The Western Homestead from Tribune, Kansas • 4

October 1896. THE WESTEBH HOMESTEAD. ly that western soil and climate will produce most anything under proper One interesting feature about Kaffir corn is that it makes excellent pop treatment. The fair was a success in corn. Thi3 has been known by some every particular and speaks volumes The Western Homestead PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT TRIBUNE, KAS.

Eugene Tillcux, Kditor. 'or several years, but has come into of praise for its promoters. general notice only lately. It has a sweeter pop-corn, iiud is The following statement give3 the number of pounds of milk received and amount? paid by the Heizer creamery company at their home plant at Heizer and skimming stations at Albert, Pawnee Keek and Bazine: Milk received during August, 705,050 lbs. Amount paid patrons for same, $3,23247 Milk received during 521,141 Es.

Amount paid patrons for same, $2,587.63 Mill: received during the year, commencing October 1st. 1895, ending October lst 1800, 5,95,728 lbs. ce from the little hard knot present RAINFALL FOR SEPTEMBER. The precipitation during Sept. 1890 pop-corn.

at the weather bureaus in western In another column we republish Kansas is as follows: from Orange Judd Farmer an article on the Heizer creamery, in which is Amount paid patrons for same, Achilles, Colby Collyer Coolidge eiven a very complimentary notice of Rawlins county, Thomas Trego Hamilton Ford Decatur Clark Mr. W. Schweir, the manager of the srECtAL COXTItinUTOKSt Et.n BartiioIOMKW, Rockport, Kans. Howako Bkown, Hoily, Ctlo. r.

CopaiASD, Springfield, Colo. John P. Coulter, Russell Springs, Kans. Dkjioy Danielson. St.

Francis, Kans. L. Diebem, Garden City, Kans. W. Cbegory, Garden City, Kans.

John M. Patted. Dighton, Kaa. Alfred Pratt, Syracuse, Kas. Ben C.

Rick, Ellis. Kans. W. D. Stbbkt, Oberlin, Kas.

M. Tomblin, Goodland, Kans. Notwithstanding the fact that that company. We have met Mr. Schwier Dodge City Dresden we have at different times requested 4 tf recently and found him a jovial, all- Englewood our, delinquent subscribers to pay up, round good fellow.

He is an enthu Eureka Ranch Trego a comparatively small number have complied with the request, and again siastic western man and strongly in Finney Garden City faimr nf hniklincr industries in our favor ot Dunning inuubui sagreeable duty to say midst. Mr. Schwier has promised to that furnish the Homestead wit mouth reports of the operations of the Heizer SUBSCKIPTION price: FIFTY CENTS A YEAR. ih Wft arfi not treiuun Bituw Trego Sherman Gove Gove Cheyenne Kearney Meade Graham Morton Ness Gibson, Goodland Gove City Grainfield Jacqua Lakin, Meade Morland Morton Ness creamery, including the skimming sta- wi1, inlr aUOUl uuu ay.o ADVERTISING RATES. tions at Albert, iamu, Mnnt.

publish a i uilUllowUJU mu viv Reading notices 10 cents a line nonpareil ancriiniKen. vt (paper wiiuoui P'v' on our books the names ot many who toeasure monthly. Display per inch, 3 months, 1JW 6 months, 2.7a 12 months. 6.00 New Eng. R'ch Sheridan wffl owe us for two and three years.

We 2.03 1.47 1.00 1.00 1.S0 2.80 1.87 1.01 4.15 3.50 0.80 0.77 1 2.01 1.03 1.85 1.60 1.81 1.25 1.12 1.06 1.75 1.12 3.17 2.57 1.80 1.10 2.17 2.71 288 2.02 2.40 Norton Norton Oberlin than by the following 'statement of know that times have been hard with a nnkDnv hiiri 9ni1 WP nn.vfi No -advertisement will be inserted unless the order or satisfactory Scott City u. nf naflm maUV Ul UUl ouuuvuuwa, jKU. O. UU11XI.U50, vc. ftWon fn nlll.

yaru fv' references are given. lef tr nptnhpr tnea to db auuumuuauug, Sharon Sp'gs Tribune 1st, Mr. Cummings has shipped 18 car own inconvenience, but we think that 91 a mi) everyone can in the course of a year NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Ulysses Wallace -ui rrntinue to receive this for which the farmers were paid the spare the insignificant mm th Winona DUUilVUUtl- K.r paper until the publisher notified by letter to discontinue, when all arrearages mm Tf vou do not wish the pa- Cold water Cunningham average price of 10c. per the cost, neuuu whole amounting to the snug sum of will heed this appeal and send the remittances at once.

The relation. bet- Ellinwood per continued after your subscription has Decatur Scott Wallace Greeley Grant Wallace Logan Corr.anche Kingman Barton Pawnee Kiowa Ellis Stafford Barber Kingman Phillips Rush Pratt Russell Garfield Greensburg expired, you snouia men continue it. poultry average $50, and that of butter ween a publisher and taB rt omnnt should be one of good feeling and re- Hays City aUUUl UW IJUUUUO. touch 1 JiTmmti. onri rust, our readers will Macks ville Medicine L'ge Announcement.

wehv announce myself as an in paid to the farmers ahout uiarnn Dy -j, Mr. Cummings, for eggs, poultry and give us credit of having done our butter, reached the incredible sum ot share. It would be impossible for us, Norwich Phillipsburg Pleasant Dale no on account oi nuitj mm cu, dependent candidate for the office of rfv Sitnerintendent of Public Ins- i.ji.,,,,,! etotnmenr. Pratt i seiQ uy letter an luuuiuuui Russell Thft article on Western Kansas on but a blue mark on this paragraph will traction, and kindly ask the support of the voters of Greeley County at the No report. un on.a t.h nannr.

written bv indicate the number ot years you T. B. Jennings, Director. an eastern man, contains passages are indebted to us, from which you next general election. Mary E.

Wells. that are well worthy of our notice, can figure up -the amount aue. xi IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN THERE? For instance: "No country should he tnis is cot wC abandoned wholly upon the record of in our next and subsequent numuers The following is a list of new sub We have great faith in luck when i begins with a P. scribers and renewals received at this a few years, and until after a test of list or an delinquent uu xu wV every known crop." This sound ad- remit, with amount due by each. We vio ia atoM to those who "invite trust our subscribers are all honest, office since Sept.

15, 1896, with the Mr. Henry Scheetz, of Jennings, De dates at which the subscriptions expire: failure at the start by striving to adapt and if some are not we want to separ- NEW SUBSCRIBERS. means and methods of an older and ate the sheep irom tne gouts. autot ipHnn nf t.hfi coun- let us hear from you, that we may KANSAS. try to the nsw" and then move to Ar- know if you are dead or alive catur county, writes: "I think your paper the best suited for this western countrj because it contains so much practical advice and I would not do without it if it cost twice as much.

1 wish you every success." January 1S98 H. Milham, Bazine, (C E. W. Harris, kansas to ''improve" their condition Geo. Everett, Then "A farmer who will not learn The second annual Greeley county Jas.

Armstrong, chnnM nnt. be permitted to borrow" Fair, under the auspices of the Greeley J. W. Connell (I (I I I. October 1897 meaninir that even in western Kansas, County Horticultural Society, was held W.

Schwier, Heizer, Frank Roesler, Claflin, if people will study nature and its re- at Tribune on October ju ana um nmrpmonts. and Profit bv the experi- differed from most fairs for the reason L. J. Bailey, RENEWALS. KANSAS.

ence of their neighbors, they can not that it was wholly and solely devoted "Cow Culture" is the title of a report just issued by Secretary Coburn of the State Ikifrd of Agriculture. Like its predecessors, it is a valuable contribution to the farmer's library, and cannot fail to do much good, if its teachings are abided by. We think, however, r.rlv makfialivinff tut be prosperous, to agricultural ana Kinarea interests. The cattle show was particularly goou, A. Aams, Tribune, Ar.nnrrTi tiifinv (rood thtaffs that all the leading breeds Deing represent- M-hitPd ft thfi TrrRplev Countv ed.

and many fine specimens of Jerseys, that the work would have been more January 1897 it July January ii May A. J. Marine, W. T. Craven, Horace, B.

F. Rochester, Suott City, J. F. Pancake, Henry Scheetz, Jennings, W. II.

Hamilton, Raymond, Fair, there was one in particular that Holsteins, Herefords, Black and Bed MAnr. mnrA than a mssinsr notice. Polled, and Short Horns, were on ex- complete had it contained a list of the creameries and cheese factories in the wvuu i vw je i We refer to the cheese exhibit of Mr. hibition, showing clearly that the cattle State, and all information concerning William McGlasten of Colony town- industry in Greeley county is oemg them. Ii thnf nnr frionfl TdV TPfl OTI U'lVU lUUliUClllULl.T.

J. hk, OTHER STATUS. J. II. Baker.

Hartford, Conn. October 1897 Sllip. illtJ pUlUU 11UI uuau vui snmn o.hppsfi to the Fair, poultry department was nui icpica- -f M-t fhnt he madft it and sneciallv that entea oy numerous spuuiuicua ui it was of a superior quality. We have toned chickens, turkeys and ducks, if nnrl wp. nlaim to be con- indicating mat our iarmers wives Want of moisture and grasshoppers are playing sad havoc with the wheat in many places.

If the saying "A bad beginning brings a good ending is true we will surely have an abundant yield of wheat next summer. Kinsley noisseur of this dairy product. Mr. getting interested that important McGlashen has been manufacturing line cf husbandry. The products of owe fnr.RPvftr.al vears and has found the field, garden and orchard were not VJ V' i a ready market for it at home and in very numerous, as, owmg uu A sWt time ago we visited the skimming station at Bazine, operated by the Heizer Creamery company.

It bi'z been running about a year and is one of the most successful stations ot the company, the milk supply ranging from 5,000 to 8,000 pounds daily, according to the season, furnished by 65 patrons. It is one of the best arranged aLd most fully equipped skim bouses we ever visited. The plaat is in charge of Mr. Geo. Everett, a man thoroughly acquainted with creamery work, and to whom much credit is due for the success of the enterprise.

I mm Jf At. I- towns. Cheese certainty or noiamg a iair tnis yei TK1.1VUW "'O making is an industry in which many farmers had not prepared themselves of our western farmers may profitably tor it; nowever, tne cuspi ui uaicu hv making themselves ac- products was very nne, mciuumg.ii- ouainted with the requirements of the most all known vegetables, with choice Did You Ever See an Indian? Expect not) so send a two-cent stamp to the General Passenger Agent Colorado Midland Railroad, Denver, and he will send you a fine colored picture of one. business. The Homestead will Kuep specimens oi ceiei, uUWnM vou posted on this subject.

gooseberries, thus snowing conclusive 9.