' E8TABLI8I{ED. APRIL 1884. PAGES WEEKLY. ver.. XXII. No. 18.1883.} TOP�KA; KANSAS, 30, {SIXTEENPRICE. 81.50 A YEAR.
PLOWING BY STEAM The visitors at the 'Kansas State fair will WHEAT AND STOOK. value than wheat, and 'is grown in larger areas. 'fhe condition of is m remember that the Eclipse was the sweep rye eXQellent all of' the State. In the southem stakes traction engine, and not only was Oondition and Acreage of Winter Wheat, A Demonstrated Success by Use of Eclipse )\alfortionsit now affords'good spring pasture, anll this the result at but also at all the Oondition of :Live Stock and scarce Manufactured Frick & Topeka, Rve, in those counties where feed Is getting Engine, by other leading fairs where it was exhibited. Fruit. and the range not yet ready for grazing, It Pa. has valuable. In the 00., Wapesboro, Board or proved, especially It must be admitted th,at the advent of a [Last Report State Agricllllure.] north the plan-t Is short, but the roots are a of this at this WINTER WHEA'l'. and and a Is The ExbibItion at Wicllitll Lllst '\Vcek I traction engine character healthy vigorous. large yield! I The for the 0. Success. period Is timely for all agriculturists. The conditions were exceedingly favorable confidently expected. acreage- State has increased, as with last in September and October of last year to the compared KANSAS FAR�IER, This can in ' Special correspondence advent ill the West be viewed . year, very nearly twenty per cent. seedingof wmtiter w lea and rye.rv I'hls, t0-, ' The simple announcement that there no other light than as being very timely. " CORN. gether the encouragement received by would be an exhibition of steam plowing Threshermen, farmers and other users of wl�h The of last of corn wheat raisers from the more than average 'p'roportio�.. year's. crop' traction are still m the, counties in whichit made at Wichita last FrIday and Saturday engines heartily sick of paying yields obtained at previous 'harvests, induced remam_!.ng was grown IS 33 per eent., or 61,000,000 bush- was Bufficient� to ..ct a to exorbitant for an Increased area 'attr�, large crowd prices light, incompetent els, one-half of this amount has coun Nearly - TIie southoeasie·III tles-Bourbow witness this novel event. It was not only a machinery engines that in many cases ... onel passed out of the hands of the producer and "field day" for Wichita, but a matter of sur- scantily pay for themselves. Poorly-de- �l�t�OS�te Is sh.ipment In store at �;ri.��!e����:e:t'tl�:�t�n stations, t WIll move !as soon as e ficlent impertance to cause' men to come signed and inlperfectly constructed of poor where the crop was not successtulln 1883 II:Waltit;lf, tI:'ilwaym!lJ' ket becomes more propltlous, a distance and the counties. therefor", of i[l. view of the favorable conditions at seed� f,lom adJ'oinlng material, incapable wholly of merchantable, eornIast yearTheinshth°rte lfig,tlme put In a larger area than was con- crop was a dispensing with horse-power, which Umted States make the sound com The place selected for the test tract earlier. in toe ' sho'\11d fO.r tGmplate'd year of Kansas desirable,' to,the purpose tl were orI ina II bulIt ,0f the sown In e fa 0 vecy According ." 'of raw south of the The ley g, y ,or nearly breadth apfJroachln�h II prairie city. place' !'!Wort of the ,Agriculture' at tl�at to purchaser verl. Department-of was onMf easy access and was selected by yiel�lng re�um th� ,which �IChT?a�eea���l Washington, Kansas produced In 1883 more the Investment Jllstlfies him In expecting, ��u�a�h::luc������rr than as much ,merchantable, com as J. A. Wallace, of Wichita, one of the wheat areas from, year to year put In a twIce, any other state in the Union. Manyof our largest machinery dealers of southwestern This coming into the couutrv offering the larger acreage than was anticipated al- farmers have a large per cent. of tb'elrcrop though·tISSI 'till a sma11 decrease. 'I'n tlie Kansas. He' was anxious to see whether a traction that can-be made . people , on engine still hand, and will retain' ft' until the wheat belt, and beyond it W the west, the . use of of 1884 IS assured • an ordinary threshing engine could be util- during the threshing season only, and Inerease-haa been' large and in view of the crop as LIVE Ized' for,this purpose as well for the which the balance of tlte year must lie Idle success a�alned during' the past two sea- STOCK.', . was' to be In: the westeru ordinary work done by traction engines. -im "elephant" on the hands of the pur- sons, expected. Although the winter was of longer dura- half of the there 'Was an umlspally, tionthan. and more. sey,ere 'than for Mr. R. F. Foster, general a�ent at Kansas this '''Ecl\pse'' State\ usual, Jlhaser-b'!;l,t ll.9nestly-rateq_ heavy rainfall durmg the months 011 Septem- S6v8l'al:y� stoclf. genel1'lly, ha,� C21!l1l City for Fric1j' & CO,'S. lll!Ul!�facJ!0ry pf e,n-, patent, traction engine, �vhic� is this year ber, October and Noveml>!'lr, and the wheat throug!1 In good condition. The l�t, gines and other machinery, Waynesborol built in five d�fferent sizes, yarylng frol1�:B to plant made-a stro�n_g and vlgQrous.l,row.th �p 10lideStQ®>;i1T6dln the extrellle'Westemcoun-' to the first frost. This enabled it better to tie'S froIIi msufficient food and Pa., furnished one 0f hlHr fifteen-horse-power 15 H.-P.).is put m the market es-an all,-pu1'- lnadt)Cluate withstand the cold, weatheJ,' of December, Shelter. Horses have suffered some loss in traction engines-the Eclipse, which was pose engine" bringing profit to the owner Januag and Februll:ry, and there was but a various portlol!s,of the State:trom intluenza, 'attached to a gang of slx plows, known as all the 1Jear round. As a breaking, stir- very slight proportion ot ,the area winter 'and in Ottawa county from .glanders. The As with the area of the Kimmell gang-plow, made nt Cambridge ring, harrowing, harvesting, threshing, haul- killed. compared 18831, last named' disease has not yet disappeared, . there has been an: Increase tor the State OI and Is causing much lUlxlety. Aside from City, Ind., and the plows were or saw-mill it Is although ing, shelling power, equally 14 per ceut. making a breadth of 1,868,000 those mentioned, 'there have been no pre- rudely-consttucted and did not scour well, fitted, and possessed of these many quallfi- acres. Of tills area, 52,600 acres were winter vaUlug diseases among horses or and 'kflled, or the.unusuallv small loss from this are' III condition for the the ,Eclipse engine glided along ruajes- cations , the Eclipse traction engine prae- they good muleslarge . cause of but 3 per cent., the larger, propor- muount of and' summer � ork.In con- and the a new era for the spring tloally, easily quite steadily, plows tlcally tnaugurates tion of which comet! from the southeastern . templation.· Morecomplete and appropriate turning six furrows, each about fifteen farmer, and emancipates the thresherman counties. . were for . preparations made wintering cattle inches In width and five inches in from his too and The of 19 still more than ever before known In Kansas. .An depth. . precarious unprofitable .condltlon th�- crop, promtsing than it was either m1882 or 18B3. abundance of feed was in most ThI' 1ength 0f the sod pIat beIng pIowed was occupat·Ion 0f tlie PaS.t provided, Even In the southeastern counties, where cases, and comfortable suelters made. Pr&-- a' of a and a round was made quarter mile, Frick & Co. represent a million of capital the largest per cent. of damage was sus- cautions were also taken against the usual in some thirteen minutes. It took one man tained cold weather and o't11er unfavor- and administered. and employ 1,000 men.. The work goes on fro!ll diseases, preventives were the able eonditlons, the, prospect for an average, The result Is, that fewer cases of black-leg to manipulate engine and another the and nI electric IlItI used at day ght, g being crop Is now There have been are cattle than ever Your talked with a' encouragin_g. reported 'among young plows. correspondent night. Almost every moment is thus utll- two warm rains durmg the last half of before, and losses from all causes, except in number of who had which extended of competent persons, ized for the production of this class of ma- March, to all the westem-counttes, much less than usual, and this test the State, and these reVivesortionsthe "fhe ,In western portion of the carefully doubtingly watched chldery. It has be,eu demonstrated In l!ave plant;, range t4e and It Is now growmg rapidly and vigor, State was much by tIle rains III Oc and the one made at Emporia, aftd they ex- mjured Da,!!:ota that t�le cost of plowing ,Is reduced ously. With ordinarily favorable condi- tober, and where, other food was not pro themselves as well satisfied pressed being one-half'by the use of stearn, although fuel 'tions fro� now on, there Is vided, the loss was very large. 'fhe generl'l with the success of the and that the Yield will excee(1 thateveryprobablllty,0 last year. condition of cattle is and n; successful experiment is high and watcr not very nt. good, convenle, The condition in the westem counties Is cattle raisers is ,regarded It quite a victory'for this traction year alDong confidently We have given a brief notice of firm, more promising than ever has been had be- looked for. in to the other 'this engine, which, addition many fore, and correspondens from that section Better care and lIlore Frick & Co., which manuf!o\cture -a greater manage- farm purposes, could be utilized for plow- report �rmers In high spirits in view of the nrent than ever before hasiDtel.lIgentcharacterized the of this kind of than variety machinery apy , ing, and thus make a great·,savlllg 0f t'line encouragiilg prospects. industry of sheep husbandry during the past other iIrthe country, because they are the Of the wheat crop of 1883, there yet re- year, ,and the result Is, that sheep are fn ex as the ' and money, ordinary traction engine mains in the counties in which it was first to demonstrate that steam plowfng was grown cellent condition, and free from disease, must necessarily lie idle a greater portion of 6,000,000 bushels, or 20 per cen�. of the except t4e few flocks still have "scab,' a possibility In this State, and it is a matter of will be tha� the year; but now that Frick & Co. have a whole. A small proportion tIllS which has not been cl'lldlCated, because the of'importance to farlI ers to know that Frick' shipped out as s.oon as prices become more attention has not been nor traction engIne that can be used for plow- proper given - & Co. have a branch establishment at Kansas l;Iatisfactory, but the great bull. wlll be re- remedies Two years ago this dis Is of applied. lng, the cost little moment. tained at home until at least another crop case was but now it is confined to a City, and we shall give morc extended general, has been harvested. It is a custom that is fe\v',flocks. notice soon. fast' attaining :{l0pularity all'lOng Kansas The severit,y of the winter caused the loss farmers, to retam a fair prOlJortion of of a of and It was est'lInated tl t sucI1 a steam-IIltl tl�e laFge proportion early pigs, they . .111. products of the fnrm until another crop IS will probably be scarCll :md dear. The only lISlDg n gnng of SIX plows, could plow �'25 eithel'gathered'o'r assured. , disease cmiSing much IOS8 among hogs dur- acres and that it a per. day, would take ton, 'For seed an(l home consumption up W ing the winter w.as In most ,in 26 cent. of the last of coal to run the engine. It is a fact patent August 1, 1884, per crop stances where thiS disease o,ccurred, the wiU be necessary, or 7,500,000 bushels, leav- cause could be traced directly to the Impor- I to all tIlat fr'om th prod'uctlOn of c�l.oJera. I � ell?rmous ing .21,400,000 hushels surplus, of which tatlon ef car-load lots of stock hogs from that to raise It hereafter wheat, profitably 17,120,000 bushels have been shipped out of public stock yards, or from Iowa, or points we must be able, In some manner, to pro- the S�at�, and the bala�ce, 4,280,000 bushels, In Missouri. :rhe loss to the farmers of thlS remams m the farmers hands. from tl:!s cause during the winter duce it much more cheaply, and the success- S�ate past . RYE. Will aggregate many thousands of dollars. ful advent of the steam plow at thiS tIme is that 'fh al d' rt f f f 11 It Is safe to say every large public stock and we hail gladness' this and all stock cars that opportl�e, sh.all wit!1 and :irite�ep��tu:�IFs°no��e�1 ��e��to�(1 yards'in �ountry, the �rflval of the time when It has been by Kansas farmers, anel for the past five have bee� long in. use, are more or les�'ln fected some disease common to SWlDe, demoDstrated that steam shall be, the the area has been steadily increasing. Wlt�1 and the of from these Ie 1la 0f the State u Htthe Importation medium for the heavy labors of rearsn'tl SO\�thern If b t lightening '� �vards ana in these cars wi in the . attention IS given to it as a grain crop, but '. . hOl\ THE "ECLIPSE" ENGINE. as well as the of cases Letlamet e farm, greatly reducmg as as will maJority bring \ �ho the area is pastured closely lone; it ; of bearconta�n.this" The above cut Is a correct representation cost of producing the cereals. H. A. H. serve,the purpose. In the northern counties farll1l!rs Kan�as , not theIr andr their OrB area is and it is endanger mlndban�;negh ---,�.--- n much larger sown, while
ever paid the grower to, wash the sheep, many tons of burrs are picked out which it certainly does not now. Fleece- come. from somewhere and it must be washed wool is practically an' unknown said mostly from Missouri -. T rUDLI(J SALES OF FINE (JATTLE. and in the Chaff seed take off unrecognized commodity and being light, Butter. Dates claimed for sales advertised in tbe About Salting only western markets.' .from the selling price much more than' A great deal of good butter is The very few lots that find from what add to spoiled Co. .a:B8OCIII' straggling any possible gain they ��8:.'!,. ::dB��cktlon (1II0.) Br.eedors' defective '1'00 Uon Sbort·hornB. KansBII ()tty. their way to st. Louis or Chicago bring the by salting. httle salt is May 1.,14 Bnd Iii-Leonard Bro.,Ani1lB and Gallowa,-s, weight. XBn_ OIty. but a small shade more if any than un- It is no less than a bare-faced attempt no better than too much. Mr. John Co. Sbort-horn Breeders" PleR8:1nt BIll, Malo�8-CaM washed, and instead of making a class at fraud to wrap up either green or dry Gould, . .Aurora, Ohio, 'gives his views on or a in the wool houses are manure in the in a late issue of �:��?T���:;':���������j.�'re��:3t�:::inft.:':io . pile dumped fleeces, and almost invariably subject the. 4: McOonnell, Sbort.horna, lIf�':-Booo lIf"llbatt�n, into the piles of unwashed which, as a reacts upon the shipper by reducing the FctrmCl's' Aclvocate, as follows: lias. rul�, are not Improved in appearance value of a lot in price more than is It has been accepted without �:le��:��fi���o��'�';��:��i���)If.enter, It. question June 11 and II-S. T. Bennett 4: 00.• Sar· by Sbort·boroa, ..' gained by the additional weight. for years that salt is the The 'preservative Park Berd of Bhnrt-horns, Abilene. unwashed wools being our text, Our third J::�I��rham requisite-the proper fold ag�pt in keeping butter, but when one and shall '" Short-barns nnd toplc theme, what we do to and of fleeces-is a im J�:Si�stUy:mnDt Iroot, Ilolled, ing tying most considers for a moment that all poor prepare them for market so tbat the best Juo..�tr:!(hOB. Bugbee. Short-horns. OblcllIIO. portant one and worthy of much more butter is profusely then there is 8bort·horn Breeders' A8- salted, S.ptemherSO-Olay 00., lifo., prices may be realized? The essential it . attention than receives. Mo. . another side aoctatton. Llbert.y. . general to the question, and one 0-0.8. lin. thi 111 SUC11 October ll.Ichltoltz, WIchltn. ,Short-borns. mgs preparat·IOn are simpIe, farmer and breeder knows that November 6-S . .E. Ward", Son, Sban-borns, Kansns . Every perhaps worth considering for a mo f . Olty, Mo. ancI mem 1ier of this I. ' ever! Asso.ciation his hogs, steers, horses, mules; though ment. Butter is an animal fat, the name them all WIth but of and , w?uld ll�el� good breeding training, will not same as tallow or lard, and whv should Wool for Market. , vatlation-> Prepanng slight a bring top price unless in first-class we not salt them to give them keeping A. J. of St. lst.-A or fiber. Paper prepared by Child, healthy staple but men who in most matters and read the I;0_uis,GIOW- condition; qualities? Oxygen, the "sharp tooth of before MISSOUri Wool . 2d.-Freedom trom burrs chaff .' ' , seeds , are wise anc1 dent '11 b.0tCh thell' ers at their recent . pru ,WI it is true ·a meeting. . time," will after while de 01' any of 'l'he subject of preparing wool for Ba�ld, manu�e, �d tr�sh. wool up in a way that would do credit stroy lard and' tallow, but why butter in 1leece 3d.-Car� preserving good to a and much nice market does not admit of any original- 1':1 cyclone, really wool should deteriorate so quick even when by and proper folding and sold tor and 3 cents ity, this topic having been written up by shape s�e�rer, ts 1,2 per 'pound preserved with salt-is not so easy to un or on and tylng twining, less than it need be because of careless every author sheep husbandry, '" derstand. - and discretion III writers in the com- 4tl!. Judgment and unskillful at shearing time. If has direct by agriculturaland sacking. handling anyone evidence that salt It·IS consi'd d fectl I 't'una e by buyers wool per y egi t does keep butter would confer a merci�l �apers :wool �nd It is a notable fact that the lower the they . .. for the manu ac urer and commission men time out of mmd. feret tradesman to great favor upon the dairy by . of the more crittcal public !?nC6S and exhibit their in The best that can be done in thiIS dl-I w�ol b.ecome: 'put up goods the publishing the methods of so IS the . procedure, examination of It on the part of . rection at this time seems to be to com- . most attractive shape, and they would that the of this could t b d the r ed e th dairymen country
. be if did oth- pile the ideas and suggestions· that are . thought very simple they avail themselves of its and so 0 . . benents, . I . 't l1yelr�t'sp han.all'S andmod�ekmclC er mfor tarlie IaseYt to the present conditions of . erwlse.··What farmer or f'armer s wife prepare their that there would applicable 11 fraet·IOn 0f a t th offerings wool.growing, and to the customs and or daughter would pay as much for the be abeut half a billion less of ��� may Ut pounds _ clen °bn Ie Pthr�cek' of or usages the markets where wool is �e�m �ame prints, domestics, flannels, any badly preserved butter for the con auiS auomluhousdl,an f mh largely handled-bought and sold. other cloths, if the same goods' were sumers to reject,.or eat with distorted c�mmlsslO: t�Voolde 0 crors °fmuc l' It was formerly the almost universal ass.o piled promiscu.ously together and un- faces . expenence:n bel' ar wo�11 . custom to wash the sheep, so much-so, sightlv with twists and wrinkles? The I� may be said that lard and tallow '. bgro",;ersear me ouWto.inremth�mIS setrawtemenprtlCesIwtl.. IS . . that' probably mnetv per cent. of all . goods might '3tillI be as servioeable as keep because they have been rendered, th cI I'y t t when h domestic wools were marketed as �ve ever, but clearly they would have to sell or extracted by great heat, and poaslblv decefme�a�0 aIm�o� anhwere woop[lcesgrowmg "lleece-washed," or '. p�m for less and fewer customers would if butter could be cooked, it, too, would "brook-washed," of but that "tub-washed" T0 thewestern woo1 �s questIOnable .profit.atbest, want to them at all. s keep, but at the same time that we are , buy . Nothing paY It should be carefully prepared s.o that grower" it seems surprising that this .. for the effort than nice hl:tndling arguing this we drop the' salt theory the best POSSI'ble pnce be 0bt·amed bet.ter . may . of at . and admit that salt does n.ot 1m ce 0f"s wool . time the b b ti h h'"mg ,. shearmg keep aronsprac eepwas . accord'mg t0 I·tS grade and cb t·e1'. butter. existed so long, in these days it wouldbe .arac Shearers should be required to keep To our first That salt .. • • - neither to nor de- sl,xty days. �wenty( poimds of sIdm- 'BREED_S' DIREO'l'ORY. not, the,aalt adding ' , � .' tr$Cting from its keeIiing qualities. milk per day wuf be sufficient for the . Tli,elD&nlsli butter exhibit at theCen- first ninety days, 'but- no ihjury w,ill from a larger ration as the'calf in 1876 is,a �se in point of long- oc�ur te�nial For next an article .g):ows older, the ninety days, keepirig • unsalted butter, Ul milk is feed ten of had been made m which 'Was short, o�ly pounds wlJicb 1873, CATTLE. and' increase the oats'· or Quiteias well 8S lard or tallow could have skim-milk, to two Tfiis butter was made from middlings pounds per day. '-we 'l'. B08LAND. Iowa City. 10_. Breeder -er exfuJ»ited. 10111 have advised the linseed oil meal be- GEO.Sho�·bOrD cattle. car·load of'Thoroullhbred and. the buttermilk and prIces of sweet . cream, cause it is excellent for the health of the �:::I�I=.gib =: ���lIg1le wasbed out with water, thoroughly .' • and as we saw the has' . LILY__ Breeder of TBOR' which had been first boiled and then calf, by analysis, W RD. Nevada. 1\[0.. J • OUQBBBIID BBO'BT·BOBJrS.· AYOUBII Mal"J-bullat VA,_LLEY POULTRY YARDS" .•11- ten per cent. of oil and a large percent- head of herd. YOUBIIStoc.... forale.8aUa1'actIonguar· NEOlIHO. pure.brecILlllbtBraIlmu.;�d�e cooled: down to the temperature . proper anteed. . 8tOcklnaIl. � Cochlu8,PlI.bedjI870:ymoat1> Bocko. F4III.ln_n. � 0f 1e-formmg f00d , and phos- ..or wash...... in this we age Beudlorclrcalar. Wm.Hammond..bo"I90�EnijorlaJ[l!.. -. .' g Possibly mus� . - .butter 00. . of lime to build the bones and P. HIGINBOTHAM. Manhattan; Riley un- phate WM.Katllllll. Proprietor or the Bille Valley Herd ot see that a .. if brMil's of .. Ion"-�eeping butter, rded Short-hom cattla of the boat and WIGHTlIi:A:N. Ottawa. Kanlal. exten has excel- lamllles. and Brown d the frame. It most BOme WM.hlllh·cla.o pOultry-,Whlte �honill . cattl.. needS to be somewhat dif- BecobC olce colon. AIao mllh Grade Ollml ; . made y .. lor thirteen. sal�, In Oom and Helten. The and Blilf pc!ohlns EgIl8. ,2.00 '�•. 1-ent qual·t·lies as a food forraisingcalves choice barlalne Buill. . from sour cream butter' and of bulls (or the Southern and Western ferently "'- growinl Ifrade . r THE PLYMOUTH ROOKS. One dOlIarwill:pq can al beh ad ....or thO18 BPeclIalty. Oorreapondence aud a call at the and ways purpose tf1\de'a dellvered . that- the k"eepmg qualities of each are. Blue Valley Ban... Is raapectfully BOllolted. GEtor 13 Plymnuth Rnck 'US. ...nl""y.� from one and a half two cents ed.ateIpr_office. Geralll·Holslnller.HOeedale,X . at . to _ per , not ,..even thou"h the same skill .,- equal - VIEW FARM. Wm. Drown, Lawrence; at the former in tbQ beet DUTSOHER. No. 90 1I1":180n otreet Topeka, - their manufacture' and pound-generally figure ...... PL�!!��'IB'reeder ot JlII:RUY OA�. of be exhibited in ' . Blah... _ LOUISKano h.. lor Bale 100 LIJlht and Dark • stmln...... • the W and the latter m the of tit. tothink that success est, figure aDd Dlack Cochln pure-bred poultry JMelJn am mclined . I quite lor sale a Centennial and ..' . F.lch atralns. Also, . now R. PATrON Hamlin' BronOo.• Eas.tN'ew process linseed ·mea1 is x."breeder a."d Incubatore, All the above will be .,ld come _ In the future in butter will - makmg DB. .. . gradually taking the place of the old twel�� :'=�Ille:t �:U�o,lrt��r :r;:-ntlnll .�,;�.���"n!8 quite as much from studying .the condi- oil the difference that YARns. Orloliet B,andolph of and like mat- style meal, being WOOD' HERD. O. S. Elohholw. Wlohlta. Ka. POur:TBY tions age, temperature, of RIVERSIDE- to and a half per' O\K Thorough· ��: cream and rldll�t?J';I�iil�tt':b'{I:.;.��':i9.trl{i��:'Leg�� . ters of the before churning, tw� bred�b::\�:':��8:.eeerand b.reeder . ut meal be p.OOfor;'3. thus its probable keeping thetoileent.; ibS red�Iced01, may dispensed estimating Hereford Cattle. ...ND POUL'l'ItYYARDS. Waveland. Shaw- w,ith, and or_nUddlings used in � and o,ther qualities, as from better and oat-m�ar WAVEL if LlwhtDrrn�:'�'p-ta��'::'ih �i����ei'��. ...,- its fact, 0 I with skim-�. � s . SHOCKEY Lal'reuoe. ][anllM. b'reeder f .0< batehi In IIjlUOD; .- s�ad, ,or BaIV''''e now. . moreoomplicatedmeehanicism,pecpliar ' -, 8"toek �lIgl BII Cattle. anU ' 0u en 0f kim'lk-ml exce1 E • Herefnrd Three.oowe Balf Cochln Y have P1 tY; ,an r c. ellll8· and skill'fully devtsed ways of ·s. 11 bullllorThorou�bhreQBa e. AJao Grade bullB and heif81'lllor ale. pac][ages, . lent calf may be raised on this alone. BOOKB-Corbln'a Improved strain- . M G son, Doc... saltilig. 0 V· pLYMOUTHf3.00 per trio: .ua In aea 41so Peld!! It occurs that more calves a.re - But W • .Jge;H�: J�Hunter. Ku. Then we_ that the real object Bl�e�\'LANEOUS think the·flavol!' of his seal oil improved age, . twenty. milk to make one pound of live weight ;.ml!U����b'l�� :��e.�:,�o�:,.,a:ro�;J��and. by adding a proportion of salt jI Does the if tlie calf wild red man season his buffalo ninety days, B. MILLER. Breeder of HQ�Ir. Cattle. Shrop·· the' ?lI�g �rst JOs..blre Bnd Yor....blre -Swine. Ellwood SloCk It and a eater Sbeep IS all . given wantsj .. good iFarml. BelleVllle�llL steak with salt? Does. the Oriental,. �------will two and a half pounds •. -�����-- JunctloJi" Ltv. ' olive oil sea- gain per day VIEW STOOK' FARIII G. D. OAlI['PBELL; Oil,. Ka�. who dresses his food with I I E. GUILD. OA:PITAL made In of the • Stoc... Auctlooneer. Sal" ""', �- . J -. Dreeder of THOROUGH: Wiestern Rura.l J • Silver Lake, ltanaaa. son It with salt? And yet all these United Slntel. �SatlBfactory tere!-'ence Klten. - : gIDWA KWl:lH&��:�!:.. - .. 1O�f..t.l'OLAND., eat oils and fats exactly as:we do The moth ia peOple . ooddllng just beoomingestabllshed ..!..tjIok uuua AU" or A . M.·EIDSON L�on 00 Kae 0" 'W R.e Reaillnl•. 0, "' ..", N • :A.ALrtLI�an,Td·HEBOOP.·ngraver.ElurlelwUOOJ!·toIlill.�e for that in _m.�':': • . __ . ..-nd Nevada, the.8�mer,purppse,. bu,��, Dlt. ·'IaJ.t t th' breedl' oJ'd 'phQtograph. Terl1ll reuonable abel wodt' �.n�' ... e 0 with carbon to ; o th b d bredQ�ll!h�'�de �liort.h:"'f.�tt������f� • f 1"';-.1 y the in this 1� '. aupp g. One fourth 01 ootton country pro. Horses of the moot fuhlonable Jero' strain. pure·bred RENDERING ESTA.BLISH- duced In Toxaa. Bed and cattle. produce heat. aey Hop.'Jersey MENT.-Near Shuollananga creek. one-halfmtle . TOPEKA . . In the hoqhl; aIIO we are back to the of oouln of tbe elL,.. Tallow rouillt 80 ongmal pomt well on with a B. Mo., breeder of SBOBT'HORIf condltlnn a.fd be lie· . Peaches grow high ground SCOTTLSedaUa. lat dead bolt••�lDnat be In 10011 T OoTIWOLD and H • YOUND·OUINA Hoos. habit al'one 18 the OATTLE" liver.,} on tbe habit, and authonty southern exposuro. SBBOPSBIRJo; "HEEP. Send loreatalogue. .. butter must gr&\ln\'!":68Kab��e.:v�.�{.�=r:�· has decreed that be' , .. Ble tha� Cross·bred animals ma turo earlier and bet· n. & T. O. EVANS. Sedalia. Mo. Breed.n of I- demands of the consumers W Tur· salted. The tei:- feeders than puro·bred stock. key.;p���,!���r��tb1iI::��t:.�� '�nit't��:�. indicate that there is no standard of ..". Dr. When all otber remedies fall. then try BROS.• Hoyt Jackson Co.• Kan.... Breeden The wants of the CODsumer salting. SMALLor Short·hom Cattie and Chester White Swine. r enItnfal. for Trial A I· New King'li Dlscovory Consumption. Bollcl(pd. R Bo'ots, Oorre.pondence vary' from no salt at all up to J1.. '01inces Paid, Bottles free. !'!'!!!!����=����=�� At Publishers' -Prices, Postage to the pound of butter. Pennsylvania fa�mer8 say the Chester·White SHEEP. T. KELLAM One of the things. for our J. •. 1D!.portant breed of hogs Is the be�t for their seotlon. 183 Ave" Kanlal . to find out is that salt H. v. PUGSLBY. Kansas _ butter makers _ �opeka, K. Tabor of the A 'r. & S. F. raUroad writes of does not qualities to but R. .• PLATTSBURG, Mo.:breeder give keeping Merino that he hilS tried LIlls' Dandelion Tonic. and con· Vermont registel'£'d ter, but tather that such qualities are Sheep. t nspectlon or flooks 8iders it tho best tonic he ever tried. Waveland Poultry· Yards, result of careful and and correspondence invited. the study inquiry 440 heads the flock. Stubby WAVELAND, : ItANSAS, Into the process and wol'king of cream The surest way to get cheap Irelghts is to con· One hundred and JIfIIJ rams discernment of their �ense the products of tho soil within the hides of /Ot'sale. (Shawnee Co.) and ' • and butter, BronZ>! animals. Plymouth Rock .gll8. 11.60 per 13: Turkey. per 12. Of Ihe beat Blraln•. actual needs.. p.60 W. J. McCOLM, ------�------That Husband of Mine w. McQUITTY. Hugh.ovllle. Pottle Co. lifo. �B""ederor- Oa.lves. D Feeding . Is threo times tho man he was before he began SWln:r�e:I:�t ::�::r.� of;��rt�y�h:li:'::;is.Bt'i�::I�� Pure Bred P.,!ultry. Writ�g froni Iowa, a corre using "Well's Health Renewer:" 81. Druggists. -;.;ae""II""lu;;..:II:..:.. __ Favle" Peldn Hucks. Pl)'1nouth asks us how to feed flax-seed B. BOTHWELL, Breckenridge, Mo, bRA 1.100 spondent ram. lor 260 of I-bem sre Roclts. Light Brah There are twenty·nlne glucose factories In tho G • Merloo sale. r"glstHed. •. lu•. meal to He asks if it is better frelD 17 lb to , mils. Bqft' CocWns. calv�s. United States. with an estimated capital of 3� �!l'g'li��.::.i�..::k�,:u.:'.�ar Black Javl&s. "to feed it t,n with"-but does not say 65,000,000. R6Irlatered Vermont Spanloh Merino Illy Peklna are very fI"., an.l took lint premium In what. It is .-suppose·d that a ration for and Brobma }<·owl. lor anI.. B"tI.tao· PURE-bREDSbeep Llgbt 1882. aud firBt ami second In J8l:3 at Top,:ka State Poul· , lactlon R. T. McCulley & Bro .• Lee'. Sum· a calf can be made about as nutritious Be Oareful. guaranteed. mlt,Mo. try Show-D. N. Plerc,·, Judge. The genulno "Rough on Corns" Is made only as new to it fiax-seed EgII8 for batchlng nlc.ly packed 10 baakelll. mfik, by adding on . E. S. Wells of by (proprietor "Rough Rats") Pekin ror$I.76: a SWINE. Duckegga.eleveu twent,.·twolor. p.OO of fiax man on pi�t a labels. 150 . - • .·0. boiling fllce of • l111eI, made. by and has laughing BJl\Ck Java, Iblrteeu {or· 1.00 meal in • • seed and a pint of Qil twelve All others, thirteen for ,i.76: twentY'BII for 1.00 It is bad flll 0. farmel to oultivate only qua,rts of water, or flax-seed al<>ne in six pollcy .a.JTh��O��::..;!�OI����in��':I'::'e. b�::''\r f�� one crop. If that falls ho has lost his year's work. Bale. and correepondence Invlled. THE LINWOOD HERD times its bulk of water. Mix oile pmt Iuapeetlon two of skim-milk PLUl\[MER. 0_ Olty. ltanllM. breeder of - of much benefited a 0GHORT HOr:r.��I!"tG.. _ gruel with. parts I'HA.VE BEEN been very by WM.BecordedPoland.CbluaSWIn•. YoanlBlocklor CATTLE and feed bloOd warm.' Feed"it all it 50 cent bottle of Ely's Cream Balm. When I sale at rel!8obable rotes. so I a at times. If began using it my Ciltarrh was bad had wants twice day regular DOBERT COOK. I"la. Alleu county. Kau.... 1m· Ume and a headache tho whole discharged large ..1,\1 porler and breeder of Poland· China HOb'S. PIII8 there is any tendency to scour feed in . amount of fllthy maUer. That has almost en· w!,rrnotcd IIrst·cIMS. Write. milk a of meals coarse -,------the {or co.uple tlrely dlaappellred and I have not had headache that we W. ASHBY Calhouu 1110 •• wheat flour. Mr. Stewart says Bince to amount to Please Rend me or .1.. anything. L • Breedet· ot BEHKSHIRE SWINE iargp.8t and choicest .trolnA. may feed whole milk a single week. and �.wo more bottles.-JoIlN H. SUMMERS. Stepney. with little Conn. then substitute skim-milk, a L. WHIPP[,E. otta..a K h....der of Recorded Stock I • Poll\nd·Chlnl\ and ROd Ber hlr. Swine. lor iII" as above de • flax�seed jelly mixe(l �O K... a. a aeasoo.. Corr.. dence oollclted. A . SAWYER . MIlO b at•• 'LIve Siock Au', a••I II pon Sal.a made In ail the iltateB and Canad; or if fiax-seed is difficult to pro S • tloue.r. scribed; Good referellce. Have full selll or Herd- Book.. Com: of POULTRY. cure', add two tablespoonfuls oitmeal pllea catalogue•. W. A. HARRIS. Linwood. KBtIIIIII. per day, dissolved in hot water. This The berd Ie comDo!ed of VICTOBIAlI. VIOLETS. LAV. '1:'.-'1:'. DOLLAR per 13 lor Plymouth Bock'eggs' Pe· ENDEJIB BBAWITB BUDS. SSCBBT8. and othen � on meal may be doubled in a week, grad TRANSPORTATION OFFICE. No. 130 ONEkin Duck ellgo tbe Bame. 'l'nree BUtinp lor $2.5D. the celebrated herd of A. Orulcbhank. SlttytOn. AlMiI'. TOPEKAKanllM Ave., Topeka. All orden promptly filled. MlU'k S. Sal1lbury. P. O. bOl< 931. ltanllM City. Mo. deenahlre. ScoUand. GOLDEN DROPS. and Uays, d,e. to one herd of ually increasing pound per daYj Aloo storage lorall klnd. 01 good. at reuonal)le CIlarlOB. _nded (roUl the .,oowned S. CamlloeJl back.. famllle. a Klileu,.r. Aberdeenablre, -Scotland. ,A.lBO YOlJ1ui but this will be sufficient up to Orde.. takeu for 1I10vlnil apeclalty. 1'0ULTRY Y:ABD8-J. Q. Hoover.Wlch· sixty A. G. DRAKE, Manager. WIOHITA lIlARYSLYOUNG PUYLLI8E8. LADY ELIZABBTlU,eto. Ita. KIUlBIUI. breeder or l'ARTBIOGlII: CocDIN. Bl1l'P 1m)!. nAnON VUn'(1B 42824. hred b1 Crulckehan... an d days old. When the calf is sixty days - OoCHIN. L:rGDr BRAHIlA, PLYUOUTR RoC1l:. BROWN ImP. DOUBLE GLOSTJ:B head tbeherd. CITY STOCK SALES wUl be held the Co the or oat-meal J/IjI" Linwood. Leavenworth .• Ku.:...la.OD U. p. old, add one poUnd of oats month LMUORN. ROUbAli5 STRONGfourth Saturd� in each at StroIIJ.()1ty. !\Il� pu40� 8rANI�1J fOIl)lPy,.. �. If,,27 miles weet 01 �... Oltl�_JfY.IIl JoIn.I Ita- pr wJJot� mJa4UDp, COu�inqe tQiS. tOf 444J. (1, Q, B.IJJDBBBANJ), S!'Or8lM1r �n!}wfqf�' 1I!llh' QAMlOpei 00 IPIIIIMHOII. �o!l'lD"r.I. • - 4 . KANSAS F.A.RMIBR. APRIL • 30, I �=�==�=�==��:::r======�=�����=;'germinated; of· the yellow 90 per cent. L' Ible adjoining and cornering with home- states. 1}lY, Ing No, tblsls the, land of com .ma,�' think wIth . carefully selected corn there wlll stead, but If the act Is repealed I don't want milk and honey. (No wine.) (lonespondroce. be no trouble here to a stand so far as get the aav, One hundred and sixty acres are more ' Our wbeat In Nemahn. county has 'come , seed is concerned. H. F. M. I want while such land are Notes and tl!an bo�les'of out ofthe cold wInter in I Queries. held from settlement. splendid co'ridltion, never better. A small Kansa8 Ii'anmel': Millet as Feed; vecy b.J,'ea<\tJ!. o�' "pdn'J; Judge McFarland can see the defects of , wheat Is sown here. , We have had the b,est weather thus far Kansas We have V Farmer: " the present law, but bis remedy and recom- lear�4td,�hat thIs spring for in Russell county' It is not profitable, and Is verY farming Our wlntor has over a on to is Iapped long way mendatlon repeal too Shallow and thin chinch produ��iy,e,Qft',1 there has been for bugs. " the last six years, and . • to th8 spring and yet seems loth to let for a man such a A go. holding position. repeal , e:veJlYthing in tho grain line is booming ex- Corn, very little planting done i but Snow to-day from tho north reminds us that would not open up the lands fraudulently y,b� aJ( 1\ hands are and rain -eept vety few pIeces of corn that there must be prepared ready to faIrly showed cold somewhere np north and taken to settlement, but leave them In the • ' it above ground a little too and the frost" east. Into the ground When the storm has' early hands of tho claimants unmolested present aad the warms a nlpped'fhem, Some herds.ot cattle in this About midwinter we our passed ground up lIttl.,. thought 'stock for very desire. A years-the thing they Farmers here 11.1'0 'county suffered conslderablv the would come jubilant over the prospects during through ill good conditlou-« would not remedv tho evils of repeal the' of another abundant storm wlIich commenced last Friday as there was such an harvest. Our cattle night strong, abundance of past, and is in dIrect cQnflict with the best and contmued three millet have come through the winter �the 18th) nearly days; hay to rely upon; but the has interest of In'good�sliape tho settler, the State and the gen- and one In .our Immediate lost about 8 a the�o you m�y expect some from vicinity changed to minor key, and to the millet is eral anlmal!J government., Uncle Sam has here for per cent, and we have heard of nearly as laid the o'f thousan.ds your State Fall', and, fat charge poor cattle, ).)001' horses, of acres of wild land that are useless to 111m sto9k much In sonie but in instance and shows. Only givo us three every . others; everythIng that'mlllet was fed to. an efperts ,1Ifl , Mv In uncultivated he also has , state; thous- and that the cattle were in poor condition and with- own stock is a 1 an judges, premiums will ,pay running sample. had abundance ands of homeless sons and In daughters expenses, and we will be outsuitable shelter. How much schooling of millet and hay and and as there.' , cane-fodder, whose bosoms are vearnIngsfor a place they "It-does take to teach some common as it AlJril21, 1884. W. S. WmTE. , people long was convenient to a sense. give change of could call their own (a home) to beautify. each every day, they were fat enough for I see there are some people to Liberal aid in donations of these lands Sumner Oountv, opposed beef, and the horses could hardly be taken .eane for would relieve the of , feed, but it has proved a success in to sutIerln�s thousands of Kwltsas Farmer:' , water with satety; but when the cane .. Industrious this part of" Kansas, and there will be a honest, poor. State and govern- 'I'o-dav Is the a cold-north I gave out and hay not convenient to get at, 20th; wind wUh larger acreage sown this year than ever be- ment would be enriched and cities relieved drizzling min set In millet became the sole feed for roughness, yesterday nrorniQg,aftet· unless there is some Prov- of burdens by aiding 'their poor on to these a rain fore, Intervening The horses lost their and their good Friday night, and if it cleers up life, .halr lands with the to Idence 'between tliis and harvest tIme farm- stood means Improve them. to-night our for a forward and all was wrong. As soon splendid prospect 1I08ch ing will be a success this As this is What if they dId help some and wIll year. as we left off the millet and improvident crop likely be spoiled and some of the fed hay they , the time ' not so now? a for political conventions, a word to mend. lazy-are they doing As early apple' and cherry are :,r , 'bee:aq,to trees i� the moral element in will be proof of the working of such a course, look also crab )bloom, society 119t I 1 was it apples are in bloom and will be thought but If 1 ' cutting green, at the amlas, If' you want good legislation, put results of the large land grants made killed should it freeze much. Fnlit should sow any more I should cut as soon as irees of . to railroad the best men In office; and in order to do companies, makIng them rleh all kinds were never so full of the head makes its appearance. I think, frult'buds as that you must attend the and see while government was none the poorer and now. primaries however, .that cane sown thick so as to make that the right are sent to the eon- should have shared in the speculation. Look Wheat is in delegates hay of it, would be better, feed 101' cattle good condition, oats same i also at the ventions. Be sure whoever is the candidate beautlfulhomes along the line of corn about 1111 first . and horses than anything we can sow in the planted; plantlngle com � those roads. -( that'he Is pledged to work for See also how the speculator and shows a temperance spring. It may be that cane will be the Ing up good stand. Mytimothy ' tollows the and morality. RUSSELL Co. FARMER. up pioneer grabbing up all the and clover sowed a forage plant of the, future as well as the year ago this month land he can get to await the hard honest toil looks as as sugar producing plant that will set Kansas well any I ever saw back In ' of the settler to make them valuable. From .Brown OOJlIlty, In the front rank We America. Will report the due tIme. again. want yiel!1in practical, common sense men to make r have sowed some �ansa8 Ii'W1"T1Um: Wheat is but now alfalfa and Jolmson grass , growing slowly, the laws , for us, and not so many judges and the With us spring ls late and wet. Although' long needed rains will help It. Three- past wcek. 'I'he seed I purchased froin 1 politicians, who can not see anytarther than one.or we had but little frost In April, it has been fourths 'of the corn is planted, but the cold the reliable advertisers of the'FARM they can feel down mto their . unusually cloudy and cool, so that both man may cause It to rot, so'that wIll have to be pockets. ER, Trumbull, Reynolds & Allen, of Kansas � and b'east to It certalnly is to frame a law that l\{o; WIll the 'begins long for the wonted planted agatn, Grass grows slowly, 'but possible Citv, gIve yield (which is no would make it for to an in Kansas sunshine. It has just been ralnlng cattle can livo now If they can graze all the impossIble any person longer experiment this part of sunny , acquire 1\ title to land without full of some time In the two days (19th,-and 20th) and Is finIshing up, time. Stock of all kinds high. There is a proof Kansas) future. a therewIth. And the terms Kas. G. with snow to-day (21st.) The ground is greater demand for cows and brood 'mares compliance made WOllingtou, _ W. HAIL'EY, so liberal and as thoroughly soaked, and as the smali grain Is than for any other stock. More fruIt trees easy would conduce to the successful culture of trees wherever Frenoh Horses--What the sown it wlll get,a good start. Much tame have been planted out this season than for a they English Sa�; ' Clan be and an honest The 'ps, timothy, and clover chiefly, has alse long time. No less tharrten tree peddlers grown, etIort enable B1'£tish Qua'l'tc'l'ly Jot�T'nal of 4u'l'ir- the settler to a title. Call a been sown for which the weather is vory have called to sell us trees during the past acquIre it gift culturc says: "The horses of' Normandy, if you would receive are a race propitious;' The tame grasses are no longer year. We found it better to go to the nur please; government capital for hard work afid �canty more back she fare. an experiment here, but an established sue- sery and select stock. Take trees home and than gave, and beautiful Have 11eyer elsewhere seen such homes would be made on the cess, "and it Is now as green as the wild grass not wIthout exposing them, and then when Great Amerl- horses at the collar. Under the diligence, can Desert. In will ,be a month hence. Fall wheat looks we deal, with home stock we know better my oplulon none but actual post-carriage, or cumbrous cabriolet, or on citIzens or such as tolerably well, some pIeces exwl!o well-a what to rely upon. D. W. KINGSLEY. will become settlers, tho farm, they are enduring and energetie ' should be smaller acreage'than heretofore. permitted to tako claims, and' not beyond description. With' their necks cut. the time on but Improvement in the shape of burldlngs Timber Oulture Laws. living them, improvements, to the bone they flinch not. 'l'hey keep their j made and from to not behInd last to the ' year; carpenters engaged Kansas Farmer: reported year year condition when other horses would d!e, of. land months ahead. A great lQany hoe; houses department be the test for the right to neglect and hard treatment." 'I'he I don't see any answer to your inquil'y in superlor-, are built. As the tIll, failure to report after notified to of French stallions for a.m pigg!3rles being hog regard to the of being ity crossing on the working the timber culture make (\lOp has' been most for sev filings subjeet to cancollation. common mares of America IS tpe payIng crop act from northwestern Kansas. 1 think it established. eral years, farmers are trying to increase And son and of This fact has caused the It, is a very important one atIecting the vital every daughter the United developmentof the ExperIence teaches' that it to States who can with the two and pays have Interests of our growing State. comply required largest importing breedIng estab and raise Every per- shelter early pigs so aR to get the son and is a be entitled lIshments in the world, M. W. Dunham hav-' who bas Iived on a prairie to 'see, improvements pioneer benefit of a full summer's growth. to take claims whether under ing imported from France orchards, groves and hedges grow, will bear twenty-one or nearly 1,400, 'Some time ago one of your over one hundred of Percheron-Normans to his "Oaklawn correspondents testimony to the beneficial effectsupon the years age. Children of Farm" strongly advised against investing in new are the at Wayne,' Ill; now there on 'hand climate and productiveness, the beauty and pioneers greater sufferers, being de- having varieties In dltIerent The strict fol of about 500 and crops. pleasantness of the country. The recent prived educational advantages of older pure-breds, 2,000 mares,'.wd 21 lowmg of would preclude all Im in settled A. M. imported stallion� on Colorado 1Il� aarlce floods the Ohio and other rivers Is a pow- portions. MoKINNEY. Percherol) ' , provement. We know that many new seeds Rawlins Kas. erful argulllont In favor of tree culture. A county, ,ranges. and plants fare at least for our 'worthless, liberal bounty given by government and ======climate and soil; yet now and then we find Stato to encourage the culturo of timber Orops in Nemaha Oounty, new ,plants much superior to what we have. would in a very few years give proof of the Kamsas Fanmel': Of coilrse It is not advisable to Invest much wisdom of the net if properly guarded against For threo days amI nights it has mined In the hew'and untrIed, a yet although large fraudulent clai11lants. and snowed, and still is snowing. We are per cent. turns out failures,·the few rcal out on In this section I starting the slow order this spring us to (northwestern ,Kansas) successes 'amply pay continue experi with our farm think a very small of the work, but preparing to lead on a small scale. proportion actual menting When the Early on the home stretch. We settlers havo timber claims, and most of have sown a'vory Rose potato first appeared, we paid a pre those who have them large breadth' of tho tamo grasses, cious and did not it. have, gotten lby con lliostly price regret We tried timothy anel rOll clover for testing for them or buying ri!l:hts and are pastures and other new varIeties and discarded them. ,In to with' the meadows, but mixing in wIth smaller the of 1882 honestly trying comply law, plats, spring while potatoes were scarce the blue though poor and many them to orchard-grass, the grass, the alfalfa, and we Qf having go high here, sent to St. Louis for a and on low back east to work to failures in lunds the red top. All grow :. barrel of tbo of owing crops Beauty Hebron, to be di here ,so far as here. So far timber culture is not a success nIcely they have been tried. vided among six farmers, costing each of us The clover and here,and a fallnre until the timothy are set down as a one dollar. maybe country is The dollar was well invested. success In northern developed. This IS not an but Kansas. The orchard This we agricultural, spring invested another dollar for so far as it has an oxcellent grazing cOllntry. 1 believe grass, been tested, proves to two new varieties, a peck of each. In like be fine for wheat, rye, oats, rice very grazing, and very produc manner we millet, sorghum, corn, 'tIled the PalestiJ;le wheat as a tive. We are fast etc., may be dependecl on if properly culti learning to depend no spring wheat; it our loss 25 cents. failed;' vated. longer on the prairie grass, which is excel We also trIed the Welcome oats of which in THEY CURE DYSPEPSIA &: As immigrati01! pushed westwarcl the lent quality while it lasts, but its season IBDIGESTlON, cap .let the same"corre�lpondimt speaks. We raised and Is too short. upon KIdner., italist ranchman by the aid of cow boys With the tame pastures we can about a th�::�nd peck froni � ounces of seed, think it and our not being required to come as citizens, shorten up winter feeding two to four BEGULATE THE BOWELS. ls an' will it further cure Improvement,; tr,y this gobbled up nearly all the timber claims for months, wllich is an They Rheumatism, and all Uri. object. nary trOUbles. ,year. We expect.to continue testing new ranches and They InVigorate, speculation, nearly all of which Add to the advantages we already have, varleti(ls of farm products, both animal and are contestiblc, and thfl settler must contest viz., a fine corn and fruit nO�*�;:''fl:��=!?ulet dne not growing Bollapd vegetable, exercising caution; 1st, if he gets one or buy As a Tonlo have no .. somebody's right (who climate, the shortening of our winters they too and Hot by T ' ' ' their are farmore dece,P- an calved August 25 TRAGIO' EVENT. flnalstages. They , Amella, A , SALE. SHORT-HORN " GIFFORD'S ' be ...... , 00 can Lilll.'"71, ill. R. :U;oughton .. : 100 tlve than consumption"and rarely , e .,'. . • 'II!' ,females detected even uill�s .. skrilful Ever Made Short-horn averaged A Father's and Self-Infiioted' by iiliysiCiaDS Short-hom Sale Despall' ...._ .. The'Gre,!'test rn And ,$n!2w.50en.tv 0.1 Too' a microscopic analysis be reso.'..,.. to, .. Animals Brine: BULliS., Death. Resoue, in Ka,ns8.ll--'1'hil'ty-nine Hi�, Son's_Fin. few doctors understand how to do' this. , a Late to Save His,P-arent. " !l!8 nAO an A of $206 • 6th Duke of Elmhurst, Young Mary • of II! "v.s,. ,Average 00 Theiv sllghest approach, or poBsiblllty P,A:]unllt. W. D. Mlner $145 occurrence that,is described correspondence K"NSAs The graphic the one who Speolal Young Mary; Duke, a Young Mary approach should striketerror-tO I" sale held at Manhattan Kas 00 below is' one of the most remarkable epl- 'llhe great 'J"unction City :,800 1s threatened as well as to aU his or her ABlIlER is it or aron a Rose of 80din"es the history of America. ,as' ,adveitlsed in the F ,.ov�r LMdlllesrhBr few used j,ected. Th� dishes Bie easQy : ,IN AN OPEN' BOAT. among the dead. Pratt was so weak hlm- . , washed; the floor Is sometimes sCrubbed; -- self that he had hardlY' the strength ne�· The the bed being a� wooden bunk, that Is, some Dreadful Experienoe of Wrecked ry to throw the body into'the sea;, Night , planks nailed to the wall, with a mattress Sailor. set In, and he .now suffered almost as much and blailkets for bedding, is easily, cared fol'. '1'he Pacific Mnil steamship Acapulco, from thirst and hunger as he did from es His food is and of sim Suppose, my l.ittle lady, easily prepared, the which arrived :fu:om Aspinwall, brought as 0: posure. When daylight appeared on iFeb Your' doll should break her head, plest kind. Coffee withoutmilk, combread, passenger James Pratt, a seaman, Who is ruary 25 no sall was In sight. He had now and Could you, make It whole by crying bacon, molasses, potatoes, occasionally the sole survivor of, the brigantine A. G, passed forty-eight hours in the open boat. , Till your eyes and nose are red? dried apples., Vegetables and fruit, beio'g Jewett, which left Phlladelphia tor Matnn- He felt that he was rapidly, becoming ex And wouldn't It be pleasanter scarce in this part of the world, even durlng zas on February 19. Pratt was found In au. hausted, and he gave himself up' for lost. To treat It as a joke" sprIng and summer, are luxuries not-to be exhausted eondltlon in an open boat at seg. Towards noon he. descried a vessel headed And'say you're glad" 'twas Dolly's thought of. These thIngs are scarce because on February 5, and was rescued by the towards him, but he was tOo weak to make And not your head that broke?" farmers prefer to raise the staples com, oats, barkentfue Edward Cnshing, Capt. Blck· any Si!!'llal. The crew of the stranger,which wheat and cotton, 'because they sell readily more, after havingbeen in the boat fifty-four proved to be the Edward Oushlng; observed Suppese that you're dressed for walking, • and are less trouble to ralse than garden hours. the open boat and came alongside it. Pratt And the rain comes pouring down, ' vegetables. The Jewett left Philadelphia with a cargo could hardly speak, but the rescuers passed Will it clear off sooner ; any You that the herder would command � might s\ii>pose of machinery and coal, under the a line under his arms and drew hi� up on Becaljse,you scold and frown? his time and add to his stock of ' Improve of Capt. Joseph B. Reed. Under him were deck. The leaking boat In which ,he had And wouldri't It be nicer while his to the seamen. Pratt knowledge following sheep Mate Clark, a cooIt and five passed fifty-four hours was then east,adrift For to. smile you t�an,pout, range by reading; but I have not met one does notremember-the names of any of the Under the kind treatment which he received And.sp make sunshine in the house, that so. am 'yet does Those who have any Iost.men, with the exception of the captain Pratt slQwly recovered his strength. He Is Wihen there is none :without? 'bltlon that seldom follow the way occupa and mate. Early in the eVllning of February a man of remarkable' constitution, and it Is tion for of time. I know of 'one Suppose your task, my little man, any length 22, when-the vessel was southeast of Hat- to this fact that he "owes his Ilfe. The herder here who Is a the Is Necy hard to get, naturalist, studying teras and In the Gulf Stream, a heavy south- enshing reached Aspinwall on February 14, hnblt of the insects he meets with while fol· Will It ,m,ake it any easier easterly gale set in. The wind suddenly and Pratt w,1is taken before the United his flock. FQr you to sit and fret? lowing chopped around to the southwest during the States Consul, who arranged for his passage These men little' attention to And-wouldn't It bewlser, pay dress, evening and caused a terrific sea. The brlg- to this city on the Acapulco. Capt. Reed nnd are more 01' less ' Than waiting lIke a dunce, yet they governed by antine labored badly and shipped large was highly spoken of as a shipmaster. He the fashion of their class. To have a broad 'ro go to work in earnest quautitititl's of water. During the night the was about 54 years of age and Ieaves a wife colored felt hnt leather And learn the thing at once? brimmed. light with cargo shifted in the hold, giving the vessel a and four grown chlldren, who reside near band, to secure It from being blown away llft to one side. A't the same time it was Bangor, Me. Capt. Reed was the principal some a was Suppose that boys have horse, of our a valued by the strong winds prmrles ; pair discovered that a serious leak had been coach And some a and pair, of so that �r:��u�f$l�:M8�-*�I!J.�IT'T�':s� high-heeled top boots, long, enough sprung. All hands went to the pumps, but _ Will it tire you less while walking the pants may be worn Inslde; a slicker, they were unable to make any headway To "It isn't fair?" Definition of Bible Terms. sl\Y, II that Is an oil cloth coat, and a large pair of against the leak. At 4 o'clock the next And wouldn't it be nobler A day's was and one- spurs Is to be in the helght of fashion. It to the Journey thirty-three' morning Capt. Reed attempted put fifth miles. To keep yQlIr temper sweet, makes little difference as to cleanliness of vessel on the other tack, but he WIIS unable A Sabbath day's journey was about all And In 'your heart be thankful of hair, - fnce or smoothness to wear the ship around, and she lay rolling Ene;lish mile. You can walk upon your feet? Ezekiel's reed was eleven Being in the saddle at least two-thirds of In the trough of the sea. Huge feet, nearly. violently A cubit is twenty-two their time, these men become tbe most Inches, nearly. Arid suppose the world don't please you, waves swept oVllr the sides so frequently A hand's breadth is equal to three and of on their horses Nor the way some people do, Itrnceful riders; sitting that It was impossible for men to remain at five=eighth Inches. _ like ride with an ease and A fujger's breadth is to one Inch. Do yQU think the whole creation statues, they the pumps. At 5 :80 in the morning a tre equal 2\. shekel of silver was about cents. grace of motion that city folks are the fifty Will b'e altered just for you? entirely mendous sea rolled up from windward, A shekel of gold was$8.09. i ' or unacquainted with. 'I'he riding masters of the her on her And isn't it, my boy girl, and, striking vessel, lald A talent of silver was $588.82. _ The wisest, bravest plan, St. Louis might gain a. few useful points beam ends, with the masts even with the A talent of gold was $18.809. While A piece of Silver, or a was thirteen Whatever comes or doesn't come, from the sons of these Texas prairies. water. p.ennv, cents. _ cannot be as riders are Reed and' his men succeeded In To do the best you can? they surpassed they Capt. A famhing was three cents. Phoobe Cary. not the most, but certainly very awkward reaching the weather shrouds, where they A gerah was one.cent, ----+------walkers. clung for life. They were preparing to lash A mite was one cent. _ An contains seven LIFE ON The lambing and shearing seasons are tho themselves there when another terrific sea epha,.or bath, gallon A RANOH. and five pints. two Important events in ranch life. The the windward. wns seen sweeping up frOID A I1In was-one gallon and two pints. The Routine Duties of a Texas Sheep lambs begin to come in February and the The vast wall of water broke over the ves A firkin was seven piUts. -, season lasts for or six weeks. Extra An orner was six ' Herder. five sel. She gave a frightful roll and t.urned pints. A cab was three pints. -HO'USehotd. 'I'Le truth of the statement that "one-half hands are necessary during this time, for bottom upward. Capt. Reed and tile cook a flock of hundred to one the world .does not-know how.the other half with ffom eight were seen struggling to get clear of the ::m:O'C"O.AT:EON' P.A two men are to lives" was never so fully impressed upon my thousand, always required wreck when she capsized. As not a trace of Y'� In attendance the mind until I became acquainted with those be during night. Strange them were afterward found, they doubtless some of the ewes disown their The KANSAS, who care for and breed sheep. to _ say, perished when the ship went over. The re and then the herder various means In the great cities there is a constant push lambs, by mainder of the crew were thrown into the State them to do so. One way Is to put . Agricultural compels toward the College) and strife, each looking out for his gwn in. water. Thev struggled upturned -OFFERS- the refractory ewe into a small pen where an terest: neighbor pushing nefghbor to the keel of the brigantine, but in Instant that '1'0 I'AltOBS' SONS AND ·DAVctK'l'l:aa walliu the scramble for wealth and she Is obliged to stand still until the lamb the debris left behind grand dlsappel\red. Among course of In she A fun four yean' .tndy Engllah and has nursed a number of times. when was a boat which had posltton ; and in this great struggle wearing when the Jewett sunk Sciences most directly useful on tbe farm or In tile no further trouble. out energies and even life itself to be the gives been Jashed to a spar on deck. The spar 'home with careful training In the Industrial artII ad WHEN LAMBS ARE MOTHERLESS most successful one. Some one says: "Life was still IIttached to the boat, which was juotcd to the wanta of atudents throughout the lilate, common other ewes are Induced to take 01' if with shorter coursealn branch.., and all In a great city resembles a mlcoscoplc view them, half full of water. After desperate strug this cannot be must be raised of a drop of water, where you see the larger done, they by gles, the mate and the five seamen reaclied Tuition Free. the bottle. Sometimes a norther strikes us, insects devourlng the weaker ones, and all the boat into which they climbed. A large Otber expenses are reaaonable, and opportunities to then one's self labor are to some scrambling and' diving In their efforts to just In the 'middle of lambing time, and hole had been knocked in her bottom, and It help by afl'ordcd extent. lambs are lost chilled. When The work oC the farm, orchBrds, vineyards, lIardena, catch their prey or escape from their pur- many by being was Impossible to bail her out. But for the grounds lind buildings. es welles of abops and oMceBo chllled they are wrapped up and put Into the could not have re suers." spar lashed to her she Is done with an 01 chleBy by lIIudenls, avel'llll". pay'roll , and some warm milk down On ,a ranch the opposite aspect of life is oven, poured mained afloat. '�amonth. their throats. In most cases when this is seen. No no worry, but The men had neither oars, fresh water, THE 'fWENTY·I"IRBT YEAR OF 'r1U!: OOLLEGB striving, everything , in time come around all peaceful and quiet. done they right. nor provisions, and they were obllged to BEGINS SEPT. 13TU, 1883. ewes with lambs are from the A ranch Is the herder's house and the The separated stand up in the boat, the-gunwales of which with sixteen Illstructon, 360 studenta, bulldlug8 .worth sheds and for the shelter of the rest of the flock, and must have a special were but little above the water's edge, $90,000. stock and apparatus worth ISIl,Ooo, and ... pro- pens sheep; ' 1 until flock has ductive eudowment of 405,000. the is the land these on herder the whole lambed, Showers of spray frequently covered them, mnge surroundlng For f'ullinlormation and run catalogue addresa, the I, believe when they all together again. . and waves broke over them, which sheep graze, although occasionally PBlIS. GEO, T. FAIRCHILD, the word ranchIa generally applied to the The shearing season comes about May. compelling them to cling to the gunwales to Manhattan. KIIDIBL buildings ground taken together. The Men who make a business of shearing are prevent being .washed into the sea. The �nd from word camp is often used here when speak-: employed for this work. They shear weather was bitterly cold, and the drenched 40 to .of �!!,�Ea�A�r�JQ:i:rruX:���; ing of th� herder's house. twenty-five thirty per day, depending, castaways suffered terribly. The storm c:,�,:: - on the heaviness and closeness of the ���l�ccliromrl�baa�.actlD't!:�Ilr.? Sheep herders are men of peculiar dispo- course, continued, and the sufferings of some of the Merinos shear on nn av 'VANTED. 1 Agent wanted-In sltlon. must be to follow such an oc- fleece. High grade men were so that were compelled evel')' T'hey great they place to ,..,11 our new gooda. Big 40 The are burred P,.Y. cupation. Rising early, before daylight in erage nine pounds. fleeces to lie down 011 the seats. Durlng the af H E LPsamples 901y'lOo. Nonetree. Cnt\lilaou'. AC)[B NOVBLTY Co and then in sacks from 250 .• Cllntonvllle; Conn. the winter, he cooks and eats his meagre packed holding ternoon the mate and two of the. seamen to 800 consists in breakfast, 'takes his flock on the range and pounds. Burring picking died from exposure. As soon as they were burrs and other substances that from that until sundown follows them as out all may dead their bodies were thrown overboard in adhere to the wool. Good fiock-masters are they graze. At sundo;wn the sheep are order to lighten the boat. It stormed dur left in always careful to see that their fleeces are the entire of and the driven home, fed, and the sheds for ing night February 23, ,Send six cents tor postage, aod recelv� the night. He gets his supper, smokes his perfectly free from tags and dirt be sufferings of the three survivors were terri free n co.l1y box of !lood. wliloh will I,plp all. or either to more fore to market. During the winter the aex" mone, pipe and goes to bed, unless a visitor hap- sending ble. No vessel had-hove in sight during A PRIZB• right a....' than ao:vtlilo� elae In thla the last world. Fortuoes "walt the worken ab to when he chats for a while. oats, corn, cotton-seed meal, being nnd the men entertained little hopes of pens drop In, day. solntely 6ure, At once addresa 'rRUR" Co., Auguala rQutine he follows month a good mllk producer, are fed. Hay Is given rescued. MBine. Tliis after month, being . to the sheep 'when kept in by inclement varied only by the lambing and shearing During the morning of February 24 the NOYES READING MA.OIl'INE. weather.-St. Louis THEAsk your Bootaelle� for It. L. W. having extra there is Republican. seamen seasons, when; help, strength of another of the gave out, Noyes, 'the maker of all kloCli or Die more excitement for him. of the �tlon.ry and Book Holdenl,99 and 101 a and, lying down In the bottom boat, The Alabama negroes believe that knife W. 1I10llroo St,. Chicago, can supply you covered he with worth 10, The worl;!: is not difficult if the sheep are under the pillow keep� off witches, and have where the water almost him, everything liavlDII the � ebape or" Book·Holder. Send (or 11101- if attention at died in a few moments. His was also . well, but ',Sick they require no faith In the superstition current among body trated circular. night, and ,then tIte work becomes quite. the poor whites that a sieve on the foot ot thrown overboard by the two survivors. No tile bed will have the same .effect. We will BeDd �you awatch ,ora eIlalD on ranches is of sail hove In the day, nnd the to b, tires.ome. 1;Iousekeeplng sight during 8Y MAIL DR EIPIESS. (J. O.D.• the slmplestldnd. weaiher continued cold and stormy. Toward clmDlloed beforep.ylna any mone' A meteorrecentlyexplodecl just above the and'if oot aatllifactory"retm:iied a NO SORUBBING OF FLOORS Pratt found that his 'fellow survivor our We 111 the evening expense.. manufact;ore bridge of an ocean steamer, knocking our watches and save you l!O per or sCQurlng of none of the little wor was fast becoming exhausted. At length pans; helmsman from the wheel and stunning the cares to which with the poor fellow gave up the struggle" and, C��:nT�:.��'W��!�:��::��e. rying houselceepers omcer of the deck, but Q,olng DO other STANDARD AMEIICAN WATCII 1l0., more ext.!lnslve establishments are sub- damage. lying down In the leaking bont was soon PITrSUURGH, PA.; , APBIL80, 8 KANSAS FARMER. The Wool Market. the wool that w'ill lose the least in More About �orghum. the we su cleansing will bring highest price. The more our farmers learn about the THE KANSAS FARMER It is not expected auywhere, p :\1 Texas wool will probably sell in the value of sorghum for feed, the more Published by the pose, that wool will command any bet [very· Wednesday, of 25 cents for light and anxious become to still t81' prices this year than it did last. neighborhood they .aequlre KANSAS' FARMER CO. medium of full and from This is mak Recent action in Congress plainly shows bright growth, further knowledge, plant • ; months' • -.-. PresIdent. 22 to 25 cents for fine. Six a wonderful record for itself. It IL o. IfBMOTlE, that there is no ground for hope of rais in� • • Treasurer and Busln"1S Manager. &. :a. BROWN, command as much • It • • BuslneR8 will not has no in will grow H. A. General Apnt. tariff duties. Republicans concede growth equal history. HEATH.. • .'. • • • ing PEFFE.. .. W.,A.. , Edl�r. within about 5 per cent., unless the con the seed is sown if it basanv that they made a mistake in reducing anywhere II·.D:RMS: UASH IN ADVANO:&. dition be while like a reasonable ·the duties, and they are willing to re particularly desirable, thing opportunity.ana dark mixed and heavy lots will be hard when it does it furnishes better SIUlIle Sub.or'pUou.1 store them, but Democrats do not seem grow • • • • fl.&O It of It One,coPY, one year '.' a to sell at any reasonable price. is, fodder than any other plant known. • action • such • to thmk • So, • 1.00 necessary. One III montbs, COPY. too to state tIlese as fixed does not as much moist I, ()lub Kute.1 bill to restore to' wools the tariff rates of course, early require nearly .• • • • • 7.&0 re ure as makes better 1'1.. 00)1108, one year, • was voted or rather the quotations; but, judging by samples corn, and yet it. • •• out, • down, - 13.20 1867, Ten copies, one year, • cor - - • 18.40 will be found about feed. Cane seed is as as corn for l'1fte8n copIes, one year, other day in the House of Representa ceived, they good - .A..,. one wllblnll to _nr. a {ree copy for one year, tives. of course there may be and cane blades are better the nnmber of rect, though any animal, may do 10 by lending In, at OIl ',_" I sOil in their and the close tbere �.s a inore � Sensible .. M straight lines, 'ten inches ranch' for pro- �� teeItng. • Lan-age, apart mak.lLa,rrangeme�ts � IdIn f' 1 000 hea'd 0f eattl witl'1 ranged 0 25ali 76; bulk aU 40&6 60. Last week the st6ckholders of the in the lines. The whole was then cov-·v g or, e, which SHEEP BlnCe 228 :11 the wi'll be stocked. They will brIng RecelptB Baturday head. Atchison, & Santa Fe railway ered with' about six or eight inches ranch: Topeka some and oattle :lirom otrel'lngs lIght andmarJr.e���,.tC}r,� �: of straw. the season the moles, t'!loroughl)red, graded company elected a new board of direc- During 86 stockers avo r170 Ibs at 8 40; 22' Colorado :'fethell, raised O�io. , " tors. Mr. W. B. was re-elected the soil somewhat, but did not clipped, av S11bl,at a'10. 'L.' Strong .. Fairholme Herd, J. C. Stone, proprietor, and what follows is of injure the potatoes."He adds that a Clhlcago. , .: President, part sell some ",' will ' thoroughbred Short-hom.cat- The Drovell' Journal'reporbl:,: the address he delivered on the occasion. liberal sprinKling of unleached ashes tie May 27. Ifwlll be well to keep track of .HOGS Receipts 10,IiOO,lhlpments2'.eooi,.�li:et about twice during the growing season It is so seldom that railroad men talk this sale, for the stock Is good. Falrholme slow at 1!)c lower. Rouah. paekma 6,811a6 SO, vines when to and for the people, or as if there was is'ot great advantage. Many is near Leavenworth on the Lawrence road. �ldng, anll sIiJpplDg 0 'eoi;!l 16, ,llght; 112Ii4ISO, stretched measured five and the OOali 10. , in as are " any such existence the peo- ,feet, Catalogues �IPl4 't , :.- thing . r,eady. CATTLE Kar· tubera were the finest he ever raised . Receipts M.OOO,lIhlpments 1,000. pIe, that when-one does speak and that J. E, Gulld, of Capital View: Stock Farm, Jr.et fairly acUye and firm. Exporll! 611ldliO,IOOd it is of preserve- Sllyer respectfully, worthy . Lake, secured_the highest prleedbull 0 eholee sli,lpplng steell 6 � 10, common to A Word to vation. If railroad in Traveling Ae:ents, at the Gifford's Short-hom sale. A medium 016&6 75. " every p)esident r�mor 'I;; _ the country would feel and speak as We have a letter from a lady oorre- is current that Mr. Guild will be a candidate SHEEP Receipts 6.000,I�pme�tsl,600. MarJr.et of the "Home Circle" for the this fall. He will make strong at 10a?Alc higher. Interfor to 'rafr'4 GOa450, '1."_..w:.L' 'Strong does, the [oumev of the peo- spondent calling Legislature . . a fit t'ative 0f the IcuIturaI and medium to�tood 4 76a511O, chOiCe to e:a:b 6 60a , represen . to least of as ngr " PIe and the railroad eompantes along attentio)l acts many . " 6 70. , at. tw.o Uve stock Interests. -r ,... .,"" the litle"of would be men representmg busmess houses, as progress mutually JOll:rilal's'il.iverpool cable I&YI. IUJUlly 11 Hiram of recently Ql�� and We commend agents. -Her letter will be published War .� less to the. evolution of heat in the' sub- amount af water in the tissues which £}ortimfture. stance of the kernels. When saturated makes so much difference in the abilitv, brine if!. exp,osjed to'Col<1;� eYl3n.'bnekIio�vs on the part of different plants or the Aspa.rtW;us. that it does not freeze at 32 degrees.:If same plant in different states, to stand cold. of these Kamal :Farmer: kept quite still the liqUId may becooled uninjured by Some things tl:at has not a bed of as- to about 4 d�g. Fah. before the .eon- are known and some are not, but we 'TIle family The Emperor Louis Napoleon 1ID0lled matter here. in the garden fails to enjoy one tained water, begins to-crystallize, and cannot futher discuss the ouly the finest cigars the world could pro par8gus duce. Prof. Horsford the us it Is the water, not the What should be done with trees known II&Y. Empero1'l. of the eM:liest vegetables grown, When then.Jet note, cigars wero made spocl!lllY for him In Ha -: for the table is salt solution, which freezes. The at- to be injured by frost? This query is vana ft.om lent tobaoco BTOWD In the Golden properly prepared equal Belt oC North Oarollna, this belnr the lIneilt traetlona between the mole- asked now those who have if'not better than green peas, coming as exlsttng especially by leaf BTOWD. Blackwell's Dull Durham the Before oules of the salt and those of the water injured peach orchards. In the past, Smoklng Tobacco Ia made from same it dOes so early in the spring. leaf used In the Emperor's dgars, 1& abso the of the and have cut down such Ia the else that is planted in the gar- prevent separation latter, many promptly lutely pure and unquestionably belt an�bitIg tobacco ever offered. hence the of these in the believing them dead or so nearly den Is-up, your bedofasparagusineady arrangement trees, Thackeray's gifted. daughter, Anne, In for' and each yields its regular order required to form a crystal. dead as to be worthless. Yet a chance her sketch of Alfred Tennyson, In Harpri', use, morning Jfonlhill. tells of her �t to the great poet. A similar holds forthe one left has nearly and after daily crop, equal if not better than the explanation good recovered, She found him smoklng Blackwell's Bull mentioned in to ward borne paying crops of fruit. In Durham Tobacco. sent him byHon. Jam.. one. 'How it would con- phenomenon regard Amorlcan MIn18ter to the long Russell . preceding Lowell, , wood and seeds-tIle the first it should be James. tinue to 1 am upable to say; but living molecular place, understood, Oourt of St. "grow of tt'la acom· often much that the heart of a tree freezes and be In these days aclnlteratlOn, we use it from about April 1st until attractions, however, being fort to smokers to 7 of any danger the animals taking too R.:I:VElz:" a:tdEl lEEerd._ much of it. But it should never be for gotten that, while salt m�terially aids . l� are thl� department' digestion and is an excellent worm' �h��PhSfrOm our exchanges.-'-En. FARM- p � L A IDS it also creates ,ir-BBRllliijl. &l remedy, thirst; where- With Jayhawker 8895 and Quantrell BolLa petAoUon pig at the head of 8111Ck fore access to plenty of pure water ofnlYDero Beiln,oWl.t tblDk CURE,FORIiEAvEs.-'-Asafootida,pul- I have the three most popular IItralnl of PO� anll should at aU times be provided. . Ill! fine a herd of·hol(sll8 the'countr,v can produCe; M), verized,'l ounce; 'camphor gum, pulver- breeders are all realst.!red. and all aiockJwlU'l'IIIited .1 represented. Prices reasonable. My Itock Sa + mix and Lop HORNS.-If horn a al!f&71 ized, ounce; divide into four th� lops, put ready for Insilectlon. Call aronod I, the latcb-� II out. one other for brass knob on the end of the horn which always J. V. 'BANDOLPIl. powderB;,feed every night Bmpol'(jo Jl!iUIIu. a week. is bruised, and a pulley above the head . . _ Established in 1868:· DRY and one over the back of the calf; put a ROT.-The best remedy for this Btock tor,sale at all tlin•• cord both and fasten to trouble is to keep the animal standing through pulleys the a Ch�ster Berksblre on a clean floor and hom, putting weight of three or Whli.. occasionally remove and Poland-Ohlna Pigs. m d Poland-C� r! all four on the ,back end of enoree Settere. Scolch prove ina Shep· II • care I J' .. decayed not' • I:IHgS horn, using great pounds th.e herds and Fox .l to Hound b·red to the cord, according the size of the am and for .ale by ALEX, EO- 1_ injure vital parts of the foot _ ,I>" . • , PLES. West Obester. OIies· - ..,"- mal. Oil the horn near "_y- • the end, which 00 Frequent applications of tar will then ter .• Pa, Send .tamps tor and -. . be will soften it, and keep it on. In a lit- clroular prlce·UBt. all that is required. I., tIe while he will have it where he wants MANGEITCH.--Afteravigorousscrub- it. After the horn is straight, there Elk Valley Herd of Recorded roland-Chinas. bing with a coarse wash the horse I brush, will be a ridge left; take a rasp, file it well with castile, soap and sof� water, down and sandpaper it afterward. and dry carefully. As soon as thor- ----•.---� For ougbly dried. apply an ointment made of nervous or pbyslcal prostration, 110 matter how caused; there Is nothing equal to Lei'" Dau- We 4. ounces of sulphur, 10 ounces of lard, haye bren breeding Poland..a.ln�:iiORi fo!.hwen dellou Tonic. It tones up the nerves, Improves ty yea",. The lonl{ ellperlence obtllnfll, IhM enabled and + ounce carbolic well Uh to .elect none but the cholceiif speClmena' Ib� tined· acid, mixed. the digestion, stimulates tho liver to I(I healthy Ing gurposes. We now bave _.. action. and thus brIngs baok health to vigorous. £ HARDENING OF' TIm' SKIN':_ F"a- . the body, Hogs of Quick / quentIy results from of ,the Ch"ow:th.,. pressure My slook wa. selected from the best herd. In Easily fattened and eari,v matnnd. Ihowing a � Im- . Two hundred well cared I111nol., harness and from the strawberry plants. for. lodlana and Ohio. Youogstock (or sale; also high· provement In form and It,vle. especlaJl7 In �iI cutting integu ' Burt ean " I wUl yield two bushels of berries, as many 118 a clasa Poultr,v. Send lor catalogue and prlcra, ments and sub-cellular tissue with the JOHN WRIGH1'. lClk Kas. Ou� b.:eooer. CODIlst Of the II.nllt lot or· BoWlhead/ family_ will require for home consumption. City, :: calks of the shoes. a 8ljllaU Make mixture of PLEASANT VALLEY HERD ��: �'�t::;�:�r:-r.!nl�h��talrDl���;:�·�_ wl.hlng choice pigs shonld send orden In U 1 of The production of fine wool In the Uniied -OF- � ounce acetic acid, 1 ounce of pul there Is a ver.v large demand 'lbr 1I&OC1I:., MaU'-:oiilen States Is inerell9ing even more than the Pure-bred' Berkshire Swine. IIl1ed with dl.patch. Wit1i'aJl;bop verized cantharides 5 rapidly Pedlgreednrnllbed<- and ounces of sold: , -J consumption S. water. After allowlna the mixture to ------..�------V. WALTON I;/SOJr. P.O .. Wellington. KansM; two "AN EX.CELLENT REJIlEDY.-Phenol 11 1Jo'X.107. stand weeks, filter it tbrough Sodlque. l1caIdence, 7 miles west of Wel1l�n. nau: � linen, add 1 ounce spirits of wine and preparation for the cure of burns, cuts. brutses, and wounds of any kind. is last becoming a fa apply with a sponge. vorite remedy lor the uses lntended.-JrfferBonian, PILES IN HOGs.-Instead Chester, Pa. I of keeping Wes,t J I \ hogp on too stimulating food in dry condition, change to keep on rather I have thirty breedlDg sows, aU matured animal. and Iff the .', ',.l�sening diet, such as �ound, mixed very best strains or blood. I am ullnl!' three splendid Importer1 boars. headed by the splendld made also prtza-wlnner 2919 wtnner of _ feed, sloppy; give plenty of Plautas.net live flllIt Bnd gold medal at the sbows In Cnnada sour milk or butter milk. The animals r,rlzes leadln� \ eYt�::I;'exl :dr a�-:, gr1�:��t�eJJ :���:J�?r ��� from should suftering piles never be re,aoonable. Satisfaction guaranteed. Send for cata· allowed to become oostive. In logn. aod price list, frrc. S, McOULLUGH. cases of Ottawa. Kan.811. Pl'Olapse of the anus, caused by piles, warm fomentations of decoction of oak Acme Herd of Pola.nd Chinas .bark, previons to replacing the Nut. will be of service. and should the pres'ence of large piles prevent reposltlon, these should be opened with a small lancet. J. P. FENI,ON, P. O. Box 148. Leavenworth, Kauaas, If the anus appears very much swollen. -Breeder of- applications of oily or greasy substances SHOR.T-HOR.N CATTLE of the moat noted bcef Itralns. and all supertor I udl- would be beneficial in relieving pain vlduals. . and irritation. If stock hogs are suffer FOR SALE-Forty Thoroughbred Pure Bhort-horn Bull&-RolM! "f Sharon. Younlf lIlar,v and Prlnce... ing from piles, and there is reason to from 9 months to 2 yeare old' also. 60 Hlgh'J{rRlle Bulls, all Red and In fine trom condition. tnree-quar-. believe the malady is founded on hered- ters gl"lldc cows and pedigree bulls. up to the standard In all respecta -; itary dispOSition, It would be Correspondence or Inspection of herd cordially In Fully highe.t proper vited. Ignes. tor e!.ther American or Ohio RecordB. fnrnlsbed not use to such animals for breeding with each sale. Alllnqulrl.B promptly answered. purposes. HEADQUARTERS FOR Add.... STEWART,& BOYLE. WlchltR, Kansas, SALTING STOCK.-Is there any doubt WELLINGTON HERD but what all cattle, horses, and hogs HEREFOR'DS ENGLISH BERKSHIRES.'- should.be salted? If not, should they all be salted equally frequent, and how In the Southwest, often? Some cattle are more eager for salt than others; is there not danger of HUNTON & SOTHAM; their .getting too nmeh? A person of experlenee tells me to feed one part salt Abilene, and two of wood ashes; claims this pre Imported and Howe·bred Hereford Oattle of botb vents and does away with worms. sexes cODstantly on hand. Also cbolce OroBa-bred [Depending upon the general keep, and' and Grades, both Bexes. Send for Illustrated Oata· management, our domestic animals logue. The We11lngton Herd of well-bre,l ard Import_a will require uncertain quantities 9f �.:'����!�n� �e�t:.erUbl�o�::�RLJOtt:8��8t 'l;��ftT::' WHITFIELD & SOTHAM, Thl. berll hIlS no superLor for Biz. and quallt,v. anll the salt, and at uncertain times more of very best strains or Berkshire blood. Btock nil re cord"" In A. B. R. and Inspection this than at : : Correspondence others. Inasmuch as it is ABILENE, KANSAS. Invited. Addre.s in. n. KEAGY. Wellington. Kas. impossible for any of us to decide ex- HeRdqoarters In the Sonthwest for WHI';l'FIELD - actlv how often or how much of salt is SHORT-HORNS. Poland ....Chinas required by an animal, ·the. best course Thoroughbred Send for I1iuBlmtcd a is 1i9 leave the matter to the Catalogue contalnlnl( hlslory �ntirelv oHllls f!!mous family. lnstinct or cravings of the animal; and this may at· all times of the year be Wm. Gentrv & Sons, Sedalia, Pettis Co., Mo. STOOB:' done without risk whatever. We Joel B. & Stewart's any Gentry Co., Hughesville, l?D'ED1'. have for many years recommended this Pettis Co., Mo. Is q, Tonic. Appe course, and those who have adopted it tizell lind Blood have had no reason �o regret it. When Puri1lor lor all live stock. The.' kept a small comer in front of indoors, best Condition each animal may be boarded so as to AS PRoDUCEn AND nRED ny Powder in the afford convenience for a constant sup A. C. Moore & Sons. Canton, Illinoia. wo.rld. 8,Gcms. Wc Rro rnl.lng ovel' 800 pigll for Ibis .ea.oo'. tmdo, ply of salt, which the animal can reach at time and of at will; ���:��It�k�� !��8��·��t!1}:��1\�'f>���·�11rii����etl�l\n�l C!lnrigl�! any partake shown by any other lUOlllHl nllY other IJreed. Stm;k n11 During the season when the animals C����l�rh���ot:.�� \�tl�'cn�vr;l����e Se�fl�t���ltb�t��;� are at liberty outdoors, small troughs onghbreo Pa(nnrl:'Chhlf\.� sho\1lf1 seml to headQuarters. ".�:z;:/:=- (i)ur breedelli will bercg1sterell.tn the American }'uhmd may he placed here and ,there in the Chinn. nt:!:COl"ll. l'hotogl'r.lIb of:14 breeders, fl'e�. S'wtne DaDa'S White Metallic Ear Dealelllln Journal 25 cents. 1nkCD. Markll]g 4it�cl!!lrunped ,,(a� "tamps to order with 01' nnmc or Thr6C�C(!nt. name. Dnd addre88 ana nom. field 'in such a ma�ner BREEDERSford, Polled Aber(lllenShOl't-hornIHereaud Ga lowny ------pastlJ,re, that, bor.. It I••·olloble. cheap lind convenient. 8ells at (Jattill. Jacks and Jennets. Havo on balld to ultl "nlmal. III giving lJirth a few boards is one thousand tbree In sight and gh'eu sullsfnctl6D. Illustrated by overhead, the salt Bull•• huodretl she cattle calt PIGSendEXTHIOATORIfor I reo CIt'CIl ar to perfeet by Hereford and Polled Bulls. Are prepared 10 make W�I. mce.LI.t lIl1d samples free. Agent. walllt'd. protected from rain. There is never for DULIN. contracta CUtore delivery (or any number, C. H. West •. N. Avoca, Pottawatomle Co.• Iowa. DANA, Leb�noD H, . AP:a,IL 80, KANSAS FARMER. Shorn Butler Oounty's Best Sheep. � Arkanias Valley's Sheep. correspondence KANSAS FARMER. "BPecIlIJ COrrespondence KA'NSAS F,A,RMER. Special Short-Horn of some of the ,of annual Salo The sheep-shearing P[Jlic Cattln, The Arkansas Valley Wool Growers' Lar�6 best Merino in Butler and adjoining their third annual sheep association held J. ' counties, was held at, the barn'ot A. UhI, ON �.AY as, laa4� ...... at Wicluta, April 19. sheep-shearing Kas, The flocks represented were above at my Carm, Douglass, On tbe date, . 1.1he was wintry, which militated, & C. adjolnlllg tbe town oC day those' of E. Copeland Son, ,J. Taylor . the and a large attend- J. Stalker, Rock, against shearing and W. Cole, Douglass; LEES SUMMIT, '::' ' Merino sheep -R. Hoffman David . anee. Thoroughbred Cowlev county, and and Jackson Co., MO., •. R. Hoff-' aucllon 100 bead,of IiIHORT were represented bvDavld Fox, Fox, Wichita. I willaell at public m08l1y Femaletl, that Cor purity and G. C. The were of large slze and the wool HORN CATTLE, R. N. Alexander Strong; sheep milk and are not man, of blood IndIvidual excellence. beef, and had of staple. oC the .",,,dud .and E. Copeland & Son, was-clean great length represenllng'about 20 �t of Wichita, surpBBled have at aide, or now owned main- Camlllee. 'All old onoujlh will 1ll!1ves Merinos The celebrated Uhl flock. Tlie .•Ire Kas. 'l'he have been bred to a No. 1 eire. Iplendld �Dougl88s, grade elande aUhe bead or E. Copland' & Son. was well repre BARON BELL 87643 (pure Batea) Wichita. ly by 6 Unreststered were represented by H. Oliver, herd. I will also Bell " or made a record:' The my 1 have bred Cor my own sented and good and Grade Jerseya, that had an . The Co�swold sheep-breeders use. following table speaks volumes for' the famUy and leavo Kan fine lot of their breed, three Paclllo railroad. Traina unusually class of sheep in these Is �1 mUes elLSt oC Kansas City on l]Je MIB80url character an� LEE'S SUIUl\lIT an e.xtra train to after·tlle snle. i w1l1 RI.o have leave_E.nlon a Alexander S::l'J ", JU•• and return ve a R. N. shorn and owned esa Ht 4:30 auu Mo., ..... tDeLeePo�. were represented by counties. The sheep by City Train. from St. Lonl•• Sedalia and Carthage. at 9:30 a, tn, for the sale. been Two Kaus"" City. Hotel accommodations are limited, but arrangemel!ta hay'! Wichita. his own and J. UhI's ID. and 7:50 and 10:02 p, m. the we, and W. H. Ranson, J. were of A: IlUOlmlt al '7:10 •. the before and after Stalker. take care or all peraon. who wlah to be here night famme. to . David Fox. & Son's were bred by made wltb pr'vate Me�can sheep,·owned by breeding; CiJopland ut ]Jotel rates. from 0 to 12 o'olock. - in J.,G. Cut of tbe weather. Lanch were'also clipped. Sheep are good A. J. Uhl, E. N. BIssell, Barker, The Bale will be under cover. regardless and J. T. and V. Rich, of Vermont; ,TERMS CASH. Sale at 12 o'clock, sharp. 'condition, having wintered well, tinlt on application. 'C. 'I'avlor's were bred by himself and Catalogues February and March were J. W. T. HEAR5E. although & Hoffman Auctioneer. • been A. J. Uhl; R. Hoffman and Fox �L. P. MUIR, on them. The.losses have rough & Askew. flocks were all bred by ,Fox light. Not many new - remarkably That portion of the Uhl flock now owned seems to be are started, yet there being by E·�pplllaQ.c.l & Son, has justbeen 'accepted close out their flocks Canin to no greitt anxiety for registry in the American Merino Sheep of Short-horn . Public 'Sain TboroDRhbrnd small cent. of the S. Cald- and but a very per Beglstry, The president, C. Miller, -THE- lambs will be lost. The sheep men gen- well's Prairie, Wis., visited this celebrated erally have suitable and comfortable flock last week to see whether the animals BREEDERS' a result CASS eo. accommodations for sheep ana the were eligible for registry, and as is admitted them without any hesitatIon. H. ASSooia.tion quality of the sheep in the valley above the average,' and a very general z rn il> � 1>0 Length of Will 8ell on has be-en 0 �:§ � staple. improvement of the flocks �':ll ,. : � s, ';l FRIDAY MAY 16th; 18,84, ram s, � 5! g' , made. �e sweepstakes ("Lord OWNER. � � ! ;l -Atthe-- Wool" No. 50) at the last Kansas State rt, l? e. fi fleece of �, � fair. was shorn, and clipped a r �: g Fa.ir Grounds, _ ',!::.;- - _ _ _ but _ :....::..': 831bIJ. 13 oz. The fleece contained J. little 011 and Will scour heavily. It was 8�lker::::::::: � � m� ��Y:; �w, �\4 �% g� PLEASANT MISSOURI, " r 3152 29 330 HILL, most dense fleece I ever ...... 8 2� the ,finest and � 23 of the well·known and pop About head of Short·horns following. was a matter of comment and &'8;;� 96 : � gg� �� �� Seventt.tlve saw. and l��M ��� �� of Pearlette, Arabella, fleece COP;�I)f ular families: Mary, Phyllis, Rose sharon, all present. The .. g ��� Young be bred ammration by t� � �g:� g� �% �� m for servlce. All Females old enough will II r 2 About half will be Bulla ready No. 170 weighed 385 129�- 2494 �� etc. Van- .. of "Rip- W�e" 151 r 2 124 25 368350 33� 33!4 o their sides • 1·nmited " or have calves ,.89 lbs, He had an almost un 647 e 5 105 350 2� 2� by .. 18(j 3Vo to J. F. NEAL, Sec'y., . 232 0 3 365 a a 3� was 19} . "-, the fleece of " 3'/. :.88 muchidc eanse wooI as r 1 124 19' 365 3� 3Ye '., e 4137 20 8.5J 3 3\4 PETER C. KET.TJO(lG Wool." 29- SALE &'.�O. '.,,� "Lord " e 2 10.2y' 18� : 351 3� PUBLIC 3� 3l'j wn Hold tbo FIFTH ANNUAL this shearing R. Hoffman 097 e rr 66 111 365 2/11 2� 2� -OF- :.-. The 'record of public ." :: has never-been surpassed in the West, :::::: �� : f ,�g� I�� g�g �ki ���:4 SPECIAL ,COMBINATION SALE Fox& Hollman 61B r 1112% 22 405 2'U 8 2 from at Below " as far as heard present. 51:!5 r 1 128� 2OY:; 365 3� 3Ye 3 -oJ!'- of r 2188 25 3 3 we a full and accurate report w. 9,010,...... give r 1 9Gy' 14 370133611 8y' 3Y. ·1 Short-Horns the shearing which is worth the careful JERSEY CATTI.E, -ON- are interested Consigned, by Prominent Breeders, consideration of all that a oss b d last - I G I � lliered 1 y ogs Tbur8(lay, Friday and Satur in wool OJ: mutton: ye!Lc:.t:f5�,O&{�:��.su \Vednes(lay, Tuesday, May 27,1884. -day, May 7 to 10, 1884, at- m Length of ttl from ' � staple. I will sell at my farm, thrce miles Thc Amcrican Horsc Exchan!c, Limit' d, . BREEDER. KANSAS, New No. of f' � E9 � LEAVENWORTH, Broadway and FIftieth St., York, OWNER. sheep. � . '5l John ! e. � 61 head of Short, horns, of such quality, styl(l, (Office, 107 Street.) "" : if ever bceu olfllred attracllons of tbls annual sale ttl : and breeding as havo seldom, The unr!valed great ... otber sales have : hll8 mllde It a nuoleu. around which F In the West. They !Lre composed of f been dated, making an allgregate oC about Townsend 4 i'iilSii4 N S 3'- ....E. Lady Bankez..... 42 -;;; yr 4� .� l�, Davfd:Fox.=-=:' 8 370 4 2 (MexlclJ.n)IiI.Hellor BE SOLD " ewe yr 85� 4� KIRKLEVINGTONS, ORAGGS, 600 JERSEYS TO ewc 4 308 2,1 :�{;l,. it, N. O. '1'. Atwood - "...... 1lil yr 1�5% 5% �;.-. 2% 2� oC a week. It will be • 4 4 D. Fox BllJAOELETS, In New York within tbe JJpace wth yr 71 4 (Mexlcan) VELLUMS, nOl enee 00 the sale oC the I during 9 4 3 �'ox & Askew prect'ded Tue!Oday by .' :: chi to. Be1Ie 051 ewe � yr 90 8461712371 2% �% herd...... Wi MISS WILEYS, YARIOOS, 1883 oC Mr. T. A. Havemcyer's ram 4 16B 36<1 33 13 '" .. Fox'" Copeland LOrd Wool 50 yr ram <1 166 ar,4 �y 8� 3(13l'j G. A. LADY ELIZABETHS, .. 170 yr 1l)1! Fox'" Hoft'man Rlp,Yan,Winkle J!��y , .... Y. Ric �Ii"���·�b� �oa��:llgi:tt.1 ram cutLlnE and well·known. orI���rl��1�6:,;:' Ute 2� . and families good thtl'most valoable of �.,,�" l!'ox & Askew other equally Comblnatlou Sale opportunity · �Y:; .. yr ��� iZ fs :: �g�r�l"i'2d""'''6i'9r 00 .... ral;D � yrl3� numbers t••elect ., all wIth 1 � 18 nre from 8 months to YCllrs old. year for ..curlog them, large " 1 81 -lIOG 15 2fi8 bulls 2� wltb· 61� yr 2� 2!y'! to absolute sale...... ralD 8. u from. Rod e""ry anlm..1 pledi:cd 17 6"/ 3 �. a .•••....• 0.11 red .. i.J<7'3 ram 1 yr 1'J. 8 866 /2 3% but two 31 2,year,old heifers, •••••••• " red (roan): out limit or protection. ram 1 yr 860 lU 4 cows "...... 572 3� " balance a lot of 128}:j a� but two (roan): the splendid cQnl.Rlns from luch If ram L ••••...•. Tha oatalogue' 'con8lgnmeols 586 yr lOS� 2� Dar 2<1 7 breeders as MeB8rs. B. M. Burnham. A. B. 3 121 836 8 13 2� II :.. A. J. Uhl from 3 years old up to years. noted & Son. 124 'e.we yr 8661118 3% Wllll. cup-winners In E. Copelaud 10 2.1. Bon III jill John I. Holly, J. V. N. (811 .. BI\uker,... 6 ram 3 Yl' 3GO 30 3 2% E. Copeland & all gual'nntoe<1 ling, • .. Kansll8 U;8� .. @-All recorded,and F. :MOUlton Brothers, 2· former sale8). D. Appleton, " wtb 3 yr 187 836 tl �)1; 2Y:1 a!.1�'.' l·esllects. 141 ram 4 yr 136\(, EG6 �\J 2)1; 3 8 Fox & Askcw ��1'J�11"e�a��A n.������n:'·d�;' it. N . •. :.. TERMS: iI'�Pad�?"1.· .A�exander 39 ram 4 yr 347 3� 11 2� oC whom are lIkewllltl proml)ientl,. '..... '42% otbers, mRny 4 :: a rebate In the oC 582 ram 1 yr 121 395 18 4 .. on with Rnd who take great prIde quality Hoffman...... , <:"1 " Six months, approved paper, known, R. 4 2 In thl8 annual Bale. .. 549 owe 1 vr 89 395 16 �% 8 23�32711 oC Iheh' representation great ...... 83J1. of 8 eent. for cash. l 390 14 4 4 per Banker 2d ...689 ewe yr 50� 4� I. creditably Lady :: at 1 o'clock. Every strain of blood of Importance :: 574 ram 1 yr 144 3GG 4 3)1; Sale will commence promptly of tbe most 2, �% " .. ewe 1 82 ;;06 1198 u 2. . after 1st. Llttl'e Fancy 546 yr �y. 2� Catalogues Bcnt on application April �':ft!�����d{n���et,!'.:'n���18\e0:OI�we 2 ewe 1 yr 65 4()0 12 10 8\4 Sy. G. C. Strong G. C. Strong...... wlJl be ready Aprll28. 254 ewe 2 yr 92 366 1'5 33% 2% t� Fox& Askew J, 0, STONE, Jr. patelognee It:ELLOGG '" :: 864 ewe 4 yr 12 2 1)1, Sam Jewett PETER O. CO., �/ Auctioneer. "...... 1 ewo 2 yr L08S1 3366GO }!� 1 �)'. 2 , .. G. C. 8trong COL. JJ. p. MUIR, 107 John SLred. New York...... 2� Oliver Grade 160 ewe 1 yr 62\4 36G U �J.B 2% : Ji{. H. Ol1ver t� " B66 U _...... · ewe 1 yr 3� 2% .am aG6 17 131/ '1 3, Fox& Askew :: tt ee·L···01',1 �66�"" 1 yr 16306,.(./2 Hn B)4 3� GLiradl ------. ------.---- Sale FRANK - Cotllwohls- Publio CRANE. 3781010 9 .... Alexander , ewe 4 126 8X R. N. Important Crane'" yr the ftrm of A. A. Son, R. N. Alexander Qneen " Formerly oC aGU 14 12 12 U 31L.. • " ,... ram 3 232 Jumbo yr " --OF-- Oseo,lIl., U H . 4'S/. c, Prof. Hammond... ram 1 yr 105 333 8% .\P 7{3 . 101 ram 2 yr 188 t64 16 9Y. 16 10� �8 W. H. Ranson W. H. Ranson...... 7� .. 104 ram 2 yr 269 16 13 9 12 4� "...... 173� " COMMISSION .. ram 1 866 15 4 U\i 11 ¥. 0' ...... yr IfiS'l(. A�ENT. XBNTU�XY �H�aT-B�aH. BU�L�I -For the Sale 01- Book NI)tioes. SHORT·HORNS FOR SALE. HEREFORD, choicely-bred bulla, from the and lectures Fifty head of POLLED ANGUS, The orations, speeches THE BREEDERS' ASSOOIATION life, most breeders In Kou herels of the ·reputable . GALLOWAYS, a book 562 p!lges,has "" of OLINTON and CLAY COUNTIES, of Wendell Phlllips, 9f about 801<1 lila.• own tucky" will be SHORT-HORN, Lee & Shepard. _ been publlshed by recently and Grade Cattle oC aU breedl. an MAY AT DEXTER PARK, OHI· And Thoroughbred Boston, Mass. To any person wishing 1,000 Short-horn Cows, 23, each inside �iew of the anti-slavery war before and raise for snle year OAGO, ILL. Carload Lots a Specialty. is the the rebellion, this book invaluable, yet 400 :Sulls. bulla are a picked lot and Bultl1bJe to Nea.r These Stables, Riverview Park. Address In cover is 50 cents. paper only 1I8 low as and are from 16 to 24 months old. price WIJI sell males or Cemales at all time. tliey head any herd, F. P. CRANE, Percheron Stud Book Annual nnd Volume III of the can bo bought elsewhere. The Publle They are extra Individuals, fashloDably,bred SLock Yards. Kansas CIty, Mo. "ild Miss is ready for sale. The publisher, J. H, Sale will be hold the flrst good colors. Rose of Sbaron�, WllcY3, 'Rl'tietl , , Wednes<1ar.year. Marys, Loudon Duchesscs, Jo. our thanks :l:or a Young or heirs, send stamp ror cIrcular show- has copy. ��'tl';,�d�bu��b�����m�fw��� 8a e to commence at !2 o·clock. Sanders, sephines, &c, Ph�Ili�CS, who I. entitled to pen.lon boun· Platlsburg,lIIo.', addrcss lug .... J. M. CLAY, President, sIiarp. For catalogues ty,&C. L. O. WOOll, W • W • HAMILTON fed and cared for Is the mo�t H. C. DUNCAN, VJcePre9Ident,Osborn,1I10. J Dox 34 Washington, D. C. A cow properly LeXington,'Ky. �.�LDIBa� 01' S. O. DUNOAN, Secretary, SmithVille, 11[0. prOfitable animal on the farm. 18M. THE -STRAY LIST WASHBURN�COLLE'GE HOW TO POST A aTRAY • A . �y AN Aut. ofthe BDNAF·IDE OFFER. F.eb 27 MO�lo��:iL:!:?D;' LeIlIBlatu.'o.npproved .1866. ') _tlon 1. when the appraloed value of a or , stray straya StiB,OOO' TO' exceeds, teD do11an. the County Clerk I. required. with s'O'BSOR.:J:B::m::EUI. In ten days after receiving a certllled description IIIld, to forward THIS Ilppralsemeilt. by mall. notlco contallling a OFFER ·GOOD TILL JUNE 15tb•.) col!!Jlleta description of ....Id etray.. the day OR which thlf ware taken, UP. tbelr appraised value. and the name andrelldence oCt!>e taker tnthe KANSAS FAR- !�\�!��qat�t!.gsd�!�!!!O!I!1 B3! u�. E�urprlle, togeth.r wllh two .....IPta JIOO(I tor tWo =c�����"I�t��e :Wc:�,�f���n:.��rn.m� .�� presents tn our distribution June 15th. The.Di� bepubllBhed In the FARMER In tbree succeselve II lUea ottho paper. It Is made tbe duty or tbe proprie Contains 700 �':'''y,'''�L tOll of Itl!lkiml ever Engraylngsthis useful aud the K.ANSAB FARMBR to send the .. publlshed, elepnt'�t.' paper Jr 01 ume is a and _. to clerk In to Library: Encyclopcdl4 ofgon.ra1 JmdwJedae every colluty the etate be kept on IIle as In hll oMce for tbe well.u the best publlilfed. Inspectlon:of all Interested bound m Dlctionary.now Su�bl, per80ns cloLh and gilt. It IS not. a Inlltl'aya. A penalty of from to 00 I. pocketalfalr. but f500 too l!JIIIed to large volume, "Thls :\\'8 believe to beLthe best any llillnre'ofa Justice of the .. cheap Peace. a County Clerk. ever printed.. -llitw (keeu._ of tbe FABMBB a Diction8:l., ��I!�::;oprletors for vIolation 01 WINTER TERM-Opened January 2<1.1884. Words, TERM-OpensAprll2d.1884. 40�00u ro:���=�:= How to a de. po.t Stray, the feel fines and pen- EDi1t:;����fe�:�ftb��b=o���r:�1 O�EN TO BOTH SEXES. �!�il" alties for not po.ting. ' o�!'�'!P�n��:l�viJ�i;d�I:::�O::d�== tnto �omes where it is not already known. Have de betaken npat nny time In the cided 10 throw off all thlll Four Cours.. or proHt year and in.additlon ,=.kenanlmallcan 8tudy-OlllB8lcnl. Scientific. Academ. usc R portion oftbeir capilli forthe of In· Unbroken anlmal8 can only be takeu l'etwoon te, llualnell8. the up Per.onalsupervlslou exercised. lieparate =� 18\ day of November and the 1.t !lay 01 April F"1��I�Y8Ilffi�ulWLllBLoo"mt'! dh�T.:; Christian Homeo provided tor • except when found In the lawful enclosure 01 the t&l stray. for week ending April 16, '84. Tho-Cold Wator niD! LANC'S JlORTHERN GROW", THOR. Franklin county-L. Altman, clerk. FM� OUGHLY TESTED. Flower Dip aud WasbHJ�!�J;������n:o���rr��!M��:e�(or aU Dome.tlc 1 \Vegeta :r.IARE-'l·akon liP by C B of Anlmnl•. A saf. and L I V E ble and Field. 20,000 mgden. RlcJvnond Ip, sure Remedy against aU kinds or • CataloaUei March 24. 1884. one dark oolh P"raslte. In PIBnl. ava a or dis free, Send n"mes of bay mare. hind feet or A 'I poalllvaremed,. tbe above .... ; by Itl _your fri.neIL moll utar Animals, powerful dl.lnfectant. Bend for "whits•• In (nreboRd. H}, bands 7 or 8 Pll- U••GONSUMPTION�tbon8andl of CBB •• of tbe worat kind 'and or lDoa: .• blgh, pers glvlns fuU Instructions to SEEDS FRED. N. LANe, Barahoo, Wi.. ·years old; valued at eM. etandl:llfbavub••noured. Ind••d••oltro'\fslomifalill • DON� • Strays fO.r '84. �;��io�f����� �f.\, - This, That and the Other; There are 334 deer parks In :jl:ngland. xp o. Buy tlie'rDiometers now. They will be In.Jilly. OUI" stock of Pianos is and more attractive this season higher , larqel" th.an �ve,. us the of Eve'should have been happy; Adam never before. Ovel" thirty years experience has taught secret haVing Just THE instruments with which to supply the DEMANDS OF TH� PEOPLE-no� of had a lateh key. have Pianos of all anyone class but of ALL CLASSES. We, therefore, prices i'What's the man yelling at?" "Why, at and t'; conform to the circumstances and tastes of of all classes , styles. people the top 'of his voice." and occupations. and sell eithel" upon monthly payments 01" fOl" cash, as OUl" wear a feather head- oustomers The Indian does not may prefer. , dress to his wigwam. keep , allow no 1ISrWe sell no S"'We abhors a vacuum yet we find many Nature mierepreeentations, under Congressman's hats. Pianos of inferior Every ,Piano is just Floods come high but Ohloans and 1\'115- v e n our quallty-e exactly as represent· slsslpplans must have them. Pianos are and satisfaction cbeapest :_ ed, The man with a lottery ticket looks out fully warranted. assured. for number won-and never gets It. -.. Every pig born In this country on the first of April, .should be christened Blsmarek. fHICKERING. HAINES. The crown princess of Prussia has a neck D lace of thirty-two. pearls which cost $93,000. IATHUSHEK, is not BROl:HERS'rI Barnum's sacred ��-C"�A elephant purely white, but It Is said to be the pink of perfec- • & FISCHER tlcin.- SIMPSON CO., A lion named Pon pey died in the Tower AND STORY" CAMP, A N' os. • con PI of London In 1760, after seventy years finement. ESTEY , '� OR.G.A.:N'B OR.G.A.:N'&. Paris has a beggar who is literally on horse � IANDISTORY&CAMP�� � lost his and makes his A SURE CURE FOR , back, for he has legs FARMERS, MERCHANTS, BANKERS, MECHANICS, WORKING- rounds mounted, , Sick Headache, Dyspepsia, Langour, MEN, ATTORNEYS, CLERGYMEN AND TEACHERS, In Australla'the production of peaches is Nervous Exhaustion arising from over We !lave the Piano 01" Organ that will exactly suit each one 0' you. and invIte a few so enosmons that, unt� years ago,pigs call us. and all work or excess of any kind, lOU to correspond with us, 01". if possible. upon Catalogues on were fed the fruit. • -AND FOR,... information cheerfully fUl"nished. &rlln has one drug store to every 16,266 VISl'rOBS ALWAYS WELCOME, whether wishlDg to purchalle or Dot. InIur)bltants; Breslau one to evory 13;000,and CQI"gne one to every 11,000. Female Weaknesses-. -IT PREVENTS- A. man with a head the shape and color of 203 NORTH FIFTH STREET., a calf's Is DOW on exhibition In Paris. He Malarial POisonin[ and and the original dude. Feve).' A[lle, Is,'do�btless, An,i is a Sppclfle for Obsiinate A lime tree planted in Switzerland 11l 1410 "ou T%����:!��;��=:! DID, .I. EVER THINK was like usmg poor was in existence In 1720, and had a trunk CONSTI PATION. thread in making up good material into a garment. The difference in cost between using the best thltty-slx 'feet In circumference. PRICE PER Sl� FOR $1,00 BOTTLE, $5.00 and the poorest Salt amounts to less than I-30th of a cent perpound on butter, and .-6oth of a cent has been SOLD BY DRUGGISTS A-patent granted-In Washington EVERYWHERE. on cheese, and we have seen it make a difference of throe eeuts per pound in quality. fora "hen's nest." The'onlywonder is that When Higgin's Eureka Salt was first introduced many people naturally desired to wait and see 8ODUibody -bas not yet got a patent .on the results. In seven years it has carried off nearly all the honors, and it is 'now generally admitted heni that it compares with other Salt as relined sugar compares with raw sugar, and the Hlggln pro cess in Salt manufacture was as an advance as the Bessemer was in steel. A httle fellow of five, with hls'i'first boots • MAR great process JIlaking MiO 19 UNACQUAINTED WITH THE QIEOQRAPHVOFTHII COUN IT ADDS MILLIONS EA.CH YEAR to the value of American dairy products, and the on, being told that,the baby wanted to ldss TRV WILL GEl! BY EXAMINING THI8 MAP THAT THE following figures show that this is appreciated by American butter and cheese makers who do not replied: "'Yes, he takes me for his him, ' believe in the principle of using.poor thread to make up good material. pap,a.l" U .. IMPORTS OF HICCIN'S EUREKA SALT FOR EICHT YEA,S. A:'slngle flower was the cause of war be 1876.. 5,950 Sacks. 1880 117,000 Sacks. tween Montezuma and Mallnally,lord of the " 1877 32,800" 1881 142,000 In -if we believe the Aztec Mlztecs, 1507, may 1878 69,045" 1882 154,000 " traditions. 1879 93,000" 197,000 " assert the ha-hn 1883:,,, Ps:vchologlsts that, laugh FOR SALE BY SALT DEALERS EVERYWHERE. indicates a relined mind; the he-he laugh a New York 116 Beade St. SALT shallow mind, and a ho-ho-ho-o lnugh a gross 01l!.ce, THE HIGGlft EUREKA CO., mind. Chicago 01l!.ce, 280 Michigan Ave. Llve�pool, England,' ,The Russian barbel's practice tl�e old Round-head fashion; and really clip hair by putting a bowl over the' 'heads of their cus ANiJRETHS'I::SEEND�a:4CATALOIiUE and wbatever hair tomers cllpplng protrudes. COMPANION." The Chinese divide their precrlptions Into "CARDENERS' PRICllllO CENTS. The most complete and b1'llllantIy embe1llshed Seed Cataloll1le ever seven classes: 1. The !(reat prescription; publiahed costinII' fifteen centa, The article on IlIarkot G!!,rdenlD.IL!!.Dder times the This being OUR ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR.!..,.eGlu\lrsh"=J1U , 3. twonty price. In 2. The littlo prescription; 'fhe slow pre Orimte Huule for Go.rden ana Form. To all sendlnR"us TEN C)j;NTS stampe, on for Seed credit for that amount. scription; 4. The -prompt prescription; 5. we mull " copy. and orders will give Addre.s, L.ANDRETH & Seed Crowers. Lock B'ox,Phila,Pa. The odd prescription; 6. The even prescrip SONS, tion; 7. The double prescription. Each of these recipes apply to particular cases, and the ingredients are weighed with scrupulous accuracy. CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC R'Y By tho oentral position of its line, connects the East and the West by tho uhortcst route, and car FBO�I COL. 2M IOlVa Infa a-tee C. H. MAOKEY. utry: pasf:len�ers, without ehnnge of oars, between I have derived more tleneflt from 1\ly's Cream ���1�1:0l�hi�a:,s�.i���a�glfano��:l�sF��,:e�t Balm than "nything ('183 I have ever tried. I fi����oft�J� li���e�fEgtl:���i�1��3�tf:�:�ftf� have now been using it for·thl'..l months and Oceans. Its equipment is 'uurfvated and magniQ ... am experiencing 110 trouble Irom C!:lIlRrrh \Vh,lt, �ee��tr{�r'b��,���t�R °k��i�O���f����Jg ��� Chair ever. I have been a sulferer for I-wenty yearr. elining Ca.'rB� Pullman's Prettiest �41nco -C. H. MACKEY. Sigourney, low•. Feb, 22. '82, �Jet�iWo�rJ�' ���e�h�r�f�; ����e�� ��Y��:o ��� ONE. TWO. FOUR OR EIOH1i·HORII MisBourl River Points. 'l'wo Trains between Chi cago nnd Minn.cnpol1s and St. Paul, via. the Famous HORSE POWEJ;l8. - have been d Bome fine horses recently purchas "ALBERT LEA ROUTE." BELT or UE4RED A New in Kentucky to�bo taken to and Direct Line, via. Seneca and Kanka ��ba. keo, has recently been opened between Richmond, News, Atlanta,Au_ FEBD QRINDllU. ' Norfolk,NewfJort Ch[l..tta.uoo�o., Oatarrh of the Bladder. '��:n���fi:in�a�03���Vd::�: ��di8�'��n?A¥i���:�� oUa and St. Paul und intermediate points. all Stinging, irritation, infiammo,·lon. Kidney All lJ.lhrough Passengers Travol on l!'ast E�pres3 •• TJ'oins. and cured bl' Bucnu Urinary Complaints, Tiokets for sule at nll pl'incipnl Ticket omcoa in palba_" &1. tho United States and Onnadn, Baggage checked throug'h nud rates of fare 0.1- B:3 HORSE as MONAROH HOE wayo low competitors Hlnt otter- leas advan tageo. ' get tho and Fold.. ,mm cisc:,lr ���anCd fnrormnttou, Maps CULTIVi1TOR COMBINED ��REA-i' ROCK ISI.AND ROUTE _"�t your nearest Tiel ct' or address mee, SENT ON R. R. CABLE, E'-ST. JOHN, vlec-I'rcs. &;. Gen'I M'S'!" Gcu'l Tkt. &Pas8 • .lgt-, CHiCACO. A'll������zi!!!'itnmeu!lo !JBvlnr: of' ·I::tber ond lnCiillE=Y. ':3 Vt�l'::t��':t.:::o::,,�°lo�:.n e�:�!li�etJ!:�9Jl:� easy nod Ca.st as one man Can the old Weu-, Illust..ated CQtnJol-flle FREE. AGENTS thfo WANTED. Jt1.ent1on pap'lll'o Add..c.� . St•• � Co.,. 206 State M'oJWfch '. ChieagoJIIL Mfg. . ,� ]884. COUK fEED y�� STO OBi.:. 'VJlIl tlao r�r!umpb Steam-Genorator. It wlll 81\"'01 one-tllird to one-balf' 01' your (Norwood Park Is 10 miles from Chicago, on the C. & N. W. R. R.) reed. Bond for circular:r. Mantlon this paper. READ I READ I! Rieil� WbUacre&Co., , ·lJIiICAGO The Great Poultry Show at Chicago, Nov. 14-22, 1888. LIGHT BRAHl\IAS-(Jock-1st, 2d, Sd, 4th and 6th. Hens-let,2d, Bd, 4th anel 6tb. Cockerels-�one·shown. PuJlets-lst, 2d, Sd, 4th. Breeding Pen -1st and 241. PARTRIDGE COCHINB-Cock-1st. 2d, 4th and 5th. Hens -1st, 241, Bd, 4th and 5th. The Little Gem Creamer CockereIR-lst. 3d. 4th and 5th Pullets--lst, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th. Breeding Pen-1st, 2d and 3d. BUFF COCHINS-Cock··1i1t. Ren .. 1st; Is WITHOU'r A RIVAL ecore95��. . PLYMOUTH ROCKS--Hen-Sd. PuJlet.·4th. Pen.. Sd. ron lireedlng REAL 1\H�RIT, STATE FAI-R CHICAGO' and ST. LOUIS 1883. Is the verdict ,of the man,. thnt AT. FAIR, are usllll{ It. It �avcsIJ1o"" labor, 24,' 1883, on every Pair of Fowls shown, requlres no Ice; liRA doutile the Ohicago, September Wim!.ing LIGHT on on . :6RAHMAS-lst and 2d F.owls: 1st and Id Chicks. . � Mllk Cllpacity, 18 the Oreamer (ur • ,b. Datry In nil Ol imntes. PARTRIDGE COOHINS-lst and 2d on Fowls; 1st on Chicks. . "WAY & WOODRUF�', Milnurre, nUFF COOHINS-1Rt and 2d on Fowls. GCIl£-821), 111. PLYIIIOU'l'H ROOKS-1st'on Fowls; 1st.and :!d on Chickp. St. Louis Great Fair, Ootober 2, 1883,-B, N, Pierce, Judae. LIGHT BBAHlIIAS-1st on Pair: 1st on Breeding Pen. PARTRIDGE COCIDNS-13t·on Pair; 1st on Breeding Pen, ROCKS-2d on TREO.K.CHURN PLn�OUTH Pair.. , HIl.. Iml'rovemcnts over LIGllT :BRAllMAS, 1'AlLTBIDGE and :BVFI' COOmNS and 1'. ROCXS HY SPEOlALTY. THE BEST! ._.' .00;- All eorreapendenee cheerlully answered. Send.Stamp ror 4 page illustrated Circular. :w'Mn�\���OIl���r�J�� willnotbroak. Bcndforclrcular. JOHN S. CARTER, Bole manufacturer, SYRACUSE, N. Y. Ties the best bundles and use81ell8t twine. Hos 011 of Appleby's Iatest improvements. oil. EIIIIily manlll;lld and light teiIm. , Finest piece of moohinery ever invented. Arrangements for shiftingveey·banii7. • Requires little attention to keep in order. Makes harvesting eBsy and pie_to EveI'f purchaser fully satisfied. - Recelvos volumes of praise from farmers. Saves grain, time and mone;v. Choking imp01l8ible with PACKER,DIP. Handles bad and alike. . Otder on trlRI, address for circular and location of good groin Binder DOUBLB P Western an ,I Southero Storehouse. aod Agents. Only using A'CKBB TUP. • Is built and P. K. DEDERICK &. CO., Albany, N. Y. strongly praotical in workiDc• Can bo .run 'Yit.�out expert help. ExtenSIvely ImItated, butequaled'b:vnone. U-Cn.l1 on Iecnl ngent, or send fnr DesCripthe AD4 ,u.. THE timoninl Circular to tho ' :BATCHELLER »tl1r.u!QctufcI.:J. '\ BARREL CHURN - The MINNEAPOLIS HARVESl'ER WORK. Cbeapest and b..at, No Iron M'lnheal10lls, Minn. rim III the ton for butter "r cream to adhere to. All t���:"���u��YI��O 'b�'\��:: Worker.•. AIRo nil .17.es Box Ohurns ror Oreamerles, All Roods warrantee} BS repre -ented. Dair,Y Ohuru at, wholesale prtce wh�l'e we have 110 aeent, Send for circular. n. 11'. Batcbeller SET YOUR OVVN T:IR.ES '" Son;.Rook Falls, Ill. FARMERS, THE DIMON WACON IMPLEMENT. Bolt to hold on the -As·a "ACIVI-E'·'· Consisting of 1\ Jack Serew, Tire Tlgbtener, AdjWltable Wrench Rnd doubletreee. Jack CHAMPION CABINET CREAMERY Screw Tire Tlgbtener, It Is tbe most complete implement ever Invented, �be principle of ti&btenlng' tlr.. by Award".! DlIvel' swelling the Cellces and Futtlng wasllers on tbe &boulder or tbe spokes Is recommended by the "SClentifio Amer HAY .. R :IU:cdnl I.U: l·A·o��lnelnl in the United Slal.... RICK:E tcan ""American Agriculturist," nnd alao by the Iargest wagon maaufactorlea 'l'bll price ]�xhHJiUOll, Gu'�l!)hJ 10 at the and If cannot cet tnem at your uardware atores write to The Dimon •• $1:50 factory, yon I.ilplement {lint., r. "1".' 18�:::. Fort Scott, lill.nslls. Agents wanted wbere It haa not beeo Imrooucec, II sell. al eight. Hil'r.tl'l·cmluUlOn(i �!(ld� Compnny. Tw.nly.Jlve sold by one man lu oue day. Sent by expre•• on receipt of price, ,1.60, 10 ROY place In tbe United 'l'Oi\.H.!Q I!!UIBLI'i:li Ex- from 100 to �OO a %";1, �ll1lf •• Farmers wbo bave a Ilttte spare Umecan aeu m their neighborhood In mouth's time. '.i·nrontp. cunu 111bHlon, This was Invented by a 11ractlcal farm". A big discount 10 agents. ea, September, 1883. Iuiplemeut 1 Ins t:\l:on uio i:·rst pre. Fort mturn at u.c St.�tc rr,i"� In DIMON IMPLEMENT- COMPANY, Scott, Kansas. nccrtv every '\'CCLl.!:·U :�:;f';t\': I'jI,tS��1 1tH:. mcst �f;l��� '�il�:_l It :':�1'1:;{�t��;·: L:IiIAD& TEE:&J:K ALL I ma . Is m::{.o cf tIl] 1'1 i, , terll11 A �".en.t numuct' Ll H.'·(', Jd I siz 'fl 1 r Cu· t Chack ·!toweZ'. �����r f��!i��u�. �:!�d t �_1;� / :·t�!�l �:�·��.:��t; (:.!. _ :.:��_ :Ba.Z'nas' �iZ'a Eleven Years Praotlcal Us. In the Field. WORKS ON ALL PLANTERS. LOADER AND RAKES. Proteoted by the only OrIgInal Patent•• machine 19 ..ranteod to Jlut.U!) more bal" in BDd to This gu Popular becBD.e Simple Easy less time, and at I eSB than half the cost by any other Operate. known metbod. One R1eker'and two b;r O.'K.��!��t�o�l! take from 0 to five will . day Sp surflloe, take8le88 It has the lend with Iho Deniers nnd the Fnrm�m, employeo. aoresofbo.yperf'ecInyconeen.nfromtbeswaRnke8tflrBtedulelt1Jy .;.. eoollo" materllll, an unanimous verdict that it who have rendered tlie slUDe 00 the atock .. t,he pitch orwllIl'on,1il ; In ... less . takes labor is the best Ch"cl, R07W" madc. bettormowerdandcon ltton thn.n twice tho force can windrow and ..me. of but it it Ilnd s oot . ol,erllting It, The wire do�s 1l0t cross tIle tl.tI.fi avoidi"g cock Ibe It seldom geta repo.lr, should fanner cn.n repnir it. NO Farmer o.n- " GREAT WEAR AND IIwcllillejSl'RA N ON Til,/:: afford 0 do without Jt" Write for price l1IIli11 GIVES THE the nnd n WIRE, nnd friction 011 pnlleys, mailing tenns an""� circular _KiVlnS CuI lnfortnlltlon. BEST RESULTS wire that ciocs 1I0t cross the machine Qutwe<1r fic.v· ACME HAY HARVESTdl. CO., Mrs., Peorla,m. eral wires that do cross. HBI! a �ll\Bs the whole g�¥!�� ����,;lm�� CHAMBERS. DERING, QUINLAN CO., Exclusive Manufacturers, rrCr.Tl'i1. IllS. of tbe milk without touchingtheCreamery, Onl ... Single r.in?" .... 7 :rv, n(· and can soo the crellll1· cd th:tt CI(/�(>'- C:l O,_l:-'IUl: line tbe whole le7'gth Iff IJ. oflhtl":l=�" , . lll��rl ��:Il�� I J' I 7\' bebweeo mllklngll. 'l1 . "'1" For clroular addiesil , tlirown � tl:\ ;/" 1 ·n �� Ar� 9/1 JOHN s. CARTER �Y�A�i�itj: 9 I�", ""'-�" Tr\pl0 CTO�"j,! Uf� :,: ,:i.j' The only tha.t ,vill ring Iteep hogs , ',t. . .. :,' cfTect,mllly Only �inp-'le Rln�r th ....t ,-/.'1:1'.': (I'i '/: r .',:. No In the nose. 'l·'�('''. fromrooUng. shnrp points Nosh:up point:: in 'h :: �hi(l;' ,el, i' "r� CHALLENGE CHAMBERS, BERING, QUINLAN CO. Exclu,lvc Mn",i;�clurN:;, U::',:Ai:Ja.I:.t.::>,. WIND MILL - . -,- ..... '" _ ...... _ .,. AND ... .' ..:... - FARMERS, � FEED MILL CO. Remember the Best Is Cheap- est I II BATAVIA,ILL...... ; },lntlnft cturcrn of We are manofacturlnr the beat Garden and Ornamental Fence . Farm, Geared Wind Mills. 'In tbe market. It wl1lturn all kln<\J ...... of stock. our SHORT FENCE Is For Grinding Grain, made for She.p und Hogs. Cutting Feed, Sholl' J aod Ise"EeClnllvbe <:tieane.t., Strongesl aml ing Corn ,Pump· Mo.t DUl'llble Fence tbat cao be - and - ing: Water, .'.- r1.mning all kinds bU.J.�r circulars giving chinery. I ... I DEJ\nNG &: BENCH, ..... AI,oF.ad ,! Topeka, Me.1 � -. � . .nd .. � :J '. Geo. N. & - - Son, . ..: Deming Mills, ,J-o(i .-- or, ":!H� Lawrenco, ItRR. Pump.. Etc. "THE BEST IS CHEAPEST." Agent. Ditoher wanted ENGINES, SAW·MILLS, Chicago S�raper" forallun THRESHERS Clover Hullers 3cro.�LOANS. .,� Oko'lllarS addreU "lIGsigned Hors.ePowers ji'orlllenoCmodpl'ILtemcan& 1II0ne;rloaned In any pnrt (Solted to all sections. Write Cor I'RIlE IUu& tho 2·cent f P"""pWet llf..' cOllntl7! stamp. 10rrito,1' til .s:: co.. un, (l0., MAYWOOD, IJ.I,. ;;W;;u"_....__..;;;;,,,,;;.;r- �IU'rlce, T�? A1!ltIDIUl ora!!?r Mp.JI��?!�f pilla. .wCHlGAjj j:.04N!tAddre.s'rwllhOQ'I QJJ�lIMm!';t MI91!1 �TWOQD 18 KANSAS FARMER. AP�30. -TaB DA:J:�-- .,.. Improved Automatic Hay-Stacker and Gatherers· ! THE MOST WONDERFUL LABOR-SAYINC. MONEY-SA"IN�, TIME-SA·YINC MACHINERY EYER· --::---INTRODUCED ON THE ,FARM.-·-.----_- Manufactured by TRU"'BUL�... , REYIYOLD8 &, �LL$N, Kansas City, Missouri. We made limlsohl.over 1,000 of those Macbines·laSt year-the first uf its introduction. Are turning out 3,000 this season, and could sell more IJ we could make them. Shall increase our capacliy for another season to t.ry and, supply the demand. Our object this sens,?n will be. to supply the natural demand that comes to us voluntarily, without working the trade vigorously. We have already received more orders (han all we sold last season. Our latest order {or a car load came from the Swan Cattle Co., of Cheyenne, Wyoming, {or the ranchos of their qorupany and neighbors, the order coming to us; voluntarily, by letter, after hearing of the merits of this machinery; We ,::ive these few facts as the strongest arguments we .could IISC til show you what the farmers and ranch men . who have examined Into this maclunery think of it. Ra.y IS put Up at a saving of 50 to 75 per cent. over the old way. It does the work better than it cau be done 'by hand, so that the Ray keeps better and is worth $1.00 pel' ton more, Takes the Hay direct from the swath to the stack, saves win-rowing and cocking. Hay is not touch ed wi tl1 a forx from the time':it leaves the mower until it is on the stack, a Ga.therers III to times Its often saved in The 'price of Stacker and two saved putting up 70 75 tons of Hay.. Many price putti�g up Hay quiokl" out of the way �f storms. One man, three boys and five horses, with this machinery, will do the work of ten men and six horscs the old ,and do It better, 'No small farmer can afford to be with.out it. No large farmer or ranehman can afford to be without it. waf, . We can furnish hundreds of testimonials like the following from the largest and best farmers in the countrv : L� March 6, 1883.-1 put up the past &eaIIon, with 1\ Dnln Blacker and Gatherer, 300 toos or the exception or a man on tho slaclt, I can do all the work with boys. I cannot biro l,i1chera who will do tbe ...iK·AXiI.IoS. '. Cloyer ";ii;1:�11i10&h,. Hay. at an up..... of'lIJ cent. per Ion after It left the mower, when It has been costing me work as well as thlo Stacker, HJJ:NRY WEDD • •1.00'Dtr·tmrthe"'old'll'ay." Illy hay hao kept better than It ever did and I consider It WOl't" el.00 per to" more 1114.. 1IIijJluk� tAe "old wall"-wltb In fnet, I never. In my whole experience of farming, put up ELDORADO, KANSAS, AUAust 3,1883. - J{.'.,.8. Trumbul" Rellnolda cf: Allen, J{aflBII. Oily, Jlo.,,- GOIIII.men: &he hQ' Di'uuUaraotory a manner. afltch.fork.put. up the hay better than It can be done with a sulky or revolvIng The Daln Improved Hay Stacker nnd Gatheren purchased from YOIl are dOing splendId work. Til'" mal and. rake," with the Ga&herer It limply "otbers tile bay lUI It fan. Crom the mower (Instead of roiling It up, 8S wIth two boy. are ;"o..i'lll/, mkino and .taekl"l1 twentll t.... a dct!1 wit" e",.. Our st',cks are Btandlog the raloy weather a revolving or sulky ....ke), aod pulott on the Btacker st.ralght, nod the Stacker throws It on the stnek stralghl, much betler than those Imllt In tbe "old way," owing to the hay bolng tbrown In tb. center. I will mo,. than '0 tbat It abeda rain better. The Blacker also throws It In tbe middle oC the stack, so tbat wben the sides Rettie tho entire e08t of machloe In putting upuy crop of. hay this BOason. ReRpectfuJly YOUi'll, I, leaYell &he center highest, loatead ofsagged down or hollow, ns Is the.caae when pitched with l\ Cork. With I,ave A. A. BAINBRIDGE. '.I!ir If there is no ageot in your locnhty, write us direct. We are giving especial attention at tms' time to the PEERLESS REAPER AND MOWER TRADE, DEDERICK HAY PRESSES, SUCKER STATE GRAIl{ DRILLS, AUL�MAN & T.A:YLOR THRESHERS, and BUGGIES, CARRIAGES and SPRING WAGONS, If interested, write us for and Catalogue. Address Pricef; TRUMBULL. REYNOLDS" ALLEN, Kansas City, Mo • TWO-OENT COLUMN. . 1 eN HAND, APRn.. 1st, 1884-, AT OAKLAW'N FARM. NINTH ANNUAL SALE 50 ··Imported Stallions, --OF-- order to close out my stook WelJlht 1,500 to 2,300 Ibs., well acclimated and SEED·P.OTATOE3.-lnIIOOn, I make the rollowlng oO'er: White Elephant, ready tor servioe. Also . lIlammotk White Star Pearl aod at ,t,OO per sack oC lY. 100 YOUNGER bWlbeJa, Including aaek to ship In. Address W. C. STALLIONS orn ft:nc:1. 180 Short-H BtUldevlUlt, JeO'enon, lo_wa. Cattle, 12& IMPORTED MARES. BY THE FOB. SALE - 01 Brabma nDd Blaek Light: Nellrly nil the above in the EGGBB�1Ilah Chlckens,-by Mra. III. Wllllmlre, Oarbon registered daJe,� ------_. PERCHERON,STOD __------BOOK OF FRANOE, SALE.- 200 bushels 01 German II1111et pure which Is the draft horse FOR1!eIi!. :1. B. 198 Kansas only MoACe., Ave., Topeka. record of thnt country. JAG KSON GO., MO., B:A:LE -A Cew "We.tern Queen" Bee Hive" a�d FOB.a'pat,nt Bee Smoker. Clarence Bklnner,.212 "Kan· IIB8 avenue, Topeka. BREEDERS, . -AT- BALE.-DOt healthy Sheep. mnlulv hlgb·�rnde FOB.'MeiinOll. Ohotce Batna, In' lolH'lo H.1t "pur ohaaera. at reasonable Address s, prleea, Connelly Bro , CouneU Grove, Kas. RIVERVIEW PARK, 70 LOAN on Real Eet", e, a or 6 ,'."'-'. at n MONEYlow mte or tnterest. Frank I:!. Thomas, 117 Knnsas Avenue, Topeka, Hil3. . Kansas' City, Mo., May 6, 7 and 8, 1884, Blj,���r;"U:aIfrE�,s-o-;,:l·/l�,i1.�'·���..ke/�,.l,�r K,'��� C"Il,;s:iO!i of 100 choice {],Qws and Heifers and 80 Bulls for cheal'. Also' on hand. ��IUII""ll. young ready eRIJS service, NotwIthstanding this immense stock, my im. This is strictly a, Breeders' Sale;' ;'I·d the df"riogs RIll drnfrs frem the RA.ISER.'i.-(.;rushl'll ('�rccn DI)IlP8 ror have already begun. The POULT�Y lu t l.c and will both in ToPoultry, 12.50 per hundred Ibs, 1."'8 qusntttte«, 3 K��l����n�8�il �no�1 PI'n!uiuen� he�ds county, compare f_v(.I·ahly breeding aud per lb. Adlires9 T. H. 111111,',. ,I,: eo .• G,·.at neud. 10<1"".1"'11 merrr with uny Ih·.t have ever been olldn·<1 ill the We.t. If desired cattle 'il::s ' 20 FINE LARGE STALLIONS will i,,,, k"i,tlili ;lIP do�,! "f 8:."0 wilhout expellse 10 plI:<:ha�er. will be from Franco the first Fot' >lddt'eti� either of Commil.lf(, at shippod wook. ill ��� c�t'd"IS"cs Jr.depeodencl', Mo. E. A. T,4i.FT & April,·to be followed by C. C CH�LES, 0-0'., HUNDREDS OF OTHERS ('or.. J" P. MUIB" G. L. CHI.:r ,t: :MAN, (For-merly 'fu!'f., "�merl' OJ).). the duriI\ll season. , A!letionel!J'. ,JOHN 1'. SM.iTH. lElB Ka.nsa.s Ave., Topeka., ALL STALLIONS GUARANTEED BREEDERS. free. Are now open with a.1l eLitil'e Nl'W Cataloguo Address :tv.E. �. Stock, all of which is otrerrd at ex ::J:)"[J'�, nt .. Wayne, Du Page County, RE" ll- i2! tremely low prices. IDlnofs. t.·, 'ij!1... • • � .. �h'J' ." OLD. laW this 85 miles west of CbiclIgo, &:N, W. �Aycm'.l�aQUAR1'Ei1S. in ��l"�R'· A.· [Say you Eyo' PES�i�l:�i tbel'·ARMEII.] pn'O, ::;TiIALL F81:1I11'S AND 'if�::lSt·;,'l. F,'">l'V TO DJoJ .... ',EIlS AND PLAN·I'EBS. ·�!ock. First-Claeo, :s,'ll'C(l CEO, S. JO�SELYN. Fredonia,N, Y. For Sale. (J1,'a14,,{nes. 600 bUlhels Early Amb.r Cnne S••d: also a row bush. els of Tez&s Hooey and Early Orange Cane See'1. ' BeUe [,1�rie�8��n�rL�.::kBS. WOOL CROWER8 . K-. SCAB! J. p, .ABE Whose Flocks VERl'IIIl'I are' DAVIS, Prea't., E. N. MORRILL, Tress., JNO. E. I&F AQiQ'" i' MOON, See'y. .1\ PIAltRJ!'Lq�11ES. ���n��nh�i The KANSAS Tono,Toncb,WorkmanshipandDurabilllY, LA.DJO'S "-rOBA-OCO S::a::mElP DZP WILLI.... III KNABE"" (JO. - Is to SCAB and as in mid-winter' as in Mutual Life Association. Nos. 204 and 205 West Baltimore Street, guaranteed ERADICATE VERMIN suroly mid 01' HIAWATHA. KAS. Baltimoro. No. 112 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. summer. ll'hose who have used othor Dips with no or partialsUllcess, are espeoially invi�d #dr The only Co-operatlve Lire AsaoclatiOtl to ours a trial. Its use moro thrln its cost in an INCREASED GROWTH OneriJ;g. give repays OF Abeolute Protectilln In Old Age. . A l:,dy's falley box with �G articles and Our new 64 1 for froe distribution, Send for it. 60·vage book illU8tl't1.ting ga.mes, tricks, BETTER, W1)I)J,.. pamphlet, pages, 61'Ay _ �genbJ wanted. Bend (or Journal aod Lentlet, givlog !:lend lOtCents to help pay postage. IUlUutOnDIIUOII, to J. FRBB.&e. E,MOON, Sec'y. ,E, NASON& CO.,120 Fulton St:,NewYork. �ADD 'T�BAOCQ QO., St. Louis, MO.