The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-03-31
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AShihooh CouuVy5 was h"PPiAS
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.
Because of the burning of the skat-
Ing rink at Lawrence swell functions
will be held at one of the stock build
ings at Bismarck Grove,
Atchison thought it was going to
have hot time over the city election,
but il is not in it one time with the
contest at Leavenworth.
The young man in Rice county, Cry
tus Taylor, who wrote all his friends
goodbye, attempted suicide and failed,
must feel several degrees cheaper than
silver.
All newly appointed lieutenants
who live west of the Mississippi river
will be examined at Fort Leavenworth
as to their mental and physical quail
fications
An Atchison girl recently received a
box of candy by mail, but refused to
eat it. Her steady called around the
next night and identified the box as
one he sent.
A Fort Scott man who has entered
the Kansas liars contest says that
down in that country cyclone once
held COW up against the side of a
barn until the chattel mortgage run
out.
The Signal says that work on the
,Westmoreland railroad will begin just
as soon as the weather is settled; and
it can't settle too soon for the West
moreland people, who are as anxious
to hear the toot of the first locomotive
as the hosts of the saved will be to
hear Gabriel's blast on the Resurrec-
tion morn.
An experiment at the Kansas station
completed February oath, 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 kaffir 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 SO 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 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 a variation,
from day to day, of from to 70 lbs.
The cows were put on ration of q
soy bean meal and q kafir meal, with
corn silage and kaffir 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 300 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 a
little over 3 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
UnT6Sncu HIS Cduc anu hdulE COIu anu
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 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 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 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 $50, deprecated to SIC
to S12 all over western Kansas last
week. The assessor was around.
Beaver county o. T., is to be connected