The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 22, 1912, Page 3

PADITN CELERY GROWING SHOULD BE STARTED IN SEED BED AND TRANSPLANTED. By Dr. J. C. Whitten, Professor of Horticulture, University of Missouri. Celery is profitably grown only on a very rich soil. A deep rich mellow loam is best. Almost any good farm land will produce good celery is heav- ily manured. If land is thin or sterile to begin with, a season or two of prep- aration will be required to get it into -shape for celery growing. This pre- vious preparation consists of deep plowing, and even subsoiling where mecessary. together with abundant manuring. If fresh manure is used, it ‘should be plowed in to allow it to become thoroughly incorporated with the soil. If old well rotted manure is available, it may be applied annually. Celery should be started in a seed bed and twice transpanted. The seed should be sown in February for a very early crop or in March for al winter crop. | The best early varieties are the White Plume and Self Blanching. | Good winter varieties are Golden Heart and Giant Pascal. The seeds are slow to germinate. They should) be started in a prepared soil in a hot- bed or forcing house. They are tiny seeds, and should not be sown deep. It is perhaps best to sow them on top of the prepared soil and cover them with a quarter of an inch of sand. ‘When the young plants are well up and putting out the third leaf, they should be transplanted in a prepared bed or cold frame, four inches apart each way. At this transplanting they may be set deep enough so that the| seed leaves will come just above the surface of the ground. Here they should be watered as necessary and all weeds kept down until they are) ready to go into the field. | In order to keep them short and} stocky, it is best to clip the leaves back every few weeks. For an early crop, celery should be transplanted to the field in late June!. or July. For winter use it may be! put into the field in August: The most economical arrangement | in planting a field is to plant three or five rows in a strip, the rows being seven inches apart, and the plants! seven inches apart in the rows. Therf| a vacant space of at least eight feet | should be reserved and another three to five rows of the plants set. The open eight feet of ground between | the belts of celery rows is for the! purpose of getting sufficient soil for blanching it later on. Transplanting will be more successful if done in cloudy weather, and especially just before a rain. When the leaves of the plants are six inches long, they will be large enough for the earthing up and blanching to begin. The leaves of the plant should be gathered up- right into a straight bundle. Soil should be gathered around and in be- tween the plants until the leaves are covered within a few inches of their! tips. Only the upper ends of the leaves should be left exposed to the sun above the ridged soil. Care should be taken not to get the soil into the heart of the celery, as it may rot it. As the leaves increase inj length a few inches, additional soil! should be again banked around them. This repeated earthing up should be performed until growth ceases,upon the approach of cold weather. When- ever earth is banked up around the celery, care should be taken to leave it in such form that it will shed water. If the embankment is left low in the middle, rains may get down into the hearts of the plants and | troubles just like other people, mith SEVEN YEARS OF MISERY How Mrs. Bethune was Re- stored to Health by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta- ble Compound. Sikeston, Mo. — ‘‘For seven years I suffered everything. I was in bed for four or fivedays ata time every month, and so weak I could ) hardly walk. I had N) cramps, backache and headache, and was 80 nervous and weak that I dreaded to see anyone or have anyone move in the room. The doc- ya tors gave me medi- ™ cine to ease me at those times, and said that I ought to| have anoperation. I would not listen to that, and when a friend of my husband’s told him about Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg- etable Compound and what it had done | for his wife, I was willing to take it. Now I look the picture of health and feel like it, too. I can do all my own house- work, work in the garden and entertain company and enjoy them, and can wal! as far as any ordinary woman, any dey in the week. I wish I could talk to every suffering woman and girl, and tell them what Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has done for me.’’—Mrs. DeMA BETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo. Remember, the remedy which did this was Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. It has helped thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulceration, tumors, irreg- ularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing down feeling, indigestion, and hervous prostration, after all other means have failed. Why don’t you try it? Initiative Law is Immure. Washington, Feb. 19.—Only Con- gress, and not the Supreme Court of the United States, may object to the initiative and referendum method of legislation in the states, so the court itself decided today. That tribunal held that the question of whether a state still, maintained a Republican form of government guar- anteed by the Federal Constitution after it adopted the initiative and referendum method was a political problem for Congress and not a ju- dicial one for the courts. The decision ~was based on the claim of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company that a tax upon it, imposed by the initiative and referendum method in Oregon, was unconstitutional. The initiative and referendum provisions in Missouri, California, Arkansas, Colorado, South Dakota, Utah, Montana, Oklahoma, Maine and Arizona hung in the bal- ance. An adverse decision would have affected proposed legislation of that character in many other states. Chief Justice White announced the decision of the court. None of the justices dissented. The court also gave a similar decision in reference to an ordinance in Portland, Oregon, for the construction of a bridge. Flying Men Fall Victims to stomach, liver and cause them to rot. In order that the celery may stand as late as possible for winter, the tops of the leaves should be covered with straw in cool times to prevent injury from frost. There are several ways to keep the celery from freezing for winter use. One is to leave plants in the soil embankment where they grew, mulching the tops with suffi- cient soil and straw to protect them from frost. Another way is to pack the celery plants into boxes and keep them in a cool cellar. Two or three inches of soil should be placed in the pottor of the boxes. The plants may then fe dug up with their root sys- tems intact, and their roots set in the soil in the bottoms of the boxes, so the plants will stand upright and close together, filling the boxes. If large quantities are to be stored, the plants may be set in three inches of soil directly on the cellar bottom. Another successful way is to set the celery in a small celery house pro- loss of appetite, backache nervous- ness, headache and _ tired, listless, run-down feeling. But there’s no need to feel like thatas T. D. Peebles, Henry, Tenn., proved. ‘‘Six bottles of Electric Bitters,’ he writes, “did more to give me new strength and good appetite than all other stomach remedies I used.”” So they help everybody. Its folly to suffer when this great remedy will help you from the first dose. Try it. Only50 cents at F. T. Clay’s. Motherhood is the highest type of womanhood, SIMPLE DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING THE BORDEAUX MIXTURE. By Dr. J. C. Whitten, Professor of Horticulture, University of Missouri. Apple trees should be sprayed with the Bordeaux Mixture just before the buds burst in spring; just before the flowers open; as soon as the blossoms are gone; and twice at intervals of ten to fourteen days subsequently. This will do away with most of the scab and skin blotch and other fun- ; ous diseases. The Bordeaux Mixture is made by combining four pounds of lime and ‘four pounds of copper sulphate with fifty gallons of water. The lime should be first slaked and mixed with 25 gal- lons of water. The copper sulphate jshould be dissolved by suspending it in a sack so that it just touches a tub lof water. The four pounds of copper {sulphate should be mixed with 25 gal- ‘ions of water and then poured into 25 gallons of lime water. ture should be strained through ex- jcelsior, clean straw, strainer, so that it will not clog the nozzle, and it will then be ready for use. To simplify the work, sulphate may be dissolved (say one pound to each gallon of water) and four gallons of this solution may be used for each fifty gallons of the Bor- deaux Mixture. The lime also may be slaked in large quantities and the equivalent of four pounds of dry lime used in each fifty gallons. The lime water and copper sulphate solution should not be put together unutil they are to be used. It should also be re- membered that they should not be mixed too strong, but that half the | mixing. i \ For canker worm, codling moth, | ‘and other biting insects, Paris Green | or London Purple are effective. | These or some equivalent arsenical ; | poison may be added at the rate of jfive ounces to each fifty gallons of | |Bordeaux at the time these insects | jappear. For borers, the trunks of the | jtrees may be wrapped with papers, | netting, or These wrap- ‘corn stalks, mosquito wooden veneer wrapper. i ;tect the trunks from sunscald. It is reported injurious effects from the use of wooden wrappers. We have used them for years @n some of the trees of the Station orchard, and have seen them used in many of the largest orchards of the state, and have ob- served no injurious effects from their use provided they were kept loose on the trees so that they would not pre- vent proper growth. MOVABLE POULTRY HOUSES H. L. Kempster, Professor of Poultry Husbandry, University of Missouri. One of the chief reasons assigned for the failure of so many farms de- voted entirely to poultry raising is that the space is usually small and the ground becomes infected after a | tew years, to the detriment of the j health of the chickens. The ideal place for chickens is in an orchard or a corn field. To be healthy in summer, chickens should have plenty of space to forage green stuff from. In a corn field they will eat large numbers of bugs and worms. If alfalfa is grown on the place, no better place can be found than near a field of it, for chickens are fond of _Alfalfa hay chaffed up also makes a good feed for winter. All of the best plans of handling poultry require that they be housed so that the young broods, at least, may be moved about the farm. The colony houses in use at the Missouri College of Agriculture are built on skids and will be arranged so that they may be set on wheels, to move to any desired place on the farm. This will decrease the chances of dis- ease and make stronger chicks that will grow into better layers than if they were confined in small lots. A Well-Kept Secret. Just why will this country go to smash without the guiding hand of the sage of Oyster Bay on the execu- tive steering wheel? Uneasy politicians whose interest in the third-term movement is inex- tricably intertwined with the Depart- ment of Loaves and Fishes remember how Col. Roosevelt ran in 1904 and vided for the purpose. A good celery house may be made as follows: Make a roof-like structure five feet wide on the ground with A shaped double rafters coming together four feet above the ground at the center. This may be boarded up on the outside forming a roof or ‘protection. Each upper board should have its lower overlap. the upper edge of the board below it. This forms a tight over the celery: which will pro- it from the rains. The soil may be prepared beneath this celery and the plants set in close to-’ é - Scott’s Emulsion 1s the highest of .curative food. — The nourishing and curative elements in Scott’s go om os Ae perfectly com t Ce ancal toe are eq fitted and built up. Be sure to get SCOTT’S— it’s the Standard and always _the best. - so desire him to run again. Their case requires no explanation. The politician whose whole wisdom is compassed by the election returns of past years will always be with us. But why does the individual voter put his faith in Roosevelt? Is it because of the Colonel’s record in the matter of the consolidation of Tennessee Coal and Iron with United States Steel? His flagrant disregard of law in certain famous executive orders? The tender conscience man- ifested in the Harriman correspon- dence? The utter blank where his tariff record ought to be? We are informed by certain ‘“‘lead- ers” that millions of American voters want to see Roosevelt’s return. Why? No one of them has told us. It is the most wonderful case of keeping a secret in political history.—Republic. SPANING PLE. TREES This mix- | or some other | the copper | water should be added to each before | pers also keep off rabbits and pro: | fair to state that some growers have | 8 Mules: 94 Cattle: bull. o4 Hogs: Sale The undersigned will offer for sale at their farm 3!; miles south of Foster, 3% miles Northeast of Hume or 4; miles northwest of Sprague, Missouri, on Wednesday, Feb, 28, 1912 Beginning at 10 o'clock, the following described property: 20 Horses: 7 year old sorrel mare, weigh 1500 tb, bred to | ° jack, good one; 7 year old gray mare, weigh 1500 tb, in foal to jack, good one; 3 year old hay mare, weigh 1350 tb, bred to registered percheron; 5 year old sorrel driving horse, well broke single or double, also saddles; 3 year old iron gray roadster, mare; 7 year old iron gray mare, weigh 1000 ib; 8 year old roan horse, weigh 1100 ib, good single driver; span black and bay 4 year old mares, weigh 3100 th, extra brooders, one bred to jack the other to horse, these are extra good ones; span coming 4 year old iron gray horses, weigh about 2200 tb, good ones; span coming 4 year old horses, dark iron gray and dark bay, weigh 2300 ib, good ones, coming 3 year old iron gray draft filly; 3 year old black roadster filly; coming 4 year old bay mare, weigh 1000 tb, in foal by percheron horse; coming 4 year old iron gray mare, in foal by registered percheron horse; 8 year old bay mare, good rider and driver, weigh about 1050 ib; 2 year old black horse; 2 year old bay horse, a nice one. Span 4 year old black mare mules, weigh about 2300, extra good; span 4 year old black mare mules, weigh 2200, eqtra good; span coming 3 year old black mare and horse mules, extra good; span coming 3 year old black mare mules, extra good. Hereford milch cow, fresh with calf by side, a splendid milker; short-horn cow, will be fresh soon, a good one; 4 short-horn heifers, will be fresh soon; 4 year old short-horn cow with calf by side; 3 coming yearling heifers; 5 yearling heifers, 4 coming 2 year old steers, good ones; 20 coming yearling steers, extra good; coming 2 year old short-horn bull; 53 coming 2 year old fat heifers: coming 2 year old fat Heifers and bull will be sold for cash. Twelve brood sows, due to farrow from now till last of May; brood sows with five shoats; 16 feeding hogs, 150 to 160 iis; 25 shoats, weigh 90 to 125 ths. Every animal extra good and in fine shape. otherwise 8% TERMS OF SALE:—Alil sums of $10 and under cash. a credit of 9 months will be given at 6% On larger amounts v interest from date if paid when due; from date. 2% off for cash. Approved security required. No property to be removed until terms of sale are complied with. A. O. HIGBEE WILL SERVE LUNCH. H. W. & C. H. Sieg COL. J. K. HARMON, H. G. TAYLOR, Auctioneers. J. G. DOOLITTLE, Clerk $3,940 Worth of Property Auctioned Free of Charge—Large Crowds Here. | | cess, even beyond the greatest expec- | ers. Indeed, so great was the suc-; cial Club took steps Monday night, the sale day a permanent institution | March 20th. Early in the morning large crowds began coming in from all sections of | the county and before noon all avail- able hitch racks on the square and in were crowded to their utmost capa- city. The feed yards were full to overflowing and horses were hitched | all over the city. The business dis- tricts were crowded throughout the! ingly good business. sold at a total of $3,940, nearly every lot selling well. The spacious McMullen sale pavil- | out the entire sale and the bidding | was spirited at nearly all times. Following is a list of all lots sold, | FIRST SALE DAY A SUCCESS. Ji ata meeting of that body to make | $46. Thirty-two lots of offerings were ' $10. | Voris, Ed Cameron, $3.50. m Thomas $85. One 2 year old colt, J. W. Butts, Chas. Thomas, $67. One yearling, J. W. Butts, Roy Jundy, $30. Span roan mares, W. E. Vansant, Butler’s first Sale Day was a suc-| A, M. Shelton & Son, $350. One jack, W. H. Gerkin & Co., tations of its most enthusiastic boost-| George Lathum, $375. One gray mare, J. Coop, F. E. Big- cess of the venture that the Commer- | ler, $97.50. Bay horse, E.-V. Jewett, Miller, * Black horse mule, S. W. Vion, in this city, the date being set for, Chas. Argenbright, $72.50. Mule colt, P. R. Funk, Charles Argenbright, $72.50. Bay horse, L. C. Culbertson, Jno. | Smith, $56. Span mules, T. J. Wheeler, Chas. the vicinity of the business section | Argenbright, $165. Bay stallion, Robert Evans, Frank | Nafus, $100. Span mules, J. H. Allison, Chas. | Argenbright, $182.50. Span mare mules, Oliver Lawson, ' day and all merchants report exceed-' Billy Powell, $305. | Cart, J. W. Butts, Walter Fuller, , Bay mare, George Lee, Geo. R. | Dorns, $71. Sorrel mare, J. W. Reedy, Chas. | | lion was crowded to its limit through- | Argenbright, $61. 5 Barred Plymouth cockerels, Mrs. | | 3 choice roosters, Joe Ghere, Mr. | detailing owner, purchaser and price | Smith, $2.55. | paid: Bay pony, Frank Holland, Joe | Jenkins, $1.60. } Clark, $21. | Choate, $140. | One jack, Jim Hayes, Dr. J. W.!$1. Choate, $16. 2 choice roosters, Joe Ghere, Chas. | 1 rooster, A. S. Milhorn, Beckham, | 1 rooster, A. S. Milhorn, Joe Ghere, | Bay mare, George Lee, C. J. Sells, | 2 head shoats, Geo. Palm, C. Allen, | $67. $7.80. i 10head shoats, Geo. Palm, Evilsizer, | Argenbright, $300. $87.50. 2 year old mule, V. F. Belt, Wick | Ray, $100. Team mules, J. E. Allison, Chas. | Piggott, $105. services. One jack, Jim Hayes, Dr. J. W. | $1. | Plow, J. H. Bratton, Keeble, $4.50. Cultivator, J. H. Bratton, Wm, ", $8. Harrow, J. H. Bratton, Del Lutzen- hiser, $8. Disc, Hosie Ellis, Smith, $17. Plow, Hosie Ellis, Wm.. Hart, $7.25 Doubletree H. Ellis, Colster, 80c. Set harness, Hosie Ellis, Smith, $19. Harrow, Hosie Ellis, O. E. Griffin, Plow, Hosie Ellis, Jim Thomas, $12.50.. Single harness, G. A. Vanhall, Peter Denning, $3.25. Wagon harness, McCoy, $10.50. Double buggy harness, G. A. Van- hall, J. A. Steel, $10. Road Wagon, G. A. Vanhall, H. Smith, $23. Work harness, Griffith, H. Dyke- man, $3.50. 2 Cultivator, Griffith, H. Dykeman, (c G. A. Vanhall, $2. Harrow, Griffith, H. Martin, $2. Cow, Griffith, Howard, $36. Jack, J. C. Welliver, Jim Brown, $41. Colt, John Evans, L. P. Simpson, $20. Mare, Albert Ford, John Smith, 2 year old colt, A. W. Paddy, S. Ison, $82. The sale was conducted by Col. C. E. Robbins, assisted by Col. H. G. Tilton, and M. C. Wilcox as clerk. These gentlemen all donated their Indian Killed on Track. Near Rochelle, Ill., an Indian went to sleep ona railroad track and was killed by the fast express. He paid for his carelessness with his fife. Often its that way when people ne- glect coughs and colds. n’t_ risk Black horse, E. A. Rahlman, R, A./| your life when prompt use of Dr. Horse mule, Lee M. Hardinger, | | Farm wagon, Claude Copeland, 0. ; Alva Brant, $115. | E. Griffith, $15. ; | W. Bourquin, $71. 4 months old mule, Geo. Palm, R. One brood mare, J. W. Butts, C.'W. Hensley, $21.00: | x : | Single harness, J. W. Butts, Bert | 4%, Tex., “‘and I gained 15 pou: One horse, J. W. Butts, Jim! Crigler, $3.50. | Thomas, $120. One 2 year old colt, J. W. Butts, | $1.50. | | Pair bridles, J. W. Butts, A. 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