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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

five hundred dollars tax for township
bitches. and have spent as much more
in reclaiming some of this land. As
a result, | have dried out a good many
small scat holes" we call them
here, and am now in full use for crop
ping purposes of a few tracts con-
tanning one to three acres, once boggy,
worthless swamp land.
1t should be said that in this coun-
try we have three distinct kinds OF
muck land: One kind is springy and
is always soft and miry, summer and
winter. This land is productive when
once dried out, but most efforts to
drain it have proved dismal failures
Within two miles of my home are sew
eral tracts of two to ten acres. which
have been ditched with great expense.
and have produced a few crops OF po-
tatoes, cabbages, onions and celery,
but the cost of keeping the bitches In
working order was too great. and some
wet season has "swamped" them. so
that now, their last condition is worse
than the first; they are covered with
bogs and the coarsest, most worthless
grass.
The third kind of soil is found in
our marshes" which are generally
cut for hay. Many efforts to plow
these and seed to tame grasses have
been made, but with poor success
Timothy and red-top soon run out, and
the tendency is for a poorer. coarser
quality of grass to take their place. l
believe the best way to use this land
is to SOW at times seed of tame grasses
and harrow the sod over. so that a
better quality of hay can be cut on
these natural meadows; but l think
- - hn n q
stroyed by the plow. 1 prize the hay
from this land very much for some
uses, as l have written you before. All
my attempts to reclaim the springy
land first mentioned, have been fail
ures. 1 am well acquainted with the
celery lands of Kalamazoo and other
places which are of a similar char
acter, but these are only kept in use
by an extensive system of open
bitches, which control the outflow OF
the springs and fit the land for those
special crops For this class of land
the best way is to get it and keep 1t
in grass. For this purpose it is very
valuable, especially during our dry
summers. Stock will feed on these
spots day after day, while upland is
dry and barren in the hot months.
would summarize by saying that
in general way for farmers the best
use to make of all spTingy and swamp
land as distinct from marsh meadows
is to use them for pasture, and for pas
ture only, never disturbing the orig
inal sod, but introducing tame grasses
as fast as possible. If I had adopted
this principle twenty-five years ago
it would have saved me great expense
and disappointment.-S. w. Gibson.
Eaton County. Michigan
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

From Farmers Review: What fruit
can q farmer raise for his own c-e
with the least trouble? I would say
apples, pears, cherries, for long-Hved
trees; peach and plum. particularly;
Wild Goose. Abundance. Fools Pride
(fsr pie). Lombard and Burbank piums
Tor quick results in tree fruits.
ounces of the orange variety are easi-
~ grown and the trees are productive
lie can grow the Houghton, Downing.
Pearl and Red Jacket gooseberries and
Tor currants, Fay, Pomona, Red Cross
and White Grape. Among the black
berries | would name Snyder, Stones
Hardy and Erie. Among the blackcap
raspberries he will find Kansas, Gregg
and Columbian of value; for reds /
recommend Loudon and Scarlet Gems.
strawberries are very productive but
need great deal of care and culture
to give good results. Huckleberries
and barberries (an excellent substi-
tute for cranberries) are very produc-
tive here. even under neglect. No plant
VIII do well and raise itself. the better
culture, the better results.
The Farmers Review has asked tho
question, How shall we encourage
the raising of fruit ON the farm"
answer (a) By citing the experience
of many successful growers in all sec
t1ons, having them tell how they ac-
cCmplished these results; (b) by teach
1-g through farm papers practical
plant physiology. as well as some #
the simple facts of culture, also point
inS out the diseases and how to cope
against them; (c) by encouraging me
planting of varieties of known merit.
leaving experiments with new and
fancy sorts to our experiment stations;
(d) since fruit growing pays better
than anything else on the farm, farm
ers should be encouraged to make it
department of their vocation. the
same as poultry or stock.
have been asked this question,
How many farmers in your vicinity
raise all the fruit their families can
use?" In answer 1 will say less than
one in ten; but in this respect condi-
tions are very rapidly improving
J. w. Griesemer, Tazewen County.
Illinois.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRi-
CUITuRlSTS.
Some Up-to-Dats Hints About Culti-
walton of the Soil and Yields
Thereof-HorticuJture viticuiturs and
Horticulture.
Notes on Iowa Experiments.


At the Iowa Agricultural College, To-
Gated at Ames, Iowa, there have been
carried on for number of years in
teresting experiments with field crops
One cannot help wondering what would
result if the common farmers of the
country went to work in as syste-
matte a manner as do the men at these
colleges. The volume of agricultural
products turned out would be immense
ly increased.
About so varieties of corn were tried
in 1898 and in 1899. In 1900 the nine
teen best varieties were selected for
field work. Five of the best varieties
yielded from 90.9 to 1908 bushels per
acre. while the poorest of them yield
&c 52-5 bushels per acre. Yet this lat
ter yield is far ahead of the average
yield of corn in the United States or
in Iowa 1t is interesting in this con-
nection to note the annual yields OF
corn in bushels in the state of Iowa
They were as follows: 1891, 36.7; 1892,
28.3; 1893, 33.9; 1894, Is; 1895, 35.1;
1896. SO; 1897, 20; 1898, 35; 1899, 81;
1900, 38. Yet at the experiment sta
ton of that same state the lowest
yield was more than 13 bushels better
than the best average for the years
quoted. This shows what method will
do. 1t illustrates the truth that If
man knows what he should know about
the cause and effect of cultivation, the
conservation of fertility and the result
of methods of culture he can be rea-
sonably certain of having a good crop
almost any year.
The average results at the station
for two years gave 71.9 bushels per
acre with deep cultivation, and S2.4
with shallow cultivation. This bears
out the opinions expressed by SO many
readers of the Farmers Review that
deep cultivation is harmful for corn,
and that shallow cultivation is the
only kind that should be given it, The
difference of IL bushels per acre. as
shown here, is very marked
Sorghum was sown under the best
OF conditions and gave 20 tons of green
feed per acre, equal to II tons of sor-
ghum hay. After the barley was har-
vested in July sorghum was sown and
by September 20 was well headed and
stood z feet high. 1t yielded II tons
to the acre and was cured into tons
of sorghum hay. This illustrates the
ease Win WHICH an dQuGu supply VI
winter forage may be obtained after
the grain crops are gathered.
Their experiences in growing rape
were no less striking. Rape sown May
"a and harvested September 10, gave
21 tons of green feed to the acre. Still
better results were obtained when six
pecks of oats and one pound of rape
seed were sown together in the spring.
A 60-bushel oat crop was obtained and
Is tons of rape. This was in 1899 On
the following year the same combina-
ton was again tried on upland and
lowland. On the lowland the rape grew
SO rank that the oats were entirely
smothered cut, but on the upland a
good crop of each was harvested.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08

From the Farmers Review. In this
county (Champaign) potatoes are no
more profitable to grow than corn. and
not one farmer in one hundred grows
potatoes for market. To get the best
results with potatoes it is necessary
that the soil be rich. Deep fall plow-
ing gives the best results here The
planting should be done as early in
the spring as possible The after cuI-
ture must be very thorough I would
rather grow potatoes than corn--L~ s.
Spencer, Champaign County Illinois.
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would Not Pro~ nay marshes.

From the Farmers Review. When,
more than fifty years ago. my father
went from Western New York, to look
over Southern and Central Michigan.
he returned saying that about one
third of the country was waste land.
owing to the many marshes, large and
small. Now for about thirty years
have been having active experience In
h6ndlfnE this land. and have nov
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-02-08
Irrlea tion In tho Humid states.

DIR. A. C. True, Director of the Cfice
of Experiment Stations at Washing
ton, says: During the past two years
more miles of irrigation canal have
been built and more money expended
for pumping plants to furnish water for
irrigation in the state of Louisiana
than in any of the arid states. The
application of irrigation to growing
rice has raised the value of large areas
of land from IS and $40 an acre to $50
or 500 an acre, and promises to make
the United States an exporting instead
of an importing country SO far as this
product is concerned. At the request
of those interested, Mr.. Frank Bond, ir-
rigation expert, has been detailed to
aid in the solution of the problems
created by this new form of agricul
ture along the Gulf coast and Mr.
George H. Keeney is making similar
Investigations along the Atlantic sea-
board. In the Mississippi Valley pro-
vision for the experimental use of wa
ter in irrigation was begun in 1900 in
Wisconsin under the direction of Prof.
F. H King, and in Missouri under the
direction Of Prof. III. ]. Waters. The
work in New Jersey, inaugurated the
year previous, has been continued. The
severe drouth of 1901 has given a more
than local interest to these efforts to
provide a water supply, whenever need
ed, for the lands of the humid states.
The director of the Missouri expert
ment station states that their irriga-
tion experiments are being watched
by the farmers Of that state with more
interest than any work previously at
tempted by that station
skimmIIk the Hog Ration.
At the Utah station some expert
ments made in feeding skim milk to
sions being drawn:
Skim milk when fed In combination
with grain makes a very valuable food
for hogs at all periods of their growth.
but particularly so during the earlier
periods.
Skim milk and grain in combination
make a much more economic ration for
hogs than either milk alone or grain
alone.
When fed in combination with grain,
skim milk has 6S per cent greater
feeding value than it has when fed
alone
The hogs fed on the milk and grain
ration made much more rapid gains
than either those fed on milk alone
or grain alone
When the skim milk and grain were
fed in the proportion of three pounds
or less OF skim milk to one of grain,
the return for the skim milk was
greater than when a larger proportion
was fed
Hogs fed on milk alone gained very
slowly and did not keep in good
health: in some cases they were on
their feed SO frequently that change
OF feed had to be made The milk and
grain fed hogs. however. without ex-
ception, kept in good health
Young hogs fed on grain alone did
not do well and appeared TO make
poor use or the food they ate.
Those hogs fed on milk alone o.
Erain alone Whan on pa&fnrs dld mnsk
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-25
SPECULATIVE GOSSIP

johnson, from McReyonlds The sentiment
In grain has changed somewhat, the feeling
being that markets have had enough decline.
Exporters have bought literally Of wheat at
the decline, and some corn was sold to-day
for direct export This gave market hrmer
tone and considerable buying by shorts was
noticeable. A slight rally from present prices
would be in order, but we cannot see how
prices can work much higher.
The weather map shows additional rains in
Missouri and Kansas
- Chicago to Whallon, Case & Co.: General
outlook on wheat rather bearish this morning.
Weather conditions nearly perfect; cool with
showers predicted for next "a hours. Re-
ceipts all kinds of grain overrun estimates.
English and continental markets show heavy
tone in face of our firm closing OF yester-
day. 49,
New York to Stephens: Wheat opens ac-
tive. with foreign selling orders of December
wheat and scalpers playing both sides.
Liverpool wheat closed 34d higher; corn sd
lower. tGNzi -.r-s1
somewhat friendly, but the crowd seems
afraid to take hold. There is q good de-
mand for July, which is adding strength to
May Leaders are not much in evidence.
Weather map this morning shows light rain
or snow in the extreme northwest: general
rains in northwest and local rains in Kansas.
Missouri Nebraska, Iowa and Tennessee. In
the extreme north. and northwest 1t is cloudy,
with higher Temperatures, q to a above.
West and southwest partly cloudy. 90 to So
above - l.-f
Lohrke wires his house here: Export wheat
prospect poor; only few scattered loads
likely on declines. ----sz--...
Liverpool close: Wheat. Nd lower; CORN
ssd lower
Clearances: Wheat and -four, $4,000 bus
corn A GOO; oats, % 600. .
New York reports is loads wheat for ex.
port -. .-..-
Chicago. March 25.-Reports to Richardson
& Co. from their travelling man in Texas say
the weather has been good and that ali crops
look fine. The northern and central part
will have a good average wheat crop. The
panhandle has improved since the rains and
half crop is expected. A letter from south
western Kansas said the best men there esti-
mate wheat crop average 40 to 80 per cent.
A letter from Wellington. Kan, says pros
poets are improved. but place damage at %
to IS per cent. ---szg
). Antwerp-Close: Wheat, unchanged
!, Paris-Close: Wheat, unchanged to 10 Gems
times lower: -four, 10 centmes lower.
Berlin closed 1sc higher; Budapest, holiday.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-25
THE CASH TRADE
Inquiry for May Flax-Other Grains
Were Active. 81 ~ ,

Were Active. 81 ~
FLAX-There was inquiry noted for the
May delivery and q trade. in May. was made
at $1-75, although the later quotation was ID G
lower. The spot market showed better gen
eral tone, and there, was continued firm
market and good demand. No. l sold at ST. "a
and rejected brought $1:73.s 81, = :.,ass F-$F
Receipts were cars, compared with IA last
year, and shipments : cars. Duluth had II
market and good demand. No sold at 81 ~
Duluth-Oash, $172%; on track, $1,72A; to
arrive, $1.72%;5E May, STA; September,
:: cORN-The market was active on a price
basis unchanged to a shade ,t1rlner, No. 4
was traded in freely around 511ac5 and up to
SIC No. 8 yellow, corn closed at. 5s1g@55c.
Receipts, "a cars; shipments. 6 cars.
- / OATs-AThe market was active, but shower
no recovery from yesterday,s Dip 10. %
cars; shipments, Is cars. >5"~%a' ]''.3,
FEED AND - MIlAL-Cearse, corn meal
and cracked corn. SRo; No. feed, s2l;
per barrel. ..t.. .. ...,t 49, .,... =, "a.
:. MILLsTUFFs--Br in bulk is quoted
at at s12 50dl2. 10 per ton 4 bulk shorts,
$15.75@16; feed in 20O-lb sacks, 81 per ton ad-
ditional; in 1GO-lb sacks, $3.50 per ton addi-
tional. Shipments. ! 100 tons. .'s-s- !
.BARLEY-The market was fairly active and
little frmer.: Ne, 4 sold at 5S1ac and No. 5
and mailing grades, 57@63c. Receipts, 3 cars
shipments, car q. - ..At. ....' s. .,.-.s e. -,
RYE-The market was weaker and lower
No. closed at 52Ac. Receipts 3 cars; ship
HAY-Upland fancy, s7.5o@S; upland, choice
$7@7.50; No l, 81; midland, $6@625; medium,
'S5.76G6; Timothy, CHOICE s11@1150; rye straw,
choice, $464.5o. Receipts, 30 tons; shipments,
80 tons.
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IN PRICES SHOW SLIGHT CHANGES
The Market Very Quiet and Hest
Is tating Show Of Firmness
at the Close.
LIVERPOOL IN WAITING MOOD
TorId's Visible Decreased 100000
ny Bu.--News and Gossip of the
H. Grain Trade.

Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, March
25-ExtreQe dullness ruled in all the grain
markets this morning There was not enough
trade to hold the market even against very
moderate selling. and May sagged to 69Bc
after an hour. The, pit traders were very
undecided lot They did not like to be bears
tn,Yiew Of the late decline and present COM
. paratiYely low price range, and they were
afraid TO turn bullish after the recent dis
Hastrous experience on the long side. ON the
Whole, sentiment favored a moderate upturn,
bat everyone waited for someone else tottaks
thsS initiative Liverpool was off hd at the
close. New York wired that the cash wheat
cables were little more favorable and there
were some acceptances from abroad. From
thsssouthwest it was the same story; rain and
more rain. That the winter wheat is IN good
shape no longer admits of doubt, and the
question now IS whether the prospect for
good yield has been sufficiently discounted
in the decline to the present figure Any
upturn must start here and cables have less
than the ordinary Significance as Liverpool
for the, time has dropped all pretenee at lead
ership and Is following our lead closely.
Richardson Of Chicago had liverpool cable
. saying that 1t was utterly impossible to stir
up the least enthusiasm there in the face
Of rthe- present tone Of encouragement IN
American markets.
Bradstreets figures for the change in the
worlds visible supply, show a decrease OF
1000, 900 blu. The quantity east Of the Rock
les increased by 100000 bu, and the Quantity
in Europe and atoat decreased ], 100000 ou.
Receipts at primary points were 442.eOo ou,
compared with 624, 900 blu last year, and ship
ments were $4,000 bu, compared with 1854 0oo
blu. Wheat and -four clearanees equaled 3d.
0O0 bu. Receipts at Minneapolis were 10Y
cars, and at Duluth 1885, against 30 and 15S
last year. T. .,f!~N&s- -. .y,r'>. 81,
The market closed steady at prices not par
tieularly changed from yesterday May closed
at TOYS 9T0Ac:. July at 7lAc; September, 1870.
Chicago May closed at T254c. y.
There practically no change IN the
cash market. Demand was good. and the
quist option gave a correspondingly narrow
range ON; cash sales. 4, The basis OF trading
wastthe same as yesterday. No. | northern
brought 711a@711Sc. A few cars OF No. hard
came in and sold at F21ac. No. 2 northern
sold at $3.50 for the bulk. with few scat
tered sales at 691ac. No: wheat sold from
6S3sc tor. musty to 500 for choice, averaging
SS5sc. An active trade was noted IN low
grades. and rejected and no grade were sala-
BILE from 6G1sc down to Coo. >, ! a.
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MONEY REPORTS

* NEW YORK, March 25.-Close: Money on
call, firm at 41a@4A per cent, closing bid
and asked, 43k@4A per cent; sterling ex,
change firm, with actual business tn bankers,
bills ats:s4 SIX for demand and at 81. sas@
Assn for go days; posted rates, w. 70 and
81 SSjh: commercial bills, 81 S4AQ4. so1s. Bar
silver, sage; Mexican, dollars, 4SAc. Govern
nent. bonds, steady; state bonds inactive;
railroad bonds, irregular. Exchanges, $780,
446, 1873; balances, $8,904,940
MINNEAPOLIS = Bank clearings, 81, So4,
439. 33; New York exchange selling rate, 200
premium, buying rate Soc. discount: Chicago
exchange, selling rate 10c premiumy buying
rate 4oc discount: London 60-day sight docu-
m ST. FA6 f:s15si ssss,271.5a.
CHICAGO, March 25-clearings, $2S, $50, 1896;
balances $2,0307so posted exchange, SO
for 80 days; 81 .sS1a on demand; New York ex-
change. par. ...s4
= BOsToN,, March 25.----Exchanges, $24. boa, 07e;
balances, $1,779,27 s... - i...--
BALTIMORE, March 25:-Clearings. 81, $685.
312; balances $723, 473. =
PHILADELPHIA March 25-Clearings,
s18 944 1888; balances $3,02S,1s9. SGT; esyis9ss..t
PARIS, March 25,-Three percent rentes,
100 francs 82A confines; exchange on London,
Is francs 1S1h centimes. a. - 49,.
BERLIN March H.-Exchange on London,
20 marks 461s pfennigs. Discount rates: Short
and three months bills 2 per cent The
weekly statement tof the Imperial Bank of
Germany shows the following changes: Cash
in hand increased 100000 marks: treasury
notes decreased 36O, 600 marks; other securities
increased 100000 marks; notes In circulation
increased 2O,ss0,000 marks. .,-,.Ns
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INVESTMENT GOSSIP

New York to L. T. sowle: Crop weather
railway earnings, a possible furry in money
and the chances of u coal strike continue the
subjects most discussed in Wall street An
other year of prosperity should put Southern
Pacific at par. .g.s 5I
Canadian Pacific earnings, third week OF
March increase $780, from July ], increase
$4,S7O,094 81 80,
New York to Watson: It Is reported in,
stock circles tonight that ]. r. Keene will
return from Florida within week and there
is much discussion as to his market inten-
tons. During his stay at Palm Beach the
market has been very largely In hands Of
Chicago capitalists end speeulaters; the Moore
Brothers, John W. Gates and Leeds. who.
and absence Of liquidation. to markup t6sifi
Pet staehk,s rae e STOCKS have
return Of the last.named operator, however,
on shares
friends Quote him as verg bu lllllish on the
have advised, while on His vacation, the pur.
chase Of his faVorits properties
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LONDON FINANCIAL
Conso1s and Quotations of American
49, Securities...i.a.s,:..&' 90 b.. :

London, March Is AConsols for money,
81 lis = consols for account, @94as; Anaconda,
81; ,Atchison, 7sN;s Atchison preferred, 100;
Baltimore Ohio, los1a; Canadian Pacific,
:11sA Chesapeake & Ohio, 46aA Chicago Great
Western, PAX !; Chicago. Milwaukee st. Paul,
171A; Denver & Rio Grande, AN; Denver &
Rio Grand preferred, 9aA; Erie, 38hs; Erie
first preferred, 7o5s; Erie second preferred,
5sHa; Illinois Central 145As:: Louisville &
Nashville, .1o8h; Missouri, Kansas & Texas.
AH: Missouri, Kansas, & Texas preferred,
551a; New York Central, 167; Norfolk & West
ern, ETY.; Norfolk & Western preferred, 90;
Ontario & Western, 1914; Pennsylvania; TN
Reading 30; Reading first preferred, AIN
Reading second preferred, IS; Southern Rail-
way 33M; Southern Railway preferred, s9h
Southern Pacific, 667s; Union Pacific, 1924 ,
Union Pacific preferred, 90; United States
Steel, 43s United States Steel preferred, 96A:
Wabash, @A; Wabash preferred 1874; Span
Bar, silver. dull. ~ 1916. Money, 2%@a per
cent. - sn@t& --y3~ e6. ~ + =.
Rands, p; DeBeers. 1874. 4...%z g.>s:.s.
The rate of DISCOUNT in the open market
for short bills is 2l1-i602K per cent. The
rate Of discount in the open market for three
months bills, 2& per cent. IS. - @&R =, z,
Bullion to the amount Of 100000 was with
drawn from the Bank OF England to-day for
shipment to Bermuda. ~.
Gold quotations.: Buenos Aires, al. 50; Ma
.drid, 1922; Lisbon, 20; Rome. 20.2e. - .