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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-04

left enough tubers in your lots to re-
seed the ground for the next crop.
1t is a hogs nature to root. in fact,
his hogship is never happier than when
he is roofing, and an articholIe can
truly be called hogs drug store.
A wealthy hog raiser of the writer's
acquaintance, who has made $50 acres
of 800 land out of hog raising for the
pork market, says he would not be
without a big patch of the tame arti-
chokes, as he has had no hog diseases
in his herds since they have been al
lowed to eat artichoke tubers.
A SOW will not eat her pigs if she
has been allowed previously to eat arti-
chokes, and hogs do not root up pas
lures in the spring when they have
previously been allowed to root in the
artichoke patch to their hearts con-
tent.
A hogs object in roofing is to obtain
roots, which las [ said before, serves
the same purpose to him as does the
drug store to the human being. After
he has eaten a goodly portion of arti-
chokes, the roofing notion will be al
most entirely out of his head, so say
extensive stock raisers, who have
grown and fed the artichoke.
But there are artichokes and arti-
chokes; in many parts of North Amer
lea, the wild" artichoke is a native.
1t is merely bad weed, dangerous
pest, which produces very few and
small tubers. and is very difficult to
exterminate. Many farmers who have
seen it growing understand that there
is a difference vast difference-in
the wild and tame" or domesticated
sorts. In fact, they are as different
as is wild and tame rye.
During the past few years the
"tame" or domesticated sorts have
been imported from Europe and are in
some parts of the United States being
extensively grown as hog and stock
food.
The artichokes can be as easily
grown as corn or potatoes, and on land
that will produce so bushels of corn,
you can easily raise 500 bushels Of arti-
chokeS.
The writer frequently does this and
has grown over 900 bushels per acre on
ground that had never been MANFRED.
Cut the tubers, plant and cultivate
precisely same as potatoes. They are
great soil enricher, and can be easily
eXterminated by blowing the young
plants under when they are about a
foot high, as the old tubers have rotted,
and the young ones have not yet
formed at that time.
l would not think of farming with
out them. The improved white French
is the only variety worthy of culture
and it is purse comforter. Six BUSH
els will plant one acre.
Again say grow the artichokes and
you will have fine, healthy swine
food and no cholera.-J. T.. Vissering,
in Western Rural.
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A COMMERCIAL VIEW.
why Country Merchants Should Spread
the Good Roads Gospel

why Country Merchants Should Spread
the Good Roads Gospel
1t should not require a very acute
mental vision for merchants in country
towns, who are almost entirely depend
emit on the farmers for their trade, to
see that it is to their interests to assist
in the work of improving the highways
leading to their towns.
A spider with no web wherewith to
catch flies is no worse off than a town
with no roads radiating from it. livery
mile of good road adds so much more
area to a towns territory OF trade.
Every steep place, every muddy place,
every sandy stretch is a barrier that the
farmers will avoid by going to some
trade center more easily reached.
If the merchants in a slow-going
town would organize their clerks into
a road improvement corps and go out
in the highways and by ways mending
the roads it would attract more GUS
toners than to cut off two per cent.
from their selling price.-Good Roads.
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bottom and supported at the top by a
wire or rope (w). The advantages of
this manager are a saving of space, no
feed can be wasted, and there is no
place in which the refuse parts of the
feed may collect. The seed and chaff
fall through the slat support to the
barn floor. When feeding fodder drop
this support from the top and the stalks
roll out upon the floor, from whence
they may easily be carried wherever de-
sired; they thus never become an an
noyance in the manure. When hauling
hay into the barn this support (m) may
be dropped so as to be entirely out of
the way. Withal it is cheap in its con-
struction. The rods in front of the
trough may be of wood or iron. The
support (m) may be made of half-inch
boards four inches wide. Use common
four-inch strap hinge. Orange Judd
Farmer
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just as well as though it cost lots OF
money. You can raise the drill high
or use short strokes as you like by
letting loose sooner.
The horse power will be the hardest
to get, but old ones are generally
cheap. If you can fix it to run slow
enough a master wheel and a pinion is
all that is needed. Now as to drill rod
and casing, most any hardware man
can furnish them or you can get them
IN Chicago. Your one and one-quarter
iron for drill rod will cost about seven
cents per foot. Your castings will of
course be two and one-half or three
inches. If you want galvanized
(Which is best) it will cost 10 or 20
cents, according to size. You will
want one large casing to start your
well with-large enough so your cas-
ing for the we'll will slip inside of it.
This you must start perfectly straight
in order to have your well straight;
then work inside of this until you are
through. To drive this you will want
heavy block of wood with rod four
or five feet long stuck through it with
ring on the opposite side to tie your rope
in. Then let the rod work inside of the
casing and run this with your drill
rope by raising and letting fab.
You can have your hardware man
get drills. In clay you will want one
expansion drill; for rock use straight
one. When drilling in clay you will
need to use water from the top until
you strike some water in the bottom.
Tt will likely pay you to get some one
that has had some experience to as
sist in starting the work, after which
you will likely get along all right
L. NJ. Robson, in Breeders Gazette.
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FOUNDATION STOCK.
Subject That Should Be Studied by
Every Progressive Breeder.


As foundation principle, says Prof.
Morrow, we want to use for the sire and
dam hogs that have those characters
tics we desire and have those fixed by
good breeding. 1t is in accordance with
the best practice and with the best
theory that, given reasonable purity Of
breeding, it is more important to have
an additional merit in the sire and dam
than in the more remote ancestry, and
so, in descending scale, as we go back.
If we will bear in mind that in going
back only ten generations, we are each
of us carrying the blood of ,024 men and
women in our veins, if there have been
no intermarriage of relations, we will
see we need not worry about what our
tenth parental ancestor was. So when
man tells me the good points of GER
tain breed of hogs way back in 1900 it
don't carry much weight. AS rule,
we had better look to the individual
merit. He thinks we make mistake
in breeding when we insist upon get
ting coarseness, perhaps length of body,
in the dam and look for compact and
possibly slightly effeminate male.
Among hogs the male, as a rule, is
coarser than the female.
There may wisely be a distinction
made in the practice of the professional
breeder and the common breeder who is
raising hogs, not for breeding purposes,
but to be sold in the market. Let the
first, as far as possible, breed from ma
ture stock. Let him see that his hogs
get a good deal of exercise. Prof. Nor
row has no faith whatever in the wis
dom of the practice of combining any
animal designed for breeding purposes
without exercise, summer or winter.
On the other hand he would not have
the farmer who breeds hogs for the
general market be overly careful. 1t
will not do to say that it is wise for him
to breed only from mature animals. He
will not do it, and as rule he would
make less money if he did. If he will
renew his stock from the skillful pro-
fessional breeder he will make more
money by breeding from comparatively
young animals, and as soon as may be
turning off the dams for pork, than he
will by following the practice so impor-
tant to the professional breeder. 1t will
be wise for the producer of the pig that
he wants to sell for pork, to feed liber-
ally and well at as early an age as
Observation-Disclosures Voice.
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a FEEDING EXPERIMENT.
Why the Professors Chickens Died, On
After the Other.

Why the Professors Chickens Died, One
After the Other.
This may not be new, but it was
new to the reporter who overheard it
on a Boston ear, so it is likely that
there are others who have never heard
it. The young man who told it was
evidently a colIegian, as was his com
panion:
Il heard good one on Prof. -,
of Andover," he said.
what was it ?'' queried the other.
''Well, you know he was married
during the winter and went to house
keeping just outside the village. Last
spring he thought he would add a few
hens to his stock; he already had a
dog. He set couple of hens, and in
time had two large broods of chickens.
He was very proud of them, but in a
week or so the chickens began to die.
He called in a neighbor to look at the
chickens and offer advice. They were
certainly pretty scaly lot of chickens
that the neighbor viewed. They were
skinny looking and apparently with
out ambition.
"'What did yer feed emp asked
the neighbor, after brief survey.
"'Feed them?' responded the pro-
fessor, as though he didn't hear Alright.
why, don't feed them anything. I
thought the old hens had milk enough
for them
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a Damage to Beekeepers.

Spraying fruit trees when in bloom is
considered of paramount Importance
nearly everywhere, and in some states
laws make it obligatory. 1t is so gem
eral in many western sections that
apiarists complain bitterly. Where
there is an abundance of clover and
other blossoms furnishing sweets, bees
get along all right; but where they de-
pend in large part upon towering
orchards, the question of partial or
complete destruction of the bloom
through spraying is a serious one.
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DISEASES oE POULTRY.
ut VIII Never Pay to Attempt the Cure OF
Sick Bird.

Mt VIII Never Pay to Attempt the Cure OF
Sick Bird.
If fowls are kept clean and well
sheltered from the wind and wet, and
not overfed and have a due proportion
Of both soft and green food, and a
neyer-failing supply of clean water,
they will usually remain free from dis
case, unless infected by strangers.
When disease does occur among fowls
&C may usually be ascribed to our vari-
able climate, to dampness and cold,
10 injudicious feeding and to an i'll
ventilated roosting house. We would
therefore recommend, says an author
ity, as cure in chief for all the ills
90 which poultry is subject, the practice
OF the old saw, ian ounce of preven-
stion is worth a pound of cure" And a
good general rule for the cure of sick
-Rsess is that it be killed without de-
lay, for unless the birds be valuable
zones, it will never pay to attempt a
acure, and rarely so if they are. A
diseased fowl, as will be the result of
general observation. is never kindly
treated by its healthy companions,
and, as most of the diseases to which
they are liable are highly contagious
If not killed and thus summarily dis
posed of, it should be at once removed
from the flock and confined by itself
for acknowledgements Voice.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
PROFIT IN BEEKEEPING.
,Ryx-erience of an Ohio Apiarist OF Twenty
Years Standing.

. Ryxreriemce of an Ohio Apiarist OF Twenty
Years Standing.
On April 2. '95, we removed so stands
ns italian bees from our cellar to their
SKINNER stands, and found that there
-Fa-ad been no loss except in the weaken
.TuT of some colonies and the loss OF
rf{.r1ae queens. We Immediately gave the
rbees that had lost their queens to the
.x-ezkest colonies, leaving us AZ stands.
-rFSp these we added five more by pur-
chase at $3.50 each. Having IT'S pounds
s,fa poor grade of honey, and as all were
getting scarce of honey, we invented
feeder of our own, and during the scar
city of honey between apple bloom
and white clover, we placed feeder
over each colony and fed them some
OF this poor honey every evening, which
Brought them up good and strong IN
bees until the commencement OF the
white clover crop. This feeding pre-
vented the cessation of egg laying by
the queen, and consequently our hives
were full of brood, larvae and eggs, and
the new honey from clover was placed
in the extracting combs, which were
now put in readiness for the expected
Honey flow.
Perhaps a description of our feeder
would be of benefit to some brother
1Deekeeper 1t is made of two-lnch
xIfrIe, cut 7x14 inches. In the center,
Kergthwise, slot three-eighths of an
Inch in width is cut through and to
within an inch of each end. Then IL
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-04
The Best Ration for Horses.

Bulletin 20, of North Dakota station,
details experiments with various win
ter rations for horses. These trials
prove that chopped wheat is good
ingredient of a mixed ration, but not
a good ration to feed alone. Also.
the bran and shorts mixed in equal
weights are nearly equal to oats.
Also, that low grade and even rejected
wheat makes better horse feed than
the best grades, because richer in nitro
gen. With oats at Is cents per bushel.
bran and shorts are worth ten dollars
per ton: with oats at % cents, bran
and shorts are worth SIS per ton, for
horse feed.
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AMONG THE POULTRY.

Oyer-fat hens are in danger of apo
plexy.
Wheat is among the best foods for
laying hens.
Keep the hens scratching IL you
would keep them laying.
Generally it is not a good plan to feed
stimulating food to poultry.
The quality of the eggs depends large
ly upon the food given to the hens.
Except for feeding soft food troughs
should not be used Always scatter
grain.
While sour milk is relished by the
hens, it should not be made to take the
place of water.
The goose win lay about as many
maturity at about one-half the cost.
Ducllings are much more easily fed
than chickens. Nothing seems to dis
agree with them as long as it is sweet.
One advantage in raising ducks
rather than chickens, is that they grow
almost twice as fast, are free from yer.
min and less liable to disease.
The guinea is a useful fowl, notwith.
standing it's peculiarities. 1t lays a
large number of eggs, which, though
small, are of good quality and nutri
tious.
A goose is not fully matured at on.
year old. but sometimes breeders viii
couple old males with young females
Avoid getting them too fat. and give
them plenty of opportunity for exercise
st. Louis Republic.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-04
LAMBS FOR MARKET.
Why 1t Is Important That Their Growth
BE Pushed.

why 1t Is Important That Their Growth
BE Pushed.
When the lambs are for early market
it is important that their growth be
pushed. Of course at first the feeding
should be done Though the ewes, but
if the ewes are fed ground feed, wheat,
bran, middlings, corn meal and ground
oats, in troughs with plenty of room
the lambs will soon learn to eat when
only few sheep are kept. Increasing
the ration of the ewes as the lambs
learn to eatwill suffice for the first ten
days after the lambs begin to eat. After
that it will be best to provide a separate
place for them.
Lambs will thrive on bran and ground
oats and they will eat up clean every
day. n good plan to begin feeding
them is to provide shallow, fat-bot-
toned feed troughs in a place where
they can be to themselves. Sprinkle a
little bran in the bottom of the trough.
They will soon learn to eat it, and the
quantity can be gradually increased
adding a little ground oats. See that
they eat all that is given them; if they
leave any in the trough clean it out.
Sheep and lambs will eat all the grain
that they need in little while. They
eat rapidly and they should never be fed
so much that part is left.
There is no kind of stock on the farm
that is so easily upset by overlooking as
sheep or that require so long time
to get over the effects. Hence, good
care is necessary, especially when it Is
desired to rush the growth
A rather better gain can be made by
feeding three times day. The feeding
must be done regularly.-St. Louis Re
DuDlic
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-04
THE FARMING WORLD.
BRAIN AND MUSCLE.
The Successful Farmer OF To-Day Use
Both Hands and Head.

The Successful Farmer OF To-Day Uses
Both Hands and Head.
The man who uses both brains and
muscle will far c:.tstrip in the race OF
life the man who uses only his muscles
This is true IN every calling in which
men engage, but especially is 1T true in
farming. The farmers 10 are getting
along the easiest, other things equal,
are those who mix brains with their
work; who plan and systematic their
work; do everything in its season, and
in the most thorough manner possible.
The farmer who, for instance, does not
decide what crops he will plant till
planting time comes; or the one who
breaks his ground regardless of the coa-
dition of the soil, plants INFESTED or
doubtful seed in poorly prepared soil,
cannot be said to have mixed enough
brains with his work.
There is no doubt that many farmers
would have better profits if they would
rest, recreate and read more and work
fewer hours. There is such thing as
doing too much manual labor. The
farmers, as class, certainly cannot be
accused of being lazy. The majority of
some seasons of the year. 1t is more
than likely that many do not distribute
their work well, and are, as conse-
quence, too busy at some seasons and
have too much leisure at others. Here,
again, is where the brains come in. The
work should be planned with view to
doing it most economically. This can
be done by a judicious distribution of
work which will keep hands and teams
reasonably busy during all seasons of
the year, instead of hiring help and
rushing at some seasons, and then TAX
ing it easy for considerable spell.
There are times when even the most
systematic farmer is thrown behind
with his work as a result of long wet
spells, or circumstances over which he
has no control, and in order to do work
in its season it becomes necessary to
rush little and work from sun to sun;
but, as a rule, where sufficient thought
is put into the work, eight or nine
hours is enough for one days work.
Eight hours for work, eight hours for
sleep and eight hours for rest, recrea-
ton, study and domestic pleasures
would be a good division of the dav.
With this division there would be am
pie time for reading, thinking, plan
ming and systematizing the work. and
in addition to the increased pleasures
of life on the farm, the profits would,
if any difference, be increased.
The cooperation of brain and muscle
on the farm, however, means more
than merely to improve methods of
farming; it means cooperation with
brother farmers, and organization for
marketing to the best advantage and
for purchasing in a way to be indepen-
dent, to an extent, at least, of useless
and eXtortionate middlemen and COM
bines. Improved methods" at the
market end are as necessary as in the
matter of production. There should
be sufficient mixture of brain and mus
Gle to drive the gamblers from the
grain pits, and restore normal markets.
st. Louis Journal of Agriculture.
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ARTlcHokEs ron HOGS.
An Excellent Food and Reliable Pre-
ventive of Cholera.

An EXcouenC EOO0 ana - Reliable ET0s
ventive of Cholera.
Hitherto the growing of this valua-
bic tuberous-rooted perennial, illus
trated herewith, has been almost who'll
ly neglected. and greatly misunder-
stood. But their great value as cheap,
handy. healthy hog food has been
so thoroughly aired the past three
years, in the press of. the country, by
men who have had practical experience
with them, that an enormous demand
has been created for them.
As hog food they cannot be ex-
celled. A good plan is to plant all your
lots with artichokes about May 1, when
your hogs are turned on pasture. Then
when your pasture plays out in the fall
or about September Is to October L.
you will have fine food in your lots fol,
your hogs, where they can root at in
tervals, whenever the ground is not
frozen. until the following May, when
they will have received as much ben
eft from one acre of artichokes as from
ten acres of corn. They will also have
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-04
DRILLING DEEP WELLS.
How the Work Can Be Done Economically
and SatisfacfOrIIy.

and Satisfactorily.
In reply to inquiry as to drilling deep
wells at as little cost as possible sub
NIT diagram and a few figures as to
what can be done. / have seen some
very expensive machinery in use, also
some that is very cheap.
He will want a derrick something
like the accompanying diagram. The
lumber should be four 2x6s, "a feet
long and few boards to form the
ladder and brace it. This will cost not
over three dollars. The roller at the
base should be ten inches in diameter.
This can be made mostly of wood, or any
old machine roller that is strong enough
and fixed so as to couple the rod on
from the horse power. The rope to
be wrapped around this roller raises
the drill, and then when you slack it
the drill will fall. One man must
stand and hold the rope to keep the
drill going, and it will do the work
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FARM AND GARDEN.
NEW CHOLERA CURE.

How n West Virginia Physician Cured q
Lot of Chickens.
Several subscribers have asked us for
a cholera cure, and we suspect the dis
ease is quite prevalent. We take
pleasure in giving the following letter
from valued correspondent in West
Virginia. He says: II am a physi-
clan, a country doctor, with two acres
of land and several hobbies, one of them
chickens. Four years ago cholera
broke out among my flock, and tried
every remedy could think of. Finally,
took some antiseptic tablets, consist
ing of z $40 grains corrosive sublimate
and 3 As grains of citric acid in each
and dissolved one in one gallon of boil
ing hot water and gave as drink.
Cholera-stricken fowls will drink if
they do not eat. From that on / lost
but one or two that were too far gone to
drink, and in another instance, where
l found it present, I repeated the treat
ment with equal success. Since then I
usually give it once month as a pre-
ventive, continuing it for three days.
If occasion offers, would like you to
try the remedy, and if it is success in
your hands it could be incorporated in
a future edition of the Bicycle Poultry
Book. The tablets are deadly poison
used, as of course you know, as ex-
ternal applications in solution in surgi-
cal cases. The good, if 1 am correct
in their doing this good, lies in the anti
septic action of the corrosive sublimate
the citric acid merely favoring the
solubility of the tablet; the tablets I
advise because of the dosage being
certain.''-Farm Journal.
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surface, which will strike the clods and
prevent them getting back on the crush
er. To the back edge of the crusher
bolt another 2x4 oak Id fatwise, and
bevel the upper edge. To the beveled
surface bolt an old sickle bar. The
guards will have slant enough to let
trash escape, and yet will pulverize
the ground almost as well as disk har-
row. The hooks for attaching the team
can be made by a blacksmith. Use
four horses and let the driver ride on
the crusher-W. B. Bolton, in Orange
Judd Farmer.