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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-12
What Trees Do for Man.

A tree is 4 great boon to man. It
is an educator. Its beauty of form,
limb, bud, leaf and fruit; its never
ceasing grace in motion; its grateful
shade; its silent companionship and
its struggle from the tender plant 10
the mature and sturdy monarch of the
forest-these have an educating, a re-
filming influence upon all who come
within their shadow. Trees are con-
SENATORS of the public health. They
are the great laboratories of nature
Their leaves absorb the carbonic acid
and give out the compromising oxygen.
They are the best and most effective
sanitary agents. No man can live
among them without absorbing their
health-giving and inspiring influence
Rural World.
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much benefit the good roads will be to
them they will at once enter into the
movement with a vim and energy that
will be surprising. After the good
roads are built the wear and tear on the
farmers vehicles and ON his horses Will
not be SO much. He will be better able
to get to the market with his goods; he
will be able to carry more at a time, and
in that way he will get more benefit
from the roads than anyone else.
"Of course the bicycle riders will be
benefited. They deserve it for the able
manner in which they have enlisted in
a movement that will in the end benefit
the entire state. People dislike to live
in place where there are bad roads, and
when the good roads are built in Georgia
they Will be one among the many things
that will induce the people to make this
state their home.
Good roads are as essential in Il
certain sense as good railroads. Both
are a means of transportation, and one
is as important as the other. We Will
soon have better roads; they are some
thing that we need badly, and / see them
in the near future. When we get these
roads we can put them down on the
list of the many things that bicycles
have done. L look upon the bicycle as
one of the greatest inventions of the
age, and hope that it will continue to
be a pleasure as well as profit to man
hind
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-12
OPEN YOUR EYES.
Go to the City and Get Rid of Conceft
and Prejudice.

Go to the City and Get Rid of Conceit
and Prejudice.
The farmer who never leaves his farm
except when he goes to the cheese fac
tory, creamery, post Office, grocery or
to church, is usually the most con-
ceited and egotistical of all men; knows
the least about his business, makes the
poorest dairy product, and grows the
poorest and ightest crops. If he will
once go to the city and note the arrival
of his butter or fruit, compare it with
other arrivals, and note the comments
thereon, he will go home with better
knowledge of his needs. The best and
most profitable lesson I ever learned.
says a prominent writer in Farmers
Hop-e Journal, was on such trip, and
the conceit and self-esteem / disposed
of on that occasion would have filed a
volume Go some day and see for your
self. You will come home vastly wiser
and with a determination to discard
prejudice and make butter. AS much
loss comes from using inferior pack
ages and poor products, ship only the
best goods, and in the most attractive
and neatest packages You will find
that small packages, if neat and at
tractive, sell for the best prices; there
is NO room for poor goods of any kind.
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TREES FOR RoADsIpEs.

Many Reasons Why Small Varieties Are
the Most Advantageous
| AT the meeting of the Summit county
| (O.) horticultural society President
| Sperry suggested a good idea for road
| side planting, which was to use trees
that at maturity are small. The ques-
ton arose upon the recommendation of
AIR. G. n. Gaylord, committee on orna-
mental planting. to use the beautiful
American crab as a lawn tree, urging
that there was no tree that was more
beautiful than this when covered with
its blushing buds and very fragrant
flowers. An exhibition by the writer
of some rose-colored blossoms of the
large lowered dogwood (corDus forida)
called attention to another smaIl-siZed
tree of great beauty and value as an
ornamental tree, which is yearly grow
ing more scarce in the forests owing
to the fact that its small size and slow
growth make it of little economic value
Mr.. Sperry truly said that there were
serious objections to planting large
trees along the roadsides. They pre-
vented the rapid drying of the mud
in early spring and late fall, besides
seriously shading the land on adjoining
farms. Such medium or small-sized
trees as the crab and dogwood were not
ton seems to be an excellent one. ]
have long been of the opinion that in
many places the room of naples and
elms was much preferable to their com
pany along the roadsides. There are
only three months in the year when
roadside shade is of value, and this
only applies to roads which run in an
easterly and westerly direction.
Another practice which 1 hope will
in time die out, is that of planting large
trees along the sidewalk in front of
houses. In almost every plan 1 have
been called upon to furnish for door
yard improvement this feature is in
sisted upon, and coupled with the prac-
tice of putting houses quite close to
the road makes it almost impossible to
plan the lawn with any sort of taste.
a maple tree whose branches in 4 few
years will push 25 feet into a yard
where the house is only 40 feet from
the street line, leaves little room for
anything except small shrubbery which
does not Inind shade and drip of larger
,growths.
Among smal1-sized trees besides the
two mentioned are several more very
desirable ones. The red bud, Halesia,
or silver bell, European mountain ash,
Negundo or ash-leafed maple, nettle
tree, cut-leaved weeping birch, cut
leaved alder. and the double hawthorns.
the single being too common to war
rant planting. The pawpaw and sassa-
fras come under this head, and their
suckering habits make them undesira-
BILE to plant anywhere except where
a constant use of the lawn mower keeps
the sprouts in check. Among shrub
berry which almost reach the dignity of
trees in height, but cannot be classed
as shade trees, may be mentioned the
syringa grandifiora, the white lilac, the
purple fringe, the common SNOWFALL
and the white fringe or chinanthus.
The more general use of some of the
small trees and large shrubs in place
of the very large ones would be great
advance upon the present practice of
using the largest trees, even in places
of considerable eXtent.-L. B. Pierce,
in Ohio Farmer.
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pears to increase the milk flow, even
when the quantity of water thus taken
is no greater than when offered and
drunk once or twice a day. L know of
no records of forcing or inducing in
creased drinking by means of salt, but
there are some in regard to the general
effect of excessive quantities of salt,
showing injurious results. I do not
find anything among the authentic
records which answers, one way or the
other, the direct question whether the
percentage of water in milk can be in
creased by inducing cows to drink an
unusual quantity of water every day
Henry E. Alvord, Chief Dairy Division,
Department of Agriculture, in Amri-
can Agriculturist.
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BACTERIA THAT MAKE GOOD
BUTTER.

use in the artificial flavor of butter.
Added to fresh cream, these microscopic
organisms multiply in incalculabie
numbers, and give to the substance the
peculiar taste quality that is desired by
people who eat butter. In Denmark
dairying is conducted on scientific prin-
ciples, and in that country bacterial
cultures have come into general use in
the creameries. Already such cultures)
have been placed ON the market in the
United States, and small quantities of
them are obtainable by farmers, put up
in bottles and Theoretically sealed:
Among them perhaps the best-known
is Prof. Conn's culture of Bacillus No.
A." the original germs for which were
obtained by that scientist from jar
of preserved cream from South Amer
lea. sent to the worlds fair at Chicago.
The notion that Philadelphia butter
may be made to order out of any sort
of cream merely by the addition of a
few microbes of a particular species
seems surprising; yet it is fact. 1t
used to be imagined that the pure aro-
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Observation-Disclosures
GEORGIA NEEDS THEM.

Construction of Good Roads. Advocated
by Gov. Atkinson.
Gov Atkinson, of Georgia, at recent
meeting of the Good Roads club of At
Ianta, stated that he had had little or no
exper:ence as a wheelman and was not
personally fond of the wheel. "But the
movement which the bicycle riders have
started" he said, deserves the hearty
cooperation of every citizen of the coun-
try and of the state. IF there is one
thing that this state needs it is good
roads, and the wheelmen should have all
the praise and honor of being the first
to inaugurate the movement.
"Good roads show progress in civiliza-
ton wherever they are found. i want
to see better roads built. / want them
wider and sounder; want them wide
enough so that there will be place on
each side for the bicycle riders of the
state. If the farmers can be shown how
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-12
DAIRY SUGGESTIONS.

Keep no more cows than can be fed
and handled profitably.
Sweet cream poured into that which
is sour does not all churn.
If cows attention is attracted, she
Immediately let's down her milk.
So far as is possible discard all cows
that develop Objectionable habits natu-
rally.
The real test of a COW is her perform
ance after the first three or four
months in milk.
If milk is to be used for butter or
cream, deep setting and speedy sepa
ration give the best results.
a heifer is valuable in proportion to
the smallness of the feed required by
her to make a pound of Butter.
There are three general faults in but
ter-making, overripening of cream,
overchurning and overworking.
a good quantity of good, rich milk
for ten months in the year is what
every dairyman should have from every
COW in the herd.
While fat cows may present rather
better appearance, it is pretty GER
tain that when the mich cows are put
ting fat on their backs they are not
putting it into the milk pail.
By selling giltedged butter a dairy
man is not impoverishing his farm.
He is selling his crops to his cows at a
profit, and returning the manurial ele-
ments to the farm, which becomes
more productive every year.-Rural
World.
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CLEAR THE ROADSIDES.
One Improvement That Is Almost Sure
Lead to Others.

One Improvement That Is Almost Sure
to Lead to Others.
Good roads seems to be the cry all
around at this time. If we ever get
better roads it must be by someone
starting out and doing something be-
sides talking. 1t has already been
talked till there is danger that it will
end in talk. l want to see a move in
Ethe direction of better highways. Sup
pose the Legislature at its next session
makes a law compelling towns at the
towns expense to cut all the weeds,
bushes and trees in the limits of the
road in the months ofAugust and Sep
TENDER next following such enactment,
and cause the same to be burned except
such shall be left by special direc-
5ioa of the municipal officers for shade,
characterization or use.
Thea compel the owners or AUDITORS
to cut them each year thereafter; and
to insure the execution of the law let
the towns attend to the matter, cut
the bushes themselves and carry the
expense of the same into the next years
tax bills in a separate column with the
same process of collection of other
taxes.
Do this and in the end it will harm
no one, for the roadsides will be worth
moving for hay, and it will add to the
selling value of nearly every farm
enough to pay the first cost.
1 know it is agreeable to ride in the
shade an August afternoon, but it
as disagreeable to ride in mud up to
the axle, after the driving road is dry
and easy travelling, as is almost always
the case when the road is shaded. Then
take the old walls that disfigure SO
many fields and dump them into the
bitches and cover them from the old
roadbed. and you may have road that
will be hard the first day after the snow
is oil and keep SO till the snow comes
again
L occasionally, though / admit not
very often, pass farm where the stones
are picked down on the roadside and the
bushes, weeds and grass moved down
every year. When l pass such farm
expect am passing thrifty farmer.
One improvement always opens the
way for others. Let us clear the noad-
sides and be ready for the next ad-
~Sance.-D. H. Thing, in New England
Farmer
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BANK FORCING HOUSE.

1t Assures Maximum of Warmth at Small
Expenditure of Heat.
A good plan for securing a maximum
of warmth at the least possible expendi-
ture of internal heat is shown below.
Such house is, moreover, cheaply built
wherever loose stones are abundant,
whether the stones be irregularly faced,
or simply rounded cobblestones- A
cut is made into the bank and the w all
laid up in cement, or cement and lime.
The rear and end walls should have a
tile drain laid just outside of their base,
coming out upon the surface at the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-12
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.

Keep a close watch on your trees for
the borers; a little care1essness in this
may cost you fine tree.
If you find a raspberry bush with a
reddish rust on the leaves, dig it up and
burn it. If this is not done, the trouble
will spread and ruin your patch.
A good mulch around the new1y-set
trees is the next best thing to plenty
of water in time of drought. Spread it
out three or four feet on each side of the
tree.
The largest market is not always the
best one. For an average grade of
produce the consumers in a small town
Will often pay better prices than can
be obtained in city markets.
Toads are no small help in Kidding
vines OF bugs. They like boards for
and at night they have feast upon all
sorts of insects which trouble the gar
den.
Decaying trees have been wonderful
" stimulated with healthy growth by
digging four or five inches deep around
the base of the stem, scraping away the
worms and filling the hollow thus made
with fresh wood ashes.
Do not allow grass and weeds to grow
among the small fruits They take up
the moisture and fertility from the
ground, and thus prevent the proper de-
velopment of the young plants, on
which you must depend for your next
years crop.-Rural World
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matte flavor peculiar to fresh butter of
specially fine flavor resulted chiefly
from the feed consumed by the cows,
and that the great difference between
winter butter and summer butter was
due to the difference between winter
feed and the fresh grass feed of the sum-
mer. This idea proves to be wholly
mistake. The difference is due to the
varying species of bacteria that find
their way into the cream.
Having discovered this fact, the next
thing obviously was to isolate the bac-
terra that produced the proper flavor.
and to make cultures of them. e.,
multiply them in beef tea, gelatine, or
some other material on which they
would feed. 1t is found that very
small quantity of such a culture, intro
duced into pan of cream, will effect
the desired result, the good microbes
driving out the bad ones. Thus it is
easily conceived how valuable to the
dairy farmer is supply of proper
culture, by which his butter product
may be made of a frst-rate and uni
form quality. To-day he is able to l.uy
the cultures, either in a liquid or in a
dry state, in herme tically sealed bottles.
The sealing is aIl-important, inasmuch
as the air is alive with bacteria of all
sorts, and none not wanted must be-
admitted.
There are a good many kinds of bac3
terra which are foes of the dairyman.
They get into his cream and spoil his
product in the shape of butter or cheese.
Did you ever taste milk that was sour?
Probably you have. We'll, the souring
is the work of certain species of bac-
terium. But there are ever so many
other species which give a bad taste to
the cream, even causing the butter
made from it to smell badly. Two of
these are represented in figures 3 and
4 accompanying this article. Figures
L and are the sort of bacteria which
make first-rate butter. Without such
as they you would probably forsaise
that agreeable edible and take to oleo-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-12
INCREASED MILK FLOW.

Can 1t Be Produced by Watering Cows
Literally and OFTEN?
Regarding the above subject, there
are records of carefully-conducted eN-
periments which seem to indicate that
when cows are under natural conditions
the quantity of milk produced by them
varies more or less with the quantity
of water taken, but by no means with
perfect regularity. The most milk
seems to fall on the days next after
drinking most water. And the rec
ords show that the quality of the milk
does not vary as much as the quantity
in such cases. Frequent drinking by
cows, as where water is so provided
that they may drink at will, also APP
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COLD STORAGE HOUSE.
How Build One and How to Regulate
It's Temperature.

How Build One and How to Regulate
It's Temperature.
The storage-room is set on a 12-inch
wall and has an earth floor. The posts,
sills, studs and joists are all of 2x1O inch
lumber, the posts being 10 feet long
and the joists 16 feet long. The room
may be any length desired. At each
end is a set of double doors made to 1T
close.
The side walls are sheathed with pa
per inside and out, and the paper COW
cred with jointed boards The jofsts
are sheathed on under side and the
space between filled with sawdust. IN
cold climates the side walls should
also be filed with the same.
The projecting roof is to prevent the
sun from striking the storage-room.
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The aim in churning, says Hoard's
Dairyman, should be to churn al as low
a temperature as will bring the butter
in a reasonable length of time, and it
is an excellent plan to keep a memo
randum of the temperature of the
cream, the temperature of the room in
which the churning is done, together
with the length of time of the churn-
ing. After such a memorandum has
been kept for awhile, one will be sur
prised at its usefulness. And, in fact.
unless one is blessed with a phenom-
email memory, memorandum of the
dairy operations will be found to be of
benefit
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-12
A Hint for Corn Growers.

For every pound of dry matter of
corn it is essential that 500 pounds of
water will be necessary The plants
evaporate large quantities during the
day, and it takes this large amount of
water from the oil as solvent of the
soil materials, which enter into their
composition Without this water the
plants cannot procure their food The
farmer should therefore throw a cover
over the ground so as to save the mois-
ture. This is done by keeping the top
loose with cultivator. as it then be
comes a mulch or covering to the soil.
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BANK FORCING HOUSE.

front. The rear wall should rise a little
above the ground, which should be graded
a trifie higher in the middle at the rear
than at the ends to turn aside the sur
face water. The tile drain will take care
of all water that soaks down through
the ground. The wall in front is ex-
tended little beyond either end of the
building to retain a full bank of earth
against the end walls. The interior ar
rangement will of course be similar to
any single-roofed forcing house.-Farm
and Home.
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Good Roads L. the Cry.

Even the mute animals in Mauch
Chunk bear inscriptions: 81 want good
roads" We call the attention of the
borough fathers to this According to
our way of thinking, with the amount of
taxes realized, and the limited number
of streets to be attended to, the Swift
erland should have streets that should
be pride to every wayfarer. Had no.
our borough fathers better put on their
thinking caps and put more money into
good roads and less in other improve
ments ?-Maueh Chunk Pa.) Times.
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sheep Keep Pastures Clean.

A few sheep on the farm are of de-
cided assistance in maintaining clean
pastures. When cattle are kept on the
pasture they will not eat the weeds,
and some of the coarser grasses as well,
unless starved into eating them, and
that is thing one does not care to do,
because it is an injury to the cattle, but
if, when the pastures are eaten down
pretty closely, a flock of sheep is turned
IN, about the first thing to be attacked
is the weeds and coarse grasses that the
cattle Lave left, and the work is done so
thoroughly, too, that the field is grad
ually cleared of this undesirable growth
Rural World
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DAlRYINe MYSTERIES.
Improving the Butter Flavor by Cert
Kinds of Bacteria

Improving the Butter Flavor by CertaAn
Kinds of Bacteria
Among the most remarkable of re-
cent discoveries is the fact that bac-
terra are responsible for the flavor of
butter and cheese. After all, the pop
ular notion that these organisms are
enemies of mankind is a mistake. Near
ly all OF them are harmless, and some
are exceedingly beneficial. It is only q
few eccentric species that have adopted
parasitic habits, and. feeding on the
body tissues of mankind and other ami
mails, produce thereby unpleasant dis
eases.
The United States patent office has
just issued to Wilhelm Storch, citizen
of Denmark, a patent for certain bac-
terra cultures" which are designed for
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Road. i'm Ancient P.,e.t,n..

According to the Book of Judges, the
Hebrews at an early day in their occupa-
ton of Palestine had good highways.
In the song of Deborah mention is made
of the abandonment of the high roads
and the use of by-paths by travellers on
account of the disturbed condition OF
the country.
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what our Fathers wanted.

The fathers of the republic projected
IL great systems of national roads, but
of all these only three were even partial
ay completed, and only one, the Cumber-
land road, was well advanced when the
financial crisis of 1887 came upon the
country and stopped further construc-
ton.
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Nracaaam and relford Roads.

There are two general systems of
: road-making-th macadam and the
Telford. Macadam preferred a yielding
foundation, and laid broken stone di-
richly upon the earth; according to the
Telford system, large blocks were
placed as a foundation on which to lay
smaller crushed stone with a covering of
gravel, sand or ashes.
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The Best Country Ro.a..

Road experts agree that the best road
for country districts is a narrow, stone
road, with an earth road alongside.
Such road, according to loclity and
the difficulties of construction, may be
built for from 81 geo to So. 600 per mile.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-12

The root is the foundation on which
future success depends The tint of
flower and perfection of fruit proceeds
from the root.
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A cow IN a poor condition is sure to
give poor, thin, inferior milk.