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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-03
THE FARMING WORLD.
EARLY EAHENING.


Pork Produced from Corn Alone Ii Not
tho Best Product
Corn Is not SO exclusively the feed of
hogs at any age as it used to be. Instead
of growing pigs on their swill with pas
sure, and thus stunting their early
growth, it is the practice of the best
farmers to begin the high feeding from
birth. keeping the pigs always in con-
dition for the butcher, and topping OF
the last few weeks with a clear corn
diet Many farmers" according to
American Cultivator, prefer that pork
for their own use shall not be thus
topped of. 1t is sweeter but less firm
in texture, containing more moisture.
This, however. only means that the pig
killed otter being fed SO as to waste
in cooking is by that fact shown to be
in healthy condition. All animals in
perfect health are composed largely of
water. This is evaporated when inter
nal fevers evaporate the internal mois-
ture, and the meat is then said to be
firm, solid and will waste little in cook
ing. Whenever pork of this kind is not
wanted, it should be fattened with
boiled vegetables or fruit mixed with
wheat middlings and bran to make the
right proportion of heterogeneous mat
ter. We have often more than half fat
tened hogs on boiled pumpkins and
windfall apples, and never had pork
that tasted better than that thus fat
tened. Even before we knew that it
was unwholesome, we never much liked
the pork fattened on corn alone.
'It is well always to select the breed
ing sow early and give her the especial
kind of feed and care adapted to pre-
pare her for her mission in life. The
old-fashioned practice of some farmers
of feeding all the pigs together on corn
until nearly fattening time tended al
ways to deterioration. Not but that the
sow which had fattened least and had
made liberal growth instead of putting
on fat even with this feed was the SOW
out of the lot that was then the best
adapted to breeding but it was also the
sow that had shown by it's failure to
| fatten when highly fed that it lacked
the especial trait that made hog vaiu-
able. What is wanted in breeding sows
is the greatest possible ability to make
use of all the food given, SO that the
tendency will always be to an excess
of fat, and feed them so that this ten
dency will be kept in check and yet so
literally as to promote vigorous growth.
This means an abundant, but not any
conceE trated, ration of food adapted
TO make growth rather than fat. All
the grains are too fattening. Wheat
middlings and skim milk diluted with
dish washings, with enough grass in
summer or beets in winter to keep the
pig from squealing, will build up long,
rangy sow that will produce more and
better pigs in half dozen years of her
life than a farmer can make by any
ether like Investment of his money"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-03
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

To get good horses, breed right and
then feed right.
Keeping the harness, especially the
collars, well oiled will help prevent
gals.
The nearer you get to full blood in
breeding the better will be the re-
suits.
The thrift and condition of the moth
er largely determines what the pig will
be.
A well-fed pig is usually a contented
one, and will usually take only such
exercise as is needed for health.
On the farm, as elsewhere, economy
of time and space requires every team
to accomplish the greatest amount of
work.
The quality of the meat may be
readily improved by careful and clean
ly feeding, as well as changed by the
kinds of food.
Horses may get fat and look well
standing in the stable all of the time,
but they will hardly be in a condition
to stand hard times.-Farmers' Union.
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AMONG THE POULTRY.

Sunf1owers are a good thing To hay.
about the poultry quarters where theJ
can be grown.
1t is good way to have the roosting
poles and nests movable, ARD place them
in the sunshine part Of the day.
The survival of the fittest is good
poultry doctrine. Find what individual.
hens are doing the best, and breed from
them.
An egg contains from 25 to 81 per cent
solid matter, nearly Ii per cent. albu-
men. That means that laying hens
need food rich in albuminous matter
meat, oil neal. milk, bran. etc.
A Boston commission merchant says
that if farmers would market all the
chickens and eggs they can spare each
week, they would be surprised at the
regular income that they were rcceiv-
ing, and they would find more profit in
poultry.
A writer in Farm Poultry says that
crop-bound is nothing more than indi-
gestion, and that charcoal-fed fowls
rarely ever have this trouble. Then pre-
vent it by every now and then charming
several ears of corn and allowing ths
hens to pick it off.
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TRAINING THE COLT.

Frightening or lll-Treating Must Be
Studiously Guarded Against.
When colt has been left till three
or four years old, as is often the case,
before any attempts are made to ham
die him, it is wise to devote, if posi-
BILE, at least month to the process of
gentling, as a preliminary to actual
breaking. Frightening or ill-treating
such an animal must be studiousiy
guarded against. Speaking from a
varied experience, the writer is con-
WINGED that to engage in any struggle
with young horse is in the highest de-
gree unwise if it can possibly be
avoided. The fight to halter strong
animal will give him a severe fright,
and one which it takes him a long
time to forget; and, besides this, if he
should succeed in breaking away dur
ing the effort to fix his halter, he will
become conscious of a victory gained
over his master-a fact which will not
soon be dispelled from his mind. The
knowledge of success in an attempt
to break away not only induces cb-
stinacy in future stages of his tuition,
but will also prompt him to resist by
every means in his power a repetition
of the effort to halter him at the time.
When wishing to halter young horse,
there is HO pan So SOou as " HooSC
him quietly first of all, and the best
way of doing this is to drive him
gently through a partly open gate
preferably that of yard in which he
has been confined-where a moose is
suspended by cotton in such manner
that he cannot pass out without 1odg-
ing the rope round his neck or shoulders.
The moose must be knotted SO that it
cannot pull quite tight round the neck,
while the loose end should be Is or
20 feet long, When the animal has
been driven back to the yard, the end of
the rope can be secured and the moose
drawn close up to the head. IF q
steady pull is kept upon the rope, the
horse will turn and face his trainer,
who should approach him quietly and
gradually. If the animal is very nerv-
GUS wait for few minutes without
moving, and then again approach him,
always keeping the rope taut. When
at last within reach, rub his ears and
forehead with the halter for awhile
and then slowly place it in position.
He should next be coaxed into the
stable, or wherever it is wished to tie
him up. A young horse must never
be forced into a building of which he
is suspicious. If he is led up to the
door, and the trainer, allowing six or
seven feet of rope, stands inside, and
keeps a gentle tension on the halter,
the animal will eventually make up his
mind to enter, although it may take
him half an hour to do so.-London
Live Stock Journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-03
LIVE STOCK MATTERS.

1t is estimated that $4,000 sheep
were killed by dogs last year.
An eastern stockman says he used to
grind corn and other grain for pigs, bu.
years of experience have taught him
that the most he got out of it was hard
work.
The wool clip of Robert Taylor, of
Casper, Wyo., for the present year is
100000 pounds. Mr.. Taylor is believed
to be the largest individual wool grow
er in the United States.
w. b. Snow has made a careful inves-
tigation of the status of the sheep in
dustry and estimates the total number
of sheep in the country at about 30 ,OO0.-
900, or 5000, 900 less than .he estimate
of the department of agriculture last
January.-Farmers'V Voice.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-03
Barbed wire and stock.

We cannot object too much to the use
of barbed wire for fences for stock.
Some years ago we were riding across
the Dakota plains in a train A herd
of cattle became frightened at the train,
and some of them made a break for the
barbed wire fence. None of them tried
to get over except calf. The poor
animal got partly over the wire and was
held there by the barbs- As the train
went out of sight the creature was seen
still held fast by the same prongs. As
there was no help in sight, we can
not know the suffering occasioned the
dumb brute. This is doubtless only
one case of the thousands, but it shows
the inhumanity of man. Let us dis.
courage the barbed-wire barbarism.-
Farmers Review.
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Mortgages On Feeding Stock.

There are. few experiences in bust
ness, however unsatisfactory they may
be, that do not in the end teach a vaiu-
able lesson or result in some good.
Thus the difficulty in getting money
which the western feeders low expert
enece may yet result to their advan-
tage by inaugurating new system of
credit in such business, whereby the
feeder will not be SO dependent upon
the ability or the disposition of the
banker to accommodate him. It is now
possible for the western feeder to g,t
cattle to consume his grain by giving
a mortgage on both cattle and corn.
thus making the seller perfectly safe
and paying him good interest on hi;
money. This is now only makeshift
to overcome the difficulty of borrow
ing money, but it and other credit e,s-
pedients now necessary may be useful
in future business.-Nationa1 Stock
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g, -.--s.s--4lIQ =
ENSILAGE RACK.

about 20 inches apart, outside measure,
in front, and a short reach keeps the
hounds from tipping up.
''These racks not only dispense with d
man upon the wagon in loading. but
they materially Tighten the labor of the
man who takes the corn from the gavels,
for it is only the top OF the load which
need be raised shoulder high; again.
when it comes to unloading the man can
stand on the floor and simply draw the
corn toward him and lay it upon the
table of the cutter without raising tn :
corn up to again throw it down.
Ohio Farmer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-03
SOLAR WAX EXTRACTOR.


1t Makes the Rendering of Small GUAM
titles of Comb Very Easy.
A solar wax extractor is needed in
every apiary; several are kept running
in many large apiaries- Extractors
which render wax by steam are also
used. To the latter class belongs the
Improved Swiss wax extractor. This
implement. invented in Switzerland and
improved in America, consists of tin
or copper vessel with circle of perfora-
tions in the bottom near the sides to
let in steam from a boiler below and
within this upper vessel another re-
ceptacle-the comb receiver-made of
perforated zinc. Within a few years
wax extractors employing the heat of
the sun and known as solar wax ex-
tractors have come into general use.
The essential features in all the forms
that have been devised are a metal tank
with a glass cover and usually a wire
cloth strainer, below which is placed
the receptacle for the wax, the whole
so arranged as to enable one to tilt it
at such an angle as will catch the di-
rect rays of the sun. The effectiveness
of the solar wax extractor is increased
by having the glass doubled and adding
also a reflector, such as a mirror o. a
sheet of bright metal.
An important advantage of the solar
wax extractor is the ease with which
small quantities of comb can be rem
dered. By having this machine much
is therefore saved that might be ruined
by wax moth larva if allowed to ac-
cumulate, besides serving at the same
time to decrease these pests about the
apiary. The wax obtained by solar heat
is also of superior quality, being clean,
never water-soaked nor scorched, end
also light in color, owing to the bleach
ing action of the sunlight. The cost
of a medium-sized solar extractor does
not exceed that of the larger Swiss
steam extractors, yet of the two the
former is likely to prove by far the
more valuable, even though it can be
used only during the warmer months.
Farm and Home.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-03
FOR SHIPPING FOWLS
The Kind of Crate Which Prevents Birds
from Injuring Themselves.

The Kind of Crate Which Prevents Birds
from Injuring Themselves.
veshipped A large number of fowls
to breeders and farmers in all the west
ern and southern states and never had
but one injured. For one Plymouth
Rock cock L made the coop 16 inches
wide, IS long and 20 high: for two or
three hens, 16 inches wide, 16 high and
"a long; for cock and two hens, same
width and length, but 20 inches high
The bottom is tight, one-half-inch stuff
with one strip across each end and one
across the middle, underneath. Sides.
ends and top are made of plaatering
laths placed one-half inch apart. No
cloth, pasteboard or paper is used. The
only bird I ever failed to land safe and
sound at its destination was placed in 4
coop lined with cloth and open only at
the top. II met with disaster in n warm
express car and arrived looking weary
and sad, and soon after it 1urnei up its
toes. L used 1ath coops to conform to
the new reduced rate rule OF the express
companies and to secure good ventila-
ton. A fowl that can't stand ventilation
is of no value breeder. In proper
ly constructed coop fowl will go to the
farthest corner of the country as safely
as to roost.-Fred Grundy, in Rural
New Yorker.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-03
A Wet soil Il Cold.

IT is not difficult to see how certainly
a wet soil must be a cold enc. since un-
der the summer sun there must take
place a constant and rapid evaporation
of the surface water of the soil and a.
corresponding cooling of the surface
must take place. When evaporation
has progressed until the absorbent
power of tine earth is greater than tbs
suns rays, or SO to speak. until the
pores of the surface are closed, then
commences the baking process SO well
known to farmers and 50 difficult to
manage. Undertakings is the simple
and certain remedy for these evils. since
by removing and keeping removed the
surface water the soil becomes both dry
and warm. which renders it aiso mora
friable, and in every sense easier to cul.
tivate.-Farmers' Review.
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AN UNNATURAL HABIT,
Best Way to Cure an Egg-Eating Hen La
Eat the Hen.

Best Way to Cure an Egg-Eating Hen La
Eat the Hen.
The habit of egg-eating is vice, of
which, when once contracted, it is al
most impossible to break the hen.
When the habit is acquired by a hen it
will spread throughout the flock, if rot
checked in the beginning. The best
way to cure hen that eats eggs is to
eat the hen. Egg-eat ting is encouraged
by leaving eggs in the nest over night;
they get broken and when a hen once
gets the taste of egg she is always
DESTROYS of cultivating that taste, and
eats everything that looks like an egg.
If you must keep an egg in the nest,
use artificial ones, those that cannot be
broken, or if broken, are unpala BILE
and bad for digestion. There are all
sorts of artificial eggs, wooden, china,
chalk, etc, any of these will do for
nest eggs. Boiled meat seasoned with
a little pepper and salt and ground
bones, will sometimes satiate this I'M
natural appetite. Dark nests are also
used for hens that eat their eggs, but
not with good results. 1t is better by
far to do the right thing at once and
eat the hen. You will save yourself
lots of Their.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-03
Value of the Pea Crop.

Southern Cultivator sums up the value
and adaptability of the pea crop as fol-
EOws- 1t is nitrogen gatherer; it
shades the soil in summer and aids the
process of notification; it goes deeply
into the soil and brings up water and
mineral matter needed by the plant; its
-adaptability to all kinds of soils, stiffest
--iays to the most porous sands, fertile
zIluvial bottoms to barren uplands; il
stands the beat a nd sunshinco of southern
summers; its rapid growth enables the
farmer in the south to raise two crops a
year on the same soil; il scwn thickfy,i it
will by its rapid growth and shade, eff
fectually smother all weeds and thus
serve as cleansing crop; it is the best
preparatory crop known to the southern
farmer; every kind of crop grows well
after it; it furnishes a most excellent
food in large quantities for bo-h mar
and animals.
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AN ENSILAGE WAGON.

Plan and Description of a Rack for Haul
ing Elsi1age Corn.
We can do no better than to give an
illustration and description of the rack
used by the Wisconsin experiment sta
ton and described in their annual re-
port.
feet long, swung from the front axle
tree by a heightened king-bolt pro-
vided with nut and washer; and from
the hind axletree by hree-quarter inch
rods provided with nut and washer be-
low and with hook above which hang
from the bolster. The stringers are
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-10-03
MOVABLE HEN HOUSE.

resting upon runners. There were no
floors. Houses were moved frequently
few feet, and thus the droppings were
cared for. The houses were to be paint
ed with different colors, that the fowls
might recognize them the more read
lily.
The objections to portable houses
are: First, the greater cost; second,
the greater amount of time required to
care for the fowls; third, the fact tina.
they do not afford the best quarters for
the fowls during the winter. Where
many fowls are kept. the labor qucs-
ton, usually ignored, is an important
one, and anything which will save labor
is worth consideration. In permanent,
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The Curse OF the Pigeon.

If a man wishes to keep pigeons and
confines them in wire-covered yards,
they will pay, but to have lot of
pigeons flying over the whole neighbor-
hood is n curse to every farmer and
poultryman, as they not only eat food
that other persons than the owner of
the pigeons must pay for, hut they bring
and carry disease from one flock TO an
other. says an exchange. Choiera, roup
and lice are spread by pigeons Every
community should rebel against the
man who turns a flock of pigeons looss
to fly where they desire Owls, hawks
and minks are blessings compared
with pigeons where poultry is kept
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fixed houses, conveniences for water
ing, feeding. cleaning, etc, can be intro
duced which it would not be feasible to
introduce into movable houses. By
providing two yards for each pen, which
can be done with little foresight in
laying out the hennery, the objection to
foul earth can be overcome.
These yards can be used on alternate
years, the year in which they are not
used by the fowls geing devoted to tho
growth of crop of clover By having
portable fences, and the yards upon OPP
posite sides of the house, the cost of
fencing will not be appreciably in
creased, and the ground upon which the
hens have run can be plowed and sowed
without difficulty. Raising a crop for
one year takes out all the noxious quail
tiles from the soil. 1t is, therefore, a
question whether it is advisable to
adopt movable houses or not.
If one decides to adopt such houses.
and intends to keep a large number Of
fowls, we think the colony plan one Of
the best which has been devised. The
houses, for winter use, however, should
be provided with a floor. During the
winter they can be drawn together SO
as to avoid large amount of travel in
caring for the fowls.-Country Gentle
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Ea
CROSS SECTION.

CURED 1t is only necessary, then, to
lutte the joint with clay, seen in Fig.
-, 80 make it tight and keep it in place.
Greater security against getting out
OF place may be secured by ring
around the hole in the collector, laid on
x<ken green and burned SO as to form a
ySrt thereof. The form of special piece
-slaowR in Fig. may be used for a
joint at different levels, but in this case
She feeder-iine requires a similar. but
smaller piece, closed at one end and hav-
ing a hole made in it's fiat side, and
two cross pieces added to prevent the
sliding of the feeder, before burning
&see Figs. and ~.
I'm laying drain pipe the last piece
0f the feeder-line must always rest ON
virgin soil; this insures it's remaining
I'm place and the joint remaining tight.
Where the end piece of the feeder rests
securely on the collector, but insecurity
ON the other end, the joint would be
opened by the setting of the pipe. A
very acute junction is to be avoided, as
the feeder would not have a firm bed !,
vixen the lines would otherwise meet
at an acute angle, there should be a
slight later detour made. Lastly, when
preparing for overlapping joints, the
1St0rer must be accustomed always to
make the trench bottom for the feeder
higher than that for the collector. The
'~ifaI point in successful tile drainage,
after the grades have been established,
IS To give attention to properly laying
the tile--Robert Grimshaw, in Amer
Lr=an Agricnlturist.
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AGRICULTURALHINTS
DRAINPIPE JOINTS.

Vn1.nble Hints Explained by Equally VAL
liable illustrations.
The joints of two draiDpipes may be
made either on the same level or with
one above the other. The level joint
kas the advantage that no loss of fall
snsues; while the disadvantage is that
toads can more readily get in Join
Mzw on different levels is more easily
szaoe, and is more secure against the
entrance of toads; but it causes loss of
fail Joining at equal heights mus
mart be done by cutting the larger pipe
I'm the side and sticking the end of the
SMALLER one in the opening, as this
reduces the cross-section of the collect
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1t has been estimated by one who has
had time to experiment in the matte.
that the roots of a single corn plant. ii
placed end to end 1engthwise, will ex-
tend fully one mile. OF course, this in
cludes al the rootlets, and demonstrates
the enormous feeding capacity of tn.
plant Other plants also have large
root capacity and enable them to seek
out every particle of food in the soil
It is better, therefore, t. broadcas.
manure or fertilizer than to place it In
the hills, as it can be more easily appro-
priated by the roots
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the front end of the rack at the middle.
Back the wagon or sled close to the
shock. Turn down the apron. Make
a loop on one end of a strong rope and
place this over the shock, b. Run the
other end through the pulley on the
front of the rack, then back to a stake
or iron pin, C, driven into the ground.
Start up the team slowly and the shock
will be pulled onto the rack.-W. H.
Ross, in Farm and Home.
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FIG. z.-GRoUNp PLAN.

into the alley in front of the cows. The
horse stable floor, first cement, with g.
inch fall to where droppiI-g s fall and :
inches from wall, so that the Lowest
place comes where droppiugs fall, then
cover with plank.
The foundation walls on three sides
should be feet high to make room for
granary. Would use oak for sills. My
barn holds all grain and fodder pro
duced on 150-acre farm and nothing is
stacked except straw. c. McVean, in
Ohio Farmer.