Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-05-28
FARM BURROWS
Turned by a Practical Farmer.

sAe%N SOhAN ANAAOW hdo NOluCu
pretty cute phrase for dirt in milk.
Instead of vulgarly referring to dirt
as settings" he puts it "solids not
original" 1t will be understood, of
course, that some solids, such as milk
sugar and ash are original in milk.
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1t is said that in New York CITY
the market never pays less than twen-
ty cents a dozen for eggs and the av-
erage number eaten in a week
amounts to nearly 100000 dozen.
Unless one stops to realize the vast
population of that big city he is in
elined to think that every day must
be Easter for New Workers.
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! The tales relating to the physical
prOwess of certain historical charac-
tiers are of interest. 1t is told of the
noted Scottish ShOrt-horn breeder,
Captain Barclay, that he was walk
ing in his park one day when he came
on an intruder in the shape of an ass.
He sliced the donkey and threw him
over the wall of the park 1t was in
stantly returned, whereupon the Cap
tain repeated his first performance,
only to be surprised by the instant re-
turn of the donkey. Upon investiga-
ton he found that gypsy could
match him in strength and the Cap
tain was so much pleased with the
powers of this man that he granted
him permission to Craze his donkey
as often as he wished on his prem
Uses.
This same Captain Barclay was
driving a coach with a plain country
woman sitting behind him. A gen.
tleman wished to deprive the woman
of her seat, but the Captain remOn-
strated with him, and babe him let
the poor woman alone, whereupon the
stranger waxed saucy, and not know
ing the driver asked him to come to
: the ground and settle matters. The
stranger, who was a very powerful
man rushed at the Captain like bull
dog, only to be felled to the ground
like a log of wood. He made one
more lunge and received the second
blow, which was enough to answer
every purpose. The stranger was sat-
isfed and said: "YOu must either be
the devil or Captain Barclay" "II
am not the former" said the Captain
but | am the latter"
1t is said that bread is used for
many purposes with which the aver
age person is not acquainted. Aside
from its, use as food bread dough
makes an excellent cleaner for watch
es. In cold countries bread dough is |
rolled out thin, and cut into rings,
then baked and soaked in hot tallow.
These rings make very good lamps by
inserting wicks into nail holes punch
ed into the bread.
A subscriber claims that he has a
plan to keep hogs from eating chick
ems; in fact he has two plans. One is
to put the chickens in a tight barrel
every morning and fasten the lid
down, and the other is to allow the
chickens to run at large while the
hogs are enclosed with a tight board
fence twelve feet high. Thank you,
subscriber.
| do not propose to voqch for the
truthfulness of the following, but it,
is told on good authority that a firm
of opticians in England manufacture
horse spectacles, the purpose of these
being to promote high stepping. The
glass in these speetacles is so design
ed that it gives the horse the idea
that he is going up hill or over some
obstacle, the result being that he be-
comes a "high actor" without fur
ther notice.
For the first time in many years
there will be quite an acreage of small |
grain sown in May in the part of our
country known as the corn belt. The
pessimist is already singing, "What
will the harvest beq"
49,
If the new gasoline engines that are |
made especially to run things that
are ordinarily turned by hand will
do all that is claimed for them at
reasonable expense, they will make
splendid hired man for the busy
farmer.
49,
We have potato planters and pota-
to diggers, but as yet no one has been
able to invent a machine that picks
up the tubers and puts them in the
wagon box.
Don't forget to plant few pump
kins; they make excellent feed for
COWS and hogs at time when other
feed is scarce.