Ihows the date of date : of . tasseling, descended from so a :tN "Having 8th LInwood .. ervous strong VIctorIa fand c. c to O. O. ripening, height of stalk and height of BIgler, HartwIck, Ia 1'l5 line of pure-bred ancestol'll, he pas- People wonder why theIr nerves are so weak; ear from ground. 11th LInwood V,lctorla. O. O. Norton, sesses in an unrivalled the Oornlng, la 850 why they get tIred so easily; why they do not . degree power lath LInwood O. ' to VIctorIa, 0, BIgler 205 sleep naturally; why they have frequent head- stamp upon his progeny his own Uth LInwood Vlctorla,W. T. Platts': OIay, "aches, Indigestion and excellence of form and feeding capac- 815 16�:rtl:�00d"vici(iria:"an;i' ii:'c::'Wm: 'Nervous Dyspepsia. The explanation 18 ity, as' well as vigor of constitution, Oummlngs & Son, Buda, Ill 335' sImple. It Is found In that Impure blood feed- 19th LInwood VIctorIa, J. H. Mex- Miller, the nerves on refuse Instead of the ele- which includes ability to resist the en- 300 Ing TBOBOVGHBBBD STOCK. SALES. ments croachments of dlsease, hence he is ��Ll�\�o(xi'viciOria,·wiii.·(iummiiig·s· &. ofBtrength and vigor. Opiate and nerve Son , Ito and do not cure. .Datu clOunds sImply deaden oolll!(If' almost in constant use for the 21st Linwood VIctorIa. H. O. os- are eo be improve- Duncan, Hooll's Sarsaparilla feeds the nerves """et'Uled en tM. paper. Mo ment of the common And I born, '," Ito rich blood natural sleep, perfect !tura,Iges- hogs. 22d Lltlves Linwood Victoria, J. H. MUler IlOO tlon, Is the true remedyfor all nervous troubles. :sr*:.�:::e�p:::::::�:::�:: :�:� ��.��I��:.�:.�:.��,.��!: 100 JIIODon Co Mo. ��r:ugW:[yd lUth Linwood J; IlOO ., actoqU��=t!�th�� VIctorIa, H.�lller Berkshire are the oldest Vandal121�9 J. H. .. , hog. They (bull), 'I:1Iif.,lor IlOO , of of the breeds and have been Vanquish 121425 (bul1), W. A. Forsythe, any- Pleasant Hill, Mo 110 WHAT I DOW ABOUT BERKBHIR'ES, - pure for over a century, and are a com- 4th Linwood Golden Drop, Jno. R. Thomp- H00d'S In evidence of his faith in Berkshire pact hog, of good size and superior 9ttO�I�:��t��\:tK�:oii;W:T:'oiay:::: = Iwine, Mr. J. S.-Magers, a breeder at quality and wonderful constitution, Bul1 calf of above, W. R. Wilson, Ample, Bourbon are smooth and for the lliO Sarsaparilla Arc&clia, county, Kansas, at alwaYI ready l1!�"Lliiw�(i'GOiden··iirop:·v;·].i:·Eiilii, lathe One True Blood Purifier. All druggiSts. fl. the last meeting of the Kansas Im- market at any age, and universally Gardner, Kas IlOO 12th Linwood Golden Drop, D. P. cure Liver Ills; easy to Stock Breeders' Association command the highest priee in the mar- Mltchel1, proved Danvers, Ill � .00 Hood'S PillS tal e, easy to operate. 2IiC. Presented the following discussion of ket; are noted for their well-marbled 18th LInwood Golden Drop, O. O. Bigler 4711 15th LInwood Golden J. H. Miller 2llO the above meat and carry a 1arger tion 0f Drop. topic: propor 16th LInwood Golden Drop, L. L. Gregg, the cuts of 1896, with Charles F. "The Berkshire bog may very prob- Qest high-priced me�ts, 2llO Mills, Secretary backs and hams. Their excellent G�� d ��iK22"" iilii:;Ho'n:' Martin American Berkshire A ssocia�ion, ably be regarded as the standard hog viz., Ii'lynn, Des Moines, Pi 300 16th LInwood of Other breeds strive to h'ave them in the Lavender, T. P. Babst, __ tcrday. equal qualities kept lead, Springfle_ld _ 2S5 ,;__Il_I. the Berkshires in the most valuable notwithstanding the several booms of 14P�t,T�'w�'Laviiniier; 'i':-K:KeiierU;'an: XafIlr ...... the other and of them Mound Kas 265 Oom, r--ts-in fact, many of the dliferent breeds, many OIty, 18th LInwood J. - Lavender, H. MUler 265 eds have in owe th i od poi ts to the Berk Red Kaftlr corn has to be one b-re' had, their early history, ergo ,n 19th LInwood Lavender, G. A. WatkIns, proved r """ more or less of Berkshire blocdintro- shires. Bengi teoh Idest 0f th e 1 m- Whltl K 0f the eheapest feeds grown. It stands breeds of it is Lochlel��iI976a(biiii);'W:T:·siiiciair;·Law:""'" weather better than other duced into them, and these same breeds proved swine, therefore. renee, Kas IlOO dry any ...... the moat i Ive when used for the Lochinvar 11"""7uu, u '0 0. Norton _, and with the Eame treatment are to-day the mpreas h" plant, strongest competltors Lafitte 119915 J. I (bulmIl)). n,o Taylor :. 1711 40 cent. more of the ann the Berk- mprovement 0f the common stoek 0f T. B. averages per grain,. and Berkshire, to-day SunshIne, MastIn, NewIngton, Kas .. Bto • - . r the And in eono1 usi with S aIvIa, G A . WatklDS 1"""" over 90 cen.t more rodder than shire tra"es"""'.....his pedigree back further, country. on, pe E. B. Mltchel1 265 out the least to 0f Secresy, Indian corn. These are taken perhaps, than any known breed of disparagement any Starlight, H. O. Duncan 2711 figures ,1 - or Sunfi H . :- from tests made at he S swine, he being the purest bred, and the breeders to any other breed,ub t ower�.J T:Tay�or .. 180 t tate Ailgr ou T . .11. Mastln 180 be rath'er to th eir credit f a ter 0f Sllen� ,tural a of six can relied on to reproduce himself, ,or quar Harmllton Orocus, W. T. 100 college, covering period -. Olay a mos Br seI G Wa corn as as e if a pure-bred is the obl'ect aimed century the t approved type 0f Imrs' s, tkl..Lus .. 8BO yeal'll. Kafllr cut soon th Beatrice, J. H. Mlller 250 Berkshires has been th e mode1 to seed is and well shocked will at, every time. Of course, it is meant Golden PrIde 00, J. H. Miller 165 ripe keep that he be used on high-grade or thor- which the molders of all other breeds Bull calf of above, J.lf.,Taylor 65 bright and sweet all winter. It,is beat Galatea, G. A. Watklhs 806 have worke in line 0f their i ·to have the seed 6ne sows. The . d into meal. oughbred Berkshire cross mprove- Grampian 1111481 (bull), Thoo. Pohler, Law- ground on other breeds always improves it. ments, and the more nearly they have rence, Kas...... 1.. • ...... • .. •• 90 It is then worth nearly as much as corn Galahad 10S259 H. O. Duncan 170 It will breed of been able to imaeit t or to It his meal. The fodder when shredded has improve any swine, engra Lady MlneJ J. H.(bumiMiler 200 the moat of all image or characteristics upon their PrIncess or Mapledal�, John R. Thomp- I!o fragrant sme11 and is relished by all they being prolific ' son & Son .;. .. 260 breeds. The sows have the reputation own stock,0f wh atever co1or .or name, PrlncessofLinwOOdad:ii.o:oowaii:New farm animals and is eaten with very nearer are con- PoInt, Mo ; 1110 little waste. With the advent of the of ra'-ing... all or nearly all of their lit- they universally Lady Athelstane of D. A. Wat- eded to have the hi h est LInwood, machine it can be run Into tel'll. The litters are generally strong g klns 1411 shredding And tandard of excellence.attain,�d Ethel, T. H. Mastln 1811 stacks or mows and for a time. -. growthy, and for this reason Berk- kept long Lee Side W: T. Sinclalr 120 Ne116th, farmer should a lhire sows raise a cent. . Every few acres larger per of 4th Linwood Nel1 and c. c., G. A. Watkins, lm plant therrsi litte than some 0f their com- 5th Linwood Nell, T:\P. Babst 1110 . this month, and in case of a wet season, D" 0f L'InWOOd Sbon-boms. 6th LInwood Nell, J. H. 1811 �the lsperslon Taylor when it is difllcult to cure of the different breeds. From 7th any kind of petitors The dispersion sale of the Linwood herd Linwood Nell, J. H. �ylor 115 ten to twelve 100 8th Linwood Nel1, O. O. Norton 100 your Kafllr corn will out. Berkshire sows, nigs.. of hay, help Short-horn cattle, owned by Col. W. A. Seraphina A. and c. G. A. WatkIns 195 be while it about c" And should dry weather come on it may raised, takes. Harris, of Linwood, Kas., was held at Lin" SeraphIna B., J. H. 165 twice Ta310r will stand still and not but that number of Poland-China wood farm, on May 6, and was a success die, grow .. 1411 BOWS to raise and M::rh::��.�.�� :.�:' �:.�·.�� when the rain comes. that many pigs. fully met the expectations of Mr. Har- May Day, B. O. Oow�n 8Ii again "One of the �reatest breed- ria. There was present a large crowd of Dorothy, .T. H. TaylOr 95 ... obl'ectsin VIctoria Wild Eyes ad and b. c., J. H. Some fine of wool from J. N. ing swine is early maturity and size. Taylor < 100 samples of This is one of the reasons why I breed �f:�::��:�::,e��:o�rl��o��ll�:� Grau, Al!herville, Mitchell county, and and the stock sold went to .. Indiana, P'lf!Ja��·.��?��\��.��.�� :.�::�:?l00 are the fol Berkshires. If I did not them J. H. 135 Kansas, accompanied by regard breeders In these States with the ex.ceptlon Mellssa� Taylor I Leonll, J. H. 65 memoranda: aa the best breed of swine, would not of one bull calf which went to Texas. The Taylor._ lowing "(1) High-grade. Merino ewe be breeding them. There cannot be most disappointing feature of the s�e was lamb, weight ninety of fifteen any question of their making 1'8 rapid the low prices obtained for the bulls. It Prize Pens for Swine. pounds. Weight fieece, was evident that the breeders were fourteen months' arrowth as any of the improved breeds mainly The American pounds; growth. (2) In Berkshire Association of that are to imitate quest of females, and as the bulls o:lrered Recorded Dickinson Delaine ewe lamb. to-day striving at the late annual meeting, authorized the Berkshire in his po.ints of weight 100 pounds. WeigM of fleece, ex�l- the expenditure of $100 as prizes for lence. As the farmer ::�� :�:s�wb::e:=��p��e��D:o�� fourteen pounds; thirteen and one average gener- to head also fact the best and for herds, the. that mo)st of plans specifications half months' Recorded ally raises his pigs on grass, and growth. (3) those o:lrered were not old enough for pres pens, buUdings, location of lots, etc., the Berkshire cannot for, Dickinson Delaine ewe lamb, weight especially clover, ent service and such as ordinarily sold at the farmer and swine viz.: breeder, 100· of be excelled. He is the best 91 foot with Is the of pounds. Weight fleece, sixteen grazer dam, logical explanation Cash prize $50 for plaDB and speci any of the breeds in the the result, yet ten head averaged pounds; fourteen months' growth. (4) improved 1170.50, fications for pens, buildings and loca West where of the to and Jlfty-three females averaged so Ba, ba, black sheep; have you any many hogsl)ave $212, tion of for the convenience of that on the whole It Is the lots, etc., wool? Got scared at Grover folIo';' cattle , and there the Berkshire highest average going farmers or breeders more than made for sale of beef breeds In the keeping on to be the most sati 0f any . fishIng borrowed capital and free proves slactory ten brood sows. United States this year or likely to be The any because of his great activity. And trade." specimens show that the made during the spring 0; fall sales. The Cash prize of $50 for plans and speci then, he is the best bog to market, 'ow- climate and feed of Mitchell county general average for sixty-three Short-horns fications for buUdings, lots, etc., for the to his bone and able agree with well-bred wool-bearel'll and ing strong being sold was S205.47. The total amount real- convenience of farmers or breeders the to take care of himself. Ized was produce highest quality of fleeces. 112,945. • keeping ten or less brood sows. "Not breed or of Col. Woods, of Lincoln, Neb., the auc- every variety hogs The competitol'll to furnish the ground Sciatica and lumbago readily yield to known to the tloneer, was at his best and felt proud of public is adapted to the and elevations. of the for Salvation OU. A few will what he had to o:lrer to such select plans pens applications pro method of w pur grazing fetlding. Some ill service sows with duce the desired result. Try it, 25 cts. chasers, and predicted In advance that this boars, littel'll, pigs thrive at all, even in a clover scarcely would be the best cattle sale In the United of both sexes after weaning, fattening field, where a natural-bred will gr,azer States this year. Before the' sale began, pens, slaughter-house, smoke-house, Important to Breeders. fat. more grow The slow-going and Col. Harris made a brief address ex or and granaries, steam cooking house, Everyone interested in improved breeds are as his quiet good only sty pigs, pressed regret In having to part with shop for making shipping crates, etc, stock should have the Breeder'S and are useful his herd at this Gazette, very as well as orna- unfavorable time, and but of an inch Scale, one-quarter to the of Chicago, as well as the KANSAS mental where is for the absolute necessity. nothing could In grazing impracticable foot Cor said structures. which we for duce him to with his stock. FARMER, furnish the although even in such localities th� part breeding A diagram should the of one-both one It was on Maroh 15 that he finally decided accompany price papers year for more active hogs readily adapt them- the locations and to hold this sale, so that the stock were not drawings, showing only ($2) two dollal'll; or we will supply selves to the conditions of confined distances of said prepared especially or in the usual form structures with refer the Nati&nal Stockman and Fa'1"TM1', of quarters and high feeds. And, then, that ence to Is common at public sales. They had the dwelling, barns, and other Pittsburgh, Pa. (the best general farm I consider all the numerous valuable simply had the ordinary treatment and had farm buildings and the public highway. and stock journal in this country, price qualities of the Berkshire-the run out In the until tbe of supe- pastures morning The grouping of farm buUdings has 11.50), and the FARMER, for $1.50. riority of its flesh, its great hardihood the sale. He reviewed briefiy his policy received comparatively little study or Send for sample copies to the papal'll " and to resist and the of breeding cattle on the common-sense ability disease, attention, and the from direct, aad saTe money and get a plan of not bound to follow insistent plans resulting big ease with which. it fattens at an being this will beneflt to early line competition doubtless interest by sending your subscription and its breeding, but rather keeping Individual KANSAS fertility. all who are ambitious to add to the con FARMER, Topeka, Kas. No agl�' excellence and constitution predominant. I have no hesitation in giving my veniences and progressive farmer or breeder can ..f He had selected the Cruickshank type as attractions of their to the so far as ford at this low to be without preference Berkshire, the one best suited to the farms. price overcome defeats this great trio of farm magazines. general farm purpose is concerned, and of Une breeding. He th6ught no cattleman The hope is entertained that there without a doubt the true aim of the could go wrong by adopting Short-horns as may be many competitors for the afore the Western breeders and feeders is to grandest and best breed of cattle on said pcizes and thus make it possible Millions of Gold rear tha.t will furnish earth, and that just now we are on the hogs ha.ms and very for this association to widely publish In sight at Cripple Creek, Colo. Only bacon of the finest and the threshold of better times for breeding good hours quality the best obtainable plans so generally twenty-three from Topeka by the right sizes. Tender and juicy and well needed the farmers Santa Fe Route, the only broad-gauge route ca:;l::; to note that about by and swine breed marbled meat is the of gratifying thirty passing right by the"Anaconda" and all requirement head went to ers of the United States. The Kansas breeders, as will be compet the famous mines. the the times. To have this we must See nearest Santa seen In the detailed sales. The itors for the above are principal prizes requested Fe agent for all particulars, or write to· grow Berkshires that are quick feeders, Kansas were G. A. to file buyers Watkins, Whit plans, etc., at their early conven Geo. T. Nicholson, G. P. A., Chicago, TIl., of uniform size and growth, and ing, Jackson J. H. ready county; Taylor, Pearl, ience, and not later than December 31, or W. J. Black, A. G. P. A., Topeka, Kaa. MAY 14, 808 [4]

learned by' experience, observation, Oolorado Irrigation for Fruit. is trial, even when the -"ater supply The success of those who have been an additional reason 3rriootion. abundant.' This Is raising fruit in Colorado has been so for commending the advice heartily great that there is a great impetus to THE WATER SUPPLY FOR IRRIGA in the of the delegates to given report the movement westward from the older TION. the Congress, published as Irrigation a of first States. A few days ago party B:r G. E. Morrow, Director Oklaboma Experiment a part of this bulletin, that the No. 18. of Station, In Bulletin efforts be made on a small scale. In practical horticulturists, consisting is to be on the wise Dr. John F. Lockwood and Arthur V. If irrigation practiced many cases, however, it will be it majoru,y of the farms in Oklahoma to procure a larger windmill than is Bradley, of Batavia, Ill., and J. T. must be by the use of water drawn needed, or thought to be needed, Whittle Glenn, of Elgin, Ill., but repre in which from wells, or from ponds for the experimental work, thus senting others as well, went through THE sosr SUCCESSFUL REMEDY storm water bas been stored. The the of purchasing Denver to the of saving necessity fruit-growing regions FOR MAN OR BEAST,. of the do e!'fects ananever bu.ters. rivers and streams Territory a larger one whtlD it is proposed to Colorado, where they will buy land and Certain In Its Read proots below as a rule. It Is not have wide valleys, extend·the irrigation work. commence fruit-raising. It is their be not probable that much will done, Some and mistakes as soon as they get hold KEIIDALL'S SPAVIII CURE possible' dangers intention, just Jan. 181M. BLUBPOtRT. L. I .• N. Y., 15, for some at in the way of to to com years, least, have been pointed out, not to discour of property suitabie them, Dr. B. J. KODALL Co.-I bought a oplenald bay 1 for ca borse some time ag9 with a I!Ip.lvln. got organizing companies building trials of but to mence residences and set II age irrigation, prevent building tor ISO 1 used Kendall'. Spavin Cure. bTlbm o!'fered nals and irrigation The out trees and I. gone now and 1 bave been establishing large losses from unwise attempts.' ting plants. Th�ir plan Spavl;, wee.�� for the "arne norse. 1 only had him ..... As little is known as to nln� systems. yet writer would encourage farm is to plant three-year-old apple, peach 80 I got 8100 for WllDg 82 worth of Kendall. Spavin strongly W. S. lIlAR.DEN. the existence of "underflow to set Cure waters," ers in the valleys of rivers or streams and pear trees. They are going is even in the rIver valleys. Nothing of Oklahoma, water from which can be out several thousand strawberry plants KENDALL'S SPAVIII CURE the SHELBY, Mlcb., Dec. 18, 1898. known, with certainty, as to pos or 'dammed without too from which to fruit diverted great they expect pick Dr B J KRNDALLCo.-Ihave used your Kendall's . of of the with suoee•• tor Unrb on two sibility securing large supplies or who know they can get a large next year. The special advantage Spa�I": Cure good cost, horse. and Iti. the.best liniment I have ever used. artesian wells in this . water from supply from wells, or who can collect colonists from Illinois see for fruit AUGUST FRBDERICK. of the Price •• Del' Bottle. The water of some to in Colorado is that the .. region. pond water in Bufficient quantity, growers crop For Bale by all Druggl8to, or addre rivers and smaller streams has so much irri D ••T. KENDALL COMPANY. make a trial of irrigation, commenc can be controlled artificially by DR. saUne matter that its use for ENOSBUROH 'ALL8. VT. irriga ing 'with a garden Ilr small orchard. gation In a way that would be Impoast tion would be has to be objectionable. He as strongly urges all farmers to do ble in a State where rain The most practicable power for lift what they can to help �he soil take and depended on. Irrigation allows gar Leveling Instrument. the in B vast majority of the of the rains dens and. orchards to be cultivated so ing water, hold largest quantity In laying off land for irrigation, a is a wind-wheel. to so cultivate that as to earlier and greater fruit cases, sent by nature, and give matter of first importance is to de of this be than could be or A first question, then, before prepar as little as possible may crops got.In Illinois, termine the levels. The KANSAS is to determine other Eastern States where the ing to irrigate land, wasted. �rees FARMER has desired to offer its patrons whether a sufficient water can are at the of the weather. supply mercy They a reliable, low-priced instrument for serious Wells. that other horticultur be secured. There is danger of Irrigation Farming by Artesian reported many this purpose, and has finally secured mistake made as to this. Harm ists from Nebraska, as well as Iowa, the one herewith illustrated. It is being Many farmers feel so sure of success has been done advocates of were to follow them later in the spring by irriga with artificial watering that they are tion whose enthusiasm was more pro with a view to buying fruit land in down artesian wells and nounced than their care to be putting i�tend western Colorado. - Westeyn Soil Oul to build reservoirs as soon as possible, accurate. It is a well-known fact that ture. them to harm rather than good is often done the pas� dry Seasons causing -The soil, climate and facilities for '8'rowing plants by sprinkling the sur realize the necessity of a more constant irrigation in large areas in Kansas face with water during dry weather. supply of moisture. There are thir make it a more perfectly ideal country

, So slight applications of water by irri teen wells in one township in Davidson for fruit than Colorado. gation may do no good-even harm. county, ten of which have been made The water must be for use when ready during 1895. Two more are already Judge Emery in Oklahoma. needed. It will not do to calculate the The thirteen wells contracted for. The Oklahoma State Democrat, of re well or for a capacity of the pump year from 265 to 557 feet in depth. In vary cent date, makes the following deserv a well and rest with as in many cases manufactured by L. S. Starrett, this, some of the county a greater parts edly complimentary report of an ad known and reliable manufacturer of the water used must be pumped almost is all the depth necessary. Nearly dress J. S. Emery, of Law- fine mechanical tools at Mass., as or reservoirs be by Judge Athol, needed, very large are two inches in and wells diameter, rence: who warrants it to be true in every lift wa constructed. It is possible to 50 80 cents foot. The cost from to per has his respect. ter from a but the "Judge Emery given subject deep well, power flow amounts to from fifteen to eighty The price of the instrument is $12.50 is than that deep thought and careful investigation required vastly greater five minute. One three and at the .. arrange gallons per and states facts and conditions that are factory Bya special necessary for lifting the same quantity that $200 and is ment we are able to furnish it jo a half inch well cost to those who a well. astonishing, especially with a from shallow 295 feet flows about subscribers, together year's deep (the Frazier), have the no A water of 31.5 given subject thought. subscription' to the KANSAS FARMER, barrel of gallons, ap per minute, though the 1,300 gallons He drew a vivid of the over delivered at office in Kan a of land five ten picture any express plied to plat by feet, amount has never been accurately meas crowded condition of the labor market sas charges prepaid, at the manufactur would a rainfall of one inch. It is the flow of some equal ured. thought of the cities and showed the utter er'� Send orders with money to take barrels of great price. Or it would about 860 wells near this large one has dimin FARMER KiloS. futility of trying to secure relief from KANSAS Co., Topeka, water per acre to equal a rainfall of and it is that the arte ished, possible that direction. In the of will well over city Chicago, one inch. This weigh sian water may be limited. A supply said the speaker, there are five persons Millions of Gold 100 tons. If one must depend on a few fields have been flooded or"wet up" for each vacant position. In In sight at Cripple Creek, Colo. Only it must be seen to that it is waiting well, capa direct from these wells during the fall hours from the the city of London there are three twenty-tbree Topeka by ble of the necessary quantity have the the route . supplying and and Fe broad-gauge winter, produced hundred and sixty people go to bed Santa P.oute, only of water and that the windmill has season to by the "Anaconda" and all following twenty-five thirty each who die before morning. In passing right to raise it in reasonable other night the famous mines. See the nearest Santa power enough bushels of wheat to the acre, and cent. of the the United States 70 per write to time. in while fields not so Fe agent for all particulars, or . crops proportion, When a nation of people are tenants. GBO. T. W. J. BLACK, Fortunately, very many Oklahoma treated less than half this NICHOLSON, produced people all become tenants, patriotism G. P. A., A. G. P. A., farms are admirably situllo�ed for the amount. here is largely Ill. Kas. Irrigation dies, as there are no homes to fight for. Chicago, Topeka, collection of storm waters from a con confined to the water in most gardens, Instead of to the cities to from going great siderable acreage into ponds, cases used direct from the wells, being seek a position and become the servant Seekers for Homes, which the water may be lifted by but a few farmers have reservoirs of another, the young man starting out Who wish to start over again in some local pumping, either for direct application which aid in the economical use of the in life should seek to become the ity where good land is plentiful and climate or to be stored in smaller reservoirs on thus much better results. themselves rela water, giving owner of a. home and be hiB own man. is favorable, should post higher land, from which it can be con owned districts of One garden, by Henry Sc�lund, In the great semi-arid region of the tive to the irrigated Kansas, ducted into the furrows. been for five and New Mexico and Arizona, the dirt-cheap irrigating has irrigated years, United States there is room for mil There is, necessarily, much loss by all kinds of in farms of Oklahoma, and the fruit tracts in is producing vegetables who if live in com lions, may, they will, . from these Secur A few southern Texas. evaporation ponds. abundance, and of fine quality. It has been fort and be independent. To find out the facts address G. T. Nich ing the greatest depth reasonably at have been watered by wind gardens said that -the Lord started these winds G. P. Monadnock Chi tainable is the means of olson, A., building, only practicable pumps. This method gives excellent across the prairies and forgot to shut cago, or J. E. Frost, Land Commissioner, this loss. In cases the a reser lessening many where small . results, especially them off, but that was all right, as they Topeka, Kas. land can be irri quantity of which voir is used. Other have been Fe is the best line to al gardens could be utilized to pump water that And the Santa gated from a pond of a given size haa watered from streams. of the Great Southwest. by pumping would irrigate this great region and most every part been greatly overestimated, as has the This mode of must necessa irrigating make it blossom like a rose. Judge 'quantity of storm water which can be as the amount of water rily limited, Emery then gave some practical hints s�fely be counted on from a given acre in such streams as the James is very about irrigation, which we have not age. To furnish water sufficient to a time. In I small during dry fact, to This lecture was the acres of space print. irrigate ten with four inches have seen it almost The water is dry. most interesting that we have listened IT DOESN'T water, a pond 100 feet square would 'run between the rowe of the usually to in a long time and it is to be re have to be filled to a depth of about various sometimes between every crops; gretted that every man in Oklahoma fourteen feet, and this without count or at most third or fourth cost row, every cannot hear Judge Emery ta.lk at least ing the large loss from evaporation. row. The is to have • plan proposed once a week; in fact, we think that Great care is also necessary in making with several sets of later main ditches, some of our school funds would be well YOU the else there may be large loss ponds, als dividing the fields into squares, in this direction." from spent seepage. varyin g in size according to the slope ONE CENT The writer strongly advocates the of the land. Instead of ditches for the People who wish to go to Buffalo to at building of ponds for storing water on second set of laterals, back furrows TO GET OUR tend the N. E. A. convention, who want fast CA'fALOGUE OF Oklahoma farms. He is not able to if the fields may have to be substituted time, the most excellent train service and agree with those who believe this have much slope, for the water Is too superior accommodations, will do well to would greatly increase. ,the rainfall, nluable to permit of waste. - J. Sykes consider the Nickel Plate Road before pur although he believes it might have an Wilson, South Dakota, in Orange Judd chasing tickets. A fare of $12 for the WINDMILLS, - appreciable effect in this direction. In Farmer. round trip will apply with $2 added for ------�------fee. Tickets will be on sale many cases this pond water may be membership Pu i Gasoline 5 6 with liberal return limit and mps Engines wisely used in irrigation work. In Ayer's Pills are recommended by leadi%!g July and physicians and druggistll, as the most with privilege of side trip tickets to Chau many more cases such water may be prompt and eftlcient remedy for biliousness, tauqua Lake and Niagara Falls and return FAIRBANKS, MORSE & CO., the most convenient supply for farm Additional infor nausea, costiveness, indigestion, sluggish without additional cost. stock and a safeguard trouble on to J. Station KANSAS MO� against ness of the liver, jaundice, and sick head mation cheerfully given application "A," CITY, and loss in times of 111 Adams drought. ache i also, to relieve colds,fevers,nenralgia Y. Calahan, Gen'l. Agent, Successful irrigation Is. an art·to be and rbeumatlam. street, Chicago, Ill. 115 - ,-

FARM:BlE. rG1 8-09 1896. KANSAS

over the verse oited and ·read the poem, thought the experiment was a cheap Potato Bugs and Slugs. noting the dignity of movementalid DobUity one and I tried it, with good results, so EDITOR KANSAS FARMER:-Wlll of that ends in the lallt stanza with you give, thought . that I continued it ever your paper, the best way·to apply good hav� suoh added impressiveness: RI'OLEY'S through Wlll it klll I would flU the boxes on the Paris green for potato bugsl sinee. "Human hopes and human creeds "Hammond's the old Colorado beetlel Is planter with the seed, and pour enough Have their root In human needs; Shot" worth to melon and And I should not wish to strip Slug applying over it to wet all the corn. FASHION MAGAZINE B. kerosene oil From washer-woman's vines to keep ot! bugsl M. S. that lip &ND squash . I it on the blue that she can Augusta, O. T., M"v 6, 1896. The flrst year planted Any song sing, Any hope that songs can Dring; sod I don't believe there was one ® William H. grMs For the woman has a friend MILLINERY GUIDE., Reply by Barnes, Aoting the hill dug up, and I always thought Who will keep her to the end." Seoretary Kansas State Hortioultural ELEGANTLY ILLUSTRATED. corn came upquleker and grew better A dignity that is handioapped severely SPRING .AND SUMMER, 1896. Society: than in fle1d I had." by the sixth stanza. in almost any "Paris green, appUed any In "The Sunset Marmaton" we are given Oontalns 98 PAGES, giving PRIOE LIST; th", Also of manner to potato vines, will kill a realistio desoription of battleand carnage, descriptive Colorado potato beetle and its progeny. "Ironquill." manifestly a discord, laoking but the list of and wounded to the minutia. MILLINERY, STRAW OOODS, "For years I used 'Hammond's Slug [All right-minded people love poetry. dead complete The omission of' the third stanza would Silks. Shot' with satisfaction on all vines. They do not dote on every jingling combi- Fancy Straw Braids, Hats Boauets, of and Orna Paris But which has a leave a song full graceful melody Rlboon& Flowers, Laces, 'rtUllInery "The best way to apply nation. poetry soul, poetry Goods, Dressmak the song of the oircling ments, 11ry Goods, Fllncy whioh is an artistio expression of what is sweetness,.like Worsteds, Yarns, Hosiery, green to potato vines is, undoubtedly, Ing GoodI!>..Zephyr finds lark, whose full throat_voioes the ecstacy white Goods. House Furnishing of to worthy of artistio treatment, place Gloves, spraying-one pound green almost bursts his heart. Silver Plated Jew by in the heart of the rioh and the heart of that fiuttering Goods, Silverware, War� Oiocks, Bronzes Table and rocket lEO gallons of water. Any force-pump and and apart from_ the poem, this, elry, the poor, in palatial mansion in lowly Separate Ohina, Orockery,Wooden can. own the Star" is in itself complete: OutlerYJ-Furnlture, will do, and you wake your in the orowded city and in the free, from "ViQlet Ware, rron Ware Granite Ware, Oal'J!ets. hovel, Ladles' end of a A reader of the "For I've lived and I always must, Rugs, Mattlngs, Llnoleums, nozzle, by piece pure air of the farm. always Olicloths� and And the soul In roamlng_may roam too far; Merino and Muslln Unaerwear, Men's of fl. s hose) until FARMER complained of a iron pipeflattenin�.the(that your IUNS-U recently I have reached the verge I dare not trust, Boys' Oiothlng and Furnishings, the opening is simply a hair-breadth critique whioh had appeared in its columns And I'm going back to the Violet Star." The . sUt. This beats all the patent nozzles. on "The Rhymes of Ironqulll." letter Of like separable quality is this dainty Ladies' Suits, Capes, Jackets, made personal to the little cameo' from the Settees. know a man who took his cistern of complaint, though "Kallsas-Dugout:" Shoes, Summer Outing Goods,Garden I dis Garden and sbowed suoh of literary chased Rustic Ware, Hanging Vases, - for and replaced it af- editor, powers "Blue-eyed children round the cabin - Flower etc. pump spraying, a was immediately the Seeds, the oriminatlon that request day' terward. If desire to apply are life's best lesson. how to you -sent to the complainant that he write for They learning

of cheese- stay, . green dry, make two bags FARMER about sent the KANSAS 'something To be tireless and reslstful; Catalogue FREE! ten feet cloth. Take a pole, say long, "Ironquill's" poetry. The accompanying And the antelope looked Wistful, And want to the children In their to those II'lvlnc name and addres8. affix a to each end. Mix your review is his complianoe with this request they join bag play." . MaD orders ftlled promptly. four or five times its bulk green with -EDITOR.] Very pleasant mental acrobatiOl are to IRONQUILL. of air-slaked lime, Ilypsum, ashes or be found in the amusing "Kansas Zephyr," EDWARD RIDLEY & flour. Fill the with care. Now The St. Louis Globe-Democrat recently "A Dream" and "The Fort Scott SONS, bags Quinine PUBLISHERS, the cause of Western writers, mount a quick, hard-stepping horse; ohampioned Owl." and endeavored to show they _were unjustly the most the pole across the saddle .and The two poems that gave pleas place from the Eastern mag 311� to 321 Grand Straat, of the excluded high-olass ure were "Grizzly Gru," reminding one of. 309, 311, your thighs (the length pole ALLEN azlnes; olaiming, with a show of plausibU Field's best: OCCUPYING ENTIRE BLOCK, above the Eugene ORCHARD STREET, should bring a bag directly the editors of these publloatmns TO ity, that "I ran down the lunar crescent, side of and second row on either you)' believed the caress of the Atlantio's salt And out on the silver horn; I kissed the and held her tight. NEW YORK CITY. walk the horse back and forth through breezes necessary to make a writer. baby And down Into the night, untn all have been been jumped starr, the potato field The artiole would have convlnoing, And-lit on the earth at morn.' horse does writer adduoed dusted. The motion of the but-unfortunately-the And the lines whioh inspired James Whit Reduced Rates to Waahington. from a The best time to do this proof in the shape of selections comb to the dusting. Riley say: The People's of Christian number of Western authors, that, with one Young Sooiety vines are wet with dew." "And old 'John Brown,' who broke the sod of is. while the . Endeavor will hold their Annual Meeting exception, justUl.ed the magazine editors' freedom's fallor field thankln' God in D. 7 to 13. disorimination. The exception was a short And sowed hIs heart there, Washton, C., July pore slaves ud get the yield." For 1oh19 occaston the B. & O. R. R. Co. :Milk. poem by "Ironquillj" that is to say, Eugene Pasteurizing The "John Brown," partakes of will sell tiokets, from 8011 points on its lines, F. Ware, of Kansas. poem, The Binghampton, N. Y., Dairy the dignity, olearness and force of that west of the Ohio river, to Washington,' at It used to be said of Mr. Ware, that he Association milk to private ous- great martyr j moving one like Longfellow's one single fare for tbe round trip, July 4, to supply was "the Fort Soott poet." His writings mUk: one unnoticed ste'08, valid for return passage until , in that As all their a "Excelsior," lifting by 7, inolusive; . ., city. are so distinotively .�.--tomers however, Western, and dramatio with the of an we a to the thrilling, inspiring July 15, inoluslve, privilege and cream. is Pa.eteurized, append as it were,of ouraunsetsand orysta1l1zation, additional extension until 31 by depos from our peroration- July desoription of the process, taken sunrises, our storms and sunny days, "John Brown of Kansas; ittnr tiokets with Joint Agent a.t Washing Herald: our homes, history and He dared the prairies, people, begin; ton. that he has endeared himself to 8011 He lost. "The his milk from State, on sale at stations of dairyman brings But, losing, won." Tiokets will also be of and we olaim him as the bard of our the farm in large cans. The milk is us, M. CoNGERR. 8011 connecting lines. commonwealth. Possibly-probably-this 'Strained twice through ootton cloth of Delegates should not lose sight of the fact confining himself to )Vestern, and specially and is then into the that 8011 B. & O. trains run via Washirogton. fine texture poured Kansan themes, has limited his readers to EXOUBSIOBB EAST. whioh large double pasteurizing vat, those who know enough of the West to ap To and has a capacity of several hundred gal preciate the fidelity of the 100801 coloring. Pittsburgh Washington. Republican Oonvention at St. Louis, de lons. Underneath the milk vat is a His accuracy in the rendering of many Low rates to PIttsburgh via Vandalia via Burlington Route. water. Live di passages hampers, at times, the Pennsylvania short lines from St. Louis, tank holding steam, scriptive For the National Republioan Convention, of an Prohibi turned on and wings of his muse j in place inspira May 24th, 25th and 26th, account rect from the boiler, is at St. Louis, June 16th, 1896, exoursion tional exaltation, eagle-eyed, unwinking to tion National Convention, also June 6th, soon the temperature of the milk rises tiokets will be sold at very low rates over the sun, we are kept olose to Mother Earth, 7th and 8th, for North American from 50 degrees to 150 degrees. It is the "Burlington Route." that we may count the wrinkles in her Saengerf�t. To Washington D. C., July that for This will be the greatest politioal gath!lr kept at temperature twenty face. 6th and7th, for Christian Endeavor aged 4th, 5th, stnce the War. Preparations are being minutes. This is at heat and asked him details of W. F. BRUN' ing scalding . A friend of Dumas pere, why Convention. Get made for entertainment on a be heated with the grand scale; is as high as milk may his works exceeded in popular favor NER, A. G. P. Agt., St. Louis. scores of marohing Clubs in uniform will out it a burnt taste. Physicians more finished writing of his son. He re giving take part in Parades; 8011 the prominent so heated all in substance: "I sketch, he photo all agree that in milk plied Train Sarvioa. of the will be present. of the Prompt Republicans Country are graphs j I stimulate the imagination germs of disease, if they exist, month of the Write C. C. Rainwater, 910 Wash reader admires his During the Aprll passenger Major reader; his imaginative and Board killed and rendered harmless. train movement on all Divisions of the B. & ington Ave., Chairman of Hotel work." to ac "Cold water is then turned into the O. was remarkable for punotuality. ing House Committe, in regard your In the enjoyment of the "moods" of Iron system milk at their commodations. vat and the temperature of the is to race The through express trains arrived quill, we were, many times, brought in to The milk is respective destinations on schedule time Consult your Tioket Agent regard reduced to 100 degrees. two unsatisfaotory conditions. One, the oent. of the time. This is a time and rates. L. W. WAKELEY, then bottled, sealed air-tight and sub lack of movement-many of the poems be ninety-five per performa.noe rarely equalled by roads oper Gen. Pass. Agt., St. Louis, Mo, in ice water. It is soon as cold ing several pleasing verses on a given sub merged trains as are run on the B. sometimes sometimes several ating as many as 40 reducing the tem ject, one, FARMER ofllce for degrees. By & and well for the of Send $1.35 to KANSAS so Immaterial that their re 0., speaks eflloienoy cream will form on verses being KANSAS perature quickly and as well as the oflloials of one subsoription to FARMBR be benefioial. The the rank file, years' allowed to cool moval would second, Inter-Ocean. the milk. If it was the Operating Department. and Chicago Weekly was t\le amount of detail in some poems; it would not form. slowly set In at times with a view of contrast or "The measures that preoautionary to give local color, or, like harmony in are these: The bottles in are taken musio, to give a background best fit.ted to I MPROVED----... which the milk is placed are first sound the beauty of the tones. These ten washed, then scalded, and finally put denoies, held in oommon with the distin Dumas are adistlnotdrawbaok United States into a large box or tank and subjeoted guished jlls, Separator. to the value of Mr. Ware's work, to a steaming process. Each customer literary Users are enthusiastic in its praise on aN and detraot from the ability they are in of the association is made to supply points that go to make a first-class Separator. tended to set forth. himself with two sets of delivery cans. One An error is made In preserving in book says: absolute oleanliness each can "We make 15 per cent. more butter." ' To insure sat .. form the newspaper "poetry," politioal Another writes: of the associa is washed by employes ires, tha� have their' main pith and point in "0.03 of I per cent. was the test of the skim-milk to-day, tile as it runs _ every day." tion. The cans are also scalded and the inoidents of the hour ; readable then running Separator Says another: makes them ab in it is more then steamed. This only by those politios, who, "It's a fine running machine. Can be easily turned with clean it." solutely pure." than probable, take but slight interest in one hand, and only takes from 3 to 5 minutes to rhymes. The wealth of detail shows In the admir ."And there are others," hundreds of them, in our Kerosene on Seed Oom. of "Hlo able desoription of the admission special catalogue. Have you one? If not, ask for it and

where the . The annoyance and loss ocoasioned .Jones" to the bar, story properly we will gladly send one. ends with the report-of the examining com by the smart little ground squirrel in mittee, with possibly the last two lines as a a stand of oorn, have made We furnish the best Bab<:oc:k Tester, the best Chura, spoiling "bon he could exter voyage:" as as the best Butter Workers, Butter Printers. many a farmer wish well "Let us that Jones's future. so auspi entire A hope Cooley Creamers, Butter Packages of all sorts, Vats, minate the squirrel family. ciously beliun.em'soutlawed due-bills have and Boilers, and everything for the Creamery correspondent of Wallace'.� Farmer May. like Snlpe- Engine.s sufficient time to run." and Dairy. the following interesting experi gives Again, the sixth verse of the well-known enoe: "Washer-Woman's Song:" VEBMONT :J!'.ABM lJLtOHINE 00., BeUoW8 :J!'aUB, VI. "Five ago I planted about years "I have seen her rub and scrub sixty acres of oorn on blue grass sod On the washboard In the tub. and the squirrels work:ed on it badly. While the baby sopped In suds. Rolled and tumbled In the duds Poland-China seven or aores that 30 I had about eight Or was paddling In the pools Pedigreed �f��::�!':�:: Wltb old scissors stuck In aueh aa Chief Tecuml8h 2c1 9116 Orient a and I spools; Tbe brood 10'11'8 In m)' herd belong to the leadlnll famlllel. was left along hedge fence, Jr. 18614 Herd She still of her friend. 211186 0•• J. H. Bandera 8. humming 8131. GOOd Quallt)' 4700, 10'll'a'l Champion 2c1 62'l9. Longfellow saw more to UUU BO'll'8 and tor. Ale think I never squirrels Who would keep her to the end." uled Wreo'l Mec1Jnm 12887 S. and Corwin White 'Faoe B. glltl boan during 1896. In 18814 ....w1nner. 'II'hol8 ploture appeared U.e on We noticed Is a little bred to Hadle), Yet, a Ion of Hadle, Jr. S'I u.elll'8at prl the acre any ground. This in itself pleasing picture, or oome and I8lect Brud�r', G4utu'.laat Chrlltmu number. Wnw and dellOrlbe what )'OU want, better, with the other verses lot rall8d on the tarm. For 1&1e. a No. 1 an article in some paper on saturating but so out of harmony what :rou 'II'tlh out of tbe belt bred and Onllhllll eyer jllC�O� H. Marlon Co., _. ot!ense. a oard teen and one-balf handl billh. WarranWd a breeder. W. WREN, Marlon, seed oorn with kerosene oil and I as to constitute an Lay '. MAY 810 [6] KANSAS FARMER. 14,

THE SEWING SCREEN.

A U..ful and Decoratl",e Addltlon to Bouaehold Impedimenta. THERE. A delightfully decorative and Useful Dote in my lady's morning room, or 110 Here I am sick with thinking and with for the corner of her bed dreams; cozy setting It feeds your strength cream " . With memories of struggles, lately past. room, is the sewing screen, a gracious looks like t Here come to me the town's sharp, fretful a:l!air all the comforts as cream would feed it i-, little combining . streams I Of jarring sounds-that all sweet sounds' of thread basket, pincushion, needle cream f assimilate outlast, flows hke if you could case, work bag, catchall and table. One can There In the wood's shut heart Is spacious such screen, which graces the bedroom tit. Y calm; almost like F �similate i corner in the home of a little tastes And vast, deep silence; and sweet spicery busy S Emelslon, I , Scott Shed downward from the dusky pines like is fashioned of denim . housewife, yellow f soc.and'l.ooatalldruggistL -, balm- and a flowered silk, Good to sad souls that ache for sympathy. delicately yellow cream �� Ilnd can be very easily carried out in There, from the open mouth of one cool hands. any color by a pair of clever spring dUfe:re.nt colo:, The gurgitng laughter breaks-In silvery 'rhe framework, which consists of two VARIOUS USES OF SALT. ",s.tin in' Roman floss of streams- Jeaves 18 inches is three feet mixed with gold and sUver thre8(!1 soft to mock the of a human wide, high Illustrated Too quiet thing, Its Value IB the Bou8ehold b:r in with Beside it resting from late fever dreams. and is covered from the outside and and the high lights put spaa a Few Examples. gles and jeweled stones. The designs There vague, fresh airs uplift, like finger One pint of fine salt mixed with two are copied from old Italia.n embroid tips, pints of wood ashes and mixed with The matted curls from off the throbbing eries and Empire patterns, and when brain; watel' will mend cracks in stoves. When mist's finished are mounted on cardboard, And vapory kisses, from the light lips, clinkers accumulate in thc grate, throw Dissolve upon the cheek in fine, sweet rain. which is varnished on both sides to ill a handful of let stand a few min salt, the of the fiower There is green shadow, shot with threads of will be removed. prevent dampness ' utes and easily gold- they from the delloaite satin. water pots injuring Too mellow-toned to strain an aching eye A teaspoonful added to the in colors now at this Ea.&ter-tide of on a word 'The just And there 0. heaven bluets, which cut flowers are placed will pre Far the h1ll-slde that lies by. are chosen to mix well with up sloping ' spring serve them for a considerable time, :flowers. A rose-colored with 8 There one in emerald COveT, can 'catch, too-prone and a little rubbed on the griddles be gloom- cakes from, Semblance of dawn; rose billows, foaming fore greasing will prevent

' fair, stdcklng. Damp salt will remove the, Of a peach orchard full of clustered bloom caused tea on That blows pink flakes afar-wou ld I were discoloration by cups there! -Harper's Magazine. and saucers; if sprinkled immediately over any spot where something haa EXTENSION TABLE. boiled over on the stove, there will be no odor, and the will be easily 1'0 1Ilake ODe at Home fa Not Suoh. V.Q spot in a kero Great Trick. cleaned. A tablespoonful put the oil a A neat homemade dining-table, suit Rene lamp will make give and a small added able for two or four persons, can be' hrighter light, pinch a few to the starch will it sticking to easily made by anyone possessing SEWING SCREEN. prevent looks tools. By reference to the flgure all the the irons. If your ingrain carpet fastened on the tnside corners with a little salt over it and parts will be readily comprehended. dingy sprinkle nails. Each leaf is divided let it.lie for at least five minutes, then, The material may be pine or some finer fancy gilt into three the and lower and will be wood, though pine, if stained and parts, upper r.weep it thoroughly, you over to made of the silk. to see how much it varnished, will make a neat and durable given pockets surprised brighter A needle case covered with silk and iii look. piece of furniture. The foot pieces are will of yellow plush hang from One of the best for cleaning ] 8 inches long and made of 2 by 4 stuff pincushion things the of each leaf, respectively. Two brass is salt dissolved in vinegar. Cot shaped as shown. The legs are simply top fiat of covered with Ion fabrics are less to fade if 4 turned balusters, such as are used pieces pasteboard likely silk fall the middle division a short time in a and be had at the against allowed to lie for In stairways, may any :floBII of each one held ribbons of salt and water. design embroidered in light yellow are set into leaf, being by strong solution carpenter's shop. They and with the o'Wtlines in to form a wide pocket, the other stand Sprinkle damp salt around where topaz stones, or table when and braid, incloses ing for a small shelf there are moths lind they will speedily gold spangles gold with caught by ribbons to two fancy-headed take their departure, 110 flower pot planted pink tulips. screen above. Another in old blue satin, worked In nails on either side of the If a small pinch is added to the whites was ever white floss with and silver span Nothing so convenient put of eggs they will froth quickly. opals is for a of mar into so small a space before, according Small doses given at short. intervals gles, Intended pot to the owner of this housewifely joy. will stop hemorrhage of the lungs; for guerites. The in the above illustration Here , Por it is a joy, she will tell you. stings or bites of any kind of insects design is of embroidered in ia always the very thread and needle apply it damp and bind tightly; for pale blue, pastel with silver thread and one wants at her very hand. Here is neuralgia or severe pains in the stom colors, sapphires, and contains a. filled with room for one's work of various kinds. ach, fill a muslin bag, heat it and lay pot pink The table, pincushion, scrapbasket and it against the aching place. heather. which at the side, are If the throat is sore, a selssora, hang very wring The Most Important Room. ever and all things con cloth out of cold salt water and bind ready, practical The sitting-room can be made to do sidered, this home-keeping attachment around the neck, covering with a dry duty as a parlor. The library aa a mu has the merit beside of a thingof towel; a weak solution will being gargled' sic-room. Adrapery-hidden corner of Y. Times. also the throat. A bath in lIIeauty.-N. help sponge the second floor hall as a bathroom. A salt water will arrest night sweats, TO PREVENT WRINKLES. chamber with a folding, turn-down lind if used cold is one of the best !IO sofa bed for a sitting-room, sleeping Ea' Frequently and Moderately, and Do lutions for restoring firmness of thc loom, smoking-room or reading-room. Not Fret or Worry. fiesh; bathe the face upward and ther. But a kitchen, however metamor we must If we would prevent wrinkles One-half a teaspoonful dis, wipe dry. phosed, will be, must be, and cannot be make up our minds to take life very solved in a little water will almost in otherwise than a kitchen stilt Thetle and never to be much amused or relieve or cure colic easily stantly dyspepsia. considerations mark out the we kitchen, much troubled. We frown and fret, in a grown person. in the plan of household salvation, as laugh and cry, and these everyday ac Two teaspoonfuls in about a half pillt the most important room in the do tions bring, wrinklee round the eyes of water will act as an emetic, 0'1' . tepid mestic of homemaldng. bored in the foot cross or economy %-inch holes and mouth. Getting constantly if snuffed up the nost.rils will relieve a below and into suitable holes to will make the cold in the head or catarrh. pieces giving way temper. There is more Catarrh In this seetton ot the frame. Mme. in the end pieces of the upper wrinkles come in short time. Salt should be eaten with nuts to counter than all other diseases pnt together, be The essential part of the frame, which Patti never allows herself to get cross. aid digestion.-HomE' Queen. and until the last few years WIll! supposed to Incurable, For a great many years doctors prO allows the table to be extended, is the If she feels cross and it is due to the nonneed it a local disea.se. and prescribed local crossbar on This bar is 34 inches of some one near her she.al A GENUINE NOVELTY. top. presence remedies, and by oODstantly'tailing to oure with inch thick. long, 2 inches wide and %. ways leaves the room until this feeling local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Bol frame enoe has catarrh to be a oODBtitntlone.l It i.s let into the end pieces of the has passed away. proven Novelties in the way of fancy work dleeaae, and, therefore, requires oon8titutione.l flush with them and screwed firmlywith One of the most common ways of have been few and far between in re treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure. manutaotmed is to eat too much. screws. producing wrinkles by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the on17 rent years, and readers will therefore The top consists of three' pieces; 2 The skin of the cheeks and stomach ooDBtltutional cure on the market. It is taken learn tha.t a new and effective be glad to In doses from ten drops to a teaspoon of them are semi-circle 17 by 34 Inches gets so distended that when it tries to internally decoration for their drawing-rooms h�,q tnl. It acts directly on the blood and mnoous and the middle board 10 by 34 inches. back to its original proportions it get been shown at the Woman's snrfaC9B of the system. They offer one hundred of the table the recently Each of the end pieces top finds that it has lost power. dollars for case it faUs to enre, Bend tor exchange at New York. This consists an� has 2 cleats, secured to their under Another way of making wrinkles is the circulsrs and testimonials. Address, of what are called cachepots, or cover F. J. CHENEY &,CO., Toledo, O. side, which embrace the crossbar. They way in which we wash and dry our ings for flower pots, embroidered on aJ'"'Bold by Drnggi8ts, 711 cents. are so placed that the end boards may faces and rub our eyes after crying. be pushed together, forming a circular We rubour faces in all directions with stretch table, or to pull apart wide enough to a. rough towel, and in that way insert the middle board between them. the skin. We should wipe the face The middle board has dowel pins to cor carefully with a soft towel, and never ALL THE WORLD respond with suitable holes in the end rub It from the corners of the eyes near board. The cleats which embrace the the nose toward the ears or we shall Knows that the Peerless Good Remedy crossbar hold the table top firmly on have a fresh crop of crew's feet. moderate for Diseases of the the frame, but should be loose enough soap, pure water, fresh air, Liver, Kidneys to allow to slide along it and so extend and simple diet are the best cosmetics and Bladder is the top. one can use. A little almond oil rubbed smooth Dr. J. H. McLEAN'S For a family of four persons the table over the wrinkles will help in will be large enough, as its dimensions them out. Pass the fingers dipped LIVER AND KIDNEY BALM of the are an oval, 34 by 44 inches. The total oil from the outer corners eyes height is 27 inches and may be con toward the nose. The eyes should never It has Cured Thousands of Desperate Cases. Try It structed at a for ma be rubbed when waking but sponged very slight outlay AT ALL DRUGGISTS. PIlICE, $1.00 PEII BOTTLE terials and presents a good appearance. with fresh water, in order to keep THE DR. J. H. McLEAN MEDICINE CO, ST. LOUJS, Mo. -Thomas C. Harris, in Farm and wrinkles from appearing round the cor Home. .Ilers.-N. Y. Advertiser. ['1] 811 KANSAS 1896'.

.. ,. the loan BEORETARY OOBUB.N'S ORaP REPORT. THE QUESTION OF BORROWING. money. And, as for that, market oannot be made easier by mak- A summarized report of the State The fact that many of the great for dearer, as is argued »y the on Kansas FARMER. have been ing money Board of Agrioulture orOp KANSAS tunes of ..this country advocates of the lender's side of the oonditions existing April 30, based on ESTABLISHED IN 1863. amassed by the use of borrowed eapl case. While money grows in purchas- an of answers from and the further fact that when analysis inquiries . tal, Ih' power. even when unused and un- in detail sent to 1,000 correspondents Published every Thursday by and are ing borrowing lending proceeding it will loaned, who that believes and covering praotically every neigh actively an army of money-changers KANSAS FARMER COMPANY. continue to grow will want to loan, borhood in the State, was issued May are commissions and other pocketing But if it be un- OFFIOJII : muoh less to use it? as follows: and the still further fact that 5, profits, derstood that money is to cease in- WINTER WHEAT. No. 118 West Sinh Avenue. times of suoh are at activity exchanges then it must be creasing in idleness, Well-nigh everyone of the 105 usually lively, haa-Ied some to assume PRICE: ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. used to make it oontribute to the· counties reports winter wheat now in SOBSCRIPTION ease of the loan market as the primary wealth of its owner. It must then be exoellent desoribed in · tor a olub most oondition, .....An enra oop:r free lItty·two weeki condition essential to general prosper ot six, at fJ..00 each. either loaned or invested in produotive as "best we ever had," The that for debtors many prospeot KANSAS FARMER oo., ity. faot, also, ease Addrell industry. The former use will "oould not be beaten," "promises a Topeka, Kanllall. who cannot pay, the alternative is re the loan market, the latter will stop heavy crop," etc. The percentage of borrowing or surrendering the secur the deoline in prioes. condition in difterent counties ranges ADVERTISING BATES. makes the ability to borrow seem ity, The "statesmen" of the leading no.- from 72 in Cherokee to 117 cent! per llne,lIIIate, (tour- of all in average the most ..desirlitble conceivable �::R�l.��::��tMi.16 tions of the world have listened so oent. in and for the entire · Gove, notlcell, 26 centl per line. conditions and adds to the per Special reading emphasis for the Bnllne.. cardl or milcellaneoul advertllment! to the advanoing State is 97 cent. But two or three of the of the loan long pleas per will be received trom reliable advertllen at the rate importance phases interest of the value of money; for the make allusion to presence of ot 16.00 per line tor one :rear. market. reporters eon borrow- Annual eBrde In the Breeders' Dlreotol'J', lenders; for the promotion of chinoh bugs (these being on the wing) ltatlng ot tour Ilnel or lell, tor fJ.6.oo per :rear, In· There is also another side. Every that other than a inter- or even a of KANSAS FA_liB free. compound and none mention their doing cludlng OOPY school boy is astounded at ing, IIIleotrol must have metal base. thoughtful est can obtain in nn agument soaroely threatening harm, except perhaps Objectionable advertllementl or ordera from the a.ocumulative power of compound . II Imown to be the The interest of the reliable advertllers, when luoh reoognition. one township, the rains and considera at prloe. whenever he reaches that _, will not be aocepted any interest, treated as if he were of no been Inlure publication of an advertlae· farmer is ble 0001 weather so far having · To prompt his arithmetic. monthl:r subjeot in Compound ment, lend O8Ih with the order; however, consequenoe. The interest of the unfavorable to their propa or may be arranged b:r partlel is a most efficient aocumulator altogether quarterl:r payment! interest of who are well to the publtahera, or when au· manufacturer is the recognition The is full of moisture, Imo� whose side it works. But given gation. ground referencel are given. for those on oeJl�ble to a few lines. The interest ·oonditions and Intended tor the ourrent week proteotion the ideal wheat prevail .....All advertising if nobody should borrow, or if few Ihould reach thlB olllce no' later than Monda:r. of the merchant with the others is everywhere the growth is unusually IIIvery advertlaer will receive a oop:r of 'he paper should borrow, or if borrowers should advertllement. brushed aside in the to rank. The esti 1I'ee during the publication of the and eagerness pro- forward and acreage all ordel'l- pay instead of borrowing again Addrell mote borrowing and lending. mated by correspondents as seeded last KANSAS FARMER oo., Topeka, Ka•• borrowing the interest, the efficient If the individual shall say: "The fall compared with that sown the pre aid of oompound interest would be lost maw of the interest shows a decrease of 14.11 enriched it. oompound dragon vious year, The Modern one of the best to those who are being by MUler, shall have none of the produot of my oent. The area of the to those who owe per present whioh comes to our To these, as well as trade journals for I shall olear of he estimated as win of the loan toil, keep debt," seeding destroyed by a whioh of and cannot pay, activity table, paper places honesty does weli, but he deoeives himself. tel' and other causes amounts to 4.66 statement above other con market is essential. every The interest is added to the cost a net area of 3,321, The of the interest charge per oent., leaving sideration, is to remove this week agents compound and is deduoted of everything he buys, 500 acres, muoh of it now well ad to St. Louis. are now, as usually, the most from Kansas City Augus gatherers the of he sells. out. with dootrine that from price everything vanoed toward heading This, tine the editor, becomes the diligent promoters of the Gallagher, For the man from whom he buys is ai. five exoeptions, is the largest in the the Modern Miller renewal of prosperity is dependent head of Publishing borrower and a of The and but about 13 to bor payer usury. State's history per Co. upon restoration of the ability man to whom he sells borrows the cent. less than the seeding for,its great row money. with whiob. he pays. The rail- of bushels in 1892. The Henry Clews, the New York broker, Since the depression began, money crop 70,000,000 present both his winter finds that the "whole mechanism road whioh oarries purchases previous years in which the an Englishman of means, in conversa. is suf and his sales is paying as much for in- wheat area has exoeeded three million through whioh capltal operates tion with the writer, stated that the terest on debts in excess of the cost of were as follows: a sort of He further his coun aores fering paralysis." two most urgent questions in YUId. this sus the road as for service of operatives. states that "Unquestionably are: "What to do with our Year Acrll8, Bushels. try boys must to at this These interest oharges he pay 1891 3,582,006 56,170,� pension of enterprise is, stage, and what to do with our money. Every ..•...... 3,820,013 ..• , 70,0311.980 due csusee." an extent oommensurate with the vol- 1892 almost entirely to politioal of is in demand 1893 .4,909,872 2',6M.U. position employment and oannot be that has the ume of his selling buying. 1894 .4.675,704 28,1711.656 It Henry joined several times over, and our money piles There was a time when and 1895 4,056,514.. 111.512,241. But this talk sounds and buying Populists! up in our banks and there'Is no safe - oonstituted a small part of the It should be understood that the fig strangely like that of the People's investment for it." selling profitable business of the farmer. Production to ures made at this time as to acreage of party of four years ago. The situation indioated by this typi meet home wants was first in Imnor- wheat or other crops .are. the conserva: cal Englishman's statement is a repre The efteot of the persistent winds on and exchanges of productions tive estimates of ·intelligent farmel'll sentative one; No week but tanoe, passes. men 10- wheat has been unfavora took ·the of money transactions. ·and business in their several the.growing writer is reminded of the de place that the for each individual Fields in the great wheat- belt of These were the days of the grandfath- oalities, averaged ble, mand for "positions." Young men, Kansas whioh three weeks ago gave ers and great-grandfathers of the pres- oounty and the resulting peroentage middle-aged men, old men, want posi of thirty or more bushels per ent and are often referred applied to its previous year's seeding, promise tions. Small salaries will be aocepted. generation, last week good for no to old as "the good old but that those derived later on from re acre, appeared in the think there must by people People country enumeration assessors are more than half as muoh. Rains haTe Theyare not likely to return. turns of by be in the A man days." opportunities city. as the final and "offi fallen on muoh of this wind·swept But a return to the practioe of produo- the ones accepted been in who has locally prominent pub and which and the strong vitality of the on the farm as muoh as possible of oial" figures, upon report' region lio aftairs in this but to whom ing State, are based. wheat may assert itself in the surpris the living, instead of borrowing money of yields "outrageous fortune" has not been sometimes witnessed. with whioh to buy what the farm SPRING WHEAT. Jng way kind, expressed it by saying that if he have is a of estimated sown is hold" he would might yielded, polioy The area 144,300 the "Fall at To oould only get a "toe During Festivities," thrift which shows results wher- an increase of 25 de good acres, being percent., 28 to Ootober the hope to develop it into something peka, September 3, ever that old-fashioned kind of eeon- or the increase slrable. The "toe hold" has not yet 28,800 acres, being Kansas State Hortioultural Sooiety is found in more than a omy practiced. ohiefly Cheyenne, Sherman, exhibition of the horti been found, although year will hold an Norton and Decatur in the since the wish was thus oounties, cultural and of the has passed products appliances TREASURY REPORT. order named. Its oondition averages The State will be as expressed. State. sooiety 102. But does the Englishman want The United States Treasury Depart sisted by a oommittee of thirteen prac why RYE. issues each month a inter chosen from the to lend his money? Why does he not ment very tical hortioulturists, The area in is as to of the debt and rye reported 153,- of the Shawnee put the young man and the money esting report public membership County 000 acres, which is a decrease of 27,000 the one to the other? Is cash in the Treasury. From the re Hortioultural Sooiety. Every oounty gether, help from last it that the acres, or 15 per cent., year. it not more desirable as a condition of port of May 1, 1896, appears in the State is expeoted to oontribute With few exceptions the oondition is prosperity that the situation interest-bearing debt was- to this display. general rated at 100 -or and for the en 1896 $842,312,140 above, --_--- shall so change that the use of capital May 1, March 1, 1893 585,034,260 tire State averages 98.5. Our Dr. E. P. Miller, of New energy shall be remunerative, rather friend, by OATS. York, writes that if the agrioultural than that activities shall be developed Increase 1257,267,880 This is a increase for a Oats indicate an increase of 60,200 papers of the United States favor the in the loan markets and that compound right lively or cent. Condition, 97 free coinage of silver at the ratio of interest investments shall be revived? time of peace. acres, 3.76, per statement of cash in the Treas cent. 16 to 1, and also its use in payment of It may not be generally realized that The per fol CORN. coin obligations of the government, in the long run there is discord be ury shows up handsomely, as the shows: on corn conditions in all sec the agricultural papers are in the tween the prosperity that comes of lowing summary Reports market Gold $168,446,459.31 tions are invariably favora"!>le-were wrong hands, etc. It may be remarked ease and activity of the loan Sllver...... 510,1\86,116.96 never more and the season which comes from probably so, that most of the few agricultural and the prosperity Paper 161,775,048.65 Items...... 27,001,931.89 is from ten to two weeks ad of Other days ' papers which, according to Dr. Miller's the profitable employment capital Abundant rains have fallen are The farmer be vanced. ideas, are in the right hands, in industry. may Total cash In Treasury ...•..•.•.$868,700,556.81 in April on every part of the State, scarcely agricultural papers at all, but helped past a bad pinch by borrowing This cash in the is more Treasury the soil to work in the interest a short the manufacturer is making generally easy appear to be managed for time; than sufficient to pay the total interest and sometimes and favoring prompt germination. In of loan syndicates, etc. frequently a borrower, bearing debt even now, and would the merchant is a few of the southeastern counties he profits thereby; have it three years and two paid been some Those of our friends who are about and he counts plowing and planting have generally a borrower, months and have left a balance of ago retarded too much rain. Cul to renew their subscriptions will do as a of the what by the cost of it part expense nearly three hundred millions of dol well to note the following clubbing for in the tivation will begin early and be of his business to be provided lars; But the Treasury treats as debt list-KANSAS FARMER one and borrower is carried on, as the mild year profits; but the long-time the the silver certifi vigorously gold oertifioates, winter and abundance of feed have left of the at prlces named: the maw of the com any following a contributor to cates, treasury notes, etc., whioh Inter New work animals in unusually good The Weekly Ocean, $1.115; pound interest dragon, whose powers else and all banks oonsider everybody The estimates of area York Tribune, $1.25; Topeka Oapital, of show such re strength. absorption astounding money. These, with a few minor State Journal, $1.50; To planted or to be planted aggregate $1.50; Topeka sults in figures. items, reduce the balance in the Kansas Jour 8,680,000 acres, an increase of 3.4 per P'eka Advocate, $1.50; City There is· a great demand for legisla to $270,090,660.74. And of Treasury over the $1.30: Kansas City Star, $1.25. shall revive oent., or 285,000 acres, plant nal, tion which borrowing. this amount, $100,000,000 belongs to so orowded for in and 27.26 cent. Our columns have been When we come to our senses we shall -lng 1895, per larger the gold reserve, so that the eo-called the last few weeks that it has not been shall revive than that of the 273,000,000 bushel demand legislation which net cash balance in the is a of our Treasury possible to run advertisements farm and in the fac year, 1.889. industry on the little over offers. But back $170,000,000. THE SORGHUMS. premium by referring The latter kind of Our tory. legislation Ii. few weeks you will find them. The indicate a marked ad not be suoh as to lower Thousands sink into an for reports list is will continually ea.rly gra.ve subscription doing remarkably vance in and of the of of or what want of a bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. popularity acreage but we can stand a little prices products Industry, well, always for and not same raise the value of This great remedy would have saved them. sorghums forage grain, only more of this kind of prosperity. is the thing, KANSAS FARMER [9] 818

' corn ·and oats week enda in western counties where corn is not Weeldy Weather�Orop Bulletin. fruit prospects good; flax a fair stand. looking fa!r; MIDDLE DIVISION. in rain. largely grown, but in many of the east- Bulletin of I Weather-Crop WESTERN DIVISION. Weekly A severe week on weather ern counties as well, where corn grows crops. Dry the Kansas Weather Service for week The high winds have been unfavor abundance. The and winds general, with chinch in greatest probable 11 1896 high able to aU but the soil conditions ending May prepared by have crops, in area to be is at bugs in many places injured increase planted put T. B. Jennings, Seetiod Director: in general were excellent, so that but wheat in a few counties. Corn ,not less than 25 per cent. Of these severely few complaints were made of deterio GENERAL CONDITION'S'. is well and is various sorghums Kaffir corn is most generally doing being ration in orops. Wheat, barley, corn A week. Good show- frequently given special favorable warm, windy worked in the south for the second and pastures are in excellent shape. ers have fallen the central mention. through time. Oats have really Buffered most. Alfalfa, the king of the ,Arkansas val counties of the from the west is in first class condition and its 'GRASSES AND LIVE STOCK. State, F.ruit has been shaken off by the winds, ley, line to the eastern with have not un first outting has begun in Finney. Grasses, both tame and wild are, for- border, heavy while pastures esoaped showers in the northern counties east hurt. The week ended in Decatur.-Good ex ward in growth and affording better showers, growing week, of and in of the southern whioh will ameliorate conditions ma for the than is usual at the time of Smith, many oept winds; pastures, wheat, pasturage division. it is alfalfa, and some corn of alfalfa counties of the eastern terially, hoped. gardens good; year. The growth and vigor oonditions could not be Lighter showers have occurred gener- Barber.-Strong, oontinuous winds up; general is partioularly commented on and the better. in the other of the State. from southwest, very destruotive to of in the seed ally portions al promptness germination shrubbery, gardens and growing crops Finney.-All crops doing well; Live RESULTS . farmers in sown is mentioned as exceptional. of all kinds; indications now for rain. falfa harvest begun; good stock of all kinds is invariably reported EASTERN DIVISION. Barton.-A dry, windy week, ending spirits; .86 of an inch ran fell last night. hurt somewhat the healthy, barring instanoes of "cholera" Crops in general are making rapid in rain; wheat heading in spots, need a Ford.-Crops by rain to it all high winds; ",heat, oats, barley, grass among swine in a half-dozen eastern progress, though hail has shortened good bring out; peaches and oorn look first-class; alfalfa harvest counties. the fruit in Pottawatomie and plentiful, other fruit scarce; alfalfa crop next week. ORCHARDS. fine. begins Woodson, and ohinoh bugs are injuring wind but Butler.-A bad week on all crops; Gove.-Considerable high orohards in Barton, Butler, oats in some of the oentral 8IIIld Apple en everything is booming. Doni- oats suffering most, many pieoes Chautauqua, Coffey, Crawford, southern couunes. Wheat remains ruined Graham.- Continued fa v 0 r a b 1 e Mont- tirely by dry weather, high phsn, Elk, Greenwood, Linn, in prime condition, except where winds and ohinch bugs,' high winds weather for aU crops; fine showers at Wilson and of week soil in excellent gomery, Riley, Lyon rust has attacked it In Chero- damaging corn; some wheat. badly end keeps counties are being more or less hijured, kee and Labette, and promises damaged. and perhaps all slightly; condition; crops growing nicely. Grant.-Good rain some of them very severely, by canker' an early harvest. Corn is growing grass needs rain; 'fruit abundant and growing weather; and a is of 7th ground in fine condition _worms and forest tent caterpillars, finely good stand; being doing well. put worked the first time in the and are likewise harm to north, Clay.-Wheat oats exoellent; again. which doing there is while in the south some of it is half Kearney.-Windy week; These worms are being oorn-plantlng done, early-planted various other trees. moisture in the Irround and cultivated the third time. Pastures up and looking, well, worms eating foU- ample readily destroyed by spraying the to- well. fine. Gardens doing well. age; chinch bugs very numerous, crops growing which feed with such - liage upon they Atchison county.-Good rains the Cloud.-Wheat beginning to head; Morton. High southerly winds; arsenical as Paris or in but coming poisons green first of the week have kept the ground corn nearly all planted, and coming oorn-planting progress, to surface soil. London purple. in fine condition. fine; oats never lookec;l better; pastures up unevenly, owing dry Ness.-As the rains of GRAPE VINES AND SMALL FRUITS. Brown.-Crops all looking well. excellent. improved by have to 8th and 9th, prospects were never bet , The oondition of grape vines is good Chautauqua.-The dry week, high Cowley.-Crops just got ter. and the counties having the largest winds and bugs are not oonduoive to growing again; alfalfa will be ready to Norton.-All crops in excellent con good crops; oats suffering most; oorn out next week; a good rain is needed. area planted report prospecte very' dition. plowed the second time, some Dickinson.-Chinoh bugs and five favorable for an abundanoe of fruit. being Rawlins.-Much wind this the third; wheat and corn look fine; days high wind; showers and 0001 to heavy Blackberry'and raspberry canes win- corn up very slowly; worms still injuring apple trees. day, just what wheat needed; corn week; coming well. Both fruit trees and vines small looks flne. tered Cherokee.-A good growing fast; oats and rye turning grain week, growing favorable for all are bein'" planted liberally throughout but will need showers to keep ground brown from effects of wind. Scott.-Week very 'the Sta�. kinds of crops an,d the prospeot con tinues the most favorable for years • .A.PRIL WIND. Thomas.-Very flne growing week; all kinds of small grain making fine as to whether this The question progress; corn coming up nicely. spring is a windy one, need soaroely be Trego.-High winds have retarded aliked. That the wind is more than growth. -', /usually anxious to help is scarcely We have just received a oatalogue questioned. But some claim to re of the State University for the year member windier springs than this. In 1895-6. We are pleased to note that, his report for April, Chancellor Snow in, spite of the hard times generally stated that the total run of the wind the there �OI.. I'r prevalent during past year, for .the month was 15,816 miles, or .3b has been a substantial increase in the above the April average. .33., 2;076"miles number of students enrolled at the This gives a mean hourly velocity 'of University. The total attendanoe this twenty-two miles. In reporting his is 895, which includes 5611 men observations for April, Prof. Breese, '��/O 'year and 326 women. The new building of of the Agricultural college, gives 12,- o o� Physics and Electrical Engineering 607 miles as the total run of the wind o was thrown open to the use of students for the which is miles month; 2,807 time last fall. Various ova" for the first above the mean at Manhattan. For 0' &..1. .1t.Jes � in ... newcourses, particularly pedagogy, Prof. Breese gives the fol 111 l?lCh·." 'thllltle$sa.D, lto'-EI oomparison, h&.ve been added to the curriculum. of lowing tabulated statement his wind RAINFALL FOR WEEK ENDING MAY 1896. ACTUAL 9, Taking it all in all, the University is record for April for eight years, as fol hurt in a flourishing condition, and main lows: from baking; wheat rusting some from Ellis.-Strong winds all week, the it holds heavy dews and hot days. ful to vegetation; week ends in rain. tains high position among � An � - educational institutions. analysis f1' Douglas.-Oats fine; corn looks well Harper. Dry wea.ther and high � � � the fact � ;:l � ;:l :l. and is oultivated; pastures flne. wheat oats dam of the attendance emphasizes i ;! being winds continue; and - - E .: Franklin. Corn nearly that the University is a thoroughly AIJl't!. S; � planting aged; corn and grass doing well. ;;! � �;! much of it and stand; the � done, up good hot and a representative institution, parent � t:l t:l ::!. needed. Harvey.-Dry, windy, try ¥ wheat and oats look: well; rain is of tbe students divided among a '!" week on all especially age being Johnson.-Week favorable as possi ing vegetation, �

1893 .... 10172 330.06 652 92 14.12 4.1 corn and the last also an fact '.' apples and cherries falling badly; pall for wheat, oats, per cent. It is interesting 1894 ...... 11233 374.43 689 102 15.60 45 tures rain. mighty quick. that one-half ,(45 per cent.) of 18115 ...... 8363 278.77 702 112 11.62 40 needing nearly Kiowa.-The hard winds of the 1896." ... 12607 420.23 771 180 17.M 44 Lyon.-Crops in excellent condition; past the entire body of students are self ------to a considerable nothing suffering for rain. week have injured The last will be . ... catalogue Sums .. 78402 2613.41 ...... 108.88 supporting. Marshall.-A extent but the week ends in rain...... week, Means. 9800 326.68 13.61 good growing sent, and all inquiries conoerning too wet for work first of week; fruit Marion.-High winds and some that the last month higher education answered, on appli It thus appears trees damaged some by hail. chinch bugs have injured wheat; grass worms. cation to Chancellor F. H. Snow, Law:- was notable for the amount and steadi Neosbo.�Wheatvery fine; no chinch good; fruit damaged by wind. better than for Mitchell.-Crops progressing favora rence, Kas. ness of the There have been bugs yet; fiax years; -- corn too wet to work and corn has come up well and good " Aprils in. which the wind has blown getting bly; The Rusaellstaple-puller and wire-splicer, farmers best stand and cultivation oommenced. harder for a single hour, as shown in weedy; report prospect advertised tbe Russell Hardl"are & im wind turning wheat by the column of the but there for years. Osborne.-High Co., of Kans.as last table, and some plement Manufacturing week; muoh leaves brown on high ground for has not in the last been Osage.-A good growing Olty, is one of the best tOols ever made eight years corn on lower oorn with corn muoh yet to plant lands; coming up desires a of wind. planted, UI!Ie by the farmer who complete such an April steady working ohinch oat an even stand but wind cut it very is growing finely; bugs in combination tool for making and repairing oats stand. fields; pastures and gardens flne; much; poor fences. It is with sale by the wire meeting big If want· KANSAS FARMER and worm at work. Reno.-Hard week on crops but you canker still the beat fence factories. The McMullen send us rains have revived them wonderfully. Semi-Weekly CapitaZ, $1.50. Pottawatomie.-A growing week, Fence of Chicago, re the Woven Wire Co., KANSAS FARMER and Ad but out worms in the oorn and chinch Rice.-Wheat was dying from Or, Topeka cently tested It and give it their unqualified wheat oorn oul effect of the strong south wind, but the vocate, send 1B1.50. bugs in oats; heading; endorsement and recommend it to their hail in north shower this will materially or tivation begun; part morning customers. Ask your dealer for one it. FARMER and damaged fruit. help to the KANSAS Semi-Weekly from write factory. Riley.-Much corn planted, much Rush.-Wheatsuffered severely World (N. Y.), you can have for $1.65 is yet to up and dry, windy weather, but improved ene plant, early-planted No Room for Doubt. year. ready to cultivate; wheat, oats and slightly by these showers; grass excel facts are before must for corn coming up well; gardens When the you, you ,Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers is pastures flne; prospects everything lent; fine. and fruit prospect fair. be convinced. the best, handiest, safest" surest, cleauest, the UNION PACIFIC Shawnee.-Corn Saline.-Condition of wheat reduced The facts are that mOl!lt economical and ever up, fine, good stand, satisfactory dye Hessian fly and is leading all competitors, is the acknowl Invented. It Is the favorite. healthy oolor; wheat and oats growing very considerably; gentlemen's in car route, and great through rapidly; pastures supporting stock; ohinch bugs plentiful; week ends edged dining car line of the West. Plate alfalfa and fruit finest in rain. The method pursued by the Nickel fine; spring Kansas to ' and chinch The line via Denver and City Road, which Its agents figure rates as fifteen years. Sedgwiok.-Dry, windy, by Chicago In connection with the Chit'.ago & low as the seems to meet the re Woodson.-Gocd week for all kinds wheat; corn .looks well; lowest, bugs injuring Alton .ratlroad, with its excellent equipment quirements of the traveling public. No one which is muoh fruit shaken off the wind. of crops except fruit, nearly by of Free Reclining Chair Cars, Pullman Pal should think of purchasing a ticket to Buf Stafford.- severe week on all dem"nd. all strl pped from trees by hail. Very ace Sleepers and Pullman Diners, falo N. E. A. convention, during July, until muoh East. WUson.-Good growing week, too crops, dry and windy, injury the attention of every tl'aveler to the they first Inquire what the rate Is over via corn weeds a week ends with small rain. Ask nearest agent for tiokets the Nickel Plate Road. For partloulars, wet in some fields; and done; your week for cultivat thil!l route. E. L. LOIU.X, write J. Y. Calahan, Gen'l. Agent, 111 good stand; wheat and rye are good; Sumner.-A good on 42 Gen. Pass. and Ticket Agent. Adams street, Chicago, Ill. \!4 alfalfa tipe, wUl soon cut tint crop; ing crops, but very severe wheat; MAY 14, :KANSAS FARMER. 814 [10]

between bush berries the first Seed Potatoes--N'ew Varieties. grown better suooess of the fruit marketing Sulphuring to shade tbe season, but never any crop associations and the protection of the EDITOR KANSAS FARMER:""';"There is �odicufture. ground. the undersigned ear- oonstderable about seed po- fruit-growers, oomplalnt Stimulate rapid growth by liberal solioit presence at a tatoes not good this year. nestly your coming up dressings of fine manure and wood FRUIT- the and top . A GREAT MEETING OF of of own seed was A 1 in quality meeting representatives My ashes. associations ever GROWERS. unions and vi and came the best I saw, fruit-&,rowers gor up Success in the garden or field depends Local, County, States to be held at the no make. Our To tile Mcmber8 ana OJ!!cer8 of of the United and I have oomplaintto care in the Uni0118: much on good beg�ning. Dt8trkJtana State Fruit-Grower8' Chioago, Ill., on 2, are now (May Palmer House, Ohios, planted April Now if the time to give best. attention. The time has come when it seems for the pur.- budded to bloom never bloom Wednesday, May 20,1896, 4) (they no htlls, If plants to Have missing that the fruit-grower, of the National Fruit- out and have received two har imperative pose organizing here), have failed to grow set new ones in must once be successful, i.dentlfy and for the putting one cultivating and finanoially Growers' Union, rowings, deep their places at once. Much labor f.a himself with some in the disposl- of such as the the weeder: plan into exeoution plans over with lost this and profits enable him often by neglect, tion of his fruit that will members may deem wise. Last I expressed myself as present year for several years reduced. know what the markets of the yours, machine and to Very respeotfully against using planters, Plants well cared for should give demand and when and how they D. me to one and world JNO. CUNNINGHAM, many friends wrote try 100 cent. Fruit-Growers' more than per prOfit. Neg want it. Some method of oo-operation President Georgia be convinoed to the oontrary. This Association. lect them and both ·time and money means which intell1gent seven acres with an As- is the only by year I planted Value them for the dimes sustained. WILLIS BROWN, are wasted. methods can be adopted and and have m.ade up my mind Manager Oregon Fruit Union. pinwall, and the dollars they wlll produce, not is If twenty There is one that What co-operatton? C. W. BENSON, about them. saying and nickels cost. too. by the pennies they find that by working Texas Fruit 00. holds in planting potatoes, fruit-growers Manager always good To secure large, nice fruit, severe can secure better results "If want a done gether they and tbat Is, you thing is New growth on form Hortlcul- pruning necessary. in marketing their product, and preftde?i �:!��'State do it yourself." Now, I have tural Society. well, both old and new currants and goose 1000.1 union themselves, It is to men to drop a among A. found it impossible get should be cut back and old suoh WILLIAM GARDNER, berries muoh more necessary that twenty as I would do it myself. President South Oentral Missouri potatoes just wood in center of blJsh removed. Lat have formed 'Fruit-Growers' Association, beat 1000.1 unions that· may I am firm1 convineed that I can y erals on black raspberries cut back themselves in oo-operative W . G . BLALOOK, on earth If if together any machine , myse ,but one-half. Remove all Northwestern Frult- one-third or same should President to work for the purpose, one has to on hired help ,eaoh Growers' Association. depend canes and broken branches. The and broader weak thus unite into a larger . I would prefer drop potatoes, greatly bush should be round or oval in of these ideal field. If there are twenty the machine. Of course, it it is out of With 1IIII8Ctioidss and Fungioides. form, stooky, and pruned to admit free unions, it is much more impor- Spraying tbe to any large ",rea by larger or- question plant circulation of air. themselves into The season for spraying our tant that they form and a machine is necessary the is at and it hand, Currants are often injured by association. The same rea- ohards and vineyards hand, The ma one large where five acres are planted. The is about formation of should be attended to at once. borer. egg deposited son that necessitates the will them all at an uniform chine put and as soon as hatched the It is estimated that the apple orop June 1, the first union of twenty individuals, and if a man has charge of it, depth; borer eats its way into the pith of the several alone in in an ordinary season, young demands the formation Indiana, the rows will be reasonably straight. and feeds on the life of the plant. As still .one. ,amounts to, approximately, 3,000,000 as unions into a larger This latter is of great importanoe, the affeoted also estimated that at soon as the leaves start, have in the different prinoipal bushels, and it is for the first one We when cultivating time, a black of these would be canes, whicb now have center, sections of the United least two-thirds two-horse corn cultiva fruit-growing can use the discovered their siokly and State classed as "seconds" in the market, are easily by States, many 1000.1, district with the shields on, run insects tors, and, and should be cut out and It is deemed advisable to the defects caused by appearance fruit unions. owing them very close to the plants, knowing and This means a direct loss to burned at once. by those whose names appear below, fungi. that they are all exactly in line and that the farmers of the State from this one and who represent many others, that none will be torn out. The Aspin a National of at least $500,000 annually. there should be formed cause, wall does not put them deep kinds planter The of The same be said of all other Fruit-Growers' Union. objeots may enough to suit me. I run it at full The exist- fruit to a or less extent, so such union would be many. of greater the shoe out of sight, and A Man has depth, being would that a set of spraying machinery enoe of such a union immediately it to have put them in five to essential to suocess- ought all of 'our fruit asso- come to be just as Once strengthen many seven incbes, but upon investigating States. Instead ful fruit culture as the trees them- ciations in the United were found to be about three dem- they in the dark as to for it has been thoroughly of each section being selves; inches below a level. Of course the Bought onstrated that from 80 to 90 per cent. the shipments of competing sections, machine covered them muoh deeper, in a of the fruit can be saved per- we oould easily perfect system by crop but after leveling down the ridges they Poor fect condition an intelligent use of which each section would keep every by did not show enough. cost of not deep section the same markets the spray pump; and at a and Kerosene other (using I cut my seed by hand, myself, advised as to more than 30 to 40 cents per tree. at the same time) fully when I had a bucketful cut I put them insecticides it saved ten and kinds of fruit enroute In tbe application of of sui because it was cheap. He the quantity in a and put a large handful that there are tub, cents on his kerosene but when the com- should be remembered and to all inarkets, thereby enabling on them, stirred them up inseots with which we phur lamp expfoded he lost a house that sections to so direct their ship- two classes of Crates cut seed peting crated them. keep cost the have to deal. One takes its food by eat- $3,000. ments as to not only prevent and if one wants to plant while the perfectly, now so but it the foliage, fruit, etc., be You Often Pay Dearly disastrous gluts frequent, ing late, he can keep his seed until it distribution of second class sucks its nourishment from for Cheap Things. would make more equal to sprout, then cut and sulphur the or fruit. gins the fruit distribut- the interior of stem, foliage can be the fruits in many and crating them they It costs us more to make worm and them, by It would enable us to secure The tent caterpillar, canker ing cities. held a month longer. treatment currant worm are familiar examples of fair and honest through I used the machine to plant fifteen first and the squash , whom we trust the the class, plant lioe, agents to disposal inches by thirty-two, and it took nine have the second class. of our fruit. When we shipments bug, etc., represent bushels cut to one eye. On be di- per acre, from Colorado to the far insecticides 'may of of peaches Accordingly, seven acres I sixty-five bushels viz.: those put the same time that shipments vided into two classes, (I) If fu Deering East at and 100 of into the seed pounds sulphur. from to which must be taken system of peaches are made Georgia ture tests with prove all it is and which con- sulphur Missouri we see the great before becoming active, the river, claimed, it is one of the biggest things tain more or less arsenic, such as Paris of such a system as is outlined Binders necessity eartb. and White ar- on union would enable the green, London purple above. Such a I have sent out my four new seedlings and whioh should be used at the to intelligently plant the senlc, of the State to be fruit-grower of to different parts section and rate of one pound to 200 gallons most profitable fruit for his and the readers of the FARMER those which kill by contact, tested, to know the demand for and the supply water; (2) Reliable" a-com artdMowers should the "Old kerosene keep different fruits. Over-produo- such as emulsion, pyrethrum, of the. as. one cannot afford to be left of etc. The only iag, than it would cost to make machines certain kinds of fruit il:l bisulphide carbon, men tion of behind in the The and ours are here is In-the use procession. like our competitors sell as over- precaution necessary something to be feared equally them are reliable men and are is that test manufacture of of bisulphide of carbon, which very production or surplus under no to me, and their near the fire. obligation In all other lines of explosive when brought any commodity. will be of great value. All the WORTH MORE It is used in the destruction of all kinds reports both in manufacture and varieties will be tried business, these recent "boom" Roller Bearings alone add greatly the the of insects in bins. To may other products of soil, output grain some of which are the to the cost of our but called with them, machines, handled with some be added a third class repellants is controlled and Uncle Sam, Maule's Thoroughbred, they make them one horse lighter -those which by their offensive odors intelligence. With the fruit-grower and twenty to and make them last longer. as carbolic Acme, Early Michigan The successful fruit- prevent egg-laying-such Send for handsome this is not so. of the new kinds of the past pamphlet which are applied thirty called "Roller and Ball on is one who is able to market acid, soft soap, E'tc., Bearings grower three If my new seedlings are trees as a years. free to farmers. for remunerative A to the bodies of prevention the Farm," his fruit prices. not better than any of these, you the attacks of borers. any successful fruit dealer and, speculator against know it and be contented such ought to DEERING HARVESTER CO. who is able to his fruit at The numerous fungous diseases, is one buy with what you have, and yon must the black rot of grapes, apple scab, low and, by creating a demand, Reliable" to Fullerton and Clybourn Avs. Chicago. figures as( class keep the "Old a-coming The fruit-grower's plum rot, etc., require a different sell at high prices. keep posted. If they prove better, you all that. of remedies The one in most general success depends on his getting know in order to with which is must it keep up and the fruit dealer's use is the Bordeaux mixture, he possibly can the six of sul- procession. on his it as made by dissolving pounds success depends getting Morantown, Kas. C. J. NORTON. of and four pounds of cheap as he can. phate copper and these to 45 or 50 The immense qllantity of fruit quicklime adding Bulletin for water. The first Thaysr's Bsrry May. from the South to the gallons of application �}cQ&fvlKuuckle Joint and Sorew North, Hydraulic, shIpped first of a should be from should be made before any sign of the The growth ·plant Presses,.Graters, Elevators, Pumps. from the Pacific to the Atlantic, etc. its best. Keep the ground moist and "end for Oatalogue. to the to the disease has manifested itself, repeating the center coast, give " mellow cultivation. This BOOMER & BOSCHERT or fifteen frequent - a vol- at intervals of ten days. by PRESS . transportation companies great starts the CO., After the fruit has set a combination work warms the soil, plants 309 W. Water St.. SyraCu8c. N. Y. ume of business. The transportation Bordeaux mixture makes food more available find it to have their of Paris green and early, plant lines necessary of will be found to serve a double purpose and lessens the liability injury by Destro'er associations adjust rates and avoid Carnahan's Tree Wash and Insect in both insects and fungi. frost, drought or insect pests. needless The fruit-grow- destroying and root 10UH, pro competition. conserves moist Deltroys the bore worm apple Horticultwl'ist Purdue cultivation oureuuo and United in a like -James Troop, Frequent teota the plum from the BUng of the ers of the States, fertllizel all fruit holds it near the surface, where it the fruit treel from rabbltl!. It will be enabled Station. ure, the quality and aseoolatdou of the whole, University Experiment treel and vinea, greatly Inoreaalng is of most value to plants and allows to better conditions in trans- existing of a and dews �:�tltb��:::::::;'r�::t�I:'��':e:::f{:r�:�: As the strength building depends moisture from light showers K matters and to as- to John Wl8well, sore Mfr., Columbus, •••• portation mutually the of its foundation, so upon solidity to penetrate more deeply. and Cleveland, Ohio. sist each section in correcting unjust hes.lth the condition of the depends upon Weeds are robbers of all the best of common discriminations on the part blood. To impurities. and cause the A cure guaranteed or no pay. expel elements of plant life and should not carrier. vital fluid to become vigorous and life-giv For particulars address be tolerated in the HermIt Remedy Dept.L., fruit unions Sarsaparilla is the most pow garden. oo., In behalf of the idg, Ayer's • many be es 183 Dearborn St., CblOIollO,W in use. Potatoes or other vegetables may P.II medicine throughout the country and for the erlul and effective [11] 1896. KANSAS FARMER. 815

Yakima hasn't awakened to the beau ties of the dairy proposition, hence she needs her hay only for stock cattle. Cream Separators. She has few milch cows to feed. Do Conduoted by A. E. JONES, of Oakland Dairy Farm. Addreaa aU oommunloatlonB Topeka, Kaa. farmers see the point?" because it SEND FOR- , Cream may fail to "come" _ A Dema.ud for Oows. Growing Family is too warm or too cold, too sweet or BRAND NEW 'Ire.t Fre.het In II. Y. St.te. of the Of late years the tendency too sour, because the churn is too small When the papers reported "N. Y. Central tracks un4erwater. miles of fences away." we Hnt more wealthy Ol808S of our city popu for the of the cream, and be CATALOaUE swept quantity two trusty men to look after the 170 m lies of Pqe on lation is to seek suburban residenoes, cause the cows are too far past fresh that line. Report was true, but the Pal'e 414n't No. 246. an4 an oreler Is Just In for 30 miles more. to purer air in the country and condition. Cream from "sweep" owing newly-calved See April Hustler. the demand in the city proper for fac cows churns much more readily than PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO•• Adrian, Mloh. tories, shops and business houses. The from those nearly dry. Different kinds - lines has extension of the electric car of cream may be churned at quite dif New New made it possible for the business man ferent degrees of temperature, but Facts, Results; to live in the country where he and his each lot must be at the temperature family can have all the luxuries of the best for that lot for the best success. New New Prices. nn � n n n� �.� n No Machines, farm yet do business in the city. A novel method of packing colonial is with suburban residence complete butter for export has been patented in out one or more cows, not merely Jersey Melbourne. By the new process the U H H UU U more uB but U:,! for lawn ornaments, properly butter is packed in 80 box made of six A Practical Education with healthful to supply the table food, sheets of glass, the points of juncture ��:L,. Picket Lawn,Fance both luxuries and substantials. And in 8teel PoRe. 8teel Ralls aDd 8teel Gatea[8teel � being covered with gummed paper. �'Iower aDd Tomato Guarda; Cabled Field and BOJI the in all the cuisine calendar Fence. 24 to 68ln. Garden and Rabble by way, The box is then 80 coating of bJ1!b; PQultry. given Fence: Steel Wire Fence BOard,etc. CatalOllQ, fJ'll.l!. there is no other source from which U date D··aI I n plaster of ParIs about one-fourth inch P-tory g. 0eULB FENCE CO.. liI8 High SL. Delell., .. dishes you can get so many palatable in thickness, this in turn being covered as from the cow Professional products. with' specially prepared paper. But ******....***...... **** mechanics and laborers, when men, ter so packed has been shipped 80S or THE DE LAVAL SEPARATOR situated so t.hat can keep them, CO., they dinary cargo, as distinguished from I know of no Branch Offices: General Offices: want family cows: cold-chamber produce. �� £�Ew��!��! the farm or an!. brighter opening in ILL. 74 Cortlandt NEW YORK. wiD not lrr1ta.te, make The as the House, re ELGIN, SI., heatl malindustry to the farmer than the bill, passed BOre or gall your nOrBes the manufacturer of "filled" shoulders. For F.r...,.'u•• raising of 110 class of cows suitable for quires cheese to 80 tax ot $400 A farmer cows and send theCORK·FACED this trade. It would not require a pay annually, owning forty and a was induced the wholesale dealers $250, retail ing milk to factory to ...... COLLAR IS THE BEST neither would thorough - large capital, - Endorsed and used dealers $12, and for failure to pay such test his cows by the Babcock method. ... b:r bred stook be necessary, yet the nearer �-..8"".-:Go;:-"ve;;""-m-'-ment. World's Fair Medal tax manufacturers 80 fine Ten of the were the to this-the type of the animal being imposes upon poorer disposed of, awarded. Ask your dealer or write of $400 to $3,000, upon wholesale deal remainder fed a little better, and in 80 Cork·Faced Colla, Co. more firmly fixed and reproduction * Llncolnl.lIIl. ers $250 to $1,000, and upon retail deal short time the oreamery receipts from *•••** *** more certain-the better the chances ers $40 to $500. It also requires the the the receipts from for success would be. At least one thIrty equalled of "filled" cheese and its sale the It does not to go into ASK YOUR DEALER FOR would hardly expect to uucceed by branding forty. pay from original packages. The penalty or any other branch of farm using anything short of 80 thoroughbred dairying for false branding is a fine of from $50 ing blindfolded. sire. It would require neat and con W. L. DOUCLAS to The bill all retail not ex $500. requires venient stables, yet necessarily "We have taken Hood's as a SHOE BEVoL'l.D�HE dealers to post in conspicuous places 80 Sarsaparilla 83. ones. A few cows of the de blood In the as we If you pay" to .6 for shoes, ex- pensive here." In purifier spring, always s.ign "filled cheese sold W. L. and sired type for foundation. The milk feel the need of something to fit us for the amine the Douglas Shoe, • 80 1 cent addition it imposes tax of per see what a good shoe you can buy for 3 • products from these should pay all cost summer weather, and always found it ben , pound on "filled" cheese, the tax to be eficial." E. T. 920 Ha.rrison STYLES AND of keep and care and a good dividend Barstow, St., OVER 100 WIDTHS. the dealer. Imported "filled" North Kas. CONGRESS, on the investment besides. The off- paid by Topeka, BUTTON, of 8 cents _-_ and made In , cheese is to per LACE, all . These subject duty ., would be clear gain. Hood's cure biliousness. spring The act is to into etIect on pills indigestion, kinds of the belt IBleeted should be kindly treated, trained to be pound. go nineteenth after its leather by skilled work milk at the day passage_ perfectly gentle to cowhood, Union Pa.omo Route. men., We neat in kind and to Mr. Boardman, Commissioner make and appearance, loving Dairy What you want is the through car ser ladies and children. Such cows at 3 to of Iowa, reports that the 774 creamer vice offered between Denver and Chicago sell more 80 of Shoes 5 years old would find 80 ready market ies of Iowa average to make pound via. the Union Pacific and Chicago & Alton IS than which is unexcelled other _ any at prices more than double those for butter from 21.12 pounds of mllk. This railroads, by any line. Magnificent Pullman sleepers, dining other stock, where one went it should be at the rate of very slightly ordinary an,d cars and chair cars, run through daily with manufacturer lu the world. 80 demand for more. under ten of milk for a of would make quarts pound out change, Denver to Chicago via Kansas None genuine unless name and The business of raising cows for sale butter. From this it appears that the City. price is stamped on the bottom. is of unlimited extension. Iowa cows are fair butter-producers; capable Millions of Gold Ask your dealer for our 85, the more to their milk is about 80S "4, .3.50, a2.50, .2.25 Shoes- Those that were not up to that is say, • Colo. 83.50, a2 and al.'75 for bovs, resthetic taste ill appearence would find rich for butter production as that re In sight at Cripple Creek, Only sale to the milk and butter in the Ea.st. A New twenty-three hours from Topeka by the TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. If your dealer ready ported England cannot send to Santa Fe Route, the only broad-gauge route supply you, fac dairies. creamery, whose record is before us, tory, enclOSing price and 36 cents right by the "Anaconda" and all to State made from 65,764 pounds of milk 3,748 passing pay carriage. kind, style the famous mines. See the nearest Santa of toe (cap or plain), size and Prices of Butter. of which would be at width. Our Custom will fill pounds butter, Fe for all particulars, or write to Dept. agent order. Send for new Illus the rate of 20.2 of milk for a your Monday, April 27, the offerings of pounds Geo. T. Nicholson, G. P. A., Cbicago, ru., trated Catalogue to Box M. of butter-a little better than or J. A. G. P. Kas. butter on the Elgin Board of Trade pound W. Black, A., Topeka, W. L. DOUQLAS. Brockton. Ma••• the Western and 80 little bet aggregated 66,000 pounds. Twenty average, ter than the Eastern average. For the N. E. A. one thousand three hundred pounds general Meeting The average vdries with localities and at N. 7 to it will be of were sold at 14 cents, 16,020 pounds at Buffalo, Y., July 11, with and is individual in 80 interest to teachers and thalr friends to 14i and at 15 cents. creameries, cents, 6,000 pounds know that arrangements have been success from sale largA measure, and therefore capable EXAMPLE were AN Several lots withdrawn the Nickel Plate fully accomplished by Of what a very little money will do when you buy of better excursion on bids ranging from 14i to 14i cents. adjustment. Road providing for the sale of your Grocerle� at the right place. We have made the round with what can be The ElgIn market for the correspond tickets at '12 for trip r.a up an assortment of goods showing added for membership fee. Tickets will done In economical purchasing. We will not week for the three years NERVE RESTORER. break the assortment or sell one Item ing preceding be on sale July 5 and 6 and liberal return you single at the price quoted, lJut will give you the whole are as follows: April 29, 1895, 38,500 limits will be granted. For further infor A Natura.l for Diseases of the lot for Five Dollars, cash w lth order. to 18 cents. Remedy mation as to stop-overs, routes, time of pounds sold at 17t April WHAT FIVE DOLLA�S WILL BUY. Nervons Years trains, etc., address J. Y. Calahan, Gen'I, sold at 16, to 18 System-Fifteen 10 lbs. Granulated Sugar for 10 cta 30, 1894, 39,060 pounds 111 Adams street, Chicago, Ill. 98 Agent, 1 three-lb. can 'fable Peaches for...... 2 cta cents. 1, 1893, 30,420 pounds sold An Invalid. May .. 1 three-lb. can Table Apricots for...... 1 et at 25 to 28 cents. J. W. Draper, of Gainsboro, Tenn., A Look South Missouri for Four 1 two-lb. can Blackberries for...... 1 et Through Uncolored the 2 ,writes: "For fifteen years previous to our 2lbs. Fancy Jap.ln 'fea, Oents. Ibs. for 88 eta had been a constant suf marriage my wife 2lbs. After Dinner Java Coffee for 50 eta Dairy Notes. The Kansas Fort Scott & Memphis " .. .. ferer, never able to do the slightest work. City, 1 package Pyle's Pearline for.... 1 et issued 0. cts Prof. Henry, of Wisconsin Experi Many times, when she attempted to do Railroad Company ha.s just mag lIb. Pure Ground Black Pepper for 25 book of or more 1 bottle Eagle's Extra Catsup for 10 eta ment states that show some little she was to take nificent Itixty photo-en reports compelled _ Station, thing, lb. Pure Ground for .. 15 eta views of varied in south � Allspice that there were distributed in Jeffer her bed. When we were married the doc graved scenery 7 Ibs. Hand-Picked Navy Beans for 10 eta Missouri. From these views an accurate 1 set Knives and Forks. 6 each, for 40 eta son last tor said she could not live six months. Her county, Wisconsin, year$1,3oo,- knowledge can be obtained a.s to the pro � lb. Ground Mustard for 20 CIS was from the 000 for milk, and that Hoard's cream nervous system deranged ductions and general topography of that 5lbs. Yellow Cornmeal for 1 et mediclnes she had been French Mu.tard for. 8 cta out In drugs and strong section-that is now attract 1 bottle Prepared eries (five) had paid $300,000. highly-favored bot. Best Lemon Ext. for 20 eta obliged to take j but, notwithstanding all the attention of home-seekers and in 1 large Eagle's 1870 60 cent. of the farms in that ing lIarge bot. Engle's Best Vanilla Ext. for 20 cta per after a course of st,e has vestors the over. this, Pe-ru-na, country 1 package Selected Mixed Bird Seed for. .. e eta were now book is Shots in county mortgaged; dairying wonderfully improved, until now she is the The title of the "Snap %lb. Pure Ground Cinnamon for 15 eta reduced it to 7 cent. South Missouri." It will be mailed upon lb. Pure Ground Cloves for 15 eta had per very picture of health, doing her own % of 4 cents. Address 1 cake Sweet Chocolate for .. ". .. .. 5 eta housework and for several boarders receipt postage, A careful person will hardly consider cooking J. E. LoCKWOOD, 10 bars P. & G. l.enox Soap 10 eta for...... 8 eta his milk has been besides." Kansa.s Mo 8 lbs. fresh Ginger Snaps it sufficient that CIty, Loose Muscatel RatIns for 2 ets Pe-ru-na is a natural and efficient nerve 2 Ibs. Ca.lIfornla strained 80 wire sieve. A few 1 cake Enoch Morgan's 8apollo for...... 8 eta through and restores ac tonic. It strengthens the A Rice Root Scrnb Brush for 8 eta of cheese-cloth fastened over Ho I for Oripple Oreek. good layers tivity of every nerve in the body. Through 1 pall Fancy 'fable Syrup for 89 ets is that the Rock Island Dried reaches for.. . .. 5 eta the mouth of the strainer certainly the use of Pe-ru-na the weakened or over Remember Chicago, 5 lbs. Callfomla & Pacific is the line 5lbs. Dried California rears for.,...... II ets Much of the usual nerves resume their natural only running directly to be preferred. worked for " II eta from the East to Colorado Springs, the nat 1,200 Carpet 'facks can be out of and the blood vessels at II Ibs. Carolina Rice for " . . .. II eta assortment of filth kept strength begin ural for the Creek district. gateway Cripple A Dime Can Dr. Price's Baking Powder for 1 ct from once to regulate the flow a.ccording to na lies at the foot of Pike's the bucket Colorado .. by previously wiping Springs II lbs. Good Laundry Starch for...... 1 et laws. dis ture's " the udders all straw, hay and dirt. Congestions immediately Peak at its eastern base, and Cripple Creek II Ibs. California Prunes for II cta appear. It is through its operation upon is part way down the southwest slope of for above As an illustration of how creameries the nervous that Pe-ru-na has at Pike's Peak and near its western ba.se. Total price goods $5.00 system more routes from Colorado It Is our constant aim to give our patrons we the such a world-wide as a Two all rail Springs benefit, sections, clip following tained reputation Groceries for their money than they can get any are offered you. One the Midland rail from the 01 Wash: sure and reliable catarrh cure. by where else. We want your trade. Give us 0. trlal. Republic, Yakima, Ute via Summit, to Cripple For free book address The Pe-ru way up Pass, We guarantee all of our aoods. "Kittitas ranchers are selling alfalfa spring Creek. Another over the Denver & Rio -We Issue a 291 page cat& na Manufacturing Company, Colum • on at $5 and $6 per ton on a strong market; Drug Grande, via Pueblo and Florence, to Cripple CATALOGUE logue quotlDg you pilce! bus, O. Creek. Take the Great Rock Isla.nd Route you eat. wear or use. Bend 10 centa Yakima fa.rmers are glad to get $4 for everything to this wonderful gold mining camp. Maps, In stamps'to pay part postage OU one. Kittitas her --Do use It? If you their hay. Why? keeps Send '1.85 to KANSAS FARMBU office for folders and rates on application. Address you BINDER TWINE • do, write us for prices. cows and sells her milk to the cream one years' subscription to KANSAS FARMBR JNO. SBBASTIAN, Gen'l. Pa.ss. Ag't, EAGLE 1& 70 Wabash Av., Chicago. eries, and has therefore use for her hay; and Chicago Weekly Inter-Ocean. Chicago. H. R. CO:, MAY KANSAS 1i'ARMER.. 14, 816 [12] : .. MENOfallAGES BEES AS MESSENGERS. ...\l!!!��.��:l'�. to

, FtTee EvetTy The:r Carl'J' Dispatche. a. UnerrlDct:r .. Four out of five who Trained-Plceons. s uffer nervoueness, more than that the next mental attacks It is likely worry, . war will be signalized of" the blues," arebut Subseniber great European remarkable innova paying the penalty ot by some altogether early excesses. Vic ladies' LAnmS BOIIIE tions in the way of carrying military That grand semi-monthly,20-page journal, reclaim now number :100,000; and of a tims, your whose subscribers nearly The carrier pigeons COMPANION, of tbl1 dispatches. manhood, regain your this number is increasing rapidly. U you have seen some of a back are certain to noted tbe and quarter century Send tor book with recent issues of tbill beautiful journal, and many vJgor. Don't despair. • lit aU be storks, per that have been made, you will not be superseded, perhaps by explanation and proofs. Mal.led (sealed) tree. decided improvements have at this haps by sparrows. Experiments surprised rapid growth. already been tried with both these birds, ERIE MEDIOAL 00., Buffalo, N. Y. and with a. fair degree of success. WOMAN IS � The stork, however, despite his swift QUEEN, A BEE. is too ANATOMY OF ness of 1I.ight and his strength, Her Lebel and it Con.tructed 01 A.1J and Home is Realm. easy a mark tor the bullet, The Mo.t Wonderfull:r is questioned whether the sparrow is UsetullDsecti. sufficiently strong. In this uncertainty A bee is divided into three sections offers bees as amd abdomen. It has five an English apiculturist head, thorax their the form of a messengers of war. He has tested eyes-three in triangle packet-carrying abilities, and can vouch in the center of the forehead, and one for their speedy return, upon liberation, on each side of thehead. These,looked a.t to the place whence they came. under a microscope, are very beautiful. While,at 1!.rlit sightthe turning of bees The antennae are the two flexible with these Into couriers may seem something of a black horns on the head;' joke, it is nevertheless regarded seri bees recognize each other, and in them ously throughout England. The man are supposed to be located the ex • who suggested it took a few bees from tremely sensitive organs of smelling a friend four are to.the bee " his own house to that of and bearing. They v�y -r, brain is to man. A miles away. He waited several days, so much what the that the bees might become familiar bee deprived of her antennae loses with their surroundings. He then leta her power of movement, loose in a in which In the head and thorax of the worker _ few of them room, the which se was a plate of honey. The bees settled bee a.re nursing glands, while were crete a food fed to the larvae. , upon this, and they busy milky eating mock dispatches were fastened These glands are very large in the worker while act as on them by the apiculturist's trained young they nurses, hand. but reduced in the old bees of a. brood The thinnest of all thread bound the less colony. In the old bees they wither become shrunl> little packets, which wereoftbe1l.1miest more and more till they en and withered The of paper, to the bees' backs. Great care seemingly up. head when is also fed from , was taken to leave the and wings queen, egg-laying, is absolutely free. The windows were these glands, When honey coming '� is well she then opened and the bees thrown out Ireely, and the queen fed, a wondcrful of into the air. With the certainty of car has very power pro '/I,'. 1, rier pigeons, they started off at once ducing eggs, laying over 3,000 per day, or more than three times her own ).: for home, arriving there in an incred ibly short time, with the packets secure weight. :'.iI\t In bees, as in all insects, the skeleton upon their backs. that the body is not internal If Naturally this project would only be supports and warm as in animals, but mostly external, possible in summer and in cli is formed of 11 substance called mates, for the reason that the bees boruy chI which is flexible and is would be unable to endure severe tine, capable of molded into conceivable succeeded in whereby we are enabled to weather. Bees would have the advan being every We have at last completing arrangements our readers with this free ofall cost, and appearance. It forms the present charming periodical tage over pigeons or birds because of shape hard back of the cockroach. theIr invisibility. Nor would there be repulsive the beautiful scale-like feabhers of Who lills f'i1,ot lielllld of tbe .. any difficulty in going through the the gaudy butterfly, the delicate mem enemy's lines. The apiculturist says brane-whlch supports the lace-wing in that they C01'IId travel 50 miles quite as mid-air, and the black and yellow wings easily na they could four. .... of our native and bees, be hadies this is the first time that bees imported nome Though Companion? sides internal braces. tendons and ducts its have been suggested a"l army messen Hundreds of thousands are familiar with this magnificent publication, and innumerable. a attractive for each issue. cases beautiful colored covers, containing new and design ,gers, there have been many when The internal skeleton, bard for the Issued twice a month; its twenty or more pagee are filled with Ilfustratlons, stories, they have proved invaluable as defend interest to most part, and varied in thickness in sketohea, poems and practical suggestions of the most absorbing every forces. At one time, several ,cen member of the household. ing beautiful to the strain to the of in the adaptation The various departments, each under the direct supervision of writers especially turtea ago, 'city Tamly, con which it may be exposed, gives to are as follows: Spanish territory of Xiatine, WIUj be adapted them, of form to the little wearer; the the The invaders sistency This department 18 full Under this head are pre sieged by Portuguese. Pashions fancies which but it needs, wherever movement is IIdousekeeplng of valuable suggestions valiing fads and were bastion after toilet. winning bastion, ':I and of the count for so much In my lady's necessary, to have dellcate extension c1omestlceconomy preparation when the citizens were Illy meals. ' Lovers of fiowers will find thh beleaguered the of the joining edgcs unyielding Flowers ably edited by Geo, struck with a brilliant project. They The numerous tllustra- department, Here the thick coat is reduced Work In- W. of absorbing Interest. that could plates. �ancy tlon s and practical Park, B.Sc., all the hives they will brought to a ructtons of this department delight The delightful stories, Interest- thin, easily-creased membrane, . find in the and set them upon the I lovers of this dainty art. I articles and charming poems place flexion one is made to Literary ng where part care bestowed 1I.res under by This department Is afford ample evidence ot the city wall, building great of the most press over the otller.-Cable. ",iecoratlens,0Etc Invaluable to those on this department. Many pop neath them. The smoke and the flames are eon- I.,hlng to furnish apartments according to ular writers In the country regular so incensed the bees that they rushed ,"Jem tasty tdeas. trlbutors. flew down the out in swarms and upon , In addition to the above there is "Children's Comer," "Mothers' Chat," "Knotty enemy, making a panic instanter and THE STRAY LIST. Points," "Knick-Knacks," and "Miscellaneous." them to flee, causing us two sub In order to secure this free, send was 'Magazine Very much the same plan tried, FOR WEEK ENDING APRIL 30, 1896. OUR OFFER! we will scriptions for KANSAS FARMER and $2, and and with equal success, by a atatesman E. clerk. to Or, send Wallace county-W. Ward, order ,Ladies' Home Oompanion sent to your address one y�ar, free you. of whose house was sur ]<'. F. one brown KANSAS FARMER and Thuringia, MARE-Taken up by Cuttler, us own and and it will pay for white on face and on nose, your subscription $1.35, rounded one day by a furious mob. He mare, age unknown, spot Add 10c. if "Modern Cook Book" is desired. left hind foot white; v..lued at 110. Ladies' Home Oompanion one year. marched his servants out with all his Address KANSAS FARMER CO., Topeka, Kas. beehives and threw them one by one in FOR WEEK ENDING MAY 7, 1896. the midst of the crowd. A cannon ball Cowley county-So J. Neer, clerk. . : .. would not have been half as effective THREE MAREB-Taken up by A. A. Knox, In Bottom tp. (P. O. Geuda), April 11, IS00, three bay as were these and strange unexpected mares, two blaze face. one cream-colored horse, no weapons. It took but a few moments to HORSE-By same, marks or brands; four animals valued at e60. till 4lIC clear the around the statesman's _. - 4l'C space Thomas W. clerk. &15 .rt:'C�"a .� county-Ike Crumly, ... 5� Y. World. 'S.,& � .. � ,.; dwelling.-N. MARE-Taken up by H. J. Davfs, (P. O. Mingo), 5�;:!.! � = .. one black mare, IIfteen hands hlg!!" li ..... April 15, ISOO, ._ :: of comb. can front - Keep the frames They weight 950 pounds, scar on left foot made by r- :� ;i.=i.dS �&lh'alll� wire; valued at 120. .c Q.. be used to a good advantage to give to .. UI>o�r�1!l:;il'b0 .. .= P. clerk. 0 "'0 I!ls�lI Neosho county-W. Wright, .... � �o 8. newly hived swarms, so they can go to - � hTa5.r;; �� PONY-Taken up by J. F. llelnelwrlgh�, Jr., In = "'= work at once. ... � U � � one _ a;'r-.5:l Erie tp. (P. O. Erie), April 12, ISOO, gray pony � 0J:a- 1D,gIJJ-f mare, 12 years old, branded P. P. on left hip and un .. � .. ... The in comb !-= � IJJ d great advantage using -:;t ° .:!1!l,,11:... -a known brand on left shoulder; valued at 110. ,8.,.5 � ...sif'"1:a"'§IDS Y brown S .. ,,:l'" foundations is that with it thc comb PONY-By same, one pony mare, years " .,. - I>o�� Ctf old, unknown brand on left shoulder; valued at 110. � can be for use in a. few oll30olj= days, . ready W �� 02��!l!ll>4i,;dOIl:�� g: in this considerable time. MAY e"'l12 5i �:8:a� ;'ClO � saving way FOR WEEK ENDING 14, 1896, � ,& �';g = ... .. - 'li!"",o�I!lI>oB of bees can be readily Cherokee T. W. Thomason, clerk. I>o�� .. �� sli Any colony county 3:<;112 5� "s'"".c�3;;i�... -II. ".::!E<0� ...... re In Shawnee .. r- -I! �r-. 0 chn.nged to pure Italians by simply HORSE-Taken up bY'S. C. Wells. tp lI:�oIj Eo< -"'S'3'" 1>0�o'" III (P. O. Crestline), April ao, 1900. one roan horse, 2 ... .. the old queen and .. e"" � -=as a!�-< moving introducing years old, live feet high. II � .." .. as ��t::l".,5 'C III one her MARE-Taken up by R. J. IIlner, of Baxter W Z a new in stead. oo� ._ .. Springs, May 4, ISOO, one Iron-gray mare, black "'500 "'iI'8g5.,.�tz5�1>o� When a has been fo.r mane and IIfteen hands high, 5 or 6 years old, ��j � colony queenless tall, � "'0 .!!=�� shod all around. e IDJ'"�'O�i� no -=01». J: -i some time, or there are young bees -e !I!l� � of the age for nursing the young proper tn 1>0 Q .=i.c a a .. To sell cigars to dealers; lIS weekly, expe r- fi5 ��I�U!�!�gl�! a frame of bees should larvae, hatching AGENTS rience not required, Samples free. Reply 'be �t in, with the Queen. with 20.stamp. National Consolidated Co.,Chilllijlo,lll. 1896.

�L� 1IJ�terinarion. Horse Owners! GOlllmAULT'S ue W. ool'dIallJ InTlte our rea4.n to ooDlul' to .h.D.nr t.h.J d••I... auJ IDform.t1oD In regard u. ID maltlnlr liB or lam. aulmal•• aud t.hu In •• .... of Caustic LhIa d.partm.Dt OD. of tb.lnte tInlr f tu ..z of 'h. KANSAS FAlUI.B. GIT. l1li8. oolor aud bow aulmal••tatlDg .ymptom. aoouratelJ. of loq =�. 'i?1 ;:;��:'it�U:�1t.�.':fu:'-:.::.::. Balsam .... IIJ Som.tlm•• p.rtl•• write u. reque.tlDg plJ I Bafe Speed, aDd POIlU" �are and t.heD It 08_. to lie a pullllo IIeDellt. Suob lIIaIl. S.....to. Beet BLISTER ever uaed. Takea mu.t lie aooompanied IIJ a fee of ODe dol- The ,.qu.sta tbe place ot aU llDlmeDta tor mlfd or aevere actloD. �o.:g�:�!ldl�:O":� Removes Bunobes or Bleml.bes trom ..... ��'�dO::�e:'=�:I� and C.ttle. SUPER••DES ALL OA .RY DR. S. C. MauhettaD. Ku. ,Wi. V.terInarJ lD4Itor. ORB, OR PIRINO. ImpouUlUt(lpr04ucuC4rorAn JIIvelT bottle 801d 18 warrauted to give Att.factlon Prlo. ,1.80 per 1I0ttle. Bold or - I have a 6� dru.rrn::�ODa FISTULOUS WITHERS. �:'!'UI= herd with last ;��t I':I �Xfe':""de":d·?o:·Ie::�j,:r�'. mare that was used to LAWBJIINCJII-WJ.T..LLUl8 (,'0., ClBTelaDd 0. and it TaJII summer; she wore a side saddle bruised her withers. It came to a head and I lanced it and now it is a MARKET REPORT. B. running sore. W. W. Kan�aa CltJ LI..-e Stock. Cunningham, Kas. KAl'tSAB CITY, May 1I.-Cattle-Reoelptti fistula A'II8'WeT.-Your mare has a slnoe Saturday. 4,424: calves, 71: sblpped Sat and should be in the hands of a veteri urd.y, 8411 cattle. no calves. Tbe market was we sfioutd be In a drain lteady to 100 lower. The following are repre Continuous experlence In the Wool BUSinesB narian. all cavities to give manner. We seU Open aentative sales: 1lOBition to Berve your Interests in the most acceptable once a with a as small a commission as is con age, then wash day SHIPPING AND DRIIBSIilD BElliI' STIIIIR!I. ilireot to tbe manufacturer, and charge We make liberal advances on of of copper Ave. Price. No. Ave. Price. Ilstent with good business Jlrinclples. saturated solution sulphate No. all our 43 13.11) desired. We furnish free use of sacks to ship all diseased 20 1.888 '4.1� 1.264 consignments when for a week, or until growth 3.90 2! 1.3011 S.1I0 at all times as to the latest and best points 82 1,34; pers. We keep you Informed a solution of the 8.7. 25 I.SH 8.7; Asto our responSibility, we refer you to ill destroyed, then use 11' 1.2011 on the wool situation. "rlces, eto. S.70 20 1,142 8.7a bailks. Can't we correspond of two tea 21. 1.285 reputable businesl house or the Chicago same in the proportion 906 8.M 1. 1.000 863 any 211 , . of 3.,,0 wltbyou? spoonfuls of copper to one quart 8 1.060 8.50 II 1.2112 2 1,110 8.40 8 907 8.85 water. This should be used once a day 8.00 6 1,085 8.25 I. 1.000 SILBERMAN BROTHERS, the INDIAN for a few weeks until healing pro TIllZAS AND STIliIllR8. ILL. under then it 113 968 13.711 1.101 18.60 .asa· 11m Michigan 8t·t CHICACO', cess is well headway, 8.40 20 840 22 887 . other You 1.1114 ) f may be applied every day. tn 1.007 3.16 10 1131 8.25 The 3.05 It 1.181 2.110 will find it a long and tedious job. 72 1,·1114 120 OOWS AND BBIJ'IIIB8. should not be used while under mare I. 4110 IUO �j:.,/ IS ml.x. . 981 13.65 and - treatment, but should run on grass 1 800 3.50 I. 760 8.40 8.25 1...... 4110 8.25 fed to keep her in 1. IlOO be grain enough 700 3.80 10 1.044 8.n Jkd'. 1. 8.00 . • • .. • 940 •. .. .. 520 8.00 H. good ftesh I. . .. ======�. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!� B.... eIIO 2.1lII 2 '.' .. 1.186 8.00 1. 1.210 2.75 2 � 740 2..,.

. .. 2.85 I...... 1180 Goaip About �took. II " 11110 2.&0 2 m 2.10 1. 860 2.00 the most notable sale of Rose of I ...... 820 I.'" Perhaps I...... 710 2.00 will be beld Sbaron Sbort-borns .tbls year IITOOKBRS AND I'BIliD&RS. Kansas Stock 18...... &17 Yards' at Lee's Summit, Mo., by' 1170 13.90 ts.82� The on May 21, I. 810 3.M 2.. 6110 8.611 .,., Powell Bros. and W. A. Powell. It Is a I.... City 4 800 3.&0 28 617 8.45 most and commodious in the West, breeders did not prop are the complete tbat these 820 2.110 8 hf.. .. 1i;\0 2.111 great pity 1. . In \ railroad of the West and head The entire Soutbr erly ad�ertlse tbls oflering of forty Hogs-Receipts since Saturday; 6.408: shipped and second largest In tbe world I system lower. Th. direct raU connection witb these yaros, with ample Kansas,·wbere tbelr stock Is fully appre Saturday, I.� The market was 50 west centering at Kansas City has • 'sales: and stock. ciated and needed. following are representaLlve facilities for receiving reshipping 110 18. 13.VII '117 151113.25 21. .. 181 88.25 comes HOnNaud when It 83••• 188 8.25 Kansas Is all right always 8 140 8.111 79 183 8.25 Ho••. Sh..p. mul... 87 1611 86 188 8.22� to Improved stock. The highest prices 107 100 8.11i 8.22� ------1-----·1-----1----1-----1 11 ltn 8.110 118 188 8.20 86 218 8.20 at W. A. Harris' 189G 1,689.8112 2,0lil'1',69'1' 86�JJ18 G2,60'l' 108,86S,. realized for females Col. 8.20 Ill 168 3.20 omclal . tl. .. ll11 8.20 84 181 dln City...... 922.16'1 1,170,82'1 1167.016 . Beee�.::r Short-horn ••• 284 81.qbte Linwood of .cattle, '71 1130 84 •.•20'l S.17� '82 S.17� 111.4i6 dispersion S.17� Bold to fead.n...... 39'.1.282 1.876 ... 191 S.111 Lord a 1IB3 100 I.lfill 8.lit . '"111 lAstrweek, were sired by Mayor, "' '8.15 Bold to IIhlppen...... 218.806 273.1199 6\!,7114 '77 ••. 23.; ••• 3.12� 4.1,G88 .. 222 8.12� 'I'4.8,lG44. Harris and now 68 1l1li 8.11� 82 Total Sold In Kana.. City, 1893 I,G88,284. 2,4416,202 Col. ------�----�---�----�-�-�-�-�--�/ bull bred by 74 276 3.10 aII 240 3.10 M ... 248 3.10 Babst's the head of T. P. 3.10 00••• 228 8.10 cents 5 owned and at 8 Itl 3.10 114 188 CHARCES. YARDA.GB, Cattle, 25 cents per head; Hogs,8 per head; Sbeep, Tbls bull has now 71 m 8.07� 68 288 8.07� 1Jl ••• 2116 8.07� 100 'I busbel. herd at Dover,' Kas. cents head. 11 per 100 Ibs.] BBA.N, 'I per lbs.; CoRN, per at aoe 8011 69 2211 8. 0.; 2... 240 3.011 per HAY, a famous sire. become 4 2117 8.0. 107 818 11.05 51. .. 818 S.OII NO YARDAGE CHARGED UNLESS THE STOCK IS SOLD OR-WEIGHED. .. 838 2.l1li 112 lI8O 8.oe� 85 2'18 8.00 81. . EUGENE BUST, of Kas., reports l!'. E. E. 'BIClIlABDSON, H. P. ClJIILD, Zachary Taylor, Marlon, 880' 4 837 2.110 o, MORSE, ••• 6•.• ..8D 8 2;80.' ...r. Aulnaut GaD. Mau_r. GaD.8uperlnteDd ,.-'15'. •• GaD. Manllll8r. 8eoretary aud Trauu tbat orders for :fine poultry and eggs, .,.110·if'1If 4 435 2.75 5 4SO 2.75 V. Pre aud his. II; HORSE AND MULE DEPARTMENT. numerous than 460· 2.111 2 1120 2.75 W. S. TOUGH a SON, Manasera also for swine, are more ·1.·.. 4llO '1l.11I 1 11 2.65 3 216 2.25 never 8...410 2.70 404 ever this season. 'Whlle he may - Reoelpts since Saturday. 7,807; illustrious Sheep Sec-Treas . sucb glorious battles as his 46c. ROBT. C. WIDTE. Pres. W. R. MUNGER. fight ahlpped Saturday, 1,116. The market wall g.n Dally 411@1iOc: r.jeoted. 1 oar 8'ood Spring. he Is thoroughly convinced No.3. nominally 53 namesak.e, yet •raUy Ilte.4y. The following are representa No. 2. nominally 116@660: his advertisement In KANSAS FARMBR nominally 411@6Se: white. nomt tbat tive lIal8l' @li4c: rejeoted, ROBT. C. WH ITE " :financial benefit to blm lambs. 84 14.60 4II@fj50. will be of greater 2021ambll .... 88 fL60 Dally sa 8. 111 87 81 2.86 fair demand and was firmly tban tbe Mexican renown of the otber 848 Tez...... 1276 Corn met wi\h Live:Stock Commission Company stnee Saturday. 207: shipped but weak.ned later and some late Horses-Reoelpts held early. CITY STOCK YARDS. Zachary. and Sales 01 KANSAS Saturday.m. The reoelptsoontinue light sales were a small fraction lower. live stock and loaned to responsible parties for feeding S. A. Sawyer, the Kansas II fair demand for the best grade. Poor.plugin' 6,000 bushels May corn at 23 "0 10.000 Money ·-Col. Market reports free upon application. caller at the FARMER alow a' the low Mules lieU white at 25c were reported. May purposes. auctioneer, was a stock 1IJ prlv(Os. bushels July Consignments and eorrespondence solicited. Stock at with bid. ollee last week. He Informs us tbat he Ilowly. white was altered 240. 23�c ers and feeders bought on order. 62 a a Reoelpts of corn to-day. cars: year ago. make Pron.lone. . and Col. J. W. Sparks wlll public Chlcaso Grain and 10 cars. Fred W. sale of Poland-Ohlnas for W. H. Wren, of Wm. A. Rogers. Robt. E. Cox. Blabop. Sales on tr80k by sample: No. 2 mixed. 6 on September 17,1896, at St. 11. Marlon, Kas., May cars 23,,0, II cara l13"c: No.3 mized. nominally the fall bOWS and lopenedlHlgh'stlLowestl� Mo. He says thirty 280: No.4 mlzed. Domlnally 22@22�c: wblte, Joe, Wh ·t-May.... 61 � to be sold are far the cars 2 oars 24c: No.3. 6cars 23�c. eighty spring pigs by July.... 6� 64" 63 63� No. 2,6 24�0. ever oflered. He 65 65 64 at about Silturday's prices. with best stock Mr. Wren has Sept.. .. 63� Oats sold 211 2l!" considerable for sale some' fall Corn -May.... �" 28" fair demand There was bidding now has private t-oppy 80 ... IIO� IIO� were offered at litters. July. SO" for September oats. They' boar pigs and two sows with 81� 81" 31" 31" Sept.... 16�0. w1th the best bid l�o. Live Stock Commission Mercbants. of Tower Oats - May 18" B. R. Adamson, proprietor of oats to-day, 8 oars: a year ago. Live Stook lDJ[cbaulle BulldlDg, July.... III" III" III" III" Reoeipts Boom. 266 aDd 200 Hill herd of POland-Chinas, reports tbrough . cars. Kansas Mo. Sept.... 2O� . 20� 19" III" 8 City, "One traok: 2 our field man late sales as follows: Pork -May.... 7 60 7 62� 7 60 7 62\i Sales by sample on No. mixed, 7 70 7 �D 7 60 No. L. B. Andrews. OtIIce. extra Wilkes boar to J. C. July.... 7 62\i nOminally 15�@18o; No.8. nominally 14�c: John Molfett. Manager. good yearling 7 7 111 7 77� T. W. C. Lorimer, Cattle Salesmen. Dick Sept.... 7 86 87% Domlnally 130: no grade. nominally 12@13o: S. Molfett. Kas.; a Silver 1i5 4 50 4.6 4, H. M. and Sbeep Salesman. Beatty, Bayard, Lard-May.... "50 4 1 car Baker. Hog No. 2 wblte, 1 car 11I�0. 8 cars II1"c. 111o: W. A. Morton. Solloltor. yearling boar to W. R. Powers, Rockville, July.... 4 60 4 6Il� � 67� 4 62� 4 77 No. 8 white. 3 cars 18�0. Black and a U. S. Sept.... 4 75 4 77� 4 7�� also two Stop gilts 73 cars: the market Is weak Mo.; Rib. Hay-Receipts. Butler went to Mr. G. Hornaday to re gilt -ru��:::: "4'02;' ",'07j.i ".j·oo" ::% except on tlmotby. Timothy. obolce. U1.5(j@ MOFFETT BROS. & ANDREWS at Fort Scott. 4 III 4 20 cruit the Clover Leaf herd, Sopt.... 4 17� '10 12.25: No. I. 1I10.5([email protected]: No. 2. as,[email protected]; Merchants. We have one extra strong Silver DICk No. 8, 1;'50�7.50: cbolce prairie. [email protected]: Uye Stock Commission LIT. Stock. No.3. 14.00 a select lot of Wilkes Cbl_Iro No. [email protected]: No. 2.1';.001bo.f.O: on orders. Per yearling boar and 1. Feeders and stockers purcbased 11.-C&ttle-Recelpts, 111,0001 18.00@4.!JO: straw. 18.'[email protected]. to all Cor and Free Trade boars and gilts ready to go. CHIOAGO. May @4.50: No.4. sonal attention given conSignments. marke' fair to best beeves. 13.50�4.801 respoDdence Invited. Market reports furnished. with their six score steady: Kansas tbirty brood sows, mixed COWl st. Lonlll Oraln. ne!e,.ence8:-Natlonal Bank of Commerce. qur stookerll and feeders. [email protected]: Bank are us some, hence wbeat. 20.789 City. Mo.: CItizens' State Bank. Harper. Kas.: of youngsters, crowding and bullll. [email protected]: Tezas,[email protected]. ST. LOUIS. May 11.-Receipts. reasonable of Kiowa, Kiowa. Kas. we will make very on market aotive to 110 last 5.1141 blL: corn. 511.000 blL: last Mo. prices Hoga-Reoelpts, 40,000: bu.: year. Rooms 67-63 LITe Stock JIlxcb·ge. Kansa8 City, bu.: last 211.- tbose now ready to go out." lower: light. [email protected]: rough packing, IS.OO@ year.20.320 bu.: oats, 40.703 year. bu.: corn. \O�.OIl8 8.15; ml.xed and butchers, [email protected]�: heavy 800 bu.: shipments.whea�.66.6211 12. 70� 66.00� bu. Closing prices: Wbeat for Profit, or the Poor Man's packing and shipping, [email protected]: pigs. blL: oats. "Dairying No.2 red In store. 630 asked: Ma'y. r,7"c: written a woman 4.70. Cash. Cow," is practical, was by bid Corn Sheep-Receipts. 111.000; market 10c higher; July, 6O� '1i 60,,0 bid: August. eo"o OF AND DEALEItS IN who knows what she is talking about, and Oats OItOWERS natlnll, "[email protected]: western. 18.00®8.8O; T.:lall, Cash. 280 bid: May. 26�0: July, 27,,0. 10 centll for a 25·cent is cheap-only book, 12.50Z»8.40: lambll, 18.1iO@Ii,01i. Cash. 180: May. 17"0; July, 18�c: Septem FARMBR. to· subscribers for the KANSAS ber, 18"c. Send to this office. St. Lo... Lin Stock. and Kan... Vlt,. Prodnce. Cattle, Hogs Sheep GT. LOUIS. May 11.-Cattle-Reoeipts. 1.000: CITY. May 11.-Butter-Creamery, CONSIGNMENTS TO Dative steer [email protected]: Texaa KANSAS MAKE YOUR for new list of mark.t weak: •• Send program, including eztra fancy separator, 140; firsts. 130: dairy. meet steers. [email protected]. trotting purses offered, for inaugural 12c: fair. lOe: store packed. fresb. 6®100; Hop-Reo.lpts, 11.000: market better; mizecl, fancy. of the El Paso County Horse and Bicy packlDg stook. 5®5%0: countrJ roll comes In ing [email protected] : heavy. 13. [email protected]. and oondltlon and Is sold at paokinlr cle May SO, June 1,2 S, mark.t very poor Association, Sh••p-Reoeipts,6.000: steady. BBn. L. Welch & Co. 1896, to J. W. Miller, Secretary, Room 2, stock prioes. Eggs-Strlotly fresh oandled stooll:, 70 per Bank Building, Colorado Springs, Colo. Kau... CI,,. Grain. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, doz., 7�0 ID new No.2 cases. Southern. 5c. �SAS CITY, May 11.-Samples of wheat KANSAS _0. Poultry-Hens. 80; sprlngB,ts.25@3,1iO per doz STOCK YARDS, CITY, door w.r. all No. 3 or low.r. _ the to-da,. lb. for I to And EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL. Prohibition Oonvention Rates to en for 1� to 2 Ibs.: 180 per 1�-1l). Ther. w.. l1tU. demaDd for tbo low .radea hens. 7c: gobblers. 60: old. 110; for wheat. Bold sprlDg; turkeys. Pittsburgh. and not muoh IDquiry .ood feeders on order. Lib duoka. 80: geese. not wanted: pigeons. 9Oo@ Stockers and bouKht Excursion tickets for the above event .rll alked I'e.dy prioes. aDd bid••eD.rallJ' advances to the trade. Write for market 11.00. eral will be sold via V�ndali�Pennsylvanla w.re lower. reports and special Information. 25tb Reoelpu of wh.at to-day. 22 oarl: a ye.r ,,0. Short Lines froJp. St. Louis, May 24th, VETEBINARY SURGEON. 180arll. and 26th. 'rbe Vandalia-Pennsylvania Is Salell1l'er. all follows on track: Hard No.1!, witb solid trains from St. U. B. MOCURDY. VeterlD&rJ SurgeOD. Grad the only line No.8. Domlnally 411@1i()o: No. nominaU:r 11*80: uate Ontario VeterlD&rJ oollege. ToroDto. Can Union Station to Union DR. Louis Pittsburgh " loara 880. 1 oar sao: rejeo..d. DomiDally IJOtia ada. Can lie CODBulted OD all dlae_. of dome.tlo TU08.B.SHlLLINGLAW.ReallDltateaudBeDtaJlll1lDu' FIft.h Topeka, Ku. lIHab to F. 'A. G. 880. No. • aulmaJa at Om08 or mall. omoe: 114 We.t FIft.h AIr.DOl, 8t., Station. Apply W. BRUNNER, Il1o, 1 oar poor Soft. r.d. DomiDall, IIJ __ inTI"'" Ku. lLlIIII4 In lII84. ()aJ)II &D4 oorrMpOD P. Agt., St. Louls, for details. "1 MA. • recs. .� 1III04!.O....i. MOo 'a lIom- 81ne1, Topeka, FARMER. MAY 14, 818 [141 KANSAS

ARMSTRONG do IIIcltBLVY Cracked Corn for Poultl'J" PlttJIburgb. MANY PEOPLE HAVE PRAISED use of cracked corn is more The large BEnmR·BAUIUN done with Pure White Lead ]y employed among those who breed the Pittaburah. painting DAVIS·OJIAJIJIERS SO some use smaller breeds of poultry, yet PlttJIburgh. that we need to; but the fact . scarcely FIVE-DOLLAR HENHOUSE. it with all varieties. A better way FABNBSTOOIt Pltteburgb. that Pure White Lead and Pure Lin kernel remains would be to buy smaller corn ANOHOR Neat and Bold Cincionati. .& Look. and Tidy WID. - a the most or plant dwarf variety that. would I, seed Oil make the best perma- Ten to Twenty Hen.. EOKSTEIN } avoid the of it at the neeesity cracking - The house outlined in the cut has the nent and paint. To secure mill. In so, ILD exchange, satisfactory Sills 3x4, 8 feet doing says following proportions: wha.t is wanted and avoid this make sure that the brand of raften you get just long; posts 2:.3, 2 feet long; BROOKLYN the trouble of to for a great New Yor�. The amount of lumber having pay 2x3,6 feet long. JSWETT deal of meal made in grinding the corn, used was, for sills, 32 feet; posts, 8 feet; which is not eaten by the flock, ILDd ULSTER ratters, 24 feet: boards, 190 feet; in all, permitting it to lie in the feed bins UNION 224- feet. The house is eight feet square, PureWhite Lead the meal worm about a.nd ::=01 long brings and has asand bottom. Cbl.."". entire and un makes the grain musty SOUTHERN}SHIPMAN COBT 011' HOUSID. to handle.-Farmers' Voice. 1S For colors, the Lumber, 254 feet. $.2.00 pleasant COLLIER genuine (see list). Building paper, 10 pounds at 2% centa.. .26 NATIONAL LEAD Co.'s Colors are Shingles, 700 at$l.liO per M 1.06 MISSOURI Tinting Early Eire. for B�ee,Ung_ St. Louie. Two bunches cheapest clapboards..•.. LOO R:lD SEAL for Pure White Nalls 60 It is always an advantage to secure especially prepared tinting the earliest laid for SOUTHERN Cost or materlals $4.110 eggs breeding pur I Lead to shade BROS.OO any required. are in but if JOHN T. LEWIS.t; A manure two feet wide ex poses. They higher price, platform Philedelphle, Pamphlet giving valuable information and card showing sample. are never chi1led tends the entire There is one care is taken that they MORLEY of colors free; also cards of twelve houses of different length. Cleveland. showing pictures of various or combinations of shades forwarded roost at the back side of the house. they will hatch a larger proportion 3.\LEIII designs painted in styles the chicks themselves will Snlem,Maas. upon application to tbose intending to paint. The nest is in the front left hand corner chicks, and OORNELL cheese be than those from lald Duffalo. NATIONAL LEAD CO., two feet from the floor. Two stronger eggs KEII'1'UCKY I New York. season. There is another LoulJoorJIIe. Broadway, boxes are used for nests. It iEO papered later in the as the chicks on the sides, back and roof, under the advantage also, early get before cold shingles and clapboards. It may do through their moulting and with with just paper if one wish, and that weather sets in next fall, good will make it cheaper. I don't think feeditlg of egg-making material they most of the time next winter. that it· pays, however. will lay has be Now let us see what we have. A A late-hatched chick to kept one winter before it to tight, warm house that looks neat and through begins tidy and will hold 10 to 20 hens, accord lay, and then it produces eggs only is the lowest. ing to the season and the care they when the price

Lice In tbe Poolt.,. Yard. This is the season for lice, ILDd it is only the well-kept coops and yards that are free from the vermin. Lice will I drive the sitting hens off the nest, will force them to lay on the ground out PHAETONS, SURRIES, will cause the to and . side, chicks droop CARTS, HARNESS, SADDLES, BICYCLES, &:0. Is tbe beat .... die without disease At factory Our record for the past elgbt years .a apparent affecting prices. vehicle. aatee that we turn out tbe IInest, otronge.t and lowest priced for our beau- will invite disease debllrtat mone . All work Send them, by in the world, for tbe guarante.d. .. oal o- �...... tlfully Illustrated (Jataloj! ror 1800. Price. In plain IIgur�•. omc.s, .• the fowls, and will cause loss where .. e (le. O. Durabllll1. jng . .&111_".,. tJlnclaaaU,WAGONS. Oourt St ...... •UGGIES,1111'0, PI_,.b. rooms, factories: profit should be the result. Do not wait for lice to come, but the OUTLINE OF A CHEAP UENHOUSE. keep pests away. Frequent whitewashing of the the of kerose-ne oil on have; an ideal placetoputadozenheniJ coops, rubbing will the roosts, the of tobacco ref and a rooster, to get some eggs that sprinkling use over the and the liberal use hatch. No better place to set hens, nests, of Peraian insect well dusted from one to six in a house, accord powder crack and crevice as well as ing to the care they have. Do you let into_ every over the floor, the nests, and biddy take cure of her chicks when they every where else will be the safeguard.- are hatched? All right, don't carry only Prairie Farmer. them off somewhere; throw out the nests, and biddy and the chick. etc., put 'A good, strong colony of' �-;�:'l� on the are safe, and you ground; they cated where there is plenty of honey don't need to spend much time over that producing flowers will, with good man With some poultry netting problem. ngement, produce 100 pounds of comb can fix a little yard (small mesh) you honey and still allow another strong for the chicks outside, when it is time; colony to be made from it.-St. Louis will be a till they are big The WONDER this good thing I\epublic. Pump enough to have free range, also in wet •••••••• weather. A 'brooder and 50 chicks will THE MOST COMPLETE AND SUCCESSFUL fit one of these houses, too. SUFFERING just FREE TO ROTARY PUMP MANUFACTURED. When fall comes, it you have mar WOMEN. keted the male birds, there will be pul I.uff.nd for year. with u &erlne troublel, •••••••• leucorrh••,dllplacem.otl. the house for painful period" lets enough left to stock �u�� SUITABLE FOR IRHIGATION AND wonted to their :�1:tr:,r':!;:Ib!:�t!��=:Dfll:��t the winter all quar me wftbout tbe aldol medlc:a1.ttendance. MINING PUHPOSES. This pump has Thit II DO dookJr'. medicine; but a often overlooked those quaek stood the most severe tests and the com ters, point by DatU"', own remldy for women. ItcOIIta who want and of them. DotblD, to cODTlne. 'youraelf of Itl merl"', ments in its are most Man- early eggs many for lleDd h tree wlt.h full In,trnctioDs praise gratifying. have sitters to break ufact'd by If you up, pu.t llRS.LIlUJtfbDIfuT:Ift�'dl :'d�:-i�d, NATIONAL PUMP CO., them in one of these houses, put in a 306 West Eighth St. ® KANSAS CITY, MO. lively rooster (no nests) and the thing is soon done. No time is spent in mak their ing a place to break them up, and health doesn't suffer during the proc Wbo oan think or HAY CARRIERS ess. If wish will you eggs, you get an Idea. Slin a, b'ork8 &C. Our toots and eome stm- Hay Hay price. wlfl ...e you. Special price. If you about as many from one of these 1ifiIiiit0The �e��:�Mlt!'�o��!��:�t��lI:�':i. E,e as from twice as with twice g!��:�� ;�ii� ::'W�8.,FB�;ai"�:'::��;� bouses, big �'Mot armF�CI!\p'enoe ade.C\NteeMTawnSAf an f>onltl7 Patent Attorneys, Wasblngton, D. C., for their ..... Steel Poete Farm and Lawn Gates. 1896 +f Fen as hens in itl Did you ever hear 11,800 prize otrer and list of 200 mvennons wanted. many oatalollae FREE. W.,J. ADAM, ,JOliet, 111. man in substance: "Last a say, year .__. 20 hens and laid thl3 I CORRUGATED STEEL IRON ROOFING J had they tiptop; Ponabla Well Drilling winter I have 50 hens and they don't 81.75 PER SQUARE. 'l'he above, partly from World's Fair Buildings. we worth a cent?" Don't too MACHINERY lay put many AWAYUPIN as new. We have It limited guarantee good only 1IlItablllhedt88T. CcmIreclbypatent& hens together. ��:�tf." W::!';el:h"!�f" t'l."a� �:r��to��e�!1'lc'k��'i�8uiro8�El�MffC�'M� Maohlnetl drill any de� both by weather will atlllze It to b88t advantage, C':t Iteam and hol'l8power. We ellal. This house will stand the Second-hum' Depot In the World. 30'l5 S. and our four cornered doable Largest leaa:e __peUtioa. 8eD4 tor:flee for You can stand braced steel tower will hold i Halstead street, Onleago, Ill. all right years. up Waatrated oataiOl118.· I there. Per f e 0 t 17 galvanized. straight in it. It is quickly cleaned. Addl'l8l, KELLY ... TANEYHILL, a hen in it. A man ¥:'Dl ;l��T�n!Ja�&: ��ll�� WATERLOO, IOWA.. It is easy to catch OUtten, Pumpa, Horse Powers,&o with brains enough to make poultry Write forlllust"t'dcat81�e'lJItf can t pay can build it himself, and UU�'2?fLnlnM:'��. Ri!er�tt!'1; .change the size or shape a little. It can be built cheaper, if desired. The man from whom I got the idea had sImply two planks, eight inches wide, at and the roof COOPER for sides the bottom, was boarded up and down-no raftera or cross pieces, except one at the top.

He had no window, summer or winter, . not Just a door covered with netting, T_ INCUBATORS, BROODERS,VEGETABLE there all win- and positively prevents and and tight; but hens stay in Instantly ftles,gnats CLOVER CUTTERS. DIP horses AND tnaects of every description from aunoymg KILLS PREVENTS and I too. He had over 100 0f ter, ay, and cattle. It Improves the appearance of the coat, BONE and GRAIN TICKSl..LlCE AND SCAB. to cows it will MILLS. MAKI:.S WOOL GROW. these houses set in his orchard, He .dispensing with lIy-nets. Applied A comp!ete line of poultry BUP lies at give them perfect rest, thereby Increnslng the quan- IOlDeat prlce8.Gree DippIng pamphlet free lrom sold about 1,600 barrels of the insecticide for ont bone will apples tity of milk. It Is also a positive TeL harmless and effee MAKE HENS COOPEIt a: NEPHEWS, Oalvuton, year before I visited him. I do not Plants. We guarantee It pure, LA Y Recommended tbouaands using 1t..Ono InWinter and prodace 12 paoket makes 100 lIallons; We. paoket, 25 gallons. think in tlve. by that anyone gains anything Iaste four head an entire season, Price, In- If druggist cannot supply, send 81.75 for 12 packet to . gallon In . Sen 81.75, 4!�fr"t:�a�Ug:':.��a�l:;_ Evans-Gallagher Co., Kansas CIty, or J. W. Allen &; the end t.oo to cludlng brush, Q.l!art cans, 81.00' half-gallon, abfe information on poultry raisin by buIlding cheap begin J1[ado co., Atchison. Kas. and one RBIlon,82.IiO. Bewareo/lmltations. PBrJlLllB& INCUS.l.TOK "BROODBR C witb ; and outlast shingles clapboards only by 'l'be Cre8cent ManufacturingCo., LObi. 81., qUIlICY, ILL. .IUD When you write mention K&JlBas Farmer. New Yorker. Pblladelpbla. . paper.-Rural . J"I09IDdtBnB Avenue. 1898. XANSAS FARMER. (16) 819

or WIND MILLS AND PUMPS HOME-SEEKERS' EXCURSION I --VIA.-- I MMICRATE!! Gem and Halladay Mills Potatoes, )RRICATE Missouri ® Pacific ® Ry. FOR IRRIGATION OR Tomatoes, Melons, Cabbage, ANY OTHER USE. All Stations THE FROM j Turnips, Lettuce, Peas, Beets, 1 In Kansas . Stations In Arkansas, Onions, and all re Wooden and Steel TO Indian Territory, Vegetables, Tanks, Texas and Southern MissourI. move of Potash {All large quantities Iron and WOOden Pnmvs, fare pi us $2 for from the soil. RATE· the round trip. Supply Minimum rate $7. Enmes and Bollers, {One DATE April 7. OF 21. to April mall. It )I088Ible eta:r Gasoline SALE 5. wbere :rou are anel ltve til Engines, { May Ide..1 Potash _ anel plenty-tbe For further Information cnlleonrnearest I...... ,r I. the oDl:r mlU Hose and Missouri ticket or write �.J on tbe marlle\ macle e� Belting, Pacw, Pacific agent c::J for work; all la11:r Irrigation H. C. G. P. a ·T. in liberal the use otbenolrer ),on tbelr TOWNSEND, A., quantities by Drive Points, St. Louu, Mo �ar 'II.....�� Plve, Fitttngs, of fertilizers not !�rlJgt�g:�r,r��n�:: F. E. NIPPS, Agent, Topeka, Kas.· containing beaY)' dut:r-the best I. tbe tbu Illnel Of less than 10% actual Pot obea�.t tor WRITE 'FOR FcFrf�iD1:llo��«l�t:A.TO anel talle no CATALOGUE. ash. Better and more otber. If be eloe. not bave It, send for our oata· CRIPPLE CREEK profit loirDe and prtce•. U. S. WATER STEAM SUPPLY COMPANY able yields are sure to follow. STOVER MFO. CO., & I are Fe Our pamphlets not advertising circulars boom 11311 River St., FREEPORT, ILL KANSAS CITY, MO. The Santa Route is the most ing special fertilizers, but are practical works, contain .log latest researches on the subject of fertilization, and direct and only through broad farmers. are sent free for are really helpful to They malle Stael:Wlndmllls,:Steel gauge line from and ...... the asking. Towers Ohicago .. KALI Feed Grinder• Staal Kansas to the celebra.ted � GERMAN WORKS, Wingar's =:�� Oity anel are sell 93 Nassau St., New York. Oreek dis Ing tbem Oripple gold mining obeaper tban trict. Luxurious Pullmans, free t b e oheapest. Our ohair cars, fastest tlme, and low •••••••••••••••••••••••••• production. are ltaudal'dll; are lint and. rates . In •we.. olall evel')' re.pect and are WARNER ::::��gu�r��m�e'b'\r'i\M;��r�l�h��n AGlIINTS WANTlIID. Manhattan, Kal, LISTER CULTIVATOR OOLD! OOLD!!

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900.000 TlDN BlDBT KINDS BWEET POTATO LIVE STOOK AUOTIONEERS. t) plants for sale during May and 'June at low prioes. ' EmOfson's Patont Bindof Tonano SnDDort Inquire of N. H. PIxley. Wamego. Kas. JAJ;.:h:��:::S, Meets a want which Is felt by every man ,FROM PRIZE-WINNlDRS.-Langshan.Leg- UvaStockAuctionaar. the iIIade everywhere. Befer to the beat breed· a Binder. and Is for sale at low EGGBhom. Plymoutb Book. Mlnoroa. Wyandotte and· Bales using for whom I sell. Batlsfactlon guar sent to address. fowls. bred In tbe purple. A few more en In the West, price of 86, or will be any Hamburg reuonable. Write before boar. James anteed. Terms claiming on of II8dIIP'8ed Yorkshire for sale. Burton.. receipt FABJOIB. freight prepaid, Jamesto""'.'Kas. d!'te•. Mention KANSAS

B.-Barred Plymoutb Rooks. fl per fifteen. ELI ZIMMERMAN Hiawatha Kanlla8' EGGMammoth Bronze turkey. f1.60 per nine. Beleoted Live Stook and General Auotloneer. stook. D. Trott. Abilene. Kas. PedlJrreed and registered live stook a speolalty.

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SUNNY SLOPE FARM •••••••• EMPORIA, KANSAS, •••••••• Hereford Cattle Headquarters United States. Three sweep Farm is one of the largest breedin� eBtablishments in the Sunny Slope Archibald VI. stakeB bullB in service, with Wild Tom 51592 at the head of herd. Climax (Vol. XV), and heifers than and 1.he bull, Archibald V., the sire of more sweepstakes bulls any (Vol. XV), great and Beau bull in the United States for hiB and Lomond (Vol. XV), tho great Bon of Cherry Boy, a�e, for which combine the Real's Last, comprise our breedlD� bulls. Forty head of bulls now ready Bale, blood of Anxiety, Lord Wilton, Grove 3d and Archibald. ALWAYS WELCOME. BreederB are invited to inspect our herd. VISITORS C. S. CROSS, Proprietor, KANSAS. H. L. LEIBFRIED, Manager. EMPORIA,

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