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The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22
for the farmer.
RUCKWMEAT.
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Tho rripcipaI value of buckwheat to farmers
ING iatitude. consists in it as a supplement
~ or as one that can be substituted where
81 hos failed by reason OF insects or Otherwise;
on acconnt of the destruction OF all KINDS OF
crops by the Rocky Mountain locust IN so large
,' araa in eastern Kansas and Nebraska, and IN
s on Missouri and Iowa, moro than the usual
"noutity of buckwheat Will be sown. Inc con- q,
Lieu of the soil, and more than the usuai Iiii
f ain at this season of the year, are Ooth FAVOR
able TO the growing OF TINS cI'p >. 'n,o UnoP
-ennires from sixty TO seventy DAYS 70 ha'uIe,
itId i,o Gown usually from the 9th TO tile
o6tb of IJnly. although many sood farmers pre-
fr sowing il from the 20th OF jury 70 lne lsC vi
Etb oF An9ust On low grounds, SUBJECT 10 carry
frosts, it should be soWn a. S - s AZ
81 to a later period The soil should be thor
nn1bIv nnlyerized on the surface, SO that the
nIants will get a good start at once. III the SOIL
+ moist when the seed IS hrst sown, 1t viii
- Torv ouickly Sow with 4 wheat drill
81. 70 sow half bnshc as the plant is so spread
mo and branching in its habit, 1t will be seed
nnougb After sowing, if it be dry, roll the land;
if wet, do not
when the principal portion of the seed has as
sumed dark color. 1t shells easily that it
must be handled with great care. 1t can be cnt
with a reaper. One having dropping attach
ment is to be preferred. Drive very slowly and
drop the grain in small gravels. Two men are
stocks OF punches, which, at the base, are about
as large as a two-bushel basket When set up,
twist the tops slightly of each bunch, and tuck
them in and let the punches remain in the field
until cnred. This grain must not be bound like
wheat and must not be stacked. 1t usually be-
Genes sufficiently cured in two weeks to thresh.
Then, if the weather is favOrable-that is, clear
and dry-spread some blankets upon the hay or
grain rack, and haul it to the machine. To
thresh it with machine, leave only one row OF
teeth in the concave beneath the cylinder. If a
small quantity is raised, the grain may be beat
On out with fail as fast as it is brought, may
be trOdden out with horses
The crop usually harvested, ranges from twenty
to forty bushels to the acre. The price obtained
is that usually received for the best quality OF
wheat -four. The value of the buckwheat crop
as article of food, is not fully appreciated or
understood. II is usually sought for during the
Winter months as healthy article of diet, and
has the reputed merit of warding off the pangs
of hunger, longer than any other single article
of farinaceous food Therefore, we say, that on
account of the failure of the wheat crop in many
places, and its destruction by insects in others,
pillow the land Immediately and send at once for
supply of seed, for by the time that it arrives,
the ground will have become settled and in con-
ditiOn for the reception of the seed.-Rurat
UOrld
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22
A Gnsc ofCheak.

A stylish young man recently stopped at an inn
in a small town in California. He called for "the
drinks" for all about the place several times, and
waved his hand in lordly way to the inn-keep-
er, as though to say:
"Ths is mine"
He was agreeable that they all took quite a
liking to him. Next morning, after breakfast
he was starting of, when the host apologetically
remarked:
"That little bill"
40, bless your soul, my friend, 1 have not a
cent" said the fellow.
"Then, why didn't you tell me so beforei' said
the host.
"Wel," replied the traveller, "if you hadn't
been so inquisitiye, wouldn't have tod you
now"
The point was well taken, and the landlord in
sisted ON wrapping up for him bottle of his best
a travelling companion.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22
AuhsIiinie for HnE.

The following from an exchange, contains
much timely advice:
What shall we substitute or, in other words,
what shall we SOW or plant in the Spring to take
its placef In this neighborhoOd are sown corn
and millet had few acres of meadow last
season that looked more like pasture than mead
Ow. i started the pillow in it on the 18th of June,
and fitted it thoroughly, and sOwed it on the 18th
to milet seed, at the rate of half bushel per
acre, and rolled the ground so that could cut it
gust cut and cured it the same as you would
hay. think it yielded ut least three tons per
acre; and if had left it for the hay CROP it would
have been three acres per ton. / claim that
there is no fodder that cattle or horses like as
well as millet, if it is cut in its proper season
and cured as it ought to be. There were other
crops than mine grown in this neighbOrhOOd,
with as good or better results; and there were
some that were sOwn later, after they had now
ed the ground. that were not as good | would
advise those who SOW for fodder to SOW as early
rs the middle of June. After had cut my piece
of millet, plOwed it over and sOwed it to wheat
The sod was thoroughly decOmposed, and it made
a fine dressing for the Winter wheat. think /
shall take the same course this coming season
with other meadow land, for it pays, and that is
what we farmers work for, whether we get it or
not. Then fit the ground good, and sow from
three to four bushels PEI acre. Some west
ern and some State corn, and some mix them. /
think on strong Soils state is the best; on higher
soils, western. The best way to harvest is to
cut it with your moving machine; put it in good
sized heaps and let it stand in the field until you
wish to use it. There are some fields of it stand
ing in heaps at this time that are nicely cured,
and are in good condition. One would natural
ly think that it would spoil but they will be
happily disappointed with the results if they try
it. have seen some cut it with siekles corn
knives and then bind it in small bundles. This
method requires a good deal of labor think it
don't pay.-Rural, South COurtlaRd On "
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22
indian Corr as a Food for U.-

Mr.. Church, the general manager of the LON
don Omnibus Company, before a select commits
tee of the House of Commons, spoke very high
" of Indian corn as food for work horses He
saws: These animals are fed entirely on maize
and chaff each horse receiving as its daily ra-
ton about seventeen pounds of the former and
ten of the latter. The maize is just broken suf-
fciently tc enable the horses to eat without diff
culty, and they thrive better on this fodder than
they ever did upon oats. On the ground of econ
omy ALSO maize preferable to oats forage, its
price being much lower, and the saving effected
being 3s.or4 IS. quarter. These facts, Mr.. Church
went on to observe, have long been known to
many owners of horses but gentlemen with pri-
vate stables find great difficulty in substituting
bruised maize and chat for the old fashioned for
ageofoats and trusses of hay. Coachmen and grain
dealers resolutely oppose the innovation, for the
reason that it enables the owners ofhorses to ex-
erese control over supplies for their stables, and
prevent waste and fraud
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22

The Cincinnati Enquirer says: An old gentle
man in standing collar and parsimonious looks
entered the Gibson House barber-shop yesterday
and negotiated for a square shave. He was shaw
ed.
"Shall trim your hair littiep inquired the
barber.
"Thank'e; don't keer if you do" He was
shOrn.
"Shall / shampoo your hair, siri"
"Thanke; don't keer if you do" He was
shampooed.
"Shall dye your hair q shadef'
His hair was dyed. Then he arose from his
chair and rendered the astonished razor-slasher
a ten cent shin plaster that looked as if it had
been to market every morning since the flood.
ats dollar and five cents, sir" said the chin
scrsper.
"Wh-a-t~ screamed the muchly barbered
man. observation-disclosures dollar and five
cents to shave a mans"
"But, sir, you had your hair cut, dyed, and
shampooed, besides being shaved"
"Well, dern my bnttOns, l thought you were
thrOwin' all that there in" and he paid the sum
with look that plainly showed the ragged edge
of his remorse, and his loss of confidence in the
human race.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22
Cure for SNAKE and Insect Poison.

This is the Smithsonian antidote for snake and
| insect poison:
Ten grains of iodde of potassium.
Thirty grains of iodine.
One ounce of water, the solvent.
To be kept in vial with ground glass stop
per, and applied externally to the wound. 1t is
not to be taken medicine internally. Bites
are usually inflicted on the hands or feet; and
when this is the case, the first thing to be done
is to stop the circulation of it with the blood, by
applying ligature to the leg or arm above the
wound. A pocket handkerchief, the suspender,
piece of rope, or a strip of bark in an emergen-
cy can be used and a gum umbrella, or walking
SUCK, or limb of a tree, or axe, or hoe helve,
can be made tourniquet to tighten the band
age. Then saturate piece of cotton batting
sponge, a lock of wool, or anything that will
mold the fuid, with the antidote, and sponge the
oite with it, and bind it to it, keeping It wet
win 1t, until it effects a cure, which it VIII do
IN an hour, and sometimes instantly. II practl-
cable, enpping glass ought to be applied, and
,he antidote should be placed upon the blister;
OUT as bites are usually inflicted upon the hnsers
or toes, or among tendOns and the bones of the
wrsts ankles or protuberances of the feet ana
hah9s, the process of cupping is frequently I'M
possible: The antdote is so complete that hve
drops OF nndiluted poison from the fangs OF
rrttiesnake, and inserted in wound with syr-
lnge, was found by experiment to be as harmless
as ten drops of water
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22
How Much Buckwheat shouId be sowu 10 the



On this subject as well as on many others far
mers differ in opiOniOn. Perhaps large major
lty prefer three pecks TO the acre. which is about
the proper quantity as a general rule If the
ground is clean of weeds, less quantity can be
sown, producing nearly the same yield ifthe sea-
son is suitable one. When it is sown thin and
the ground sufficiently moist the stalks will
branch off sufficient to make n good stand but
there is more waste in cutting the branches he
ing interviewer, there will be mere or less lost
as the straw or stalks break close TO the pronnd
When seed is scarce as at present, we wonld NOT
recommend more than three pecks to the acre
But under ordinary circumstances we prefer one
bushel. The thicker it is sOwn the Simmer will
be the stalks, and the less it will branch ont and
vice versa. The reason we prefer thick sowing
is that the straw grows more like other straw
making it easier cut and threshed, the advanta.
ges in harvesting will compensate for the extra
amount of seed sOwn. But in thick sowing the
blossom (andOf course the seed if any will be
on the top or main stalk, and consequently will
be more exposed to the influence of the sun, as
there will be few if any lateral or low branches
TO be shielded by the tops of the main stalks
We have seen these low branches well filled
when the tops We're seemingly injured by the
sun. We believe the above to be an approSima-
tion to the facts, and each farmer can draw their
own conclusions.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22

IHE following receipt is claimed to be an un-
IN two instances where soldiers were bitten by
rattiesnakes, on the Plains, which came under
the writer's own immediate observation, aud is
now sent to the Journal for the purpose of ma
king 1t known to the large portion of our army
now serving on the Plains, and other places
where the rattlesnake is found:
KIoron's antidote to the poison of the rattle
~ h. Iodide OF Potasssii grains Hydrag. Chlor
5 drachms
len drops of this mixture diluted with table
spoonful or two of brandy, or wine, or whisky,
constitute dose, to be repeated if necessary. 1t
must be kept in glass-stoppersd walls, well Sc
cured, as the air will affect it. This is an inval-
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Che fun of the Citing.
PATS CRITICISM.

There's story that's old
But good If twice told
OF doctor Of limited skill
Who cured beast and man
On the Cold Water plan"
Without the small help Of pill.
On his portal of pine
Hung an elegant sign
Depicting beautiful nil
And lake where sprite
With apparent delight
Was sporting in sweet deshabille.
Pat McCarty one day,
AS he sauntered that way
Stood and gazed at that portal Of pine:
When the doctor with pride
Stepped up to his side
Saying: " Pat how is that for a signF"
There's wan thing" says Pat,
we've lift out o. that
Which, be jabers, is quite a mistakei
It's trim and it's nate
But TO make it complate
We shud have fOine burd Oh the lake
All Indeed pray then tell,
To make it'll look well,
What bird do you think II may lack!
Says Pat, Z" OF the same
I've forgotten the name, 80,
But the song that he sings is 'quAek quaeK'
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22
DOCTOR WHITTIER,
DR.. WHITTIER,

617 st. Charles Street, st. Louis, No.,
Has been longer engaged in the special treatment of
all Scnereal, Sexual and Chronic Diseases
than any other Physician in St Louis, as city papers
show.
syphilis, GonorIhaa, GIeet, Structure,
0rchiti., Hernia, or Rupture, all Urinary
Diseases and syphilitic or mercurini n6ec-
ton. of the throat skin or bones, treated
with unparalleled success latest scientific prnci.
pies.
spermatorrhGa, sexual Debility and
Impoteucy, the result of self -dbuse in youth,
sexual excuses in maturer years or other causes,
and which produce of the following effects:
nervousness, seminal emissions debility dimness Of
sight dfectire memory piIRpLes the face physical
decay d5eTsioR 10 society Of females confusion Of ideas
loss Of serudt poirer etc. rendering marriage inn
proper or unhappy, are permanently cured.
Pamphlet t36 pages relating TO the above, sent in
sealed enreooe, for two postage stamps.
Diseases peculiar o w men, such 4 men
Orrh0u, Dysmenorrhea, NeaorThdgid. LeUcOrTA0a
whites, Chtoross Diseases aud dispdoeBseRs Of the
Womb. Steit'fy ETC.. successfully treated. Descrip-
tive pamphlet sent sealed for two stamps. Age with
experience can be relied upon 1t selfevident that
Physician treating thousands of cases every year
acquires great skill Physicians knowing this, fire.
quently recommend persons to my care COnfideD-
teal consultation personally by letter free and in
vited when II Is ineonyenient to visit the city for
treatment medicines can be sent by express or mail
everywhere: Curablecases guaranteed where doubt
exists IT Is frankly stated Office hours a. NJ.
p NJ sundays, l2 NJ. to / P. NJ. Persons arririnJ IN
the city at any hour NAV come direct % the Office If at
night, ring the Door BsH
Theestabhshment "a whole house of twelve roomsl
Is the most extensive in the country embracing Re-
ceptiOn and Consultation rooms Boarding and Sleep
ing apartments; Medicated VapOr Baths; compre-
hensve Laboratory, where all medicines used in the
establishment are prepared; and most important of
ALL the Library where the old and latest standard
works of all the schools of medicine found also
Anatomical Plates life size and eOOred to life Illus
trating diseased conditions which have been procur
ed from Paris France regardless of expense and not
to be found in any other Library in the city. The
Library Is thrown wide open to all callers Address
as ADORE n0v19.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22

Mr.. Blivens, and old bachelor of Rochester,
who is much absorbed in politics, visited the
Widow Graham the other day, just after reading
Grants letter, and asked her what she thought
of third term. Now, the widow has been twice
married, and in response to the question she
made rush for the astOunded Mr.. Blivens, and
taking him tightly in her arms, exclaimed, go,
you dear, dear man! What happy woman /
amp At last accounts Mr.. B. had locked him.
self in his wood house, and was endeavoring to
explain things to the widow through the key
hole,
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22

PRESENCE OF MIND.-There's nothing like
knowing what to do in sudden emergencies. The
other morning, when man fell overheard from
the ferry steamer, long haired Imam who sat
reading newspaper rose up and called out
"Stop her-back her-go ahead-throw him a
plank-stop the boat-give him a rope-lower a
boat-where's a preservsr-stop this boatr'
The victim was saved, but of course he would
have been drowned but for the efforts of the long
haired man.-VicksbHrg Herald
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22

SUNDAY-sCHooL teacher: flames, how did
God know that Adam had eaten the apple in the
garden Of Edenr James: Dunno, sure; praps
he seed the skin layin' under the tree"
Teacher: "But why should he curse Adam
so for eating single apple" "Waal, now,
teacher, that's sticker and don't see-see,
'thout his apple crop was uncommon short that
YEAR"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22

Mrs. PARTINGToN says she can't perceive why
people nowadays are continually getting up so
many new-spangled notions. Ike, who was pres
ent, wished to know to what she particularly al
luded. The old lady laid down the newspaper
she was reading, and gravely replied, "Why, la,
l see they have got to making trout preserves ,
jest as though people didn't have enough things
to make preserves without making ,em of fish
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22

Hope was once stricken with what everybody
supposed to be his last sickness. He called his
son John to his bedside, and said in a husky
voice: John, when am gone wish my death
to be published in the papers. Oh, John, will
you put in the words / tell your "Oh, yes, ia
hter," said the mourning son. "Well, John, put
in the papers that was the sickest man that
ever died.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22

PIoUs soul giving expression to his devotion
shall never case to love and revere the name of
my dear Saviour, nor can l ever forget how his
name looks in the Bible, as it is there spell ed
J-e-a-s-o-u-s-
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22

An lrishman found Government blanket re-
Gently, and, rolling it up, put it under his arm
and walked off, saying: avis, that's moine-U for
Pathrick, and 5 for McCarty; be me sowl, learn
in is fone thing, as me father would saw. for
if l hadn't an idication ! wouldn't have been
after findin me blanket."-Ddnbury Ners.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22

LETTER writer in the south saws Won cannot
go on cotton plantation in Alabama now with
out hearing the commands: "Senator, start right
smart TO your cotton picking;" Judge, Won 90
and bring my horse around :" or, Colonel. have
a shoe put on that mule right along.D
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22

FREE PRESS: You never find an old woman
who hasn't liver complaint, rheumatism, lame
back and the dropsy, and yet they hang on until
hood and can't enjoy tho funeral sermon.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22

WE like to see q man reasonable, quiet and
peaceable, but when he stands in one place long
enough for the wasps to build nest in the seat
OF his pants be ought to be kicked into some
sort of resstance.-B rHas,ricker.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22

A Boston girl, just one month married, upon
meeting an old schoolmate in the street, put on
a very wise look and remarked: "You can not
imagine the labor and anxiety incident to the
care of family"
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22

SOME one wrote to Horace Greeley inquiring if
guano was good to put on potatoes. He said it
might do for those whose tastes had become vi
uated with tobacco and rum, but he preferred
gravy and butter.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22

YOU may retire." said Governor Moses to a
eolored waiter who was standing behind his chair
IN South Carolina restaurant. "'Scuse me,
san, sand Sam, "but Fse 'sponsible for de
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22

CAMBRIDGE is proud of young woman so in
nocent and pure-mined that she remarked TO her
intended the day previous to their marriage
the house,
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22

I'll ah MS conIndrum is respectfully submitted to
sne pest speiler If Sioux spells su, and eye
sPells i, ana Sighed spells side why doesn't
s--o-u-A-e-y -e-s-i-g- he'd smell suicideY
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22

A LOUISVILLE girl reports her first love affair
tnus: when Philander told me he loved me,
was mighty TUX with it and cottoned to him di-
rectiy, and he sat a-grinning like baked skunk ~
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-07-22

CUT the meat for you'll Of course will, y
sad Kansas waiter as he strapped case knife
on his boot leg The guest was one of your par
ticular men from Boston, and he got up and left.
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ms name was Wrath, aud when he's asked bis
s ~ marty MN she gave him soft answer, and
tne soft answer turned away Wrath
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rs that clock right over there asked a WIS.,
itor tne otner day Right over tb ere p said the
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s. to $40 p Of s SlRss 4 ssse:
make more money at work for in their spare moments
all the time than at anything else Particulars free
Address G. STIssoS Co., Portland, Maine. febl2w4.
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Perpetual Worlds Fair,

permanent home where every manufacturer exhibit
and sell his goods and every patentee show his nve
ton; centre of industry which will prove vast benefit
to the whole country
For this purpose, the Legislature of the State of New
thy and respectable merchants and these gentlemen have
purchased less than eight blocks of the valuable
land in the City of New York The building be erected
will be stories high $50 in height srmounted
by magnificent dome, and will a space of %
1t will be constructed of Iron Brick and Glass and made
freproof The bonds which all for so each sc
cured by first mortgage the land and building
for the purpose of making them popular the directors have
decided to have quarterlyd ns of SI5OOOO each this
money being the interest the the whole oa.
Every bondholder receive at least saIOO but he
may receive
looooo.
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INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION co

These Bonds issued for the purpose of raising funds
for the erection of building the City Of New York
be used for a
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