The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-04-30
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


From April 1, 1896, to April 1, 1897,
Manchester creamery received 2,026,-
500 pounds of milk, which produced
about $4,000 pounds of butter, 70,6s0
pounds of which was sold in the East
ern market. During that time $12, 900
was paid out to an average of eighty
patrons. The creamery is now receiv-
ing an average of II 900 pounds of milk
daily. The figures show an average
payment of $3.50 for each patron of
the creamery, most of which was a
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 remarkable man in many
respects. Though shrewd enough to
accumulate a fortune of perhaps $780,
900 he could neither read nor write.
He was a 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
children, helped manage his property
as it increased in value and extent.
c. N. Gould, Cowley county teacher
and student in the Southwest Kansas
college, has bent for geology likely
to place him among the leading geo.
logists Of America. He has made a
special study of the strata of south
western Kansas for some years and is
recognized as knowing more about its
geology than any living man. Last
summer he worked under State Geo
aogist Haworth and Professor Prosser
of New York. The latter so highly
recommended him to Lester T. Ward,
Americas leading sociologlst and pale
obotanist, that he has engaged Mr..
Gould to work month with him in
Kiowa and Comanche counties next
summer. He will also work two weeks
in the flint mines on the Kaw reserva-
ton for the chronological bureau and
six weeks in Clark county for the state
university.
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 $25 per
head. He now get $65 for them when
they are one year old. He has one COW
that cannot be beaten as stock raiser
if you go the world over. She was
born in 1893 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 TO- 1897, making her four
teen months and ten days ole when
her first calf was born. Mr.. Edwards
has sold upwards of 81 900 worth of
stock from this herd in less than four
wears 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 fam
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 well
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.
A Garden City man in friendly
scuffle 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 scutfies.
The Rock Island has issued an order
that all employees in the passenger
train service who have not been va cci-
mated within 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.
Will White is going to extend the
Kansas boy idea in additional sketches.
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.
The county attorney of Crawford
county has notified the jointists that