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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
Some Good Dairy Rations.

refuse separated from grain, in order
to make the latter marketable or fit
for milling. These screenings vary
a good deal in quality. Thus an analy-
sis recently made here of wheat
screenings showed about 33 per cent.
of flax and shrunken cereal, Is per
cent. of foxtails, per cent. of bind
weeds and pigweeds, Is per cent. of
weed seeds of other species and 81
per cent. of dust, broken seed and
sand. Even such a mixture is much
better than many others which often
contain very little, if any, wheat or
fax.
An average price for screenings is
$12 ton in Chicago or SIG in Cincin-
natl
Mixed with molasses and chaff or
bulls, and in some cases with really
good feed materials, some of them sell
at prices which are nearly as high
as those paid for f1rst-class feeds.
Made in considerable part of in
ferior materials and charged with
weed seeds, they are dangerous on the
farm.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
FEEDS, SEEDS
AND WEEDS
A Danger to the Farm-By E. H.
Jenkins, Director Connecticut
Experiment Station.

There are a number of mixtures
sold as feeds which contain large
quantities of seeds of undesirable and
pestilent weeds of which a consider
able portion are alive and will, under
proper conditions, promptly terminate
and grow.
The weed seeds are not always
quickly detected by casual inspection,
because they are variously mixed with
chaff and oat hulls, with linseed, bar
ley and corn products and are often
mixed or smeared with molasses.
These facts are naturally not men
toned in the statements of compost
ton, yet they are more important to
the buyer than the chemical analysis
moderate food value may be
granted to ground weed seeds, or to
some species of them, but it is very
doubtful if small whole seeds are
broken up and digested by the animal,
1t has been proved that fermenting
manure kills many weed seeds when
they are kept in it for some time, but
common experience fully justifies the
belief that the farm may be stocked
with weeds which com along with the
manure.
Weed seeds which are scattered
abundantly wherever feed and feed
residues are scattered, will surely
make their appearance in the fields.
Thus charlock appeared last year
quite abundantly on the station land,
where it had not been seen for &c
| years at least. On searching for the
cause. it appeared that the junkos
or snowbirds had been fed with wheat
screenings on a fat roof in the neigh
borhood during a severe winter and
the charlock seeds in the screenings
had no doubt been blown from the
! roof TO the lawn.
Certain manufacturers claim to de-
stroy the vitality of the weeds which
they mix with feed, but in no one
of those above reported has even this
measure of protection to the purchas-
er been thoroughly done. III has been
apparently attempted only in case OF
/ the sucrene feeds.
All Of these weeds are characters
tic Of grain screenings which are the
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
New Maximum Freight Rate Bin

At the urgent request of the board
of railroad commissioners. W. Y. Nor
gan has introduced a maximum freight
rate bill providing for a reduction of
approximately 10 to 20 per cent in
the present distance tariff rates on
brick, hay, lime, cement, plaster, lum-
Der, salt, wheat and its products, corn
and its products, alfalfa feed. flaxseed.
millet seed, horses and mules, cattle,
hogs, sheep, coal and sand and stone,
undressed and crushed. E. c. Sinner,
secretary and rate clerk of the board,
compiled the tariff
These commodity rates cover prac
tically all of the staple articles used
or produced by the farming and labor
ing elements of the state. The COM
missioners have spent a great deal Of
time in connection with the compila-
ton of this schedule, and if the tariff,
as introduced, is permitted to go
through the legislature without radical
amendment as to the rates or their
application they feel confident that
the law can be speedily enforced in
the courts, in the event that the rail
refuse to comply Herewith.
If this law becomes effective Kan
sas will be. placed on much better
freight rate basis than prevails in Ne
braska, and the level of the rates will
be but very little higher in any in
stance, and in some instances mater
tally lower than the distance tariff
rates now effective in the state Of
Missouri.
1t is the intention of the board to
supplement its action in the introduc-
ton of this tariff with an action to
be brought before the interstate COM
merce commission to require of the
railroad companies a reduction in the
class rates from Missouri river sta
tions to stations in Kansas to approx
imately the rate per ton per mile be-
tween the Mississippi and Missouri
rivers.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
RATION THAT rs BEST
FOR THE DAIRY COW
Common Mistake Made Too
COrn-By C. EckIes, Professor
Missouri Agricultural College.

The ordinary pasture grasses, espe-
cially blue grass, when in the grow
ing state, contain the proper proper
ton of nutrients to enable a dairy
COW to produce the maximum amount
of milk of which she is capable. The
winter ration, on the other hand. is
liable to have these nutrients out of
proportion. This is one point where
in common practice falls far short of
continuing the summer conditions
throughout the winter The feeding
of a ration not properly balanced is
one of the most common mistakes
made on the average farm in the corn
belt on account of the usual abun-
dance and cheapness of corn and corn
fodder.
Many farmers have corn fodder and
timothy hay for roughness and prac-
tically nothing in the way of grain
but corn. From such a selection of
feeds it is impossible to make a
ration that supplies the necessary
nutrients for heavy production of milk
1t is possible to make a fairly good
ration using these feeds for rough
ness, but it is only possible to do so
by buying large quantities of mill
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
SENATE ADOPTS HOUSE AMEND
MENT TO PRoHIBIToRY LAW.
GOVERNOR SAYS HE WILL SIGN IT
Will Be Effective When Published in
the Statutes-WiH Be About
May or June of This Year.

TOpeka-When Governor Stubs
signs the anti-liquor bill passed by
both the house and the senate, Kan
sas will have prohibition law which
is absolutely "air-tight," even pro-
viding that physicians shall not pre-
scribe liquor for the use of patients.
The senate has accepted the houses
amendment barring physicians pre-
scriptions.
This bill provides that "any person
who shall manufacture, sell or barter
any spirituous, malt, vinous, ferment-
ed or other intoxicating liquors. shall
be guilty of misdemeanor and shall
be punished as hereafter provided"
The punishment is fine for each of
tense of 800 to $500 and imprison-
ment of 80 to 80 days in Jail.
There is just one exception made in
the act, the sale of wine for commun-
ion purposes. The new act also does
away entirely with the drug store per
mits to sell liquor as the old law pro
viding for this is repealed. This act
is one of the most stringent prohibit
ton measures in existence.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27

The third summer condition, which
We desire to continue throughout the
winter, is that of a supply of succu-
lent feed. By the term succulent feed
is meant feed having that property
possessed by green grass. Such feed
has a value outside of the actual
nutrients it contains on account of its
favorable effect upon the digestion Of
the animal There are two methods in
use for supplying this succulent feed
during the winter season. One is the
use of root crops and the other the
use of silage In some parts of the
world the use Of root crops is almost
universal, and is the solution of the
problem. In this state the use of
silage is far more practical, however.
than the use of root crops, and for
that reason it is recommended ex
clusively for this purpose.
Tie following rations supply the
necessary material to produce milk
economically. If the cow will not give
a good flow of milk in the early part
of the milking period and when fed
liberal amount of one of these rations,
it indicates she is not adapted by ma
ture to be used as dairy COW and
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
Provides Contingent Funds.

The ways and means committee of
the house has brought in the execu-
tive and judicial bill. It carries ap-
preparations for all the executive de-
partments of the state and the courts,
both supreme and district. The gov
ernor's contingent fund is given $1O,-
600. In the past it has been $4,000.
The secretary of state is given $1,000
to enforce the primary law. The
state treasurer has his salary lifted
to $1,000 in accordance with a law
passed two years ago.
Attorney General Jackson is given
$4,000 with which to fight the trusts
during the next two years. The sum
of $4,000 is set aside to pay war
expenses in case the militia is called
out. The railroad commissioners are
given $4,000 for contingent expenses,
and the attorney for the board is Civ
en- $4,000 contingent fund to pay for
additional lawyers to help him try
cases. Aside from these items the
bill carries the usual appropriations.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
Freak Pillars of Society.


But it is a social philosopher, me-
thinks, who should be most grateful to
Curio Hall. It's existence spells safety
for the existing social order, declares
r. L. Hart in the Atlantic. Think you
it is the progress of enlightenment
that sanctions and perpetuates our
scheme of human relationships? Far
otherwise. Rather is it the survival
of benightedness. So long as endures
the gallery of exclusive living oddi-
ties" with pitiful blockheads to cape
at them, so long will there abound
those scullions, scavengers, stokers,
funkies and wretched wage-minions
upon whose docility we depend for our
maintenance. Given intelligence to
perceive the joke implied in their ado
ration of abnormalities, they might
detect the huge, historic, practical
joke played upon them by destiny. At
long, long intervals-for us happily
long-they get fleeing glimpses of it's
point. When that occurs, there re-
suits the process known as revolution,
which Charles Dudley Warner defined
as turning society over, and putting
the best underground as a fertilizer"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
JUST CALLED HIS ATTENTION.
Unkind If Clear Truth Told to Pro-
prietor of Speak Easy"

A disheveled man, much the worse
for liquor, staggered out of Maine
speak easy" and laboriously propped
himself against the door. For while
he owlishly surveyed the passersby.
Suddenly his foot slipped and he col
lapsed in a heap on the sidewalk. A
moment later he was snoring
A hurrying pedestrian paused, re-
fiectively surveyed the fallen man for
a few seconds, and then poked his
head in the door.
"Oh, Frank" he called. Frank,
come out here a minute"
Presently the proprietor of the joint.
smoking fat cigar, emerged. He
blinked in the bright sunlight
Hello, Hud,'' he said pleasantly.
Whats up?"
Hud jerked his thumb toward the
slumberer on the sidewalk
Yer sign has fallen down." he ex-
planned, and briskly resumed his walk
W town.-Everybody's Magazine.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27

feeds that are rich in protein. The
thing for the farmer to do is to raise
the feeds he requires on his own farm,
as far as possible, and it is possible to
produce practically all that is needed
to make a balanced ration. The place
to begin in considering the feeding of
an animal is always with the rough
ness, since the character of the rough
ness determines to a large extent the
kind of grain it is advisable to feed
The cheapest source of protein is in
legiminOus hays, including clover, al
falfa and COW pea. If an abundant
supply of any one of these hays is
on hand, the problem of making an
economical balanced ration is very
much simplified. The use of these
hays makes it unnecessary to buy any
cottonseed meal for ordinary dairy
cows, and makes it possible that the
principal grain used be corn, which
usually is our cheapest grain. Even
COW pea or alfalfa hay alone, with
corn for grain, makes a fairly good
ration for an ordinary dairy COW, and
such a ration could be substituted with
good results for that of timothy hay
and corn fodder. When hay is pur-
chased, it is always best to purchase
one of the kinds mentioned. as the
price is about the same, or lower than
that of timothy, which is far inferior
as a milk producing food. If any hay
is to be sold from the farm it should
be timothy hay and not clover or COW
pea hay.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27

Letters mailed in the United States
for Germany, and dispatched direct,
and not via England or France, are
now two cents an ounce or fraction of
an ounce. Persons who wish letters
for Germany sent by England or
France (the quickest route) must fully
prepay postage thereon at the Univer-
sal Postal Union rate of five cents.
The reduced rate applies only to let
tiers mailed in the states and terri
tories of the United States, including
Alaska, on the mainland of North
America, and does not extend to let
ters mailed in Hawaii, Porto Rico, the
Philippines or other possessions of the
United States.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
GROUND OATS BEST.
Make an Excellent Feed for the Law
ing Hens.

Some poultrymen feed ground corn
and oats, and, together with veget-
ables, make mash for the poultry.
Wherever ground oats can be pro-
cured without the corn being mixed
with it, the feed will be much better
when the corn is in excess. Some
millers in grinding corn and oats add
more corn than oats, depending upon
the comparative price of the two. For
other stock, or for milk cows, such
food may be better, but not for fowls.
If it can be done it is always better
to have the oats and corn ground sep
arately and mix the two in quantities
and proportions to suit the REQUIRE
ments of the particular flock, as fowls
should not all be fed alike. Some
farmers have the habit of feeding
fowls whole oats, and We have seen
great many oats wasted in this meth
cd of feeding. Oats consist of a hard
husk which fowls dislike, says the
Kansas Farmer, and much more good
will be obtained from them if the oats
are ground. In all events, plenty of
grit should be supplied so the fowls
may finish the grinding.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
Hays CITY Free Press
HAYS CITY. KANs.
Justlce and Charity.
kANs.


Jewish charity will not be true to
Itself until it recognizes, and, having
recognized, crys aloud SO that its voice
be needed, the half is not greater than
the whole. Mankind must be in the
saddle and ride things. Property is
less than man. Justice is more than
charity. The charity of to-day ought
to become the justice of every day, de-
clares Rabbi S. S. Wise, in an address
before the National Conference OF
Jewish Charities. The only proven
tive charity is justice, and justice is
not charity. Charity can never rightly
become more than the complement
and crown of justice. Millions for
charity and not one cent for justice
must be superseded by: Everything
for justice. This conference must
bring much abused, but little tried,
justice into better repute. Upon our
age this conference must press the
prophetic note: Justice, justice shalt
thou pursue. 1t must reassert the
command of Micah: Do justice and
love mercy Before mercy, justice!
Justice ever and mercy superadded!
Is not much of charity necessitated by
social injustice, the apparently cure
less injustices of the present order?
What injustice hath done justice alone
can undo; what injustice hath I'M
done, justice and not charity shall re-
store.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27

The fact that more than hundred
freshmen in a western college have
been obliged to enter a spelling class,
because each of them misspelled 20 or
more words i I'M list of 200 of no
great difficulty, has led to some in.
quiry at other colleges. or ten promi
nent institutions of learning, one re-
ports that one-tenth are poor spoilers,
and two declare that they must put
one-fifth into that category. OF the
others, some say that the spelling is
far" one declares it to be afro
cious." and three say that the stand
ard is high" The pupils in the tech
nical schools are much poorer spoilers
than those in the colleges.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
State Fair Board Proposed.

Davis of Bourbon has introduced a
bill creating a state fair board. Sew
eral state fair bills are already in the
hopper. but the indications are they
will all fall by the wayside Davis's
plan is for the state to use a revolving
fund for running the fair, just as a
similar fund is used in running the
state binding Irvine plant The state
board is given authority to loacte the
fair
1t has been decided to permit drug
gists to sell alcohol for medical and
scientific purposes. Druggists say
alcohol is absolutely necessary to pre-
serve the ingredients of certain pre-
seriptions.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27

For Gods sake, go and see my wife
and babies. and do what you can for
them" wrote a stranger to high Off
cial of the Salvation Army, the other
day. Il can't help them. for I'm just
out of Jail. but I'm going into lumber
camp to see If 1 can do something.
But don't you think of me. 1 don't
deserve any pity or sympathy. Only
please do what you can for them"
The appeal was promptly needed; but
a gift of food and clothing did not
close the case, and the officials report
showed how far-sighted and sympa-
thetic is the philanthropy of the pres
'ent time. Pm trying to get at the
man who wrote that letter." he said.
There's good stuff in him. He's worth
saving"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
Milton Formally Seated.

The report of the committee on cleo
lions Diminishing the Getty-Milton con
test was adopted by unanimous vote
by the senate. This gives Milton his
seat.
In the Ca1dwell-Moore contest from
the Cloud-Republic district, the com
mittee's report in favor of seating
Caldwell was also adopted. A resolu-
ton was adopted declaring, Caldwell
entitled to the seat and he assumed
it. All parties will be allowed rea-
sonable attorney fees.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS. as they cannot reach
the seat of the disease Catarrh is q blood or const-
tutonal disease. and in order to it you
internal remedies. Hairs Catarrh Cure taken In
ternay. and acts directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Halls Catarrh Cure is not Quaek medi-
cine 1t was prescribed by one of the best physicians
in this country for years and regular prescription
1t is composed OF the best toncs known, combined
with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the
mucous surfaces The perfect combination OF the
two ingredients is what produces such wonderful re-
suits in curing catarrh. Send for testimonials free
+. ]. CHENEY & co. Props. Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c.
Take Hairs Family Pills for copstiDa ton
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
Druggists to Sell Alcohol.

The propositions to allow the
wholesale druggists in the state to
sell alcohol under permits, has been
introduced in the form of a bill by
the judiciary committee of the senate,
and on motion of Chairman Price it
was advanced to second reading un-
der suspension of the rules.
The absolute prohibitory bill just
passed by the senate will not become
a law as soon as it is signed by the
governor, but it will be in effect as
soon as published in the statute books,
which will be issued next May or June.
Can Fix Insurance Rates.
Senator Chapman's bill, which
practically gives the state insurance
superintendent the power to fix fire
insurance rates, has been passed by
the senate. That clause which carries
the rate-fixing provision reads
When the superintendent of insur-
ance shall determine that any rate
made by an insurance company in this
state is excessive or unreasonably
high, or that said rate is not adequate
to the safety or soundness of the COM
pany granting the same. he is author
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
A RepubIican Reclaimed.

Three-year-old Norris is fond of the
Twenty-third Psalm, sometimes repeat
ing it instead of his regular evening
prayer Last autumn the name of the
successful presidential candidate was
often. heard at the dinner table, and
Norris unconsciously fell into the hab-
it of rendering one passage of the
Psalm in this reassuring fashion: "Thy
rod and thy Taft they comfort me-
Lippincotts.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
coburn's Salary Increased.

The senate, by a vote of 20 to Z,
passed the bill increasing the salary
of Secretary F. D. Coburn to $4,000
a year The bill also increased the
salary of Assistant Secretary J. c.
Mohler to $4,000. The bill was mes
saged to the house.
lied to direct said company to publish
and file higher or lower rate, which
shall be commensurate with the char
acter of the risk,
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
His First Practice.

The old farmer stood in front of the
Human Frog in the museum. How
did yeou ever find out yeou were
cOntortionist?" he drawled, curiously.
'Sh!" whispered the contortionist.
ITS a secret, but l once tried to dress
in the upper berth of a Pullman
sleeper
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27

should be disposed of. The amounts
given are considered about right for
the COW giving from 20 to 25 pounds
of milk a day. For heavy milking
cows these rations would have to be
increased, especially in the grain. and
for light milking COWS the grain should
be decreased. In making up these
rations it is designed that the COW be
given all the roughness she will eat
and sufficient amount of grain to fur
nish the proper amount of digestible
material. 1t is not designed that
these rations should be sufficient or
best adapted for cows that are being
fed for making records, for which a
very maximum production is desired
regardless Of expense.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
stubbs Recommends s1oo. eco.

The ways and means committee of
the two houses have asked Governor
Stubs to fix the amount which he
thinks will be necessary to carry out
that pledge of the Republican state
platform in regard to the physical val
uation of public service corporations.
The governor believes that 100000
should be appropriated and has SO no.
titled the committee
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
The Only WAY.

Mrs. Sunfiower-Pete Green am get
ting to be quite an artist. Dey say he
am welded to his art Do yo' think yo'
could be wooded to &c art, Sam?
Sam Sunfower with a yawn)-
Wall yeas, if art could cook a good
dinnah en- take in enuff washing to
keep me in tobacco money.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
To Raise Columns Salary.

In order to overcome any possible
defect in the bill to raise Secretary
F. D. Coburn's salary to $4,000 year,
the senate judiciary committee report
ed an amended bill, providing that the
salary shall be $4,000 a year, but that
when a person holds the office for
fourteen years continuously he shall
receive $4,000. This would give Co.
burn the increase.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27
Make Engagements Public.

Among the house bills recommend
ed for passage is one by Ryan of
Brown, which provides that hereafter
parties wishing to be united in we'd
lock shall first make application to
the probate judge of their intentions,
and notice thereof shall be printed in
a newspaper for fifteen days before
the marriage license shall be is.
sued.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-02-27

Hereafter the steamship companies
provide about seven cubic yards of air
space for each person. The object of
this rule. which was lately enacted
into law by congress. is to prevent the
overcrowding of the steerage and the
consequent danger to the health Of
those who have to travel in that part
OF the ship.