The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 10, 1911, Page 3

CULTURE OF ASPARAGUS Professor A. C. Page, College of Ag- riculture, University of Missourl. Any time of the year is the right time to begin planning for an aspara- gus plot. For the best results are gotten from this delicious spring veg- etable when the plot is planned and prepared a while in advance of plant- ing. In selecting a place for asapargus, remember that it will need to be cut every morning during its yielding sea- sop, and that the one planting of it wil) likely last a lifetime. So it is essential. to put it in a convenient place. A row of it along the fence in the garden will probably be con- venient, if the place is not already occupied by rhubarb. It is very nec- essary that the soil for asparagus be exceedingly rich, but in a small plant- ing this cap be made artificially. Having selected the place, the prob- lem is to put the soil in the best pos- sible condition, both of fertility and physical structure. Potatoes or some other cultivated crop is good to pre- cede asparagus, as the ground will be well loosened up by it. Heavy manur- ing is absolutely necessary. The ground can not be too rich for as- paragus. Put on a thick coating of manure, spade it in deeply and then put on more, and keep on as long as it seems possible to make it any rich- er. It is much more satisfactory to do this manuring at this time, before the plants are started; for after the plants are in there will be difficulty in doing much heavy manuring. It is not so essential to have a very deep soil-bed, as the asparagus roots tend to grow horizontally instead of down, But the first foot of the soil | should be spaded and raked repeated- ly so that it will be mellow, If this is kept up from now till time to set the plants next spring, it should be in first-class condition. This is not the season for setting plants, but a few words may not be amiss. It will usually be better for the man who wishes to have a home garden of asapargus to rely upon the seedsman or nurseryman for the young crowns. Usually there is some trouble in growing them from the seed. If there is any choice, pick the ones which are broad and well developed. In setting them, make fur- rows from six inches to a foot deep and set the crowns in the bottom of them. Sprinkle the dirt loosely about. them, and cover them lightly with leaf mold or some mulch like straw. Add a little more earth over the top from time to time as they grow. Final- ly. by this process, the row will be level, Asparagus should not be cut the first season at all. Let the leaves grow and store up plant-food for the next season’s growth, Usually there should be very little if any cutting the second year. it takes some time for the plants to become well established. The third spring there should he a busy early morning job of cutting every day, and thus it is likely to be for many years if the plot is prop- erly cared for. In the fall and winter, cover the whole asparagus plot thickly with ma- nure, and in early spring rake off all Dig a trench 2 feet pees side of your trench 2 feet high. Brace this form well with 2x4’s. of surfaced boards about 6x12 feet. First put on the sand and ed until the mass is uniformly mixed and wet. How to Make the corn crop do More Good in Feeding 8 inches wide and 30x40 feet. Get a 2x6 or 2x8, put them on edge and make a form of these boards on ‘each Get good cement, clean sand and gravel; then you will need a mixing floor vel, spread this out, and on this pour the cement and mix as evenly as possible. When thoroughly mixed sprinkle the mass and then shovel it back and forth. Each dry surface that is presented should be sprinkl- The proper degree of wetness is reached when the cement Concrete will hold its shape when pressed in the hand. Mix five buckets of gravel and sand to one bucket of cement. Don’t pitch cement concrete, but carry it from the mixing than six inches at a time. A block of wood will do for a‘tamper. payorms to place where it is to be used. Do not try to tampa layer thicker ' ‘amp until water appears slightly on the surface. should follow each other as rapidly as possible—not giving the surface time to dry before the other is placed. If the surface becomes dry and hard, sprinkle the dried surface with water and then sift dry cement lightly over it before applying the next. After this foundation is dry and hard, put on 2x8, 2x6 and 2x4 and then on these boxing, ship lap or drop siding, and then roof it with Ex. *A* Red Cedar Shingles or Galvanized Roofing. And paint all exposed surfaces with Sewall’s Pure Liquid Paint. In this barn put your corn and horses and you will find that the corn crop will do more good and the feed you save will pay for the barn in a few years. Logan-Moore Lumber Company BUTLER, MO. PHONE The additional layers 18 WE WANT YOU TO Save Money on Your Grocery Bil Give us a chance to help you. See what we can do for you on Canned Goods 3 cans Tomatoes 3 cans Corn. 3 cans Peas.. 3cans Kraut............. ee centr ‘25¢ 3 cans Beets.......: He seterurroenen cathe teaaee 25c 8 Cans HOMIAY.....5).605.56ccee es nees ea eOC Then let us save you some money on Flour. _ All old wheat Flour—the very best. Will save for you all along the line and give you the very top for your produce. Yours, J. E. Williams. that has not washed into the ground. This will help to push the crop when the ground warms up. Be careful not to cut too long in the spring. Some men have been known to cut asparagus all summer, as long as it would put out any kind of shoots. This is not economical, as it destroys the vigor of the plants. They should be left alone after the middle of June or the first of July and the tops let to grow. The plants will thus have-a chance to store their roots full of plant food for the next spring’s rapid growth. There are few pests which affect as- paragus. There is occasionally some trouble with rust, and there is aspara- gus beetle which sometimes tothers.: There is also a black flylike insect which eats on the stalk of the plant. The beeties and fly can be trapped by letting a few plants grow up without cutting until they are infested with the bugs. Then they may be cut and burned. The rust may be combatted by burning the dead plants in winter or sometimes by spraying in the sum- mer after the cutting season. Care should be exercised not to spray on any plot that is being cut for use, as the sprays are poisonous. Lead ar- senate solution is usually advised, al- though asparagus is not usually sprayed at all. Now is the time to kill weeds. They have no excuse for being, except that they can’t help it. They take up the ground and use the fertility. They scatter millions of seeds every year, partly on the ground and partly jn hay and seed crops. Soil will never be better for having raised weeds, unless, perhaps, they are plowed deep | under, It will pay big practical dol- lars to spend some time in getting rid of them. Just as soon as the grain is off, run over the field with a disk to break up the surface layer. Fall plowing will be easier and there will be fewer clods. And if moisture is scarce, as it looks as if it will be, this will save all there is. Some day when the other work is not pressing spend an hour or two in the pasture with the mower cut- out the ragweeds before they go ito seed. A little of such treatment ‘will make better pastures and a clean- SPEGIAL TRAIN SERVICE TO Hollister-on-White River FOR Presbyterian Chautauqua Assembly WHEN Daily from August 2 to 20 Low round-trip rates. Brilliant speakers. Excellent camping facil- ities. First class meals. The fish- ing, boating, bathing are splendid. Frank P. Prosser, D. P. A., Joplin, Mo. | / MISSOUR PACIFIC IRON MOUNTAIN E. C. Vandervoort, Agent, Butler,.Mo. 41} ptm sree «ts | = SS aed SEERUwESe Ameo e FARM FURROWS. Farmer and Stockman. Many of the city dwellers who, | | them will not work at all if they fail! to find that kind. They ‘‘hit’’ ‘“‘Dad’’ for the money they want, and ‘‘Dad”’ 1s foolish enough to fork over. This A Free Course in Agriculture. In order to encourage the study of - | advanced dairy methods the Missouri | State Board-of Agriculture offers a | scholarship of $100 for the purpose of paying the expense of a young man ‘interested in dairying, during the ‘Short Winter Course in Agriculture at Columbia which begins November 1,,1911. | The scholarship is to be awarded |to the winner of a contest in which , those who enter will be required to \ keep a complete record of the amount of milk and butterfat produced by three or more dairy cows during the {month of September. In determin- {ing the winner, the record made by , the cows, together with the complete- ness of the report is to count one- ‘half. The other half is to be based | upon the accuracy of an essay, telling how the cows were fed and cared for ‘during the test and how the contest- ant would proceed to select cows for ‘dairy purposes. The contest is open to all boys in Missouri between the ages of 16 to 20 years who have not already attended an Agricultural College. It is hoped rented a vacant lot and proceeded to| refers especially to the young man ‘that a large number of boys will en- raise their own ‘‘garden sass’’ last spring are now in a position to see of the towns who has no particular /employment and has fallen into the |ter the contest. The lessons learned | during the one month of keeping that the farmer’s lot is not one of habit of letting “Dad” make the liv. | records of both feed eaten and milk roses without thorns. Cutworms, bugs and grasshoppers are bad enough, but when a drouth is added it is a pretty sure cure for the “back to the farm’’ fever, milk cows when the pastures are burned brown in June is a question trying to raise cattle under average farm conditions. as if there is only one answer, and that is a silo. It is beginning to look as though the weather guessers who told us we the seven wet ones will soon come chestnut sticking all over them. The annual question of stacking or thrashing from the shock is with us and the answer is the same. If it doesn’t rain, thrashing from the shock does fairly well, but a well , built stack will save the grain. | The knack of stacking grain can ; be learned by almost any one who {can handle a fork, but it is almost ; impossible to lay down a set of rules | that can be followed. The | thing to remember is that water runs ! down hill and to lay the bundles so as to make roads for the water to run | down the outside of the stack. __ If the hen is to pay the grocery | bills now when the price of eggs is only about half what they were last year at this time she will need the best of care. In many cases the farm poultry actually suffers for the lack of water. Just a little extra care with the-hens will greatly increasé the egg production, but with the hen as with the cow, the care must be steady. Splendid care to-day and no care to-morrow will not bring results. It can rain hard on oné corner of a, farm this. year and not rain on another corner, and the farm need not bea large one either. We are still favored with more hay weather than we have had hay to put up. It is impossible to make hay while the sun shines this season, not because of a lack of sunshine, but the lack of hay. I don’t like to feed too much fodder ,to horses, mainly because of the stalls and mangers filling up with the | refuse; nor do I think that such| coarse roughness as corn fodder is' exactly suited to the requirements of | the horse. _ It will be that or nothing some of the time this winter. There are now a dozen trades to \where there was one when most of | |us were small boys. The auctioneer jbusiness alone has grown until it! supports a dozen men where it didn’t ; support one. A local auctioneer tells me his fall season of sales of common | farm property begins next week, | | earlier than usual. } I do not anticipate the high prices, | this fall, that were paid for some! things last fall. Early last winter I! went to a sale with the idea in mind of buying a milk cow. The cow! picked on sold for $90, and she was only a very common cow at that. | Half of that might be the stopping off place now. It seems to me that more young men are looking for soft jobs than ever before. When I wasa boy the young man who wanteda little spend- | ing money would tackle the first job he ran up against. Too many young} men of this day, it seems to me, look | only for the soft jobs, and some of ing for all. There still is and has been a great demand for millet seed. I notice that not a few of my neighbors have sown strips along their cornfields, How to provide green feed for the where the drouth* has been getting the better of the first few rows. Others have sown cane, although that is bothering most of us who are perfectly aware of the fact that a man} aise cane’ with his land by At present it looks growing too much of it in the same may ‘‘r place, year after year, | produced will amply pay any boy for ‘his time and effort. The records of each cow and the essay must be submitted before Octo- ber 10, 1911. Blanks for keeping records, directions for testing and any further information wanted will be furnished by C. H. Eckles, Dairy Department, Columbia, } Mrs. W. F. Graves. Mrs. W. F. Grayes, of Rich Hill, age 21 years and 8 months, died at Lused to have a neighbor who al-' the home of her parents, Mr. and ways hada big acreage of small grain in the spring, but as thres ‘his acres, or did something with them forth with their “I told you so’’'for on thrashing day he never had so many but what his yields were just a ing time will have seven dry years following drew near he always drew in some of. illness of only ten days. Mrs. L. L. Wis, in Deepwater township, Monday, July 31, after an Mary Bessie Wix was born in Burnett county, Texas, November 21, | 1889,. In 1895 she removed with her little above those of any of his neigh-| parents to Missouri, locating in Bates bors. I dice knew a forty-acre field of oats in the spring to dwindle down time. Had it been twenty-eight acres, /county, where they have since resid- ‘ed. In 1909 she was united in mar- to twenty-seven acres at thrashing | riage to W. F. Graves, of Rich Hill, jand to this union was born 4 son, the neighbér who thrashed before ; who, together with her husband, sur= him would have had a heavier yield , vives, “per acre. Agriculture is taught now in 213! rural schools in forty-nine counties, and in 207 high schools in Missouri. She joined the ¢hurch in 1909 ‘and since that time has lived a con- | atatent and devoted christian life. | Funeral service, conducted by El-. ider S. W. Maxey, of Johnstown, Main. This is the direct result of instruction | Were held at the home of her parents in agriculture at the summer session |and interment made in High Point at the University of Missouri. - Si years ago when the first summer! courses were offered at the university | for teachers no instructton was given in any of the public schools in the state. Now the pupils of 420 schools may learn something about scientific methods in farming, and in many in- stances the courses are quite com- plete. Thirty Years Together. Thirty years of association—think of it. How the merit of a good thing stands out in that time—or the worth- lessness of a bad one. So there’s no guesswork in this evidence of Thos. Ariss, Concord, Mich., who writes: “T have used Dr. King’s New Discov- /cemetery in Hudson township. DR. J. M.. CHRISTY | Diseas.s of Women and Children a Specialty BUTLER MISSOURI Oftice Phone 20 House Phone 10 DR. J. T. HULL | Dentist Entrance same that leads to Stew- ard’s Studio. North side square — Butler, Missouri DR. H. M. CANNON DENTIST Butler, Missouri East Side of the Square Phone No. 312 ery for 30 years, and it’s the best | cough and cold cure I ever used.’ Once it finds entrance in a home you can’t pry it out. Many families have used it forty years. It’s the most in- fallible throat and lung medicine on earth. thma, hay-fever, croup, quinsy or sore lungs. Price 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by F. T. Clay. UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station. Depart- ment of Agronomy. Columbia, Mo., July, 1911. Dear Sir: | There are many demands for seed wheat and the Experiment Station is compiling a list of seed wheat grow- ers for reference this fall. Good seed | wheat should be sound, clean, plump, heavy, and true to variety name. If you have any for sale kindly fill in questions below, detach slip and mail to us at once. Very truly yours, | Department of Agronomy, University of Missouri. Name of variety HERE PUGS achiev isc tawisastaasate coke Will you fan it thoroughly?.......... | Number of bushels on hand Price per bushel F. 0. B........... = Name Unequaled for lagrippe, as- | T. C. BOULWARE | Physician & Surgeon | Office North Side Square, Butler, o. Diseases of women and chil- dren a specialty. B, F. 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