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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-05
CARE OF IMPLEMENTS.

Now Is the Time Clean and Store
Them Away Under shelter.
Now that the greater part of the sea-
sons work is finished, it will be good
giEsn TO gather up all of the implements.
pIosszs, harrows, cultivators, mowers.
E=1Ses, binders and all such tools and
store them away under shelter. 1t is
not only necessary to get them under
shelter, but to store them away in
good condition. If left exposed to the
weather considerable damage will be
s1one by rain, sun, wind and snow. If
proper care is not taken in storing
away, considerable injury will be done
no the iron and steel from rust, and to
the woodwork by decay. The dirt
should all be cleaned off. If allowed
TO remain on, as is often done, it will
increase the conditions for decay.
Clean off the dirt of every kind, washing
al necessary, and then paint well. Lin
seed oil and Spanish brown, red YER
TsIiiIion or red ochre mixed to a proper
consistency makes not only a cheap
paint but durable one. and it will
pay to keep the woodwork of all the
implements and the wagons covered
Tith it.
Black asphaltum paint is best for the
arun and steel except the working parts
the share and mold-boards OF the
pfows, the siclxles of the mowers and
parts of this kind that need to be kept
bright. These should be well oiled
all over or covered with unsalted grease
and then covered with a thick white
sSsh into which small quantity of
glue has been stirred. This will prevent
rszst and save much time in getting the
Supplements in condition for work in the
spring.
The work of cleaning and painting
can be done better now than at any
Other time, and the tools will be all
the better for it. Some time IN the
-slsring can be saved if little care is
taken in storing them away. Put the
implements like the mower, binder and
hay rake in first, and the pillow. Guilt
xxtor and harrow that will be needed
1irst in the spring, last. This wiz
save overhauling in the spring. If the
tool shed has no floor. put boards under
the wheels and under every part OF
the machinery that comes directly
upon the ground.
Shelter for the machinery, and put
ting away in good condition will
pay as well as good sheltering of the
stock. Summer sun and rain are al
most. if not quite, as injurious as win
ter wind and storms.-St. Louis Re
public.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-05
PINE EGG CASES.

They Are Liable to Impart Bad Flavor
and Smell Eggs.
The trouble with pine for egg cases is
that it is very liable to impart bad
flavor and smell to the eggs. This oc-
ours in the presence of moisture. When
eggs come out of a cold refrigerator car
into warm atmosphere they become
damp-often wet--from condensation:
so does the case itself. This causes the
pine to emit strong, pungent odor
which taints the eggs. The same effect
is noticed in damp and muggy weather.
We have observed a number of in
stances lately where eggs in pine cases
have been returned from buyers on the
ground that they were tasty though
CATION has shown that the trouble was
due entirely to the absorption of the
pungent pine aroma from the wood.
For holding in ice house the pine
case is absolutely tabooed; and even
for ordinary use in marketing stock for
current demands, it is detriment I'M
der any but the most favorable condi-
items. It is best to pack stock IN such
a way as to give it the benefit of every
outlet, and so as to avoid all accidents.
The white wood case is far the best
case made and should be universally
adopted, at least for packing stock OF
first quality A white wood case with
medium filters and a No. filler toI
and bottom layer, is free from objec-
ton, and if properly packed should pre-
vent many of the losses which often
harass the less careful packer.-N. Y.
Produce Review.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-05
NOTES ABOUT SHEEP.

The dipping of sheep twice year is a
law in New Mexico.
The ram should be changed every two
years and improved.
Twenty-Five per cent of Great Brit
ian's beef and mutton is imported.
The sugar beet is great sheep food
The ffeecy innocents thrive on sweets.
Roots. bran and oats make an excel
lent ration for ewes with young lambs.
AS machine for turning weeds into
fertility, the sheep goes long way to-
wards paying its way
Pct ground oats before the lambs at
an early age They will soon learn to
eat and will greatly profit thereby.
c. p Bailey has flock of Angora
goats in California and Nevada aggre-
eating 10000 head He has on exhibit
tion at the hcme ranch a fleece of mo-
hair weighing IL pounds.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-05
Feeding Corn Alone to Pigs

The Illinois experimental station, in
bulletin No. 6, gives the results in tab
ulated form of 16 experiments made in
feeding corn alone to pigs. These ex-
perimeEts were made in nine different
months of the year, and showed excel
lent work The average of the 16 lots
showed 11H pounds live weight made
from Sc pounds of corn; with corn
worth IS cents per bushel this would
make pork cost a trifie over cents per
pound The poorest results We're OBJ
tanned from work done in January.
which showed 6.93 pounds from one
bushel of corn fed to pigs weighing los
pounds EACH The next poorest results
were obtained in June, July and August,
and showed S.2S pounds per bushel of
corn fed to pigs weighing 2os pounds
each The third poorest result was in
July, and showed SEQ pounds per bushel
fed to pigs of 223 pounds weight. Ths
best work was done in December, and
showed 1851 pounds from one bushel of
corn.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-05
Hints About the Eorse.

In cleaning them, if they will not
stand the currycomb wei, get five or
ten cent brush made of broom corn.
used for scrubbing in the house; they
are very stiff, writes J. w. Palmer. II
horses are troubled with the scratches,
mix two parts lard and one part gun
powder thoroughly, and apply ON the
place affected; it is cheap and effective.
So mango your stable as to save all
Of the urine, as it is very valuable; have
cement floors if possible. Do not hang
harness in stable if you can avoid it.
Do not feed too much hay. and avoid
watering Immediately after feeding a
horse much of a dinner. If you have
whole rye, you can feed a little, and
save expense and trouble of grinding
it. to young horses only Use good
snaps on lines and side straps at least,
and by so doing save time, which is
money on a farm. Farmers need to be
cautioned about watering horses when
heated
Bran and buttermilk is good for lay
inc hens.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-05
PRESERVING EGGS.
The Cold Storage System L. Far superios
Picking.

Tho Cold Storage System Is Far Superfos
to Picking.
Every summer there is a call foI
recipes for preserving eggs so that they
can be kept until winter and be just
as good as when fresh laid.
There is no recipe for doing this, and
no egg is as good as when first laid.
Even a week after they begin to be stale
TO the expert taste, and preserved eggs
are poor things beside fresh-laid ones
Eggs can be kept for several months
without spelling to degree that will
make them offensive, but no kind of
preserved eggs is first-class; they are
just substitutes for eggs fresh laid
Picked eggs were once largely dealt
in by city merchants, but in these DAYS
cold storage is resorted to with more
success than picking.
Ii you want to keep a few eggs for
the winter, begin about the 1st of
September, if you have a cool cellar, and
pack your eggs in salt, putting them in
boxes and packing them so that no egg.
will touch another. When the box is
full and shaken down so that the con-
tents will not shake about nail the
top on, and twice week turn the box
half over, and the eggs will keep just
as well as in any other preservative.
for two or three months or longer, if
kept just above freezing when winter
comes.-Farni and Fireside.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-05

trees, flowers, grass, running a foun-
tain, washing buggies, watering stock,
etc, stand-pipe system was construct
ed. 1 secured 26-feet of 1O-inch gal
vanized casing, bolted it to the top of
the pump stock, had a plug fitted to
screw into the spout of the pump, fas-
tened a 2H-inch waste pipe on the out
side of the larger pipe, tapped the pump
stock 10 inches above the surface. and
the problem was solved. With a 30
foot head L secure enough pressure to
throw 4 stream of water 10 to Is feet
high and 25 to 30 feet horizontally. If
grass and flowers will grow on the
banks of the fish pond, it will not only
be useful but will be thing of beauty.
1 expect to stock it with fish as soon as
the United States fish car comes this
way. The arrangement of the reservoir
and pump is shown in the accompany
ing illustration.-Oran Judd Farmer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-05
SHADE FOR POULTRY.

to escape the hot rays only to suffer
more inside than out, especially If there
are windows on the sunny side, as
there are likely to be. A device like
that shown in the sketch will keep out
much heat from the poultry quarters.
a square frame of laths Is covered with
cheap cotton cloth nailed firmly at the
top of the window and kept at an angle
before it by a lath on either side, as
shown herewith Orange Judd Farmer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-05
NOVEL GRADE LEVEL.

1t Helps in Laying Out bitches and 9th
Farm Operations,
An old farmer in Utah has discovered
a novel grade level which he uses in lay
ing out bitches and in ascertaining the
fall of streams. The continuance con-
sists of perpendicular staff made like
that for surveyors instrument. On the
staff is placed four-inch board about
three feet in length. In either end OF
the board is fastened a small bottle
partly filled with water. When the fall
of stream or the slope of field is to
be ascertained, the level is set up at a
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-05
AGRICULTURALHINTS.
MAKING a TERRACE

KRIS Article Explains How to Construct q
Durable One.
Whatever may be ones personal
sspinion as to the beauty of terraces, it
Il certain that men and women will con-
Fzzue to like them and to construct
ehern. 1t is important, therefore, 10
Know how to construct them in the
b&st manner. But before explaining
wrinkle or two that are of value in ter
Essce building, 1 want to protest vigor-
<D,Isly against the making of double ter
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-05
THE "wHITE WONDER"
New Breed of Poultry Originated by .
Vermont Farmer.

New Breed of Poultry Originated by .
Vermont Farmer.
The white wonder was originated
by William N French, of Vermont.
" lille Mr.. French has kept his counsel
about the breeds used in the manufac-
ture of the white wonder" it is gener-
ally believed, from the appearance and
characteristics of the fowl, that those
breeds are the light Brahma and the
white Wyandotte. The white won
der is remarkably like the white Wyan-
dotte in shape, and has rose comb. But
it is considerably larger than the Wyan-
dotte, perhaps on an average from one
to one and a half pounds. Its shanks
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-05

1t is cheaper and better to get the
struggling stumps and stones out of
She fields than to attempt to work
around them with a reaper. mower, chi
=tivator or harrow Many valuable i'm
PIGMENTS are annually injured needless
2y from stumps or stones.-Colman's
RHral World. ---
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-05
TWO LOADING DEVICES.

Very Useful When Bulky Forage Has to
Be Handled.
The device showed in Fig. 1 repre-
sents the front part of the running
gear of common farm wagon, to which
is attached sort of fodder or brush
frame. The frame is constructed as
follows: Take two by 3-inch poles, L,
feet long, place them in positions as
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-05
SHADE FOR POULTRY.

A Device That WIN Keep Out Much Heat
from Their quarters.
Fowls suffer severely in worm wealth.
err from their houses becoming over
heated by the sun. They will go in
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-05

A man who staples fence to growing
trees belongs to that class OF farmers
who leave machine in the field where
they last used it. Drive a staple in par
allel with the grain of wood.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-09-05

Bran and buttermilk is good for lay
ing hens.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
SOCIETY ON WHEELS.

stable. The road from Washington to
Georgetown was none of the best in
those days, and the minister's thoughts
now and then may very naturally have
taken a funereal turn asbe bounced from
side to side iu the hearse, jolting over
the stony byways and ruts.
Did you ever hear about President
Arthur's Indian pony, and his first ride
on Pennsylvania avenue? While Pres
ident Arthur was in the Yellowstone
park in 1883, an Indian chief gave Hmm
handsome aboriginal pony. One morn
ing in March, 1884, President Arthur
sent for his pony, saying that he would
ride to the soldiers home and back be-
fore breakfast. President Arthur was a
tall man, and the pony being rather
short the chief executive found con-
fronting him the problem of how best
to accommodate himself to the circum-
stances. The pony, however, cut short
any further doubt or musing by MAX
ing q bolt through the white house gate,
keeping up such break-neck pace, un.
mindful Of whip, spur or reins, that
Gen. Arthur always declared was too
much in the nature of dreadful night
mare even to dream Of wishing for a
repetition.
Attorney General Williams had a
landaulet which was wonderfully made.
It attracted so much comment and news
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
The Casting Of Steel.

In casting steel there has always
been more or less difficulty from the
tendency of the melted metal to splash.
This produces flaws and cracks ON the
surface of the ingots used for forging
guns. These ingots weigh fve.tons and
upward. It naturally arises that such q
large quantity of metal falling from
height into the moldsw spatter and
splash. The particles thrown off cool
rapidly and are productive of q great
deal of trouble. By a new and simple
method this is prevented. A tube is
prepared of thin sheet iron, such as is
used for roofing. The tube is "a inches
in inside diameter, and is suspended
from an iron ring, to which there are
riveted three bars on the surface of the
mold. The steel is poured from the bot
tom of the ladle into the middle of the
iron tube. All the splashes are thrown
on the walls of the tube, which gradual
ly melt away during the rise of the
surface of the liquid steel in the mold.
It is by such little devices as this that
a great deal of time, trouble and work
is saved.-N. Y. Ledger.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
FoREi0N-oOs9tP.

I'm Europe at this time some IT,
100000 men are ready to take the field
in fortnight.
The Partisan whistles at the theater
In order to show his disgust; the Lon
tloner to show his delight and approval.
There is a house in Paris occupied
by over 50 tenants who for 20 years
have never paid any rent, the landlord
being unknown.
1T is claimed that during the last
Is years but one person for every $780,
600 carried by the railroads of Denmark
has been killed.
The queen signs on an average three
photographs a day, and often much
larger number, for presentation to her
friends at home and abroad.
Three good washes are received by
an Abyssinian during his career-at his
birth, ON his marriage morn, and at his
death. At all other times he shuns
soap and water.
"A boat leaving Regents canal, in
London, can travel by canal to Kendall,
in Westmorland. This town is PSI miles
distant from London by rail, but by
canal it is over 300 miles.
The duchess of Cleveland, mother
of Lord Rosebery, who recently cele-
brated her nth birthday, is an ardent
and constant traveller. She has only
lately returned to London from the
Cape of Good Hope and the Transvaal.
When Marshal Berthier was in
Egypt with Napoleon he was insanely
in love with Nine. Viconti, and COM
nlitted so many absurdities that among
his intimates he was known as Chef de
In Faction des Amoureax. Among his
other follics was the erection of tent
next to his own; he converted it into a
temple to the madame, erected an altar
to her picture, before which he burned
incense every morning.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17

from his blue coat, the chapeau from
his head, and taking the dress sword
from his reluctant grasp reduced him
to ordinary civilians attire. It was .
great blow to the poor fellow, who
never could understand why he could
not be allowed to continue wearing tho
uniform in which he had been accus-
toned to attend Count D'Arco in his
native land.
One of the attaches Of the Russian le-
cation. a Mr.. Gregor, half a score of
years ago gave Neutrality-suspicious. their
first glimpse of genuine Russian
drosky. The turnout, with the spirit
ed team of horses and dramatic access
cries, even to the stolid-looking, big
nosed driver with bushy crop of hair
cut straight from ear to car, standing
out like whisk-broom under his pecul-
iarly fiat, low-crowned hat, were i'm
ported direct from Russia. The drivers
general appearance was an instance in
which the picturesque had been OBJ
tanned without regard to beauty. He
wasa skillful driver, though, and UNDER
stood perfectly the art OF producing q
sensation strangely akin to panic
whenever he elected to dash along the
fashionable promenades, the jingling
bells of the douga keeping up musical
accompaniment to the leaders dashing
pace.
But the day of drosl<ys, uniformed
tootmen and paneled coats-of-arms
would seem to be swift gliding into his
tory. Cabinet minister's, members Of
the supreme court, including the chief
justice, ambassadors, ministers and
other dignitaries, freely use the cable
and electric cars. OF course, after the
theater, the opera, the lecture, or the
church services at night, our upper
tendon ladies must have their own
carriages to convey them home; but
that is for convenience and comfort
and not for style.
Once upon q time there was a senator
from New England vino constantly en-
ployed a public conveyance belonging
to a colored man who was great deal
blacker than the ace of spades, or any
thing else black that you can think Of
The ladies of the family called him
Crow" and he never objected to the
name. But, one evening after the the
alter, the senator's daughter thought
lessly asked IN usher to "can Crow"
reflection the usher cried:
"Call up Senator Blanks Crow" This
appellation was new to the hacking fra
ternity, and they laughed uproariously
as ''Crow'' drove up to the door OF the
theater. The man was mad Clear
through. He declared that he would
not take the ladies home, but police
man threatened him with arrest unless
he did so; and the ladies entered the
coupe. Instead Of driving them home,
"Crow" drove straight to his stable,
where he unhitched his team, and COM
PEELED the wife and daughter of the SEN
ator to walk home, although it was
dark. rainy. dismal night, and near
midnight. SMITH D. FRY.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17

paper notoriety that Dom Piatt nick.
named the attorney general "Landaulet
Williams" name by which he IL bet
ter known until this day than by his
proper name. In private conversations
here amongst old-timers, the ex-cabinet
official In always referred to as
"Landaulet Williams"
Some years ago Count D'Arco
Valley came to Washington rs the min
lister from the German empire. When
his equipage arrived it was housed
away; but when his sister, Countess
Leopoldine, arrived, q sensation was
produced which ramified the entire
diplomatic aud social circles of the city.
The count and countess made men,
orable round Of calls on the cabinet in
dark-blue paneled carriage, attended
by man in full military regalia. The
fellow was really most splendid look
ing creature, and when he do1fed tho
long-plumed, gold-bullioned chapeau to
open the carriage door for the minister
and his sister, unsheathing glittering
sword in military salute, he was sight
long to be remembered.
Unfortunately, however, the amount
Of attention attracted by this attend
ant finally became so overwhelming
that, finding crowds collecting and
barring the way to and from each
house before the carriage stopped, tho
minister was reluctantly compelled to
deprive the man of his gaudy strap
pings, remove the gold stripe from his
trousers, the shining metal buttons
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
MARRIAGE IN FRANCE.

ooos Its Expenss Aeeo1At for the ID.
"a eeoaso In RopulstioaS
Nay not the cost Of getting married
In France net Al check upon marriage,
and % partly account for the shrinkags
Of French population? The other day
. wedding was thus celebrated by we'll
TODD middle-closs folks in Burgundy,
and may serve a. type. No lesG than
five sumptuous banquets were given by
the brides father, namely, two dinners,
two breakfasts and ono ballroom sup
per. At one of the dinners, TO which
sat down GO guests, NO less than 80 bot
tlea Of champagne were drunk, to say
nothing Of red wines and liqueuzs.
Strange to soy, 10 one seemed any tho
worse.
The respective professions to Marie
and church on different days involved
the hire OF 60 carriages, this cost also
falling upon the young lady's parents,
the entire ceremonial involving. an out
lay OF several hundred pounds. Nor
was the affair less onerous to invited
friends and relatiyes. The ladies were
expected to display new and fash
ionable toilet upon each separate ooca-
sion-banquets, balls, civil and religious
celebrations.
To the bridegroom fell al kinds Of
expenses, such as fees, gifts to tho
church and the poor-these, however, =
tride compared to the mental and
bodily wear and tear Of three days per-
retual merrymaking; last. but not
least, the necessity of looking pleased.
When Anglo-mania has altered all
this, and q Frenchman's wedding day
means two or three hours ceremonial
only, we may expect the marriage rate
to 60 steadily up.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-12-17
Those Awful Microbes.

At the seaside or in the country,
where the air is clear, 1900 microbes
must be inhaled into the nose every
hour, while ifLondon the number often
reaches $4,000. The organisms are
caught by the nose and passed to the
digestive organs, which, when in health,
destroy them.-Cincinnat Enquirer.