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The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-02-04

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The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-02-04

Col II. W. Dobson has gone 10
Santa Fe for a few days on probes
siOnal business.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12
WINNERS STORIES
How l Grew My Corn

(By Ralph Bybee, winner boys corn
growing contest.)
The acre of land that / put in corn
this year had not been cultivated for
ten years. The first seven years
there was timothy and clover on it.
The three remaining years it had
bluegrass on it.
This spring | plowed it with a IT,
inch walking pillow, seven inches in
depth. / then narrowed it with a d
horse harrow, then followed up with
a drag. | also double-disked it with
a 4-horse disk, and then repeated the
narrowing and dragging.
Having my seed bed ready, for my
corn which was white, / drilled it
Nav 9Th three inches in depth. 1t
took me one hour to plant it.
By May 26th my corr was ready
for cultivation. So / plowed it with
a ~six-shovel cultivator. I did not cul-
tivate it any more until June 9th
Then l plowed it with a two-horse
disk. 1 hoed it twice and succered ii
twice.
This corn received only n good
rain which did lots of good, but still
this land surrounded by a creek, the
moisture would rise at night which
seemed to 10 so much good.
October 10th at the harvesting the
acre produced ninety bushels.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12

John w. Boles, five miles north
east of Auxvasse, sold a nice yearl-
ing Jersey heifer last week to Gus
Collier, of Mokane, for $50. The lit
tie cow will be fresh in a few days
Fulton Gazette.
G. D. Wilson, Of Western Audrsin'
says lots Of wheat has been sown IN
his section. He reports the stah'
good and the wheat in every IN
stance, looking fine.
Many Of the large stock yards IN
various sections of the country are be
ing closed because of the prevalence
of the foot and mouth disease among
the cattle. The yards in Chicago are
closed but these conditions, it is SAID
will not make a shortage n the
meat supply. Some experts say 1t VIII
have a tendency to lower the price OF
meat.
Ed Atterberry traded a jack to
an Audrain county man for a fin z
year old Rex Mcdonald mare-Pafis
Mercury.
Six hundred thousand eggs were
shipped from Chicago to London OF
Tuesday.
A Franklin county woman comDae
the high cost of chicken feed by sup
plying her poultry with cracked wal
nuts which, she yer gives the
fowls exercise in picking out the ker'
nels and that the hens in gratitude lay
for her all winter.
Last Monday morning d. W. 1oha
gan delivered a nine-months-old can
to the stock yards in Grant CITY ant
sold it at market prices for S4a'.o
The calf brought Z cents per pound.
Strawberries as large and fine ia
ored as the fruits grown in regula
season are being gathered from WI
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12
Expenses
1887
By H. L. Kempster.


Egg production depends largely
upon proper feeding. Raticns for
farm poultry flocks car generally be
criticised, first, because they con
tain little ground food and, second,
because animal food is usually lack
ing. These two faults al easily be
corrected By feeding ground grains
in addition to the whole grains and by
supplying animal food in the form of
sour milk or buttermilk, the feed
cost for a dozen eggs can be mater
tally reduced.
A good grain ration for winter use
is made by mixing 60 pounds of
corn with 30 pounds of wheat. For
summer mix go pounds of wheat
with 80 pounds of corn.
In addition to the corn and wheat,
the following mixture Of ground
foods is excellent; Bran 2 lbs; corn
meal 2 lbs; Middlings 2 lbs; Beef
scrap / lb. This mixture can be fed
dry in hoppers which should be kept
open during the afternoon only.
Ground oats are good to use as a
dry mash, either alone or mixed with
other ground feeds If available give
buttermilk or sour skim milk as a
drink. The fowls should eat about
onehalf as much mash as grain food.
About twice as much grain should be
fed at night as in the morning. At
night feed all that the birds will eat.
During the day keep the hers scratch
ing in straw litter a foot deep. This
litter should be free from molds.
Supplement the above ration with
green food such as beets, cabbage
sprouted oats, fine silage, etc. Grit,
oyster shell or crushed limestone
should be available at all times. Feed
only clean feed and supply plenty Of
clean fresh water.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12


grew 40 acres Of millet, intending
to thresh it, but it was too heavy to
cut with a binder, so | had to cut it
with a mower and bale it for hay.
| have 80 tons of this hay. What is
the market price for this
kind of hay? 1t is heavily
seeded. l should like to know what
effect, if any, it would have on dairy
cows if fed to them. They are with
calf. Is it good to feed to horse ,
How much should be fed?-H. 5. f.,
Foley, Mo.
Millet hay contains digestible M
trients in about the same quantities
and proposition as timothy hay. Good
millet hay should be fine in growth
andshould be cut when in blossom. Ii
it is coarse in growth and has been
permitted to become nearly ripe be-
fore harvesting it contains a large
percentage of crude fiber, and is con
sequently lower In nutritive value
In feeding tests where millet hay mas
been used the results are not gener-
ally favorable to its use. When FED IN
large quantity to cattle and sheep II
has an undesirable laxative effect
II is considered dangerous when IL
in large quantities to horses a
of its stimulative action on the kla'
news and injurious effect on the
homes, wherever it is necessary tc
feed millet hay it is highly desirable
to use it in limited quantities ana II
connection with some other roughage
II is a low-protein feed and this con
s%tituent in the ration should be sup
nlied in some other form. Where the
seed has developed extensively before
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12
Neatness and Order on the Farm

Neatness and Order on the Farm
FARM life may be SO planned as to
become a continuing joy, or it may be
so badly planned as to be mo,e or less
of a continuing torment. We know a
farm of many acres, where every gate
swings easily on its hinges and every
latch works properly. There is not a
leaky roof nor a broken door. The
fences are plain barriers Of wood or
wire, but they are efficient, and ami
mails placed in any given field re-
main there until changed; there is
never any worrying as to whether
the sheep have broken into the alfalfa
or the cattle into the corn. The owner
is his WI manager and carefully
looks after details. 1t is a business
farm, managed for profit; it yields
that and much more, too, for is is a
continuing joy just to live on it, and
and see the fine crops from the we'll
fed and well-tilled fields, the good
animals that crop the pastures, and
have the sense of security that one
has there that things are permanent
the farm on a sound foundation and
people relieved of worrying. The own
er has time to give to serene thoughts
and appropriations. o
Why not start now to rob life OF
its cares and worries? Begin by TAX
ing out a wagon to the yards and gath
ering up every scrap of board or lum-
Der; some of them we know have nails
sticking through; take this stuff totne
wood pile or the scrap heap. Such
work may save a case of lockjaw.
Then get after fences and gates, one
by one, until they are truly efficient
It is a shame to let such little things
rob one of the pleasure of farm life.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12
HOW TO GET GOOD ROADS

hOW ~ VEL OOOO ROAOC
YOU can't have good roads with
out money, and good roads we must
have, leading into Mexico from each
direction. Along this line, the Column
bia Missouri Statesman, published
in a town that has just voted a $780,
900 bond issue for permanent good
roads in its eight-mile road distrIct,
editorially says:
"The most effective way in which
any city, town or township can ret
good roads is by the formation of a
special road district and making an
issue of bonds for that purpose. The
next best way is to raise moacy md
donations of work by voluntary sub
scription and securing from tho coun
ty court an appropriation Of an equal
amount to be expended upon an
agreed portion Of the road. We re-
Gently saw, in a Missouri county,
where an expenditure of $3.50 by the
latter method had made one Of the
worst hills on a ten-mile road into
about the best stretch for the same
distance on the entire route. II had
been cut down, the rough places
worked out, the road well or .dcd and
a dressing of gravel put on which
will keep it in fine condition fer a
year or two. That should he an OBJ
ect lesson in that section that will
result in many more similar good
| pieces of road"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12
Butter in a Well for Thirty Years

Butter in a Well for Thirty Iears
In your issue of recent date G. I.
Burrows gives an account of a quar-
ter of beef exhibited in London that
had been frozen for IS years, and on
inspection was found to be still sweet
and sound. The following shows the
importance Of a cold, even tempera-
ture for the preservation Of butter:
At the old Red Tavern at Towanda,
Pa, then kept by William Means, a
firkin of butter containing 100 pounds
tightly headed, was lowered into a
deep well, to be kept cool until want
ed for use. In lowering it the rope
broke and the butter went 10 the bot
tom of the well, which was half full
of water. After spending consider
able time graphing for it and know
ing that to pump all the water out
and 20 down for its recovery would
be a hard, ~disagreeable job, the pro-
prieter concluded to leave it where it
was until a more convenient season.
Butter was cheap (only l2h cents
per pound) and in case it was never
recovered the loss would not be great.
Thirty years afterward the wei had
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12
APPLES for Eighty Years

Apples for Eighty Years
Its age unknown, an apple tree near
Oak Grove has borne fruit without
missing a season for so years. The
tree is fourteen and one-half feet in
circumference six inches above the
ground. It measures forty-four feet in
spread and is t~hirty-five feet
high. 1t is believed to be the largest
apple tree in the State.
Nodaway County horse owners are
scared over the appearance there OF
! what is believed to be the"corn STALK
disease" which killed many horses in
Kansas two years ago.
Clifford Winters, who resides south
of Mexico, guessed 318, the correct
number of apples in the window Of
the Graham-Lattime store last week
and received the prize offered by the
firm.
Audrain county horses are TARTAN
ed. They are known from one end of
the world to the other and there is
nothing but praise for them. Alfred
Pitman, who formerly lived in Mex
leo, is in London now and had an ar
ticle in the Sunday Kansas tlty
Star about seeing kansas City in
Lend n" 10 the "story" he had the
folio ing concerning Audrain coun-
ty. Blis souri,, an Ter horses:
The COACH lure which has been
in Kansas City for horse shows, runs
regularly in summer (if too many
of its forty-odd horses have not been
commandeered for the army be-
w. en- the Metropole in London and
the Me.r1pole in Brighton. Alfred G.
Vanderbilt, the owner does a good
deal of the driving, dividing time
with his manager, Charley" Will
son, ~ n or two otl,er p~ri"ilegco
.lclTtHs. 1t is a sociabls compan:
accorc ng to the traditions # coa.h
ing ard in the course Of the ride the
Kansas titisn hears pleasant rem
i~niscence of a former horse shown in
f"u. ent.on Hall, AMI incidentally
some hearty approval of horseflesh
as ca'sed in Audrain County. Mo-
Reuben Shryock, south of Steph-
ems, sold seven black steer calves
last week to Charles Rogers, 9
Boone county stockman, for $37.5C
apiece.-Fulton Gazette.
One of the mules bought by VI. L
Green of Centralia at Fulton stock
sales was gotten from Owens Lay
son, of Hereford for $3.50. Mr.. Lay.
son paid $122.50 for the brute in the
spring, and after working it all sum
mer, made a good profit on it.-Ful
ton Gazette.
r. H. Cauthorn's fine saddle stall
lion, The Intelligencer, died suddenl!
Monday night. Stomach trouble il
given as the cause. Mr.. Cauthorn haC
refused $500 for the animal only
short while ago. He was a grandson
of Rex Mcdonald and one of the mos
promising stations in this section.
Farmer" E. w. Rusk states Their
is no foot-and-mouth disease among
Audrain cattle and that in a long dis
lance telephone message to Column
bia, Tuesday, the authorities there
state Missouri, so far, is free from
this trouble. However it has crosses
the Mississippi, and is in Iowa.
DR.. Gonnaway is busy revising hi
bulletin on this disease SO that it ca
be circulated among the stock me
and farmers as Dol as possible an
} prepare them against the trouble Sc
curing a foothold in this state.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12
Squire Race WEEDS Couple

R. E. Race, who received his com
mission as a Justice of the Peace and
was sworn in Wednesday morning,
married his first couple Wednesday
noon on the east portico Of the Court
House. VIM. Baker and Almyra Will
liams, both colored and from Gala
way county, were the bride and bride
groom.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12
How l Grew My Corn
(By Jewell Bybee, second in boys

(By Jewell Bybee, second in boys
corn growing contest.)
Last spring I selected an acre of
land that had not been cultivated for
ten years, which was n Of ten. A
~grandstand of bluegrass was on it at
this time.
l turned this sod with a sixteen
inch walking pillow. This was plowed
about seven inches in depth. l then
went into the field with a 4-horse har-
row which l followed with a drag.
Then l double-disked it with a four
horse disk. / also narrowed and drag
ged it again.
Having my seed bed in fine condi-
ton, I was ready to plant my corn,
which was white. This was May 6. l
drilled it about three inches in depth.
| was out of the field until May 20.
My corn was now ready for cultiva-
ton, so / plowed it with a six-shovel
c~ultivator. On June 9Th l plowed it
with a two-horse disk. Later in l
hoed it twice and succered it twice.
One slow, steady rain fell on this
corn in time to do lots of good. This
land is surrounded by a creek from
which the moisture would rise at
night. This seemed to be of great
benefit.
October 18th, when l husked my
corn, it weighed out ninety bushels.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12
Memhers Of Christian Church

Members Of Christian Church
Those Of the members Of the Chris
tian Church interested in the sue
cess of the mid-week prayer meeting
are asked to remember the import
ance of this evenings meeting for the
Wednesday night services that are
to follow. The prayer meeting opens
promptly at 1880 and continues but
the hour.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12

The interesting article on Equal Suf
frage, contributed to the Kansas City
Post, by Miss Carrie Sproul, of this
city, was copied by the New York
Press and featured in a spe'ial posi-
ton in their magazine section.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12
A New Health Food

MOCO Health Flour, made from the
choicest of soft wheat, a whole wheat
flour; makes the finest and healthl-
est of biscuits. Try a six-pound sack.
All grocers handle it. dw1
VIM. Pollock Mill & Elev. Co.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12

Threatens to Shoot Farm Adviser.
Referring to the objections for
merly made against County Farm Ad-
visers who are growing more popu-
lar every day the Breeders Gazette
editorially says;
'This is a true story: Down in M
Of the best s~tock-raising sections Of
Indiana a certain county agent is in
a bad fix. He has been threatened
with shooting. He admits it.
at is a sad tale. The young ad-
wiser, being a stockman himself and
serving a community of corn-farmers
and stockmen, went a bit out Of his
line last spring and gave what he
supposed to be perfectly good and
harmless horticultural advice. One
of his staunchest supporters in the
county had an old decrepIt orchard.
But this farmers mind was chiefly
on his cattle and "the orchard was
run out, anyway" Last spring, how
ever, the county agent decided to try
his luck on a new tack, and he "ad-
vised" this cattleman to prune and
spray the orchard. The following
week he tried cajolery, and the next
he agreed to go over and supervise
the job. The adviser and the farmers
hired men did the work on that or
chard, while the stock-loving owner
derived great amusement from the
whole proceeding. He greeted the
process of pruning and spraying
with huge whole-hearted outlaws. At
last, 'he had one on the agent"
"Now county agents are busy peo-
pie. This one was unable t. get back
to see the old orchard until this fall.
lie had finished the inspection and
was gleefully on his way up to the
barn to find his friend the farmer. He
met him coming out Of the calf stable
door. "Say, you hot-foot it out of here
or you'll get shotl How dare you set
a foot on this place? You've ruined
usl" And he started for g gunl II is
related that for once a county agent
was taken abackl This one started to
stammer, "Why, why" "Why, moth
ing" yelled the exasperated farmer,
"you've ruined us, you have, and
ruined the farml Here It Is high time
to get at the corr crop, and the mis-
tress Of this place has drafted all my
men into the apple-picking squad, and
stoutly refuses to spare q hand for
the cor until all your blamed apples
are picked and stored. Shooting Is
too good for a mar who has ruined a
fellows business like you have mine.
Trying to make an orchard out of this
county, | suppose? Well, come on into
the house, then. Dinner is about ready
and if you'd ever get away without
eating at our table I'd get worse than
shootingl So come in and wash for din
ner. The shooting is postponed"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12
St Lnuisnn Dies in Centralia

C~entralia, Mo-, Nov. 11.-P. j.
Barron, for the past 10 years a resi-
dent of st. Louis, but for many years
a dry goods and clothing merchant in
C~entraIia, died here Tuesday night.
He was GO years old.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12
IL It's a Stove

YOU need, don't fail to e our am
pie floor. Everything from the little
sheet iron to the Red Oak Home.
L. Roy Ferris.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12

harvesting, are should be taken in
feeding TO prevent an animal from
getting a large quantity to chaff con-
tanning seed on account Of its ten
dency to cause acute indigestion or
founder. Millet hay is not regularly
quoted on the market, and it would
not be advisable to send It to a cen-
trail market without first consulting a
reliable hay commission merchant
H. o. Allison, Missouri Experiment
Station.-Breeders' Gazette.
Columbia, Mo-, Nov. 9.-There are
now 2,153 Missouri boys and girls in
clubs studying corn raising and judg-
ing, tomato raising and canning,
stock judging, sewing and poultry
raising, of which Audrain County Is
contributing its quota.
Since September /, SO new clubs
have been organized, with a member
ship of $50. The membership of these
new clubs is distributed as follows:
Poultry raising, So; stock judging,
348; sewing, 512. The boys and girls
clubs were started by Prof. R. H. EN-
berson of the College of Agriculture
of the University of Missouri last
March.
Arrangements are being made for
a State exhibit and contest to be held
at Columbia during Farmers Week
january Ills. The list of premi-
ums and the rules are being sent out.
Prof. Emerson is organizing clubs
in Tuscumbia, Green Ridge, Sedalia,
Macon. Mexico, Bowling Green, Steel
vile, st. Charles.
Soil Survey Is Made
A detailed study of the soils of four
more counties of Missouri has just
been completed by the Missouri Soils
Survey. The counties r Grundy,
Harrison, Pettis and Johnson. Thir
makes a total of thirty-fccr counties
in the Mi souri, survey, which was
started in 1905. 1t will take about 1t
years to complete the survey. Tests Of
soil on every ten acres are made.
Cow Makes Good Record
Pontiac Lady Josephine of the
dairy herd owned by the College of Ae
riculture of the University of Nilsson
ri is now State champion in production
of milk and second best in butter. He
record is SO pounds more than the
record made by Chief Josephine II
1901.
Pontiac's record for the year jus
ended is 23,493 pounds, or 11,19;
quarts of milk. Out of this milk 95'
pounds of butter were male. Thi
represents a value in milk Of 1898, o
in butter and SKINNED milk of 1854
In addition to this her calf was sol
for 5000. She is valued at $1,000.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12
How Raised Nv Tomatoes

How l Raised My Tomatoes
(By Miss Hafner, winner of Girls
Tomato Growing Contest).
The seed for my fifty tomato plants
was sowed the latter part of March in
a box 16x16, 4 inches deep filled with
soil. The plants were kept indoors
until warm weather.
The plants were ~transplarted April
25th. The plants were placed three
feet apart each way. On May Bird, a
local hailstorm destroyed about half
of the plants and those remaining re
ceived a severe setback.
On May 9Th, l replanted the patch,
using overgrown plants and on May
25th the first plant began to bloom,
July LIST, the first tomato was picked.
The size of my patch is 22x26 feet.
Before transplanting, the ground
having been broke in the fall, it was
disked and narrowed. After trans
planting the ground was worked SIX
times with a tooth hoe and was at all
times loose and clean of weeds. Be
side this work the plants were succer
ed twice; the first time on May 26th
and the second time on June 9Th. II
required IA hours Of work with hoe
and rake, including planting and prun
ing, which / did myself. However,
this don't include the time spent il
picking and preserving the fruit
which was about IS minutes per can
Results.
From these fifty plants / harvested
enough tomatoes to can 70 quar-
cans. Besides, l sold $1.00 worth o.
tomatoes to a grocery and $1.00 worth
to the neighbors. In canning l fol
lowed the instruction given by Miss
Babe Bell at our school house las
spring with the result that every car
kept perfectly. l have not sold m!
canned tomatoes, but am offered 20
per an.
Expenses
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12
Snecial Aluminium Sale

We have selected three articles in
Aluminium Ware this week for wi
special bargain counter. Don't fail
to see them. d2w1
L. Roy Ferris.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12
Car Of New Ear Corn

now on track. Sixty eight cents per
bushel right off the Tar. Come early
as it won't last long.
VIM. Pollock Mill g Elev. Co.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12

The annual Shorthorn sale of s. p.
EmmOns G Son, Mexico, Mo-, held
last Friday, took place under most
disadvantageous conditions. In view
of these the prices realized were
good. The foot-and-mouth disease
quarantine kept away buyers from
practically all sections east of the
Mississippi River and Iowa as well.
Ali the cattle sold went to the state
of Missouri.
Naturally Messrs. Emmons suffer
ed from this lack Of competition, as
their cattle usually go to many states.
The fact that they could realize as
good prices as they did with limited
demand and with the entire country
scared to death over the foot-and-
mouth disease is a great testimonial
to the reputation this firm bears
among Shorthorn breeders, large and
small. Most of the cattle offered
were young, and this also tended to
keep prices down. The general quail
ity of the offerings, however, was
excellent and was as good as any
thing they have eve sold. The top
price of the sale was a even months
old heifer, Gypsy Maid. This individ-
ual well merited the price she
brought and then some. Doug Burns
of GAINESVILLE, Mo-, paid $3.50 for the
heifer.
The top price OF bulls was $l75.
Judge Groves gave this figure for
Lot 81, The Butterfly, Coils. Harri-
man and johnson, two of the most
popular and best %auctioneers in the
state, did the selling.
A total Of 33 COWS and heifers
mostly heifers) brought an aggre-
gate OF s4,3s5.0O, an average Of
$132.Ss.
Twelve bulls brought a total Of
$4,000, average of $11O each.
The sales at 500 and more were az
foI1oUvu.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-11-12
CLOVER TIMOTHY

to be cleaned for sanitary reasons. 1t
was pumped dry, and the firkin OF
butter was found imbedded in the
mud at the bottom of the well. On
opening the firkin the butter was
found to be as sweet and well flaw
ored in every respect as when it was
lost. In the meantime butter had in
creased in price to 20 cents per
pound. J. W. lNGHAM'
Bradford Co., Pa. Breeders Gazette