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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-19

Prof. J. ]. Ferguson, formerly OF
the Michigan station, says: About
three or four weeks before the SOW is
due to farrow feed her a greater
amount of bran or shorts than former
ly; from a week to ten days we do
not give her any roots. You can best
feed young pigs by feeding the moth
er, feed good, stimulating rations when
the pigs are a week old, but remember
that heavy, full feed is apt to throw
her out OF condition and milk fever
Is liable to set in. Do not at this time
feed barley or corn meal, especially
barley. A good many men in the bar
ley districts of Ontario tried feeding
the surplus to the pigs when the
American market failed them, and in
consequence many Of their brood sows
died. If there is any business that
could be run proftably in connection
with our swine raising it is dairying.
There is no food that will take the
place of milk for young pigs for
time after they are separted from
their dams. 1t should be fed to them
with meal ration of two parts shorts,
two parts fine oatmeal and one part
bran. We feed as high as 80 pounds
OF skim milk and pay as high as rs
cents to 26 cents per cwt. for the
milk. With skim milk we can carry
young pigs along cheaper than in
any other way. 1t should not, how
ever, be fed without the meal ration,
as 1t is liable to cause scours and
collie. When feeding ground oats sift
out the cat hulls and feed only the
meal to the pigs. The packer does
not want the farmer to force his pigs
before they are at least seven months
old, as they are liable to be too soft
and fiabby. 1t does not pay to carry
pigs over until they reach 400 or 500
pounds. From 200 to 300 pounds is
heavy enough, and these weights
should be reached in seven or eight
months.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-19
POULTRY
A soap-sox Rrooder.

At the Rhode Island station the
brooder-house being crowded it was
found necessary to improvise brood
er. A report of the station says:
Owing to the inconvenience OF fur-
n1shing the lower heat by kerosene
lamp other means had to be resorted
TO- For the extemporized hover an
ordinary soap-box, thirty-three py
twenty by nine inches, was used In
the bottom, which became the top OF
the hover, two holes were cut, which
were OF the proper size to set pals OF
water into, to within a couple OF
inches of the top. The whole was
made to fit as tightly as possible, IN
order to prevent any escape of air. In
the side two orifices. about four inches
wide and six high, were made, to per
NIT the passage of chicks. Doors slid
ing up and down were fitted to these.
The boards sawed out of the holes In
the bottom were fitted into covers tor
the pals. Water at a temperature OF
about 140 degrees was put into the
pail, the covers inserted, and then the
whole hover blanketed with papers,
rough coats, or whatever was at hand
The pail used was of papier-mache.
This substance seemed to hold the
heat of the water admirably, allowing
but little to escape, and permitted the
chicks to press up against it for
warmth. Wooden pals would I'M
doubtedly have done as well. Metal
pals would, however, have permitted
of the escape of the heat too fast and
compelled reflling with hot water
more frequently. They would also
have been too hot for the chicks to
-oc
found that with proper covering the
heat would carry sufficiently well from
ten o'clock in the evening until seven
or eight the next morning; that is, In
the room whose temperature did not
fall below 60 degrees. When the tenn
perature of the room was raised to rs
degrees or 80 degrees, the chickens
did not seem to need additional heat.
The pals were used as a reserve heat
during the nighttime, when the tenn
perature fell below 6S degrees, and
for the early days of the chickens
life, when S5 degrees in the hovers
was maintained. A record was kept
of the temperature of the hovers by
thermometers inserted through c0rks
and let into especially prepared holes
through the side. 1t was found that
when water was put in the pail at
about 125 degrees and thirty or more
chicks used, the temperature would be
held at from S5 to 80 degrees through
out the night, rarely falling below IS
degrees. The heat was saved by shut
ting down the wooden shutters in the
hovers to within half an inch of the
floor during the first day or two. After
wards they were partially raised as
the chickens grew larger, until at the
end of week the shutters were left
completely up
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-19

rest easily on it. This is the gun car
riage your cannon must rest on to Sc
cure you steady aim. Glue the larg
er spool to the block of wood ,as shown
in the diagram, and you are ready for
the fray.
Your army takes no part in the
artillery duel, but has the duty most
CALLING to any soldier-that of stand
ing still under heavy fire without re-
turning it,! Then, too, they are not
real soldiers, but volunteers, ordinary
citizens of all classes, although there
may be, by chance, one or two mill
tary men among them.
You can easily get them, all sizes.
kinds and nationalities, by cutting
them out of old magazines. Paste
each one an little piece of cardboard
and there you arei
You occupy one end of the dining
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-19
Success in pairyinu.

Prof. G. H. Eckels, of the Missouri
Agricultural College, says:
Success in dairying depends upon
several factors. 1t can hardly be said
that one of these is of more import
ance than another any more than one
horse is more important in pulling
load than his mate. We must have
COW adapted for milk production. That
COW must be well fed and cared for.
The product sold must be cared for
and manufactured in the best man
ner. The proper marketing of the
product must not be overlooked. To
reach the point where dairying be-
comes profitable, we must give all
these points attention, and not con-
fine ourselves to one. Proper care and
feeding go a long way towards get
ting the largest and most economical
production of milk, but if the COW
that receives these attentions is rot
adapted by nature for producing milk.
the result may be far from satisfac-
tory. The COW is a machine operated
on the farm for the purpose of con-
verting farm crops into more valu-
able form. Some of these COW ma
chimes are best adapted for converting
this raw material into beef, while
others produce milk from the same
feeds. Too many who undertake to
carry on dairying fail to select the
cows suited by nature for the purpose.
Too many times a cow is thought to
be about the same as every other COW
as far as producing dairy products is
concerned, while, IS matter OF fact.
the difference is very extreme and the
nature of the COW may mean success
or failure. 1t has been estimated that
at least one-third of the COWS used for
dairy purposes in Missouri do not
more than pay for their feed, while
the profit is made by the other two
thirds 1 believe If we could, by a
single act, remove every Improbable
COW from the dairy herds of the coun-
try the benefit to the industry would
be greater than any one other thing
that could be done.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-19
Coin on a Needle Point.

To spin a coin on a needle point:
Insert a needle, head downward, in
the cork of bottle, and in another
cork cut slit that will just allow a
coin to be held in it. In this cork
stick the prongs of two forks, oppo-
site to each other, and so that they
will incline downward. The forks
must be alike and ssf the same weight
Now, to spin the ecsn on the needle
point, you have only to place the rim
on the point, and as the forks estab-
lish an equilibrium the little system
will work very nicely without danger
of an upset or a fall.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-19
New Cards for Old.


In nearly every house there's a big
of them, perhaps, eight or nine years
old. These will be a great deal of
use to any boy or girl who has per-
mission to use them
First of all, buy a packet of visiting
cards or something bigger, gold edged,
costing not over cents a dozen.
Then spread a sheet of paper on
the table, and get your scissors, your
paints, a pencil and pot of paste or
gum. Now sort out the cards, and
when you come across any especially
pretty little bird or spray of flowers
or little figure cut them out very
carefully and put them on one side.
When you have quite a lot of these,
take one of your cards, and, sorting
the little ornaments out, arrange them
on the cards as you think best.
For instance, you could have a
spray of flowers in the left hand top
corner and little landscape or bird
or butterfly IL the right hand bottom
corner. When you have pasted them
on, leave the cards till next day to get
perfectly dry. Then pencil anything
that is wanted, such as a few leaves,
a stalk or two, a little true lovers
knot, words of greeting, and so forth.
Paint them over, and then your card
is finished. Perfectly charming Christ
mas and birthday cards can be made
in this way, and people much prefer
them to the bought ones if they're
nicely and neatly done.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-19
Argentine Dairy Industry.

During the year 1902 Argentina ex-
ported 9,308, 200 pound of butter, CHIEF
ly to England and South Africa, says
report of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. This was an In
crease of 1877 per cent over the ex-
pOrtation of the previous year, which
was 1892, ,391 pounds There are no
statistics of production for home con-
sumption, but the best estimate avail
able-that of the Rural Society-puts
the production of the province OF Bue-
nos Aires at 20 tons per day The
production and consumption of butter
outside this province it is not possible
to estimate closely, but certainly all
the rest of the country does not pro-
duce 10 per cent of the amount pro-
duced in this province, if we leave out
of the account the amount produced
and consumed in the city and vicinity
of Rosario, the second city of the Re
public, having population of over
1900 Even this city is supplied,
to large extent, from the province of
Buenos Aires, for as yet only small
proportion of the estancieros arc max
ing butter. The private production
and consumption must also be omit
ted in this comparison, for that is in
creasing on the estancias. Still there
a-e thousands of people owning vari-
Gus numbers of cattle who either go
without butter or buy it in the towns.
The city of Buenos Aires, with its
S76,0O0 people, is, of course, the chief
local market for Argentine butter, and
1t is well supplied with very good
quality. The consumption is estimat-
ed at only Az pounds per capita per
annum. The working classes do not
have butter on their tables as they do
in the United States. The present
price in the city is about % to "a
cents gold per pound. To supply the
demand there are four great factories,
or systems of factories. Their plan
of operation is something unique. The
industry is, of course, only in its in
.cipiency, bat it is interesting to note
the process and rapidity of its devel-
opment, its extensive possibilities and
the probability of it's immediate and
tremendous growth. La Union Argen-
tina, the chief butter maker of Argen-
tina, is a cooperative creamery on
very large scale. 1t was organized in
1899 to save the butter industry from
the collapse that threatened it, which
was due to the wastefu1ness of small
individual production and the lack of
uniformity and modern methods.
Argentine butter is of very good
quality, and uniformity is secured by
the large production under one man
agement. 1t lacks the f1rmness and
grain of United States butter, how
ever, and even without considering
the fact that it is never salted, unless
so ordered, it does not seem to have
quite the rich flavor of that made in
the best creameries of the United
States. however, it suits the Euro
pear market very well and is gaining
ground there.
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Diagram Showing How Cannon Is M ade.

table and the forces of the enemy are
drawn up in line of battle at the other
end. The brave soldiers are each
propped up with toothpick, so that
it does not take very strong blow to
knock him down. By the side of each
cannon are the heaps of cannon balls
These are made of bread crumbs roll
ed in the fingers, putty or tin foil
The enemy perhaps open conflict
by firing five well aimed shots at
your forces To your dismay you dis
cover that he has knocked over four
men, Well, you cannot be expected tc
remain silent under such q destructive
fire as this, SO you fire five shots in
reply. This is how you do it, Dror
a bullet in the mouth of your cannon
and then draw back the smaller spool
till only little of the lead pencil is
in the large cannon Tilt it back sc
tnat the bullet will roll down the spool
till it rests against the end of the
pencil Then aim your cannon care
fully at the enemy and let go of the
smaller spool The elastic will brine
the smaller spool forward with a snap.
hurting the cannon ball forward to
deal destruction among the enemy
and to avenge your own fallen sol
diers.
Each side has i've shots, taking
turns, until one army has every man
knocked down. OF course, the gen
eral who thus loses all his men ia
completely defeated.
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tives take every advantage when they
want crab for dinner. While the
creature is aloft stealing a nut the
native ties a rope of grass around the
trunk of the tree as far from the
ground as he can reach. When the
crab is on its downward journey, it
comes to this grass band in due
course. Then, thinking it has touched
solid earth, it lets go its grip and falls
to the ground, thus becoming an easy
prey to the willy native.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-19
Export Of Animal Producte.

For the year ending June 80, 1903
our export of animals and animal
products were valued as follows: Cat
tie .(live), $29 .S4S, 1886; hogs Cive)
$40.s23; horses. $3,152,159; mules
$521, ,725; sheep Cive), $L067, $50:
fowls, ETC., $149.590: butter, $1,604.
s27; cheese. $2,25o, ,22s; milk, 1921,
026; eggs. $325,571; oleo oil, $11 ,9s1,
$50: beef, $36,s4z,106; ta1low, $1.623,
s52; pork, s61. 1.256. .09s: lard, $64. .462.
DAG: wool. s71.S1S: total. $206. lbs. .154
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Rare Fun Hiding Presents.

For the girls and boys who are In
c1ined to scoff at the story of Santa
Claus and his kindly Offices there
is left lot of fun in being their own
Christmas saint in a novel and very
delightful fashion.
If at Christmas time there happens
to be gathered under one roof romp-
ing, happy family of young folk, this
novelty will find special favor. 1t is
the aim of each one to hide from the
other the individual gifts, but as con-
fusion might arise if this plan were
worked out irrespective of a definite
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-19
Easy Designing.

Take a piece of stiff paper, cut out
a circle about five or six inches in
diameter, fold it in half, then in quar-
ters, finally in eighths. Gig. ID
The dotted lines show where to fold
the third, A 3 c being the shape OF
the circle when folded three times.
Take a pair of sharp scissors. and
beginning at D Tin Fig. p cut out any
pattern or any shape which comes
into your head. Take care not to go
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-19

over the circumference line, and the
result, when you open what is left OF
your circle, will be a design of far
greater symmetry than actual meas
urement could give you. Such work
will amuse children of all ages for
many rainy days, and ingenuity can
produce many complicated designs
in squares and diamonds, as well as
circles.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-19
Live Stock in Great Britain.

The English Department Of Agricul-
ture has just issued it's estimates of
live stock in Great Britain. We sum-
marize it as follows: Number of farm
horses in use, LOG, ,44S, an increase
of 2.8 per cent over the preceding
year. Unbroken horses and colts
swell this to a total of .537 .154, an in
crease of 2.2 per cent over the pre-
ceding year. Cows and heifers in
milk or calf. 2.5ss,205 an increase of
1.3 per cent over last year Other
cattle two years old and above, 1,43O,-
625- Yearlings and calves bring the
total up to 6,704. .610, an increase of 2.3
per cent over last year. Breeding
ewes, 9,S79 ,101, a decrease of IL per
cent from last year. Yearlings, 5.459,-
SS9- Under one year, 10000 ,807. Total
sheep, 25,639, 1877. loss of 5 per cent
from last year. Breeding sows, $780,
$50; other pigs, 2,296, $50; total of
swine, 2,6S6, ,539, a gain over the pre-
vious year of 1913 per cent. So dur
ing the IL months preceding the re-
port Great Britain gained In horses.
cattle and swine, but lost in number
of sheep
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-19
Crabs Up a Tree.

In some of the South Sea Islands
there is land crab which is very
fond of cocoanuts. To get a supply
of the coveted dainty it has learned
to climb trees OF this habit the ma
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-19

The less wife tries to manage
him the better she win manage to
get along with the household freight
naver-
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A Drawing Game.

Here is funny new drawing game.
Put down two circles, and then draw
q picture of a human being or an
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Dairying is profitable because 1t is .
cash business The dairyman gets his
returns at the end of the month, is
able to pay for his groceries and dry
goods and he keeps out of debt.
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animal by using one of the circles
for the head and the other for the
body. The picture will always be fun
ny, no matter how well you draw it
in fact. the better you draw it the
funnier it will be-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-19

pnf.fna. rannsra notaah n .nnr.--
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-28
GEORGIA BUILDING
ASSURED RY ACTION TAKEN BY
PROMINENT GEORGIANS
AT THE MEETING AT MACON.
MATERIAL PROGRESS MADE TO-
WARD SECURING FUND.

Chairman Is to Appoint a Committee
to Take I'D and Push on the Work
of Obtaining the Money Needed to
Give Georgia IA CreditabIe Build
ing at st. LOuis-ThOse who Made
Large Contributions to the Fund.
Cost Estimated at $15,OOO.
Macon. Oct. 27.-At an enthusiastic
meeting of the most prominent citi-
zens of Macon, which was called by
Gov. Terrell for the purpose of ar
ranging plans for raising money to
build the Georgia building at the St.
Louis fair. $500 was given to this
cause, and stirring speeches were made.
When the Legislature appropriated
money for the Georgia exhibit at the
Worlds Fair. it was expressly stated
that this money should be used only for
furnishing exhibits of the agriculture,
minerals and lumber of the state, and
that the building should be built by
private subscription.
The cost of the building was esti-
mated to be $4,000. The Georgia saw
mill men agreed to furnish the lumber,
valued at $4,000, for the structure, re-
ducing the necessary amount to $10,-
900. In order to raise this money GOV.
Terrell called this convention to meet
in the fair grounds in Macon. A num-
Der OF the most influential men in the
state We're present at the meeting.
Gov. Terrell called the meeting to
order, explained the situation, and
made brief speech in favor of the
movement to raise the money. Dudley
Hughes was then called upon to pre-
side at the meeting, and Martin CAL
win of Augusta was elected secretary.
Maj. Hanson offered $1,000 to the
fund; Hugh Washington offered $1,000
more; ]. K. Orr. in behalf of the
Greater Georgia Association, offered ST.
600 more, and John Cobb of Americas
offered S1.50O in behalf of Sumter
county.
A motion was made that the chair
man name a committee to raise
money, and he will appoint this COM
mittee as soon as possible.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-28
THEY HEARD CHAMBERLAIN.
EngIand's Champion of Protection
Drew a Crowd.


Liverpool. Oct. 27.-Jos. Chamber
lain addressed another monster meet
ing in the Hippodrome here to-day.
The address was under the auspices of
ithe Workingmens Conservative AS
ISOLATION. and the 5000 persons pres
ent gave the former Colonial Secre-
tary a tremendous reception. 1t was
organized as an offset to the recent
action taken by labor unions repre-
sentatives in various places denounc-
ing Mr.. Chamberlains tariff and pre-
ferential proposals.
Mr.. Chamberlain devoted the first
part of his speech to the Jumping
of the manufacturer of the United
States and Germany in this country,
which he said must result in depres-
sion after the present prosperity.
The speaker devoted the greater part
of his speech, which lasted for an hour
and a half, to a powerful argument adj
dressed to the working classes of the
United Kingdom. to whom he appealed
against their leaders.
Mr.. Chamberlain dwelt especially
upon the shipping industry. He point
ed out the greater growth of foreign
shipbuilding as compared to that of
Great Britain, and referred to the dis
abilities the latter suffered because of
foreign bounties. and because the reg
ulations imposed by British shipping
legislation were not enforced upon for
eign shipping in British waters. He
referred pointedly to Great Britafn's
loss of trade with Cuba, where he said
British conditions of trade had not
been respected.
The meeting adopted a resolution Gu
logizing Mr.. Chamberlain's services, in
dorsing the governments fiscal policy,
and declaring the advisability of bind
ing the empire more closely together.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-28
MURDERED A GIRL
UNWITTINGLY, HER MOTHER SAW
roo MEN WITH THE BODY.
CONCEALED 1T IN AN ALLEY.
OUTRAGE AND FOUL CRIME COM
MITTED AT ALLENTOWN.

Mother of Miss Mabel BechteI Was
Aroused by the Barking of Dogs.
Looking Ont, She Saw What She
Little Suspected Was the Body of
Her Murdered Daughter-POIicc
Are Busy, but the Case Thus Far
Battles Them.
Allentown, Pa, Oct. 27.-Mabel H.
Bechtel, aged 81 years. was murdered
last night and her body placed in an
underground alley adjoining her home.
where it was found to-day by her
mother. Her skull was crushed. but
there were no other marks of violence
on the body.
Mrs. Bechtel, mother of the muir
dered girl, was aroused shortly after
O'Clock this morning by the barking
of dogs. Upon looking out of her bed
room window she saw two men car
ry an object from a carriage and place
it in the underground alley near the
Bechtel house. Mrs. Bechtel made no
investigation, but upon arising this
morning she found her daughter
shoes, hat and coat in the dining room.
Later the body of Miss Bechtel was
found in the alley where it had
been carried by the two men.
Entire Force at Work.
Chief Eastman has his entire police
force at work, assisted by other detec-
tives. but up to a late hour tonight
they are baff1ed. Alfred Eckstein, one
of the girls lovers. to whom she was
engaged and whose engagement ring
was found in her pocket to-day, was ar
rested, hut he proved he had not seen
the girl since Sunday evening and he
accounts satisfactorily for all his
movements.
David Weisenburg of South Bethle-
hem, with whom Miss Bechtel went
driving yesterday, left for Newark, N
j., to-day. his parents say, and thither
the detectives have gone. Weisenbure
was in the theater in this city until
1890 last night and then left for his
! home. The girl was not with him al
| the time. 1t was two hours later thai
| the girls mother saw her body being
carried from a carriage near the house
The post mortem examination to.
night revealed that the girls skull wa.
| crushed by a blunt instrument, prob
! ably by heavy cane.
From the appearance of the body and
clothing the girl had been assaulted
and had been unclad when the assaulI
was made. Some of her clothing had
then been placed about her, the re-
mainder having been laid in the dining
room when the body was placed in the
underground alley.