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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-12-13


bulbs in the ground and covers them
all over with dirt. 1 saw him do a
few this morning"
"Oh, that's it, in relieved voice;
Il didn't know, but it's lovely. If
they're bulbs there won't be any wilt
ing, and everything is sure to come
out all right. But where shall / get
them?"
IF you will permit me-" eagerly, 81
will be only too delighted. My garden
er shall bring them over and plant
them for you himself"
No. no." she protested; mot that
I must do the work. It's to be my
penance for frivolity last winter. Be-
sides, I'm going to like it It's SO
sturdy and Independent to labor"
-Of course it is" he agreed. well,
suppose don't say anything about it
to the gardener? There are lots of
bulbs in the greenhouse and store
room. I will pick out some of the
handsomest and bring them over my
self, Snd-help plant them-may I?''
She looked at him thoughtfully
why, yes; l don't know but you
may" she answered. You can tell
me how"
&,
rented. 81 will put on gloves. 1t will
be so G-oll. and-and nice. And it
is so unconventional. hope you don't
mind"
NO, I don't think 1 do We're next
door neighbors. you know. And 1
think I've heard of you in New York,
at-at-"
''The Manhattan" fnquiringly.
Yes, very likely - was the Man
haitian. I'm Miss Richardson, of For
ty-secone street"
Miss Olga richardson"
Yes"
Who visits a Miss Trelawney-Ol-
i've Trelawney?"
Her hands came together in pleased
surprise.
do you know. Olive? Why, she is
enc Oh my dearest friends"
Indeed, Isn't it delightful? My
sister knows her, and has heard her
speak about Miss Olga Richardson.
Really, it seems that We are old ac-
quaintances,- after ALL I will get the
chrysanthemum bulbs now and hurry
back But you must let me call this
afternoon to talk over old times
Certainly. it win be lovely
Ten minutes later he was back,
bringing as many large. plump bulbs
as he could carry; and with delight
fully profound remarks on the art OF
gardening, and the usefulness of la
Dor. they kneeled on opposite sides OF
tie trowel-carved bed and planted the
bulbs, one by one As the last tuber
was receiving its covering of soil q
deprecating face appeared at an open.
ing in the shrubbery.
-Ay We plase, sorr." an anxious
voice called, have yez been afther see
in any b'ys or tramps lurkin' aboutfs
Two or three last pats were given
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Asparagus.

Asparagus is found growing in very
few gardens in Oklahoma. 1t is easily
grown and makes a very nice dish in
early spring when people are hungry
for fresh vegetables. The plants can
be grown from seed. but it is best to
start the patch from clumps of roots
as it will be three or four years before
the seedlings are large enough to pro-
duce good stems. The plants should
be set in rows five feet apart and the
plants four feet apart in the row.
The plants should be placed so the
crowns will be about six inches be-
low the surface of the soil. The bed
should receive good clean cultivation
in the summer and a good coating of
manure in the winter. The old stems
should be removed in the fall. There
are several methods of forcing the
plants into early growth in the spring.
A simple method of forcing enough for
family use is to dig some large clumps
from the patch, retaining as much soil
as possible with the roots and place
on a hot bed. Keep the roots well
watered and growth will start In few
days. Good clumps will furnish several
cuttings but are of little value after
being forced in this way. Another
method is to spread fresh manure
deep enough over the ground to heat
This method acts much slower than
the one just described but doesn't de-
stroy the plants.-Bulletin Oklahoma
Station.
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sAGAcITY OF THE ANT.
Incident That Proves Existence ol
ReasoninQ Powers.


An interesting demonstration of tfp
intelligence of the ant was made by
a student in the biological department
OF the University of Pennsylvania re-
Gently. The young man constructed
j roadway, two feet in length, of
metal, and divided this into two paral-
lei paths, separated by high parti-
tion- One of the paths he painted
red and the other blue; and at their
end, in plain view, he put a morsel of
rich cake. Then he set an ant at the
beginning of the roadway. The ant
at once made for the cake over the
red path, whereupon the student
turned on a lamp under his mechan-
ism and heated the path to an uncom-
Portable degree. The ant kept on, and
finally secured the cake, but on its re-
turn it must have told itself that it
had had mighty uncomfortable jour-
ney- Several hours later the student
brought it out again, another morsel of
cake being set at the end of the road
v ay. The ant thought a moment. and
then started for the cake over the blue
path. 1t remembered that the red one
had been hot. To prove still more
conclusively that it remembered, the
student next blocked up the blue
rath, whereupon the ant did without
the cake rather than venture after it
by the red one.-Philadelphia Record.
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A DANGEROUS AFriendIy suII."

William T. Orbeton was pursued by
what he had always supposed a friend
ly bull at his farm on the side of
Dodge's Mountain the other afternoon,
and had an experience which was per-
ilous in the extreme. The animal was
one which had been partially dehorned,
but Mr. Orbeton with great pres
ence of mind managed to grasp the
stumps and held on for dear life The
angry bull shook him about as though
he did not weigh considerably more
than the average man, and failing to
dislodge him started for a nearby
fence with the amiabie purpose of i'm
paling Mr.. Orbeton thereon At this
critical struggle Mr.. Orbeton's bull
dog appeared on the scene and jumped
at the bulls throat The bull found
the dog very worthy antagonist, and
with the 1atter's teeth sinking more
deeply into his throat every moment,
diverted his attention from Mr. Or
beton to the dog. In . very short time
both were safe and the bull was forced
to realize that he had been check
mated In past years Mr.. Orbeton
has undergone considerable joking
about his love for dogs but he Is now
firmly convinced that the devotion he
has spent upon his canine friends has
been well repaid--Rockland Courier
Gazette.
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to the little moua6 which covered the
bulbs, then Mr.. Ware turned.
mo. Michael, not this morning." he
answered. "Why?'
"Becase some rapscallion's been
sthalin' the pertatfes / put aside for
plantin', sorr; bad cess to the nathur!
They was in a foine moo basket" He
stopped suddenly, adding: Il beg
pardon, sirr!" and disappeared behind
the shrubbery. The "foine moo basket
stood beside the newly-planted flower
bed empty.
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Feeding Fodder to Draft Horses

Feeding Fodder to Draft Horses
At a convention of stockmen. the
writer heard one of them assert that
Americans feed their horses too much
corn fodder, at least in that part OF
the country included in the corn belt.
The man that made the assertion was
one of the best-known horse breeders
in this country. His declaration was
contradicted by a horseman present.
who claimed that ne was feeding his
horses very largely on corn fodder.
There was a great deal of truth in the
declaration of the man at first re-
ferred to. The foreign buyers realize
the importance of this and are said to
discriminate sharply in favor of draft
horses raised outside of the corn belt
They take it for granted that the
horses raised outside of the corn belt
are fed on oats and other highly n1trog-
enous material. Perhaps they are
not quite right about this, for there
are few sections of this country in
which corn fodder is not raised in con-
siderable quantities for stock.
Horses raised in Belgium and ad-
joining countries are said to bring
good deal more than American raised
horses for the reason that 1t is posi-
lively known that they nave been fed
on high-priced nitrogenous feeds, such
as the American-bred draft horse sell
dom gets in the corn belt. OF course
the material out of which the feed Is
made up applies more to the feeding
of the growing horse than it does to
the feeding of the mature horse. Corn
fodder, though a valuable feed, is not
suitable to the building up of the
frame of the growing draft horse
When corn is added to it, as is often
the case, it becomes a ration still
more badly balanced. The horse that
has been compelled to subsist very
largely on corn fodder for long time
lacks life and spirit.
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salivate disappears and the new clo-
yer is recognized as valuable forage
crop to the community. In other In
stances, progressive stockmen buy the
seeds and plant them in the commun-
ity, where seeds have not been dis
tributed by natural means, and these,
in turn, are disseminated throughout
TIE soiis te. which the plant Is suited
by the agencies mentioned.
Seed should be sown in late spring
either upon well-prepared land or
the moist protected soils of partial
woodland. Usually a peck to one-haif
bushel of seed per acre is planted In
April and May, often in March. The
plant grows slowly at first, but with
a fair amount of rainfall it will es-
tablish itself and will remain green
through severe drouths until frost
The tiny violet bloom that occurs
during July and August is often over
looked. but the plant seeds the land
abundantly, and the crop OF clover
will repeat itself annually, Il soil and
seasons are favorable. In many por-
tfons OF the older states, where the
crop has been grown and cared for,
Lespedeza hay is highly priced for
al. kinds of stock, and its reclaim1n2
influence upon worn-out soils is highly
appreciated
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ENCHANTMENT.

Thato I
This ofo is rar
A Paradise
And s
And Joy
Because
BauseI you
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quest
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-ecause L oveyo you so S heart
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Saving Seed Corn.

from FARMERS ReVleW I1dSiAS
been a reader of the Farmers Review
for years I would like to say few
words about seed corn. Now is the
proper time to save it. At least, that
is my opinion from twenty years ex-
perience. When husking, select the
most perfect ears and throw them into
the front end of a wagon At night tie
them with twine, putting 20 or 25 ears
together. Then take a short piece OF
twine and tie them in the center.
Drive some large spikes into the cell
ing of the cellar and hang the corn
there until the following April
have followed this practice for years
and have never failed to have a good
stand of corn from seed SO secured
This is the secret of good crop. In
the spring it will lie longer in the
ground without rotting, win come up
stronger AID will produce more stalks
with ears on them than seed corn
kept in any other way. 1t takes per-
feet seed corn to make a perfect
stand. Good seed also gives an early
maturing corn and saves a great deal
Of labor and time.-A. T. Evans, Knox
county, Illinois.
(We would like to hear further from
our correspondent as 20 WHAT kluQ Oh
cellar he has. Many cellars are
damp, and In such 1t Is very doubtful
If seed corn could be successfully
kept--Editor Farmers Review)
An Old Story.
The Tonawanda Review says that
a number of farmers In Wyoming
county, New York, have bought ball
bearing" churns at 81 each; others
paid 5000 for territorial rights. The
agents introduced chemical into
the cream and made in two minutes
what looked like butter. The pur-
chasers of the churns can't make but
ter in them in two hours. The hfm-
Hammers are said to have taken 81 500
out Of the county.
How long will it take dairy farmers
to ind out that cheap "short cuts" to
wealth are not prohtablez As much
as the pepsin fraud has been ex-
posed in the agricultural press. one
would think that the farmers had
been pretty well Informed on the mat
ter.
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France has more .than four million
acres OF vineyards.
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Hatchina Chickens Artificially.

Matching Chickens Artihctai'y-
Matching chickens artificially by the
use of incubators has become a gem
eral practice on all poultry farms,
and its success is no longer ques-
toned, says Chas. S: Greene. There
are several very good machines on the
market and there are also some that
are practically worthless in the hands
of a novice. In purchasing machine
it would therefore be advisable to buy
one that you have seen or know 70 De
running successfully in the hands OF
some one besides the inventor. Every
manufacturer gives with the incubator
he sells explicit instructions for run
ming, which should enable any one
with a fair amount of ability and per-
sistency to hatch chickens success
fully, so it is not necessary to give
the directions here. We often hear
the remark that it is easy enough to
hatch chickens, but to raise them after
they are hatched is the most difficult
problem. Here is where the most
study, work and attention to details
is required, and the tales of woe that
occasionally come to us are very dis
couraging indeed, some stating that
they will give fifty dollars to know why
their chickens die. This, of course,
c&n only be ascertained by knowing
the exact conditions and the feed and
care the chickens receive. The meth
cd of raising chicks artificially is so
much superior to the natural method
that competition is entirely out of the
question, except for the small pro-
ducer. To begin with, good brooder
is necessary, as without it nothing
like success can be accomplished; and
no one can call it having good success
unless he can raise from eighty to
ninety per cent of the chickens
hatched.
Future Of Georgia Peach Orchards
If we succeed in OUTLYING the San
Jose scale and also outlive the glut
which threatens us, and which / think
is practically certain, those of us who
are peach growers of the incurable
habit may, if we persist and survive.
find a time when we can market our
peaches at fair profit to reward our
efforts and our patience, says H. A
Mathews. I do not believe that the
large corporation orchards will con-
tinue long in Georgia after we reach
the coming glut. They will find their
dividend making capacity gone and
will be --fst to succumb to the neees-
sity of meeting the new state of
things by going out of the business
and selling their peach orchard land
for cotton, corn and sweet potatoes.
The business will then, l venture to
predict, settle down to a basis of
moderate profits, not more or greater
than those of other branches of farm
ing in middle Georgia OF course
many an orchard will be cut down
and planted in the staple crops and
those who continue in the business
of growing fruits Will be the careful
hortfculturists whose superior care
and intel1iEcnc win make their sue
cess. They will produce finer peaches
and more of them ON the same amount
of land and the same number of trees-
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As she raised her eyes she looked
straight into a pair of admiring
ones.
about anything. Now this bed" turn
ing and regarding the little circle of
disturbed soil anxiously, has cost me
a lot of thought and labor I've been
Il Hing in it-with my own hands,
mind you-more than half an hour,
and of course 1 can't risk any uncer-
tainty- It's all ready now for its up
holstering-no, l mean it's farming
VIII you tell me where must get the
prize flowers. and would better plant
them or just stick one size In the
ground for-for slips-isn't it slips
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PROPOSALS FOR INDIAN SUPPLIES
Department OF the Interior ONCE of In
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Tuesday, April Is. 1902, for furnishing for
the Indian service, beef, flour, bacon,
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articles OF subsistence; also for boots and
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leather, shoe findings, saddlery, etc. hard
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worcester.

NEW YORK. March sS-Davis Bispham.
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ter. Mas. q few days ago. has fully re-
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