The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1899-03-30
KANSAS ITEMS OF rxrr.Esr.

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST
There is really nothing in a name
Miss Lizzie Weyler, who lives out in
Dickinson county, was happily mar
ried this week.
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 is here, according to the time
table; but any one with memory
year long knows that this weather is
not the real spring article.
The need of a fire department is felt
at Humboldt. No town of ], 200 inhab-
itants and over should be without
some means OF fighting fire.
The proper form of venting malice
at present is to have your enemy ar
rested on criminal charge. Kansas
is doing its share of this, which is ma
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 TWEEN
tieth Kansas says: my only wish
when they send us home is that it 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 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 24tn, 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 kafir 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
.95 lbs for the cotton seed meal lot
We quite 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 moderate milk re-
ton, 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 a variation,
from day to day, of from to 20 lbs.
The cows were put on a ration of g
Soy bean meal and % kaffir meal, with
corn silage and kaffir slower 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 800 pounds, or TO- 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 q
little over lbs per day. Moral
Weigh more than once before you talk
large ga IS.
: Hog thieves are doing business on
the wholesale plan in Norton county.
Their plan is to chloroform the pork
S. Derby of Haskell county, has
threshed his cane and kafir corn and
he had q very good crop. He had 4s7
bushels of cane seed from 10 acres,
making a little over IS bushels to the
acres: and 1876 bushels of kaffir corn
from five acres of ground, making over
80 bushels to the acre. Mr.. Derby's
cane crop will pay him better than
wheat if it was a dollar 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 of for
men.
Whats the matter with Kansas"
Spinal meningitis, measles. whooping
.,ourh Scarlat fever Svna11rov and had