The Nocona News. (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 1921 Page: 6 of 8
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THE NOCONA NEWS, FRIDAY APRIL 8TH, 1»21.
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Below you will find an incomplete list of those items we print and print right
Let us
Prove our claims to your Entire Satisfaction.
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Birth|Annouricements; Wedding Stationery; Envelope Enclosures; Sale Bills; Hand Bills;
••You didn’t
Price Lists; Admission Tickets; Business Tickets; Window Cards; Time Cards;
Letter Heads; Envelopes; Leaflets; Bill Heads; Calling Cards; Statements;
Milk Tickets; Meal Tickets; Shipping Tags; Announcements; Briefs;
Coupons;
Catalogues;
Pamphlets;
Circulars;
Posters;
checks; Blotters; Invitations; Legal Blanks; Folders;
Labels; Menu Cards; Placards; Dodgers;
Programs; Receipts, Etc,
Modern Equipment—Quick Service—Best Quality—Satisfied Patrons
Id.
We have in Stock as pretty a Lithographed Stock Certificate as you will be able to find anywhere. We
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We have in stock Form 88, Producers Special, Oil and Gas Leases, Assign-
only ask you to see our samples.
ment of Oil and Gas Leases; Royalty Contracts; Warranty Deeds, two torms with or without the Vendor’s Lien;
sorted.
Vendor’s Lien Notes; Deeds of Trust; Release of Vendor’s Lien; Chattel Mortgages; Rental Contracts; Sale Books;
Typewriter Papers; Adding Machine Paper,jand numerous other Oiings necessary for the office or business house.
work
Van Dorn Steel Office Fixtures in Stock.
Ing up profits in the barn.
Come and See our Samples--We have the Goods and Work to Show You.
has a slovenly appearance.
ANALYSIS OF FARM BUSINESS
Prompt, Careful and Efficient Attention given to Every Detail.
Courteous Treatment and
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Every Accommodation Possible Given and Extended to All.
Let us Estimate the Cost of Your Work.
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Anything that is Printed—we can do. And just because your job is out of the ordinary run is no reason for
sending your order out of town before seeing us. The chances are that we
Have Samples of the Same Work to Show You.
THE NOCONA NEWS
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horse days. According to these tables
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NOCONA, TEXAS
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Winter Is Proper Time for Mak-
ing Needed Repairs.
he had the secret of success so far as
the Henderson farm was concerned.
to Obtain Fullest Information Re-
garding Machine.
Fann tractors are time savers for
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gets a tractor his first Impulse should
be to get all the information possible
about it and then manage it to get
the full benefit from that Inform*.
tlon.
Careful Inspection of All Implements
Should Be Made and Everything
Got In Readiness for Farm Op-
erations In Spring.
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the problem to suit our crop rotation j chance of becoming a leader in his
I community than the man whose farm
IT PAYS TO SHELTER
ALL FARM EQUIPMENT
to the acre.
Basis for Estimates.
“Naturally, these figures will not fit
every farm—they’re average estimates
-Ajut they will furnish a basis from
'MISDIRECTED L?BOR OF MAN AND
HORSE REDUCES FARMER’S PROFIT
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Extensive Studies Have Been Con-
ducted by Department of Agricul-
ture During Past Year.
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In order to put at the disposal of
farmers Information which will en-
able them to place their fannjng op-
erations on a more businesslike basis,
the United States Department of Agri-
culture has conducted extensive
studies in farm business analysis. Dur-
ing tlie last year 400 records were ob-
tained in farm business analysis sur-
veys on two general crop and live-
stock areas In Iowa, 300 on a fruit and
truck area In Florida, 136 on a gen-
eral farming area In New Hampshire,
50 on a similar area In Ohio, 100 on
n co-operative tractor nnd farm or-
ganization study in two areas in Ohio.
addition, the amount of profit
and above his pay which his
should have earned for us.
wasted his labor Income. | ..1 _
“We’ve spent a good deal of horse count, and a farmer’s standing in the
labor income, too. That’s our sore I community frequently Is governed by
spot, I guess.
season's rush begins.
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He devoted a good many evenings to
studying the bulletin, then, finally
sought the elder Henderson on the
farmhouse- veranda one night and sur-
prised him by remarking that their
farm system was as full of holes as
an old boot. Once launched upon the
subject the young man displayed an
interest that caused his father to set-
tle hack in his chair with a sigh of
content.
“We've never made money here be-
' cause we spent too much,” Jimmy as-
“We haven t spent money ex-
actly. but we have spent things that
are equivalent to money—time, labor
and farm acreage. If we permit Jack, essary painting should be done,
the hired man, to put in a day’s work quent applications of dark
on a J
I’ve made , ments in the repair of fences and
some calculations based on the figures ' gates and maintaining a neat appear-
contalned In this bulletin. Arranging anee of the entire farm has a better
fhi» nrnhlpm tn suit our cron rotation ' «ih<>nnn a* ho/unnin,. « IaazIam >»«•
and the size of our farm, I find that
we’ve Just work enough for eight of
these horses. Eight horses would pay
us a profit, but four more will elim-
inate that profit in food and care.”
“Where did you get all this informa-
tion, son?” queried ills father.
“From a farmers' bulletin,”
fessed Jimmy, unabashed,
“Humph!" grunted James Hender-
son. Sr., In no wise displeased. “May-
be the bulletin can tell us how to get
out of the hole?”
"Yes, sir I We’ve been paying Jack
good wages the year around Just so
we'd be sure we had him for the sum-
mer's work. We've lost most of his la-
bor income during the winter months.
Our dairy is small. If we build up a
larger dairy it will give us an oppor-
tunity not only to employ Jack's la-
bor at a profit in the winter season,
but it will also use up some of our ex-
cess horse labor. Similarly we can
plaff crops that will require more
horse work and less man wort. The
fundamental information we need has Several of these surveys have been in
already been obtained for us by the , progress for a number of years.
Department of Agriculture, and a good
bit of it Is in this bulletin.
That’s our sore
We have 12 horses— i the appearance of his farm equipment,
fine ones, I’ll admit—but they’re eat- [ The man who spends his spare mo-
■ • • I farm survey record taken on many of
For instance, one cut- the forms at the end of the yenr. In
i New Jersey about 160 enterprise sur-
; veys records were obtained on tomato
Corn for the j an(’ Potato forming.
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Po-; TRACTORS ARE TIME SAVERS
“The Home of Good Printing"
(Prepared by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.)
“Jimmy is too contented,” declared
James Henderson, Sr. “He'll work 16
hours a day here on the farm and
never stop to wonder why he doesn't
get more money than one of those
slick-haired soda clerks in the drug
store. Something is wrong with our
farm system. I think I know what
It is, but it’ll do Jimmy more good if
he finds out for himself. I want to
teach him to think.”
Perplexed by Lossee.
He was right about his farm sys-
tem, but he was wrong about his son.
Jimmy, in his own quiet way, had real-
ized long ago that a business which
required from 14 to 16 hours of steady
effort daily, should pay more than he
received as his share of the farm
profits. He had indulged in all sorts
the mental gymnastics in an effort to ;
locate tlie trouble, but bad never j
reached a sound conclusion. He knew
thnt certain crops produced a profit, i
while others probably involved a loss.
How was one to know one from the !
other; the difference between poor ,
farm practice and good farm prac- I
tlce?
He found the solution in a bulletin I „ .. .
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which came to him from the United | ment of Agriculture.)
States Department of Agriculture. "A ' Much of the loss and annoyance
Method of Analyzing the Fann Busi- ■ caused by breakage of farm equipment
ness.” was its title, and Jimmy real- ■ muy be avoided by careful inspection
Ized. after a glance at the pages, that and repair of weak parts before the
hn/l f unornt nf aiirwiaaa u'n for na ______a____.
The proper time for making repairs t
Is during the winter and at times
when the regular farm work is not
urgent, specialists of the United
States Department of Agriculture say.
As the season advances, Implements
which will be needed for the next
farming o|>erations should be gone over
and given any attention required to
make them ready' for immediate use.
If the farm machinery is not properly
housed during periods of disuse, it is
all the more important that it should
be given a careful overhauling. Af-
ter Inspecting the Implement, tighten-
ing bolts, strengthening weak parts,
and renewing broken pieces, the nec-
Fre-
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Job which Isn’t profitable, we’ve ‘ paint, consisting either of red lead or
spent the amount of his wage and, in i Venetian red and raw linseed oil, not
over only improve the appearance of farm
work j implements, but add greatly to their
We’ve j durability.
I This is an age when appearances
Similar studies on specialized types
of farming are being made In co-opera-
“They’ve studied a targe number of j tlon wl,h R,nt<’ agriculture colleges,
farms and calculated to average so I I” Kentucky the tobacco crop on 75
a farmer can tell more accurately Just 1 fnrnis In each of two areas has been
the amount of labor he will need to i intensively studied, with a complete
plant, cultivate and harvest any par-
ticular crop. 1 „ ,
ting of hay on the average farm res
quires a Ill-hour day for one man and
one horse for each acre. <
silo costs three days of man labor and
five and one-half of horse work. 1
tatoes will use up eleven ten-hour days
of man work to the acre and ten I First Impluse of Purchaser Should Ba
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vegetables require much more man
labor than horse work. Onions, for in-
stance, need 1.400 hours of work by
a man and only 100 hours by a horse ■ the average farmer.
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Vegetable Culture Require* More Labor From Man Than From tie Horae.
i which any farmer can make his own
; calculations. The specialists say that
i careless handling of the labor item is
one of the principal Influences in re-
ducing farm profits. He paused.
“There’s one thing I’d like to know—
i why the Department of Agriculture
i sent me this bulletin. I didn’t ask for
it—didn’t even know they had it.”
The wise old man In the chrifr
ginneed tip at his son with a glecm of
merriment In his eyes.
“No, son,” he replied,
—but I did."
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The Nocona News. (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, April 8, 1921, newspaper, April 8, 1921; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1372556/m1/6/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.