Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-10-20
STATE AFFAIRS
And Capital City News of State
Interest.
Septemhar Ranort.

| board OF agriculture has issued his report
! for September, and it is OF much more
than usual interest. The report treats
at length upon the subject of feeding
wheat, ana sums up the conclusions of
the reports of the correspondents of the
| board throughout the state thus:
SIN Kansas, under the conditions az
to product and prices of wheat and corn
existing in the years 1898 &, 95,
wheat has become a very unusual and
very important factor in the grain feed
ing of all classes of farm stock
1T is superior to corn, pound for
pound as a grain to produce healthful,
well-balanced growth in young animals.
Mixed with corn, oats or bran. it is
much superior to either alone for work
horses.
Fed to cows it is an exceptional milk
producer, and for that purpose corn is
scarcely to be compared with it.
For swine of all ages, it is health
full and agreeable food, giving generous
returns in both frame work and flesh.
but fed whole, especially without soak
ing, is used at "a disadvantage Ground
| and made into Stops it is invaluable for
sucking cows and for pigs both before
and after weaving. Yet, while the tes-
timony is so generally favorable to
wheat as food for swine during their
growing period the concensus of opinion
among shippers, dealers and packers is
that in finishing for the market corn, or
large percentage of corn, yields flesh
of texture and quality superior to that
made from wheat alone.
For cattle, it has, at least as part
of their grain ration, very high value,
which is much enhanced in the line of
needed variety by mixing with corn, and
in still greater degree by mixing iu-
diciously with bran, oil cake or other
heterogeneous foods tending to balance
the too carbonaceous nature of the clear
wheat.
with corn and wheat approximatiug
the same price per bushel, it is not I'M
profitable nor wicked to feed the wheat;
yet if it can be ground rolled. crushed,
or in some way broken at total cost
not exceeding 5 to cents per bushel,
to feed it whole and dry is unwise.
1T can be ground at cost of 5 cents
per bushel, and on a majority of Kansas
farms for very much less.
IF grinding is impracticable, soaking
from twenty-four to twenty six hours( the
length of time depending somewhat up
on the weather and season is for vari-
Gus reasons deemed desirable, but is in
iudicious to an extent that it's being
moist facilitates swallowing without the
mastication or the proper mixing with
saliva. Any arrangement or system of
feeding by which the grain was deliv-
cred in such way that the animal
could eat but slowly, would largely
overcome this defect.
It is a superior food for all fowls, and,
as a promoter of the maximum egg pro-
duction, is unsurpassed by any other
grain.
Capital: The court rooms in the new
court house will be small. Of late years
this plan is being followed in most of
the new court houses. 1t is no longer
considered necessary to furnish seating
capacity for half the town in the court
rooms.
A motion was argued in the district
court of Shawnee county to compel Mrs.
Leila z. Rapier to support her divorced
husband, William B. Rapier. The case
is an unusual one and has been in the
district conrt more than a year. For
many years Mr.. and Mrs. Rapier lived on
farm west of Topeka, which is valued at
$4,000 The property all finally got
into Mrs. Rapier's name Then domes-
tic trouble and a divorce resulted. Mr..
Rapier is over 20 years of age,
while his wife is not much over so.
Lawyer Isenhart says his client, Mr..
Rapier is completely destitute and will
have to go to the poor house unless he
can get part of the considerable prop
ertv now alleged to be in his wife's
name.
Capital Mayor Harrison has issued
a public statement, calling attention to
the fact that the state statutes make it
a criminal offense for the city authorities
to interfere in the enforcement of the
laws prohibiting the acts of the vicious
element, which have been holding high
carnival during the last few months.
He refers especially to the numerous
drinking holes and gambling dens
which infest the city; to the bawdy
houses which run openly, shamelessly
and without restraint. In conclusion
he announces the desire of the mayor
and city government to maintain the
former high moral standard of the city,
but under the present condition of af-
fairs, they have nothing to say about
the execution of the laws which enable
them to do this.
The dispatch from Wichita regardind
the extraordinary action of the grand
lodge, 1. o. o. F.. seems to be regardeg
in Topeka as very heroic method of
disposing of bone of contention that
threatened to seriously disrupt the or
der The decision seems to turn back