Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-09-27

cipsily in wheat, corn and oats. In add.
ton to the cattle there are $50 Poland China
hogs on the place, and ducks, geese, chick
eos and turkeys in great numbers. The
turkeys and chickens have fine quarters, all
painted and thoroughly clean. The geese
are OF the Toulouse breed-immense wad-
oilers. The company cure their own meats,
and the smoke house, which Is also n red
painted affair, is very unique in its material
arrangements. The ice house Is an immense
affair, with thousands Of tons capacity.
The horse stable IL as handy rs q "pocket
in shirt, and the horses, ponies and mules,
Of which there were several, were fne, fat
and sleek.
OF our long talk with Mr.. Dreves about
the different kinds Of milk cows and his ex-
perience, we have room for but little. He
has been in America less than two years,
but talks English very well, as does Mrs.
Dreyes. Ernest Dreyes is n man probably
ffty-fve years Of age. His whole life has
been spent in the business in which he il
now engaged, and the superintendency OF
twenty-eight farms belonging to "his duke"
who died last April, and for whom he en-
tertained a real affection then and pleasant
memories now. His son is \ cavalry officer
in the German army, and his daughters, by
his first wife, are all married TO men OF
our after-dinner talk he exhibited their pic
lures with no little pride. He Informed us
that he had tried every breed of mixers and
almost every conceivable cross of the fam
Gus mixers Of the world, but Of the Eng
lish. Scotch, German, Holland and Swiss
breeds OF mixers, none, nor the crosses OF
any, would come up to the "black and
whites" and Holsteins. Next to them are
the Jerseys, Guernseys, Attorneys and Ayr
shires, but in quantity Of cheese aud but
ter they, on an average, fell short from two
TO three thousand pounds of milk annually.
His whole herd OF black and whites and
Holsteins he said would average upwards
OF 10000 pounds OF milk per annum. As an
earnest Of his success and standing rs a
breeder OF mixers, after II delightful din
ner he showed us upwards of 200 prizes and
awards taken by him in the cattle shows of
Europe. lie has la his private Office at his
residence upwards OF thirty silver prizes.
The most of these consist Of solid silver
corrugated base, smooth silver column
snrmounted by Holstein cow. On the
smooth columns are engraved the name and
age Of the cow or bull and the year of the
award and name OF the society. He has
three wall brackets filled with these valua-
Ill of Ii
breeder. Two OF these are very fine, being
large silver fiagons on bases of porpbyry,
and two are bulls on metallic or bronze
bases, ornamented with medalions. lie has
also separate oil paintings of three of his
famous cows aud one bull hanging on the
walls Of his room. One cow, a "biack aud
white" took four successive premiums, as
a one, two, three and four-year-old. An.
other animal we must honor with n notice
and that is dog which it would pay any
lover OF the canine to take the trip just to
see. All OF our readers have heard and
read of Prince Bismarck's Franz, an i'm
mense blue mastiff that follows the old
chancellor everywhere. This dogs sire is
brother of Bismarck's Franz. He is only
fourteen months old, a pup, but weighs 40
pounds in very thin flesh. He is simply inn
mense and looks like he might be cross
between the father of mule and Bengal
tigress. We would rather meet the sold
Scratch himself of dark night than this
great ponderous blue mastif.
But our notes have gone as far as they can
possibly interest, and we will close the OBJ
seryations of the days ramble by stating
that the Anglo.American Live Stock and
Dairy Company is another of sedgwick
county's big things, that the investment il
now valued at 100000 and that within, two
years Mr.. Dreyes says it will he worth s200,-
900, and that it viii pay a good dividend on
that capital. The company consists of five
men: c. b. Schmidt, the general foreign
agent Of the Santa Fe Company, president;
Il. Warkenten, vice president; Capt. II. NJ.
spivey, of Newton, whom many OF our
readers know, treasurer; julius Simon,
secretary and agent, and Ernest Dreves,
our genial and pleasant host, general man
ager. tft IL z y