The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-05-28

OF traue says Kansas raised more
wheat in 1892 than was ever raised in
any state in any one year. The yield
that year was 70, S01 900.
In the months of January, February,
March and April of this year, A. Linn,
a butter and egg dealer, paid out tc
Osborne county farmers wives for theii
surplus butter and eggs over 81 900.
A Minneapolis boy was an applican.
for the West Point cadetship. At ar
examination for the West point cadet
ship in the Sixth district about yea,
ago the candidate walked from hi
home to the place where the examina-
ton was held. The act of the young
man caused him to be made quite a
hero and gave him considerable notri-
ETY.. The Minneapolis boy tried the
scheme of walking to Clay Center, but
somehow the combination did not
work for him and the other fellow
from Abilene got the prize.
Manager Ruff, of the Topeka Base
Ball company, has signed six players
for the team this year and he announ-
ces that on Decoration Day there will
be two games to open the season. Kid
McHugh of Colorado Springs will play
at third base, Jimmy Driscoll at sec
ond, Tim Conlin, who played with In
dependence last year will be shortstop,
Matty Evans of California, will catch,
and Wingert, who played last season
with Junction City, will pitch and Spec
Hubert of Coffeyville, will play center
field. Other positions will be filled in
few days.
Many apple orchards over the state
are being ruined by canker worms and
their owners wandering why they can't
stop their ravages. Judge Wellhouse
of Leavenworth, who has the largest
orchards in the state, says: eve have
just completed the fight of our lives
against the cankcr worm Have been
running five power sprayers, going
over an average of thirty acres of or
chard per day with each machine. At
first we used the London purple mix
ture of the standard strength-one
pound to $50 gallons of water. 1t
didn't seem to effect the canker worms,
and they were just as lively as before
the spraying. We then increased the
strength to one pound to 100 gallons of
water, but this was not strong enough
We finally made it one pound of Lon
don purple to fifty gallons, adding
about as much lime as London purple,
and don't think a worm escaped. BY
using plenty of lime we avoided all
damage to the leaves. One pound OF
London purple and one pound of lime
in fifty gallons of water will cover
about 100 ordinary trees, thoroughly
cover all the leaves
Two farmers families in Dickinson
county are having an interesting chick
en-raising race which is watched by
the whole township One, in order to
have the advantage, secretly sent for
an incubator early in the spring; the
other stuck to the old hen and natural
methods Up to date the former has
about $50 chickens while the other las
oyer 500. The former has another in
cubator load ready to come off with
about POO more, but over on the other
farm are 300 hens attending strictly to
business and ready to chick to some
thing like 300 about the same time.
Further than that the hen division
produced lot of early chicks that sold
FOR IL cents a pound the other has sold
none yet. The incubator has full steam
up and is doing It's level best cheered
on by half the township, but the hens
are VIGOROUSLY leading down the
home stretch, never rutiling feather
and expect to come under the wire at
least 200 chicks ahead by the first of
June and the ncighbors are as proud OF
them as if national record were in
volved. When the old hen makes UP
hor mind to win no new-fangied con.
traption has any chance.
Chris Allahn of Buffalo, N. Y, and
Loretta Pugh of Pineville, Mo-, met by
appointment at Paola the other day
and were married
The new $50, 600 Presbyterian church
at Emporia was dedicated May 10th.
Directly or indirectly the women have
raised most of the money to build this
church About $1,000 yet remains to
be paid which means the sale of many
dishes of ice cream and plates of No
vember chicken pie. The national
church building board will donate
81, 900 it is said.
A short grass man who moved his
family to Topeka expecting to cut a
dash in society has run short CT money
and will move to Leayenw orth, where
poker is both fashionable and popular.
S. g. Foster, VIM Hardee and j. s.