The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-06-15
BANKERS SHOW THE WAY
Bates County Blessed in Nature S
Bounty.

representative OF the editorial depart
ment of the Telegram learned yester
day the bankers are leading the wa.
in agriculture, says the Drover's Tcle
gram.
Looking up the main street Of But
Ter not Main street in the caricatur
ing sense that a recent novel has tax
en- country town main street, ont
observes the banking building of tht
Farmers bank and Duval Trust Co.
built OF Cartilage stone and an archl,
tectural Jewel, one that will set pace
for county bank buildings in Missouri
w. +. Duvall. president of the
Farmers bank and the Duvall Trust
CO., operates. pretty good sized
farm near Butler. 1000 acres, and he
has 100 cattle that cost $5.S5 on the
Kansas City market on feed at this
time. lie has So brood sows, all
pure bred big type Poland Chinas,
and despite the mortality that has
been running rampant in pigs this
spring Mr. Duval expects to have 400
spring pigs The latter part OF this
month to show for his efforts In
swine huSbandry.
The later borrowings OF pigs in
Bates county, many farmers stated
yesterday are proving very satstac-
tory as the death losses at narrowing
time are hardly above normal for
average years.
Bate, county, Mo-, has the Marais
DIES Cygnes river to contend with, but
il has the river pretty we'll curbed,
although it cost 100000 to do it.
The big ditch that was scooped. out
to straighten the river will float
good sized steam boat when it begins
to function to carry Off the overflow
OF the river. and it has functloned
aplcnty this spring. The reclaimed
land III the Maras DIES Cygncs has
produced crops worth $45 an acre in
a year, and when prices are good for
wheat and corn its farm crop values
are almost fabulous,
Arrangements are being made to
put in pumps at certain points along
tie big dykes to pump surface water
of the reclaimed land AS high as
the dykes are they were not high
CROUCH this spring when the river
went on a great rampage, but the
shortening OF the river at one point
from s. to Is miles caused the over
flow to be drained away as fast as the
river fell, and there was no damage
By water standing on the areas al
ready planted to wheat and oats.
Grand River, much smaller, but as
ugly when II gets up, as the Marals
dies Cygnes, has been Strengthened
from where it leaves Cass county to
where it joins the Maras dies Cygnes
and much waste land in the flood
plain OF this stream has been re-
claimed and is yielding big returns,
OIL the money that landowners put
INTO the big drainage ditch that cuts
is tortuouS course down to a
it aight-away.
Bankers in Butler state that re-
ports from all over southern Missouri :
Indicate big shortage Of cattle on 4
grass to be given corn finish later.
Hogs are scarce, and will be more so
ince the high mortality among pigs
ct in.
The best thing about Bates county
S the class Of farmers it has. Coun-
y Agent Drymon get hearty coop
ration from them, and they putt to- a
ether, get along fine and dandy with o.
heir bankers and this spring they
re living in veritable garden of YER
ure, but wishing for more fair i'
'eather that they may get their corn
lanted. -
Plenty of time yet said J. B.
Walton, president of the Missouri n
tate bank and the Walton Trust Co., &c
$2,8oO,oOO financial institution at l.
utter that has branch offices all -
YER Missouri and far down into Ok
homa. 1--WE will make corn crop n.
Ii; year if we get our corn in by h:
Inc l as there is plenty of moisture id
the ground" T.;
President Walton is some authority -
corn as the exhibits from the
INKS last winters corn show, still fit
/ display in the lobby of the bank an
dicates. II they grow better corn
ar that Bates county accumulation az
prize winners in the Missouri State
nix, So years old by the way, Bates
unity will have to grow it, Bates Of
unity farmers contend. 70
G. A. Corbin one of Howard own