Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-29
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Cheathem, Of Paris, Texas.
The only department store in West
ern Kansas is at Meade where grocer
les, meat, billiards, pool and soft
drinks are sold at one place.
In some of the Kansas towns accord
ing to papers 1.-THE handsomest millin-
cry display in the city, took place in
four or FIVE different stores.
A Winfield man has been watching
grasshoppers and now announces that
grasshoppers do not die with the sea-
son, but barring accidents, live to a
ripe old age and become decrepit and
cranky.
Central and southwestern Kansas
was visited by good soaking rain on
the night of April 90. This has placed
the corn in fine growing condition and
made the wheat in this particular Sec
tion Of country.
A Garden City man in a friendly
Bcufle the other day broke his leg
above the knee He has family to
support, and the accident is unfortun-
ate on that account Men with fami-
lilies should avoid friendly scufies.
The Rock Island has issued an order
that all employees in the passenger
train service who have not been vacci-
mated within a comparatively recent
time must take the precaution at once
on account of the immigrant travel
and the attendant danger of catching
and spreading the smallpox.
Lyman Watkins, who lives FIVE miles
south Of Potter in Leavenworth coun-
ty, has had an unprecedented streak
OF good luck during the last thirty
days His family COW gave birth to
triplets, one of his farm mares had
twins, as did six of his Southdown
ewes, and to cap the climax one of his
hens Matched out three-legged chick
en- and his wife presented him with
twin boy babies. He is as proud as the
man who invented the airship.
From April /, 1885, to April ], 1897,
Manchester creamery received $685.
1863 pounds of milk, which produced
about $4,000 pounds of butter, 20, $50
pounds of which was sold in the East
ern market. During that time S19, 900
was paid out to an average of eighty
patrons. The creamery is now receiv.
ing an average of 900 pounds of milk
daily. The figures show an average
payment of $3.50 for each patron of
the creamery, most of which was
clear profit for the COWS were kept on
feed that costs little.
Joseph Taylor of White Cloud, who
died last week, left an eighty-acre
farm to each of his fourteen children.
Taylor was a remarkable man in many
respects. Though shrewd enough to
accumulate fortune of perhaps $780,
900 he could neither read nor write.
He was sharp trader and steam en-
CINE to work. His neighbors say that
much Of his success was due to his wife
who, in addition to bearing him fifteen
helped manage his property
as it increased in value and extent.
The cattle trade in Edwards county
is assuming vast proportions. The
herd owned by R. E. Edwards was
started in 1898 with 81 medium cows
and now numbers upward OF 100 head. |
Mr.. Edwards made mistake in selling
all his heifers the first fall at S95 per
head. He now get Sos for them when
they are one year old He has one COW
that cannot be beaten as a stock raiser
if you go the world over. She was
born in 1898 and has given birth to two
fine bull calves and one heifer calf. !
This cows calf, born the last day of
January, 1896, gave birth to fine bull
calf on April 10, 1897, making her four.
teen months and ten days ole when
her first calf was born. Mr.. Edwards
has sold upwards of $4,000 worth of
stock from this herd in less than four
years besides increasing his herd near
ly 200 per cent All this was accom-
plished by buying two registered bulls
in 1893 for which he paid what many
others thought at the time was fan
cy price, namely, 500 each. No one
can accomplish what Mr.. Edwards has
unless they use the best of sires, are
willing to give time, care, food and
shelter in due season to their herd.
Edwards county farmers will do we'll
TO look into the matter of developing a
better grade of stock and reap the ben
efits of higher prices for their stock
now that stock is becoming the great
element Of success in this country.
The county attorney of Crawford
county has notified the jointists that
from and after April 10th the sale of
bug juice will be absolutely shut off.
]. c. Mercer, OF Leavenworth, has