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NOTES MEADOWBROOK Latest Kansas Events. Named your farm yet? Salt the steers In the pasture. Cats are a source of grave danger to chicks. Bee-keeping Is a profitable adjunct to poultry raising. Fight the weeds of all kinds and keep bad ones from going to seed. If you want to kill weeds, cultivate or hoe them when the sun shines hot. The boar should always receive some consideration as well as the sow. An electric power is the most con venient power for operating a power churn. Domestication plays a very promi nent part upon the prolificacy of animals. Have regular hours for doing the milking and milk the cows in the same order. The market garden furnishes a large amount of waste products which may be utilized for poultry food. If you buy a homer that has large warts on its beak you may be sure that it is more than two years old. Cream should be kept at a uniform temperature and that should be as low as possible as long as it stays on the farm. Any person who can secure ceed of black or honey locust can readily grow his own trees of these two species. Do not let the little colt follow the dam while she is at work. If the dam becomes heated the milk Is injurious to the colt. Remember that rape may be sown any time in July. It grows very fast if moisture is vailable and soon makes feed. Much depends upon the selection of the dairy cow. Do not expect the beer type of animal to fill the requirements of the dairy. During the warmer months horses doing the ordinary farm work derive much benefit and comfort, if given a pasture lot at night. The time is here when thought must be given to the comfort of the cows if their owners expect to sleep with no twinge of conscience. Do not change the work horse from grain to grass too suddenly. In fact, horses on heavy work every day should have very little grass. Milk with clean, dry hands, never al lowing the hands to come in contact with the milk. Do not allow dogs and cats to be around at milking time. An authority says that potatoes should not be planted in hills. It is much better to plant them in deep furrows and keep the ground level. v " The eggs laid by the pullet in the first vigor of her life and the eggs laid after a rest of the ben are the eggs that produce the strongest chick ens. Keep the turkey hens with their broods away from the old turkeys of the Sock as the latter are sometimes spiteful to rfie young and may Injure them. From early spring until August sow a few rows of summer lettuce every two weeks or so, and thus try to provide a continuous supply of good beads. The cost of a concrete floor can often be saved in the amount of fer tilizer that is kept from going to waste. It also makes a more sani tary stable. . m Steers fed on clover hay will not only consume more roughage, but also more grain than those fed on timothy hay if grain and roughage are fed ac cording to appetite. Milk paint, properly prepared and applied, makes about the best and cheapest weather coating for wooden outbuildings and fences that there is , that is, where milk is on hand, of course. There are other men who succeed with sheep, and there are men who want to kick a sheep every time they see one. These last should not bother with, sheep at all; but nearly every man is competent to handle some kind of livestock If be will set: himself to jit Sheep relish rope greatly. i Give the animals fresh water. Thumps results If the young pigs get too fat. The harvest season is the most trying of the year. The fields that raise the best crops are the fields that are well drained. During the torrid days the comfort of the fowls must be closely attended to. It takes a protracted drought to de velop any poisonous material In sor ghum. . ' - ' Through live stock we market our products at home In the finished product. It would be better to give some of your cows away than to feed them at a loss. Keep the eggs as short a time as pescsible and at a cool temperature, 40 to 55 degrees. All the profit of sheep husbandry is bound up n one thing; the keeping of the flock In health. A good aphis is one of the worst enemies the orchardist has to combat in the young orchard. v Selling les3 hay and straw, feeding more cows on the farm, will help re duce the fertilizer problem. Great care should be exercised In all cases in transplanting everexeens to avoid drying of the roots. Tomato seeds are easily preserved. and If you have extra good ones pick out the best and save the seeds. It should be remembered that sows that are to feed large litters of pigs should be well fed and cared for. The pig that is intended for a brood sow should be fed well enough to keep it in good condition, but not extra fat. As good insect powder Is so cheap there 1b no use or excuse for allowing old fowls to remain covered with ver min. If you want late celery for winter. it should be planted any time from the first of July to the middle of August. String beans should be drilled in double rows six inches apart with just enough space between to allow for cultivation. Buttermilk is one of the best known feeds for pigs, used in moderation and properly mixed with grain or oth er feedstuffs. The foremost method of cultivating alfalfa is with the disk harrow, one of the most excellent farm implements ever invented. If the skin of the horse is kept clean he will sweat more freely, which Is necessary to keep him in good condition. Too much water is as bad as too little, because the surplus fills up the interstices in the soil, excludes the air and smothers the plant. For the large tomato worm which was more numerous than usual last year, the best method is to pick them off by hand and destroy them. Never feed meat scraps that were made of rotten meat. Good, pure feed is (he only thing that ever ought to be fed to a fowl of any kind. $ It costs money to have things go wrong on the farm or anywhere else, but it is almost inevitable that some thing will go wrong once in a while. , Before and -after the sow farrows, she should be fed very light or the pigs will not be able to take all the milk, or if they do, they will become sick. Dop't forget to thoroughly overhaul the binder before harvest; this is cheaper than to be overhauled by a hailstorm because you let the harvest ing drag. Small-fruit growing and truck farm ing does not mix well with general farming; but an apple orchard la a profitable appendage to any diversi fied farm. A gilt that is expected to be kept for a brood sow should never be bred before she is eight months old, and it is better to wait until she is ten or eleven months old. It is just as cheap to make a pound of good butter as it is to make & pound of poor butter and when It comes to selling it, the prices are very decidedly different. All we can do towards the moult is to feed well. Keep the birds in the best condition to stand the strain. - Do not . try starving or over-feeding, or extreme changes in feeding all fatal processes. Clean all dairy utensils by first thor oughly rinsing them in warm water, then clean inside and out with a brush or clean cloth and hot water, and last ly sterilize with boiling water. After cleaning keep utensils . Inverted in pure air and sun if possible until wanted for use. Influence of Money in Capital Clubs THEY AM. THE REAL OF ASHINCTON WASHINGTON. The public rebuke of President Taft, in which he stigmatized certain persons as "small brained and narrow-minded critics," following the withdrawal of names of men prominent In the political world up for membership in the ultra-exclusive Metropolitan club, has centered the attention of the country on the snobbishness of Washington. Close observers assert that the im lmpetus given to existing social condi tions dates from the Spanish-American war. Before the treaty of Paris the millionaire residents of Washington could be counted on the fingers. Now all the rich and retired, the famous or otherwise, the representatives of whis ky, sugar, tobacco every kind of trust has his palace in an ultraexclusive residential section and the womenkind set up to be social leaders. Money and Influence in the gilded throng is the test which Washington now applies to every ambitious public man and his wife. The clubs are ruled by money, and men who have balked the political or financial schemes of those who are high In Washington clubdom are punished if they seek the companionship in clubs such as they would obtain in their home cities. ran Government to Wipe Out Moro Pirates IT is somewhat startling to learn that piracy as bold and fierce as in the days of Captain Kldd still flour ishes under the American flag. The Moro pirates of the Philippines have begun their attacks on peaceful mer chant ships once more. A patrol of American gunboats was maintained over the Moros in the Sulu seas until recently, and withdrawn in the belief that they had been pacified. The Moros believed that the Americans were afraid of them, and piracy imme diately flamed out afresh. Now the patrol will be re-established. The Malay pirate of the eastern seas is perhaps the most notorious of all freebooting types. He excels Captain Kldd in reckless daring and ruthless cruelty. Instead of sailing boidly forth in fleets of outrigger boats, after the old time style, with a force numbering hundreds of armed and intrepid war riors, the Moro pirate of today estab lishes headquarters on some small island, and therefrom as a base of operations conducts furtive raids. If successful, he becomes bolder, and Committee Is to Sift Indian Charges THE lid on the seething cauldron of Indian affairs is loose It is to be taken off without further delay by Chairman Graham, of the committee on expenditures in the Interior depart ment. For years there has1 been endless rumor and vague accusations of. graft, trickery, jokers in legislation, of ap propriations nominally designed for the Indians, but actually going to land grabbing rings; of looting of the In dian -estates all over the country, of waste in maintaining the Indians and policies that tend to pauperize them. The facts are to be dug out. If the charges are true, they are to get light, If not, they are to be disproved. The Investigators expect to stir up a very bad odor. Where do the millions appropriated Uncle Sam Issues THE United States government will soon issue its one millionth pat? ent for an invention. Commissioner of. Patents Edward Bruce Moore has been looking forward for some time to a celebration of the Issuance of pat ent No. 1,000,000. It was his hope that this distinguished number should go to some epoch-making invention. The United States patent office will be 122 years old when the coveted number is Issued. The bureau was established in 1790 as an adjunct to the treasury department. Early in 1836 there was a fire which destroyed not only the building of the patent of fice, but every record, all the import ant drawings and papers, and every model owned by the government. Prior to the fire the office had Issued 9,937 patents. The first strictly American inven tion to receive a patent from the orig inal United States patent office was the cotton gin. The patent was issued March 14, 1794. to Eli Whitney. The lumber of the Whitney patent was not preserved. Neither was the number One of the most exclusive clubs in Washington keeps on its rolls a man who deserted his wife and six children to elope with the wife of a fellow member of the same club, while It re fused admission to a man who had de feated the ambitions . of certain high officials. Ten yearo ago the late Gen. Henry C. Corbin, then adjutant gen eral of the United States army, was kept out of this same islub through the efforts of men whose sons he would not appoint to fat positions during the Spanish-American war. So many such incidents have occurred In the past decade that they cease to surprise. Time was that when a new cabinet official, a new senator or even a mem ber of the lower house came to Wash ington, some courtesy was accorded by society. Now that richly clad dame inquires about the home status of the raw officials and if the report is not up to the standard, Madame Cabinet Official or Senator or Representative will have a lonesome time, unless she has some personal friends In the great realm. The president and his wife will be courteous. They will follow the tra ditions, and will ask them to the functions decreed by a century of ob servance. But except to visit among those whom their husband's rank makes a natural alliance, they need not hope for amenity from the real leaders of Washington, the wealthy women whose palaces are clustered up and down 16th street and Massa chusetts avenue and about Dupont circle. ventures further afield in quest of booty. Finding a ship in trouble, he attacks it and murders everybody on board. Coming across a village that looks peacefully Inviting, he sacks it, massacrelng all the adult male inhab itants. Then, with his load of loot, he does not return to the place from which he started, but seeks another Island, where, with his comrades, he remains until they have eaten up or otherwise disposed of the proceeds of the expe dition. Meanwhile to hunt down The piratical band is much like looking for a needle in a haystack, for the Philippine group comprises many thou sands of little islands, which toward the south are scattered all the way from Sulu to within sight of Borneo. each year In the Indian bill go? It has been constantly charged that they go in large part to about everybody except the Indians. For instance, $500,000 was appropriated in the last bill for irrigation of the Flathead reservation lands. If the stories now being laid before the probers are true, this money is to be used, not for the Indians, but for lands that have been taken from the Indians and are held by speculators. The Gila irrigation project is alleged to present a some what similar situation. Another case that the committe is going to -probe is that of the Crow reservation in Montana. A case of Uintah Indians of Utah is going to be taken up In the effort to locate re sponsibility for the woes of this tribe. The charge is that the Indians were allotted their lands on a map, without reference to topography. Some got bottom lands and some got mountain tops, and on these they were expected to live while the rest of the lands were deftly manipulated into the hands of enterprising white men who managed the deal. a Million Patents VVHFE.O I'VE ISSUED OHE MILLION PATENTS" of Fulton's steamboat, for which a patent was issued Feb. 11, 1809. Following the resumption of a regu lar system dT serial numbers for pat ents the first Important American in vention to be granted a patent was the Colt revolver. The next great American invention to receive a patent was the Morse telegraph instrument. The patent. No. 1,647. was issued June 20, 1840. The patent issued to Charles ' Goodyear. June 15, 1844, acknowledged his in vention of the process of the vulcanis ation of India rubber. The basic pat ent of the pneumatic air brake was Issued to George W. Westinghouse April 13. 1S69. It bore serial number 8S.9Z9. To Report Express Abuses. In furtherance of the efforts of the American Poultry association to se cure the pracels post nd also to se cure the parcels post and also to se paultry and poultry products. Secre tary E. D. Martin, of the Kansas branch, has been notified to ask the Kansas members of the association to report abuses on the part of ex press companies. The reports of such abuses will be laid before the meeting of the executive board of the association at Denver, which meets August 5 to 9. Increasing Katy Mileage. The big bond issue of $107,000,000 which the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad is now floating is expected to Increase materially the mileage of the company's property in Kansas, In addition to much improvement work on the lines already built. The first new Kansas property will be the con struction of a new line from Parsons to Wichita. The company already bos started the preliminary surveys for this line. Terminal Sites Selected. Locations for six new freight termi nals to be built in Kansas City, Kan., as the result of a recent supreme court decision were selected by the mercantile club and Secretary P. W. Morgan was instructed to - ask the Kansas Rate utility board to notify the railroad companies to erect the necessary buildings at the points se lected as soon as possible. Enjoine.d Wichita Police. A temporary injunction issued by judge Thornton D. Sargent against the city of Wichita, the mayor and chief of police and others held these authorities from interfering with a moving picture show when it opened its doors on Sunday. It is under stood that the opening of the theater will be made a test case. Pure Water at Downs. The Improvements made this sum mer to the Downs water works plant places that city in better condition for water than it ever was before, and the danger of the exhaustion of the water supply has been placed at a minimum. Pour new wells have been added to the equipment and each is better than it was expected to find. Plans for Fish Ladders. The plans for fish ladders to be used by Prof. Dyche, state fish and game warden, have been completed and turned over., to him for the con struction work. The drawing of the plans has been done by Verne Long, a member of this year's graduating class from the engineering school. Pete Ball Gives Up Alimony. Declaring the alimony law is an evil, Pete W. Ball, who has served nearly two years in the Allen coun ty jail for contempt, having refused to pay alimony to his divorced wife, left the prison after paying $191 in satisfaction of judgment against him. Fires Two Shots at Negro. Aaron Griffith, a negro, was shot twice by Grover Whitson, at Hack ney. Neither wound .Is dangerous. Whitson says he discovered the ne gro crawling along the hedge near his house and when he called to him he jumped up and started to run. Fatal Fire at Wichita. One man is dead and six are suf fering from serious burns resulting from a natural gas explosion in a rooming house at Wichita. The fire from the explosion gained such head way that the roomers were unable to escape unaided. " Dakota Land Opening. Hundreds of Kansans will no doubt endeavor to secure some of the pub lic land that is to be opened to set tlement and entry under the home stead laws. In North and South Da kota soon. These lands include the Fqrt Berthold Indian lands in North Dakota and the Pine Ridge and .ose bud Indian lands in South Dakota. Horse Thief Qaickly Captured. Frank Weaver was arrested at Su perior, Neb., charged with stealing a team of horses the night before from George Johnson, a prominent farmer residing near Belleville, and Is now in the county jail awaiting triaL Weaver has been employed as a farm hand by Mr. Johnson. Three Counties Join in a Road. - A joint session of the county com missioners of Reno, Rice and Mc pherson counties was held at the county line where the three counties converge, resulting in a decision to build a sand clay road through the sandhills from Hutchinson to Wln dom, 23 miles. Tin Bridges No More. The county commissioners have made a fine departure in bridge build ing in Harvey county by having the plans and specifications required for the four new bridges to be built this year to be made of concrete and steel. Conservation Congress to Meet. The Kansas state conservation con gress, composed of 24 members, will meet in Kansas City, Kan, next Octo ber, during the annual celebration of the adoption of the Kansas constitution. Kansas Girl Wants Land Patent, Members of the Kansas . deiegatisB in congress have lately become mier ested in the contest which Miss Kmmej M. Hanson, of Landsberg, Km . Is waging with the general land office to secure a patent to some land in Colo rado which she has homesteaded, Miss Hanson is in Washingtes and has won the admiration of the Kansas colony by her plcck and her energy. As one of the Kanwn congressmen puts it, "She-is a typical . Kansas girl, full of grit and self-ve-liance." Drought and the Silo. Be careful of your tasseled corn. The drought will prevent It matins much corn, and if cut fo fodder and. shocked in the ordinary way It will be easily damaged by rains. To make It most valuable for feed the fodder must be stacked and covered with straw or some such material, or th green corn should be preserved in silo It will not have the feedlnif quality of matured corn silage, but the stock will eat it and do well on It Fed with hay or .. straw it makes si good wintering ration for cattle. Abstracters Divide State.' The Kansas Abstracters' association at its fifth annual convention at Sa lina voted to divide the state Into eight district associations, to corre spond with the congressional dis tricts. This legislation was introduced by J. N. Atkinson of Kansas City, member of the executive committee. H. Lu Burgoyne of Cincinnati spoke on the Torrens system of land title registration from the viewpoint Of a lawyer, condemning it strongly as not being suited to the American system; of government. Bold Porch Climbers. The residence of A. S. Kininmontn at Winfield was entered by porcn climbers and robbed of two gold watches, about $500 worth of rings and other Jewelry, and some clothing. The robbery was an unusually bold one, inasmuch as ic was committed on a bright moonlight night on one of the principal residence streets, the operators climbing Into the upper story of the house over . the front porch. Fire in Wheat Field. A fire of unknown origin burned five stacks of wheat, three stacks of oats and a separator cn the P. H. Bert farm, near Chapman. The wheat, of whieh there was about 500 bushel, belonged to P. H. Bert, and the oats, amounting to about 450 bushel, be longed to Enos Bert. The separator belonged to W. Walters. No insur ance was carried on any of the prop erty burned. Delphos Has a Park. Although one of the smaller towns of central Kansas Delphos has one of the prettiest natural parks in the state. The .adies of the Park Move ment club have taken much pains this, summer, in making Improvements, j Beautiful flower beds have been made at regular intervals and the W. C. T. U. has taken the initial steps toward, placing a drinking fountain in the park. Wichita's "Bathing Beach." Wichita's bathing beach, established: as a municipal move, is open every day for any who may wish to take a dip in the water. At first it was re ported that the "blue Sunday" regu lation would be put in force there, but all bathers who wish to do bo may take a plunge on any day of the week. Two days each week are being re served for women. Pours Gasoline on Fire. Holding a baby in her arms while her son poured gasoline into a stove to replenish the fire, Mrs. John Rob-' erts, 42 years old, and her boy, Ed ward, 14 years old, received burns that caused their deaths. The baby was uninjured. There were a few "live" coals in the stove and these exploded the gasoline. The Roberts home is in West Mineral, 27 miles southwest of Pittsburg. Train Kills Motorcyclist. Leonard Keams, 13 years old, was fatally injured when a motorcycle on which he was riding the gas tank, collided with an Orient train at Wich ita. Raymoond Homan, a 14-year-old boy, was driving the machine. He was not seriously hart. Solomon Issues Light Bonds. The city of Solomon has arranged to issue $30,000 bonds for the build ing of a light and water plant. The water will be secured in the sand hills near where Abilene gets its Sand Springs water, one of the finest water supplies in the state. , To Manage Fish Hatchery. Curtis Myers, of Topeka, has been appointed superintendent of the state fish hatchery at Pratt. He will servo u&der State Fish and Game Warden L L. Dyche. Myers served during; the last session of the legislature as document clerk of the house. Apple Crop All Right. The central Kansas apple crop hast not been hurt by the dry spelL Lead ing orchard owners say the apple cron is looking fine and that there has beej. very few drop from the trees,