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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

United States treasury. was: Working bal ance in treasury offices, s64S50,DO. In banks and Philippine treasury, s32,5sl,- = sos The total balance in general fund was s12592T, ,os2. Ordinary receipts yes terday were s2 295,91S, with ordinary dis bursements of $760,90S The deficit to date this fiscal year is $l4,S2S, ,50O. as against a deficit of s1, 42s.153 at this time last year. These figures exclude Panama canal and public debt transactions.
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New Orleans Cation Futures

New Orleans, March 2.-Spot cotton closed steady unchanged; middling, l03sc. Sales. 1900. To arrive, 260. Low ordinary, 3-l6c nominal ordinary, Sc; good ordi- nary, 7-i6c; strict good ordinary, 9 13- l6c; low mddling. 10sc: strict low middling, 10lac middling, 101sc; strict middling. II 3-16c; good midding. Il 7-l6c strict good middlng. 119so; middling fair, Il 15-16c nominal; midding fair to fair. 12 5-l6c; fair, 12 1116e. Receipts. s776; stock. a1.-
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Naval Stores

Savannah. March 2S.-Turpentine firm. 4sc; sales, l10 receipts, 2ll; shipments, 366; stock, 1923. Resin firm; sales, 6i3 re- ceipts, 167l; shipments. 2J0 stock, T3 iS2. Quote: B, ss.90; D. s6.95; E, s7.10: F, c. H and I. s7.15; K. s7.3O: M. S.Go; N, s7. 50; WIG. S.55; wv, s7.60.
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Poultry and Eggs
(corrected by Carrett

NOUlTuNNtu UV ''HI IHHt ~ IIIHe'J
 Hens, 35u5oc; live, per pound. 120 13c: large flyers, 15c h.: medium fry CTS, 22h per lb.; small, 25c per h., ducks 30@ 40c each; guineas, 25c; roo't- CTS, BOG each; geese, 40@50c; live tur- keys, 1Sdl9c; dressed turkeys, 2Oc; eggs. fresh, 2Oc; country butter, 2o925c ip.; rabbits, S1 50 dog.
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Metal Market

New York. March 2s.-Standard copper easy; spot, sl510nl5.15; March, sl5l0n15D: April, STRUGGLED: May. 15.15115.25; June. $,j 15n15.2o: July. sl5I5G153a. Local sales. 25 tons spot at sl5.12iz. London easy; spot, 96S 3s Sd; futures, e69 Is 3d. Arrivals re- ported at New York today, 260 tons Gus tom house returns show exports of 22.e36 tons so far this month. Lake copper, 15h. @l5Ac; electroytic, 15lad155sc; casting. 1I5s4l5isc.
 Tin weak; spot. 425oft43.50: March, s42 on43.50; April. s42. 1e142. 50; May. sil. l.io4 i2 June, Al 25@42; July. s41. .2on4175. Lo- cal sales. five tons April at s42.25. Lon don weak; spot G193. futures G1s9 5s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

Cash quotations were as follows: Flour-Steady.
 Rye-No. ?. 911ac.
 Barley-Feed or mixing, 75cdSl; fair to choice malting $1 20n1 .36.
 Timothy Seed -$9d14.50.
 Clover Seed-s16d22.
 Mess Pork-s17 12i9
 Lard-In tierces, $9.70
 Short Ribs-Loose, s9.37l9.
 Butter-St te1dy; creameries, 27M30c; dalries, 23dZ7c.
 Eggs-Weal; receipts. 1os7s; at mark, eases included. 19c; ordinary hrsts 100 19Iao; flrsts, 20c.
 Cheese-Steady: Daisies, 19la019Ac; Twins, 1OAdl91ac; Young Americas, 19a4@ 20e: Long Horns 1994M20e.
 Potatoes-Steady; receipts 6l cars; Wis consln, s1 %; Michigan and Minnesota, s1.32.
 Poultry-Easy; turkeys, live 1fc; dressed, 19lRc; chickens, live, 121sc; dressed, 15c; springs, live, 14c; dressed, 15c.
 Veal-Steady, 7611c.
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St. Louis Grain

St. Louis, March 2S.-Cash wheat, No. 2 red Sl 0314a105 No. 2 hard. sl.030l l.1S19. Corn, No. 3. 731zn75c No. 3 white, 74laGp 76c Oats. No. ?. 5Jd551ac; No. white. 5GA a5Glbc Close: Wheat, May, $l.63L; July, 95Ssc. Corn, May, 77sa77he; July. 75Mc. Oats, May, 55Ac; July 495sc.
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425 East St. Louis. London, e1e 9s 5d Spelter quiet; s6.6a@690 New York; $6.35 bid East St. Louis London, G25 los.
 Anthony quiet; Cookson's, $500. Iron--cleveland warrants, 51s 71ad in London. Locally iron was quiet; No. 1 foundry northern, sl525al5.75: No. 2, S4.75015.25; No. l southern and No. 1 southern soft, s15. 25d15.75.
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Dry Goods

New York, March 2S.--The cotton goods markets were quiter during the
 day with prices still very firm. Jobbers are doing moderate business for this period of the year. Raw silk is steady,
 but inactive. Mems wear deliveries are
 slow and the market demand is steady.
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LOCAL QUOTATIONS
Local Cotton
Pig Iron
Meats
(Correrted l

Corrected by Armour X Co.)
 Lard, 11%c; compound, s$4c D. s. short ribs, 11hc; rib bellies, 11.15c; ham butts, 12c: Boston butts, 1llac; pork Joins, 1519c; spare ribs. lie; breakfast bacon. 2Oa22c. Star Reg. ham. 16c Star skinned ham, 17Ac.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-29

THE DUTIES OF TAX COLLECTOR OF JEFFERSON COUNTY REQUIRE MORE THAN ORDINARY CAPABLE TIES FOR THE PROMPT AND PROP ER DISCHARGE OF THE OFFICE. PULL B. BOWERS IS THE MAN FOR THE PLACE BY EVERY STANDARD.
 JOHN $. TURNER,
 CAMPAIGN MANAGER.
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Coffee and Sugar
Corrected b,

Corrected by Franklin, Stiles & frank
 lin.
 Coffee: Arbuckles, s23.30 per 100 lbs. : Luzanne. 27c lb. Sugar: Standard gran ulated 6Hc lb.
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Some ObiectOr
Ernnn 1

From the Detroit Free Press.
 Does your wife obscct when you stay out late at night?"
 She couldn't file more objections, my dear sir. if she were a corporation law yer"
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Grain Receipts and Shipments

Kansas City. March 2S.-iReceipts: Wheat, 150o0; corn, 4O0O oats. 13.Vo0. Shipments Wheat 5000; corn. 42,000; oats 800.
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PROMOTION

EVERY MAN WHO BELIEVES THAT THE PERSON, FIRM OR CORPORA T1ON THAT HE WORKS FOR OUGHT TO PROMOTE HIM IF HE MERITS TT, SHOULD VOTE FOR
 PHIL n. BOWERS
 FOR TAX COLLECTOR.
 JOHN s. TURNER.
 CAMPAIGN MANAGER.
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Bonds
Treasury Statement

Washington, March 2s.-At the begin ting of business today the condition of tue
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LOCAL SECURITIES

Total sales of the day, sOf,400 shares.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-04-18
Sub-Irrigation

In the summer last year, we hr1
some correspondence regarding sub
irrigation and you suggested that we
try twoinch galvanized pipe Tapped
but not scanned for conducting the
water upon the land. This plan was
successfully tried in small way.
Thirty feet of this pipe, tackled at
each end with solder to hold the shape,
was tried in a patch of Indian corn.
The pipe was laid ten inches deep and
whs supplied with water from a reser-
yOir. During the dry season when the
bot winds we're blowing, you could tell
to the foot where the water flowed
from the pipes II spread about seven
feet each way; thus far the corn was
nice and green, but the very next row
was burned to crisp.--Brooks Groach,
Greer County, Okla.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-04-18
ALFALFA FORAGE FOR HOGS.

Il would like your opinion as to
which is the best way to handle an
alfalfa pasture for hogs, viz, turn the
hogs in the field or cut the alfalfa and
feed in lot The alfalfa field is three
years old and fair stand. Seems to
me that it ought to stand the pastur-
ing all o. X, but would like your
advice on the subject. e. r., Creek
County, Oklahoma.
We have been experimenting with
hogs this past summer on alfalfa for
age as against hogs on alfalfa forage
with different grain rations. OF course,
this past summer has not been normal
in that there was practically no growth
OF alfalfa from the middle OF May
to the middle of July. The results
we obtained are about on line with
the results obtained by the practical
hog raisers in California and else
where. You can maintain ten or more
hogs per acre on a good alfalfa field
and expect gains of approximately
one-half pound per hog per day in a
normal season. However, II is not
possible to satisfactorily finish hogs
on alfalfa alone. They must have some
grain to finish them properly for mar
ket This grain may be fed while the
hogs are running on the alfalfa or
they may be put up In a feeding lot
and finished after they are taken off
the alfalfa. 1t takes approximately
the same amI at of feed either way.
During the summer season grain Is
usually rather higher priced thar
after the corn crop is harvested, but
at the same time hogs are usually
worth more per pound during the sum
mer season. II is, therefore, matter
that the hog raiser must settle for
himself whether it will be more profit.
able to feed the hogs the high priced
grain while they are running on the
alfalfa In order to finish these hogs
for the August and September mar
ket, or whether 1t is more profitable
to run the hogs on alfalfa forage alone
and finish them after his corn OF
Kafir corn crop is made and ready for
feeding. 1t is always more practical
to run the hogs on the alfalfa rather
than to cut the alfalfa and feed II Ia
them in pen.-W. A. Linklater
Department of Animal Husbandry.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-04-18
ADVANTAGE OF DEEP TlLLAGE
Among Farmers on Problem Of
Moisture Conservation.

The great drouth of 1911 caused
crop shrinkage OF hundreds OF mill
lions OF bushels. But II wrought
benefit that cannot be calculated. It
stirred up an interest in deep tilling.
and the conservation OF moisture that
will spread until every farmer knows
how to protect his crops against the
dryest season. You hear deep tillage
discussed at the farming congresses,
says the Farm, Stock and Home. You
read about II in every leading farm
paper. II is the talk at the Institutes
and oranges. It will not be many years
nutil we are getting out of our poor
soil all that Il is capable of producing
--and that, too, without "soil mining
or "soil robbing
The Introduction Of deep tillage
tools Is another reason for the wide
spread determination 10 go deeper
into the soil at this time Heretofore
II has been exceedingly difficult for
the farmer to TN as deeply as recon-
mended with the ordinary plows at his
command. But such tools have proved
that they not only till soil deeply but
that they make a pulverized seed bed
all In one operation. The seed bed
prepared by such tools Is thus an am
pie reservoir to hold the early spring
rains. II will absorb three times as
much moisture as shallow titled
field The farther down the moisture
goes the less the evaporation. The
farther down the soil Is pulverized the
roots will go. thus getting all the
drink they need even when no rain
falls. We have plenty of moisture
now. Heavy rains everywhere. We
will have oceans of water all winter
and next spring II may make thought
less people tired to think about water
now-but the long-headed farmer
knows that he will need water Just as
much next July and August as he did
In 1911-and he will prepare to
save II.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-04-18
BOILING WHEAT GROUND.

please advise whether 1t will be
OF any benefit to wheat to roll the
ground that is very loose. w. S.
Williams, Jefferson County, Okla
homa.
Wheat requires firm seed bed in
order TO bring the best results. This
is especially true with regard to the
lower part of the furrow slice which
should be in close contact with the
sub-soil.
AS to the surface there is no par
ticular reason for rolling that. unless
It is very cloddy. in which case
should advise the use Of the corrugat'
ed roller instead OF the smooth kind
especially is this essential where the
land has tendency to blow. In the
sand soils OF this state. rolling
is a very doubtful practice because
OF the drifting OF the soll.-Jas. A
Wilson
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-04-18

i have an inquiry from truck
gardener residing on the outskirts OF
Oklahoma City. who desires to know
the best method of irrigation in this
section of the State. He is inclined
to believe that underground irrigation
is preferable to surface Can you en-
tighten him, stating the good points of
each, as we'll as the bad?'LO. X b.,
Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.
In reply to your letter of February
2, ! submit the following:
For years there have been many
people who have contended that some
method Of sub-irrigation would better
supply growing crops with water than
the methods commclly pracuced in
irrigation regions. The methods
usually suggested is to lay common
drain tile with lines from five to ten
feet apart and have these lines turn
upward and come to the surface of
the ground at the upper end of the
field The method of irrigating is 10
fill this tile with water, either by the
use of hose, an irrigation ditch, or in
any other manner. | have known this
to be tried in both garden and green
house. In the greenhouse, it gave
fairly good results, hut the advantages
over the ordinary methods of water
ing did not seem to be sufficient to
justify the additional outlay. The
trials in the garden were not so sue
cessful as those inside. Since the
pressure at the lower end OF the field
is greater than at the upper, the lower
end of the field gets much more than
its share of the water. IL the land
were perfectly fiat, it might possibly
work better. In no case did the ad-
vantages of sub-irrigation appear to
justify the expense of tiling.
Personally, ] am strong of the opin-
ing plants, practiced in all Of our irri-
CATION regions, is the best Known.
This is by the use of burrows running
down the field alongside the rows of
plants to be irrigated. Water Is al.
lowed to run down these burrows and
seep into the ground laterally until
the ground is thoroughly soaked.
Only a small stream is allowed to GO
down each furrow, so that only the
bottom of the furrow is wet. A day
or two after the fields have been
watered, and as soon as one can get
onto the ground with a horse, the
land should be cultivated and these
furrows tlled up. This prevents al
packing on top Of the ground. This
is the method of irrigation used IN
those sections of the world where
irrigation has been a part of farming
for over a thousand years.-N. o
Booth.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-04-18
PLAN FOR SAVING RAINFALL
Plow the Field as Soon as Crop Has
Been Harvested and Follow This
Up With Drag.

Moisture conservation is not a sure
cure for crop failure. Every farmer.
though, knows what three or four
season will do and when It is realized
that II is possible and feasible to con-
serve moisture 10 that extent IL begins
to look as though the saving of mois-
ture from one year to another would
help some In case OF short rainfall.
Three or four inches OF rain carried
over from one season to the next
means three or four hundred tons of
water an acre In the subsoil-water
enough to carry u growing crop
through any ordinary dry weather. II
is possible to carry even more than
this from one year 10 another. says
A. H. Leidigh. assistant professor OF
crops at the Kansas agricultural coll
lege. How can the rainfall be saved?
Plow the field as soon as the crop has
been harvested. II Il Is spring or sum-
mer. follow the plow with a drag.
The rains will soak into the soil in
stead of running of the surface or
evaporating. Fall plowing should not
be dragged, as there is danger OF the
soil either packing or becoming dry
and blowing. The extra expense OF
following such plan ought not TO
cost more than dollar an acre at
most. Many places II could be done
at a much smaller cost. II pays big
interest on the investment even at the
higher figure.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-04-18
TRANSPLANTING

81 am thinking of buying some
small perforated paper boxes to grow
some early plants in and transplant
box and ALL | want to plant an early
crop of Rocky Ford cantaloupes and
some early tomatoes. &C. & T., Caddo
County, Oklahoma.
Your thought of trying perforated
paper boxes to keep the plants in pre-
vious to transplanting is well worth
a trial, but | never tried anything of
that sort myself, nor do / know any.
one who has; consequently, am ut
terly unable to say how 1t will turn
out.
Growers, generally, who raise early
vegetables, use flats" or shallow
boxes usually made out of soap boxes
by saving them crosswise into three
parts. The upper parts have bottoms
put in, and these are used for raising
the plants just previous to transplant
ing.
In the tomato districts the growers
will plant the tomato seeds in small
boxes, usually using cigar boxes. The
seed are planted quite thickly. When
the plants have grown enough so that
the third leaf begins to appear they
are picked" out and planted three or
four inches apart each way in the
flats" described above. In transplant
ing them the dirt is cut into squares
so that each plant is in the center OF
the square. A knife is run under the
dirt so as to free It from the box,
and each square is lifted out and set
into the ground. In this way the
plants are transplanted with little or
no disturbance to their growth.
Now, If it is easier for you to use
paper boxes than to use the flats"
which the greenhouse men and gar
deners generally use, then the paper
boxes are the thing for you.-N. o.
Booth.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-04-18
GOOD BREEDING BIRDS HIGH
Eggs From Fowls May Be Secured at
Quite Reasonable Figures at
Season When Most Needed.

Good breeding birds in the spring
OF the year are scarce and hard TO
get. Such as have been kept through
the winter being held at high price
and frequently can not be bought at
all. II is certain that birds which
have been selected and mated up for
the use Of the owner will not be read
lily disposed OF at such prices as
would make them a profitable invest
ment for the buyer. Though eggs
from these birds may be bought at
quite reasonable figures. and the buy
er will thus be enabled to secure the
best OF stock az a season when most
needed and at prices which win per
NIT Of their profitable use.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-04-18

These bright days make work In the
poultry yard real pleasure.
Plucking OF the fowls begins imme-
diately after killing and should be
rapidly done.
The success OF turkey raising de-
pends upon the kind OF care given for
the first FIVE or six weeks.
Geese fattened wholly on pasture or
with the addition OF little corn make
a tender, Juicy article OF flesh not to
be equaled.
Chickens will not scratch when
they are overfed nor when there is no
feed in the litter The idea is TO keep
them scratching.
The successful feeding OF poultry
depends largely on the ability OF the
feeder to notice the condition of the
chickens on feed.
The material from which eggshells
are made Is carbonate of lime, and
there are many forms in which this
may be furnished
Vigor and health are necessary IL
hen is to lay right, and the only
way these can be gained Is through
proper care and feed.
Hens that are not laying these days
can be coaxed sometimes by feeding
them small amount of cut bone or
fresh meat in soma form.
A shed of poles covered with straw
and open to the south will winter the
geese nicely II provided with clean.
fresh bedding from time to time.
A small flock of healthy hens. given
the best of care and attention. Will
give yearly profit of 81 per hen
after paying for the food consumed
There are several signs that indi-
cate good health--a bright red comb
activity. readiness for food. and a
glossy and smooth appearance Of tha
feathers.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-04-18
TREES AND GAS rAR

1--WE have quite a large peach orch
ard, about years old.
Last fall we used gas tar on about
500 OF them to protect them against
borers, putting the tar on the trunk
OF the tree from about inches under
the surface oI the ground up on the
body about Il inches.
I'VE saw this recommended in some
eastern agricultural paper. We are
told now by many thar it will kill our
trees. What do you say? If you think
il is hurtful, is there any way in which
we can help matters. or get the gas
tar OFF in any way by scraping or
otherwise ?"-J. II. Stewart, Pittsburg
County, Oklahoma.
Fifteen years ago there was quite n
spirited discussion between two of our
agricultural colleges as to whether the
application of gas tar would injure
trees to which it was applied One
college took the ground that they had
tried gas tar and that the trees were
uninjured, and that the tar was the
best preventive of borers. The other
college stated that they had tried the
gas tar, and that they did not question
but that 1t was good remedy for
borers, but that 1t certainly killed the
trees. There was no question but that
both were telling the truth, for many
people went to both places and in
spected the trees. One orchard was
injured and the other was not injured.
The only inference that one can
draw is that the injury depended upon
conditions, either on the kind of tar
or on the condition of the trees. At
the time Professor ]. G. Whitten of
the Missouri Experiment Station at
Columbia tried to determine the
cause of this discrepancy in results,
by using different kinds of tar and by
tarring trees at different seasons Of
the year. His results seem to show
that trees could be tarred with safety
during the growing season. At this
time the bark and camDium appear
to be So full OF moisture that they do
not absorb the tar to any great ex-
tent; consequently, no injury is done.
Tarring the trees during the winter
in most cases would produce injury,
| dllnOuku tutIt Mtlt bOlhc instances
in which the injury was very slight.
Whatever injury you have done, IL
any, cannot in my estimation be helped
at this time, IL the tar has soaked
into the trees, scraping off the bark
would do no good; If 1t has not soaked
into the tree, it will not soak into
the tree later, as 1t has undoubtedly
already dried and the velatile parts
have either gone into the tree or
evaporated into the air.
have always advised people not to
use tar, although | believe that three
times out Of four no injury will be
done knew of one case in which
quite valuable orchard was totally
ruined. The risk is too great for tar
to be recommended for use in regular
orchard practice-N. o. Booth.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-04-18
DESCRIPTION OF THE BROOM
CORN PLANT.

Broom Corn belongs to the same
species of plant as do common sorg-
hum used for making syrup, Kaffir
and Jerusalem corn and cane, grown
for forage and grain. 1t differs from
all other plants Of the same species
in having panicles or seed heads with
much longer, straighter and stronger
branches or straws This difference,
wherein lies the value of the plant.
has been produced by the selection OF
seeds from plants possessing these
characters to great degree. It is
for the seed heads, or brush" as
they are called. which are used In the
manufacture of brooms. that the plant
10 cultivated.