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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-07
LOSSES IN DREAMING.
Setting Milk In Open Pans the Cause of
Many Dairy Deficit.

Many Dairy Deficit.
Not long ago, says the Practical
Dairyman, we made little investiga-
ton into just what the loss was
through setting the milk in open pans.
A herd of IA COWS was in milk, and CIV
ing about $50 pounds of milk day. The
pans were set in a cool room and al
lowed to stand from SO to 4S hours, or
until the milk began to thicken. The
skim milk was tested with the Babcock
test, and it showed that nearly all the
cream rose in the first 12 hours, no diff
ference being shown between that set
IL hours and that set SO hours. But the
amount of butter fat which was lost
was somewhat appalling, amounting
as it did to eight-tenths of one per
cent, or about one-sixth of the whole
amount of butter in the milk. This
loss is not surprising to one who has Op-
portunity to make such tests, and it is
going on every day on hundreds and
hundreds of farms in this country. In
this case it amounted to two pounds of
butter per day which brought 25 cents
pound to private trade. Fifteen per
cent. of the entire production, or over
$175 per year; who says that the loss
does not amount to much?
More than half this loss can be saved
by setting the milk in deep cans and
putting them in cold water, and nearly
all of it by the use of a hand separator.
Where one has the facilities creamery
is very good, but ice or running water
below As degrees must be at hand, and
this is not convenient on many farms.
But a creamery costs less and is less
work to wash and care for than sep
arator, although, as rule, it does not
raise quite as much of the cream.
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a suggestlon for Dairvmen.

Handling whey and buttermilk is q
problem at butter and cheese factories.
At the Lawrence factory for making
fancy cheese, pipe is laid from
the factory to the top of hill,
about so feet higher than the
factory and 1900 feet away On
the summit are commotlious and
well constructed hog pens, with rooms
for the attendants. The pens are
comfortably arranged and easily kept
clean, and in winter are warmed by
steam heat. To this place all the whey
and buttermilk is forced by steam
pump, and main from the village
waterworks furnishes unlimited sup
plies of pure, fresh water for drinking,
washing, etc. The hogs are bred on the
place; two crops of 300 hogs each are
raised and marketed annually.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-07
wlNTERINe POTATOES.
The Most Satisfactory Way Is to Store in
Dug-Out.

Dug-Out.
In a report of the Kansas state board
of agriculture, as quoted in an ex-
change, it is said that, if buried, pota-
toes must be covered lightly at first,
and the covering added from time to
time, but only enough to protect the
tubers from frost. This is the most un-
satisfactory and expensive way of
storing potatoes. The next worst is q
cellar under a building. The most sat
isfactory and cheapest way is to store
in dug-out. In most Kansas soils,
no walls but the dirt walls are needed.
The roof will be of earth over poles
and brush. In wet weather such a roof
will leak unless covered with boards,
corn stalks, straw or other covering.
The best location will be slope or
bank facing south. By leaving an
alley through the center of the dug-out,
with plenty of large ventilator shafts
through the roof, a brisk circulation
will be set up whenever the door in the
end is opened-particular where the
door opens on the level, as it will if
the building is dug in the side of
bank. The trouble with a cellar under
building is to give it air enough.
The dug-out should be built with a
bin on each side of central alley. The
bottom of the bins should be raised six
inches from the ground. Both the bot.
tom and sides are best made of fence
boards, with inch spaces between. The
sides of the bins should be clear of
contact with the walls, whether stone
or dirt. Spouts should be placed at
intervals through the roof at the
outside of the bins, through which to
pour down the potatoes into the cellar.
Such building, carefully managed as
to ventilation, opened up on frosty
nights and kept closed during the
warm days of fall and early winter,
will take Early Ohio potatoes through
to spring without sprouting. Early
Rose, Beauty of Hebron and such va
rieties may require turning over once.
The only antidote for sprouting, aside
from the manner of storage, that is
known, is the scoop shovel. Potatoes
may be kept in cool storage until Au-
gust without a sprout.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-07
AFTER EATING HAsHEEsH.
The Peculiar Mental Condition Which
Comes to One and All.

Comes to One and ALL
During quite good half hour / felt
nothing in any way abnormal, but when
the meal was drawing to its close a
subtle warmth, which came, as it were,
in gusts to my head and chest, seemed
to permeate my body with singular
emotion, says Cornhill Magazine.
Later on the conversation around me
reached my understanding, charged
with dron significance. The noise of a
fork tapped against glass struck my
ear as a most harmonious vibration.
The faces of my companions were
transformed. The particular animal
type, which, according to Lavater, is
the basis of every human countenance,
appeared to me strikingly clear. My
right-hand neighbor became an eagle,
he on my left grew into an owl, with
full projecting eyes; Immediately in
front of me the man was lion, while
the doctor himself was metamorphosed
into a fox.
But the most extraordinary circum-
stance was that l read, or seemed to
read, their thoughts and penetrate the
depth of their intelligence as easily as
one deciphers a page printed in large
type. Like an experienced phrenol-
ogist I could indicate accurately the
force and quality of their endowments
and the nature of their sentiments; in
this analysis discovered affnities and
contrasts which would have escaped
one in a normal state.
Objects around me seemed little by
little to clothe themselves in fantastic
garb, the arabesques on the walls re-
vealed themselves to me in rich rhymes
of attractive poesy, sometimes mel
ancholy, but more generally rising to
an exaggerated lyrism or to transcend
ent buffoonery. The porcelain vases,
the bottles, the glasses sparkling on
the table-all took the most ludicrouS
forms. At the same time I felt creep
ing all around the region of my heart a
tickling pressure, to squeeze out, as it
were, with gentle force, laugh which
burst forth with noisy violence.
NJ neighbors, too, seemed subjected
to an identical influence, for saw their
faces unfold like peonies- of
boisterous hilarity, holding their sides
and rolling about from right to left,
their countenances swollen like Titans.
My voice seemed tc have gained consid-
erablc strength, for when l spoke it was
as if it were discharge OF cannon. and
long after / had uttered a sentence
heard in my brain the reYerbefation. us
1t were, of distant thunder.
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sirable. M. Villon accomplishes this
by covering the cork and a part of the
neck with thin layer of copper cleo
trically deposited. For this purpose
the neck of the bottle is covered with a
conducting substance such as black
lead, zinc or copper powder, and
plunged in a galvanic bath, as shown
in the accompanying illustration. This
bath has cover of paraffine wood, A b,
with conical holes, which are lined
with copper rings. All these rings are
connected among themselves, and with
the negative pole of the dynamoS while
a copper sheet in the bath is connected
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-07
MACHINERY brings Betrer Pay.

Since the extensive introduction of the
sewing machines we do not hear of the
distressed needle women, at one time
so prevalent. Typewriters get double
the wages they would get as penwriters,
and they do six times as much work
with comparative pleasure and great
leisure. Steamships costing millions
equipped with every known Invention
for safe and efficient service, in six days
at nominal cost, with every comfort.
take weekly with almost unfailing reg
ularity thousands of people across the
Atlantic, where in 1890 it took Samuel
Slater, the honored founder of the cot
ton trade, siXty-six days to cross, and
no doubt with great discomfort and
danger. Small newspapers cost at one
time six, eight and twelve cents, and
were loaded with government revenue
stamp. Now a better paper can be
got for cent, but the compositors and
printers get much higher pay and have.
like the newspapers, increased many
thousandfold. So it runs all through,
and the whole world gets benefited.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-07
THE FARMING WORLD.
PAvEMENTs IN CITIES.
Wide Tires Would PrOlOng Their Useful
ness for Many Years.

Wide Tires Would PrOlOng Their Useful
ness for Many Years.
When I studied rhetoric, particular
stress was laid upon Pope's rule:
In words as fashions, the same rule viii
hold,
Alike fantastic If too new or old:
Be not the first by whom the new are trteds
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
wish to lay stress upon the fashions.
Our fashions are all set for us by those
who make our clothes, hats, shoes, and
what not.
We are all agreed that broad tires Tor
carriages, wagons and all vehicles arc
best for good roads, but no one wants
particularly to set the fashion and be
fantastic" If makers of vehicles
would produce broad-tired vehicles, our
carriage friends would soon be in the
fashion and good roads would result.
If broad tires are heavier, why not try
aluminium?
A city street will be laid in granite,
asphalt or macadam; but within year
it will be torn up several times to lay
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-07

used to prevent it. The building should
be located high enough to insure per-
feet drainage. The drain should be
carried several hundred feet under
ground from the factory, before it is
allowed to come to the surface. No
drain is complete without trap"
The plant should be as centrally To-
Gated as possible, but not too far from
the shipping station, if the product is
to be shipped. The best site is at side
hill, SO that the weigh room can be at
the east side if possible. 1t will then be
sheltered from the cold winds in winter.
The driveway should be graded high
enough to allow the milk to flow from
the weigh can into the receiving vat. If
the vat can be placed above the level of
the separator it will avoid the pumping
cf the milk.
The more convenient everything is
arranged the fewer persons will be re-
quired to operate it and the less the
expense will be. If | were building
creamery for myself | would build the
churnroom in sub-basement, making
the excavation about feet deep, which,
with an S-foot wall, would permit the
ventilation. The idea would be to Sc
cure as even temperature as possible
the year round. 1t is very necessary
to have a cool room in which to churn
and work butter in hot weather. 1t
is very difficult matter to make good
butter in room where the temperature
rises to 80 or 90 degrees.
In the diagram w is the scales and
weigh can, on an elevated platform,
from which the milk runs through
conductor into the receiving vat, r V,
and from the vat into the separator S.
From the separator the cream can be
conducted into the cream vat, V.
Ch is the churn and B w the butter
worker. B is the boiler, which should
be II or more larger than necessary
to supply the engine (E) on account
of the extra steam needed. + is coal
bin and o an office. An icehouse and
a cold storage room can be attached
at the north end (N) if needed.
The steam and water guage should
be so placed on the boiler as to be in
sight of the operator, through the open
door, while running the operator. The
roof on the building should be fireproof,
to lessen the risk; the insurance will
be less also. Any competent carpen-
ter can construct the building and fit
the interior. 1t is entirely unnecessary
to employ a regular creamery con-
tractor, and perhaps pay double price
or more. Better employ a competent,
disinterested man who understands
creamery work to osuperintend the build
work more satisfactory. Sometimes
secondhand machinery that has been
used but little can be bought very low,
compared to new; as the machinery is
the greatest expense, it would reduce
the cost of the plant very much.-O. j.
Vine, in Ohio Farmer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-07
Ice House on a smaIi Scale.

If the farmer should have any of the
luxuries- which are possible to those
who live in cities, there is nothing that
will insure them so cheaply as good
ice house. A suitable building for hold
ing ice may be built wholly above
ground, or partly below and partly
above, but in either case it should have
good drainage, and tight roofing, and
ample arrangement for ventilation.
There should be space of from Is to IL
inches between the walls and the cubes
Of ice. This space is best filled with
sawdust, or, in the absence of this, with
fresh leaves or chopped straw. The
opening should be on the north side of
the building. and it is best if the build
ing is not exposed to the sun or winds.
Prairie Farmer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-07
COMBINATION MANGER.
1t Possesses Many Good Points, But Also
Some Disadvantages.

1t Possesses Many Good Points, But Also
Some Disadvantages.
In the report of my visit to Crystal
Spring farm spoke of the feeding man
ger in use there. It has some features
that are valuable. The sheep cannot
waste their feed, nor can they get the
hayseed and chaff in their wool.
The accompanying cut shows an end
view, with the boards across the ends Of
troughs and manager removed. The end
frames should be made of 3X3 sticks 4
feet long. Mortise them into each other
Is inches from the lower ends, making
the manger angle 35 degrees. For the
troughs use 10-inch boards ~ inches
thick. Place the back trough board be-
meath the legs as shown in the cut.
They should join at the top, at the
point marked L. The outer wings of
the troughs can be put en- as in making
an ordinary V-trough, only that the
lower edge of the one will have to be
beveled somewhat. Care needs to be
taken that the outer board of the trough
does not project far enough to invite
sheep to stand upon it and eat over the
top of the rack
The manger is boarded tightly from
the top down to within inches of the
bottom, this forming the feeding space
through which they must eat their hay.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-07
WORTH FIGHTING FOR.
"A Hint Two for Our Statesmen Gath
cred at Washington

"A Hint or Two for Our Statesmen Gath
cred at Washington.
The legislators from the back coun-
ties who for years have been trying to
make themselves solid with their con-
stituents by securing $1,000,O0O appro-
priation for the purpose of making
Mud creek navigable for ocean steam
ships now have something new and
worth while to work for.
The improvement of so-called water
ways has occupied great deal of the
legislators attention and consumed a
''heap" of the peoples money.
Transportation by water is a right
good thing. So is transportation by
land. A few people desire to cross the
high sea. Most everyone desires to
travel the highways.
1t has dawned on the minds of people
that it is worth while to have good
means for getting about the country.
a splendid highway is great artery
OF commerce and pleasure.
The legislators who do the most to
provide means for improving the raods
will come the nearest to the hearts of
their people.
There is nothing chimerical about
good roads. They are practical, eco
nomical investment. The legislator
who succeeds in inducing the state to
spend money for improved roads need
have no fear of an uneasy conscience.
he can go to bed and sleep just like
lamb.
Let Mud creek dry. up and blow away
If it wishes to. Or Bullrush bayou get
so dusty clam can't cross it. What do
legislators care! Good roads are the
things the people are after. And
they'll get them, too.-Good Roads.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-07

Mr.. Edward Wilson informs the
editor of the Eutaw (Ala.) Mirror thar
he successfully cured a pear tree of
blight in the following manner. He
first cut away the diseased part, then
bored a dozen or so of holes with a
small bit, through the bark and into the
sap wood He then put a dose of
calomel-say five to ten grains-in
each hole. Plugged the holes up with
q well-fitting cedar peg, cut it off
even with the bark. The tree soon
covered this over by its natural proc
ess, and the tree is now heavily
loaded with fruit and is very thrifty
and prosperous looking.
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water or gas pipes or to make connec-
tions of same with houses. In these
days of engineering, it seems to me that
q continuous vault should be built un-
der each street sufficiently large to ac~
commodate all these pipes and also a
passageway for workmen to get at
them. Manholes at proper distances
would permit ingress and egress. If
built by the city "a yearly rental could be
charged which would be less expense to
gas and electric companies than the
constant tearing up and repairing of
,pavements. Our electric subways IN
New York, I think, pay good interest
upon the investment. And what good
streets we would have. Why not try
it on newly laid out thoroughfares be-
fore changing the old ?-L. A. w. BulIe-
tin
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-07
POPULAR SCIENCE.
CARE OF THE WOUNDED.
New Method of Transporting the Disabled
on Board Ships.

New Method of Transporting the Disabled
ON Board Ships.
The naval surgeons at Washington
have perfected the rules which will gov
ern the treatment and care of the dis
abled in time of action on board ship.
The method of transporting those who
are disabled is a matter of great inn
portance and cannot always be easily
and rapidly done in times of excite
ment. To facilitate the prompt atten-
ton which should be given to those
who are injured, structure. bar has
been perfected capable of being rugged
for lowering from the main deck
through hatchway into the sick quar-
ters.
This bar is seven feet long, and, made
Of one-inch wrought iron piping, with
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-07
LAYER1Ne GoosEBERR1Es.

than making cuttings, so far as the
gooseberry is concerned. A single
plant hilled up for inducing the young
canes to strike root along their base is
shown in Fig. of accompanying sketch.
a dozen or more good plants may
thus be made of one strong plant two or
three years old, and these young plants
if properly planted out and taken care
of, will be in shape to give quite little
fruit the second season from planting.
Gardener.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-07
eoosEeERRY CULTURE.

The Secret of Thrifty Growth and Rich
Yields Explained.
During a second visit to the state ex-
pertinent grounds near Geneva, N. Y,
in August, learned the secret of the
thrifty growth and yield of the goose
berry plants there found in numer-
Gus varieties. The foundation on which
this success primarily rests is good
strong loan, reinforced by yearly,
moderate applications of stable manure
and good tillage. Repeated spraying
with the solution of silver of sulphur,
which the station people prefer to the
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THE RACK FOR SEALING.

to the positive pool. The bottles arc
simply inserted in the holes, neck down.
and when a layer of 2-10 to $40 of a
has been deposited the cur
rent is stopped. The deposit may be
gilt, silvered or given any desired shade
in special baths. The process, of
course. can be employed to seal bottles
for mineral waters, preserves and a
variety of products.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-07

The troughs below catch all the fine
particles and the refuse. The manger
may be made of lighter boards. The
rack may be made any length desired.
Troughs of this size serve well for feed
ing ensilage and roots.
The objection to this rack is that it
is very heavy and does not serve very
well for feeding corn stover either
whole or cut.-H. P. Miller, in Ohio
Farmer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-07
What Took the Prize.

Where do you come from?" asked a
Dallas man of a neighbor.
"Tm just in from the fair grounds. /"
"Have the judges of I've stock award
ed the prize to the biggest JACKIE"
"They have"
did my uncle or my father get it 20
Neither of them. a strange donkey
from eastern Texas got the prize
Texas Siftings.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-07
SEALING BOTTLES.

Alright Film Deposited on the Head
by Electricity.
In a recent number of La Nature A.
N. Villon describes a novel method Of
sealing champagne bottles. The loss
and deterioration of champagne due to
the escape of gas has long made some
process of perfect air-tight sealing de-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-07

Apples will endure a much lower
temperature than will potatoes. TIC
cooler they are kept without freezing
the better. When stored in cellars
good ventilation is necessary. and aa
even a temperature as possible.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-07

do you know, some of those dough
nuts made yesterday are missing?"
Don't be alarmed, dear. took them
downtown to friend of mine"
'.Did he eat them?"
Heavens, no! He Ii geologist.
Life.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-12-07

Bordeaux mixture for this particular
purpose, keeps the foliage in good
health, and therefore the wood growth
normal and strong, and also the fruit
free from mildew. With the same con-
ditions strong plants and plenty of
good fruit can be produced elsewhere.
There can be no question that goose
berries thus handled can be made
very profitable crop.
Layering, as stated on former occa-
sions, is a far safer and better method
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On /. Bad Road, Especially.

Horses can't talk, but who knows
how much they may think.-Good
Roads.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-02-16

Elko has the lowest tax rate of any
county in the state. The commissioners
have just fixed county tax for this wear
at go cents on each 500 valuation. The
state tax is 80 cents, making a total OF
Only $l.50.
The "Keely" bill was passed by a vote
OF 9 to 8. 1t provides that i%mpecunious
persons addicted to the excessive use of
liquor, opium, etc., may be treated at
any Keely Institute in the State at pub
lie expense.
The officers of Reno Division No. 2
Uniform Rank, X. of p. were installed
last Tuesday evening by Captain Hodg-
kinson who inspected the division in
true military style. Col. Geo. King is
on the sick list.
The railroad company is filling in the
depression east of AMI next to the pass
enger depot for the purpose OF building
q park. 1t will be a big improvement
and one that has been desired for a
number OF years.
The new sign painted for the DISPATCH
by K. L. Fuller is q work of art. 1t has
attracted a great deal OF attention and
received much praise. We believe in
getting the best and believe We have
the handsomest sign in the State. Adj
vertising pays.
G. E. Skinner. the Reno photographer
is pronounced one of the best artists in
his line on the coast. a look at his
samples will convince you and he guar
antees every picture. Call en- Mr..
Skinner when you go to Reno and he
will take the pleasure In showing his
work.