The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-10-21

state.
A Hiawatha Chinaman advertises in
the papers.
Isn't it about time for corn husking
records to appear?
1t is said that Butler county will
average about half n crop of corn this
season.
Fourteen per cent of the butter made
at the Tonganoxie creamery is con-
sumed at home. Last month the out
put was 1904 pounds.
Citizens of Onaga raised purse OF
$51 to enable a young lady of that
town to go to New York, where she
had brother sick in a hospital.
Phillips county farmers, who are
long on corn, are buying shoats in
western Osborne county, where the
corn yield was not up to the standard.
That hoped-for railroad has not yet
reached Highland, but her people can
swell up some over the establishment
of a creamery and cheese factory at
that place.
Many cattlemen are riding over
Kansas now buying up their win
ter's supply of feed for their large
herds of cattle Thousands of head
&c 10 81 lav, I,,,, 4 he
winter, and this is bound to make an
advance in the price of feed
The proper time to begin to make
garden for next year is this fall,
Enough stable manure to cover the
soil at least an inch deep all over
should be thrown into a pile by itself
and frequently turned over until it is
thoroughly rottcd, which will be in .
few weeks. This prevents the ma
nure from firing, and gives the grasf
and weeds and opportunity to sprout
and to kill them so they will not in.
terfere with growing crops.
The sofa bean is proving to be one
of the most valuable crops that farm.
ers can grow as fodder crop foi
stock. The bean is rich and oily and
the fodder is very nutritious On good
soil and with good cultivation it will
yield from ten to twelve tons to the
acre and when properly saved for fod'
der ten tons will produce 24o pounds
of fat, /, $50 pounds of protein or flesh
forming food and 2,400 pounds of car.
bo-hydrates or heat-producing food.
The problem of cheap living appears
to have been solved at Wellington,
where club of eight young folks in
attendance at the county high school
get their board for 81. 10 week, this
including cooking, food and service.
1t is said if more members can be Sc
cured the cost can be reduced, al
though this must be pretty close to the
limit, unless the members draw on the
home folks for supplies which are not
included in the expense account.
In Trego county the steel range
CRATER is working his winning way
into the pocketbooks of the people.
There is at least one thing to be said
in favor of these travelling statesmen.
They are hustlers for trade. If the
local dealears bumped themselves as
hard for business as these travellers do,
the latter would find their occupation
gone, as the home mans prices are al
ways the lowest, says prominent
exchange.
Considerable excitement prevails in
the south part of Cowley county over
the discovery of lead and zinc ore, pro-
nounced rich, and it is believed in pay
ing quantities. The discovery is on
creek bottom east of Arkansas City
and so far is confined to a small tract
of land about two miles long and
half mile wide. For long time it has
been known that lead ore existed there
but no one supposed it was there in
any quantity. Wells have been dug in
the territory and after the rain had
settled the dirt taken out this ore in
small quantities has been found.
Because she was the first woman to
successfully attempt to lift sack con-
tanning 1000 silver dollars in the Kan
sas state treasury, Miss Anna Rose
should not get the idea that the wom-
en- of Kansas are a set of weallings, as
a class. There are hundreds and
thousands of good women in Kansas,
daily discharging their round of house
hold duties, who could perform the
feat as easily as Miss Rose. Not many
of these are to be found though, in the
class who have good time travelling
around seeing the sights
An inmate of the Clark county Jail
got on his high horse the other day
because the jailer's wife neglected to
put sugar in his coffee and threatened
to throw the liquid on the floor.