Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-04-01
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST

There is really nothing in name
Miss Lizzie Weyler, who lives out in
Dickinson county, was happily mar
lried 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; bat any one with a memory
year long knows that this weather is
not the real spring article.
The need of FIRE department is felt
at Humboldt. No town of /, ZOO 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 n 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 Twen-
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
in the town.
There is an Uncle Tom show work
ing Kansas which has but one Marks
and one Topsy; no donkey and no
bloodhounda A manager who will
sell tickets for Tom show which has
no donkeys and no bloodhounds is
guilty of perpetrating a ,grievous fraud
on the children of the land
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 kaffr 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.
nI1ito often of a
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-
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 3 to 70 lbs.
The cows were put on a ration of g
soy bean meal and q kaffir meal, with
corn silage and kaffir slower for rough
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 1917 lbs.
per day. Here was the place to
talk of large gains. But the second
week showed a loss of nearly two
pounds per COW per day, while the
average gain for the four weeks is q
little over 3 lbs. per day. Moral
Weigh more than once before you talk
large gains.
Hog thieves are doing business or
the wholesale plan in Norton county
Their plan is to ch1oroform the pork
ers and then sneak them away.
S. Derby of Haskell county, ha.
threshed his cane and kaffir corn anC
he had very good crop. He had 49,
bushels of cane seed from 10 acres
acres; and 195 bushels of kaffir corr
from five acres of ground, making Owe
80 bushels to the acre. MI. Derby
cane crop will pay him better thar
wheat if it was dollar bushel.
John Moore, the murder of his chill
dren at hutchinson, Is insane. Inert
is no motive behind his awful deed
Brutality cannot explain his crime
for beasts have parental love. Their,
are lots of queer beings passing off fol
men.
"What's the matter with Kansas?
Spinal meningitis, measles, whoopine
cough, scarlet fever, smallpox and baC
weather, judging from the paper
from over the state; but invigoratin!
spring will soon be here and the mi
crobes will have to decamp.
Cows worth $50. deprecated to 81
to S12 all over western Kansas las
week. The assessor was around.
Beaver county o. T. is to be conneete
with the outside world by the build
ing of telephone line from Liberal
Kansas, to Beaver, and another t
Hardesty. From Hardesty line vii
be built to blackberry, W. 7. Hun
gates ranch and Palo Dura. Fror
.Hardesty another line will run up tn
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