The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 15, 1912, Page 6

Oltmanns Bro’s Stallions Watseka, Ills., and Nevada, Mo. If you are wanting a Stallion come to Nevada, Mo. We have our barn full of Imported and Home Bred Registered Percheron and Belgian Draft Stallions. We have been doing business here for a number of years with not one dissatisfied customer. If you want a stallion weighing a ton, we have them. Our special guarantee more liberal than anybody’s. Exclusive Farming of Grain When Carried On Too Long Ruins Land F. B. Mumford, Dean of the Missouri College of Agriculture, Before Na- tional Conservation Congress. “Exclusive grain farming, as Prac- |ing place in Minnesota. The result ticed from New England westward to lot @ profitable system of live stock the Dakotas, has left behind a traij | ‘arming on even the poorest of soils is on for too long a time, ruined farms eB reclaimed from the sea, dairy and abandoned homes have marked | farming has increased the value of the way. jthe farming lands until they are now “These same soils are today being | valued at $500 to $1,000 per acre. Hol- reclaimed and profitably tilled as the jland today supports a population result of changing from grain farm-|twelve times as dense as Illinois and ing to dairy and stock farming. This |yet has an annual surplus of cheese change has taken place in Ohio, Mich- |and butter export amounting to more igan and Wisconsin, and is now tak- than four dollars per acre.” — i ; Horses Right, Prices Right, Terms Right Fe : Call on or Address ve Thomas Tade, Manager, : Nevada, Missouri. 4 \ Reference—First National Bank, Nevada, Mo. 12-12t i ? i Are far ahead of any line es ( of remedies we have sold One for Each Ailment and the Formula of same The Rexall Drug Store WANTS YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS You always get the MOST ofthe BEST for the LEAST money and always secure prescriptions containing fresh pure drugs You select your piiysician with great care. Do you use the same caution in selecting the druggist to fill your physician's pre- scriptions? .W. Hess The Rexall Drug Store, Butler, Mo "12 GAUGE Ma Le lin Repeating Shotgun ‘The solid top and sids ejection keep gases and Ciel away from your eves; ‘ain, sleet, snow and foreign matter can t getinto the action. The double extractors pull any shell instantly ; two special safety inlocked. and an automatic recoil block makes hang fires harmless, gts, hard hitting guns, and are the quickest and easiest 10 take ids “"AA'* 12 gauge; it has all the features that make tor a perfect gun. Send three stamps postage today for our 136 Y page catalog describing the full ZZcrddn line. 42 he Marlin Srearms Co Office Prone3. ResidencePhone 268, PROFESSIONAL CARDS - DR. NORRIS | Eye, Ear and Throat Specialist Catarrh and its effects | Throat and Lungs Given Special Attention Eyes Tested Free Glasses Properly Fitted of depleted soils, and where carried {+o be seen in Holland. On thin sandy | Our Service Means Profit to You ARMERS BANK BUTLER.MO. ‘Out-of-Town Residents “This bank especially invites cor- respondence from people living out- side-of Butler who, not finding it convenient to call, may wisb to. re- ceive information upon any subject relating to banking business, such as the opening of an account or the making of a loan. We are always pleased to give you by letter any in- formation which may be required upon these subjects, andj those in- quiring, incur no obligation whatso- ever. “Checking accounts received in any amounts and liberal rates of interest paid on Savings Accounts of one dollar or more. SURPLUS! $35,000 | La ele ee | R0 year's Wheat-No treatment Two fields were under the same clined somewhat in yield, the other conditions as to cultivation, and i soil was as near the same as was bed j yecllned HAMEL IeGhEy GIEN A 2 EL sible. one received a coat of manure each |8carcely profitable. Each of the four year, and the other received no treat-|steps of the diagram represents the ment. Both were cropped in wheat |average of five years, and the figures for 20 years. The diagram shows that |are bushels. The manure made the while the field that was manured de janerence: TREES 00 ) NOT NEED IRON mn SHOULD CALVE IN FALL 'y Department, University of Mis- souri, Gives Several Reasons. DRIVING NAILS IN APPLE TREES A MISTAKEN IDEA. A number of reasons are given for the practice of most dairymen of hav- By Me Ue of ing cows calve in the fall instead of of Missouri Y in the spring. The Dairy Department ” of the University of Missouri recom- There has long been an idea among ™ents this as the best practice in orchardists that by driving nails into ™OSt cases, for some of the following the trunks of apple trees they could Teasons: supply iron to the trees and cause “Prices for milk and butter fat are fruiting. The nails often do cause the highest in the, winter, and it is desir- trees to bear fruit earlier, or during a ble that the cow be fresh to give the season when they_ would not other. ™aximum flow. . When she begins to wise, but it is not because they sup- decline in the spring, the fresh grass ply iron. of pastures will stimulate her to hold “There is no orchard soil in Mis-| UP to g00d production, souri. “Driving nails into trees hi “Calves in the first few months of amount of iron needed by trees,” says | their growth are fed mostly by hand. W. L. Chandler of the Department of |! winter there is more time to care Horticulture at the University of Mis.,‘or them properly. The grass of souri. “Driving nails int otrees has | spring will come along just when they | | ] The only difference was that jafter the first five year period it was ||) DUVALL-PERGIVAL TRUST CO. | W. F. DUVALL, President, Arthur Duvall, Treasurer. , nish abstracts to an examine and perfect titles to same. | Investments | interest on time deposits. CASH CAPITAL, $50,000. We have money to loan on real estate at a low rate of interest with privilege to pay at any time. We will loan your idle money for you, securing you reasonable interest on good security. We pay FARMERS BANK BUILDING, BUTLER, MO. Farm Loans Abstracts We have a complete set of Abstract Books and will fur- y real estate in Bates county and J. B. DUVALL, Vice-President, W. D. Yates, Title Examiner. C. E. Robbins Auctioneer Bates County’s . LEADING AUCTIONEER Sales of All Kinds of Property Made Anywhere Let Me Sell That Farm of Yours IT CAN BE SOLD AT AUCTION Ping effect" on the 2 @ rapid growth. South Side Over Star OR. J. M. CHRISTY | Diseas.s ot Women and Children a Specialty | BUTLER - MISSOURI | Office Phone 20 House Phone 10, H. E. MULKEY, Registered Veterinary n urgeo! BUTLER, MISSOURI Office BUA: R. Guyton’s Livery Barn. ti 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 | You Can Keep your hens healthy and by so doing get more Physician & Surgeon Office North Side Square, Butler, Mo. Diseases of women and chil- dren a specialty. | eggs if you will Se ry ta use “CLEANO.” 6, F. JETER, Attorney atLaw Notary Public A GALLON CAN WILL East Side Square Phone 186|/§ LAST A LONG TIME. BUTLER, MISSOURI DRS. CRABTREE & CRABTREE} Qffice in Gench Block. , *Phone No. 301. Da. J W.Caantass. | De BR. E. Cuastass. ternal Medicine , General Residence Phone 191. | Residence ’Phone 641. | What you Buy we Stand by CLAW’S Prescription Orug Store NORTH SIDE SQUARE. . . “The right place."’ trees which causes them to come into | “The dry period of the cow will bearing. {come at the time of year when pas- “Sap from the ground goes. up; ‘ures are usually poor in Missouri, through the tree in the layer of wood} and when flies are bad. This will just around the heart-wood. It car-| sive relief to the cows when they ries certain materials to the leaves,|ueed it, and will be easier for the which are there digested and. mixed | milkers. with some food materials taken from; “In cases where a regular milk the air. Then this food material/ trade is to be supplied, it is necessary which is digested is transported back | to have the cows calve at intervals so to the roots. It travels down through | that there will be almost a uniform the ‘cambium layer,’ which is the sof: | fow, but where the farmer is selling growing layer directly undérneath the; cream it seems best to have the bark. If this layer is injured or cut,| calves come in the fall.” the food material can not go back to; SS { the roots, so it is crowded out into It is a mistake to allow orchard the buds and forces them to bear | land to lie hard and crusty in the fruit.” spring simply because there are no If the cambium layer is seriously in-' weeds growing. The orchard needs jured, as in complete girdling, the / cultivation just as does the corn. A trees die. This accounts for the old mulch should be maintained so as to methods of deadening forest trees. | prevent the escape of the moisture. Much better than driving | During midsummer the moisture will however, is careful cutting in this! be needed, and if it is dried out the cambium layer. This is a delicate op-j trees may suffer and shed their leaves eration, and at best is a dangerous | early. one. In the hands of an expert it is a means of forcing a tree into bear-| “No scheme of soil conservation ing when it would not bear otherwise.| can be successful unless it is profit- Varieties which naturally bear late in} able. If live stock farming conserves life may be made to bear earlier by/ fertility but is unprofitable, then it Doctor Whitten, head of need not be further considered. But the Department of Horticulture at the! livestock farming is profitable, and is University of Missouri, tells of caus-| more profitable than any other sys- ing a two-yeat-old pear tree to bear/tem of permanent agriculture that several large pears while it has been devised.”—Dean F. B. Mum- only a switch. This was ford of Missouri Agricultural College. ing a wire around it near While this operation o nf is g : According to Professor Kempster, of the Poultry Department at the Uni- versity of Missouri, the orchard or the cornfield is the ideal place for raising. The hens. get plenty and plenty of animal food the form of grubs and insects. ane apittey) rae i ‘MISSOURI PACIFIC IRON .\ MOUNTAI ‘Alabama, Mississippi’ Tennessee, Cuba, Georgia, - New Mexico, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Mexico, Phone No. 11 AT SATISFACTORY PRICE Address Cc. E. ROBBINS, Butler, Missouri ON SALE DAILY WINTER TOURISTS RATES .South Carolina, etc. Homeseekers rates on Ist and 3d Tuesdays of every month to "E many points. Ask our agent or write — Agt., Joplin, Mo - C. Vandervoort, Agt., Butler, Mo