ESTABLISHED. PAGES WEBKLY. VOL. XXIV. No. 29.1868.} JULY TOPEKA, KANSAS, 21, 1886. {SIXTEENPRI()E••1.30 A YEAR. ABOUT clsloo the TORNADOES. by rising and slnklDlI: of the ba- tbe sudden heating and expansion of air. ance was like what has often beendescnbed In the Kansas and and Orop Weather Bulletin I rometer, ships at sea can avoid their caustna It to raise the upper strata and so as seen in waterspouts. for the month June eliding 50, 1886, Issued greatest fury by observing well-known rules. disturbing the equilibrium, watch the Infiow- When the. precipitation Is more abundant by Hon. Wm. of tbe State Tbe tornado Is a Sims, Secretary very small cyclone, bavlne Ing currents tend to restore. 'Were tbls the the beat set free II;lves tbe upward air move­ Board of Agriculture, tbe state- a breadth following of feet where the cyclone has only consideration, the movements would be ments a II:reater velocity. and the rain Is roent of storm theories Is made: miles. Tbe barometer gives little Indl- of short duration and of no great violence. sometimes carried 80 blgh as to' be frozen, A few words on the of tornadoes cation of Its subject approach, and Its move- The energy set free by precipitation comes and falls to the earth as ball. It Is ·very PERFECTION NO. 215. STOCK RAM IN USE AT MERINO SHEEP FARM. PROPERTY OF R. T. MCOULLEY & BRO., LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. not be out of at this time. The may place ments are very erratic, as well as violent. in' here to Intensify tbe atmospheric move- probable that all great hall storms partake month generally supposed most prollfle of "I'he two are similar in the important fact ments, until the tornado is equipped with all of the tornado characteristics. Theso-called this kind of storms has come and this that the wind has two motions-an passed onward its power for destruction. In accordance waterspout Is a tornado when It sweeps over year without serious wind any being reported movement like ordinary wind, and a motion with this, we find that all destructive torna- bodies of water. The downpour of water from of the State. Kansas has in­ of any part rotation about a vertical axis. The gyra­ does are accompanied by great rainfall, and from such clouds comes from the air for tbe deed been for five or six exempt years from tory movement in the northern when rain ceases storm most and is and there is no hemisphere - the the soon dies part, simply rain, tornadoes of kind tbat the swept throuzh Is from left to right, or opposite to the rota­ out. The.funnel-shaped cloud which Is the good evidence that a tornado lifts great Irving and other of the State In 1879. tion of a parts the hands of watch, while In the sure precessor of the tornado, is the visible masses of water Into the air from a lake or No year without some of the passes part southern hemisphere this motion is reversed. evidence of preeipltation, although it is not 'see, Oases are r.ot rare wuere schools of great area of Kansas visited wl·th vio­ This being is eqnally true of cyclones, tornadoes, lways that snch a cloud is evidence of rain- 'small fish have been caught and transported lent and more or less are and storms, buildings even the little dust-whirls: which shows ran. About six years ago a cloud of this quite a distance, but we believe that when a blown down; but tornadoes of the that all Irving these phenomena are governed by kind appeared three or f011l; miles southeast tornado strikes the water it agitates and type are happily of rare occurrence, and the same laws. It has been analytically es of Topeka, having at its base on the earth a scatters it without IIftln� much of It high Kansas Is as free as ber from tablished quite neighbors by Prof. William Ferrel, that fluids cloud of dust and leaves, and this was into the. air. In this way· small pools and these visitors. It Is the fashion to call these on the earth's surface a .moving toward cen­ nected to the funnel-shaped summit by a ponds have been swept dry, the water and tornadoes "cyclones." though the latter term ter must take that form of con-I mud In necessarily zyra­ ,long column of something which looked at a being.scattered every ectlon. Re­ has lone been to applied by meteorologists tory motion which all observation shows distance like a column of water. It swayed ports that water has been lifte m the storms of a different character. quite Oy­ them to take in cyclones and tornadoes, and to and fro with a sinuous motion, till at last bottom of wells by tornadoes may safely be clones, properly so called, occur on the At· this as gyration also accounts for the baromet­ tbe top separated from the base, and In a regarded delusions. We find In the wind lantle and Indian or on the shores of oceans; ric fluctuation in the cyclone. few minutes both had dtsappeared. No rain sufficient energy to account for all the de­ these great seas. They have well-defined We and may therefore conclude that the tor fell from this cloud, though the wind was structive transporting effects seen In tor­ and regular cover a nado movements, usually ortgmates In the movement of air to­ violent enough to prostrate several stacks of nadoes. There is a velocity wblch (tas been great area; can be foretold with some pre- ward Ii occasioned In most 'center, cases by hay which came in Its path, and Its appear-. (;Conctuded on page 4..) • JULY 21, 2 KANSAS lI"ARMmR,. ever to Herd, have less than three crosses go known fact that full-fed pigs eat slowly How to Get a Valuable the salt water as food. As regards in times of severe cold. On this account . Suggestions are always in order, f\n ijfte �toe& aJnterest. if is reliable and speaks of to the best to start pedigree, �t -it was found occasionally necessary Iowa farmer says place desirable excellent features. it is very .. PUBLIC SALES OF FINE CATTLE. substitute a small feed of raw corn for toward a good herd is the particular It IS a of what has gone means lie. simply hiStorY Pa.tes claimed only Cor aalea advertised In the the regular ration of cooked corn; but place where your Begin before,-the only guide of what to do KANUB FARJn:JI. it is believed that this was not done where your means will justify, he says. for the future. There are some breeders Anima' 5- W, B. B. CUndUr. Short·hom•• PleaBant results often enough to affect the "totals and If you cannot aff9rd to buy the who preserve their pedigrees faithfully, A::.:.!��� T, A, Hubbard, Short·horne, Wellington, averages" obtained in this experiment. of other men who have bred up from who make worse for want of 01 nn:t Kan.... Cltv Fat .thlngs and W.dn.oday com- tben with me<liocrity. T�"�." ' For convenience .in a mediocrity. begin 8tock Sbo". Inter State Breed... A88ocI8t1on. 8bort. making in breeding and for want of born..' judgment . the sum- If you can afford to buyzood grades, parison of results, following in buying males to improve with. can afford to the spirit the facts of then do so. If you buy mary, ¢ving principal Such are not valuable, only t.he know ones pedigrees Oooked and Raw Oorn as Food for Fat- tables with others in concise pedigreed animals. and good foregoing as to enable us to avoid danger. that best guides tening Pigs. has been from bad ones, be/sure the. form, arranged: But still. if you make a steer.or the Prof. M. State best. But be sure B), E. Shelton, Agricultural - will pay you kn?w poorest specimen of a pedigreed animal. College. .g, R'e '3 what is the difference between native ...���- � � �- ._ � 21 R.<;i will beat all '" � ;;.� ;:,.::. � he likely your high grades The value of cooked corn as <> • between a de and compared � i'i � a .. .. and a grade. poor gra as a feeder. Dishonest men must be with corn in the raw state was the sub- 121 ':;; and ; �� a Ilood grade, between a good zrade i rlit..1 � avoided. can lie about a pedigree of the hereinafter l � '1'hey ject experiment : :: S-j i R a thoroughbred. Few know these things III � il and mislead any breeder. Color does detailed. Ten pigs. with one exception i well. Most think they know them l l u. ! � �.� 1 .;; not count. One is about as good as -- - -- yearlings. were selected for the pur- ----- �:;Il It takes. longer to learn thorougbly. colors are FEED: COOKED another. Perhaps as light poses of this experiment. As a whole, bow to raise a calf well than to learn 3894 1>20 7.5 8 6 1 1 47,Ii 104 more delicate. the red among cattle will the lot thus employed was very unt- PlasCONRoN.'J,� 2, draw an Indictment that WI'11 how to Pubic sentiment - prevail. -- --- __ eventually form, the only exception being the _8_,_4�nd 5:.. We know this because we have hold. a RAW will have it so. Beason will not get occupants of pens number 8 and 10 FEED: drawn a CORN. seen good papers by young 3811 605 6.3 8.4 1.68 n9 81M hearlna.