The Irrigation Champion from Garden City, Kansas • 3

''I mark- all the great mar could not hand could not handle or tiny cat as they II .11.11. Uog Halting In Wlcrn Kan that would be dumped on l8 I I pay In this locality the applet plum and cherries. While I rait a few para, they seem to blight so easily that I do not count upon them any more. Peacbet cannot be depended are running on KMU IfUlim DO HUH A. IF.

STUJtlhS, Ileal Estate Agent Will givt speeial attention to lookiug up small irrigated and irrigated farmt in tho Arkansas valley. Correspondence solicited. nit their pelts ought to be worth, i h. but con A. C.

Ilnutr. Tim Lwiliiig ami riinjf ot hoji like the brewclinjj am raining of other domeMio animals lias InM-oinj a tcionce mil the profit ruliJ from A good pond water under proper control adds to the beauty a well as the commercial value of any other farm in any other ways than those already mentioned. No articlo of food is more health ful to man than that of fob. With reservoirs a we have them in Finney county, stocked with fish it ia no trouble lo have fih any day and for any meal, and what we might at upon to any great extent though I but many are holding on believing an i too nSw have a few trees laid down and sidt 1 Uiiea aome tf covered this season, on which the elmn I'i nuke good pork here at buds are all right as yet. I had that this state of affairs cannot last lung, and ho who cau grin and bear it will come out all right.

The mutton busiuess is paying whpro the country is adaptod to it, tho is governed largHv liv the diffurenco in method of kei'jiiiijj it doc-j In all other countries. fi aome fine large aprloot trees, but Cm Buidbscb a Pvsiaass Paortarv. BToca Bakcnis Vnn Foa sals Ut to hog raising in a business and intulliirotiee or ill of tho .......1,1 -i they never bore and I have out them out. Nectarines I have not tried. breeder.

J1 I. nf lltaf ntt U'liiirA r.tA.l 1. apirfa present call a luxury. I have two or three varietiot I put into my reservoirs in the fl prune which promise well and I business that we exoeeted to make land high, and the sheep that is adapt- succeshful and a profit from, and i i. i.

1 ed to herding in large herds, who there that will pay well )0(no countrlc1) for the capital invested. of 1)3, some mud cat fish that were from 3 to 4 inches long and in one Tho firs clement of succum is a taste fur the buiiios. A natural adaption couplod with energy ami ability insures success in any calling; but owing to the groat diversity of E. J. PYLE, REAL ESTATE AGENT.

Irrigable Lands Specialty. Correspondence Solicited. AGENT FOR THE A. T. 8.

F. RAIL ROAD LANDS. Ofllce 803 Main Garden City. year they have grown to 12 and 14 count upon them as a success. Of Lombard plums I had trees, four years old last which paid me inches iu length and weigh over one When and How Will Sheep Crowing be Made More Profitable? pound, I also put in aome sun fish Siate, throw too much of iu grease into its wool instead of putting it on llta body, and tho wool that it grows an average of $4 per tree, and be conditions met with in embarking in this busiuess it is iiniostillo to give in a limited space definite mothods Ii A.

Whits, ides a great many of the plums the same full and they have made were picked off by the hundreds of Sheep growing in a small sv 'cnmes more into competition with growth in about the same proportion exactly suited to each case. as that of the cat fish. for mutton, on fenced farms, ir. iIih; the majority ot foreign wool, ins Within the last month I have sheep i not a mutton sheep and cau United States is profitable at tin At every outset, in the selection of stock, there is a wide difference added to them some channel cat, present; but the fact that large herd not be mado so on short notico just because our great statesmen says black bass and rainbow trout. Mr, are being abandoned very rapidly, t' McBeth Kinnison, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in ALFALFA SEED And otber Farm and Garden Seeds.

GARDES CITY, KANSAS. rettygood proof they are not profit 1 people who visited my place while the fruit waa ripening. Those told brought me $2 a bushel. I am satisfied the Damson will do well here and I put it at the head of the list of plums for our planting. Next to it I would name the Lombard, Weaver and Wildgcose.

The Marian na and Miner I consider no good. Of the cherries the Early R'ohmond and Wain pier, tho present State Fish Commissioner, who visited our city in Deeember and taw our reservoirs able. Western railroads, tho past year, lite product that has been produced, by over one hundred years of great care and labor, by expensive and careful breeding, is only raw material, after all. Mutton production one thing and wool growing is as to the best kinds to be used. In my judgment the breeder should use the kind he likes best, let that be of what breed it mny.

As a man never succeeds As well with any thi.ig if he thinks his tuiyUuir lin tl)ing better, as he dues when he has the best. Make up i "i' of liniM vu and water says we have as good or have refused lo ahip sheen without) a a to freight being advanced, ad i better facilities, than any other locality in the state to iiropairate fish wan sometime doubtful if they wouldl English Morello are the most suo and advises the growing of game fmh sell for enoiii'h to pajrjhvimnHef another that is, one is adapted to a J.fi.ln!!! t.ri.ii. r.L I I cessful, and ot the grapes the Con- Sn raise. 1 lien teiec and for choice ho names the black bios, cr ppies, channel cat, rainbow 41 r. i luimuiuii, i ory country, wiin an miiiuiito ui at Kansas City'' the riasi rjira and the other to a moiat coun- tou can get tl)0 J'oU cord leada all other black varieties, and the Niagara ia my best white sort.

I have about ten varieties of they U. VCT wha try with its tame grasses and cheap ir null ll inula iniwo hmu v.ivnjr '7 GEO. MACK CO. Groceries, Pro vis ons and Queensware. trout and rock bassaa the five lead ing varieties for our waters and ad two years ago, and inanv feel The demand for good mutton valilHbl vises us to propagate and grow grapea which have done well.

iut mVe bcen the United States is increasing almost gir.kvot Pr rapidly, and. here in Finney enough iih for our own home con iw I consider this a good country for growing the kinds of fruits I have county with its free rango and alfal sumption at least. Judo Farmer in? Orange want them for. If you want them to start a herd to raise ri.e winner, you must select the very best sire and dam of the best strains tliut you can get. Be sure that they are good individual breeders and to jour fancy, and this is a very particular point, to settle in your mind before you begin your herd.

Fresh Goods, Low Trices. n.1 'ill. "Thft ot VJJ The question milit be asked what indicated. It any man will plant rai.id movement of sltf does it cost to grow them, I will an first class treea, of good varieties, Opera House Block. swer xoTitixo, for what any one fa, mild and beautiful climate, there is no reason why it will not pay; but the large herd business is ruined without adequate protection.

Fish Culture, give them thorough cultivation, bead them low and irrigate judiciously, last two years being 00 per com. greater than the three years preced- family will use on their own table, any reservoir will grow that many If you want a largo, lengthy hog, ing, ami that Chicago alone has re LAWRENCE REED, ceived in '03 and 'U4 1 make your selections of this kimi in he will receive good pay and satis faction for his time and labor. Cabbage. Dorr. without feeding.

Any man who has a reservoir and has not got it stocked with fish ia losing valuable time and DEALERS IS mid as to the profit in wool, I think it has all disappeared. the beginning. If you want a short, smooth and compact hog, one that can be made ready for market from aside from that will not only have to Alfalfa Seed, Grain, Floor, Feed and Baled Hay. wait longer than the man who lias, seven to nine months old, make your Ladies and Gentlemen: Your committee made a grave mistake when it called on me for a paper on selections of this kind in tho begin before he can supply his table with fish of his own production, also, your ing of your herd, for those are the this subject. Probably they took Alfalfa Seed a Specialty.

water in the pond will grow you me for a German because I like beer. fish for family use for less money than you can grow any other meat in Cabbage ia one of the staple veg extremes in hog raising, and are very bard to change from one to another; but either one can be changed by careful breoding into Br I. L. Dikkcm. Four years ago I stocked my first reservoir with carp which are by no means the best fish in tho world, nor are they as bony as the sucker or the hickory shad.

During the fall, winter and early spring they are palatable and are very desirable as a change of meat diet. Carp are among the most proJuc-tive of any of the finny tribe. A female weighing 5 lbs, lays on an average about 300,000 eggs in one season. It is on this account that they are so productive. Carp when 10 months old weigh from one and a half to two and under favorable conditions will do, better than this.

proportion to the money invested, etable crops and ia used a great many ways, fried, boiled, stewed, R. P. HOOVER, Real Estate and Loans. Enough fish for any one family can what we call the medium hog. Whon the tar.ff reform party went into power with an overwhelming majority, tho price of wool in 0U( eastern market was nearly doubU for the same quality in London, anc for ten days after the election, ven little wool changed hands, but th prospect of free trade here, stimu lated the foreign market for a tinie while here a decline set in and niiiket came down to a level wit London.

Within six month? afte. the inauguration of the president Ohio fine unwashed and most of the Territorial wool fell 22 per cent The prospect of radical tariff reduc tions paralized the woolen business raw, and when out up fiue, salted If you want to raise hogs for the be grown in any of our reservoirs little and partly rotted, is called market emir, you should uso good witout any artificial feeding. You will find nature alone baa provided saur kraut. It ia a vegetable that lasts almost the entire year. It be judgment in selecting tho heads of your herd, and always be energetic and ambitious enough to always gins to come into market about July Agent for the Arkansas Valley Land and Irrigation Company.

Dealer in Western ana Irrigation Lands. enough for that. Cohort! vropa That Pay. lly. E.L.

lUt-u imnrove vour herd, and never let i 1st and lasts until cold weather when it can be gathered and stored away in a cave or cellar or buried in the go back. These are most important I do not know that I can offer anything of more interest or value points to be observed in the begin rung of hog raising. ground and kept until the next closed the majority of the woolei J. J. MUNGpR, 1( I hope that our western farmers for a short paper on this subject than wni cer in mmj, ttit we are To raise cabbage you want a rich piece of ground, or make it rich with give something of my personal ex not at present considered to be in perience.

On my place just west of well rotted manure well worked into The carp attains a length of from 3 to 4 leer, and at that size then weighs from 30 to 40 lbs. Under favorable conditions carp at he agtf of 8 years ought to weigh from 4 Olbs. This variety of fish (the carp) has become a very important fish op the hog producing country, but in has thrown thousands of Wv-i4 ingiuen out of employment, and in chocked the sale of wool. This i in strong contrast with the cond. tiori of woolen manufacturing bust ness previous to March 1303; ther' was then more woolen inanufaotur town, I have nine acres of apple, my judgment we are destined REAL ESTATE BROKER and INSURANCE AGENT.

Lawyers' Block, Garden City, Kans. the near future to lead both in the soil; plow and pulverize it fine, then furrow it out east and west if you can about 3 feet apart, plant plum and cherry trees, with a few quality and profit. By observation pears, JUU grape vines, a quarter acre of raspberries and acre of your plants on the south side of fur ers in full operation than was eve we notice that the improvmont in hog raising, both for pork and the row from 2 to 8J feet apart accord known in the United States at on' strawberries. In all I have 700 show rings are moving from the east ing to variety. When you get time; the demand for wool was trees and they cost me a total of $05, to the west.

And living in a row set out turn water in furrow and great that it absorbed account of its habits. It readilj' adapts to pond culture no? only in our reservoirs' but they will do fairly well in dead water poolii, wherein the game fish of any variety cannot even live. The carp is a vegitanan and wijl country as we do, where we can let it run clear through the row, that They were planted in 1887, 1888 A. E. MelMsh, 106 Grant Ave, American clip of 333,000,000 lbs and 108,000,000 lbs.

of importe settles the dirt about the roots, and being on the south bank of furrow and 1SS9. Each year since setting the orchard I have raised truck crops successfully raise alfalfa, which is as good grass for hogs as any in the world and can be used for eight or WATCTtMAKKR and OVTICIATi wool, a quantity larger by 32 per the south wind and hot sun is broken cent, than the imports of any pre-f between the rows. In 18S7 I sold tous year, under any previous tar about $500 worth of garden stuff; in Makes a Specialty of Fine Watch Repairing ancf the Scientific Fitting of Spectacles. so the plants get a good start and are not whipped about and broken off as they are when planted on the law; but loss than four months aftA 1888, some $700 or $800 worth; in the policy of the administration ha level. If weather is dry about seo- been the woolen mill SPECIAL GLASSES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION MADE TO ORDER 1889 almost $400 worth.

Among the crops of that year were 40 ond day after setting out run the eat almost anything in the vegetable line as well as many of the cereals Wheat or corn when sunk to the' bottom of the reservoir in a box or bucket is eaten up very readily. Shorts or cheap flour madointoA dough is a food that they relish and eat readily. It cost me about $15 to stock my reservoir. Since that time I have sold more than twice that amount many them for the first time i their existance began to close, al employees were thrown out of wort water down the rows again and as nine months in a year, for pasture, keeping a hog in a good growing condition, and will make hay that will keep them in just as good condition the balance of the year, and in a country where hogs are perfectly healthy and never have been known to have any disease. I have had some experience in hog raising, both here and in the eastern part of the state, and am frank to say that I can raise hogs here and soon as the ground is in good shape to work take a hoe and pull fine any of whom are now dependei.

bushels of early Ohio potatoes from one bushel of seed. In '00, '91 and '92 the vegetable crops have paid an average of $400 per year, the space between the rows becoming more STOCKS, BOYLE CO. REAL ESTATE BROKERS, upon charity for support. dirt in around plant to keep ground from baking around the plant. About two years ago wool-grovi ers were complaining of low pfp Control a large list of hot irrigable lands and dry lands Keep the ground moist by irri and some imagined the law di V-" and my family have had all the fresh fish in the past two years they wanted, say nothing about the pleasure and more shaded and leaving less room for the crops.

I estimate that deliver them in Kansas City market tK)P: gating at least once a week if the of fishing. weather is dry and follow it up by during the time which has elapsed in all S. i Kansas counties. Some choice bargains on the river in Finney Co. W.

S. HOLBERT, Manager. cultivation as soon as ground will do since planting, my trees have in -wlth a Ketter '1s, I could where I lived within twenty-five miles of Kansas City. I am satisfied that the' most successful farmer in Finney county will be the one that will stock his farm When I had written this articje thus far I wanted to read it to Mrs. Diesem.

She frankly said, Oh to work. In this way I have raised creased in value on an average of 50 cents per tree per year. This makes a Write for Particulars. pshaw, I don't want to hear it, cabbage that would make from 12 to 15 tons per acre. This is my plan for raising cabbage and if any net gain of at least $350 per year in would rather go fishing.

When our reservoirs are planted value of the orchard besides what -with a- a good selection ot some standard breed of bogs and take pride in taking care of them. with fish the harvest comes twicqf a one has a better plan I will be glad The Gause Irrigation Pump IS NO EXPERIMENT. was produced in way of vege year. When the birds are aroused to hear it. The ground used for alfalfa hog tables, even before the trees began from their winter quarters and begin their songs in the spring, and the to bear.

pasture-should be of soil that will pack close, making a medium hard The past season I sold about $250 surface so that the roots of alfalfa IT HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY TESTED. barns and cellars are nearly empty and the finances have run low, then two or three year old cavp worth of apples, $00 worth of plums and small quantities of cherries and will Btay well in the ground, if the soil is of a loose sandy nature being other fruits. become a eouroe of revenue. And tramped by the sharp hoofs of the hogs, which gives a greater presure uZ OSS IT COMBINES THE BEST FEATURES OF DLL PUMPS MADE. holes in' it, and it is very difficult to make a law that cannot be evaded.

Yet, at the same time," growers here were netting about 14 cents per which soon after the eleotion before the law could be changed the prioe fell until the grower here only nets 7 cents per lb. for the same grade pi wool, and as the profit was small at the 14 cents, there cannot be a profit in the large herd until a sufficient tariff law is enacted that will protect against cheap foreign wool. What, will well clothed, well paid Americans compete with the breeoh-clout natives of Australia and South Amer-ca, where the grass is green the year around and where two lazy natives will herd 5,000 or 10,000 sheep for a little mutton; and today, where wool can be sent by water for one-fourth of a cent per pound, while it takes from 3 to 4 cents per pound freight to get it from our western ranches to the same mancets. The wool-growers in the western states and territories the past season have received from 3 to 6 cents per pound for their wool; while paying from $20 to $40 per month for herding, with additional help in the spring. The sheering, twine, is usually equal to one cent per then with high priced feed, losses from severe winters and wild aui- to the square inch than any other Every variety of apples I have planted has done well and there are nearly thirty different kinds in the orchard.

I do not know of a single kind that I would discard. The C9 to again in the fall, when the freshets of spring, the droughts of summer, the hot winds and scorching rays of the sun have made their impression felt on the resources of the farm, and the farmer is depressed with care and anxious thoughts as to the future. The fish then unaffected by these animal that we pasture, thus pulverizing the soil into dust and the wind blows it away from the roots, al-lcNving therrf to stick above the different kinds are as follows: Of summer apples, early harvest, (very 9 ad ground, and the hogs in their effort For full information address our State Agents U.S. WATER AND STEAM SUPPLY CO. Or Kansas City, Mo.

Carter Gause, Garden City, Kansas. extremes will come to the rescue and balance accounts. What is there that with the same fine) and red June; of fall apples, the rambo (which does very well indeed) the maiden blush, Jonathan, Duchess of Oldenburg, Grimes' golden pippin, (which is another extra good variety) famous, Williams' favorite and Dyer; of winter apples, Ben Davis, (of oourse) yellow belle-flower Arkansas black, Talman 2 amount of labor and money expended that is so attractive as a reservoir stocked with fish, it adds to home attractions of the farm and makes it a 02 to get the tenderest clover and also being fond of the roots will bite the alfalfa below the bud, which will sooner or later ruin the pasture. If alfalfa is kept properly watered on soil that readily packs, it can be pastured with from 15 to 20 hogs to the acre and keeps them in a very good growing condition, that "is hogs that will weigh from 75 pounds and up, young hogs for the first few months should by all means have a small ration of grain each day, and In my judgment there is no time in the fattening of hogs that they pay itf 71 more pleasant place for the sons and daughters, ano for that matter, for IT. FINNCJP, Dealer in LUMBER, FURNITURE, HARDWARE, the father and mother also.

A place GO for bathing, boating, skating, and above all, a place to fish. Where is sweet, Genetan, Minkler, Mann, Romanite, Rhode Island greening, Roman beauty, Bailey sweet, Huntsman's favorite, Missouri pippin, winesap, (very fine) WTillowtwig and Lawver. I count as the orchard crops that i the boy, man or woman who does mals, whore is the profitr1 I fully believe that if the growers thought wool would be on the free list eight to Established 1879. not love to angle for the finny tribe? FARM MACHINER lAa "TV 1.