The Banner Register from Banner City, Kansas • 8

ft 8 FARM AND HOME, BANNER CITY for solid comfort they are, especially in localities where the winters are L. MONNINGER CO. made up of blizzards and 40-degrecs- below zero weather, along ways ahead of more ornamental and costly struc tures. I have now before me a letter LJiETib. LOA1T from a woman who lives and keeps poultry awny out iu Dakota, and she Work that can be (lone on a rainy day should not be deferred to a future time.

The storm is your opportunity. It is hardly more expensive to produce a pound of chicken than a pound of good beef, but the price is greater thereby suggesting more interest in chicken. Apple Float. Grate a dozen large, tart apples set on ice. Beat to a stiff froth the whites of six eggs.

Sweeten, and flavor the apples with lemon. Mix with the egg and serve. Old sows arc usually the best mothers. They will not crush the pigs if given plenty of room in the pen, unless they be in fat condition, which should, not be the case. It costs but little more to raise a colt which, when three or four years Sterling McCormick INSURANCE AGENCY WE KEEP 'J Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty and Brashes, says: i ou would probably laugh to see my poultry house, for with the exception of the doors and windows, and the poles which support the roof, it is built of sods ami straw but in that queer-looking house my sixty odd hens laid right along through the fearful weather which froze thousands of cattle to death last winter." And the farmers who havo poultry houses better clean them up before winter.

"What again Why, I cleaned that house from top to bottom last spring, and supposed that would do until next spring." Well, it won't. No matter how thoroughly you cleaned the house last spring, you should give it another thorough cleaning before it is time for the fowls to go into winter quarters. Several inches of fresh dry earth, or sand, if you canget the floor, a thorough whitewashing of the walls, and an equally thorough cleaning of the nests and roosts, is needed to put the poultry -house in healthful condition for the fowels who must spend thegreat- Bannez City, Kansas. old will command a good price, than it does one, that must go begging for a At prices that will sell them, we give special attention to business, and sell at close figures on 'tit purchaser at a price he may dictate. Jonnvcake.

Two cups of cornmeal, DEALERS IN ALL KND3 OF one cup of flour, one egg, one table-spoonful of melted butter, three Buoonfuls of baking-powder, one cup Large Quantities Real Estate. of sweet milk, one half cup of sugar and a little salt. Cookies Sift into five cups of flour five even teaspoonfuls of baking powder In DrugSundries er part of the time m-doors for live Loan Money for Eastern Capitalists months after November first. The poultry houses that need repairs should Iso be attended to in season. Broken windows, loose-fitting windows, loose You will find a good assortment, includ ins ombs, Brushes, and Toilet wards, gaping cracks and leaky roofs Articles of every description.

not interfere with the fowls' com fort in warm weather; but in winter r. such things are not conductive to egg-production or the health of the fowls. Farm Property of AH Attend to these things while the weath er is pleasant and the work can be done ALWAYS KEPT omfortably if put off until late in the Having the means of access to the public we think can nak land sales readily. It will be to your interest to plact your lands season, the chances are that it will not be done at all, and the fowls and your IN STOCK. pockets will suffer from your neglect.

add two cups of sugar, one-half cup of shortning. Hub all together with the hands and Avet with one cup of milk. Add one egg. Window-seats ov divans maybe made of ordinary wooden shoe-boxes with a cover and castors. Cover thesu boxes with cretonne or any pretty furniture stuff and they make a most useful receptacle for articles of dress or what ever one may wish to store away out of sight.

A Maine woman, who takes pleasure in her poultry has adopted a simple but excellent method of keeping her chickens at home. She ties a small corncob to one it to dangle at a distance of about six inches. The fowl can scratch and get about with ease, but, it is said, will not attempt to flyover palings or squeeze through a crack. Russian Cream Four cggs.one cup of sugar, one quart of milk, one half box of gelatine dissolved in one half pint of water, beat the yolks of the ggs and the sugar together and cook with milk like custard; take this from the stove and add the well beaten whites of the eggs, stirring rapidly for with us for, sale. We can secure you loans at a low rate of interest with reasonable commission.

Wi Have Several Good Reliable Insnranci Company's and fill Em Iirt Swi PEAS FOR MILK. Peas have been found an exceedingly we solicit your trade and will endeavor effective food for producing milk. In the feeding test of a neted Jersey cow, to render satisfaction, we guarantee to eive value in return 'or which an average of seven pounds of butter daily was given for a week, sixteen pounds of pea meal was fed per your money fi all purchases made of us. STERLING HcCORKICK day, with sixteen pounds of oat meal FOE TIME BEING WE HAVE OUR OFFICE IN THE. Banner Register Office.

and twenty-four pounds of corn meal. Excellent pasture was also provided. This feed would supply an enormous excess of nutritive elements tibove L.M0.XMXGER$CO. those required formaintennnce, giving four and a half times as much album 1EITE TO US IF YOU CAME a few minutes, then add the gelatina inoids, three times as much carbo-hy and a ttaspoonful of sonic flavoring drates and eight times as much fat as ISEJLXj ESTATE AH communications should be addressed to L. Mouninger 4c Co, Banner City, Elmo O- ZZgub.

extract, pour into a pretty shaped dNh to harden. When ready to serve, turn would be required for a cow in ordinary milk. No doubt, if a cow. can digest sufficient food of the right kind, oil for out on a plate and cutin blocks. Make nstance, a kind of butter might be pro IU1S U1C UilJ line; 41,, J.

jg unproved hy serving with sweetened duced which would far exceed the enormous product above claimed for cream sauce A good many farmers have the id(a tiat milk is not just right for pigs im the Jersey cow. In such a case, a cow would act as a filter and merely sepa til it is soureu. i ins is a very serious i i XT i rate the fats from the food and pass it through the udder. There could be no LOAN AGENTS mifiaKe. no possiuje goou can come BERRY PRENDERGAST.

JLJ3TT rETETE. Jroru souring it, but very serious harm. hemical change in the albuminoids or After you take out the cream and the the carbo-hydrates into fat, as is eflect water the most that remains is caseine ed in the ordinary feeding of dairy cows Improved and Kaw Lands for Sato in and sugar of milk. Both are valuable for the system of the cow is unable to But when you sour it you change the do so much work. The effect of the Buy, and sell and trade for all kinds and classes or real estate.

Loaa; sugar of milk into lactic acid, and lose pea meal in this case was probably due nearly half the entire value of your Money, and do all kiuds of conveyancing. Tbey hare a number of the most reliable insurance companies, and will mure 1 DICKINSON, MARION AND SALINE to its effect in enabling the cow to di-gesi the large quantity of corn and grass milk. Feed sweet milk to which was consumed. This effect of aud colts. Never let it sour if you can help it.

Why will you throw away half some food is of great importance. Pea COUNTIES. it's value? meal seems to exert a greater effect CITY AND FARM PROFIT i this direction than any other food. About Poultry Houses. i WE SELL LAND ON i am sorry u) say mere are many SUBSCIUDB FOR THE very many farmers who do not yet see L'OHG TISE AND EASY TERMS.

the necessity of providing comfortable Winter quarters for their poultry. They BANNER REGISTER have good buildings for all other stoc We have the best barcalus In improved land on the farm, but seem to think that the there in Dickinson County. LIGHTING AND TORNADOES I FIRE, poultry can get along Some how most Anywhere. And fowls that are thus left unprovided for do generally ge A LARGE LIST OF EXAMINE THEIR LIST OF LANDS. along through the winter somehow but their owners do not realize mm A FIRST-CLASS FAMILY NEWS PAPER.

DEVOTED THE DEVELOPJIENT OP 4 profit from their poultry flocks. Hen OFFICE LN BERHY ERO'S. MERCAITILE BLOCK, ORKER FI5ST1ID CEMI IMPROVED FARMS AM CITY PROPERTY that live out-of-doors through our cold winters, or in some old shed that is no ABILENE, KANSAS. FOR SALE. BANKER CITY AND DICKINSON COONTY FANK NBYERr NO CHARGE FOR SHOWING LANDS better than a tree-top so far as warmth 1s concerned, are not given to laying "right through the cold weather," when eggs are bringing the best prices To be sure, a house is not all that is necessary to induce winter-laying, but it is one, thing, and one that you must have to begin with therefore, put up a comfort aide house.

Can't afford it Don't tell nio that I am sick of hearing fanners say they can not afford a decent house for their poultry. There isn't a fanner in tin-United States who can not a fiord a good poultry house, i.e., if he is able to 1 1ST TJ JEZ JL 3ST Subscription, $1,50 Pee Yeae. JOB WORK OF ALL KINDS Issued Qity and Farm Property at Lowest Cash, Prices. BLACKSMITH SHOP 1 Banner City, Kansas. Idoall kiwis awl linen of WOOD, WAGOX and PLOW workup tlie shortest notice.

ZKorse 4 Mr. Whitehair, a good practical horse shoer, will be in the city every 8atc day, and will do all lines of work until further notice. i Satisfactix guarantied and Peicis masohabli. I GIVE US A CALL. work.

I don't care if money is scam-, and lumber high. Sods and straw, and a few poles, will if put together in good FIRE, LIGHTNING ANDTORNADO PROMPTLY AND NEATELY EXECUTED shape, make a comfortable hen house, all except the doors and windows and you can scrape together money enough OFFICE ON MAIX STREET, WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCH. GIVE US A CALL to get oik von can '(. MhiHeter. yourself.

I ki.rw v. 1 in talking abjut. I uaVc btca such houses, and BANNER CITY, KANbAS.