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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-22
CRUSHED STONE ROADS.
They Can Be Built Cheaper Than the Old
Fashioned Gravel Roads.

They Can Be Built Cheaper Than the Old
Fashioned Gravel Roads.
Our gravel beds, which few years
ago supplied us with excellent gravel
for road purposes, have gradu ally de-
generated to cobblestone, says an Illi-
nois man. Something had to be done,
and our commissioners purchased a
crusher and putt to going on this stone.
Much to their surprise, as well as that
of the rest of US, the machine easily
turned out yard of splendid road ma
terial every five minutes. They hired
traction engine at IS day to furnish
power. 1t furnished power and could
have run another crusher at the same
time. The following details may inter
est highway commissioners having to
contend with too much coarse stone in
their gravel beds:
We crushed a yard of stone every
five minutes, paying S. day for
power. Six shovelers fed the crusher.
The material was elevated into the
wagons, therefore but one handling
was required. The advantages over
the old way of road-making IN this
locality were almost too numerous to
mention.
We can keep our pit in the best pos
sible shape and leave it in that condi-
ton for the next time. With little
headwork by the commissioner in i'm
mediate control, teams need not wait
thirty seconds for chance to load.
Under the old way there were too often
two to five teams at So a day standing
still waiting for others to be loaded.
There is no time wasted in thrOwino
stone back at the pit or raking them
out of the road after being hauled on.
Generally they are notraked out at all.
A crushed stone road is far superior to
the ordinary gravel road and easier
kept in repair. As matter of fact,
we now build crushed-stone road
cheaper than we did gravel road.
The reader can figure from this data:
Power per day, So; yard crushed
every five minutes; shovelers and haul
ers are the same, whether you use
crushed rock or gravel, and, of course,
need not be counted. FarmersVoice.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-22
The Cause OF Small Eggs.

The steady improvement in the grade
of poultry kept by farmers has resulted
in the increased size of eggs. This diff
ference is so marked that the eggs pro-
duced in the north always command in
the markets higher price than those
from the south, where the improved
breeds have been more slowly intro
duced. In that section the undersize
of poultry and eggs is doubtless due
chiefly to the lack of new blood. The
facilitating effect of the heat is some
times given as the explanation, but
the true one is rather the lack of care
and proper breeding. the indirect re-
suit of the climate, which, by permit
ting the birds to forage all the year
round, relieves the owner of much
trouble, but at the same time checks
his interest in their best development.
Farmers Voice.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-22
THE APPLE ORCHARD.
Setting Trees Close Together Is Said tc
Have Some Advantages.

Have Some Advantages.
Some time since writer in your pa
per advised planting apple trees 35 to
As feet apart, as this will prevent rot,
permit the apples to color up better.
etc. In part he was right, but in my
opinion he was on the whole wrong.
In order to make an orchard proftab BILE,
it is necessary to have more trees on a
given amount of land than when placed
35 to 40 feet apart. IL we can do this
and not injure the land, trees or fruit,
/ think we have made fair start to-
ward profitable commercial orchard
ing. While a tree is young we get the
best crops The fruit is larger, more
perfect, and less liable to rot. In this
locality d tree begins to fruit at the
age of five or six years from planting.
The next 10 or IL years the orchard is
in its prime, and if during this time
we can get one-th;rd more trees and
have one-third more fruit to market,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-22
How to Cultivate Musk Melons.

To secure the best results. musk mel
ons should be grown in light, rich,
sandy soil. After all danger from frost
is past and when the ground is warm
and dry. plant in hills from four to six
feet apart each way, with six totwelve
seeds in a hill When up and all dan
ger of insects has passed, pull out all
but three. Cultivate thoroughly until
the ground is covered BY the vines, and
pinch off the ends to induce early fruit.
Sift ashes or lime over the vines, when
the dew is on, to prevent the attacks
OF insects
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-22
To EATEN Cattle Quickly.

To fatten cattle most rapidly at this
season of the year provide pasture
with st least one acre of grass for each
cow or steer. Begin with five pounds
OF cornmeal and one pound of crushed
oil cake for each animal Increase the
feed by adding one pound of cornmeal
and one-half pound of oil cake daily
for two weeks. If corn is ground with
out the cob make a mixture of three
parts meal and one part bran or mill
feed by weight. A ration of twenty
pccnds meal and bran, eight pounds
oil cake. with grass, water and salt.
viii fatten the animals as rapidly as
heavier feeding. | would use nothing
but old process oilmeaL-D. W,sMott
in American Agriculturist
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-22
care OF NIB in summer.

Cleanliness in all dairy operations i.
of first Importance. Milk with dry
hands. Keep the atmosphere in which
the milk must stand free from baG
odors- Preserve the desirable flavors il
the cream. If the milkis wanted sweet
lower the temperature as soon as the
milk is drawn from the cow to JUS
above freezing if possible. Neglect OF
proper care of milk by patrons is the
cause of much trouble at the factory
and results in a like reduction in ne
profits. 1t pays to be honest.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-22
erowing CeIery for Market.

Any person who grows celery can
easily produce large and white stalks,
but the main point is to have them
crisp. Good celery should break into
two or three pieces when bent, and
should be very brittle. The way to
secure the brittleness is to begin
blanching the stalks from the start
and also grow them rapidly If the
blanching is done later in the season.
as is usually the case, the stalks will
be white and attractive, but 6in not
be as brittle as when the blanching il
done gradually during the whole sea,
son.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-22
TIE FARMING WORLD.
SELECTION OF HAY.
A Few Scientific Propositions 0f Peculiar
Interest to Dairymen.

A Few Scientific Propositions of Peculiar
Interest to Dairymen.
As plant forms seed it takes sub
stance from the leaves and stock and
stores it within the seed for noErish-
ment for the germ when it shall grow.
This is called TRANSPORTATION, and it
plays an important part in changing
the chemical constituents Of different
parts of the plant. Perennials have
still another term OF translocation-
Nutriment is stored in the roots. Tim
othy has bulb just beneath the sur
face of the ground. From this bulb
fresh shoots come in the spring. The
point of interest to the dairyman is
that grass grows less heterogeneous as it
natures, and the nutritive ratio be-
comes too narrow for peEfec4 dairy
ration.
Succulent pasture grass, writes E. c.
Bennett, is a perfect ration, ripened
grass is too woody and carbonaceous.
Experiments at different stations indi-
cate that In feeding the results are
what the chemical analysis would lead
one to expect Early-cut hay has a
larger protein contents and is better
for milk production; that cut later is
more carbonaceous and is suited to
beef-making. Now, since it is imprac-
ticable to cut all the grass at once,
there will be some cut early and some
cut late. The sensible thing to do is
to stack separately, or put in different
mows in the barn, and feed in accord
ance with it's suitability to the object
sought, giving the cows in milk and
young growing stock the early-cut hay.
The writer fills his long mows in sec
tions. This grades the hay as cut, and
the barn is SO arranged that he can
feed from any desired section. Those
whose stock runs outside win find it
profitable to remember which stack is
early-cut and feed it according to the
suggestions given above. = Farmers
Wnion
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-22
PLAN OF DAIRY BARN.
Convenient Structure for Farmers Who
Have No Money Burn.


Have No Money to Burn.
The plan of a barn shown here viii
accommodate 10 to 25 cows, a few
horses, tools and machinery. No one
barn can be just what will meet the
needs of different farmers, differently
situated, but this plan has been found
very convenient after several years
use. The plan presented is one en-
ployed in the dairy region of Iowa
and will apply elsewhere The strong
points in its favor are convenience,
comfort, economy of labor in filing,
feeding, cleaning out, easy access to
to the different kinds of forage and
cheap construction.
First, make the main part, or hay
barn, long enough to hold all the hay
clover, timothy, millet, sheaf oats,
corn fodder or other similar food.
The frame is spiked together, the posts
and braces being of 2x8 inch stuff
and the rafters 2x6 inch. The posts
are feet and the rafters feet apart.
The braces are IL feet apart and fast
ened to every second post and fourth
rafter. The roof will not sag and the
walls will not spread, fastened to-
gether in this way. A hay fork runs
the whole length and there are no
crossbeams in the way. The braces,
or ties, partially divide the whole hay
NOW into twelve-foot sections. These
sections are easily filed in any desired
order and fed out in any order just as
easily. For convenience in feeding,
this plan is unsurpassed, as the forage
from each section can be thrown direct
into the feeding alley. Hang steel
track for hay fork in the roof peak.
Another feature of this plan is that
only so much of the barn need be built
at first as is needed. The additions for
stock and machinery can be built when
desired. The room for grain or tools
can be suited to each farmers needs.
Windows are not shown in the sketch
put them in wherever needed. Have
plenty of doors to the cow stable. They
are extremely handy for ventilating in
hot weather. In cleaning the advan-
tage of numerous doors is also strongly
felt, as the manure can be thrown di-
rect from the stall into wagon, shed or
manure boat. The posts of the lean
! tos need be no heavier than 2X6 inches.
In my barn they are of 2x4 inch stuff
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-22
when Are Hens Most Profitable ?

It has been claimed that the hen lays
the largest number of eggs during her
first year and that she is more profta-
BILE then than at any other time. The
first point to be settled is, which is the
first year of ben? If she is Matched
in the spring she will not lay until
fall, and if she then lays large num-
Der of eggs by the end of the next year
she has really been supported two years
and laid during one year only. In
other words, she had to be raised from
chickenhood to maturity before she be-
gins to lay at all. Her next or third
year will be all the more profitable for
the reason that the first cost of raising
her will be proportionately reduced
each year.-Colman's Rural World.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-22
FARM AND GARDEN.
MAKING DRY WALKS.
A Simple System OF Draining Produces
the Desired Result

the desired Result
The accompanying sketch shows the
proper way of making a dry walk
about ones premises The darker
shading shows where a trench has
been dug, at the bottom of which is
laid line of tile. The earth is then
shoveled back into the trench, after
the joints of the tile have been care
fully covered with hay to prevent the
loose earth from getting into the
joints before it has become firmly
packed together, some eighteen inches
at the top being left open. A foot of
cobb1e or broken stones is then placed
upon the earth and well packed down;
over this is spread six inches of gravel,
slightly rounded from side to side.
The gravel and the rocks beneath
cause all water falling upon the sur
face to at once disappear, while very
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-22

meets the stick to surcingle and halter
so as to give the stick some play. A
pad may be needed on the back under
the surcingle as the latter sometimes
cuts through the skin. In very per-
sistent cases two sticks may be needed,
one on each side of the COW. outside of
her fore legs, to break from sucking.
Afterward a single one will do.-Farm
and Home
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-22

barrow and hoe scraper does the rest,
keeping the gutter open and breaking
the stone piles, q ought to say that
the stone piles are never more than IS
inches high and fiat on top, SO that a
Runaway team would pull over them,
and nos knock their brains OUT in the
summer with a long handled hammer,
and piece of netting over his face!
Practically this is the system all over
the British empire, and some parts of
Cauada-which is in North America.
There is section of British road
on the Lincolnshire marshes-which
were once far softer than the prairies.
The bitches are kept in order by adj
joining owners. The stuff from the
bitches built up the road. The bitches
are kept distiuct.-James Mcpherson,
in Landscape Architect.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-22
PEPPERMINT CULTURE.
An Import ant Industry Confined to
Limited Area.

Limited Area.
Though the peppermint crop of this
country has veryf small acreage COM
pared with many other crops, yet it is
of considerable Importance in some
sections of the country. The crop was
first introduced into New York from
Massachusetts, aoout 1910, and fifteen
years later into Michigan. Wayne
county, N Y, is the largest center of
peppermint growing, but large quaint
ties are also raised in southern Michi-
gan and northern Indiana. The Wayne
county product commands a higher
price than any other kind of pepper
mint oil.
The cultivation of peppermint is sim
pie, but great deal of labor is re-
quired to keep the fields free from
weeds. The propagation is by roots
which are dug and planted in drills as
close together as is possible, allowing
room for cultivation. Weeds are the
great enemy and must be fought con-
stantly. There is one in particular
which, unknown as yet outside the
peppermint fields, is a continual men
ace to the purity of the oil product. 1t
is termed rag weed. but it is totally
unlike the weed commonly SO called.
The oil yield varies from ten to thirty
pounds an acre. Two-thirds of that
produced is exported. Peppermint
growing is a crop that requires skill
and experience, and the necessary ap-
paratus for distilling is expensive, SC
that it would not pay any individual
to go into the business unless on a
large scale.-N. Y. World.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-22
Ioirect Loss from Poor Roads.

although the methods of attaining
the result afford discrepant indications
as 10 the amount of loss due to ill-kept
highways IN Massachusetts, they alike
clearly indicate that the direct loss is
very g1sat; probably amounts to some
where between five and ten million
dollars per annum.-Report Mass Com.
Highways
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-22
sELF-SUCKING COWS.

Is Easily Effected.
The cure is easily effected by adjust
ing a halter and surcingle around
the body just behind the fore legs.
Connect the halter ring and surcingle
with a stick three to three and
one-half feet long, letting the stick
hang between the cows fore legs. A
short strap four to six inches long con-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-22
AGRICULTURALHINTS
coop COUNTRY ROADS.
nc TAKES a Great Deal More Than Talk to
Secure Them.

ne Takes a Great Deal More Than Talk to
Secure Them.
know we'll enough the kind of plan
the country is waiting for; it wants
plan that will give it roads for moth
ing. No revolution of that kind is
likely to occur. But it does seem to
NE. and has always seemed, that
settled and united policy of employing
public prisoners on the roads might
easiIv improve the trunk lines to be-
gin with for minimum of cost.
I have urged this before often, for I
had seen how well it could be done.
Every county gaol should work in
unison or a trunk road through
state. Very often one or more of the
county farms will own a crusher, but
If not q good deal may be me in
breaking BIZ using proper long-handled
hammers. All the stone for the crack
British roads was SO broken, and may
be Is vet, but then there was a con-
4inuous system about it, while here
there is none. There the stone heaps
are deposited along the roadsides
about 80 yards apart, and broken dur
ing December, to be laid on during fall
and winter.
11eT don Try 10 OuI1u d TObu LII a
few days that will last forty years
without attention! They don't ballast
country roads from gutter to gutter
inches deep as our splendid new road
architects do! They don't send two
horse teams along to pick up the stones
first, aud then throw them off again
into the bitches as l have seen done in
this very state! They don't let water
or even mud stay in rut, for they aim
to keep their roads without ruts! Ev-
cry drop Of standing water is let out
of such little depressions as exist.
Some old fellow who does not want
to go to the poorhouse is given work
on each section (abont 2 miles, of road.
He does all the work except hauling.
A good road is first properly rounded
up, that Is, sufficiently to throw the
water to the bitches and cutters.
Generally British roads are narrower
than here. perhaps 50 feet or SO; in
such :. case in the country a road gets
about an inch of stone in the fall, and
then the attendant with his wheel
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-06-22

IT makes no difference how good a
cos we have, if we give her scrub care
she is going TO give scrub results
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-11-22
Obituary..

The subject of this sketch Antho-
ny Gooch, was born March 10Th,
1922, in Jasamine county, KY.
When a lad of ten years he came
with his father to Missouri, locat-
ing at Palmyra, Marion county,
where his father, James Gooch
died of that dreadful scourge,
Cholera, in 1898. The year follow
ing this his widowed mother, with
her family moved to Shelby coun-
ty, locating near Oak Dale, where
he engaged in farming. Nov. 5th,
1850, he married Matilda T. Wood,
daughter of DR.. A. E. Wood, and
in 1858, they moved to Shelbyville,
where he engaged in the grocery
business in which he continued up
to 1869. In tho spring of that
year he sold out and moved to
Kirksville, where he engaged in
the brick business, which he con-
tinued until his health failed.
Seven months ago he and his wife
with their son, j. 0. Gooch and
family moved to Moulton, Iowa,
to engage in the hotel business.
But health continued to fail and he
died Nov. IL, 1895.
The deceased united with the
Christian church in July 1858, and
had always lived a patient, pious,
indulgent husband and father. He
suffered disease almost two years,
never uttering a word of COM
plant. He leaves his wife and
two children to mourn their loss,
Mrs. 81. A. Butler of Kirksville,
and j. o. Gooch of Moulton, To-, to
mourn, his son Withdrawing pre-
ceeded him several years ago, and
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-11-22
Resolutions of Respect.

Resolutions adopted by Kinks
vile Lodge No. 72, Knights of
Pythias at their regular meeting
Nov. Is, 1895, relative to the
death of Prof. G. 81. Laughlin,
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased AL
mighty God to remove from our
midst our dearly beloved brother,
George II. Laughlin, now there
fore be it,
RESOLVED, that the lodge while
bowling in humbleness to the
Divine will, desire to record their
heartfelt sorrow at the loss of one
of our most revered knights, a
christian gentleman, and the high
est embodiment of Pythian Knight
hood.
RESOLVED further, that in our
own sorrow we are mindful of the
awful bereavment of the stricken
family of our brother, and hereby
tender them our sincere sympathy
in this hour of their desolation,
and our prayer that He whom our
brother served so faithfully will
console them by his loving kind
ness and His tender consolation.
RESOLVED that a copy of these
resolutions be furnished the family
of our deceased brother, to the
city papers, and spread upon the
records of the lodge.
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ADVERTISED LETTERS

Letters remaining in the Post
Office, Nov. IL 1895, will be sent te
the dead letter Office at the expira.
tion of 80 days.
Alice Otto, Mrs. Frank Corey,
Chester Cam pbell, Colletah Cole.
man, DR.. ]. NJ. Davis, Frank Ely,
Ell R Hendrickson, Walter John
son, j A. Kemble, Hiram Kirk
wood, 2, ID w Long, Maud Mar
tin, Bouque & Mathews, Lottie Nc
Coy, Mrs Martha McCurry, Mrs.
Mccullough, Fred Soldwell, w. j.
Stewart, ] o Stillson, Ward.
When calling for these letter
please say advertised.
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ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

In the Circuit court of Adair county, Missouri.
January term, 1896.
In term time, Nov. s. 1905
The state of Missouri. at the relation and 10 the
use of VIM. Meeks collector of the revenue for Ihe
county of Adair state of Missouri plaintiff against
Albert Rosencrantz and Elizabeth Walker defend
dantS
Petition for Taxes.
Now on this 9Th day of November 1905 comes the
above named plaintiff. by his attorney, and it ap-
pearing TO the court that the said defendants have
not been served with process in this and are
nonreSidents of the state of Missouri that the
dinarv process of law cannot be served upon them.
Wherefore IT is ordered by the court that publication
be made, notifying said defendants that action
has been commenced against them by petition in the
circuit court of Adair county Missouri. the object
and general nature of which is to obtain Judgment
against said defendants for the Of thirteen and
S7-loo dollars. aggregate amount of taxes for the
years 1890. 1901. 1882. 1885, and levied upon and
against the real estate hereinafter described owned
by defendants. Said taxes due and delinquent on
said land. with interest thereon as provided by law
together with commission, attorneys fees and costs
of said proceedings. Also to have said Judgment
declared lien in favor of the state of Missouri upon
the following described lands lying and being situ-
ate in the county of Adair and state Of Missouri to-
wit:
The northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of
section twenty four, township sixty four of range
seventeen.
And also to enforce said lien and to obtain decree
for the sale of said estate or SO much thereof
may be necessary to satisfy said judgment. interest.
commission. fees aud costs. Aud unless you Albert
Rosencranz and Elizabeth Walker defenaants be and
appear at the next regular term of the circuit
of Adar county. Missouri to be begun and hell It the
court house in kirksville on the first Monday in
January 1906 and answer or plead to said petition on
before the sixth duy of said term of Court should
the term long continue. and not then before the
end of the term. the same will be TAX
en- as confessed. and judgement rendered as asked
for in plaintiff petition is further ordered that
copy of this ordered be published in tn the WEEKLY
GRAPHIC weekly newspaper published in said
Adair county for four weeks successively. tee last
insertion to be at least days before the commence
nent of the next term of this court.
A true copy Attest GRANT CoDBIN,
Seal
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