The Advocate and news., 1899-02-22

Concordia Empire: Senator Lupfel
has introduced a bill that classifies but
ter in five ranks, and compels keepers Oi
restaurants, boarding houses, ETC., to put
cards on the table telling what particular
grades OF butter are used. If we are any
judge Of butter we think the bill entirely
inadequate Five degrees won't begin to
express the rankness of lots of butter
brought to town in midsummer. The
Senator ought to include provision fol
telling the age of spring chickens served
the toughness Of the beefsteak and the
strength of the coffee.
Oklahoma City Daily Times Journal:
The hen is proving an important trade
auxiliary. Think Of five cars of poultry
month, and nobody trying to work up
the business until three months ago. The
business is on the increase, and we have
no doubt that during the months of No
vember, December and January next,
the trade will be quadrupled. Now that
fixed and constant market Is estab-
lished, farmers will all largely increase
their flOcks. The trade will be extended,
and the business will be so great that
people will wonder where the fowls come
from.
Atchison Champion: A Walnut man
living south Of town has novel way Of
clearing very obstinate brush land. He
keeps lot of razor-back hogs, Arkansas
variety. He encloses something like a
half acre at time in movable pens, puts
these hogs into the enclosure and it is
only matter of few days when 10!
every vestige of plant life has disap-
peared, both root and branch. When a
good sized shoat Of this variety gets its
long slender anchOr-shaped snoot ad-
justed to the base of a jack oak or
boulder, the leverage 1t exerts is simply
irresistible.
Ottawa Herald: The newest thing that
has appeared in Kansas politics Is the
"knocker" He is much in evidence.
He's smooth man who endorses you to
your face and then stabs your character
when you are gone. He goes with you
into the presence of the Governor and
lauds you; then he comes back to the
Governor, after you have taken the first
train for home, and withdraws his en-
dOrsement He is the arch hypocrite
Newton Republican,: One reason why
corn is bad feed for fowls if that the
grains being large and fed shelled the
fowls eat so fast that they eat too much
for their own good.
WestmoreIand Recorder: The Depart
ment of Agriculture Is doing all that it
can to make the best Of bad matter
the free seed distribution. In his annual
report the secretary states that the di-
vision Of botany has been intrusted the
task Of testing all the seeds sent out by
the department, not only those Of the reg
ular departmental distribution, but those
imported through the recently es-
tablished section Of seed and plant intro
duction and those procured in other ways
for the experimental work Of the vari-
Gus divisions. Never before has the de-
partment distributed seeds of higher pu
rity and germative capacity than during
the past year. Furthermore, an elabor-
ate series Of field tests was made to ascer-
tain whether the seeds were really Of the
varieties stipulated in the contract. 1t
was found that in several cases the va
rieties were wholly at variance with the
contract, seeds Of cheaper varieties hav-
ing been substituted, presumably by the
subcontractors. The fact that these va
rieties were not true to name could not,
of course, be ascertained for several
months after the seeds were distributed,
but portion of the purchase money was
withheld, pending the result Of the field
tests, and a commensurate reduction
was made in the price paid for the seed.
The principal beneficial result Of this
action is expected to lie in its warning to
future contractors that they will be paid
for no inferior seeds, whether this inferi-
ority is due to themselves or to their sub
contractors.
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