Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-11-24
KANSAS ITEMS or INTEREST.

state superintendent Stryker Is op'
posed to begging In the public schools
NJ Kansas for any purpose
Anumber OF easter npeoplo are look
ing over Kansas with view Of locat'
Ing.
A map 1end worked the good citi'
rens Of Reading out OF two hundred
dollars.
November 18th was celebrated nt
Manhattan college rs flower day, and
big time they hnd,
Shawnee county this week sends n
delegation OF eight TO swell the num-
her OF inmates In the state penlten-
tlary.
VIII Berroth the town handy man
Of Alma, can handle telegraph key,
keep books, teach school, butcher or
dig well, and IL 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 u lame shoulder,
And now, candidates, hasten TO the
front with your sworn statement Of
election expenses, The voters on foot
ARE anxious 10 know what II costs 10
80 up In victory or down In defeat
The story is out that Kansas man,
while eating oysters in restaurant,
found n pearl worth 81, II may be
true, Of course, but II sounds more like
nm attempt TO boom the sale Of oysters
The Plainvllc Journal carries stick
or 10 Of nonpurcil at the head OF the
editorial columns telling where the
town is, and giving IN idea OF the adj
vantages and possibilities OF the coun-
try surrounding IL,
In Kansas 10000 farmers send milk
TO creamerics 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 a rich cattleman,
was recently found dead beside the
Iron Mountain rallroad track about
ten miles south OF Coffoyville. The
section hands were going out to work
and discovered the body, which had
been cut entirely In two, and loading
II on their hand-car, took 1t back to
Lenapah.
The boss OF u railroad work train on
the Missouri Pacific has thirty ox.vol-
unts in his gang, and he says they
are the ocSt workers in the lot. The
explanation Is supple, When there is
. job OF digging to be Zone the boss
charges up and down the line with
blazing light in his eyes and pick In |
his hand, shouting to the boys that the
Spaniards are coming, and for them TO
bestir themselves in throwing up in
,trenchments, The result OF army drill
Is then apparent, for the volunteers
fall TO heartily from force OF habit,
and fairly ill the air with dirt.
Many farmers in the state succeed
but poorly In keeping sweet potatoes
during the winter months, The hor-
ticuivural 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
peraturc from 45 TO 70 degrees. The
temperatures are noted daily and fire.
quent examinations made to note the
soundncss of the potatoes, Along with
the temperature test, the attempt will
be made to determine whether stor-
age medium, such US sand, chaH or
charcoal has any influence in preserv-
ing the soundness Of the potato,
During the summer Of 1893 the agri-
cultural college dairy made an invcs.
tigation Of the patrons of the Mcrden
creamery to ascertain the income they
were realizing per COW for milk sold to
the creamery. The poorest herd aver
aged per cow, 1854 annually and the
best one Si9,O0, making difference of
S34.55 per COW. Taking the poorest
Ave herds the average per COW is So44,
and for tho best five S33,74, u differ
ence of S2i,30 or 257 per cent Where
records have been kept it has been
found that IL takes from SEQ to $40 to
pay for keeping a cow 1t will thus
be seen that as far rs milk Is concern
cd the cows from the poorest herds are
running their owners in debt, the only |
redeeming feature being the value of
the calf produced. These figures illus
trate very clearly the need and like
wise the possibility of materially in
creasing the income from the dairy