The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, May 19, 1911 Page: 6 of 8
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For the Farmer
Suggestions to Farmers, j
We suggest that you do not
have your crop too thick. One
good stalk of corn or cotton will
produce more than two poor
stalks. When your corn is fif-
teen inches high, the small hair- !
like roots will almost meet be-
tween the rows. You should
therefore cultivate a9 nearly lev-
el as possible. If you go deeper
than two inches you will cut
thousands of these roots and
greatly damage your crop. Use
a sweep or a very short toothed
harrow that is narrow enough to
go between the rows. Pull up
up all weak plants, and destroy
all suckers and weeds. These
parasites suck the life blood
from the plant just as vermin do
from live stock.
Plants, like animals must have
a balanced ration with an abun-
dance of nutritious food, if you
expect the best results. The
larger the plant, the more food
it will need to assist it in its life
work of producing and perfect-
its crop. It is a very great mis-
take to lay by and leave the crop
when it is one-half or two-thirds
grown, and allow it to live on
short rations, fight dry weather,
suckers and weeds, at the most
vital perion in its career.
To get the best and mcst prof-
itable results, shallow mulch cul-
tivation should continue until
the grain and cotton are fully
matured. If it is possible to do
so, well rotted manure, cotton
seed meal or any other good fer- i
tilizers that are easily soluble,
should be spread between the
rows of corn and cotton and then
worked into the soft top mulch a
short time before the crop begins
to fruit. A cotton seed planter
with fertilizer attachment set to
run very shallow, does this work
fairly well, or you can do it by j
hand.
If you cannot apply these fer-
tilizers you can certainly destroy
the suckers, weeds and weak
plants, and by constant shallow
mulch cultivation, keep the earth
from cracking and thereby con-
serve its moisture, warding off
to a great extent the damaging
effects of hot winds and a dry
season. The dryer it is, the
more unpromising things seem
to be, the greater necessity for
constant work. Keep the weeds
down, the suckers out, the top
of the earth 6oft and you will
raise a crop anyway.
Guard against damage to land
Calomel flust Hurt Your
Liver.
Everytime You Take This Pow-
erful Drug You are in Dan-
ger, Take Dodson's Liv-
er Tone Instead.
Calomel is made from mercury
and while mercury has many
uses, it is a dangerous thing to
swallow. If calomel stays very
Jong in the system it
salivates. Even when it works
naturally, its after-effects are
often bad.
John Peel has a liver medi-
cine called Dodson's Liver Tone
which is poitively guaranted to
to take the place of coiomel. It
stiumlates the liver just enough
to start it working, and it does
not make you sicker than ever—
as calomel often doe9. Dodson's
Liver Tone wont force you to
stop working or eating after tak-
ing it. It is as beneficial for chil-
dren as for adults.
Try a bottle to-day under J.
R. Peel's guarantee. You know
this store is reliable.
from washing by terracing ar d
contour plowing, going arourd
rather than up or down a slope.
Henry Exall
Pres. Texas Industrial CungresF.
What is a Thoroughbred
Horse.
"What is a Thoroughbred
Horte?" is a question which has
been asked of John C. Burnp,
Professor of Animal Husbandry
at the A. & M. College of Texas.
Prof. Burns replies of follows:
"Thoroughbred" is the name
of the English breed of runr.ing
horses. The breed derived its
origin from the union of Arab-
ian, Barb and Turkish blood
with the lighter type of English
horse. From this Amalgama-
tion came great stamina, re-
markable speed, unusual endur-
ance, and great symmetry of
form.
The American Standard Bred
Trotter, which i9 the name given
our American breed of trot'.ing
horses, derived its origin from
the thoroughbred blood import-
ed to this country. The old rules
as to what constituted a standard
bred trotter were not as strict as
at the present time. In other
words, the foundation etock of
the breed, though eligible under
the old rules would hardly be el-
igible for registration under the
present rules of the American
Trotting Register Association.
The trotting standard at the pres-
ent time is as follows: When
an animal meets these require-
ments and is duly registered, it
shall be accepted as a standard
Bred Trotter.
1. The progeny of a register-
ed standard trotting horse and a
registered trotting mare.
2. A stallion sired by a reg-
istered standard trotting horse,
provided his dam and grand
dam were sired by registered
standard trotting horses, and he
himself has a trotting record of
2:30 and is the sire of three
trotters with records of 2:30
from different mares.
3. A mare whose sire is a
registered standard trotting horse
whose dam and grand dam were
sired by registered standard trot-
ting horses, provided she herself
has a trotting record of 2:30, or
is the dam of one trotter with a
record of 2:30.
4. A mare sired by a registered
standard trotting horse, provid-
ed she is the dam of two trotters
with records of 2:30.
5. A mare sired by a regis-
tered standard trotting horse
provided her first, second and
third dams are each sired by a
registered standard trotting
horse.
"First build the barn and the
barn will build the .house," was
a saying our old German farmer
brought with them when they
came to Kansas from "Pennpylva-
nia in the early days, and they
often made the proverb come true
That was when the silo was in its
infancv and its merits were little
known. Now itmigiit better be put
this way. First build your silot
and it will build both barn and
house. You probasly could no?
make a silo user in Kansas ad-
mit this was not an absolutely
true statement.—Farmers Mail
and Breeze.
Cotton
Cotton has given the world its moit
ntlc industry. Millions of peopla
cultivate the plant and as many more
weave at its looms ami Its fibre clothes
the human race. It Is tho most power,
ful agency In our civilization, running
both plew and factory, and it is the
leading merchandise of mankind. Its
field lias aroused the inventive genius
of the country and it Is an important
factor in medicine and arts. The seed
is food for man and beast and cotton
products appear in numerous forms on
all markets of the world.
One of the surest ways of start-
ing bowel trouble is to let the
chicks get chilled.
Mortgage blanks for sale at this office
It is the most youthful of staple
products, having hnd less than a cen-
tury of commercial recognition, but it
has rapidly acquired power until today
it is the King of Products. The fleecy
staple Is as good as legal tender on
any market and based on factory val-
ues is the richest of all industries
For the past centuiy it has engaged
the brightest intellects of the world In
science and commerce and many of Its
problems are only half solved. The In-
ventive minds of the universo have
poted over its fibre; merchant princes
have studied its markets and the
ablest financiers have sought to fix ltd
value.
Cotton is limited In Its area Of pro-
duction to Texas and a few other
Southern states but Its consumption
is worldwide and it is one of tiio
leading necessities of life which in-
sures forever a profitable return to the
producer. It has been maligned by its
beneficiaries and railed at by writers,
but Texas cotton stands today the
most reliable and profitable staple
product of any crop of all agricultural
states in the Union. The state aver-
age of production per acre 1910 was
149 pounds; the lint selling for $20.86
find the seed at $3.77, making a total
average production per acre of $24.63.
Comparing this with the leading agri-
cultural products of other states w«
find corn in Illinois producing $14.Si
per acre: wheat in Kansas $11.93 pef
acre and oats in Iowa $10.20 per acre;
these states leading in the products
mentioned.
Cotton is by far the most valuable
of our farm products. In 1910 we har-
vested 10,530,000 acres of cotton, mak-
ing 3,140.000 bales, valued at $219,-
656.000. The- Increase in yield in 1910
over 1909 was 24 pounds per acre. Tho
crop of the United States in 1910 wa*
11.426,000 bales.
Texas Is the home of this remark-
able plant, the soil and climate being
peculiarly adapted by nature to its
propagation and to the proper ma-
turing of Its fibre.
Prime Feed for Young
Pigs
A half anrl a half mixture of
wheat shorts and finely ground
corn meal soaked in water for 12
hours and fed as a thick slop is
one of the best feeds for young
pigs according to John C. Burns,
head of the animal husbaniry
department at Texas Agricultural
college. The pigs should have
aceess to pasture at the same time
if it is available.
can hold the owner of stock for
damage from trespass unless the
lands of the former are fenced.
The government reserves were
not fenced and on these grounds
Light and the state largely basted
their defense. The government
replied that no state can m ike
laws for the nation.
This decision means that fur-
ther grazing on the government
reserves will require permission
from the government.
.John I). Rockefeller would go broke
if he should spend his entire income
trying to prepare a better medicine
than Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy for diarrhoea,
dysentery or bowel complaints It is
simply impossible, and so says every
one that has used it. Sold by all drug-
gists.
Running the Culivator.
The first time over the corn
cultivate deeply, and shallow the
restof the season. If a disc cul-
tivator is used the ground may
be cultivated deeply the first two
piowings. Throw dirt from corn
the first plowing, then turn and
throw back. I prefer the disc
cultivators next to the corn and
two shovels on the outside gang.
The disc plows will cover up all
weeds and grass in the hill if
they are not allowed to get too
great a start. Corn should be
cultivated as soon as possible
after every shower to hold the
moisture. There can hardly
be to much plowing unless the
shovels are put in to deep and
allowed to cut off the small roots
which grow near of the ground.—
J. C. P., Morrisville, Mo.
The splendid work of Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets is daily
coming to light. No such grind rem-
edy for liver and bowel troubles was
ever known before. Thousands bless
them for curing constipation, sick
headache, biliousness, jaundice and
indigestion. Sold by all druggists.
John C. Burns, professor of
Animal Husbandry an the A.
and M. College of Texas College
Station says: "I hardly think
there is any feed superior to
wheat shorts for your pigs. A
mixtute of wheat shorts and
finel ground corn chops, half
and half, soaked in water for
twelve hours and fed in the
nature of a thick slop, makes a
very good ration. The pigs
should at tho same time have
access to pasture if available."
John C. Burns, Professor of
Animal Husbandry at the A. &•
M. College of Texas, says that
about the most economical rem-
i edy for lice on hogs is crude
Beaumont oil. This may be ap-
, plied as a brush or used as a dip.
| If, there are water holes where
j the hogs wallow, the lice can be
i destroyed by pouring the oil in
the holes.
How the School of Botany
Serves th«; People of
the State.
It may be of interert to people
of the state to know that the staff
of the school of Bolany in the
University of Texas is rendering
a service to the public that is of
even greater value than teaching
classes and supervising labora-
tory work, which, of course,
must constitute, apart of scienti-
fic university activity.
Residents of any part of the
State, desiring information,
either on identification, of plants,
identification if seeds, seeJ anal-
ysis, or diagnosis of plants dis-
eases, may obtain same from Dr.
F. D. Heald, head of the School
of Botany.
Plants for identification should
be in flower to insure certainty of
determination, and can be sent
to best advantage after pressing
slightly between sheets of heavy
absorbent paper or even news-
paper. Seed samples should con-
sist of aboutan ounce if purity is
desired, or less for identification
alone. For the diagnosis of dis-
ease, affected parts, if plants,
should be sent whenever possible,
and these should be accompanied
by careful descriptions of the
symptoms of the diseased condi-
tion.
DR. COX'S
PAINLESS BLISTER
Guaranteed to give satisfaction and
blister without pain or your money re-
funded. For sale be all druggists.
The farmer who rattles to town
j in an empty wagon and goes back
I with it loaded with bacon, flour,
corn and can goods, is a scienti-
fic grower of farm mortgages.—
Lexington Leader.
&
Disproving An Old The-
ory.
A recent farmers' bulletin(No.
432) is devoted entirely to the
story of a lawyer with a family of
ohildien who moved from the
oity onto a farm and who has
made a success of the venture.
The account goes into detail giv-
ing figures on expenditures and
incomes, giving plans of build-
ings and fields, ect. Farm as
well as oity readers will find
something of interst in this bul-
letin and is worth the trouble of
writing to the Department of
Agriculture at Wasnington for it.
Mention Post-Signal.
A Blow to Range Cattle.
The recent decision of the sup-
reme court of the United States
in the case of the government a-
gainst Fred Light of Colorado,
who was enjoined from allowing
his cattle to graze on government
forest reserves, will have a wide
spread effect it the cattle raising
industry of the West. The state
of Colorado took sides with Light
against the grovernment. A Col-
orado law says that no person
Good Stock Farm
320 acres, about one-third in cultivation, balance
prairie and timber pasture, black and black sandy land,
good improvements. Nice distanoe from town. An
excellent little farm for stock. Would exchange for
western land if price and location suits.
Black Land
100 acres black waxey on east Denton county line.
Well improved. Want to sell because too old to farm.
Easy terms. Also 120 acres adjoining.
213 acres black waxey in west Collin county, good
improvements. Will cut off 100 of the tract, and will
take in good residence property to amount of $2000 as
part payment, and give very easy terms on balance.
Good Black Sandy Land
100 acres close to town, all in cultivation, good im-
provements. 23 acres timber land goes with it.
Southern Land & Loan Co.
(E. C. Barton D. J. Moffltt.)
Office with Post-Signal. Pilot Point, Texas
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The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, May 19, 1911, newspaper, May 19, 1911; Pilot Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291168/m1/6/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Denton Public Library.