The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, May 31, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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GET THERE
Ahead of the Railrad
A New Empire, 200 Miles Square—Pecos Valley, Tex.
One of the richest irrigable'vulleyp in the United States, just abend
of Construction of the Kansay City, Mexican & Orient Railway. A
new country—a chance to begin over again. New hopes—Prosperity
A country where Irrigation makes' SURE CROPS! llomeseekers are
flooding into this wonderful new couutry. By February 1st the Orient
Railway will cross the valley. Buy laud now before prices advance.
The extensive Imperial Irrigation System, furnishing abundant
water to these Pecos Palisades lands, now complete. Water turned on.
Farmers are irrigating their land and building homts. The big Im-
perial reservoir, covering nearly 2000 acres, holds six hundred million
cubic feet of water, with 75 miles of canals.
Greatest Atfalfa and Fruit Country
Alfalfa is the wonder crop of the Fecoe Valley. Produces $75 to
$125 per acre. SIX cuttings a year. Alfalfa will make you rich.
F*cts about lower Pecos Valley are amazing. In fruit, the land
should produce up to fllOOO per acre. Peaches pay $1000 per acre;
Apples trees are worth $40 apiece; celery and asparagus. $500 per acre;
berries up to $500 per acre; cantaloupes $300 to $500 per acre.
Pecos Valley products won 22 First Prizes at F1 Paso Fair, 1000,
and some of its fruits beat the world at the St. Louis Fair.
Your OPPORTUNITY. Pecos Valley offers your greatest oppor-
tunity because land is now selling on easy terms and at one fifth the
price of similar lands in older districts, and because it is just ahead of
construction of the railroad, duilding daily and spending large sums
in this territory. •
Call on us today for full information about personally conducted
excursions and cheap roilroad rates to this wonderful Pecos Valley.
Elaborate literature free for the asking.
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BELEW & PONDROM
Pilot Point, -
Texas
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For the Farmer
Dairy Dots.
Now that cowe are on grass
they will need salt oftener.
Churning when cream is too
warm has the effect of whitening
butter.
Frequent stirring while cream
is ripening will make better but-
ter.
Nature intends that the calf
should have the first milk from
the mother.
Almost 10 quarts or 4 per cent
milk is required to make 1 lb of
butter.
One good sire can do wonders
in improving the dairy herds of
a neighborhood.
For the young calf just learn-
ing eat there is nothing better
than ground oats.
Unless it runs smoothly and
does not vibrate, a separator will
not do its best work. A solid
foundation means long life for
the machine.
Tests at experiment stations
have shown that 20 per cent of
the cream is saved by the use of
a separator as compared with
hand skimming.
Dairy farmers wonder how
they ever got along without
cream separators. Five years
from now they will wonder how
they ever got along without
silos.
Fill a bottle partly full of wat-
er and put in as much alum as
water will dissolve. About
twice a day touch the warts on
the cow's teats with this and they
will soon disappear.
account all fighting with weeds
should be sharp and short. The
man that has more land cultivat-
ed than he can well take care of
does not stand muoh chance, but
the the man who can get after
the weeds before they get a
start, and keep them from start-
ing, will soon kill out the worst
weed that exists.
Many people speak of weeds
as growing in spits of their be-
ing cut down. This is only par-
tly true. Every greenleafed plant
must expose its leaves to the
sunlight or it will die. Conse-
quently, if you have a patch of
weeds and let them grow up four
or five inches and cut them j
down, you may keep this up in- i
definitely, and with many weeds
they will be as strong at the end
as at the beginning; whereas,
there is no weed which if kept
below ground will not become
disoouraged within a single sea-
eon, and cease growth. On this
Poultry Pointers.
Chaff from the hay mow floor
makes the best litter for chicks.
There is little use in wasting
time over a cripple or deformed
chick.
It is best to teach chicks to
roost on perches as soon as they
are weaned from the hen,
The first two weeks of a chick's
life there is danger it will over-
eat, but after that it is safe to ltt
them help themselves.
Having too many chicks
in one brood, whether with a hen
or in a brooder, is a common
fault. Chicks in small broods
always do better.
Don't let the young turks out
until dew is off the grass in the
morning if you want turkeys to
sell next Thanksgiving.
It is best to hatch turkeys
away from the hen house, and
other places frequented by chick-
ens, to keep them from getting
lousy.
Mix plaster of Paris and tur-
pentine, mould in the shape of
eggs, and put one in each nest
to kill lice and mites. Do not
use with eggs that are hatching.
Mix half bushel of dry ashes
with a pint of coal oil, and a
pintof sulphur. Put some in the
nests and the hens will not be
bothered with lice.
A city chicken man has found
a good way to break a broody
hen. He puts an alarn clock in
the nest and when the clock
goes off the hen goes off too—
and never comes back.
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"They say his wife makes $5.-
000 n year with her pen." "1
didn't know she was a writer." j|
"She Isn't. She has a pig farm <|
In Iowa."—Chicago Record-Her-
ald.
FOXGLOVE GROWING.
Medicinal Plant Promises Fair Return
on Cost and Labor of Production.
Foxglove has for some years been
cultivated as a commercial drug plant
In several European countries. It is a
fairly hardy perennial plant. It is of
easy culture, growing best In rich well
drained garden loams, but does not
thrive to advantage in wet soils or bar-
ren, sandy ones. Seeds and leaves both
contain medicinal virtue, but the latter,
carefully dried in the shade to preserve
the natural green color, form the onl.v
product that is now marketable. The
current price ranges from 11 to 112
cents per pound, dry weight. The most
reliable estimates of yield do not ex-
ceed 000 pounds dried leaves to the
acre, says Rural New Yorker.
Foxglove promises a fair return for
the cost of growing, but any consider-
able acreage grown In this country
would quickly overstock the market.
The present drug requirement that the
leaves be only picked from plants of
two years' growth at the commence-
ment of bloom greatly increases the
cost of production.
It is best to use the typical purple
flowered form of Digitalis purpurea,
which may be had from most seeds-
Photo by United StatRH department of
agriculture.
FOXGr.OVK.
men. The seeds are very small and
need but little covering. They may be
sown directly in the field at. the rate of
about two pounds to the acre iu rows
three feet apart to admit of horse culti-
vation or twenty inches apart, if hand
culture is Intended. The ordinary gar
den seed drill has been found effective,
but it is best to remove all covering
attachments, tirst setting the drill plow
to open a furrow not more than one-
half inch deep. Enough fine soil will
work in the furrow to cover the seeds
to the needed depth.
Plants may also be raised In a seed
bed like tobacco plants and transplant-
ed in June during dull weather to the
field, setting them twelve or fifteen
Indies apart in rows two or three feet
apart. Whether sown in field or nurs-
ery, the seeds should be put in. at the
earliest practicable moment in spring
that the soil can be got in good condi-
tion. as they are slow in germinating.
It is good practice to drop an occa-
sional radish seed In the rows, as the
latter quickly come up and indicate
the rows so that cultivation and conse-
quent weed destruction may begin be-
fore the tiny foxglove seedlings appear
The soil should be well enriched,
plowed, worked and put. in fine tilth
and cultivation and weed elimination
be thorough throughout the grow-
lng season. In field culture the plants
should be thinned to stand not over fif-
teen inches apnrt In the rows, as soon
as they can be well distinguished.
At the approach of severe freezing
•weather a mulch of strawy manure or
litter free from seeds of troublesome
weeds will lessen the danger of win
ter killing. The plants bloom in June
of the second year, when the leaves
should be stripped and cured for mar
ket. Foxglove should be grown as a
biennial or two year crop. Individual
plants occasionally live several years,
but so many die after blooming that It
is scarcely possible to maintain a stand
over the second year.
The home Is often taken to rep-
resent the prosperity of the farm
upon which it stands. If your
homes does not do the farm jus-
tice build another as soon as pos-
sible that will reflect credit upon
the farm and show the enter- J?
prise of the manager. <•
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Roots For Dairy Stock.
By care in preparing the soil and
growing the crop, from fifteen to twen-
ty-five tons of roots, like mangels, ruta-
bagas or stock carrots, can bo grown
per acre. They can be stored under the
feeding alley or in a pit outside of the
barn at very little expense. Twenty
tons of roots will supply ten cows
twenty pounds per day each for 200
days and can be grown and harvested
at a cost of less than $40. The nutri-
ents contained In twenty tons of roots
are worth $30 when bran is worth $20
per ton, so the feedlng_value, oL tbe
roots is sufficient to pay for the cost of
production, besides the additional ad
vantage of their supplying the succu-
lence needed by the animal.—llome and
Farm.
Adapting Crops to Climates.
The farmer cannot change his cli-
matic environment, but ho can grow
crops adapted to it. There are two
ways of doing this—by the breeding
and selection of hardy plants and by
the introduction of new species and
varieties adapted by nature to new
locations. The experiment stations in
the different states and territories have
been doing work along the first line,
and the federal government,, through
the bureau of plant industry, has been
peeking hardy varieties of plants from
all parts of the world for introduction
into our own country.—Country Gen-
tleman.
FOR THE "OLD MAN."
Are you setting a good exam-
ple for the young farmers in
your neighborhood? If not. be-
gin anew this year and bo a
worthy example for better agri-
culture.
The Demons of The
Swamp.
ate mosquitos. As they sting thoy
put deadly malaria germs iu the
blood. Then follow the icy chills and
the fires of fever. The appetite flies
and the strength faili?; also malaria
often paves the way fcrdeadly typhoid
Hut Electric Bitter kills and cast out
the malaria germs from the blood:
gives you a line appetite and renews
your strength. "After long suffering."
wrote Wm. Fretwell, of Lucatna, N.
C., "three bottles drove all the ma-
laria from my system, and I've had
good health ever since." Best for all
stomach, liver and kidney ills. 60 c,
at J. R. Peel's.
ADVICE ON SUGAR BEETS.
Cultivation Points Found Good by the
Ohio Department of Agriculture.
Have good loam land. That which
raises the best corn is the best to raise
beets.
Land must be deeply plowed. We
are after a root crop, not something
that grows above the ground.
Use plenty of seed. If you do not get
a good stand you will not get u good
crop of beets.
Seed is ,cheap and Is furnished by the
factories at cost price.
Roll the beets well. Roll again.
Watch the hand labor at the time
they are thinning and blocking the
beets. This is important.
Cultivate thoroughly. Do not stop at
any tim§. You cannot fire beets as you
can corn.
It Is the cultivation that puts the
sugar In the beets.
The German farmer says, "You have
to hoe In the sugar."
The land must be thoroughly tilled—
not because beets will not stand more
water than corn, but because the hand
labor costs so much that the farmer
should not run any risk on land that Is
not well tiled.
Beets take a little more of the fertil-
ity from the land than corn. Accord-
ing to Professor Hopkins, it takes 100
pounds of nitrogen, 18 pounds of phos-
phorus and 150 pounds of potassium
for a twenty ton crop of beets. The
fertility can be returned to the land by
plowing under the tops and feeding
Was In Bad Shape.
But Mr. Morris Can Now Eat
Any Kind of Food and No
Distress Follows.
You would like to be able to
live in peace without dieting. It
would be a pleasant novelty to
Bay: "I can eat anything that is
eatable and no distress follows."
Don't you know it would?
Well, here is the opportunity.
Read what Mr, Morris, of
Escoheag, R. I., says and follow
his example. He writes:
"Dr. Richards' Dyspepsia
Tablets have done a great thing
for me. I was in bad shape
when I began taking them in Au-
gust last, but now I can eat any-
thing thatis eatable and no dis-
tress follows. Moreover, I have
nn excellent appetite and am
gaining flesh and strength.
"I cheerfully recommend Dr.
Richards' Dyspepsia Tablets to
any one afflicted as I was and
shall always have a good word to
say about your grand medicine.
"You are at liberty to use this
letter as you may see fit. A-
gain thanking you for the good
work your tablets have done for
me, I remain. Yours truly,
"P. Morris."
Begin to«day, Waiting won't
cure you. Ask J. R. Peel for a
bottle of Dr. Richards' Dyspepsia
Tablets (say Richard's twice.)
The price is 50 cents per bottle.
Or if J. R. Peel cannot supply
you write to Dr. Richards' Dys-
pepsia Tablets Association, 5.3
Worth street, New York.
the puTp to cows and putting the ma-
nure back on the land.
Sugar itself is twelve parts of carbon
to one part of water chemically united.
Beets get the water from the rain
that falls upon the ground; get the car-
bon from the air through the leaves.
Beets raised on clover sod, the land
of which has been thoroughly tiled,
could make easily twenty tons to the
acre.
Sugar companies now pay $4.50 for
beets testing 13 per cent and 33^
cents for every 1 per cent additional.
The farmer should endeavor to in-
crease the yield of sugar in the beet
This they can do by thorough cultiva-
tion.
DAIRY WISDOM.
Many bits of dairy wisdom
were spoken by Secretary Wil-
son of the United States depart-
ment of agriculture in his ad-
dress at the opening of the Na-
tional Dairy show in Chicago
recently. The following is an
jjjj extract from that address:
"When wo make the most of
x our time and acres we will sell
no cow feed to Europeans to
maintain their soil fertility and A
<t> reduce ours as we now do." <?>
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Mutual Corrections.
Porter—Miss, your train is— Precise
Passenger—My man. why do you say
"your train" when you know It be-
longs to the railway company? Porter
-Dunno. miss. Why do you nay "my
man" when you know I belong to my
old woman?—London Tit-R^®
GOOD ROADS
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GOOD ROADS ARE THE PARENTS OF CIVILIZATION.
Good roads are the links that form the chain that binds the
human race together and they are the parents of modem civili-
zation.
There is no better investment than money put into publio
highways and every dollar invested in road improvement adds
three times its value to adjoining property and every argument
that applies to the improvement of private property will apply
with multiplied force to the improvement of public property and
especially to public highways, as every farmer must use the public
roads. No one is opposed to good roads, but objection, is some-
times made to paying for them.
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The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, May 31, 1912, newspaper, May 31, 1912; Pilot Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291219/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Denton Public Library.