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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11
EGGS WILL KEEP LONGEST WHEN INFERTILE

practically control deterioration A
small percentage of eggs, probably
represented by the per cent that
were second class, are second class
eggs when they are laid For the
present, at least, it is beyond the con-
troll of the farmer to eliminate this
small percentage of loss. Il is so
small as to be almost negligible
In answer to the question as to
what to do with the male birds during
any but the breeding season, I would
reply that in my judgment the best
practice for the farmer is to purchase
strong, vigorous, pure bred coekerels
of the breed he prefers each year and
mate them with the breeding flocks
Of hens about the middle OF February.
When the breeding season is over,
dispose of them Get them off the
farm. Unless an artificial and in
nated purchase price has been given,
the farmer will have gotten his money
back in the flock Of strong young
chicks that are coming on. The best
breeding year. for a male bird is the
first year. When the first season is
over, turn him off on the market for
what he will bring. There is no OBJ
ject in keeping him around to spoil
the market value Of eggs by fertiliz-
ing them and to eat up feed A new
bird Of different stock will be needed
for the following year.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

almost without exception are proving
very favorable.
Until recent years it was considered
impracticable and too expensive to
irrigate by pumping from the under
flow, if the lift was more than % feet,
but now with the improved pumps and
cheap oil engines which produce power
at a cost of one-fourth 20 one-half
cents per horse power hour, many
farmers are pumping against a head
of more than 70 feet and doing it at a
cost sufficiently low to make this
system of irrigation give satisfactory
returns.
The government census for 1910
credits Kansas with 1895 acres
capable OF being irrigated; that is,
this amount of land had been deveI-
oped so that water could be applied,
and plants to irrigate 21,305 acres
more were under construction. At
that time only 6S4 pumping plants
had been installed. Since 1910, how
ever, a large number of plants have
been put in. But the areas irrigated
by these new plants are small, so that
probably there is not over $50 $50
acres developed sufficiently so that it
can be watered. In my judgment the
idea of ''five acres of irrigated land
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11
Don't FIirt With Weather.

Some men f1irt with the weather and
then wonder why they aren't more OF
a success on the farm. If they would
save the extra rainfall, a large guam
tity of water would be stored in the
subsofI for immediate use in case of
dry weather.
Three or four inches of rain carried
ever from one season TO the next
means three or four hundred tons OF
water an acre in the subsoil-water
enough to carry a growing crop
through any ordinary dry weather
It is possible to carry even more than
this from one year TO another.
How can the rainfall be saved?
Plow the field as soon as the crop has
been harvested. If It is spring OF
summer follow the pillow with a drag
The rains VIII soak into the soil In
stead of running off the surface or
evaPoTating Fail blowing should
not be dragged, as there is danger Of
the soil either packing or becoming
dry and blowing.
The extra expense Of following such
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11
Leading In Declarations.

Once more Europe has demonstrate
ed that when it comes to defaIcation
this country shrinks from its magnifi-
cent dimensions. Our natural re-
sources, our private fortunes, our
railroad accidents, and murder statis-
tics may be unapproachable, but we
rarely produce colossal embezzlers
like the French citizen who is &C.
cused Of making away with more than
six million of other peoples dollars.
Nor is the case OF NJ. Deperdussin an
isolated instance. There is the re-
cent affair of the Belgian railway di-
rector whose stealings ran into many
millions, and not long before him
Hungary produced confidence man
of splendid proportions. No need to
go back to the Humbert case and
Panama We have produced the Wal
lingford, but Europe seems to furnish
the most interesting examples.-New
York Evening Post
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11
Got Even With Her.

A few days ago two young ladies
entered a trolley car and found only
standing room.
Pm going to get seat" said one
to her companion. Now, you see!"
Selecting sedate-looking gentle
man, she walked up to him.
MY dear Mr.. Green" she excIaim-
ed. How delighted 1 am to net you,
You are almost a stranger. VIII 1 &C
cept your seat? Well, 1 do feel tired,
1 admit. Thank you so much"
The man rose. sit down, Jane. nv
girl" said he, as he courteously point
ed to the vacant seat. q don't often
see you out on a washing day. You
must feel tired, I'm sure How's your
mistress ~ National Monthly.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11
LIGHT BREAKS IN
Thoughtful Farmer Learns About

Many people exist in a more or less
hay condition and it often takes years
before they realize that tea and cot
fee are often the cause Of the cloud
ness, and that there is a simple way
to let the light break in.
A worthy farmer had such an exDer-
fence and tells about it, in a letter. He
says:
For about forty years. have had
Indigestion and stomach trouble IN
various forms. During the last z5
years I would not more than get over
one spell Of bilious collie until another
would be upon me.
The best doctors 1 could get and
all the medicines I could buy. only
gave me-temporary relief
Change Of climate was tried with
out results. I could not sleep nights,
had rheumatism and my heart would
palpitate at times so that 1t seemed
1t would jump out Of my body.
Il came to the conclusion that there
was no relief for me and that / was
about wound up, when 1 saw Postum
advertisement I had always been a
coffee drinker, and got an idea from
the ad- that maybe coffee was tha
cause Of my trouble
81 began to use Postum instead ~
coffee and in less than three weeks /
1eIt Ike new man. The rheumatism
left me, and have never had a spell
OF bilious collie since.
Ny appetite is good. my digestion
never was better and 1 can do more
work than before for 20 years.
Z haven't tasted coffee since I Be
gan with Postum Ny wife makes Il
according to directions and 1 relish IL
as wen as ever did coffee. and Ess
certainly q slave TO cofIee-"
Name given by Postum Co. Battle
Creek Mich Write for copy OF the 1t
tie book, The Road to WellTilie~
Postum comes in two forms:
Regular Fostum-must be well boiled
instant Postum Is a soluble powder.
A teaspoonful dissolTes quickly In 8
cup Of hot water and, with the add
ton OF cream and sugar. makes q de
Ecious beverage Instantly.
There's reason" for Postum.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

the Kansas Agricultural College-l
and a living should be thoroughly
impressed upon the minds OF farmers
in Western Kansas who believe in the
country and its future and who have
their money invested there and are
doing what they can to reclaim the so
called Great American Desert.
The advantages of the pumping
plant for irrigation are that any
farmer who has water within q depth
OF IS feet can put in q plant if it is
nothing more than windmill to irri-
gate his garden, or windmiIls and an
earth or concrete storage reservoir
to irrigate an acre or two or more
and the expense Of a well, a cheap oil
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11
TIGER FAILED IN HIS PART
Youthful HypnotIst Might Have Sue
ceeded, but Savage Brute Refused
to Lend Aid.

Jack the Lion Tanner" a ten-year-
old boy who got the notion that he
could subdue the widest of wild
beasts by looking them in the eye,
had a narrow escape from serious in
jury in the Central park menagerie at
New York when he tried to hypnotize
Dick, the savage Siberian tiger
Dick was lying near the iron bars
of the outer cage when the young lion
tanner came along. The boy had been
caught pulling lions tail several
times this summer and had been
warned of the danger.
He got inside the railing, approach
ing the tigers cage, and put a hand
and arm between the bars. Then he
called to Dick as he would to a dog,
while looking him in the eyes.
The big tiger hasn't lost any of his
park, and when he saw the arm in
his cage his muscles stiffened for
action. His ears went back and his
lips curled. A group of men stood
near, but no one warned the boy Of
his peril
The lad thought he had the beast
subdued and was bringing his hand
closer and closer. Keeper George
Sichert happened to go outside and,
seeing the situation, grabbed the boy
by the collar and pulled him back just
as the tiger leaped toward the boys
hand.
One of Dicks claws tore the boys
index finger. The keeper gave him a
lecture and expelled him from the
menagerie.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

Among the means of producing first
class market eggs none is more i'm
portant or so far-reaching as the pro
duction of infertile eggs. A very
large percentage of the loss which oc-
ours by the deterioration and spelling
of eggs during the hot months comes
from the appearance of the blood ring.
These blood rings mean just one thing
that the egg has been partly incu-
bated and the embryo has died. For
some reason that portion Of the heart
which pumps the blood away from the
heart beats a little longer than the por-
ton which brings the blood back. The
result is that when the embryo dies
the blood settles at the extremities of
the network of veins and leaves
more or less perfect pink ring.
Now. if the male birds were kept
away from the laying focks there
would be no blood rings. 1t has been
found by experiments carried on in
Kansas by Investigators from the
Bureau of Animal Industry at Wash
ington, that AZ per cent, or nearly half,
OF the total loss in market eggs during
the hot months was eliminated when
male birds were removed from the
flock. II was further found by these
same observations. that where the
male birds were kept from the laying
flocks the eggs, of good size and
naturally clean, collected twice a day,
put in a cave cellar that had a tenn
perature of about so degrees, mar
keted twice a week, and protected
from the sun on the way to town
that 81 per cent of these eggs were
tested out by an expert Gambler as
first class eggs. This means that by
taking these pains the farmer can
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11
Not Exactly.

A lady teacher in a South London
council school was recently giving q
natural history lesson to a junior
class. In the course of 1t she gave
some information about the heron,
and at the end she asked the children,
as a simple home lesson, to write
down what they knew OF the bird.
Only one member of her class. she
says, was able apparently to set down
her ideas in writing, for next morning
only one essay was handed in
And this one essay, written by q
little girl, read: Dear Teacher: A
heron is a bloater."
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

engine and pump to irrigate 40 acres
where the lift is 70 feet would prob
ably not exceed 81, 800, or about $3.50
per acre. The cost OF irTigating with
such a plant would be approximately
five cents an acre-foot per foot of lift,
or for a 75-foot lift the cost would be
about 1915 an acre. And If you
we're growing alfalfa, which would re-
quire about two acre-feet, the cost Of
watering it would be approximately
$3.50 an acre for the year In this
system of irrigation the farmer has
absolute control Of the water rights
and he can put on the amount Of wates
needed at the proper time, for there
is practically no variation from year
to year in the underflow. In Colorado
on the large projects the water rights
cost not less than $50 per acre and
8 per cent interest on this amounts to
81 per acre per year and then the cost
Of the water used must be added,
which brings the cost up to about the
same as for pumping However. the
duty of the pumped water is much
greater than that handled by gravity,
for the losses due to seepage are small
and the clear pumped water does not
seal up the pores in the soil like
water carrying suspended matter
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

hams Vegetable Compound I improved
rapidly and today am q well woman I
cannot tell you how happy 1 feel and 7
cannot say too much for your Compound.
Would not be without It IN the house Il
It cost three times the amount Mrs.
CHAs- CHAPLAIN, R F. D. No. 2, Belle
Yue, Ohio.
Because your case is difficult one,
doctors having done you no good, do not
continue TO suffer without giving Lydia
E Pinkhsm's Vegetable Compound q
trial 1t surely has remedied many
cases Of female ills, such as inhamma-
ton, liberation, displacements, tumors,
Irregularities, periodic pains, baeksche,
and it may be exactly what you need.
The Pinkham record is q proud and
peerless one. It is record OF constant
victory over the obstinate ills of woman
ills that deal out despair. It is an es-
tablished fact that Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has restored
health to thousands OF such suffering
women. Why don't you Try it If you
need such medicine9
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11
He Got From Under.

Some of the boys had arranged for
a nice little poker party one night and
had induced Jones to be one Of the
group around the table. He was twit-
ted about his wife and called q
'wifey's boy" until he couldn't en-
dure it, and he bravely declared his
independence. He notified his wife by
phone that he wouldn't be home until
after midnight. ''WEat'd she say
asked one of his friends "Oh, 1 dun
no. admitted Jones. Il hung up the
telephone as soon as I told her"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11
Another Refusal to talk

Wasn't Jason the man who tried
to land the Golden Fleece?" asked the
youthful student
Il shall not undertake to say" re-
piled Senator Sorghum. Il positively
refuse to discuss anything pertaining
to the wool business, outside of Office
hours"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

Scientists say the tight skirt is an
excellent preventative of disease
through its nongerm sweeping propen-
sites. There's always some good
found out in everything that gets a
bad start
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

Another American heiress and her
fortune, married to title, are re
ported to have come to grief. 1t is
pity that this particular school of ex-
perience. though very expensive, fails
TO teach anything.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

NY ESTERN Kansas has been re-
" claimed so often in public
speeches and printers ink in
glowing prospectuses Of fake real
estate firms and irrigation projects
backed by INSCRIPTIONS promoters
hat one hesitates even to venture an
opinion as to what system or systems
81 irrigation and farming may ulti-
mateIy prove the most successful in
retaining this vast empire. But a
large number of thoroughly competent
men are now experimenting along
practical business lines, both on a
large and a small scale in many sec
tons and fortunately their results
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

A doctor in New Jersey was ar
rested for selling a human skeleton
to a rag-and-bone man. And yet it
may have been the first time that
the original owner of the skeleton had
ever had any value.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

a plan ought not to cost more than
dollar an acre at most Many places
it could be done at q much smaller
cost. It pays big interest on the in
vestment, even at the higher figure
While moisture conservation doesn't
spell sure cure for crop failure, It is
worth the effort
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

Some mixers will dry off cows IN
q herd and it viii be done so gradually
that it viii not be noticed until the
COW is nearly dry If milk records
we're kept. such declines could be
readily noticed
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

A London actress lowers her price
for performance $500 when told she
need not mingle with guests at the
party. Perhaps it was worth it to the
audience as we'll
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

Assertings that New York's rain
squat showed the end-seat hog in
bad light the Springfield Republican
asks: Cant the end seat be abol-
ished?" OF course; there is the solu-
ton As each seat becomes the end
seat, abolish it, and when there are
no seats the end-seat hog will also
be eliminated.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

That ragtime composer who has
made the confession that he cant
write note of music" must have been
astonished at the prompt, fervid and
universal acQuiescence that greeted
his acknowledgment
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

An actress is attracting attention
In London by wearing $4,000 stock
ings. embroidered with diamonds.
But, after all, nothing does hold the
public attention as long and as ear
nestIy on the stage as good acting.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

Not even the reports of 100 degrees
of heat within the arctic circle and 20
degrees at the same time on the gulf
coast will convince the man in the
street that heat varies in intensity
with the latitude.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

In these days of amateur doings. the
thought develops that the best anna
teur actor living is the average man
who sits through piano recital and
acts as if he enjoys it.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

St Louis walters are setting a high
standard of professional ethics. One
of them disciplined a customer the
other day for ordering crabs with
sauce tartare, and now the organized
body has induced the councils of that
city to pass an ordinance against tip
ping. II we retain our usual sub
missiveness to the walters we may at
tain complete bliss.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

his wife because she couldn't play the
piano must now pay SIS a week ali
mony He could have saved money
by buying a pianola
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

1t is hard to detect a counterfeit SO
bill any more, because the average
man, with a family to support, can't
keep one long enough to notice wheth-
er it is bogus
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

A French aviator intends to fly
from Paris to Morocco. That is about
the safest way to visit that turbulent
country just now, where more things
than aviators are up in the air
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

The increasing number of drown
ings, particularly on pleasure trips.
show that If eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty, unfailing prudence is
the price of safety.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

v e &c tabi e Com-
pound Ny back
achedunt1I thought
itwOuld break, Ihad
pains all over ne,
nervous feelings and
periodic troubles. I
Was very weak and
run down and was
losing hope Of ever
b eng well and
strong. After tax
ing lydia Z. Pink
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

Frank Chance has a scheme for
longevity that beats buttermilk He
will not resign from the New York
Highlanders until he develops a pen
nant winning teami
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

The transparent skirt is surely
doomed now. A team lost bali game
the other day because the players
were all watching a girl who was
wearing one
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11
Catching the Pose.

81 guess that boy Josh O. mine will
make a res'lar golf player one @
these days"
Has he taken up the gamer"
Not yet But I've watched him at
work an I've noticed that whenever
he's specially interested In some
thin he Jes' naturally stands pigeon
toed"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

Pennsylvania man advertises for
woman who will obey him and who
will consider his judgment always
final And to make his search harder
he asks that she be thirty-fye years
old.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

Our profound conviction is that any
bachelors chances of winning a wife
are greatly lessened by his exhibiting
himself in pitilessly revealing bath
ing suit
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11
10 chance for Him.

Thought you were going away to-
day."
Couldn't buy a ticket
Nonsense. The ticket Office is
meyer closed
mo; but there was a girl at the
window ahead of me-"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

1t must have surprised many who
didn't know there was that much in
the world to learn that New Yorker
ate eight and three-fourths pounds of
beefsteak at one sitting.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

Love may not make the world &C
round, but it makes a lot of people
giddy.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11
His Fatal Error

We'll, Wildboys has himself to
license for liberty
fEh? How's that?'
Marriage license Judge.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

An attractive way to serve maca-
roni is creamed and put on toast.
Over the top, sprinkle the grated
yoIk of hard-boiIed egg.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11
Our Pastimes.

From these diamonds and tennis
courts and gold links and lacrosse
fields and other playing grounds we
are getting a new generation of young
men and women, who have breath,
muscle and endurance, and who will
give a new stature to the nation.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

That expert who declared that eggs
100 years old are better than fresh
ones probably never had the pleasure
OF having few bad eggs hurled at
him.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11
Curiosity.

q want to know something"
What is it2''
do they make writing paper with
a stationary engine?"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

CLicago's policewonen are not TO be
armed with hatpins.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

Cold weather it not much of detri-
nent to chickens, providing It is dry
cold and the atmosphere pure.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

A mother-in-law is a dangerous per
son to play jokes on, unless the prank
proves fatal
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

One way TO keep cool: Try to firt
with a Boston girl
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

tation, on one has suggested the aboli-
tion Of the hard boiled hat for me-
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11
Not Half Enouoh.

Kitty-They say, you know, that
love makes the world go round.
Marie-Maybe; but it cannot make
the eligible young men go round
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

There is a proposal to teach pupils
in the schools how to dodge automo-
biles. Why not teach a few more
chauneurs how to dodge children?
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

There are times when the natural
state of the Mexican hairless dog
seems more sensible than indecent.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

Sweep up every particle of sflage In
the chute and aIleyway and give it to
the COWS at every feeding
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

When opening your silo bear in
mind that whenever you change feed
the change should be made gradually.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

.WinsIow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teethiEg, softens the gums, reduces infzmus-
ton,allays pain, cures wind collie, sc bOtfIe-aa
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

Something should be done to make
murder questionable.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1913-10-11

The course of true love often leads
to matrimony