Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-01-14


reorganized.
Two young men of Morrill, got in
fight over the Collins verdict.
The women of Wichita have organ
lied a Twentieth Century club" and
none of them are more than half that
old
up in Kansas during the past winter.
Very few ice houses will be empty
next spring.
The wheat fields throughout Kansas
are looking fine and are growing every
day. The numerous rains this winter
has filed the ground with ample mois-
ture.
Fred Deissroth, Wilson boy, is
fireman in New York City, and twice
recently he received special mention in
the metropolitan dailies on account of
his nervy acts.
This week F. A. Dreaming will re-
tire from the Office of probate judge of
Doniphan county after ten years ser
vice. During that time he has issued
lila marriage licenses, and performed
the ceremony for 1913 couples.
| Gillett's failure brought Woodbine
| into prominence. The dynamiting of
the joint kept the notoriety of the
town alive. The next thing in the bid
| for public attention will have to be
| SomafhiDr Raroe on5 fOrcaf111 IF the
| town expects to keep up it's gait.
The receiver of the defunct First
National bank at Humboldt sold the
remaining assets of the bank at auc-
ton Seventy-fve thousand dollars
worth of notes, judgments and over
drafts sold for little less than thou
sand dollars; but Notwithstanding this
tremendous shrinkage, the receiver of
| the bank Will pay its depositors ninety
cents on the dollar.
An illustrated anecdotal character
sketch of the late General Garcia, the
! Cuban patriot, is contributed to the
January Review of Reviews by George
Reno, who was closely associated with
General Garcia for two years. The
frontispiece of the Review is portrait
| of General Garcia from a photograph
taken by Clinedinst, of Washington,
only few days before the generals
| death.
From a ton of cotton seed can be
| made 700 to 75O pounds of meal, 700 to
a. z
oil, and IS to 80 pounds of short lint
| The meal is worth 80 cents per hun
dred; oil 16 cents per gallon; and the
lint "a cents per pound; total value,
| 914.1O. The meal and hulls are all
! fed to cattle; the oil is used in culin-
airy, preserving and other purposes and
| the short lint is used in mattresses,
and to make into cotton batting.
No person who has an orchard ought
| to be so greedy as to think that he can
successfully raise crop of apples and
a crop of hogs in the same field. Hogs
may be good thing to keep down the
weeds in an orchard, but they will
also keep down the crop of apples as
we'll. No stock of any kind should be
kept in an orchard. The weeds should
be kept down by the use of a mower
and the disc harrow and after the trees
come into bearing the ground should
Stock of any kind, hogs, sheep, cattle
or horses will tread the ground hard
and cause it to dry out, and this will
rob the feeding rootlets of the trees of
the necessary moisture and nourish-
ment and keep the trees from bearing
crops of fruit.
| Notwithstanding the fact that the
past season has been poor apple year
many orchards over the state have
borne very profitable crops. Near
Florence, Marion county, the orchard
! of A. n. Allison & Sons has made the
following record: Forty-eight trees
set in 1870 bore 27O bushels of market
able apples besides those used by a
family of seven persons The fruit
was sold at prices ranging near one
dollar per bushel. This represents a
profit that no one need complain of,
and it may will cause surprise on the
part of those who think there is nc
profit in the fruit business in Kansas.
| Two points in the case are to be es-
pscia1ly noted. One is that the orchard
has been set twenty eight years, which
is longer than most Kansas orchards
are expected to live. The other is that
it has good filth. Neither cultivation
nor prouing has been neglected. There
can be no question but that to the
good filth which the orchard has re-
ceived is to be attributed, in part, the
long life of the trees and their present
productiveness The success of this
orchard ought to stimulate farmers tc
adopt the methods of culture that have
been employed in it. Good culture
can be depended upon to influence ar
orchard toward productiveness and
long life.
The stock yards station in Kansa.
City, Kans., is now handling eight
thousand pieces of first-class mai
every day.