The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-11-04
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

snow on the night of Oct. "a.
There is but one criminal case on
the Mcpherson county court docket
Some mighty fine hogs are now be-
ing fattened for the markets little
later on.
Alfalfa is growing in favor among
Southern Kansas farmers. Secretary
Coburn ought to devote chapter to it
in his next report
The shot gun pulled from under
wagon seat muzzle first is now out
chasing the corn harvester when 1t
comes to making bloody record.
Secretary Coburn says: Vegetar-
ians have inveighed against eating
pork, and theologians have pointed to
the warnings of Moses and the sad
fate that befell the swine of Gadara;
but he has hardihood indeed who can
inveigh with sincerity and real earn
estness against the juicy ham or deli
cate side-meat of well-bred hog rear
ed on alfalfa, the blossoms of clover,
the sweet skim-milk from the dairy,
and finished on product of a Kansas
corn field.
The State Labor Commissioner has
made report from which it appears
that there are now 2,4S5,317 acres of
land for sale or subject to homestead
in Kansas. He says there are 1,044,-
500 acres of government land subject
to homestead or presumption. All OF
it is west of the sixth principal meri-
dian, which runs close to Wellington
in Sumner county, and Clyde in Repub-
lie county There is not an acre OF
government land in the district OF the
Topeka land Office.
A man claiming to be Rough Rider
showed up at Oberlin last week and
panhandled his way for few days on
the strength of what he claimed was
his war record. He borrowed revol-
yer which he forgot to return, and
cashed a forged check before he got
ont of town, and the next man claim
ing to be Rough Rider will have to
show credentials before he succeeds in
getting into the good graces of the
people of Oberlin Judging from re-
ports which appear in the various pa
pers the country is fairly getting lousy
with alleged Rough Riders.
The Kansas Agricultural college has
taken up new line of experiment,
says the Boston Cultivator, and we
shall watch with much interest the re-
suits They have purchased herd of
good average Kansas COWS, weighing
from 1000 to LOO pounds, and not
particularly of the dairy type as it is
understood, but such as many good
farmers in that state and others must
RELY upon for their principal stock.
They will try to see if good food and
good care will enable them to produce
the dairy products at a profit from
such cows, and, if there is profit, to
see how it compares with the profit
from cows of the true dairy type, ami
mails from stock bred for generations
for dairy purpose. This will consti-
tute valuable object lesson for stu
dents and for those who read the bull
letins of their experimental work or
the papers which republish them. But
to make the experiment complete they
should take the best of these cows and
mate them with good bulls of dairy
families, raise the heifer calves with
care and ascertain how much better
such grade stock may be than the
cows it is bred from.
The recent order sent out by the
postoffice department requiring the
prompt payment of box rent makes
postmasters more trouble than any
thing else under the sun.
! The Harvey Country Poultry asso-
citation will hold it's annual poultry
show in Sedgwick, December 10 to IA.
The premium list will be out Novem-
Der l. Special premiums are offered,
amounting to $3.50. w. S. Russell, of
Ottawa, Ia, will judge the show. He
is said to have national reputation in
this line.
Bremen will have calico ball soon;
not that her people have to dress in
that kind of goods, but it's the thing
to give calico balls.
The folks in the Oketo neighborhood
welcomed Herman Heyers home one
day last week. He left there few
years ago and has been trying to make
it in Missouri. He has seen the error
of his way, however, repented, and
will not repeat the offense. A man
who has any kind of decent hold in
Marshall county has no excuse for let
ting go.
Neodesha voted bonds to the amount