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SPEED RECORD BARS KANSAS LIVE STOCK HAS NEW ROAD PLAN PRODUCTIVE QUALITIES OF THE DAIRY COW 10c Worth of (EM) California Declares Rigid Quarantine Against All Animals from Middle Western States. Wffl Clear $1.00 Worth of Land State Senator Would Build tho Kansas Highways With-x out Aid of Bonds. LAND ALONE TO BEAR COST imi rrfl'Jw yt IfW" Get rid of ths stumps and grow yf big crops on cleared land. Now Milfcjp is the time to clean up your farm while products bring high prices. Blasting is quickest, cheapest and easiest with Low Freezing Du Pont Explosives.

They work in cold weather. Write for Free Handbook of Explosives No. 69F, Twenty-mile Strip on Each Side of Road Would Be Assessed to Raise Funds. and name of nearest dealer, DU PONT POWDER COMPANY WILMINGTON DELAWARE Eleven carloads of Kansas live stock, the pick of the state, will be barred from competing for prizes at the ranama-racific Exposition because of the quarantine established by California recently. A telegram received by Joe Mercer, sanitary live stock commissioner, stated that California had issued a rigid quarantine against all live stock shipments from east of the Mississippi river, and from Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas and Montana.

Prevalence of the foot and mouth disease in northern Illinois is given as the reason. The states west of the river, against which the order was issued, are those in which there were outbreaks of the disease last winter. In the telegram, D. O. Lively, in charge of the Kansas live stock exhibits that were to have been at'' the exposition, said that there was a nil COULDN'T STAND THE TEST Excellent Type chance the yorder might be modified later in regard to horses and swine.

The telegram is a blow to the Kansas exposition commission. Eleven Question of Time. Uncle Ozias Pike cleared his throat, shifted his quid, seized his chance to get a word in edgewise and began: "About the war A murmur of protest cheeked him. But again he began: "About the war" When a dozen determined men drew in breath with a hissing sound, such as the snake makes before it strikes, you know what it means. Uncle Ozias knew what it meant.

But he did not lack courage. Again seizing his moment, he exclaimed: "About the war "Suet up about the war!" "Shet up about it yerselves." shouted Uncle Ozias in return. "About th' war'ntee deed them Smith gals wuz t' giv' ye on th' skule-hus lot they won't giv' ye none goll durn ye an' sarves ye right udge. Applicant for College Chair HaJ to Confess His Ignorance of One Modern Language. "You aspire to become our prof s-sor of modern language?" asked ht president of the board of trustees of the Milledgeville "Yes, sir." was the respectful answer of the the applicant.

"Koennen Sie l')eutsh spr asked the trustee sharply. "Jowohl!" came the answer of th. applicant, not to be taken jfT hia guard thus easily. "F'arlez-vous francais?" rtVinaiidvd tho interogator, giving tlio applicant no time for recovery. said the applicant.

The president beamed with pleasure upon his fellow members of the board. "It seems," he said addressing no one in particular, "that the gentleman is eminently qualified for the post. But," turning again to the applicant, "there is one morn Question that I must ask you. What is the simian equivalent of fear as expressed id the monkey language as transcribed by Professor Garner?" Realizing that he had failed in ih supreme test, the npplicun' ,1 sadly away. carloads of horses, cattle, jacks and swine had been selected, individually, from all over the state.

They probably made up the best collection of animals ever got together In Kansas. Included were rrize winners at Topeka and Hutchinson. They were being held for the American Royal next week at Kansas City. Transportation from there to the Pacific coast had been arranged. "There was little doubt that the Kansas live stock would have swept the prizes," said Albert T.

Iteid, chairman of the Kansas commission. "They were carefully selected from the best herds in the state, and had been conditioned for weeks under the direction of Trofessor W. A. Cochel of the state agricultural college." of Jersey Cow. true, and no calf is well born from a cow that is not fed a nourishing ration while she is carrying it.

The danger of this is greater among dairy cattle than among other breeds of cattle, for the reason that they possess an inherent quality of throwing their food into milk. Cows that are carrying calves should be fed plenty of bone-and-muscle-forming foods in connection with some form of good, nourishing, succulent food, either roots or ensilage. The dairy cow should have a period of rest after each milking season, so that she may have time to build up her energies and nourish her calf. She will need a period of rest after she drops her calf, so that she may be in good, vigorous condition when bred. Cows need rest, and time to regain their normal condition before they are bred again.

I lave you ever stopped to think how fast wo are running the cow-machine when we force her to keep up a heavy flow of milk, besides nourishing a calf, during the larger portion of a year? Is it any wonder that dairy farmers are alarmed over the health of their herds, and are sending for tuberculin, hypodermic syringes, and thermometers, when they are forcing their cows to their utmost capacity? Is it strange that they have abortion, defective teats and udders, and other ailments, when we compel them to put all their energies into producing dairy products for us? What we need in the dairy business is plain cow sense, and a knowledge of the laws of heaUh and vitality in our dairy herds. (By M. KELLY.) In the feeding of a herd of dairy cattle we must consider that the animals have been artificially bred and developed until they stand' before us very unbalanced and abnormal animals. The feeding of dairy cattle has been largely from the standpoint of production at the pail, and not attention and study enough have been devoted to the selection of foods best adapted to the health of the cows, and to the calves they are carrying. On the other hand, there are many dairymen who are feeding for production and not for profit.

You may ask if feeding for production is not feeding for rrofit. Not always. It is not the men securing the most milk who are making the most clear money from their dairy business. There is a limit as to how much faed the cows can utilize at a profit, just the same as there is a limit to how much grain feed the cows can consume without doing serious injury to their digestive systems. When we speak of the productive qualities of the cow, we should not fail to keep in mind that productive qualities include the calf as well as the milk.

Whenever we conduct our feeding on any other basis than this, we are doing It at the expense of the vitality and health of our cows as well as the calves they are carrying. It is not alone for present results that we are feeding, but for the development of the calf that is to some day take the place of its dam in the herd. TJhe old saying that "a calf well born is half grown" is eminently BIG KANSAS FLOUR OUTPUT Conversation. (As set forth by Mamie Sadie Grace in Magazine Stories.) "Say, you old acs!" "Now, look here, you blithering idiot!" (Helping himself to one of my cigars.) "Now you know very well, you old butt-head "Anybody but a blockhead like you "Why, you infernal idiot!" "You conceited puppy!" "Why, you mutton-headed jackass!" "Now, you know that's a whopper!" "I say, that was devilish shabby!" "Oh, you silly jackanapes!" The word "silly" is never omitted from masculine conversation in magazine stories. Nor is the word "whopper." There must be, also, personal violence and abuse of property rights.

Mills of the State Ground a Total of 56,000,000 Bushels of Wheat Last Year. Location. "What was th" weight of fh.ir rl: you were talking about all summer?" "Which fish?" inquired the unblushing boaster. "The one I had on my line or the one 1 only had ny mind Kansas mills made enough flour last year to feed 10 million persons, more than five times its own population. They turned out 12,600,000 barrels of flour and ground million bushels of wheat, exceeding any previous year's production by million Talks From "Do you believe that th-rs fa a higher power?" "My dear sir, I mamed her." Life.

These figures do not include the As a matter of fact, the divorce suit of one of her friends usually interests a woman more than her own married life does. Tho pope refuses to go tho precincts of the Vatican. output of Kansas City mills, which amount to about 2'2 million barrels, most of which was made of Kansas wheat. The peak of Teneriffe rusts a shadow on the ocean Ml miles long There are some 800 farmers' clubs in Minnesota at the present time. The information was compiled by R.

E. Sterling, Kansas City manager for the Northwestern Miller, who, for several years has obtained statements from the mills of their annual RAISE THE HEIFER CALVES FOR DAIRY Only one state, Minnesota, exceeds Kansas In the production of flour. There are 177 flour mills in Kansas, fifteen with 1,000 barrels' daily capacity, thirty with a capacity of 500 to 1,000 barrels, fifty-four ranging from 200 to 500 barrels, and seventy-eight with less than 200 barrels' daily State rock highways and concrete roads with asphalt surface, such as they have in California, can be had in Kansas at a nominal expense, without voting bonds and without long delay, advocates Emerson Carey, state senator from Reno county. His plan is to build and maintain these highways by the same method that city streets are paved. Benefit districts would be created, extending probably for twenty miles each side of the state rock roads to be so constructed.

The cost of building would be assessed against the land, both city property and farms in this 40-mile strip. The actual assessment would be small, probably ranging from ten to forty cents an acre, the land nearest the road being taxed higher than that farther away. Senator Carey's plan is that the Btate executive council, or some special board, should, direct the building of the state highways, with the state engineer in charge of the work. The council would decide what road should be built and construct it either on a resolution, petition or on a vote of the people. "It would require only an act of the legislature to get the authority," said the Reno county legislator.

"No constitutional amendment would be necessary as in the case of a proposed state bond issue for state roads. The Akers idea of a bond issue is all right, except that it would be necessary to have a constitutional amendment submitted and voted upon and then the bonds submitted and voted upon. This would take much time." Senator Carey advocates two such roads east and west across the state of Kansas, probably along the routes of the Lincoln Highway and the Santa Fe Trail. North and south roads would connect the principal cities to these traus-state highways. Kansas Retailers Meet The Kan-pas Retailers' Association held its seventh annual state convention in Wellington recently.

There were about 100 registered delegates present and many business men from towns which have no affiliated local organisations. She's a Student at 84. Mrs. Amy Winship, 84 years old, has applied for permission to enroll as a student in Kansas University. The authorities are considering the application.

Last year she look special work in sociology and psychology in the University of Wisconsin. Aged Miner Killed John Kurz, 70 years old, a miner, was killed in Mine No. of the Nevi us-Coulter Coal Company at South lladley the other afternoon. A fail of rock crushed him. Youth Returns at 76.

After being gray-haired for many years Mrs. Mar-lha Lewis of Atchison has had her hair restored to its natural color by a whim of Nature. She is 76 years old. A year ago her hair, which was silvery white, commenced turning brown and now i3 the same color it was in her youth. Another remarkable fact is that she is at present cutting her third set of teeth.

Says Asylums Need Inspection. Kansas physicians have been advised to inquire into conditions at the Kansas State Hospitals for the Insane by l)r. Amelia A. Dickinson of Iola. Doctor Dickinson, who recently caused an investigation of conditions at the Iowa Insane Asylum at Mcunt.

Tleasant bf her charges, was speaking to the members of the Southeast Medical Society. While not making a definite charge, Doctor Dickinson said from what she had learned of the Topeka asylum she believed the doctors of the state should make an investigation. Morgan in "Suff" Fight. Lieut Gov. W.

Y. Morgan left recently for New York Mate to devote the next three weeks campaigning in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts for equal suffrage. Water Bonds for Manhattan. The Manhattan city commission recently voted bonds In the sum of for the extension of the water equipment and mains in the city. Almost all the work will be done by the city, and only a amall part let out by contract.

Laid Two Cornerstones. The corner stones for the new $75,000 Y. M. A. building and for the $40,000 addition to the Masonic Temple were laid at Emporia with joint ceremonies the other day.

Governor Arthur Capper and Crand Master William L. Burdick of the Masons spoke. Cutting Corn in Kansas. Corn cutting has started In Chase county. Some fields will make seventy-five bushels to (he acre.

Much of the crop, however, needs two or three weeks of favorable weather to mature. The leading flour milling centers of the state, with the daily capacity of each, are here shown: Wichita 5.C00 barrels, Hutchinson 4.400; Salina 3,200. Topeka 3,100, Wellington 3,000, Leavenworth 2,300. Great Bend 2,200. Arkansas City 2,100, Enterprise 1.C00, Lawrence 1,500, Mcrherson 1,300, Atchison, Abilene, Clay Center and Newton 1,200 each, Lyons 1,100.

More Than Pay for Trouble in Quality and Quantity of Milk They Produce. The large milk producers, having summer pasture and forage crops, are decidedly in favor of raising their own cows. They may cost a little more, but they more than pay for the expense and trouble of raising in the quantity and quality of the milk they yield. The difference between an average and an extra milker is fully 1,000 quarts of milk in a season, worth fully or half the price of an extra cow. The calves to raise are the heifers of your best milkers, sired by a thoroughbred bull of good milking stock.

This matter Is so well understood that dairymen, who are good judges of cows, will give an extri. price for a cow having a record as a first-class milker. It is satisfactory and profitable to raise one's own cows and see the steady improvement of the herd by careful selection, good feeding and management. This is much the best way to build up a profitable herd. The average annual per capita con CHICKEN LICE ARE QUICK IN MATURING Insects Soon Spread From One Infested Fowl Throughout the Whole Flock.

The common hen louse Is pale dull yellow in color; rather slender and about one-twentieth of an inch long, and Is always without wings. It Is provided with six" legs, and the head is broadly rounded in front The lice are very active, and move about In the feathers of an infested fowl quickly, apparently looking for something new, as anyone who handles an infested hen will Boon discover. They keep close to the host, and complete their entire transformations on its body. During the night they move from the body of one fowl to another, so that they may soon spread fron one infested hen throughout the whole flock. The eggs of the common hen louse are smalj and oval and are laid in small clusters or "nits." Each egg is attached by one end to the vanes and barbs of the feathers.

They hatch in about eight days under favorable conditions. However, they may remain unhatched for several months in a cool place without losing their vitality. The young lice hatching from the eggs resemble the adults in most respects, except in size. Two or three weeks are required under ordinary conditions for the young louse to become mature. Under favorable conditions the lice may multiply so rapidly that an uninfested flock may become badly infested In a comparatively short time.

sumption of wheat in the United SUttes is 5.3 bushels. The Kansas and Kansas City mills together ground about 67 million bushels of wheat in the twelve months ending June 30 last, enough to keep 12 million people supplied with bread throughout the year. Tall Corn Stops Phones. Corn stalks are so tall in some parts of Leavenworth county that they are interfering with the country telephone service where the wires are Btrung on short poles. At Dan Monroe's place, south of Lansing, cornstalks pressed against the wires, causing a short Many Positions Carrying Large Salaries are open today to men in every walk of life.

But the men must possess vigorous bodies and keen, active minds. Success-making mental and physical activity relies largely upon right living wherein the right kind of food plays a most vital part. In many cases the daily diet lacks certain of Natures elements essential to energizing and upbuilding the mental and physical faculties. Most white flour prod' ucts, such as white bread and many other commonly used foods, are in that class. A food especially designed to offset this lack SWEET PEAS USED AS A COVER CROP As Good Green Manure Crop as Any Other Variety of Peas-Easy to Grow.

In Mexico the sweet pea has been tried out as a cover crop and found Muscotah Centenarian Dead. Mrs. Sarah Hale, who celebrated her 100th birthday last January, is rdead at Muscotah. She was born In New York January 9, 1815, and had been married twice. is most promising.

In New Mexico the peas are sown the last of September or the first of October. In the East in the latitude of New York, autumn planting would likely cause a partial or total loss of the crop, unless the peas were planted very deep, six or eight Inches. Peas are ready to turn under by the first of May. The Tines during normal seasons are in full bloom by May 18. Some were not turned under until the last of May.

The results indicate that this Is one of the hardiest and easiest to grow of the pea family. The high cost of the seed may keep it from being extensively planted, otherwise the sweet pea makes as good a green manure crop as any of the other varieties of peas. GROUND LIMESTONE CORRECTS ACIDITY Strong Evidence to Show That Unburned Stone Is Effective and Economical. New York agricultural experiment station advocates the use of ground limestone to correct soil acidity, and gnes strong evidence to show that this unburned stone, ground moderately fine and applied in liberal quantities once in a rotation of from three to five years, is fully as effective as other forms of lime, and in some conditions decidedly more economical. In many cases a grinder can be bought co-operatively and set up in a neighborhood where the limestone ledges are plentiful, thus saving freight.

The work can be done In seasons where other farm work Is net pressing. Hodges Speeches In Demand. Geo. II. Hodges, ex-governor, returned the other night from a thirty-day speaking tour of Texas under the auspices of the Anti-Saloon League.

Atchison Abstractor Dies. G. F. Chavis, for thirty years an Atchison abstractor, died at the Atchison Hospital following an operation. He was 51 years old and twenty-three years ago married Miss Katherine Boyd, who survives.

-ft Married 62 Years. Mr. and Mrs. J. A.

Erp, living three miles south of Horton. recently celebrated their sixty-second wedding anniversary. They married in Pulaski county, Kentucky, September 29, 1853, and have lived at their present home south of here since 1856. They have six children living and there has never been a death In their family. Boy Shoots Brother.

Playing at war resulted in Rolla Moore, aged 12, shooting his younger brother, Charles, ith a target rifle at Atchison made of wheat and malted barley, supplies all the nutriment of the grains, including the mineral salts sturdy builders of brain, nerve and muscle. Grape-Nuts is thoroughly processed, ready to serve from the package, fresh, crisp and delicious. Then, too, there's a wonderful return of the power to "do" and to "be" for the small energy required in its digestion. After repeated set-backs thousands have found a change to right eating means forging ahead. "There's a Reason" for Grape-Nuts Sold by Grocers everywhere.

Keep Hens at Work. An ear of corn broken once ot twice and thrown out for the hens to work at, does them a lot more good than giving then ready-shelled corn..