The Globe-republican., 1898-11-24
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

State Superintendent Strylser is op'
iPosed to begging in the public schools
OF Kansas for any purpose.
Anumber of easter npeople are look
ing over Kansas with view of locat'
ing.
A map fend worked the good citi-
Gems of Reading out of two hundred
dollars.
November 18th was celebrated at
Manhattan college as flower day, and
a big time they had.
Shawnee county this week sends O
delegation of eight to swell the num-
Der of inmates in the state peniten-
tiary.
Will Berroth, the town handy man
of Alma, can handle telegraph key,
keep books, teach school, butcher or
dig . well, and it is said that he is all
right at any of these tasks.
A young man at Manhattan broke
his collar bone while playing football,
but did not tumble to the real extent
of his injury for nine days. He only
thought he had lame shoulder.
And now, candidates, hasten to the
front with your sworn statement Of
election expenses. The voters on foot
are anxious to know what it costs to
go up in victory or down in defeat.
The story is out that Kansas man,
while eating oysters in a restaurant,
found pearl worth S.. 1t may be
true, of course, but it sounds more like
On attempt to boom the sale of oysters
The Plainville Journal carries stick
or 50 of nonpareil at the head of the
editorial columns telling where the
town is, and giving an idea of the adj
yantages and possibilities Of the coun-
try surrounding it.
In Kansas 10000 farmers send milk
TO crcameries and cheese factories, and
with this big list of patrons Kansas
creameries are shipping in butter from
Illinois to supply the demand made
upon them. The creamery business in
Kansas is long way from being over
done at present.
Nathan Sheffield, rich cattleman,
was recently found dead beside the
Iron Mountain railroad track about
ten miles south of Coffeyville. The
section hands were going out to work
and discovered the body, which had
been cut entirely in two, and loading
it on their hand-car, took it back to
Lenapah.
The boss of q railroad work train on
the Missouri Pacific has thirty ex-vol-
unteers in his gang, and he says they
are the best workers in the lot. The
is simple. When there is
q job of digging to be done the boss
charges up and down the line with a
blazing light in his eyes and q pick in
his hand, shouting to the boys that the
Spaniards are coming, and for them to
bestir themselves in throwing up in
The result of army drill
is then apparent, for the volunteers
fall to heartily from force of habit,
and fairly fill the air with dirt.
Many farmers in the state succeed
but poorly in keeping sweet potatoes
during the winter months. The hor-
ticultural department has in progress
an experiment to determine the most
suitable temperature for keeping this
product during the winter. Trial lots
are stored in locations ranging in tenn
perature from As to IS degrees. The
are noted daily and fire.
quent examinations made to note the |
soundness of the potatoes. Along with
the temperature test, the attempt will |
be made to determine whether stor-
age medium, such as sand, chaff or
charcoal has any influence in preserv-
ing the soundness of the potato.
During the summer of 1898 the agri-
cultural college dairy made an inves- |
tigation of the patrons of the Meriden
creamery to ascertain the income they
were realizing per COW for milk sold to
the creamery. The poorest herd aver
aged per cow, S7.54 annually, and the
best one sia.o?, making difference Of
1896 per COW. Taking the poorest
five herds the average per cow is 1914,
and for the best five 1914, differ |
ence of $3.50 or 2a7 per cent Where
records have been kept it has been
found that it takes from $50 to $50 to
pay for. keeping cow. 1t will thus
be seen that as far as milk is concern
ed the cows from the poorest herds are
running their owners in debt, the only
redceming feature being the value of
the calf produced. These figures illus
trote very clearly the need and like