The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-07-03
The Cherokee County Farmers
Make Them Into Wheels TO
Support Their Binders.
KEEPS MACHINES OUT OF MIRE
Broad Surface Enables Wheat Crow
ers to Harvest Crop Without
Waiting for Dry Weather.

vest. And it's doing It without
drop of Strength" inside.
The fields in Eastern Kansas are
soft because of heavy rains and bind
ers mire down so that it is impossi-
bic to use them at all in some sec
tions. This was the case on the farm
of Milo H. Snodgrass, four miles
southwest of Columbus, where sixty
five acres of wheat was dead ripe
and in danger of being entirely lost
If not cut Immediately.
Mr.. Snodgrass put his wits to work
He remembered having seen house
movers truck with it's low, broad
wheels. Why not apply the same
idea to his binder? A good, solid,
empty beer keg, if made into a roller,
he believed would fill the bill. He
knew where to get one and he got
it. He bored hole exactly in the
center of each end, then brought it
to Columbus, where blacksmith put
on pair of heavy hoops to serve as
tires. Next a plumber took it in hand,
fitting a piece of two-inch pipe
through the holes and screwing ell
bows on each end with flat-end extern
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wooden frame of the binder.
With the axle frame bolted fast
to the underside of the binder just
back of the big drive wheel and
strengthened with braces fore and
aft" Mr.. Snodgrass had a broad
enough "base" for his machine so
that it's weight would not force it
so deeply into the ground that the
horses could not pull it.
Tie ''keg wheel proved SO success
full that several neighbors built SINH
lar ones, putting as many under each
machine as the condition of the ground
seemed to warrant. Now the farm
ers are going ahead with their har-
vesting wherever the fields are not
too wet for horses to walk.
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Tornado Near Mound City-A tor
nado which destroyed about ten farm
houses and twice as many barns and
silos in Linn county recently, was fol
lowed by a rainstorm that was almost
a cloudburst The tornado formed
near Selma, in Anderson county, and
crossed the county line north of Blue
rection, missing Centervil1e, but TAX
ing out more than thirty farm build
ings in path less than quarter of
mile wide. A woman was injured
on the c. o. Hoag farm, twelve miles
northwest of Mound City. but is ex-
pected to recover.
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Her Property to Art.-Wichita will
receive at least $4,000 to establish
an art collection from the will of the
late Mrs. R. P Murdoch. The sum
practically is the net value of Mrs.
Murdock's estate, according to an in
ventory filed in the probate court by
John Parkinson and Elizabeth Stub
bleield, executors of the will.
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Drowned in a Pond.-Lesler Bright,
IS years old, son of William Bright,
was drowned in a pond on Joseph
Belts farm, nine miles northeast of
Minneapolis. He was swimming with
three other boys. They dived for him
but could not bring him to the surface
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Dies After Eating MuIberries.-Eat-
ing green mulberries caused the
death of a harvest hand in a camp of
$50 transients at Salina the other day.
There is no cIew to the identity of
the young man, who died within a
few minutes after becoming i'll.
Farmland Drowned.-Jim Wander
foot. young man from Missouri,
working on the Tucker farm near AL
ton, was drowned while trying to cross
a river recently.
Died from Brothers BuIIet.-James
Spieer, years old, died in a hospital
at Pittsburg from bullet wound acct
dentally inflicted by his younger
brother.
New Pest.-"Barber worm is the
name given by farmers for a new
wheat pest which has been discovered
in Reno county. The worm gets it's
Esne from the fact that it shaves the
boards OF the wheat of clean. J. E.
Merritt, a farmer living near Hutchin-
son, showed a bundle of wheat, the
beard of which had been eaten from
every head.
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New Teacher for Aagies.-Miss
Blanche Enyart, director of physical
education for girls in the Westport
high school. Kansas City, has been
elected instructor in the Kansas State
Agricultural college She will have
charge of the work in physical train
ing for women.
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Negro browns at Paola.-John Tou-
sci, a 19-year-old negro youth living
in Kansas City, was drowned at Paola
the other afternoon in Wallace park,
which is flooded, when a boat over.
turned.
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Caterpillar Tractor in Kansas.-A
tractor OF the caterpillar type, such as
is used to transport big guns in Eu.
rope, was put to work recently on the
9OO-acre farm of Charles, Thomas and
Matthew Jonach, west of Sabetha. The
tractor was built in California and is
believed to be the first of its kind In
Kansas.
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Pittsburg Has City concerts.-Mu
nieinal Y.usic has become a. reality IN