The South-Western Farmer and American Horticulturist from Wichita, Kansas • 5

THE SOUTHWESTERN FARMER. GARDENING. KAmVJl ITEMS OF INTEREST. earth. court.

Berry had just been assigned to a regiment of cavalry and was visiting his old home before reporting for duty. The Kansas State Board of Agriculture lias just issued its August Bulletin, and giving the probable yield of corn before husking begins. The report is given on 88 counties, and gives the total of the yield of marketable corn 224,845,000 bushels, or 11.6 per cent more than the total crop of 1895 The average number of bushels per acre on the area planted" in the 88 counties is 28jj. The quantity of old corn on hand in March as found by assessors was 57.627,421 bushels. In portions of the state fall plowing is being retarded because of insufficient moisture while in others it is being pushed, and 6eediug to wheat and rye will be done early.

The police judge of Abilene resigned the other day, a'though it was paying 821.69 a month. Some men don't know a good thing when they see it. Ed (Jreer, who was born in Kansas, has a boy old enough to go away from home school, lvausus is getting old. Colonel S. Y.

Eldridge of Lawrence, who in lie early days of Kansas was active in public aiTuirs, was M) years old last Saturday, and bis friends celebrated the event in a proper manner. Colonel Eldridge has lived it: Kansas since 1851. Kdvth," a papa's joy of Concordia, has been eclipsed by Kdythae." a mammas pet of Minneapolis. aiid black or brown varieties of mustard are used. The seed of the white mustard Is nearly white, and of the biack mustard the seed is brown or nearly black.

The mustard of commerce consists of seeds of both of these varieties ground together. The black mustard seed is the strongest. Mustard is grown both as food for cattle find sheep, and '-for turning under in the green state. Some object to It for the reason that once on a land it is hard to eradicate, but the best way of getting rid of it is to allow it to come to the blossoming stage and then turn it under. For growing mustard a soft, loamy soil is preferred.

The seed may be sown broadcast at the rate of one peck to the acre, or in drills at the rate of six quarts to the acre. The latter is preferred when the seed is to be used for commerce, as the weeds can thus be kept out, and the mustard seed will be pure when threshed. Such drills are usually put in about two feet' 1 apart, this giving room for cultiva-! tion. The harvesting begins when the pods turn brown or yello.v. The crop is cut with a reaper or scythe.

If the pods are yet in that state wher they need to be dried, the mustard is piled, up in the open field for a day or two. But often the pods are so dry that they readily break open and spill the ripe i seed. In that case they are hauled at once to the haru, a cloth being put in the bottom of the wagon to prevent any of the seed from being lost, which very likely to he the case. The greatest danger In curing is the wet 1 weather, which often injures the erop i to the extent of rendering it unfit for market. Potato Experiments In Missouri.

The Missouri station publishes the result of. its potato experiments, and from them draws the following conclusions: 1. Missouri soils are well adapted to profitable potato growing. 2. Drought and extremely hot seasons, whenever expected, demand the planting of only early varieties.

3. A mean temperature from April to September of between 60 and 75 degrees the maximum not reaching higher than 85 degrees the minimum not lower than 50 degrees with a monthly rainfall, evenly distributed, of about 6 inches In spring, gradually decreasing to 2 '2 inches In fall presents the best climatic condition for a sure and profitable potato harvest. 4. The crop yields are Increased nearly prepiionately to ti.e amount of chemical fertilizer used, up to about 900 pounds of sulphate of potash and superphosphate each per acre. 5.

This amount of fertilizer will cost between $30 to $35, and Increase the crop 100 to 150 bushels per acre. 6. The harvests in the variety test9 for 1895 were obtained from 300 pounds of superphosphate, costing about $3 per acre, and amply paid for the outlay. 7. The harvest depends: a.

Upon the quality and texture of the soil and this, in large measure, upon the character of the season: and A few simple rules which will assist In giving one a good carriage in walk- Ing are: Always lift the heel first. Do not throw back the shoulders in your efforts not to stoop, and never walk on the heels, but use the ball of the foot Instead. Do not swing the arms nor the shoulders, and let the hands hang by the sides with the palms turned backward so that the backs of your bands will he presented to anyone meeting you. This is much more graceful than the commoner practice of letting the palms hang against one's sids. i i I Burton QoulcS COAL, LIME, PLASTER CEMENT HAIR 603 E.

Douglas Ave. (or. Kmporia. Aa IrresDtlblt Mirth Provoking Satire. On Social Tendencies Af the Present Day.

This is the striking1 title of one of the plays John Dillon will g'ive at the Crawford Crand on his appearaece in Wichita during the State Fair week commencing Monday September 21st. The play itself is a good one. The curtain goes upon Jay D. Smiths farm in New Jersey. As the keeper1 of a summer boarding house, Mr.

Smith is only a moderate success; as a soil agitator he is a dead failure and concludes to sell the farm, remove to New York and enter sassiety. The sale of the farm is made to great advantage. Mr. Smith removes to the' metropolis, changes his name to Jason DeSmythe and becomes a genuine dude. As a speculator the man from Jersey is a howling success, and rapidly acquires a vast fortune, together with a fair knowledge of French.

His courtship of the Widow Van Doozle is replete with humor and demonstrates what ran be accomplished by a man of genuine nerve. After being arrested as a celebrated sharp, threatened with a breach of promise suit, and meeting with other minor mishaps, he finally succeeds in securing the afternoon morning glory" anil is happy Throughout the entire play Mr. Dillon keeps the house in a roar of laughter. It is truly a hot day when the flies roost on Dillon's frame." During three nights Mr. Dillon's great success A Model Husband will be given.

(ieorge Crane's Excelsior Headers have won the clay at Marion. Mayor Seligof Lawrence has vetoed the Curfew ordinance. The university students are threatening to pack up and go to some other institution. Mrs. Minnie Fume, wife of the author Bigelow Caine, who is now liiug in New York City, has gone to New York to try and settle thir domestic troubles.

II. H. Brown. at one time au editorial writer on the Ottuw a Journal, be-ft suit in the district court of Miaw-ne -county Monday for a divorce from hU wife. He says his wife refused to go to Salem, Oregon, in ts'JU.

with him. and calls in desertion. They have not since lived together. A farmer living on the Arkansas river in Cowley couutys hus just begun to market his onion crop. He drove Into bis home town a few days ago with a big load of the white Spanish variety and got fifty cents a bushel for them, and will have about looO to sell.

He argues that there is good money in raising onions, and that it pavs better than any other crop. Au acre or two of ground will raise hundred bushels If properly cultivated. The probate judge of Harvey county came awful near becoming party to a crime the other day. He was marrying Joslah Cown and Emma Kay and bad almost come to the point of pronouncing them man and wife when the groom interrupted with: Hold on there, judge. 1 cant swear to all of tht because Em and 1 are first cousins.

Of course, the marriage stopped midway and the disconsolate lovers were informed that first cousins 20uld not marry this side of Missouri. Lieutenant Alge Berry, the Ellsworth county young man who is charged with ravishing a 5-year-old farmer girl at a recent Ellsworth county picnic, had his preliminary examination Monday. The girl could not positively identify Berry as her assailant, hut other witnesses swore they saw ifce two together and on this testimo-fly bo gver to ljo district WRITERS PRIDE. Dirkeni, Charles Mathews and Ilaydon Described Their Happiness. Dickens has told us of the keen emotion that overcame him on seeing in print his first effusion, as he styled it, which lie had dropped salthily one evening at twilight, with fear and trembling, Into a dark lettr box, in a dark office, up a dark court in Fleet street, and how when it appeared next morning he went for half an hour into Westminster hall, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride that they could not hear the street, says Chambers Journal.

Charles Mathews the elder describee the delight with which he gazed on the first proof of his translation of The Princess of Cleves, which appeared by monthly installments in the Ladys Magazine, as boundless, and how he fancied the eyes of Europe were upon him and that the ladies who subscribed to that periodical would unite in calling on the editor to insist on C. M. declaring himself. Poor Haydon has left a vivid record of the fluster of elation with which he greeted the result of his having dropped a little composition into the letter box of the Examiner.Never, he writes, shall I forget that Sunday morning. In came the paper, wet and uncut; in went the paper knife cut, cut, cut.

Affecting not to he interested, I turned the pages open to dry, and to my certain immortality beheld, with a delight not to he expressed, the first sentence of my letter. I put down the paper, walked about the room, looked at Macbeth (a print on the wall), made the tea, buttered the toast, put in the sugar, with that inexpressible -suppressed chuckle of delight which always attends a condescending relin- qulehment of an anticipated rapture till one is perfectly ready. Who has not felt this? baa got dope thUt1 Ed Howe fair notice that th jMople who Nie jut returned from the long, lazy, loafing aca lions, will find him a little abrupt hen they le-gin tell him wlut a niir time they have had. There was a fine illustration of adding insult to injury at Abilene hint week. A burglar entered C.

Mosher's house ami two pairs of pants and some other knicknacks and then in leaving took along the $30 mastifl which Mr. Mosher had purchased because ho was such a fine watch dog. An old fashioned woman at Atchison died happy, she received the promise from her friends that she should he buried in a winding sheet. When Argoni.i elected a woman mayor and city government three year ago, the people knew not what they were inviting. A woman brass Lane has been organized there now.

It is said that when any of the peo pie leave Stanton county they ar dead sure to come hack again, even i they return in worse shape than thej left, which is often the case. The man who wraps the Lawrence World for the mail evidently began life as a cigarmaker; or possibly it is a woman who thinks she is putting her hair in crimps. A citizen of Beattie, has invented a machine calculated omake churning, washing, easy. It is a swinging chair in which the lucky housewife sits. The motion sets the machinery at woik and the housewife can sew, visit with a caller, read or hold the baby while the washing and churning i QW on.

b. Upon the fertility of the soil. 8. It Is proportionate under favorable conditions to the number of vigorous plants and not to the mode of planting. 9.

Planting by eyes, quarters or wholes, by sqcm or by sets', Influences but slightly the yield per acre; tinder the dlverso and not to he foreseen conditions of soli and climate for our state the most generally suitable planting is probably by quarters. 10. Keeping the growing crop free from veed9, Mght, art otato bugs, and the soil loose, are, of course, prerequisites for a good 11. The amount of small, 1. unmerchantable potatoes In the crop depends not upon the mode of planting and subsequent cultivation, hut upon the fertility of the soli, the favorable-pess of the season, the vigor of the plants and the nature of the variety.

12. When seed potatoes are high in price it Is advisable to consider the output per acre, as given in table VI, 3.3 bu. In Experiment 1 yielding 249.7 hu. In crop. 4.5 bu.

In Experiment yielding 219.7 hu. In crop. 2.2 hu. in Experiment 16 yielding 250.2 bu. in crop.

2.2 bu. in Experiment 19 yielding 282.3 bu. in crop. And, hearing in mind the cost of the fertilizer in the two last experiments, Of, respectively, $10.50 and $25 per acre, make a solution of the mode of planting most suitable to the conditions. i i Growing Mustard.

The mustard family includes not only that what we know as mustard, but cabbage, turnip, radish, horse-rad-iib, tracer-cress, and even the nasturtium. For Mu cultivation the whits.