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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-26
THE FARMING WORLD.
AN EXCELLENT TESTER.

Directions Here Given Explain How One
Can Be Made at Home.
The universal favor with which the
Babcock tester is regarded by progress
sive dairymen almost makes its intro
duction an absolute necessity in every
well regulated dairy. The seemingly
low price of dairy products, with the
prospect Of high-priced rations, would
Indicate greater reason for every farm
er who has herd of cows to know just
what each individual animal is doing
for him in return for the feed fed to
them. Even when feed is plenty and
low in price, it is not within the bounds
of economy to shiftlessly feed a cow
that has poor assimilative powers and
fails under the light of figures to give
a net profit to her owner, to continue to
keep her and still reduce the profit of
another that gave milk of high testing
value.
Many dairymen have provided them
selves with tester and are acting in
this regard wisely, but a very large ma
jority have either carelessly neglected
to supply the need or do not care to go
to the expense of purchasing one for
their few cows.
The present crop conditions inOhio
will demand that many of us must cut
down our stock or purchase feed at
outrageous prices, hence the necessity
of the elimination of those animals
which are the poorest producers at the
pail and churn and the keeping of those
which will come nearest making prof
liable attachment to the farm or will
prove q source of revenue regardless Of
high-priced feed.
For the purpose of encouraging the
introduction of the tester will give an
illustration with description of a cheap,
reliable one, that can be made and oper-
ated at very low cost and give just as
good results as those purchased of
creamery supply companies.
The agricultural press has given so
much upon the manner of use and man
ipuIation of the tester that little upon
that point will be necessary at this time
further than 20 say that the greatest
care and exactness must be brought
into play from the beginning to the
close of each test, otherwise no good
can possibly accure from its use.
In the first place, an old sewing ma
chine that can be bought very cheap, or
donated, must be secured. One that
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-26


wheel; D, bucket
has large fly wheel on which band
runs the pulley for propelling the
works of the machine will necessarily
be the best, and the larger the fly wheel
and the smaller the pulley the better.
Usually most machines have shaft
about or 10 inches to which this pulley
about or 10 inches to which this pulley
is attached at one end and a crank
wheel at the needle end. This shaft
and it's equipments can be removed
from the arm and used for the shaft on
which the arms for the buckets and bot
ties are to be attached.
A table or stand of some kind must be
provided as foundation upon which to
construct the machine. Often the
stand of the old sewing machine will
answer quite well by screwing on a
piece of pinch plank under the top,
about feet in length, extending out on
one side sufficient length to attach the
fly wheel, as indicated by the dotted
lines in cut. Any old table that is 31s
feet long makes frst-rate pedestal.
The arms A are made from 11a-inch
galvanized strap iron, foot long, and
riveted to the crank plate on the shaft
with two holes at G, drilled in each end,
on which the buckets are hung from
wire hooks soldered into the buckets
The latter are inches in height and ~
inches in diameter.
Sometimes the bearings of the shaft
can be utilized in hanging it in an up
right position, plumbed and made to
run true. The pulley wheel is located
at the table where the shaft passes
through, allowing the shaft to extend
nearly inches above the stand and suf-
ficient distance below to get steady
motion, either in iron or wooden bear
ings.
From the shaft center measure out
sc inches on the four sides, inscribe
lines and take quarter round and form
a ledge at the line with fat side out.
Then construct box out of some light
A-inch material, 10 inches high, so that
it viii drop over the outside of the
quarter round. Cut out holes at B B for
band. This top or box is necessity,
to protect the operator, as the breaking
of bottle with acid in it strikes the
face. We warn MT to leave off this
cover under any circumstances while re-
yolving the machine.
The drive or fy-wheel should be
arranged so it can be moved away from
the small pulley, thus tightening up
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-26
THE HEAVIEST TAX.
Farmers Pay Millions Every Year Which
Could Easily he Saved.

Farmers Pay Millions Every Year Which
Gould Easily he Saved.
The roads of the country, says Farm
News, are disgrace besides being the
most costly of all our public works.
If we could have good roads it would
add more to the value of farm property
than all the other public improvements
put together ever have. It would re.
duce the cost of getting our crops tc
market one half, and, in the saving o.
feed that is now fed to idle horses, il
would amount to a sum that staggers
the imagination.
Every day that team remains idle
it is something for which no return
will ever be received. If we had good
roads the teams could be used on the
and the crops could be hauled to mar.
ket at such times farm work could not
be prosecuted.
With good roads larger loads could
be hauled and time saved in this way.
1t has been computed that the average
cost of getting crops from the farm to
the railroad station is greater than put
ting it from the railroad station. to the
sea-board, and if we count the cost OF
ordinary wages we will see that this is
not far wrong.
The subject of improving the roads
of the various states is being agitateC
now, and the Good Roads league IA
scattering information on the subject
and it is to be hoped that the people oi
the country will awaken to the impor
lance of the matter before long and air
tend to it promptly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-26
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A TYPICAL CONSERVATIVE.

His wife said that Jones was CONSERVE
tive;"
And think he was: at least will give
To Jones the benefit of ev'ry doubt
And every trick of tongue. to help him out.
And say when men his memory reYile:
80. speak not thus of him, 1t was his style;
He was conservative"
He titled his acres with the poorest tools,
He took no weekly papers. and the schools
Would all have closed could he but had his
way,
The buildings gone to wreck. ut doesn't
pay"
He said, ito cram the c4P4Idren's heads
with stuff.
II they can read and write. why. that's
enough"
o, thought conservative
What though to save had always been his
bent,
What though he scraped and grasped for
ev'ry cent,
Not always caring for the wrong or right
So long as gold and silver was In sight.
What mattered 1t to him what men might
say
About, or to him. this was e'er his way;
He was conservative
He worked his wife to death. in doors and
out;
She was mortgage LITTER" there's no
doubt.
1nen Jones WORKED Oh dAOA6S DSNdnhA6
fate
That had deprived him of a running mate.
Till finally there came the fatal blow
Gin innovations he BELIEVED not you know,
Being conservatlVe0
1.-The roads must be improved" somebody
said.
1.-THE roads," cried Jones, why, sir, you're
mad!
The roads is good enough jest as they air;
To fix 'em we've got sods an dirt to spare
My father and gran father drove afore,
And /, till now, anti can drive 'em more.
I'm so conservative.
''Such tax, if laid, would be perfect steal
In Unrest of the dude that rides wheel.
A benefit! no faint, that's what say;
We amt a-gettin nothin fur our hay.
And jist suppose we could draw bigger
loads
More hay won't grow because we've got
good roads;
It's too conservative"
In spite of all that Neighbor Jones could
do
The roads were rounded up. stone-suFfaced
too;
The farmers drew their loads of grain that
way,
The roads were lined with wheels and
buggieS gay.
Land owners paid their tax, well satisfied.
And Jones paid his; then went to bed and
died
An act conservative.
Will Templer, in Orange Judd Farmer
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-26
GROWING THE CHERRY.
This Delicious Fruit Does Not Receive the
Attention 1t Should.

This Delicious Fruit Does Not Receive the
Attention 1t Should.
It's planting is often limited to but
few trees on home premises, and be-
cause of limited amount of fruit birds
are most damaging to it. It's early
bloom and fruit are subject to destruc-
ton on level lands, low lands, hot, shell
tered localities that release frosts quick
Is when they drop untimely and late.
The cherry does not do well on wet
lands, and thorough drainage is an alb
solute necessity This is best attained
If the fruit is grown on high, rolling
lands, ridges, bluffs, and in such local
tiles where the grape thrives. If so
planted it will be a fairly sure cropper,
more sure with us than the apple. 1t
Is advisable to plant trees that are in
vigor and not too old. One year. we
consider better than two, and consider
able care should be taken to plant trees
very early and on well-tilled ground. It
if beneficial if they are planted among
raspberries fruits of bush form
three or four years-till well estab-
lished and they come into bearing.
Pruning from the start should receive
some attention, and no knife used on
stem, but the leading shoots should be
pinched back, and heading-in practiced
on the trees. The cherry has the I'M
fortunate habit of the peach-making
principally terminal growth, and by
extension pushing the entire tree out
into q few long, bare limbs with few
scattering branches on them that die
g
sap flow is not checked. This can
be largely obviated and the bearing
surface or area can be largely increased
by heading in and making dense head
around the central stem. Such caution
may not be necessary east and south,
but it is necessary in the west to at
tain success because of our natural dry
air and arid conditions, since the glar-
ing of the hot sun that continues at
times for months does much injury.
The dense heads shade the stem and
forks and permits a shaded and normal
condition of the bark, preventing sun
scald, bark bursting and destruction of
cell structure. Because markets are
Fare of homegrown fruits, fruit cans
are empty and the fruit has good
place in the market, and is always in
demand. The picking costs 40 to 60
cents per bushel, and we have always
received from $3.50 to $500 per bushel
for the fruit, averaging SD to Sc per
tree from trees planted eight to eleven
years. In varieties we would confine
ourselves to Early Richmond, princi
pally two-thirds of that sort, and one
third to one-half of Morrello and Wragg,
which are very similar, but both very
regular bearers and reliable. In good
Richmond years the Morrello does not
sell SO well, but we think so large pro-
portion should be of the late sorts,
since off-RichmOnd years when there
are no cherries, in spite of the fiery acid
of MorrellO. they will sell very readily
and at high price.-W. M. Bomberger.
in Prairie Farmer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-26
CHEAP HOMEMADE GREENHOUSE.

structed as it might be. For people
who cannot do better, and must avoid
every expense possible, especially also
that involved by the plan of hot water
heating, 1 think can recommend the
house here illustrated (cut made after
an illustration appearing in Canadian
Horticulturist.) Any person handy
with tools could put up the frame work.
The material is almost wholly scant-
ling, by 4 inches, and cheap boards.
The building should be double boarded,
with paper between the two walls. Or
binary hot-bed sash can serve for the
roof, and this side windows may also be
bought ready made in any sash and
blind factory. The heating may be
done by simple fue, the fireplace (for
coal or wood), being in the northwest
corner, and the chimney in the east end.
Our Canadian friend, who furnished
the idea, uses a house of this kind as a
sleepingroom at night, and a sitting
and working room by day. The posts
or studding along the front side are z
by inches, feet high, and set just far
enough apart to allow the windows to
come between, so no window castings
are used. The house is 10 feet wide,
and heated with 255 foot box stove
that takes in very coarse wood. The
stove pipe runs along the back or north
side of the building, behind the staging
that is under the roof Windows.-Amer-
lean Gardening.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-26
The Eth,cal Side of Dairyine.

No other agricultural line can be
compared to dairying. Hog raising
premeditates cold blooded murder
Bee keeping is systematic robbery
Beef raising is cold, heartless desertioE
of the animals which had fed from the
hand they had learned to trust, and
horse raising, in speed lines, caters to
the dishonest greed of gain which
hopes to profit by Others losses. Ths
boy who has been reared on the dairy
farm will not 60 far wrong. -Farmer'i
Voice.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-26

thing. He lays the foundation for q
good road system in his district. But,
bless you! he renders himself so un-
popular by his industry and his ambi-
gtion that he is never permitted to hold
office the second time, and the follow
ing year an easy, sociable man who is
fond of rest and gossip has charge of
the highways.
It's real pity that these very restful
summer highway visiting bees are to
PASS away, but the fact is, the world is
becoming so utilitarian and practical
that it now demands something tangi-
bile in the way of results in road MAX
ang.
And it is a consolation to think that
when good roads make it possible and
pleasant for people living in the coun-
try TO get together wherever and when
ever they choose to do so. the desire to
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-26
PASTEURIZlN0 MILK.
Directions for Performing This Important
Operation at Home.

Directions for Performing This Important
Operation at Home.
The following directions for perform
ing this operation at home are issued
by the Wisconsin Experiment station:
1t is possible to carry out the opera
ton with very simple arrangements
In fact, it can be thoroughly and eff
GENTLY done by the addition of AZ
ordinary thermometer to the common
utensils found In every kitchen.
For the benefit of those who may de-
sire to pasteurize milk, either for gen.
eral or infant use, the following simple
suggestions are offered:
I. Use only fresh milk (not more
than twelve hours old) for this pur-
pose.
2. Place milk in clean bottles or fruit
cans, filing to a uniform level. OF
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-26
CHEAP GREENHOUSE.

Amy Person Handy with Tools Can Put
Up One Without Trouble.
There seems to be great demand
for cheap greenhouse. Many people
who raise plants for home use, or sale
on limited scale, would like to have a
Farmhouse of some kind, but fear. the
expense. The little greenhouse at
Woodlands gives entire satisfaction,
but it is by no means as cheaply con-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-26
SMOOTHING THE SOIL.

A Device Whose Construction Is Explained
by the Cut.
In the garden we want the surface as
fine and smooth and mellow as we can
get it. and this even for crops, such as
tomatoes, potatoes, ETC., which can be
and are usually planted as field crop
Appearance counts for something, es-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-26
SECURE FARM BRIDGE.

An Easy Thing to Build IT One Knows
How to Do 1t.
Haphazard construction of farm
bridges is a risky matter, the safety
of valuable animals being often thus
put in jeopardy. The accompanying
illustration shows an easily constructed
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-26
what the bicycle WIN Do.

The work of the farmers alliances,
leagues and clubs may materialize into
the good country roads they are so vig-
orously working for; but in the mean
time the bicycle has and will master
better than any other vehicle known
the rough highways all about u.s.
Sarah C. June, Albion, n. Y.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-26

TINS has been quite phenomenal
strawberry year in England; in fact,
the Kentish crop is the heaviest on
record. From Sandwich alone over
hundred toms were shipped in ono
week.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-26
SECURE FARM BRIDGE.

and very secure bridge where a single
log cannot be used as stringer. Rails
can be added along either side for
greater security to the top.-Orange
Judd Farmer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-26

hold these once-a-week social highway
reunions will have passed away.-Good
Roads
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-01-08

machine to a standstill, th' boy WAS on
the ground by her side, aud had thu
Princess In his arms. Then itwant
long before Twas OF the engine, too,
and We was mighty tender handing
her up into the cab between us. / tell
yer, an back we rolled TO tn station
10 let out the baby. We was just
havin' q general boo-boo and love feast,
all round, when Alice answered q call
on the wire an there was : Fatty , Dun,
still on tb' top OF tn divide calm for
his engineer.
$50 Alice reported tn break and
tn wreck to the dispatcher, and the
boy and / went back up tn grade.
Bless yer! o railroad man can I stop
for anything of that sort, his times tn
company's every livin' minute.
well, we'll sidetrack here soon to
let TIL express go by I; then you'll see
tn boy ; he's runnin' her, and he'll al
ways wave his hand out tn cab to
his ole man. And the Princess /? She's
in a Queen Anne of her owp down in
Portland, with q whole brood OF little
ones. Thank God. I'll be with IN all
tonight, If everything holds to-
gethor."
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-01-08
Saving His Bacon.

1t was Christmas day of 1864, that
General Lee invited a number of Con-
federate generals to dine with him.
His servant Ephraim, who had been
his personal attendant for some time,
seemed less at his ease than usual.
The guests appeared, and dinner was
served in the Generals tent, on u rough
pine table, and consisted of boiled
cabbage, on the top of which rested q
piece of bacon about three inches
spare. AS General Lee helped each
guest, he asked him to have a slice OF
bacon. AS the question was asked,
Ephraim gave positive signs of terror.
The dinner concluded with the piece
of bacon undiminished in size, each
guest having refused. AS the guests
left the tent, General Lee turned tC
Ephraim, and said, in q low voice:
"Ephraim, we have another cabbage,
have we not ?"
The answer was: Yes, sab, Marse
Bob. We got amudder cabbage, sah.'
"Then, Ephraim," said the General
save the piece of bacon to cook with
that cabbage"
The prompt and decisive reply was
No, sab, Marse Bob, I can't do dat
L jis' borrow dat piece of bacon for
reasonin' from u friend ober dar in
Richmon', and | done glib up my parole
OBJ honor dat I'll glib him back dat
same bacon what | borrow"
General Lee lett the tent without
comment, and the bacon was returned,
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-01-08
Highest Of all in Leavening Power-Latest U. IS. Govt Report
R@!A!::A!l! B BakiRg
ABSOEUTERY PURE
ABSOLUTELY PURE

my old comradc, Will Glider, who
afterward became famous as an Arctic
traveller in u bomb-proof near Fort
He'll, on the Jerusalem plank-road,
and enjoyed a hearty meal amid the
shrek of sholl and loud detonations of
artillery.
After dinner and a peaceful pipe"
continues Mr.. Williams, major Gill
der aud / paid IL visit to the outer line
of pickets, being obliged to crawl on
our hands and knees for two hundred
yards to avoid tho bullets which we're
constantly whistling over Our heads.
Finally we reached the picket
line, having given to a brother officer
been discussing. As the Captain
finished his dinner, there was D por-
ceptible slackening in the artillery
and musketry fire, until n deep silence
fell upon the long line of trenches.
1.-The Johnnies have hoisted u flag,
SIR said a sergeant, as he emerged
from "a pit near by.
""What for?" demanded tho Captain.
"'Well they say it's Christmas dav,
and they think we have wasted enough
ammunition"
Looking over the edge of our
breast-works, / saw the enemy's line
was scarcely u hundred yards away,
and along it's ragged edge were ranged
thirty or forty heads of the Cdnfed-
crate soldiers, our own line being
alive, owing to the implied truce.
Say Yanks, cried a tall, sunburned
Southerner, what did yer hev for yer
Christmas dinnerY p
Turkey, apple-sauce, cake and
ra:sins, replied one of the men at my
elbow.
THAT sounds like old times.
didn't know there were any turkeys
nowadays. Say, Yanks, hev yer got
anything over
with one common impulse half q
dozen men sprang to tho top Of the
embankment, their hands full of good
things.
"'Come over !" shouted O corporal.
who stood at the elbow of the en-,
trenchment. Guess we've got enough
left to give some of you u Chris tmas
dinner
Three men in butternut c%lambered
over their eartkworks. and met on,
men as they advanced ovcr the debat
able ground between the lines. To our
surprise, the Federuls came back with
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-01-08
NUT GRASS.

For q long time complaint has been
made by farmers about the annoyance
caused by tho growth and spread of
nut grass or %''coco," on their premises.
Inquiry has been made for remedy
against this nuisance.-The following
extract from IN article by Hon. George
ID. Tillman in The Botnnist for 1889
may he of interest and profit to any Of
our farmers who may be annoyed by
this grass
The plan of campiign to cxtirpate
nut grass is Simply to prevent it ma
turing seed above ground. Nearly
everybody thinks that the nuisance re-
produces itself from tho nut alone,
whereas it propagate a Thousand times
more from the seed. Hence, to
ef~fectually and quickly destroy nut
grass ON any land infested with it, the
soil should be frequently stirred during
the growing period o. summer SO us to
S imu ate each nut TUDOR and seed to
sprout. 1t is a waste of effort to attack
coco in winter, either by digging. or
blowing, Dr. turning hogs on it. The
best time for lighting it is between
midsummer and frost timo. Although
myriads Of the sprigs will show them
selves above ground in Il day or two
after each working Of the soil, ever in
the spring months, yet 40 seed stem
will shoot up til! late in the season,
and the secret Of success as before re-
markel l, is merely to u down every
tall stem, while IN the towering stage
at the latest, and the sooner the bet
ter. The Old mCth0d for destroying
g by emitting IL OFT under the sur
face OF the ground ~evnrytime II sprig
appears above the surface, is Il use
lnSs .y.yn,yN1i mo, of 1,1,N, NIL
ground should be often stirred with
tie pillow or hoe, from April to frost,
as before mc'.tiOnod. to mako every
nut aad seed come up If possible, and
rs sOon as possible. but thcro is no ur-
gucnt necessity, Il far as e~radicating
the a is onccrned to kill its sprigs
until they begin to shoot up seed
stalks. For this purpose it is only re-
qulsitc to pillow or chop down the grass
at the regular intervals OF working In
dian corn, collards or any Still
it is advisatl lie to plant the land in
some tall-gruwing crop which shall
neither cOVor nor obscure the coco
stems, and thus keep them from sbcing
observed a~d destroyed. BY the
above nc. d two ycars arc ample
time in which to rid any ground of CO.
CO.. In fact, one season is sufficient TO
eradicate IT. except that q few scatter
ing sprigs will show themselves in sub
sequclt years which can easily be pre-
vented from going to seed by close at
tcntion. One cause that has enabled
coco so long and sc dctiantly to hold
it's sway in tho South il that we have
SO few crops which arc hocd or plowcd
in the fall of the year. This, together
with the popular error that coco pro-
pagatc from tho nut alone, explains
tho whole storp of it's universal
triumph over the patience. sweat.
curses, and blows Of the millions who
ave wHrrcd on it.