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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-28
FATTENING BROlLERS.
Some Hints About Preparing Choice
Poultry for Market.

Some Hints About Preparing Choice
Poultry for Market.
In fattening broilers, the Poultry
Keeper says it must be considered that
much of the food will be converted into
growth of frame rather than fat, but
the adult fowl, having ceased growing,
fattens rapidly. Broilers are very diff
cult to fatten. No attempt should be
made to force them until they are
eight weeks old, and have passed the
''feathering process" as overfeeding
may be detrimental, especially in caus
ing leg weakness, the legs being I'M
able to hold the weight.
The best mode is to feed mixture of
equal parts of cornmeal, bran and
ground oats by measure, moistened to
IL stiff dough by fresh milk, as a morn
ing meal. At noon give cornmeal. add
ing to each quart of cornmeal a table
spoonful of powdered charcoal freshly
burned), tablespoonful of bone meal,
gill of ground meat and four ounces
of crude tallow. Scald the mixture and
mix we'll. At night give cracked corn
and whole wheat. Feed as much as
they will eat, but never leave food be-
fore them. Between meals give a mess
of chopped grass or clover or any green
feed in the morning, with little mil
let seed between meals in the after
noon to make them scratch. The above
method of feeding will also serve for
fattening adult fowls as well.
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NOTES FOR SHEPHERDS.

If the sheep shelter protects from
winds and storms, it is all that is neces-
sary.
A flock of fifteen Merino rams, re-
Gently sold at Sydney, Australia, real
lied an average of $3.50 head.
Bran is not fattening food, wewould
say to subscriber, and hence should
not be fed largely to fattening lambs.
Corn is the food for fattening lambs,
though they should have some oats and
bran for the maintenance of healthy
development.
Experiments in feeding lambs on
rape at the Canadian experiment sta.
ton have shown that it surpasses all
other green food for the growth of both
carcass and fleece.
At the Colorado Agricultural college
experiments showed that it was more
profitable to fatten sheep than cattle,
The feed per pound cost less and the
sheep sold for a better price.-F Farmers
Voice. !.
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'Three-1ifths of the oil of peppermint
consumed in the world is produced in
eight counties of Michigan. The oil
product of that state this year will
amount to 10000 pounds, and between
$4,000 and $4,000 acres are devoted to
the cultivation of peppermint. Frost
and drought have injured the older
plantations this year, although the
plants set this spring have escaped in
jury. The peppermint is cut when in
blossom like hay, and when dried is
placed in wooden watts and steamed un-
til the cells burst and the oil passes up
ward with the steam, which is con-
.densed and conducted into reservoir
where the oil rises and is SKINNED off.
1t requires $50 pounds of dried pepper
mint to produce l pound of oil. An
acre of land will yield from to 10
pounds, and in exceptional cases even
as great quantity as so pounds This
year the price has ranged from SLIGO to
%1 70 d pound. Garden and Forest.
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SOME TIMELY HINTS.
Observe Them, If You Want Eggs During
the Winter Months.

Observe Them, If You Want Eggs During
the Winter Months.
1. Get the hens into healthy growing
condition, shrinking, if necessary, to
remove surplus fat, or adding to, if
poor. In the first instance, feed only
on cooked vegetables and oats or bran;
in the latter give more corn.
2. Make the ration one rich in egg
materials. Let certain per cent. of
animal food, meat scraps, meat, meal, or
food of this nature be given daily. One
pint to pailful of cooked food is
enough.
3. Feed to promote health rather than
destroy, and temper the quantity. A
wooden pail full of cooked vegetables,
or cooked clover, with two quarts of
mixed ground grain worked well into
the mass, is breakfast enough for 80
hens. Reduce rather than exceed this,
the sole object being to satisfy the
claims of hunger and promote activity.
Let the night ration be not more than
one quart of mixed grain (whole) to
II hens, be SO scattered about the chatf,
leaves, straw or earth, that only kerr
mel will be found at time. This means
that the hens will scratch busily until
dark, and this it is which promotes
egg building. In the coolest weather,
fill the crops just at night with corn,
for the same reason that you fill the
stove with coal-to keep warm.
4. Three or four times a week feed
cooked or chopped clover with ground
grain in the morning mash.
Glover, animal meat, meal or scraps,
wheat, vegetables and oats, if fed as
indicated to hens having comfortable
pens, will insure steady egg production.
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There Must Be a Division.

The cry is nowadays: Give US the
good, all round animal" The Country
Gentleman thinks there is an element
of error in this. Carry out this idea to
an extreme, and you blot out the dis
tinctive characteristics of every breed
of animals existing. As in the mechan-
zeal, so in the animal world-there must
be division of labor. We owe all the
improvement of the present day in all
classes of domestic live stock to special
breeding for a definite purpose. Let
the breeder of the race horse try to
combine the strength of the Clydesdale
or Shire with the speed of his thorough
ofed, and the result is an increase of
strength, but reduction OF speed.
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rrees Are the Farmer,s Friends.

Farmers seem to give very little at
tention to forestry, and great tracts of
timber are cut without regard to the
future. Now that we have had severe
drought in some sections. while other
sections have been dry in previous years,
it is time to consider the cause, which
Is claimed to be the destruction of the
trees. If there is an inducement to cut
timber because it brings high price,
it will be at the cost of droughts and
losses In the future.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-28
GENERAL FARM NOTES.

1t is wasteful to feed whole wheat to
swine.
Bran is an excellent feed for cows and
horses.
Give the cow bran mash directly
after calving.
The English potato crop is large and
of exceptional quality.
Corn, wheat or barley are proper
foods for fattening sheep.
The feeding value of potatoes is esti-
mated at one-fourth that of grain.
Marsh hay is the very best material
Tor the winter mulch for Strawberries.
The tomato pack has been much light
er than last year, but of better quality.
1t would seem as if incubation were
the only safe reliance against hog chol-
era.
Boiled turnips mashed and mixed
with grain form an excellent poultry
food.
The Australian wheat grower is un-
,derselling the South African farmer in
his own market.
Finishing with corn alone gives soft
pork, which is reckoned abroad as a
fourth-class article.
Sugar beet pulp fed in connection
with alfalfa and wild hay are said to
produce a high-quality beef.
Danish pork sells for $141S in the
London market, while American only
brings $9.72 for 112 pounds.-N. Y.
World.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
FOWLS IN WINTER.
An Excellent Heater and Ventilator 70
Poultry Houses.

An Excellent Heater and ventilator for
Poultry Houses.
Among the many plans now in use for
warming the poultry house. the heater.
illustrated below, supplies heat and
ventilation, or a supply of fresh, warm
air. Any kind of fiat top stove, or
even kerosene stove will give sufficient
heat. The size of the stove should de-
pend on the size of the house, but 40 de-
grees is sufficient heat. The illustration
shows closed box a yard square and
an inch deep, made of ordinary sheet
iron. The box or heater is<placed on a
small stove, or if legs are attached to
each corner of the heater, lamp may
be placed under it. The cold air comes
in at A, passes through the box, be-
coming heated, and energies at the pipe
B. The cold air pipe is one-half inch
in diameter, and the warm air pipe one
inch. The pipe A should be long enough
to extend through the walls to the out
side, SO as to bring in the pure air. No
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OUR CORN THE BEST.
Contains More Protein and Fats Than
That Grown in Europe.

Contains More Protein and Fats Than
That Grown in Europe.
An analysis of maize from the Black
sea and the Danube was recently made
in the chemical division of the depart
uuent of agriculture with a view to de-
termining its comparative value as a
feeding stuff with that grown in this
country. Of late years these countries
hive been shipping corn in large guam
titles to Germany and Great Britain
and other countries of northern Europe.
The advantage enjoyed by these coun-
tries in competition for this trade is
believed in this country to be offset by
the superior quality of the American
product, and this impression is strik-
ingly confirmed by the recent analysis.
The samples were found to correspond
in composition to poor corn grown in
the United States, being from 13 to II
per cent. lower in protein and fully SO
per cent. lower in fat than the averages
OF over 900 samples of American-grow
corn. While an average for corn the
world over shows but 9.45 per cent. of
protein, and this average is higher than
samples from the Black sea and the
Danube, the American average is 10. 3.
So with fat, the general average be-
ing 4.29. The average for corn grown
in southwestern Europe is Alb, while
the average for American is "a, and
many samples of the latter showed So
and per cent. The American aver
age as given, moreover, includes nu-
nerous samples of inferior corn, and
cannot be said to fairly represent the
average of corn exported.
1t is pointed out by the department
that while these facts speak eloquently
OF the higher quality of the American
product, they also testify with equal
force to the Importance of maintaining
the high standard of the feeding quail
ity of American corn in foreign mar
kets, as that is undoubtedly the char
acteristic upon which main reliance
must be placed to enable the American
growers to compete successfully with
the cheap labor of southern Europe.
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Hou tn FatEen rnrkers.

Turkeys will not fatten if confined in
close coops, as they pine if deprived of
liberty, but if several turkeys are con-
fined together in a small yard for ten
days they can be made quite fat in that
length of time. Feed three times a day
as much as they will eat, giving corn
meal, ground oats, middlings and
ground meal, equal parts by weight,
scalded, morning and noon, and wheat
and corn at night. Keep head of cab
bage in the yard, also sharp gravel,
ground charcoal and fresh water. A
few turkeys can be fed with chickens,
if preferred. Tt is not necessary to
force them to eat.
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it to and as indicated in the ilIustra-
ton. Attach one end of The two ropes
X and y to and run them through the
pulleys attached to the crosspiece f..
Fasten these ropes to the hind legs of
the animal to be lifted. If one rope and
a gambrel is preferred, attach it to the
middle of h and run through pulley at
IN. Two ropes are preferable. BY this
apparatus one man can lift the heaviest
carcass. A wagon box bottom side up
may be placed between and b for a
PLATFORM 0. Sorkness, in American
Agriculturist
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NOTES FOR BEEkEEPERs.

It is the bees reared in the fall that
we have mainly to depend upon during
the winter and spring.
Each colony should have a frame or
two of brood, for it is the bees Matched
in the fail that survive the winter.
The objection to leaving honey in the
combs late in the fall is that it is apt to
become dark in color.
If bees are to be wintered in cellars,
care must be taken to have them dry, as
dampness induces disease.
More bees are lost on account of bad
food or none at all than from all other
causes combined, especially in winter.
There is no factor in wintering bees
that is so important as the matter of
food, and it is one that is often neg
lected.
1t is often the case that there is more
or less robbing while feeding in the fall
that something is wrong.
All colonies in good condition at this
time should have portion of brood in
the combs, and if this is not the case
something is wrong with the queen.
Quietude is one of the essentials in
successfully wintering bees, whether in
or out Of doors. Never disturb them ex-
cept when strictly necessary.
One way of making a nice entrance
during the winter to the hives of bees is
to spread sawdust over considerable
surface in front of the hive and filing
up level to the entrance
Mice are very fond of honey and will
soon clean out colony. Before winter
begins, it will be good plan to fix up
the hives so that it will be impossible
for mice to get inst. Louis Republic.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-28
THE FARMING WORLD.
A HOSTING DEVICE.

&c Is of Great service When Killing
Beeves ON the Farm.
The accompanying illustration repre-
sents simple device which is of great
service when ouUchering. The uprights
a and b are AXIS, or ordinary post tim
Der ten to twelve feet long. These are
set into the ground two or three feet,
five feet apart. To the tops of these
fasten with bolts or spikes. Place
&C and d in position, secure the upper
ends at and f, and set tie lower ends
firmly in the ground. For h use an old
shaft or piece of hard wood and faSten
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-28

BILE labor if the ordinary method is fol-
lowed A short cut is shown in the &C
companying illustration. A number
of dry goods or grocery boxes, all of the
same size and shape, are procured and
nailed together side by side, and to the
top of the bin thus made cover is at
tached-and the thing is done! Each
box must be of size sufficient for hold
ing all the grain of any one kind that
must be kept on hand, but this will not
be difficult matter, for boxes of every
size and shape are to be had at grocery
and dry goods stores.-N. Y. Tribune.
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LAND FOR CHILDREN.
Boys aud Girls Should Have Few Rods
Entirely Their Own.

BOys aud Girls Should Have y Few RO0s
Entirely Their Own.
Every boy that lives on a farm, and
every girl, too, Cor that matter, should
have the use of a piece of ground. 1t
need be only a small, out-of-the-way
corner at first, place for the child to
dig and make plans, increasing gradu-
ally to the acre of corn or potatoes or
turnips, or whatever it may be, as the
child grows older.
There are few farms that could not
easily spare it, and few children to
whom it would not be benefit.
Books and magazines and games are
good, but they are for the mind and for
the leisure hours, and while they may
keep the children at home, they can
scarcely foster a taste for farming
without something to supplement
them.
A child early learns the meaning of
possession, and few square rods of his
own will be more to him than the broad
acres of his father. Many a boy has
grown to manhood on the farm, and
left it at the earliest possible moment
after he came of age because he had
without a laborer's wages.
If the child could be oftener treated
as a sentient, responsible being, there
would be fewer disappointments. Let
his manliness be brought out instead
of suppressed. Let the father talk to
the boy, and the boy to the father as
man to man; if the boy is to be farmer
Bet him begin his calling early and
grow up with it. Furnish him with a
small piece of land and let him cultf
Iate it with no other restraint or advice
than he may seek himself
Trust him to discover the best meth
DDS and the best market. The profits
may be insignificant, but they are his,
and they mean as much to him as do the
earnings Of the largest farm in the
country TO its owner. And, more than
all, he is obtaining practical interest
in farming; and year by year it will
strengthen and broaden, and by the
time he is of age he will not only be a
farmer physically, but in heart and
brain also.--Household.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
MODEL POULTRY HOUSE.

Suggested by q Pennsylvania Farmer
After Considerable Study.
In selecting a plan for constructing
a new, or in remodeling your old, poul-
try house, see that it combines the fol-
lowing essential requisites:
l. A dry. light. warm roosting room.
2. A large, light scratching pen and shelter
for stormy and windy days.
8. Arrangement for separating into small
flocks.
4. Abundant storage room for litter and
absorbents, feed. lime. kerosene, tobacco
dust, etc.
5. Immunity from lice.
6. Facilities for easily distributing feed
and water, gathering eggs, and removing
the droppings.
z. A room or bin for storing manure.
S. Separate apartments for sitting hens
AM broods of young chickens.
8. Modern sized glass windows In front.
which should face to the south or south
west, and doors so arranged as to afford
thorough ventilation in hot weather, but
closed very tightly in winter.
10. Guard against hiding places for rats.
Study to combine these requisites as econo-
mically as possible and you will have q
model poultry house.
After long study on how to best ac-
complish this I will submit my plan.
AS different individuals will require
houses of varying capacity, l would
make a long, narrow house. cut into
sections. You can make it as extensive
as you please by varying the number
of sections, and can readily add to it
year by year, according to your means
and inclination. l have just built a
house comprising eight sections. will
figure and describe a single section
and leave the reader to imagine it ex-
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LIGHTS IN BARNS.
Precautions to Be Taken to Prev snt Ru.
inOus CONGREGATIONS.

Precautions to Be Taken to Prev snt Ru.
inOus CONGREGATIONS.
1t is time just now to take another
lesson, which is in regard to the lights
used in barns, and especially in regard
to the smoking of pipes in the buildings
The contents of the barn are of the most
combustible characterized a very small
and invisible spark will smolder for
hours and break into flames that by this
lapse of time will be unquenchable.
Then the farmer, apparently prosper,
Gus, but careless and uninsured, may
be reduced to poverty in a few hours.
It may be that the act of smoking in
the barn may be held, and properly so,
we think. such an act of carelessness
Of the most reckless kind, that the in
surfing companies will refuse to mako
good the losses, which will then have
to be borne by the thoughtless owner.
The use of lights, too, should be con-
sidered In this regard. The use of keSo-
sene is too risky for the farm buildings,
for the mere dropping of lantern may
cause an explosion that cannot be pre-
vented from firing the buildings. The
old-fashioned oil, sperm or lard, or even
the common olive or cottonseed oils,
are safe in this respect, and no others
should be used about the barns and sta
bles. The lanterns should be hung into
q safe place within a screen of wire
gauze, with half-inch or an inch mesh.
so that nothing may strike the swing
ing lantern; the use of matches in the
building should be carefully avoided.
The light should be prepared in a safe
place in the house, or in a toolshed,
where all risk is avoided olman's
Rural World
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HOMEMADE TILE DITCHING IMPLEMENTS.
of our tools are homemade. A sod cut
ter shown at is desirable. Ours was
made from an old pointed shovel, as
was also the scoop b, for cleaning the
bottom of the ditch. BY the aid of a
blacksmith these were easily converted
into very useful implements. To make
the cutter, heat and hammer the shovel
fiat, then with a cold chisel cut out the
desired shape. Sharper the edge, in
sert the handle and it is complete. For
the cleaner, turn up the edges and cut
off the corners, making it about five
inches wide. Riyet two quarter-inch
rods to the sides. Weld the outer ends
and drive them into the handle-W. 1.
Moyle, in Farm and Home.
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GOOD DRAINAGE TOOLS.

They Can Be Made at Home by Any In
telligent Farmer.
Much more tile draining could be
done if the farmer was only convinced
that it is not very difficult job and be-
yond his ability. We have laid all our
tile for years and have been very sue
cessful. Good tools are, of course, abb
solutely necessary, but not expensive.
Buy good 18-inch spade. Iprefer one
with square corners. The remainder
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pacity, so that sheep can feed upon both
sides at once. 1t can be extended to
any length to accommodate the size of
the flock. In the sketch one of the end
boards is left off to show the construc.
ton of the remaining parts.-Amer
lean Agriculturalist.
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ventilators on the top of the building
will be required, and the air will keep
the house dry. Always bring the air
in and discharge it near the roof, as
the birds will not then crowd or be-
come lame as they viii when the
warmth is below them.-Farm and
Home
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USEFUL GRAIN BINS.

How to Construct ServiceabIe Feed Chests
with Compartments.
Feed chests with compartments for
different kinds of grain are necessary
conveniences in the barn or stable, but
the making of such bin with numerous
compartments is matter of considera-
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wbv Insect. Like Roses.

Roses do not secrete honey in their
flowers. Insects arc simply attracted by
the perfume and rich colors, and by the
abundant supply Of pollen, which serves
as food.
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One of the items of work that should
be looked after before bad weather sets
in is to examine the roofs of the hives
and if any are leaky see that they are
patched I'D.
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FEED BOX FOR SHEEP.

Almost Necessity Where Grain IL Fed In
the Yard.
When grain is fed to sheep in tho
yard, or pasture, long feed box, or
trough, is essential. The accompanying
illustration shows one with double ca
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Bees should be put into good shape
Tor winter before cold weather sets in.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1895-09-21
A TIMELY REMINDER.

Each season forces upon our con-
sideration its own peculiar perils to
health. The advent of fall finds
many reduced in strength and vigor.
poorly prepared to continue the bus
mess Of life. The stomach and bow
els, the greatest highway animal
economy. Is especially liable TO dis
order in the fall. The nervous sys-
tenn has also suffered in the struggle.
Typhoid fever andmalaria in parti =
ular find in the fall that combina-
ton of earth, air and water that
mark this season as especially dan
gerous. The falling leaves, the de-
caying vegetables contribute their
share of contamination. Hoods Sar-
saparilla furnishes a most valuable
safeguard at these important points.
and should be used in the fall before
serious sickness has lain Won low.