Hutchinson gazette., 1899-03-30
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTFREsE

A Topeka bride OF three months has
begun to make her husband sweep the
porch and bring in the clothes after
the weeks washing.
Spring shere, according TO the time
table, but any one with memory a
year long knows that this weather Ii
not the real spring article,
The need OF fire department is felt
at Humboldt, No town OF 1,700 inhab'
itants and over should be without
some means OF lighting fire.
The proper form Of venting malice
at present is TO have your enemy ar
rested on II criminal charge. Kansas
Is doing It's share Of this, which is na.
tion-wide.
Highlands creamery has been
obliged TO shut down on account Of
the condition OF the roads Drivers Of
milk routes have learned this season
what real grief is,
A Kansas boy who is with the Twen-
tieth Kansas says: my only wish
when they send us home is that II will
be by the OF New York. Then can
say have been around the world"
Little River down in Rice county,
isn't very big, but the town don't owe
a cent on earth as the last bond was
taken up last week; and the treasury
contains over $500 now--about one
dollar for every man, woman and child
in the town.
There is an Uncle Tom show work.
ing Kansas which has but one Marks
and one Topsy; no donkey and no
bloodhounds, A manager who will
sell tickets for a Tom show which has
no donkeys and no bloodhounds is
guilty of perpetrating grievous fraud
on the children of the land.
An experiment at the Kansas station
completed February 24th, with three
lots of pigs of six each, shows excel
lent returns from feeding skim milk,
as compared with alfalfa and cotton
seed meal. They were fed all the
ground kaflir corn they would eat in
addition TO the other feeds The skim
milk lot ate 40 per cent more grain
and gained 2.43 lbs. per day each,
against .sS lbs. for the alfalfa lot, and
.05 lbs. for the cotton seed meal lot
We quito often see accounts of large
gains made on short feeds, and we all
want to know how this is done. Four
weeks ago the Experiment Station
took charge OF four cows from the col
lege grade herd to fatten. The cows
were being fed a moderate milk ra-
tion, and were in good shape, They
were weighed three consecutive days,
the average of these three being taken
as the beginning weight. In the three
days weights there was variation,
from day to day, OF from 3 to 70 lbs
The cows were put on ration of Il
soy bean meal and q kafiir meal, with
corn silage and kaflir stover for rough
age ten days being taken to get them
on full feed, They were fed and wa
tered very carefully, and at the end Of
the first week, the four cows showed a
total gain of 900 pounds, or 1917 lbs,
per day, Here was the place to
talk of large gains. But the second
week showed loss OF nearly two
pounds per COW per day, while the
average gain for the four weeks is
little over lbs per day. Moral
Weigh more than once before you talk
large gains.
Hog thieves are doing business on
the wholesale plan in Norton county.
Their plan is to chloroform the pork
ers and then sneak them away.
S. Derby of Haskell county, has
threshed his cane and kaflir corn and
he had very good crop He had 4s7
bushels of cane seed from 10 acres,
making little over 25 bushels to the
acres; and 1876 bushels of kafiir corn
from five acres of ground, making over
80 bushels to the acre. Mr. Derby's
cane crop will pay him better than
wheat IL it was dollar a bushel.
John Moore, the murder of his chill
dren at Hutchinson, is insane. There
IS no motive behind his awful deed.
Brutality cannot explain his crime,
for beasts have parental love. There
are lots Of queer beings passing off for
men.
whats the matter with Kansas?"
Spinal meningitis, measles, whooping
cough, scarlet fever, smallpox and bad
weather, judging from the papers
from over the state; but invigorating
spring will soon be here and the MI
crobes will have to decamp
Cows worth $40, deprecated to $40
TO Sl9 all over western Kansas last
week. The assessor was around.