The Globe-republican., 1898-12-22

A great deal of ice has been put mp
this winter.
Adjutant General Allen has taken
steps to reorganize the Kansas Nation
al guard Twenty-four towns are en-
titled to one company each and notices
have been sent out to the different cit
les in the state asking that statistics
be furnished to be used in determining
what towns shall be chosen. There
have been a large number of applica-
tons sent in from vrrious towns and
from these the twenty-four displaying
the greatest interest will be chosen.
w. II. Haskell the large cattle and
hog feeder of the Nor tn Solomon val
ley, has over 700 head of cattle on full
feed, besides $50 head of hogs, in his
feed lots adjoining Gaylord. The feed
for his stock is averaging him 500 a
day for corn alone. The cattle will be
ready for the markets in January. In
one shipment Of cattle recently those
of Mr.. Haskell touched the top notch
on price. In another bunch. Is head
of stays, sold for shipment to Liver
pool, England, brought the sum of
81, O95.99.
The value OF honey bees as pollen
distributors is becoming better known
rs more thorough investigations and
experiments are made. Fruit growers
are becoming familiar with this fact
and are fostering the culture of honey
bees in the near vicinity of their fruit
farms. Many experiments have been
made in the raising of fruit where
many bees were in reach of the same,
the vicinity. The fruit is said to be
better in both quantity and quality
where bees are in ready reach.
All consumers of honey should take
the pains to thoroughly post themselves
on the purity of honey, SO that they
may not be deceived into paying high
prices for glucose and cheap syrups.
There is nothing, perhaps, that enters
into the adulteration of honey so large
~ as glucose, and nothing in the cheap
syrup line SO cheap and SO unhealthy.
That adulteration is largely practiced
there is no doubt, and it becomes con-
sumers duty to learn what constitutes
pure honey, hence great interest will
be taken in this matter.
The history of the various Indian
tribes of Central America has never
been and probably never will be writ
ten. Before the march of the armor-
clad Spaniard the native tribes faded
away as the mist before the sun. Only
those who retreated to the inaccessible
swamps or the Businesses of the pine
clad mountains escaped the torture
and slavery which followed submission
to Spanish power. That slavery and
torture, where it failed to exterminate
the conquered peoples, left them with
but few, if any, of the characteristics
which distinguished them before the
Spaniard came.
The crop bulletin of the State Board
of Agriculture for the present year,
showing final returns of the states
crop acreagcs, their yields and home
values, together with the numbers and
values of live stock for 1898, is just
issued. The figures on yields of wheat,
corn and oats do not vary essentially
from those given out earlier in the
season, except that the yield of corn
in some of the northern counties,
which ordinarily have the great areas
and yields, but were supposed to have
only very small output this year,
makes much better showing than
was anticipated before husking time.
Wheats fall trife below the earlier
estimates.
The Chemical department of the
Kansas Experiment Station has been
continuing its investigation of the
adaptability of the sugar beet to Kan
sas climate and culture. 1t would
seem probable from our rather high
summer temperature that the beet
would not grow with high sugar-con-
tent in mos parts of the state. Ana
lyses made through series of years
have tended to confirmation of this
view. Not only analyses made by our
own station, but by the Department of
Agriculture at Washington, have
shown that, while beets of high quail
ity may be produced at times and
places, the general run of them in this
state is only fair in quality.
Several years have passed since o
brand of Kansas -four, made from Kan.