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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-10-18

Farmers Of DeKalb county, Illinois,
held a jubilee last month in cele-
bration of their successes in the
field of scientific agriculture. Near
ly 1000 landlords and tenants assem-
bled upon one of the model farms Of
the district, talked Of bumper crops
and congratulated each other upon
having united for the study of i'm
proved methods.
DeKalb was the first community in
the United States to take up this
work Of farming under tie direct ard
personal supervision of a salaried ad.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-10-18
MARKET LETTER

X. c. Stock Yards, Oct. "A, 1912.
Cattle receipts here last week
were 81, 400 head, including $500
calves. That was a few Thousand
less than came in the week previous,
and three thousand more than ar
rived same week last year. The
general market showed It's strong
foundation by scoring an advance Of
Is to %. cents during the week on
a run seasOnably normal. Calves
were the single exception, closing
Is to Is lower. A supply Of q, 900
here today, including 1000 calves,
indicates another liberal total this
week, but the market is again show
ing its durable quality, sales on
all kinds being steady, with a few
of the best fed steers strong. More
than 1900 car loads, containing 40
O75 cattle, were brought here and
shipped to the country, close to the
record for one week in that trade
here. Country buying is the main
stay of the market, though packers
went out last week and paid $500
for steers that went to feeder
buyers the week before around $6.75.
Everybody seems to scent a big
drop in receipts Immediately ahead,
and acts accordingly. Receipts Of
rangers at Chicago UP to date this
season foot up 10000 head, which
is 10000 less than same time last
year, and only one half a many as
, came from the northwest ranges on
an average each year since 1907
for the same period. Quarantine re-
ceipts here today are So cars, mar.
ket firm, steers at $3.50 to 1915
cows $3.50 to $500. Colorado and
Utah sent in good many cattle last
week and today, beef steers selling
at $50 to 100, stock steers and feed
ers SIS to6.90, cows 4.25 to SIS
Hog supplies are running heavier
than in recent weeks, but are still
scant for the season. Prices jump
ed up fast last week, and the mar
ket is holding steady today, top 9.O5
bulk $40 to 800. Packers are dis
posing of provisions at a rapid rate
and bare cellars point to stability
of future markets. Sheep and lamb:
are still running freely from Utal
and other range territory, but pack
ers look for a drop in receipts any
time. They are, therefore, freez
ing as much mutton as they cal
secure, which they figure will lOol
cheap when supplies become small
Run is $4,000 today, market Is t.
rs higher, lambs $50, yearlings So
for best, wethers AS, ewes 400
}, feeding lambs around 600.
J. A. RICKART,
Markot NorrpsnondAnf
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-10-18
J. A. RICKAF
THE WORK OF THE SOIL DOCTOR

Market Correspondent
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-10-18
SPREAD THE STRAW
Straw Needed as Fertilizer and
Humus.

Last year Kansas farmers had lit,
tie trouble to dispose of their straw.
This year with large wheat crop
hundreds Of farmers are DISTRESSED
at the loss Of good wheat ground
covered with stacks OF straw
Doubtless thousands Of straw piles
will be burned. a shameful thing TO
do. But what can be done about IT..
There are several ways of avoid.
leg this almost sin.
In the first place the average
Ermer does not use One;tenah enough
straw for bedding for his stock.
There Is no more profitable way Of
using straw than to use plenty Of
Il in the stables. and thus eco.
the animals stabbed, and the straw
Itself becomes a valuable fertiiAing
serving all the liquid exrremeDt Of
element. Not only should more OF
1t BE- used in stables, but farmers
can well afford to use smaller yards
for their dairy cows, and even for
their feeders" or their fattening
cattle and then cover these yards
with two or three feet Of straw, and.
thus quadruple the quantity and
double the value OF manure for
the fields. A hillside Is no place
for feed yard, and an acre is large
enough for a feed yard for from.
twenty to forty cattle. The time
has come when the Kansas farmer
must study ways Of increasing his
supply Of farm manure.
The next best way to utilize these
thousands Of stacks Of straw is to
spread them over the fields imme-
diately after threshing. OF course,
this cannot be done safely II wheat
Il to follow wheat, unless the ground
is moist when plowed. II the ground
is dry, the spreading should BE-
postponed until about the last Of
October, when 1t may be spread
over the wheat field. Where whest
stubble is. to be plowed in the fall
and put to corn or sorghum crop,
the straw may be spread any time
after threshing and plowed under
right on the wheat IN October or
any time in the winter viii help to
stop blowing, will held moisture and
later will add to the humus contents
when plowed under next year. Il Is
4 important that Our thousands OF
straw stacks be put into the ground
in some way. Not one should be
burned. Straw is estimated TO be
worth about $3.50 a ton as a fer;
tilizer and in my judgment. it IS
worth more than that as humus ma
terial. Our western lands are hl
sore Iced Of humus, and Il will
pay every farmer to study ways o.
getting all his straw back into the
ground whence it came. There. Is
no need Of factories to use up this
straw as it is worth, so much tO;tht
farmer as humus and fertilizer ma
terial, that he cannot afford TO sci
IT,. It belongs to the soil. A Kan
sas farmer has recently invented q
straw spreader that will spresd 9
Iswath twenty feet wide. But ge'
the straw back TO the fields IN
some way.
J. II. MILLER.
Manhattan, Kan, Oct. II.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-10-18
WANTS PROTECTION

Manhattan, Kan, Oct. IL.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-10-18

Wien Bilkirs was away from home
on a long business trip, he got letter
from his wife that still puzzles him:
1t ended thus:
Baby is well and lots brighter than
she used to be. Hoping that you are
the same, remain, your loving wife.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-10-18
EXPERIENCE IN MAKING sIlAee.

Making silage is a new business on
most farms in the west and We know
Of no business that can be learned
fully without experience, and it some
times takes a good deal Of 1t. The az
ricultural papers have tried to save
farmers the trouble Of learning by ex
perience. Sometimes they have sue
ceeded and sometimes not.
Some farmers, forgetful Of the ad-
vice. put their corn in the silo at
about the time they would otherwise
cut it for fodder, when the husks are
turned white and the corn fully dent
ed; have put it up too early and as
a result had silage deficient in feed
ing value, because harvested before
nature had done It's work. Others de
layed too long, possibly unavoidably,
put in their corn too dry and have
moldy silage. We have warned our
readers against that, and have told
them how they could remedy this de-
feet by simply adding the water
which the stalk had lost through
evaporation. 1t is easy on most farms
to run stream of water on the car.
rier when you are putting in the sill
age, or to put 1t in on top from time
to time, and give it good wetting
after the silo is filled. Silage made
from dry fodder viii probably not be
as good, no matter what a man may
do, as silage put IN under ideal con-
ditions, but We have known very
good siage to be made even with
dry corn fodder.
Any man will make a mistake II hi
allows the corn part, ON account oil
its greater weight, to pile up in the
center instead Of using the simple
device which scatters 1t. Others will
fail because they do not tramp \
down sufficiently. Silage must BIZ
thoroughly compacted; and the high
er the silo, the more it tends to pacl
itself. The smoother the walls o.
the silo, the less resistance 1t makes
to settling. The fewer corners in thu
silo, the less resistance. This Is tht
reason why the round silo is beint
universally adopted.
One trouble with human nature
and 1t is one Of the virtues as we'll
is that we want to experiment, I,
find out things for ourselves. Nov
this is all right, but when the expeT
ience Of many farmers, in widely diff
fereut parts of the. country, and O
all the experiment stations, has sci
tied upon the best way of putin
in silage, then the farmer would b
wise if h adopts it.
No doubt many farmers have 60
into trouble and are greatly annoye
because they did not make prope
preparations for filling the silo. Tha
is, they did not determine beforehar
the number Of teams it would II
Quire to deliver the silage so ths
the cutter would always be at wor
and NO time be lost because the cor
was not delivered. It takes a goo
deal Of engineering to fill a silo rigi
, and the man who has had no exper
ence Is as certain as the day come
to make mistakes unless he studio
the matter very carefully and avail
himself Of the experience of h
neighbors. One good thing abol
dearly bought experience Is that VIII.
1t is once acquired it Is pretty al
to stick by a man. He has paid ii
, full price, and he values 1t and pr
fito hv a. Wo1looo,g no-o,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-10-18

Something has got to be done,
declared Mrs. Toots, about this pic
stealing that is going on in this neigh
borhoOd. Three pigs have disappear
ed with in a week. It's got so nov
none Of US are safe" - Harvester
World.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-10-18

Howell-Has your automobile cost
you much?
Powell-About fifty thousand dol.
lars?
Howell-What do. you mean!
Powell was engaged to a girl who
was worth that amount and ltook her
for q ride. and the blamed thing broke
down. and she had to walk Eve mifs
and the next day she sent me a letter
breaking the engagement
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-09-27
First Published in the Barton Coun-
ty Democrat Sept. 20, 1922
EXECUTORS NOTICE.

State Of Kansas, Barton County, IS.
In the Probate Court in and For SAID
County.
In the Matter Of the Estate of VIII
liam ]. Fee, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Letters
Testanentary have been granted to
the undersigned, on the Last VIII
and Testament Of william ]. Fee,
late Of said County, deceased, by the
Honorable, the Probate Court of the
County and State aforesaid, dated the
18th day Of September, A. D. 1912.
Now, all persons having claims
against the said Estate, are hereby
notified that they must present the
same to the undersigned for allow
ance within one year from the date
Of said Letters, or they may be pre-
cluded from any benefit of such es-
tate; and that if such claims be not
exhibited within two years after the
date of said Letters, they shall be
forever barred.
MRS. LIZZIE T. FEE,
Executrix
Of the last viii and Testament of
William ]. Fee, Deceased.
September u, 1912.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-09-27
HOUSE CONCURRENT REsoLU-
TON NO. g.

Granting equal rights and privileges
to women.
Be 1t resolved by the Legislature
Of the State Of Kansas, two-thirds Of
the members elected to each House
thereof concurring therein:
That the following proposition to
amend the constitution of the state
Of Kansas be hereby submitted to
the qualified electors Of the state for
their approval or rejection, namely:
Section 1. The rights Of citizens
81 the state Of Kansas to vote and
hold office shall not be denied or
abridged on account of sex
Sec. 2. This proposition shall be
submitted to the electors Of this
state at the election for representa-
tives to the Legislature In the year
OF 1912. The amendment hereby pro-
posed shall be known on the official
ballot by the following title: Amend
ment to the constitution granting
equal rights and privileges to wo-
men," and the vote for or against
such amendment shall be taken as
provided BY law,
Sec. 8. This amendment, II adopt
ed. shall be known as section s Of
article 5 Of the constitution Of the
state Of Kansas.
Sec. 4. This resolution shall take
effect and be In force from and at
ter its publication In the statute
book.
Passed the House February Z, 1911.
Passed the Senate February s,
1911.
Approved February 9. 1911.
! hereby certify that the foregoing
y true and correct copy OF original
House Concurrent Resolution No 3.
now on file In my offire
cHAS- n. SESSIONS.
ii-lst Secretary Of State.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-09-27

State Of Kansas, Barton County, IS
In the Probate Court in and for said
County. H
In the Matter of the Estate of John
Mausolf, deceased.
Creditors and all other persons in
terested In the aforesaid estate are
hereby notified that the regular
term of the Probate Court in and
for said County to be begun and
held in the Probate Court room in
Great Bend, and County Of Barton,
State Of Kansas, On the first Mon
day in the month Of November, A.
D. 1912, and on the 4th day Of said
month, ! shall apply to the said
Court for full and final settlement
OF said estate, and at such time ap-
p!ication will be made for an order
Of the Court finding and adjudging
who were the hers of the said de.
ceased. GUS MAUSOLF,
Administrator
of the Estate Of John Mausolf, de.
ceased.
Dated, September %, 1912.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-09-27
On and About the Farm
NEW WORK AT x. S. A. C.

y Few mechanics have time to go Il
school. The family must be support
ed, SO they go on working for ST.
or $40 week when many should be
doubling their incomes. The Kansas
Agricultural College has arranged to
Ihe(p these men with free courses q
study prescribed by a competent en-
gineer. The lessons can be taken at
home.
G. E. Bray, for several years PRO
fessOr of shop methods and practice
and superintendent of the shops at
the college has been transferred to
the extension service with the state
as his field. Correspondence courses
under his supervision will be Offered
In mechanical drawing and elemen-
tary architecture, shop parctice and
shop mathematics, elementary wood
work, plumbing, automobile repair
ing, machine shop work, traction en-
gines and others. He also will con-
duct courses i'm farm engineering,
which includes a practical study of
farm machinery, farm buildings, gts
engines, traction engines, steam boil
ers, farm backSmithing, farm wood
working, and farm mechanics.
Professor Bray win spend about
twOthirds of his time visiting cities
with a population above one thors
and, to interest men and boys in the
correspondence courses. He will visit
every shop and factory in these
towers, presenting his plan to help
the employees. He will offer his ser
vices to schools where manual train
ing Is not taught and suggest eecnom
ical ways of introducing simple wood
working into the courses. He will
suggest ways Of extending the school
work TO the young men and boys in
the town night schools or "continua-
ton schools" Professor Bray VIII.
on Invitation inspect shops end fac
tories and report to the owners meth
DDS of improving efficiency in opel
-ating. In other words, he is TO he
an efficiency engineer fer the people
of the state, and his services, otheI
than travelling expenses, will be
free. Just es soon as he needs hep
more men will be added to his de-
partnent CT the extension service.
The extension department will fur
nish more information about the new
work to anyone who writes.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-09-27
THE STATE OF KANSAS

THE STATE OF KANSAS
To Augustus E. Taylor, Mary
Shawhan, Martha W. Shawhan and
- Shawhan, her husband, whose
first or given name is to plaintiff
unknown, Mrs. W. J. Hastings.
Mrs. Albert Clabough, ]. A. Min
mis- and Mrs. ]. A. MINIS, his wife,
John H. Hubbard and Mrs. John H.
Hubbard, his wife, Alcinous Y. Nc
Cormick and Mrs. Alcinous Y. Nc
Cormick, his wife, T. E. Bowman
and Mrs. T. E. Bowman, his wife,
II alive, and the unknown heirs, ex.
ecutors, administrators, devisees,
trustees and assigns Of such Of
them as may be dead, the un-
known heirs, executors, administra-
tors, devisees, trustees and as
signs Of A. ]. auckland, deceased,
The Great Bend Town Company,
a corporation, II legally existing,
and If dissolved, then its unknown
successors, trustees or assigns.
You and each Of you are hereby
notified that you have been sued in
the District Court Of Barton County,
Kansas, in an action wherein John
Kaufman is plaintiff, and you are
defendants, and that you must an
swer the petition Of the plaintiff fl
ed therein against you, on or before
the 1st day Of November, 1912, or
same win be taken as true, and
Judgment quieting plaintiffs title,
right Of possession and occupancy in
and to Lots Nos. Three (3), Four
tD, Five (5), and Six (6), in Block
No. Fortyfour (44), in the original
Town Of Great Bend, Kansas, as
shown by the recorded plat thereof,
viii be rendered against you and
each Of you; decreeing title Of plain
tiff to be a good, valid and perfect
title to said real estate, and forever
barring, restraining, enjcining and
excluding you and each Of you, from
ever settirg up any claim, right. t.
tie, or interest in or to said prem
ises or any part thereof, adverse to
TIE claim and title OF plaintiff, his
heirs and assigns, and for such other
and further relief as plaintiff may be
entitled to receive. all as prayed for
IL the petition as filed herein.
BANTA G ALLPHIN,
Attorneys for Plaintiff
ATTEST:
s. A. KELLAM,
SEAL Clerk of District Court.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-09-27
MARKET REPORT.

Kansas City Stock Var S, SEPT. %,
Middle class st, els lest 20 to IS
cents last week, prime ste;r rs held W
steady and medium to common
steers also held about steady. QuaI-
anttne steers he'd up steady, but
stockers and feeders declined about
70 cents. Total receipts hele we're
$4,000, including 5000 calves, and Of
this number $4,000 we're bought for
shipment to the country. The run
today is $4,000 head here, including
1000 calves, and the market is fol-
lowing the same general lines laid
out list week, except that stockels
and feeders are selling steady today,
because Of the presence Of plenty Of
buyers from the country here today.
A string Of Colorado steers here to-
DAY was competed for by both feed
er buyers and killers, half of the
drove, containing the tops, though
there was not much difference in the
cattle after they were sorted, going
to feeder buyers at $500, and the
balance. to killers at $3.50. Pasture
cattle from native territory are get
ting the brunt of the decline lately,
and sell at $500 to $3.50, some fed
Westerns today at 1910. No prime
natives have been here for a week,
but such would range up to $1,000.
Quarantine runs lack quality, show
ing the approach of the end Of the
season, steers today at $3.50 to $5.75.
Dealers now say that quarantine ship
peJs will clean up close this season,
and that a good many grass cattle
from native territory remain to come
Hogs touched bottom the middle of
last week and started back upward,
continuing that way up to and in
Guiding today, top today $S.75, bulk
$S.45 10 $50. The break last week
was regarded very seriously by those
who were enforcing 1t, but to most
dealers there seems to be ncthirg ON
the market horizon to make hogs any
thing but good property indefinitely
ahead.
Sheep and lambs wavered a little
last week and a big run at all POINTS
today upset the situation. Run here
is 10000 head and lambs are selling
20 cents lower, tops $500, fat wetter
worth $4.SO. Range stock makes up
bulk Of the run, carrying a rather
Small percentage of feeding stuff,
which finds a ready outlet. Feeding
lambs are worth $500 to $685., year.
hngs $3.50 to $5.25, breeding ewes
$3.50 to $4,25. Conservative commits
sion men say this viii be a good
season to feed, predicting $500
lambs in November, and making ex-
travagent predictions for later in
pne winter. ]. A. RICKART,
Market Correspondent
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-09-27

First Published in the Barton Coun.
ty Democrat, SEPT. q, 1922
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-09-27
OWNING AN AUTO.

There would seem from the outSid'
to be mo good reason why farmer
who owns quarter section Of good
Kansas land and a bank account
should not also own an automobile, II
his taste leads that way. 1t is true
that there are many who would pre-
fer a high stepping team of horses
for their motor power and would rea
y. get more enjoyment out of their
use than they would out Of an auto
mobile. But a large number, per-
haps a large majority, would find the
greatest pleasure in the automobile.
The modern farmer is of necessity
a machinsst and the regulation and
care of the automobile would be his
first pleasure In its ownership. The
fact that this machine practically OBJ
hterahes distance and brings him
hours closer to town, to church or to
social gatherings, has a money value
as well as a pleasure value, and most
farmers who have acquired a cOmpe-
tence in Kansas through their own
efforts, are men who are approaching
middle life or have already passed It.
The years of hard work which lay be
hGnd them warrant them On looking
forward to some relaxation of effort
and some pleasure for pleasures
sake. Instead Of sacrificing the old
home ties, the keen interest In life
and large share Of the financial in
come by renting the farm and NOV
ing to town, the comparatively small
investment necessary to the owner
ship Of an automobile will enable the
farmer to remain among his old neigh
bors, retain his position Of indepen-
dence and activity on the farm, keep
his boys and girls at home and get
even a keener enjoyment Of the
sights and scenes Of town or city life
than he could possibly do by dropping
his old habits of life and the activi-
ties which serve to keep both mind
and body alert, and moving to town
where he has nothing to do but &C
quire a Crouch" It takes years to
build up friendship, as we'll as hatdts
and, where these are good, it is
neither satisfactory nor safe to aban-
don them for new and untried ones.
With the automobile belongs the
good road, the improved appearance
Of the farm and a new lease Of life
to the farmer. There is nothing in
modern invention which so belongs
to the farmer as does the automo-
bile, unless perhaps, it is the rural
telephone and the rural free delivery.
As business investment, the auto
mobile is more valuable to the farm.
er than to any other class of citizens
except, perhaps, it be the physician.
Farmer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-09-27
SPEED PROGRAM.

The speed program for the Barton
County Fair has been arranged and
entry lists mailed to horsemen in all
parts of the state. Already entries
are coming in and the races promies
to have big fields and will be inter
esting from start to finish.
Horse racing is one of the most
exciting sports known IN the country
although people, or perhaps TIE
younger generation Of today, do net
understand it as fully as they shouk.
They should not fail to attend this
fair and get better acquainted with
the racing game and be live boosters
for the Barton County Fair in the
future.
The program, as arranged this year
is as follows:
Wednesday, Oct. 9.
2. 40 Trott;ng :. E. =. Purse, $4,000
2:34 Pacing :. e. E. Purse, $4,000
Mule Race, in harness, onIaIhalf mile
heats, best 2 i'm 8 =. Purse, $ 1000
Pony Race, carton county pOrias that
have never raced, Purse, 5 2O.OO
Thursday, Oct. 10.
2;SO Trotting =. =. :. Purse, $4,000
2:2O Pacing E. =. e. Purse, $4,000
Half mile and repeat running race
e. =. =. :. =. =. :. Purse, 5 $500
Half mile Quick-hitch race in harness
best 2 in 3 ...... Purse, 5 20.C0
Half mile running race, Shetland
ponies, =: =. =. e. Purse, 5 700
Motor Cycle race, to enter, 5 to
start, (s2me terms as other races. }
If you have a good fast pony or
mule bring them in ard have them
entered in these races and win Tire
money. Call on W. I Eowersox,
Secretary, for full particulars.