The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-07-15
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

completed.
The new government bonds are in
iemand at Lawrence.
Last weeks issue of the Clay Center
Times contained notices of seven mar
riages.
The meadow king of Linn county is
J. S. Balyeat, who has commenced har-
vesting and bailing his crop OF 1,5Oo
acres. He expects to ship $500 tons OF
hay this season.
Albert Schnell, one of the Doniphan
county recruits writes home from
Camp Alger saying: "This soldering
Is the first job have had that l could
aot get mad and quit.
For some time past the wife of far
mer living near Clifton has been so i'll
that it was impossible for her husband
10 leave her bedside, and few days
lgo twenty-five of his neighbors turn
I'd out and cultivated his corn for him.
The celebration of Fourth of July
was rather premature at Hutchinson.
A whole case of cannon crackers be-
same ignited while unloading them
and exploded. One woman had sky
rocket to pierce her arm, and she may
have it amputated.
Topeka druggists report that several
drug manufacturers are using the war
tax as an excuse to raise the price of
their products. The prices thus raised
are upon drugs the retail price OF
which cannot be raised, and much
complaint results.
Fred Prince, one of the old-time
printers and newspaper men OF the
northwest is now farming aud growing
fat in the Solomon valley. No one
ever came down the pike who could do
better work on Washington hand
press than Farmer Fred Prince.
A Kansas farmer says there is no
fruit that gives better illustration OF
the value of thinning than the grape,
and none in which the process so Of
ten turns the scale from loss to profit.
The work should be performed early
In order to secure the best results.
Larned has a Dewey Square" on
which is 1OO-foot flag pole from
which floats a flag 2Gx15 feet. 1t is
surmounted by an arc light, and thir-
teen feet from the ground is encircled
by band stand capable of holding
twentv-six musicians. This is the
neatest piece of patriotic frill that has
come to the surface as yet.
Green foods for poultry have been
frequently advised and among them is
rape. If no preparations have yet been
made for supply of green food for
summer use, rape should be sown at
any time up to the middle of July.
Prepare the ground as for root crops
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thirty inches apart, says an experience
ed Kansas farmer.
The bean crop will be likely to bring
good prices the coming fall, owing to
the demands of the army, and it will
pay to put nat leasta small area.
The general wet weather throughout
the state has prevented earlier plant
ing, but seed may be put in up to the
middle of July if the weather is favor
able. Any good corn land will give a
good crop of beans, but the soil must
be well narrowed and kept free of
weeds.
Kansas farmers who have tried it,
say that cotton seed will kill hogs in a
short time where it is fed to them free
". and that it is not desirable food
for fattening either hogs or cattle.
Cottonseed meal is sometimes used in
connection with corn for feeding cat
tie because of its cheapness, but it
produces soft, oily flesh, not so firm or
good in quality as that produced by
feeding corn. Oil meal, which is the
meal made from faXseed after the oil
has been pressed out, is a wholesome
food for hogs and cattle when fed in
connection with corn and other rar
tions.
Oats straw has value as food toe
great to permit of its use as bedding,
If the practice of feeding oats un
threshed was more general still
greater saving would result. Cut the
crop several days before the grain
ripens, which will leave the straw in
better condition, and save a loss of the
grain from the heads in handling. II
cut with mower they should be cut
greener than when put up in bundles
The oat may be kept in stack out @
doors if properly protected, but it is
best to put them up in bundles ant
then stack them some place in the
barn.
Mayor Corbin of Mound City. backed