The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-14
WOULD REDUCE MEAT COST
Sheep Raising Looks More inviting
Now Than in Big Crop Days,
he Says.


sor Dyche once made the statement
that Kansas could easily produce &c.,
O00, 900 worth OF fish year. He said
there was no reason why every fam
lily could not have at least two meals
a week of Kansas fish. He said the
only reason this was not the rule was
on account of the indifference OF the
farmers.
"A fish pond is not only food pro-
ducer but is fine thing for live stock
on the farm" said Warden Tegmeier.
Il cannot understand why the far
mers do not take 1t up
A flock of sheep is also inexpensive
to raise. Sheep will fatten on weeds
and brush and grass that now goes to
waste. The wool will pay the taxes on
the farm, while the farmer will have
the mutton for the market.
F. d. Coburn was never pleased
when he looked at the sheep statistics
of Kansas That Kansas should raise
more dogs than sheep was past his
understanding. He preached sheep
production until his Whiskers turned
gray, but he never got very far. 1t
was about the only disappointment he
met with while secretary of agricul-
ture. The only explanation that ever
sounded reasonable was that the far
mers didn't like to fool with the little
things on a farm. That's one reason
why they never did much gardening,
nor raised many honey bees nor put
out much small fruit. They wanted
to raise big crops of wheat or corn or
hogs or cattle. But now a change is
coming. They yet may take up fish
and sheep as a side line to help beat
down the high cost of living.
Baseball Game Costs Life.-A game
OF baseball, played at Alamonta, Kan,
recently, cost the life of Theodore
Notion, young farmer of Beeler. He
died in a motor car while being
brought to Great Bend hospital after
having been injured in the game be-
tween the alameda team and that of
Beeler, on which he played. Notion
was struck on the head by pitched
ball, but took first base and scored.
Two innings later, when he came to
bat again, he knocked a two-base hit,
but fell unconscious as he started to
gun. He hurriedly was placed in a
motor car and physicians ordered him
TO hospital here, but he died while
on the way.
Reading Veteran Oead.-G. T. Ar
mold, Y years old, ex-cOunty commits
sioner, Civil War soldier and pioneer
resident, is dead at his home in Read
ing of apoplexy.
Gas Pipe Cannon Again. Roger
Herzig, 16 years old, is a victim OF q
premature Fourth OF July celebration
at Salina. He filled gas pipe, twelve
inches long, with gunpowder, tamped
1t down hard and lighted it. The pipe
burst and the boy Iost part Of his right
hand.
Farmer Held by U. S.-Charles
Henke, Jr., farmer living near here.
was arrested by deputy United
States marshal yesterday and taken to
Junction City Henke is charged with
causing farm hand, Albert Schroe-
der, to fail to register for military
service.
To Pave Road.-One hundred and
fifty farmers and business men from
Brown, Doniphan and Nemaha coun-
ties met at Hiawatha recently and
Island highway through the three
counties.
Dies on Street Carr. A. Shull. So
years old. died of heart disease at
Manhattan while on street car. He
came to the state in 1884
Constable Shots D. Farmer OF
Baxter, a constable, was wounded in
the chin and ankle in a battle between
two men suspected of transporting
liquor recently. The officers had
gone to the Baxter-Chetopa road IS
watch for liquor-laden motor cars go
ing vest from Joplin
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Quits at Eiahty.-After completing
Fifty-two years of government serv-
Zee, P. D. Popenoe has retired from
the Lawrence postoffiee at the age of
80 years
Sane "Die Waeht Am Rhine."1
-sDie Wacht Am Rhine" sung at the
Barber County normal institute for
teachers at Medicine Lodge recently.
caused much indignation among the
pro-Americans, and they demanded
and obtained the dismissal OF the in
structor who suggested and led the
song.
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kansan Among Prisoners.-Miss
Iris Calderhead, arrested in Washing
ton in connection with a suffrage
demonstration, is q daughter Of For
mer Congressman W. A. Calderhead
of Kansas. She was teacher in the
Wichita schools until last fall.
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For 1918. Wheat--ReSolut pledg-
) ing the support of the grain men of
the state to the movement for 900
million-bushel wheat crop for 1919
in Kansas were adopted by the Kansas
Grain Dealers Association in conven-
zIon at Hutchinson