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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-08-05
SIZE OF THE HERDS.
Why They Should BE Divided When Ex
traUrdinarily Large.

Why They Should BE Divided When Ex-
traordinarily Large.
The smaller the herd the larger the
profit, proportionately. Such has been
the experience of all dairymen. Single
cows have been kept on an acre of
ground, but fifty cows have not been
kept on fifty acres. Yet it is cheaper
to keep fifty cows on fifty acres. pro-
portionately, than to keep one COW on
an acre. This curious fact is one that
has caused considerable discussion, and
eminent dairymen are every year en-
deavoring to solve the problem. We
are well aware that in all cooperative
enterprises the greater the numbers
the smaller the expenses to each indi-
vidual, and animals are no exception.
With proper appliances. and improved
methods, it is easier to feed one hum
drcd cows together than to attend to
each one separately. That cooperative
effort in the care of all renders the
work easier than that required when
the cows are in the hands of different
OWfltTS Is WCu kuOWu. uC
family cow receives care that is not
bestowed on a herd. All her wants
are supplied. She is MIXED at regular
intervals, and her quarters are kept
scrupulously clean If she is deficient
in any particular requisite she is soon
supplied. At night she is carefully
housed, her bed shaken up, and every
endcavor is used to make her comfort
able. With number there is more
or less competition. A struggle is con-
stantly taking place for the choicest
heritage, and the individual is lost in
the herd. Sickness or injury is often un-
noticed, and the disadvantages in other
respects arc numerous. Is it not the
better plan to divide the herds when
they are very large? May not animals,
like human individuals. be unable to
thrive as we'll when massed in large
numbers as when each has its own
favorable surroundings? The subject
is one that is worthy of consideration.
Farm, Field and Stocknsan.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-08-05
TOILET ACCESSORIES,
A Number Of Odd COnccits Observed In
Laces, Hats and Bonnets.

Number Of Odd Conccits Observed In
Laces, Hats and Donnets.
The Angora laces are novel and hence
desirable; especially are the overdress
lengths. A few come as wide as forty
inches. The handmade come as high
rs seventeen dollars per yard. What
is known as embroidered fronts are
not SO fashionable as last season. This
style of dress garniture is very -expen-
sive, prices ranging all the way from
eighty to three hundred and fifty dol
lars. Embroidered pongees and satines
are as popular this summer as they
were last year. There are some beau
tiful embroidered robes that come in
boxes. The prices are all the way
from eight to ninety dollars. Crochet
passementerie of the best silk is muck
used in trimming costumes, particu-
larly black silk gowns. Rows of glass
drops of various colors form novel
and neat dress and wrap garniture.
There are to be seen many charming
novelties in millinery. A number of
odd conccits are observed in the shapes
of both hats and bonnets. The tall
crowns and standing up trimming take
the lead. Rough straws are very stylish
when tastefully trimmed. This style
of chapeau is preferred for seaside
wear. There are pretty hats that are
adorned exclusively with ribbon; this
fashion would be nothing worth MOTTO
ing if it wasn't managed by milliners
of great artistic taste. Hats with brims
slightly rolled back look best when
adorned with long plumes and bead
ornaments. The twilled silk ribbons
are very popular; some of the color
combinations blend in the most artistic
manner; the best grades are rather ex-
pensive. The grenadine ribbons are
pretty; this style is ''old as the hills"
the shades are the same as seen in
Lyons silks. Velvet ribbons, the wide
and narrow, are used in trimming
India gowns, especially the very light
silks.-M. Y. Telegram.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-08-05
CONTINUED CROPPING. .

How to Countocbaiance the Effects Of
This System OF Agriculture.
If the soil is continually cropped. no
matter how rich it may be, time will
arrive when it will become barren,
whether that period be near or distant.
Nor is it wise to wait until there are
evidences of q loss of fertility. as it
then requires time for recuperation.
but the work of restoration should be-
gin at once. In fact, a farm should
always be improvingin fertility. There
is no time but that it is either losing or
gaining, and the ratio of loss or gain de-
ponds upon the kind of crops and the
manner in which the farm is cultivated.
Alarm can not be Immediately restored
to fertility, for even when an unlimited
amount of fertilizer is applied, humus
must be formed, which requires time.
Manure is the best material for worn
out farms, assisted by green crops
plowed under, but this mode of inn
provement requires labor that many
will not bestow, yet there are simple
and easy methods that cost but very
little if practiced. Every farmer can
afford to SOW rye on his corn field after
the corn has been removed. If the
temptation to cut the rye is resisted,
and good coating of lime applied in
ihe spring, with the rye turned under,
there will be ample material for the
formation of humus in the soil. Then
fertilizers may be used freely with
advantage and the soil be assisted to
retain its fertility and produce larger
crops.
But practice of old usages prevents
the farmers from taking advantage of
the short growing period between the
harvesting of corn and the beginning
of frost The difficulty is that they do
not remove the corn and fodder as soon
as they should. We do not understand
why farmers allow the shocks to re-
main in the field to be husked during
the damp season of late fall or the cold
of winter, when they might more con-
veniently haul the corn to the barn to
be husked under shelter, and thereby
leave the field clear and ready for tho
pillow. They should remove the corn
as soon as it is cut put the pillow at
work, harrow and SOW to rye, and
leave the field till spring, when the rye
should be turned under as soon as it
is about two feet high. This work
done regularly every year will greatly
increase the fertility of the soil and do
much to countcrbalance the effects Of
continual cropping, but it will be best,
as we stated, to use manure or artifi-
cial fertilizer on the land every season.
-F0r,n, Field and St0ckmGn.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-08-05
The DAIRY.

Can You expect to get fair milk
from cows that drink foul water? Can
you make good butter from bad milk?
Fled and Farm.
Milk is complete food. but it can
not be produced largely except by feed
ing the animal with complete rations.
Dairy Word.
The advice to put . COW before
calving on short rations to prevent
milk fever is bad. The food should be
regular. not forced.-Farm, Field and
SsOckman.
What doth it profit dairyman to
get two pounds of butter per day from
COW that consumes eighty pounds of
food daily. if one consuming sixty
pounds will make just as much butter?
Roard's Dairyman.
Hay water is great sweetcner of
tin. wooden and iron ware. In Irish
dairies every thing used for milk is
scalded with hay water. Boil i,and-
full of sweet hay in water and put in
the vessel when hot.-Briiish Agricuk-
tnyiSt.
Who says that good cows do not
pay. and pay we'll? A farmer in Pas
sumpsic, VT. made 800 apiece from
the milk of his twenty-five COWS the last
year; and the same cows gave 90, 400
during 1884.-Colman's Rural World.
-Dairymen should remember that a
well-fed COW is different animal in
many respects from thin cow. And
this difference is never more apparent
or important than at the time of calv-
ing. A cow in poor condition needs
rest for two or three months, and there
is little danger of inflammation of the
udder unless she is highly fed. But ,
cow that has been kept in high con-
dition is no doubt safer if MIXED all
the time till she calves. If the milking is
stopped while she is giving good flow,
it makes change in the system which.
added to the increasing Inflammation
resulting from her condition, is apt to
make trouble and end in milk fever
Prairie Farmer
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-08-05
ENGLISH QUAKERS.'
Decrease in the Membership Of tho Brit.
ish Society of Friends.

Decrease in the Membership Of tho Brit
ish Society of Friends.
The statistical statement just issued
for the Society of Friends in England
shows that for the first time in many
years there has been q decrease in the
membership of the body in Great Brit
ain. The number of members report
ed in Great Britain is 1880. which is
one less than in the preceding year.
The deaths in the past year numbered
276, which is about 1875 per thousand.
The decrease has taken place over the
larger number of the districts of the
country, but it is nearly counterbal-
anced by the increase in q few of the
others. The total membership is di-
vided INTO 1882 males and 8.84S fe-
males; and Yorkshire. London and
Middlesex. Durham and Lancashire,
and Cheshire are the parts where the
largest numbe- re located. In addi-
ton to the number of the members OF
the body there are 5.712 adherents not
yet in the membership in Great Britain,
which is an increase of 50 on the num-
Der last year-the increase beng most
apparent in the southern counties and
in Scotland In all 81 regular meet
ings of the body arc held in Great Brit
AIM y Post.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-08-05
POINTS ON EcoNoMY.
An Attempt to Unravel One Of tho Mos
Intricate Sciences.

An Attempt to Unravel One Of tho Most
Intricate Sciences.
When summer comes purchase an
IS suit of blue flannel. This is econ
omy In months time If they begin
to reach upward at the ends sew lead
at the bottom of the legs, or if this will
not answer the purpose, sprinkle
sugar in the shoes to call them down. "
This is rough on high-water pants. +"
II they become yellow on the knees,
ink them carefully, or boil them in black
paint. If they stretch at the waist
band, lap them over in plaits. Then
60 around the block, and people will
imagine You to be one of Barnum' S
latest additions to the museum. Save
money and purchase eight-dollar
suits. A real eight-dollar suit can be
had OF all the leading clothiers. Never
pay as high as thirty dollars for suit
of clothes. Eight from thirty leaves
twenty-five. Twenty-Five dollars are
saved by this deal. Economy is wealth.
Again. let US look in the tangle of
domestic economy. A man will some
times walk to save car fare, and then
purchase a quarter of dollars worth
of cigars. He will also complain Bit
terly of the dull times; but watch him
enjoy the ballet in the orchestra. Peo-
pie must enjoy themselves one way if
they have to economic in another.
Again, will an eighty-cent SHIRT stand
rubbing on a washbOard? 1t might
But generally they are handled with
care. Deal gently with the prize
package shirt is a rule sometimes land
down by laundrymen. ''Steam and
coax it to become clean," he adds to
the laundress, ''but do not wrestle with
it." A laundress will not wrestle with
a cheap shirt.
Again. if spring bonnet costs $3.50
what will derby hat come to? One
ninety. Because this same gentleman
who pays for the aforesaid spring bon
net desires to economize on hats. Do
nestle economy Is an intricate science.
And here again is beautiful scene
Of economy: Closing up the house
during the summer months to allow the
family to enjoy themselves in the coun-
try. Are you not paying rent? Yes;
unless you own the house. But house.
owners are not included in this argu-
ment l refer to the gentleman who
pays rent. Who gets the benefit of this
vacant house during the simmer
monthsp The servant girl, the police
man and the croton-bugs. What are
the family doing in the country? En-
joying themselves and getting tanned.
They are getting healthy. Good. But
in the meantime you are paying rent
This is one of the delicate questions in
economy.
Again, a young man writes to ask
me if he can get married on ten dollars
week. Yes, he can, if the girls father
is millionaire. But unless the. girls
father is millionaire. l would advise
him to keep single. Can man keep
house on ten dollars week? He can
about three days.-PucS.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-08-05
A coQuETTE's QUESTIONS.

Not by Mrs. Browningl
Do You know you have asked for the costlIest
thing
That fashion has ever devised
For n woman love. with her many bills,
Which are never understood?
do you know you have asked for this costly
With the cheek of a millionaire.
Forgetting you have but a thousand a year
Its myriad burdens to bear?
You have asked my affection, my hand and
my heart;
,.tAh! what is heart, by the wayD
Now stand at the bar where my doggie pre-
sides,
And answer my questions to-day.
You require that take your detestable name
And become Mrs. Jones evermore-
Will you buy me bonnet whenever ask,
And never find fault with the score?
You require that love but my doggie and
And give up my flirting and fun:
Will you build us house on the Fifth av-
enuey
Will you buy me silk dresses as oft as wish,
And Cashmeres and bOnnets and sacques?
VIII you hare enough servants to do all the
While fashion tides and plaques?
] am fair and young but the rose will fade
From my painted cheek one day,
Ii you do not pay my cosmetic bill
And beckon it there to stay.
Is your bank account so large and full
may launch INV all on its tide.
"A woman of fashion finds Heaven or he'll
On the day she is made bride.
require to be dressed in the height Of the
mode
And servants. the children to tend
That doggie and may go shopping ut will,
With plenty of money to spend.
You can not grant this? Then that red
headed girl
Will love you much better than L:
The heart OF a woman of fashion, my friend,
There's nothing but money can buy!
E. FrGik Lintdber, in judge.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-08-05
SOLUBLE FERTILIZERS.
Gross CarelessnesS in the Application of
Fertilizing Materials to the Soil.

Gross Carelessness in the Application OF
Fertilizins Materials to tho Soil.
There is heavy loss annually in this
country in Improperly applying fer
tilizers to the soil. Farmers do not
consider that the ingredients of the
best and most available fertilizers are
soluble in water, and while some are
readily soluble, others are only sparing-
ly so. For instance, nearly all the
forms of lime are insoluble, especially
those used for agricultural purposes,
but plaster (sulphate of lime) may DO
dissolved in large quantity Of water.
That is, it is only very sparingly sol
ublc. and does not quickly pass off by
leeching or washing, and for that
reason single application of plaster
during the season will afford COM
slant supply of that kind of plant food
till the crop to which it has been APP
piled natures, as each shower dis
solves portion, and affords additional
prepared food for the plants. but
nitrate of soda (saltpeteD dissolves
very readily. and in small quantity
of water. the result being that it is
quickly and easily taken up by the
crop. The lime compounds not being
readily soluble are in direct contrast
with the salts of potash, all of which
are soluble. Superphosphate, which
contains free phosphoric acid. is sol
uble, but this solubility is partially ar
rested by the reversion of the free
phosphoric acid after it reaches the
soil, but pure ground bone only gives
off its particles as it is decomposed.
To prevent loss of fertilizing mate
rial the applications should he made
in manner so as to present them for
dissolution in accordance with the
texture of the soil and the requirements
of the plants. Ground bone, on clay.
soils, may be applied in full quantity
at one operation. but on light, sandy
soil the amount should be reduced, aud
the bone applied more frequently. On
light, sandy soils all kinds of soluble
fertilizers do best when they are applied
at intervals. If the desire is to apply
mixed fertilizer of three hundred
pounds per acre, better results will be
obtained if one hundred and fifty
pounds are applied early in the spring
and one hundred and City pounds just
before the seed is formed, and if tho
soil is very sandy the three hundred
pounds may be divided into three
parts and applied at three different
times, and the consequence will be .
larger crop and more benefit from tho
fertilizer than when the whole amount
is applied at one operation. Labor Is
but a small item in the application of
artificial fertilizers, IS the amounts
used are small and they are applied
broadcast, while the frequent use keeps
the plant food always near tho surface
and always ready for the coming rain,
which dissolves it and gives the crop
IN abundant supply Of fsed>Nsrsl
Field and Stoekm9A
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-08-05
WATERING ANIMALS
A Method which Il Considered Perfect -
fts Originator.

A Method Which Il Considered Perfect ~
fts Originator.
I have heavy spring on . little rise
of land thirty-f;ve roods from my lane.
that kept nearly an acre like bog. I
dug ditch and laid in a gas piping
(hah inch) and run it into large
trough that has waste pipe that run
into . tile drain; it runs winter and
summer. I placed the trough beside .
straight rail fence in the lane conven-
lent to the pasture field. find tho
cattle do much better than when they
had to come to the barnyard or drink
out OF mud hole. My watering place
cost me about fifty dollars, and l would
not take one thousand dollars for it II
1 could not replace it. A number OF
my neighbors came to see 1t, and went
home and did likewise. There are very
few farmers who could not have ono
like it in some convenient place on the
farm. have . windmill that pumps
water at my barns. and it is much
easier than by hand. Iuse the mill to
grind the grain / feed. and to cut wood
With . circular saw, turn grindstones
turning lathe. apple grinder and .
small ZIP saw for general repairing. I
find save money and time By doing z
myself Ger. Cbsstsy Gesslea1A
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-08-05
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN.

II you scorch clothes in ironinsj
place them in the sun*o draw the marks
, out
TO economic space in the garden:
When you SOW your dwarf peas for
succession drop sweet corn in the drills
four to six inches apart The corn
does not grow much until the peas arc
out of the way, and both crops arc
cultivated simultaneously. = Toledo
Blade.
Apple Sauce: Soak good dried ap-
pies few hours then stew carefully
until soft with handful of raisins or
few slices of lemon; keep it covered
closely, and do not stir. Turn careful
ly out into a dish. keeping the slices
unbroken, and serve when cool with
cooking.-Good Housekeeping.
Potato Balls: Three cups of
mashed potatoes with two spoontuls of
butter, then add one-han cup of grated
Holland cheese and mash well togeth-
er, then add two well-beaten eggs and
mix well, now roll into small, round
cakes, roll in grated bread crumbs, and
fry in hot lard, or sweet oil is better il
liked. and Farm.
"A New Hampshire farmer has
marked success with blueberries BY
transplanting them from their native 10.
calities by cutting sods and setting in
sod ground. They do not succeed in cul-
tivated ground, but in an old wornout
pasture the transplanted sods will
spread. and when established give from
twenty-five to fifty barrels Of berries
per acre.-BOSt0n Post.
"A writer in Gardening Illustrated
says that one of the simplest and best
methods for destroying moss on lawns,
is an occasional dressing of freshly
Stacked lime. Mixed with q small
quantity of SCOT its whiteness will not
become conspicuous and offensive.
Both should be sfted through a fine
sieve. 1t is applied just before rainfalls
in autumn, winter or spring.
-Stewed steak: Put one pound of
tender, thick steak, having little fat.
in saucepan. Pour over it two cups
of boiling water and a finely minced
onion. seasoning with salt and pepper.
Spread thick layer of mushrooms on
the top of the steak; cover the sauce
pan tight and set it where it will sim
mer, about two inches above the level
of the fire. The saucepan should not
be uncovered until the steak is to be
removed to the dish. Forty minutes is
enough to cook it to q turn.-Bost0n
Globe.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-08-05
GOOD AND BAD BUTTER.

Prof. Longs Views on q Matter of Utmost
Interest to Dxirymen.
Prof. Long, the English expert, in .
recent article gives some of the char
acteristics of good and bad butter. He
begins by saying that one who under
stands his business may make good
article under unfavorable conditions,
but one who is ignorant of the princi-
Piles of butter-making will make a fail
ure with the best of cows and the
choicest cream. He continues: The
London butter-chiefy French. blythe.
bye, is mild in the extreme, deliciously
fragrant and nutty, rich in color and
perfect in grain, and cutting clean,
even and solid and without any APP
proach to grittiness. 1t breaks, too,
like cast-iron. just as good butter
should. Let any person examine the
grain of a high-class sample for him
self by deliberately breaking a roll in
half and then repeat the operation
upon an inferior sample. Country salt
butter-why will people continue to
favor the consumer with the flavor of
salt instead of the flavor of butter?-is.
in nine cases out of ten, either bad in
grain or streaky. Streakiness, which
is the most obnoxious to the Judge, is
more common where salt is largely
used, because the salt has much to do
with the fault. Makers, too, who salt
on the table instead of with brine, make
more streaky butter than others.
Streaky butter is not only disagreeable
to the eye, but it is evidence of inferior
workmanship; it tells that the butter is
not of high flavor; that it will not keep
and that it contains an abnormal guam
titv of salt, OF water. or both. Indeed. it
is the presence of water. for which salt
has common affinity, that causes the
undesirable appearance. After Ger
tain point, mere bulk of salt is of no
value as preservative of butter. hence
the objecti n of those who prefer to
salt on the table instead of in the churn
is unfoundec. Sailing with brine
when the butter is granular gives the
maker perfect command over the
strength OF the sat and is not only the
most sensible, but the most practical
method. Montreal Witness.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-08-05

The first printing done in America
was in the city of Mexico. in 1889.
There were then two hundred print
ing-ofices in Europe. The second
press was set up in Lima, Peru. and
the third in Cambridge. Mass. il 1859.
Boston Budget.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-08-05

"A correspondent wishes to know
how editors spend their leisure hours.
Leisure hours? o. ycs; they spend
them catching up with their work
BwrlinqtOn Free Press
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-08-05

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