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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-07
THE APIARY.
Planting for Honey

This subject is just now receiving
much attention. The Western Bee
keeper says that the attempt to make
more reliable and more profitable an al
ready remunerative pursuit by planting
for honey, is only in keeping with the
progress that agriculture has made; and
if the unfavorable season just past has
developed nothing more than to show
the desir&hility of artificial pasturage,
1888 will have no unimportant place in
its development.
We believe that much lies in store for
our industry resulting from experiments
in this direction.
While our country is abundant in
natural flora, every section having its
flowers peculiar to it that bloom at diff
ferent times in the year, it may be seen
that a longer succession of bloom can
be had by the propagation of different
plants. Not only SO, but plants that are
deep rooted and particularly adapted to
dry countries, may be equally we'll
adapted to dry seasons. ALLOW me to
conjecture that if the enthusiasm would
be put in this direction that had marked
other departures of the business, we
would be surprised at the results.
Flowers that now bloom unseen" so Tar
as their practical adoption by the bee
keeping fraternity is concerned, would
be brought into prominence. Yes,
flowers that to-day waste their sweet
ness on the desert air, would be cult
waited for honey.
Rightfully the government is lending
. helping hand in this direction. 1t can
afford it better than an individual. and
while we will watch with interest
Prof. Cooks acres of Rocky Mountain
Bee plant. Chapman honey plant. pleu-
risy root, and others, We would not de-
preciate the importance of individual
exper menting and research.
Almost svery bee-keeper naturally be-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-07
THE STOCK RANCH.
Keeping Suparfulous Horses.

It is comparatively few farmers who
can accomplish all that they expect.
They lay out plans that reqire more men
and team help than they can command.
Of late years it is increasingly difficult
to hire reliable farm help; but horses
are always to be had for the money II
the farmer wants to purchase them. It
is in this way that many overstock them
selves with horses. The evil is the
worse for the fact that an idle horse
in the stable is temptation to the
owner or his family to drive around
the country, instead of attending
strictly to their business. We believe
that farmers do we'll to visit each other
and learn different and improved meth
DDS of farming; but the season for this
is mainly the winter, when farm work Is
not pressing. 1t is hardly possible Tor
Q farmer to leave work for any thing In
the growing season without loss.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-07
Meant the Same Thing.

Poet Invading the sanctum)-Your
compositor made an awful mistake in
my poem. Instead of II kissed her
under the rose, he set it up under the
nose"
Editor-I don't see the mistake.
Poet-You don't?
Editor-No; You kissed her under
the nose when you kissed her under the
rose, didn't you? Think it over, my
friend.-Neu York Sun.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-07
The Teacher Was Late.

Teacher-Benjamin. how many times
must I tell You not to snap your fin
gers? Now put down your hand and
keep still. I shall. Lear what you have
to say presently. Give minutes later
Now, then, Benjamin, what is it you
wanted to say?
Benjamin-There was tramp in the
hall awhile ago, and I saw him go off
with your gold parasoI. OliUe
Branch,
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" DooKKxKrI1,s LAMux.
BIZ ARTHUR >. LAMB.

With fingers weary and worn,
with figures a-crowding his mind,
bookkeeper sat on q nckety stool
Irving his balance to find.
!; Till figures seem like words,
And words like figures seem,
TIL over the figures he falls asleep,
And adds them up in dream.
Ills Of for the heather Chinee!
And o. for the ignorant Turk!
bookkeeper ne'er has a soul to save,
For on Sunday he must work.
Work work work.
Till the night is lost in morn!
Till worn and tired the bookkeeper creeps
Beneath the desk where he always sleeps,
And dreams of q balance unborn.
.-ChicdgO Liar.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-07
THE KITCHEN.
Beating Cake.

Beat from the bottom of the mixing
bowl with a wooden spoon, buringing it
up full and high with each stroke, and
as soon as the ingredients are fairly
and smoothly mixed stop beating, or
your cake will be tough.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-07
Seeking Needed Relief.

Miss Jones-How good Of you, doctor.
to come to talk with me!
Doctor-Oh, not at all. I have
listened to so much clever talk Thu
evening that it will be quite a relief and
q rest to listen to you, Miss Jones. 7
assure you.-Glasgoao Citizen.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-07
To Wash Poultry.

Fill the insides with cold water, hold
ing it over pan. Keeping the hands
over the openings, shake hard. Rinse
it in this way in several waters. In
next to the last it is we'll to dissolve one
teaspoonful of soda, if there is any
sOurueSS.
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cones and should Be . botanise, and -
ses&1eato fnlly ths merits Of the Ron g
his vicinity, and those that would ttAivo
TO advantage, and not only invsetieAte
but let the results Of his investigatious
be known. 80 IS
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Live Stock Notes.

IT ia claimed that the horses imported
10 this country from England and Scot
land cost there an average of 1920.
Don't begin feeding corn to the pigs
too soon. Grass, milk, roots. and re-
fuse vegetables will be better until cold
weather approaches. Warm quarters
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What 1t Signifies.

Muskrats in the Northwest are build
ing houses three stories high with man
sard roofs and bay windows, and steam
heaters in the cellar. Some persons
may think this is q sign of hard
winter, but it isn't. It is q sign that
somebody is lying. = NorristoD1s Her
aid.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-07

Put tablespoonful of butter in q pie
plate, and set in the oven until it neits
and begins to smoke. Take 1t to the
table and break six eggs one by one into
q cup, pouring each in turn into the
melted butter carefully. Sprinkle with
pepper and salt, put tiny bit OF butter
the eggs are set, that is, when the
whites are firm and the yolks skinned
over, but not hard. Four minutes in q
quick oven should do this. Send to
table at once. Ifyou have a few spoon
fuls Of nice chicken gravy you can
use it instead of butter.
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Jelled Oranges.

Cut small round piece from the bios
som end of each of six or eight oranges,
and scoop out the pulp very carefully,
SO as not to widen the hole, or tear the
and small teaspoon for this purpose
until the oranges are empty and clean.
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"WelI, down where the mill-dam
used to be-don't you know?"
Eyes, yes"
"There's man there"
"Well?"
"An awful big man."
"What of it,"
well, he took away my six fishes,
go he did"
What for?"
"'Cause he's mean. He said he was
a starvin', but he amt, cause he's real
fat. He's a cookin' 'em there, now"
What did you say?"
what did 1 say? 1 told him that
maybe he didn't know who my father
was. He allowed that he didn't, and
says I, My fathers George Miller, an
he's theatrical agent as makes dates
an papers houses, an he'll just exactly
amble down here an paste you, if yer
don't give me my fish, so he WILL"
"What did he say to that?"
"He said-he did, pa, I'll cross my
heart on it-he said that he wanted
you to come. an that he'd make you
dizzier'n your old show. Hurry, pa,
or he'll be gone. He's got bile on
the back of his neck. A lick therell
count double"
go and lick him yourself, Bob. I
can't"
you don't mean that you amt
goin'?"
Certainly I mean it. Do you take
me for prize fighter?"
But, pa, I told the man you was
comm"
"Well?"
"An' if you don't go, he'll be awfully
disappointed"
Despite the vexation that the inter-
ruption had caused him, the father
laughed heartily.
I'm sorry to disappoint the gentle
man, Bob" said he, "but I can't 60 to-
day."
aThen I'll get even with him my
self"
"All right"
"Fll need quarter, though. pa"
well, take it, and be off"
"An' an order for the worth of it in
the cheapest whisky the old man Bears
got?"
"What?"
Il amt goin' to drink it, pa. It's
part of my scheme. It's a dandy, pa,
an it'll be pretty odd if I don't get
even with his jawbones"
With a great show of reluctance,
but secretly pleased at the pluck and
mysterious scheming of his son, whom
he had not seen for three months until
the preceding day, the theatrical agent
complied, and from the windows
watched the irrepressible Bob as he
dashed away towards the principal
street of the village.
The boy lost no time in securing a
pint of the vilest whisky imaginable.
Then he hurried off towards the
river.
He had not proceeded far when he
heard a most piteous wailing, and g
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-07

If grown men only knew as much
as their mothers think they know
when they are babies the world would
havs no further use for cyclopedias.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-07
Coffee Blanc-Mange.

Soak the gelatine in cupful of
strong, clear, black coffee, instead of
cold water, and proceed as with plain
blan c. mango, using no other favoring
tn an the coffee.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-07
Association Cake.

Two cupfuls of sugar, II cupfuls OF
butter, four eggs, one cupful molasses,
one cupful of milk, five cupfuls OF
-four, one pound of currents, one tea
spoonful of soda, one-half pound OF
citron, one ounce of mace, one tea
spoonful of cloves and cassis, mixed.
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Cutting Hay.

Prof. Sanborn. late of the Missouri
Agricultural College, gives the follow
ing excellent advice in regard to cutting
hay: Delay in cutting is in the inter-
est of poverty and wrong tosour fami.
lies in robbing them of the means of
advancement, rest, and culture. Better
two days too early than two days too
late Never allow the seed to mature.
Who would wait until corn was ripe (if
corn had the habit of scattering its
seed) before cutting up, and then secure
only the stalks? We throw away the
stalks in our present practice. He who
waits for his seed to 1ipen before now
ing, throws away the most concentrated
part of the plant and takes the husk. l
do not know when to cut as surely as l
would like to, but believe that about
the time the seeds pass out of the
dough state the grass is richest and
heaviest, and will prevent the seed from
scattering or from passing through the
animal whole. now speak of timothy;
orchard and some other grasses, it is be-
lieEed, should be cut little earlier, as
o better color and aroma will be given
it, but not greater amount OF butter
will be received. Its greater palatable-
ness and softness command its early
cutting for young stock. Glover should
be cut when the heads are Drowned.
The scattering of the rich leaves will
follow the late cutting"
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THE POULTRY YARD.
A California Shipping Coop.

The California Cackler gives these
directions for making a sh ipping coop:
Take two barrel hoops and six Stats or
pieces of lath; cross two of the pieces
in the bottom hoop; fasten them to-
gether in the middle with a clout or
wrought nail; fasten the other four to
the top hoop with clouts; fasten the
lower ends to the bottom hoop by driv-
ing two small nails through them into
the hoop and into the ends of the
crossed laths, and your frame is COM
pleted. Take piece of coffee sack, or
similar stuff, and cut it round and a
little larger than the bottom hoop, lash
or sew it to the bottom hoop and to the
cross pieces. Take canvas, muslin,
ticking, or what ever you wish to cover
it with, and draw it around and lash it
to the bottom or top hoops; cut a piece
of cloth round to cover the top; cut the
top piece in two across the middle after
it is put on; this will give an opening
to put the fowls into the coop, after
which the aperture can be laced or sewed
together. If the fowls are to go any
distance, feed will be necessary, of
course. To provide for this, sew a
pocket on the outside that will hold a
pint or more; inside sew another pocket
W 10 oOOut WV luCucS uccp. Sut VI
punch small hole through the side of
the coop to connect the two pockets;
put the feed in the outside pocket and
the feed will run through only rs
fast as the fowls eat it from the inside
pocket. Wire drinking cup to one of
the upright stats and to the top hoop.
SO that it will project half out and half
in the coop.
A coop twenty inches across and
twenty-five inches high will weigh three
and one-half pounds and be large
enough for trio of games. If the fowls
are to 60 on a short distance do not put
in the food and drinking cup.
We have used a similar coop for heavy
birds, in which the bottom was an old
cheese box and the top the cover of the
same box.
Poultry Notes.
THE non setting breeds are Leghorns,
Hamburgs, Red Caps, Minorcas, Black
Spanish, Polish, HoudaEs, Crevec9urs
and La Fleches.
BIRDS always prefer the open air.
They do not favor remaining indoors,
no matter how clean and bright the
poultry house may be.
ECONOMY is always commendable.
Lconomy III constructing poohiy
house means that you should secure the
greatest space on the floor at the least
cost.
WHEN egg production alone is your
object you need no males. The hens
will lay as we'll without them (some-
times better, and the eggs will keep
three times as long.
IF hen lays one egg week she will
pay all expenses of keep. Every egg
over is profit. The greater the number
of eggs secured the lower the cost of
each egg proportionally.
ALWAYS sort your eggs. Do not have
several colors and sizes together. Put
the dark eggs in one basket and the
light ones in another, and pick out the
small ones to be sold separately.-Fan-
cier'a RerieU.
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THE FARM.
Tho Profits of Clover.

II the land is not in condition to bear
clover, it can readily be made SO at
triting cost of fertilization. Some care
!ul investigations conducted in the past,
demonstrate the manurial value OF
clover. The samples in this case were
taken from clover two years from seed
Ing, very late in October. The soil was
moderately fertile clay loan. Some
timothy was mixed with this clover, all
was very tall and rank, and the clover
quite brown and gray. The area cut and
dried was Is square feet:
Pounds.
Weight of air dried tops per acre. ......... SAT-
Weight of air dried roots per acre 2O6S
The tops were found to contain in an
alysis:
Pounds.
SA.oo
ktAoAAS "SAu. ~ %
~OeeA'AA' = ........... ......... low
The roots contained per acre:
Pounds.
nnL.IosSu 4l5o
fnospnor1c acid Observation-Disclosures. 27OO
~Sse~SAA. olSo
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"A SAD DISAPPOINTMENT
BY DWIGHT BALDWIN.

Al Pa J"
Bob Miller. a bright,
,vivacious boy of thir-
teen, burst excitedly
into the cosy little room
where his father was
engaged in writing.
whats the matter,
Bob ?" asked the gentle
man, looking up.
"You know where the
river is ?"
"Of course"
~ 1T
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ROUNDS.
Phosphoric acid .............::::.:........ 200
Ao'oon. -....................... 5lS5
The vale of nitrogen, etc., in the roots
and tops would be $3O.61, valuing the
nitrogen at Is cents per pound, phos-
phorlc acid cents per pound and pot
ash at cents per pound. The ability
of clover to absorb nitrogen from the
atmosphere is beyond question. A SAM
pie of earth was calcined in a porcelain
furnace in order to destroy all nitrogen
lied substances which may have existed
in it. The earth was then mixed with
phosphate of lime and watered with
pure distilled water. Glover sown in it
grew perfectly we'll, and the crop being
analysed demonstrated the presence of
q large proportion of nitrogen, evil
IDENTIFY due to the air, since there was
none in the soil.
Soils are not exhausted when it is seen
the power suitable crop has to liberate
and convert the insoluble substances of
the soil and store them in the plant for
future use.
While the great value of clover as a
fertilizer is universally admitted, there
is considerable difference of opinion as
to how the best results may be brought
about. Some hold that the crop, being
biennial, should have possession of the
ground until the second year.
Probably it is more advantageous the
second year to cut the first crop for fod
der, allow it to grow again, and go to
seed which save for future use, and in
addition to the top there is left in the
soil the roots available for crop; and
when the land is plowed it is clear, light,
retentive of moisture and easily titled,
with available constituents in the clover
roots and in the soil to produce any crop
profitably, and the necessity of purchas-
ing fertilizers and applying them is
saved.
Turning in green crops is returning
only to the soil the salts, silicates
and vegetable matters which the plant
has drawn out of it, together with all
the organic matters of the plant itself
has elaborated from oxygen and hydro
gen, carbon and nitrogen, from what
ever source derived. 1t has decomposed
during the short period of its growth
more silicates and salts than the air
only could effect during the same
period, which, being turned in, restore
to the soil from which they grew salts
and silicates in an improved form, whose
action on vegetation is like that of
alkalies. But powerful as are the eff
fects of green crops plowed in, it is the
experience of some practical men that
one crop allowed to perfect itself and
die where it grew, and then turned in
green. The whole result is explained by
The fact that dry plants give more vege-
table matter than green, green plants
ferment, dry plants decay. A larger por-
ton escapes in fermentation as gas, and
more volatile products are formed than
during decay. One is quick, consum-
ing fire; the other is slow, Wondering
ember, giving off during all its progress
gases which feed plants and decompose
the silicates of the soil.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-05-13
Scraps of Sport.

The Journal Newsies' nine defeated the
Adams Street team by score of 81 to IA
yesterday in Minneapolis at the Seventh
street and Third avenue grounds. Merrill
and Nelson aud Swanson and Mcdonald
were in the points for the Journals and
Healy and McCrsnnon for the Adams Street
team. The feature of the game was the large
number of home runs, Merrill and Swanson
doing that kind of work for the Journals aud
McCrennon for the Adams Street nine. Man.
ager Fred Stocking, of the Tribune Newsies
team, was umpire.
The st. Paul Arbeiter and the ST. Paul
Stonecutters played a fine game on the Uni
versity avenue grounds yesterday, resulting
in favor Of the former by score of s to 6.
The battery for the Arbciters was Cavanaugh
and Blake, and for the stonecutters Bremen
and Shea. Blake struck out sixteen men,
The Arbeiters are open for a challenge.
The Michigan Street nine defeated the
South ST. Paul nine yesterday afternoon, by
a score of Id to 5. Batteries: Davidson and
Weverka for the Michigan Street nine, and
Tommy Gaines and Larry for the South st.
Paul.
The ball game at Sandy lake, Minneapolis,
yesterday, between the Oak Lakes and Ath-
letics, resulted in victory for the former by
q score of 2 to a. Batteries, Adams and
Adams, Thulen and Harrington.
The West Seventh street and South St.
Paul base bali clubs played match game Of
ball at South st. Paul. The score was to 10,
in favor of South st. Paul.
The "Cech" Turner's beat the Lilydales, by
score of IL to 5. The features Of the game
were the pitching and batting Of G. Picha.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-05-13

ing the matter to the bottom. 1t was
freely stated that the developments in
the Cronin case would in exposing
one of the boldest and most startling
crimes of the century. 1.-THE bursting
of the Toronto bubble," said an old
friend of Cronin yesterday, ''gives us
most valuable clue and will be of ma
terial aid to the Chicago police.
Starkey's pursuit of Cronin for several
years in the interest of the doctors
deadly enemy, and his relations with
lawyers employed in defending crooks
and gamblers are known to so many
Chicago people to allow the full sig
nificance of his Toronto performance to
be misunderstood. The circle is at
last narrowing. and If the Chi
cago police do their full duty, am sat
iSfied a murder will be proved and the
murderers arrested" A rumor was
current in this city last evening that
he has been for long time under suS-
picion of being British spy, has not
been seen for some weeks around his
usual hauntS. A man described as re-
sembling him has, it is said, been seen
among DR.. CrOnin's worst enemies
in Chicago within ten days. Chicago
Irishmen have been urged to hunt him
up and put the police on his track. :.
TORONTO, Ont, May 12.-Cronin told
his friend Long to-day that the Chicago
Nationalist were down Oh him because
he knew that at least SS5,000 of the
funds raised for Ireland had been mis-
appropriated. The Clan-na-Gael deter
mined to put him out of the way, and OH
the day that he left Chicago he was
given positive proof that his murder had
been arranged. He will divulge dam
aging facts soon. The lady who was
with him when he came here was new
acquaintance picked up on the train.
St. Paul daily globe., 1889-05-13
SERIOUS FOR HENDRICKSON.
A Prominent Railroad Man
Charged With Murder.

New BRUNSWICK, N. j., May 49,
Detectives this afternoon arrested M.
ii. HendricksOn, general freight and
passenger agent of the Raritan River
railroad, at his house in South Amboy,
and lodged him in Jail in this city. He
is charged with the murder Of George
Kessinger, who was killed last Sunday
in the riot at sayreville, The charge
was preferred by Edwin Furman, whose
lands Hendrickson and his men tres
passed upon to lay track. Hendrickson
protests his innocence of the death of
Kessinger. He says he was not present
when the man met his death. 1t has
been stated that Hendrickson led the
railroad men, but fed when the fighting
began. No difficulty was experienced
fn making the arrest, very few know
ing of the intention of Prosecuting At
torney Rice, and no demonstration was
made either here or at South Amboy.
The prisoner is held without bail.