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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-18
THE FARMING WORLD.
POULTRY HOUSE PLAN.
Beginners Can Clean Much Valuable Ad-
vice from This Article.

Beginners Can Clean Much Valuable Adj
vice from This Article.
Any Of your readers who may be in
tending to embark in the poultry
business this spring or those who con-
template building new houses and
yards may perhaps be interested in
the following description of my poul-
try house:
My runs arc large enough to accom-
nodate from twenty to thirty hens
In building a house first select as high
a location as you can get with sufi-
cient room for yards on south side of
house. Have if posi- bic south slope
to the ground If a good bluegrass
sod can be had to build yard on it IS
better. The house is 7x16 feet and 7
feet high at front side and feet at
back with shed roof, and can be built
of 2x4s for frame, covered with COM
mon rough or Gf you desire to paint
dressed boards and battered on the
outside with planed or rough patterns.
Shingles are best to use for roof, as
tarred paper will blow off and does not
make a lasting roof. To make it warm
the house should be lined inside with
tarred paper and should have at least
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-18
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

If seed is carefully selected it viii
not run out. If it is not, it will.
THE corn crop is an important one,
not only for it's grain but for its fodder.
TAKE the boy into some sort of part
nership with you, and allow him every
cent or share that the contract calls for.
THE farmer who carefully saved his
seed corn at husking last fall took the
first important step toward getting a
good crop in 1895.
The boy that is made to work like q
slave for his board and lodging, will
likely be one of those funny boys who
will want to leave the farm.
BECAUSE the father was compelled TO
work himself aim st to death when he
was young is no sort of reason why his
child should be made to work himself
nearly to death.-Farmer's Voice
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-18

ture. Yet, if they are to eat grass dur
ing the summer and be fattened next
winter, as by far the greater part
must be, 1 would not give the corn
meal, as they would do better during
the summer without having had it.
Lambs will do exceedingly well on
good clover hay and unlimited wheat
bran. That is the way I am feeding
ours at present.
If the lambs are to be used for breed
ing stock, would avoid giving corn
meal as heating or fattening food.
Give oats, bran and linseed meal. If
the eve lambs when grass is green in
the spring, she ought not to need any
other food; yet the lambs pay well for
the grain that you give them. 1t may
pay you to continue the wheat bran all
summer. / show a diagram of good
self-feeder for bran, which can be
eaten from by both ewes and lambs
The cut shows cross-section. It may
hold twenty bushels or more.-J. E.
Wing, in Country Gentleman.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-18
TAMWORTH SWINE.

A Short Description of the Modern Eng
lish bacon Breed.
This breed is practically unknown in
this country. It is in every respect so
totally unlike the kind of hog which it
is the ambition of the American swine
breeder to produce that many will be
surprised to learn that the accompany
ing cut is an excellent illustration of
the type most popular among the Eng
lish, being considered a very fine speci-
men of the breed.
The explanation of their popularity
lies in their thin, long bodies, which
supply great quantities of well~strealzed
bacon, the inevitable dish at etery Eng
1ish breakfast table. Indeed, in the
production of this article they are
without rival save the impI owed
Yorkshires, which they greatly re.
semble in many ways.
In color the Tamworths are generally
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-18
How to Face the House.

Custom places the front of the poul-
tryhouse to face the south, yet the sun
does not send the heat into such houses
in winter till quite late in the morn
ing. A poultry house should face the
southeast, and then the heat and light
will enter as soon as it rises, warming
the interior at time when the fowls
desire warmth the most, which is
when they first come off the roosts in
the morning. In the winter the sun is
in the south a greater portion of the
day, and hence, if the house faces
southeast, the fowls, not only receive
warmth early, but the sunshine in the
house till about three o'clock I'm the
afternoon
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-18
AMONG THE POULTRY.

RoosTs should not be OYER two feet
high from the floor.
THE goose does not usually prove to
be good mother until the second
year.
THE coclzerel should have good plain
food and not such food as to fatten
him.
THE males should always be kept
away from the hens until the breeding
season opens.
WHEN eggs are high, some one rec
ommends that they be marketed in
neat baskets holding dozen. 1t is
claimed that the eggs will sell for
enough more to pay for the basket.
Appearances unquestionably have
much to do in selling an article
Farmers Voice.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-18
ABOUT swARMING.
This Part of Bookkeeping Has Been Re-
duced to a Science.


All insects, as well as the animal
kingdom, says the Iowa Homestead,
have some means of reproducing their
like, that their race may not be-
come extinct. Nature and their in
stinct have taught them how, and the
time of season when all elements and
solar heat can assist them best. Per-
haps the wisest and most intelligent
of insects is the honey bee In mid
winter, when the mercury drops down
to fifteen and twenty below zero, they
are making preparations to multiply
their race in a wise and cunning way.
Before the solar heat can assist them
they begin, first by using only a small
space of comb, perhaps not larger in
diameter than a quarter dollar and not
containing more than fifty cells, and
then directly on the opposite side of
the comb the same amount of eggs are
deposited. If the cluster is large
enough the opposite comb is used in
the same way. Now, after the eggs
are Matched into grubs and the temper
atrre of the bive will permit, the circle
will De enlarged and perhaps an adjoin-
nlg comb 1sed. This process is con-
stantly repeated every twenty-one
days. every time charging the circle.
lie queen is not so particular when
the days begin to warm up and the
solar heat csn assist them. The entire
hive will soon be used to multiply their
number; but the population itself is not
sufficient to divide themselves into col
onies, unless all things are favorable
They will not divide themselves into
| colonies, be they ever so numerous. In
my grandfather's time the population
| of the colony was sure sign of the
colony casting a swarm, and many
| day, week and perhaps month was
faithfully watched for the cast, but all
in vain. But in these days all enter
prising bee-keepers can tell the very
condition of the colony and whether
they are preparing to swarm within
eight days or not by simply opening
| the hive. An expert can tell by OBJ
serving the motion of the bees without
making an examination inside. An
expert can also force the colony
J to cast swarm at his COM
mand without dividing. colony
of bees, in their normal condi-
ton to cast a swarm, must con-
sist of one good, prolific queen, from
sixty to eighty thousand workers and
a few hundred drones. Next, there
must be a continuous flow of nectar to
be gathered, and the bees must have a
daily gathering of honey and pollen of
from one to five pounds. To bring out
natural prime swarm it must continue
for ten to twenty days, as this is essen
tia1 for the queen to develop to her full
laying capacity. She must lay from
two to three thousand eggs daily for
certain length of time to have the col
ony in normal condition to cast prime
swarm. Brood must be in all ages,
from the egg to the maturing bees,
and the queen must use all the comb in
the hive and all things must be favora-
bic in the field. If all these things ex-
ist you may look for your bees to
swarm, but if they do not you do your
watching in vain.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-18
MODERN HOG FEEDING.
IL Differs Widely from the Practice n
Vogue for Centuries.

II Differs Widely from the Practice hs
Vogue for Centuries.
1t las been our experience. says F.
A. Harris IN the Massachusetts, Plough
man, that the purer. hesher and sweet
er the food given to our hogs the bet
ter the result. We know that for ages
it has been taught by precept and ex-
ample that anything was good enough
for hog, and, as a result, every hog
breeding country is losing thousands
of dollars annually through losses from
cholera and other diseases. 1t is high
time that the breeders and feeders
were beginning to comprehend that
success in hog raising can no longer be
obtained under the methods of long
ago The hog of to-day has been so
bred as to enable it to turn the inn
mense crops of grain into meat in the
shortest time, and at profit to the
feeder. His digestive tract has been
reorganized, and its capacity to make
hog has been reduced from two years
on grass, mast and corn, to eight
months on grain, grass and milk.
To do this the hog must retain q
healthy condition. Soured food, irreg-
ular meals and a surplus of too strong
foods always tend to produce indiges-
ton and always eat away the profits
of swine feeding. The hog should al
ways have the sweetest of foods,
should be allowed to masticate at least
two meals a day, should never be over
fed nor underfed, should have fresh
water at all times, should have shell
ter both winter and summer and
good, warm, dry bed to rest and sleep
at will. The beds sh ould be kept as
clean and free from dust as possible,
should be cleaned as often as necessa-
ry and air-slaked lime put in each time
before putting in fresh bedding. We
sometimes use carbolic acid, but we
find lime cheaper and more lasting. We
also give our hogs the run of a grass
lot when possible, for grass and exer-
else are both essential to health.
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Observation-Disclosures
CONTINUOUS LIME KILN.
It Does Not Cost Very Much to Build On
the Farm.

it Does Not Cost Very Much to Build Ono
the Farm.
Limestone is a carbonate of lime, and
lime is the oxide of the metal calcium,
which has such an intense avidity for
oxygen that it takes fire and burns
with intense heat and light when ex-
posed to air that is at all moist. Thus
it is a rare metal, and used only for
chemical purposes. The great album
dance of limestone, which is more or
less diffused everywhere in the soil,
and in places is very abundant, being
found in vast beds of marble and other
foras of it, might lead to the suppose
ton shat plants might procure all they
need without any help. But it is quick
lime they need, and not the inert car
Donate of it; and thus it is that the
stone is burned to drive out of it the
carbonic acid, and make it into lime.
which is an acrid, caustic substance
that e1erts most energetic action on
all organic matter; and considerable
action on mineral compounds in the
soil, dissolving silica and thus setting
free such plant foods as potash, mag
nesia, soda and phosphoric acid from
insOlub bic compounds. Limestone is in
soluble in water, but lime is soluble in
roo parts of water. Thus it is that
while the roots of plants may possibly
decompOse to some extent the common
carbonate, and get a little lime in this
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-18

The countenance of the. American
horse, of late charged with gloom and
humility on account OF the Low price
at which he has been rated, May now
brighten again, as a new demand has
risen SOr him. this. time in Germany,
for purposes of sausage, and his market
value, has doubled within eOnpara-
lively short period 1t IS notable that
while that country continually makes
objection 10 our cattle on the hoof and
Otherwise it interpnses no obstacle
whatever to the admission of our
horses in any of their various ante or
post mowtem forms Of export.-N. Y
Tribune
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-18
A Word about Artichokes.

Many will grow artichol1es this year
and be disappointed with the result
because they don't know how. Well
cared for and in warm soil, moder-
ately rich in humus THAT portion of
the soil formed by the decomposition
of animal or vegetable natter, it win
produce a remarka bic yield of tubers
and furnish valuable food for near
ly all farm animals. Whilst sncculent
and nutritious, it is not fattening. Six
hundred pounds to the acre of a fer
tilizer having available phosphOric
acid, per cent; potash, s per cent. !;
nitrogen. per cent, would sometimes
double the crop.-Rura1 World.
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Timothy and clover Compared.

Timothy and clover, says the New
York Times, has been standard mix
ture for hay, and pasture after it, and
in some localities, as where the sum-
mers are comparatively cool, 1T does
very we'll. But where the summer
heat is greater, the timothy does not
mature as soon as the clover, and IN
less the clover is cut too late the tim
othy is not ready for cutting. Thus it
is better TO use an earlier grass, as or
chard grass, which is in its best condi-
ton for cutting at the same time that
the clover is. Another advantage as
to this grass is that it is far more
permanent than timothy, and after the
clover has run out it will occupy the
land for many years, certainly thirty
or forty, with good management, as,
for instance, frequent top dressings
with manure, and some new seed, to
be covered in with harrow, the har-
rowing being done after the manure
has been spread, SO that the seed is
covered and the manure broken and
spread at the same time.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-18
Culture of Strawherri..-

The most profitable way to grow
Strawberries is to make a new planta-
ton every year, keeping the first one
two years, then having two beds, one
coming on and one in full bearing. In
this way the crops are the largest. Ex-
perienee has shown that most success
is gained by procuring fresh plants
from a nursery and not repianting the
runners from an old bed. New plants
may be bought so cheap that it is not
worth while taking the runners from
old beds unless they are some new
kind of which only few have been
procured.-Rural World.
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CARING FOR LAMBS.
How TO Start the Young Creatures In the
Way of Quick Growth.

HOW Co start the Young Creatures In the
Way of Quick Growth.
While the lamb is young is the time
to start it in the way of quick growth.
Its future usefulness as a manufactures
of mutton from hay and corn depends
very largely on the start it gets during
its first few weeks of existence. If it
once gets stunted, no amount of sub
sequent coaxing can make it do it's
best At first you must feed the lamb
through its mother. To make her give
plenty of milk, she needs, in the win
ter time, all the clover hay she will eat.
1t should be good clover hay-early cut
and well cured. She needs plenty Of
wheat bran. If you do not wish to
fatten her for market, would give her
no corn, or very little. If I wanted to
fatten her with the lamb, should give
her ration of this mixture by weight:
1O0parts of corn meal, 100 parts of wheat
bran, 10 parts of linseed meal. 1 would
gradually accustom her to this food, and
as she became used to it, would give
her all she would eat, feeding it by
preference in self-feeder.
Now, if the lambs are to go to mar
ket as fat lambs, I can suggest no
better food for them than that mix
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-18
MOVING THE POULTRY HOUSE.

The birds are quartered in it and
drawn to the field, where they are fed
once or twice in the house to accustom
them to it. Then they are supplied
with plenty of water and turned upon
the stubble, changing them about to
fresh forage as often as they seem to
require new ground, to find sufficient
of the fallen grain. If the house be
built of ha1f-inch matched boards, it
will be found light enough to be moved
easily, and will prove quite saving in
feed from year to year. During the
winter months, when other more i'm
portant work is not pressing, time may
be put to good advantage by construct
ing such a movable poultry house.
American Agriculturist.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-18
The Proper Quantity to Feed.

The practice of examining hens with
wheat at every ration is the very way
not to get eggs. Too much wheat,
buckwheat or barley will go into fat
rather than eggs and fat is disease in
poultry. The morning mash should be
fed in long narrow trough about ~
inches wide, nailed to the side of the
house SO that the hens cannot jump
into and soil the food. Feed only
enough soft food to satisfy, never so
much as togorge. When hen has had
so much food that she will go into a
corner and NOPE, she has had too
much, and if the overlooking is con-
tinued she will become too fat to lay.
If cut green bones are fed it should be
in the proportion of pound to every 16
hens. Iffed morning and night, small
feed of oats at noon and night is all
that will be necessary. Experience
will teach the ''happy medium" in
feeding.-A. G. Gilbert, in Farm and
Home
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Heavy Seeding on Rich Land.

The question as to whether thin seed
ing or thick seeding of grain is prefer
able cannot be determined by any gen
eral rule. Sometimes thin seeding
produces full crop, especially if the
seed be sown early and the season be
such as to induce tilling of the plant.
But on very rich land this makes too
luxuriant a growth of straw, which
falls down and makes the grain light
and shrunken. If the soil is very rich
it is better to sow the grain so thickly
that the plants will slightly crowd each
other from the first. About the time
of heading the plants will draw so
heavily on the soil for moisture that
each will check the growth of the
other, and all will stand up with we'll
filed heads of grain. But this heavy
seeding will be hard on clover or grass
seed, though not so much so as will the
fallen straw where the seeding has not
been so heavy.-Rural World.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
RULES OF THE ROAD.

THE EDgIishmap Turns to the Left, the
American to the Right.
The 'sru1e of the road" is curiously
different in different parts of the
AngIo-Saxon world. When, for in
stance, an American who is riding or
drying meets another rider or convey
anee on the road, he turns to the right.
This Briton, on the contrary, turns to
the !eft. But if a walking Briton meets
anoSher pedestrian on the road or the
sidewalk, he turns to the right.
The rule of the road has become
cryssallized in England into poetic
forr3a, one of which is as follows:
THIS rule Of the road is paradox quite;
Fcf in driving your carriage along,
If y1u bear to the left you are sure to go
right,
If you turn to the right you go wrong.
Buzz in walking the streets it's different
ease;
To the right it is proper to steer;
On the left there should be enough of clear
For the people who wish to walk there.
Another reading of the same rule is
more epigrammatic:
The rule of the path,
To get well along
Is keep to the right"
And you cannot go wrong.
The rule of the road
Is paradox quite,
If you keep to the left
You are sure to be right
The requirement to turn to the left
is a matter of statute law in Great
Britain, having been made a part of
the highway act of 1885. In the
United States, the exactly opposite
rule has been enacted into law in
several states, and in the other states is
so much matter of common usage
that driver who violates it is re-
sponsib1e for the damage caused by any
collision.
On the continent of Europe it is the
general rule to turn to the right. Turn
ing to the left seems to be an insular
popularity of the United Kingdom.
Why opposite rules should prevail in
England and in a part of the United
States which, like New England, de
rived all it's ordinary customs from old
England, is not clear, but the reason
for turning to the left is perfectly
plain. 1t is the custom, not only in
England, but in America. for the
driver to sit on the right side of
the vehicle; and the driver who sits
thus can keep his wheel in view, and
also that of the passing conveyance,
IN UGH better if he passes to the left,
and keeps his right shoulder to the
other mans right shoulder.
The practice of turning to the right
when on foot is assumed to have grown
out of the necessity, in rude and vio-
lent times, of keeping free the hand
which must, in case of necessity, handle
the sword or other weapon. But this
conside ration must have applied to
horsemen as well as to pedestrians.
1t may be, therefore, that the prac
tice of turning to the left with vehicles
has grown up since the times of peace
and security on the road have made
weapons unnecessary. In America we
may have preserved the earlier usage
of England itself, as has been the case
with other customs that have been
dropped there but carefully preserved
here.-Youth's Companion.
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A MOVABLE HENNERY.

How to Make Poultry Pick Up a Lying
on StubbIe Fields.
On stubble fields there is often a
good deal Of food which if the fowls
could be induced to forage sufficiently
would amount to considerable guam
tity of feed. In some countries the
young, growing fowls are housed in a
small, lightly constructed building on
wheels, of weight not too heavy for
horse to draw, and of size to &C
commodate from so to 20 chickens.
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Unsound Horses in France.

The French law enumerates the yari-
Gus forms of unsoundness to which a
horse is liable, and provides that an
animal found to be suffering from any
OF these within nine days after its sale
may be returned to the seller. Such q
law IN this country would do much to
protect buyers, and it would also be
welcome to the reputable men whogar
engaged in selling horses
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-18
rhe New Diphtheria Cure.

In obtaining the serum for the a11sf.
toxine treatment about ten quarts is
the amount drawn from each horse at
one time on the average. The aAsmala
suffer no perceptible exhaustion, and
are not made useless for ether puT
poses. Among the twenty-five horset
now owned by the British institute is g
grandson of Blair AthoL
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-18

a sandy red, though some are dark
gray with black spots. They are hardy
and prolific and have been improved so
that they are now an early-maturing
breed. The long, deep sides, light
shoulder and jowl make them an ideal
bacon hog. The flesh is Iean+ pink and
we'll favored Y. World.
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HOLDER FOR Gags.

with Its Aid the Filling of Grain Sacks IL
a Pleasure
The accompanying illustration shows
cheap and efficient continuance to
take the place of man or boy in the
work of putting grain into sacks. It
is made by taking a good sound wood
en- barrel hoop and closing it to the de-
sired diameter. To the hoop attach
three legs which should be of light
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-18

Az Iowa swine breeder declares that
forty head of hogs can be kept on an
acre OF artichokes, without other feed,
from the time frost is out of the
ground until they grow again, and
from October 1 until it freezes.-Farm-
er's Voice