The Daily Herald. (Weatherford, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 126, Ed. 1 Monday, June 9, 1913 Page: 2 of 4
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O. A. HOLLAND, President!
c. C. BARTHOLD, Vice-President
0, 8. WHITE, Vice-President
J. O. TUCKER, Cashier
J. P. OWENS, Assistant Cashier
BARNET HOLLAND, Ass’t Cashier
ESTABLISHED 1868
Citizens National Bank
Weatherford, Texas
COMMISSION IX FLORENCE FINDS
ITALIAN FARMING PLAN
SIMILAR TO OCRS.
c. C. Barthold, J. O. Tucker, G. S. White,
Directors—G. A. Holland,
Harney Holland, H. O. Barthold.
C. C. Little ton,
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Special Cable to the Herald.
Florence, Italy, June 9.—At the be-
ginning of its investigation of co-
operative banking societies, the Amer-
ican Commission on Agricultural Co-
operation, assembled by the Southern
Commercial Congress, has had the
i advantageous experience of first vis-
♦ THE SELO. ♦
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missioners were the first to act. Wea- :jtjng a part of Europe where co-oper-
rford Chamber of Comomrce has
ative banks have not made much
-j spent $2,000 getting the preliminary |headway
Published evt ry d i , xeept Sunday by j work on the road completed and ready Agricultural co-operation is prac-
THE J1LRM.B ITRUSIIING CO.’Y !to turn over to the government. Diced in only one form in the country
j.jj yor), \,,.nue I It may be considered a small mat- I about Florence—co-operative societies
__ ... — Dor but after having taken the lead jfor the purchase of agricultural ir.a-
ISntered at the Bos'office at Weather- j
Cord, Texas, as second-class matter. ,
J. E. H. HA I LEV, Business Mgr.
TELEPHONES:
Southwestern 250 Independent 40-B.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE CITY
mommy, .Hm: i», lifis.
kfli* tiik record straight.
in this case, after having been so
diligent in the furtherance of the
j road, after having spent so much
I money getting it in shape, it is sub-
' mitted that Weatherford is entitled
to some of the credit, if credit there
he. Th e name of Weatherford should
not be left out when the road is men-
tioned by Fort Worth papers.
Play fair.
Keep the record straight, Hugh Nu-
gent.
Publicity’s the thing.
Turn on the light.
Governor Colquitt will designate
the Fort Worth-Weatherfurd-Mineral
Wells post road, or,# rather, he will
redesignate it. Now the counties of
Tarrant, Parker and Palo Pinto should
come across with the $80,000 neces-
nury. Build the road.—Fort Worth
I tecord.
.Not necessary, Fltz. Get the record
•straight and keep it so. Hunt up the
back copies of your own paper and
Bee what the governor has said and
what P. M. G. Burlehon has said. It
will take only $10,000 from each coun-
ty. Parker's is up. Palo Pinto's is
up. Tarrant is still out.of the traces,
it's $10,000 for Tarrant county. Come
across.
IT IS FOR TARRANT TO ACT.
Why not build the Minera Wells-
Fort Worth post highway? Why per-
mit the project to die of inanition?
Why not get busy and remove the ob-
stacle*? It is up to the people.—Fort
Worth Record.
Is this the cat that got out of the
bag?
Let the Fort Worth Record and the
people of Tarrant county be advised
that both Parker county and Palo
IMnto county have done all that is
necessary to be done to get the post-
road. They have surveyed the route
and appropriated the money requir-
«d. Thu portions necessary, on the
part of these two counties, is now In
bank or has been officially appropri-
ated by the county officials and the
'ordinance of appropriation is offici-
ally recorded.
So far, if the Herald's information
be not incorrect, the county authori-
ties of Turrant county have failed or
neglected to make the necessary ap-
propriation or to officially and for-
mally adopt the 28-inlle post road by
Mary’s Creek and the Dunlap neigh-
borhood.
True, the Tarrant county officials
bavo sent the governor of Texas a
letter signifying their %silllngness to
«lo whatever is necessary in the prem-
ises, but that kind of action does not
und will not satisfy the federal gov-
ernment officials
Let the people of Tarrant county be
advised that the matter has been set-
tled so far as Parker and Palo Pinto
•counties are concerned. It Is now up
to Tarrant county to cinch the road.
Governor Colquitt has done all that
he could be expected to do; Post-
master General Burleson has signi-
fied emphatically that he will leave
the Bclccticn of the road or roads with
* the governor, upon which the re-ul-
lotted $40,000 Is to be spent.
If the three counties gel the road,
-or If they fail to get the road. It will
be because of action, or the failure to
-•at on the part of Tarrant .county.
’Sb’hat are they going to do about It?
In connection with this, let the Rec-
ord be reminded that it was the Wea-
therford Chamber of Comemrce that
first took up this matter with the fed-
eral government, that brought about
a ho designation of the postroad from
Fcrt Worth to Weatherford and Min-
eral Wells. The Parker county cotn-
TEACHING EXPRESS COMPANIES.
The express companies in two con-
tiguous countries have learned the
lesson of treating the community
with consideration. In the United
States the exactions of the compa-
nies forced from the congress the pas-
sage of the parcel post law which has
resulted in cutting down the cost of
carriage on small parcels, both by
the postal authorities and the com-
panies. ' I
In Canada the dominion railway
commission took a hand after much
warning to the companies, and has
decreed that, operative July 15, a re-
duction of 20 per cent shall take place
on all express packages in the prairie
provinces and in British Columbia. In
the case of Canada the cut is doubt-
less deeper than would have been the
case had the companies gone about
reducing rates on their own account.
It is learned from Canadian sources
that express reduction will not stop
at the scaling undertaken in the prai-
rie and Pacific provinces. The pro-
posal is now to make a cut in the
eastern provinces’ express rate, not to
so great an extent as has been done
in the western provinces, but suffi-
cient to cut somewhat into the net
profits of the companies. Nor is the
cutting to stop with the proposed re-
duction. Canada is soon to establish
tlie parcel post, somewhat after the
plan now in operation in the United
States.
Of course, the express companies
complained that they were being
harshly treated, and on the other
hand the proponents of the reduction
plan replied in tilt; house of commons
at Ottawa that the net revenue of the
Canadian Express company was 16.ti
per cent; of the Dominion Express
company 31.C per cent, and of the Ca-
nadian Northern Express company
IS.2 per cent. Had the companies
recognized the logic of the situation,
tlie underlying principle that governs
all species of transportation, that the
lower the rate the greater the volume
of business, and had the cut their
rates in half, it Is quite within the
bounds of probability that the volume
of business would have quadruplet!.
Tin; experience of the post officials
In this country with the parcels ven-
ture amply demonstrates that low
rates will cause an immense increase
in the volume of packages forwarded.
chinery, fertilizer, seeds, etc. This is
chiefly due to the fact that in the ear-
ly days the merchants of Florence
were the landowners and their es-
tates were farmed on a share basis
by the peasants, the landlords furn-
ishing the house, cattle, machinery,
fertilizers and seed, and the farmers
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furnishing the tfork. The merchants
were able to secure all the credit they
(Texas Industrial Congress.)
It is said that there is nothing new
under the sun, and the truth of this
saying is well brought out in the pres-
ent agitation among the well-inform-
ed to induce the farmers of this state
to give more attention to the silo. To
many the name silo conveys no mean-
ing, as they are in total ignorance of
what it is, and yet the ancient Egyp-
tians used the silo thousands of years
ago. Reduced to its simplest terms,
a silo is really a big can, correspond-
ing in nearly every way to the cans
in which the housewife preserves her
fruit, and it is intended to, and does
serve, the same purpose. It is a
means of preserving green feed in its
original form for stock of all kinds.
Just as the housewife can insure a
plentiful supply of both fruit and veg-
etables for the use of her family dur-
ing the whole year, so the provident
farmer who provides himself with a
silo can be assured of an abundance
of wholesome, nutritious food for his
stock in times of scarcity. The prin-
ciple upon which the silo is founded
is the fact that decomposition and de-
cay can only take place in any ma-
terial through the agency of germ
It is one thing to maxe soda
crackers that are occasionally
good.
needed to finance their farms through life, and in the presence of air. If
their banks in Florence and the far-
mers themselves had no need of cred-
it. If crops were had the landlord
furnished food for the peasant farm-
er until the next harvest. This sys-
tem of land tenure still prevails, and
study of the systems near Florence
has shown the commission that co-op-
erative credit institutions are only
possible where the need is great.
Comparing Italian conditions with
American, one of the Florentine ex-
perts tvho appeared before the com-
mission suggested that in the United
States the solution of the problem of
farm finance, so far as money for op-
erating the farms is concerned, might
be found in an enlargement of the
operations of existing banks. Signor
Martelli, president of the Savings
Bank of Florence, described a prac-
tice common with banks about Flor-
ence, whereby the farmer gives a
mortgage to a bank and receives in
return an open account for a certain
amount of credit. Thus a farmer who
considers that he needs a credit of
$10,000 to operate his farm gives a
mortgage for that amount to the
bank. But he does not draw out the
entire $10,000 at one time. As he
needs money he draws on the bank.
If he wants $500, he draws only that
amount. He pays interest only on the
amount which he borrowed from the
bank. In this way a farmer can se-
cure a credit for any amount of mon-
ey, always readily available, and only
has to pay interest on 1 the amount
which he actually uses.
For the long time loans of the far-
mers, the savings banks are allowed
to invest up to 30 per cent of their
deposits in farm mortgages. These
mortgage loans are of two classes—
those for periods up to ten years, and
those for periods of from ten to thir-
ty years. Tlte shorter term mortgage
loans are repaid by the borrowers in
one lump sum, as in the United States,
but tlie longer term loans arc re-
paid by amortization—that is, small
annual payments made upon the prin-
cipal of the loan. The banks are only
permitted to charge borrowers one-
half per cent more than they arc re-
quired to pay depositors. At the pres-
ent time the prevalent rate is 5 per
cent, thougli generally it is 4 per cent.
.Money is only loaned up to 50 per
cent of the appraised value of the
land, although the banks accept sec-
ond or third mortgages so long ns tlie
total amount of mortgage indebted-
ness does not exceed the 50 per cent.
There is also a mortgage bank in
Florence, the Monte di Paschi, found-
Ilut the companies chose To believe ■ od by one of the eariiy dukes of Flor-
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that the volume of express business
had reached its maximum and wiM
soon suffer from a reduction both in
volume and rates,
ord.
The Cleburne Review of Friday had
two reprinted editorials for which
credit is given to the Weatherford
Herald. We acknowledge the compli-
ment, Col. Horne, but deny the soft
impeachment Some other guilty
wretch’s philosophy attracted your at-
tention. We are entirely too mindful
of the ethics due the other fellow $o
be willing to accept miscredits plac-
idly.
The First National Bank
WEATHERFORD. TEXAS
Capital...........$100,000.00
Surplus..........$100,000.00
V. S. FAN! jPresMent
K. W. DAVIS, Cashier
L A. DAVIS, Ass’t CasUer
GEORGE FAMT, Ass’t CaaUar.
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ence, which has carried on a profit-
able and beneficial business to this
Cay. This bank issues mortgage de-
Fort Worth Hoc- bentures at 3J, 4J and 5 per cent.
Most of tlie debentures now outstand-
ing are at 5 per cent. They sell a
trifle under par. which is the usual
condition in Italy, and their market
price compares favorably with gov-
ernment bonds.
The co-operative societies for pur-
chase among the land owners have
been suceessfuL The farmers them-
slves do not belong to these societies,
but the land owners do ail purchasing
of farm machinery and fertilizer.
These societies are also active from
an educational standpoint, and main-
tain agricultural experts who travel
about from village to village, instruct-
ing the farmers in the use of scientific
agricultural methods. It is a hard
task to induce the peasantry to use
modern machinery and chemical fer-
tilizers. But the great interest of able
men in the work has accomplished
much, both in spreading a more thor-
ough knowledge of scientific agricul-
tural methods, and in financing the
farms.
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The wont cues, no matter of bow long standing,
are anted by the wonderful, old reliable Dr.
Porters Antiseptic Healing: Oil. it reUeecs
this material is placed in an air-tight
vessel, the germs it contains are kill-
ed, the air surrounding the material
withdrawn, and if no new germs are
allowed to enter, the material will re-
main in the same condition in which
it was gathered for an indefinite time,
and will be just as valuable as a feed
as when fresh. The housewife ac-
complishes these desired results first
by heating the material and then by
sealing up the can. This would not
be practical with the large quantities
of feed required for our stock. So
the same result is accomplished in a
different way. Using the ground as
a bottom a structure is erected the
sides of which are air tight, or are
made air tight, when they get' wet.
These sides are made of a variety of
materials, the most common being
lumber, stone, cement and brick. It
does not make much difference what
the material used just so the sides are
made air tight, and that they will hold
the pressure of the material with
which the structure is filled. What is
known as the stave silo is usually
made of pieces of two by four lumber,
set up on end, just as the staves of a
barrel are put together and bound
around with hoops that can be drawn
together. It is usual to have these
staves twelve to sixteen feet in length,
and often two are placed upon end so
that the structure is from thirty to
thirty-two feet high. The diameter of
the silo will vary, for reasons given
later, with the number of stock that
it is desired to feed. After the silo is
erected it is filled with such material
as green corn, sorghum, kaffir, milo,
or almost any green feed which is
chopped into lengths, varying from
one-half to three-quarters of an inch
and packed firmly into the silo. When
first placed in the silo the material
undergoes quite a heating and some
souring. This heat, however, expels
the air that is held between the par-
ticles of material, and at the same
time goes so high that it kills all germ
life. As in the meantime the material
has packed down very closely, no new
air or germs can enter; so the mate-
rial soon cools off and remains un-
changed for an indefinite period. This
first heating has done two things. It
has generated a small amount of
acetic arid, a substance that aids di-
gestion and has also acted upon many
of the substances of the food and ren-
dered them easier of digestion when-
taken into the animal’s stomach. The
result, then, is preserved green feed
for stock for any time of the year and
that green feed is even more digstible
than when it was first cut. A sflo
can be built at a cost of a little over
a dollar per ton capacity to two or
three dollars, depending upon the ma-
terial and the finish. No cover is nec-
essary, as rain docs not injure the
ensilage. Even a pit in the ground
can be made to do service as a silo,
especially in the dryer sections. Af-
ter the silo is filled to the top. two or
three Inches of material spoils, so in
designing the silo it is necessary to
to calculate to feed a layer over the
whole surface each day. In this way
it is fed up before it has time to spoil.
Ensilage keeps better in a deep,
than in a shallow silo, so it is custo-
mary to build them twenty to twenty-
five feet in height. A silo ten feet in
diameter and twenty-five feet htgjk
will hold about thirty-six tons of en-
silage. A well-fod dairy cow will
consume from thirty to forty pounds
of ensilage a day. From this data one
should be able to calcuate the size of
silo needed.
Ensilage can ordinarily be grown
and put up for about three dollars a
ton while in feed value, when prop-
erly combined with other material*,
it is’easily worth six dollars. Out-
side of the actual nutrients it con-
tains it la of especial value to the dai-
ryman. because it enables him at all
times to have green feed. It is of
It is quite another thing to
make them so that they are??
always better than all other
soda crackers, always of un-
varying goodness.
The name “Uneeda”— stamped on
every biscuit—means that if a million
packages of Uneeda Biscuit were
placed before you, you could choose
any one of them, confident that every
soda cracker in that package would
be as good as the best Uneeda Biscuit
ever baked. Five cents.
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is well known that animals never take
on flesh as rapidly and as cheaply as
when supplied witfi a certain amount
of green succulent feed. Besides
proving of value during winter, the
Texas feeder will find ensilage of in-
estimable use in helping him tide over
the hot, dry summers and falls. While
almost any feed material, except those
consisting of hollow stems, will make
valuable ensilage, there is nothing
quite so good and so valuable as corn
and the grain sorghums. Ordinarily
for each five bushels of corn that a
field will yield it will make a ton of
ensilage. The corn from a thirty-
bushel field would be worth, at fifty
cents, fifteen dollars, while the ensi-
lage from the same field would be
worth twice as much. So, besides be-
ing a means of supplying green food
to stock, the silo is also a means of
adding very materially to the value
of the feed stuff, and also of utiliz-
ing the cornstalks that constitute
forty per cent of the value of a corn
field, and that are too often lost.
Again, it costs less to save ensilage
than to save the crop in any other
form. At the same time a man with
a silp is independent of the weather.
He can fill his silo while the ram is
pouring down. On the other hand,
should there be danger of losing his
crop from dry weather, he can cut it
and place it in the silo and so save it.
Corn makes the best ensilage when
cut after it is well glazed, but it can
be cut at any time during its growth
and will still make valuable feed. Tlie
farmers of Texas therefore cannot af-
ford to further neglect this means of
adding to the value of their feed
crops.
Can’t Keep it Secret.
The splendid work of Chamberlain’s
Tablets is daily becoming more wide-
ly known. No such grand remedy for
stomach and liver troubles has ever
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Good appetite and cheerfulness fol-
lows the use of Prickly Ash Bitters,
It purifies the blood, liver and ‘bowels
and makes life worth living. Cherry-
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Bring your children to us for hair
cutting. KING & DYER.
Lungs Affected
By Rheumatism
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Often Directly the Results of Rhea*
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Avoid Grippe, Sore Throat and Similar
Troubles by Using S. S. S,
If you have a persistent, nagging
bronchia] cough beware of cough rem-
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and if they do relieve it is the nar-
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Is a blood purifier, a searching anti-
dote that removes from the circulation
the acid poisons that by their reflexes
attack all weakened, susceptible spots
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very best remedy known is Swlft'a
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Washington, June '6.—Representa-
tive Hinebaugli today asked for an in-
vestigation by tlie Interstate Com-
merce Commission of the affairs of
the Frisco railroad, now in receiver-
sip.
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For charcoal, phone East Side Gro-
cery. Both phones.
Jack Porter, one of tlie High school
boys, is putting in his vacation at
work on the I.. A. Pitchford ranch,
ten miles fro mtown, and doing good
work as a harvest hand, thus learn-
ing the practical side of famring.
Blackberries, $1.60 per crate.
J. M. HOWELL.
enmes an internal blood bath, wonder-
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corpuscles, cures all the local fever
spots and irritations, increases appe-
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Hundreds of people worried beyond
control at cough, pains in the chest,
sore throat and constant expectoration
of thick mucus have experienced the
most wonderful change after using
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Is gone, those peculiar pains and aches
vanish, there follows a period of most
intense rejoicing to And thgt
fears were based entirely upon
taken notion that epugh and
pains come from the lungs,
are rheumatic conditions, And you will
quickly realize it after using 8. 8. 8.
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