The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 7, 1912, Page 6

i ° 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. ~ Horses Right, Prices Right, Terms Right Call on or Address Thomas VTade, Manager, Nevada, Missouri. Reference—First National Bank, Nevada, Mo. REXALL Remedies Are far ahead of any line of remedies we have sold © 12-12t One for Each Ailment and the Formula of same The Rexall Drug Store WANTS YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS You always get the MOST of the BEST for the LEAST money and always secure prescriptions containing fresh pure drugs You select your pliysician with great care. Do you use the same caution in selecting the druggist to fill your physician's pre- scriptions? C. W. Hess The Rexall Drug Store, Butler, Mo "12 GAUGE Mar. lin Repeating Shotgu2 its dependability, The solid top and side ejection keep gases and t away froin your eyes tive repeat shots, Rain, sleet, now and foreign matter can't pitino ‘action. trong, simple, wer The double extractors pull any shell instantly; two rnecial ‘accidental di:charge while action is unlocked, and an automatic recoil block makes hang fires har ve strongly made, finely balanced, accurate, hard hitting guns, and are the quickest and ezsie:t to take -cisai. Blustration shows Model 24 grade "A" 12 gauge; it has all the features that make for a perfect gun, Send three enn postage today for our 136 page catalog describing the full ZZar/n line. Marlin Mrearms Co. 42 Willow Street New Haven, Co Reaidenc - Phone 268, Office Phone’. PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. J. M. CHRISTY = Diseas.s ot Women and Children a Specialty | BUTLER - MISSOURI Office Phone 20 House Phone 10, ter of the sof]. Most of our. Missouri g soils contain abundant potash for = ’ : bere farm crops. The gourd family, ebb emia inces especially watermelons, feed abund- GOURD CROPS SHOULD NOT BE/antly on potash, however, and ordina- PLANTED UNTIL WARM \rily they will respond well to its ap- WEATHER. | plication. .A mixture that will con-; Sani |tain the equivalent of the following By Dr. J. C. Whitten, Professor of will bo found adequate tc most Mis- | Horticulture, University |sourl soils: 100 pounds muriate of of Missouri. ‘potash, 75 pounds bone meal, and 75 | pounds nitrate of soda per acre. If The cucurbits, including cucum- desired, the equivalent may be se- bers, canteloupes, meions, etc., have cured through thé use of sulphate of similar requirements and are all cul- | potash, acid phosphate, and dried tivated very much alike. They re-'plood. It 1s more economical, how- quire a light, mellow, warm soil. A ever, to keep up the soil fertility by (Om © )) FARMERS BANK BUTLER.MO.} CONDENSED OFFICIAL REPORT of the FARMERS BANK ~|insects and disease. sandy loam is best. If grown in a, heavy clay loam: it must contain | much vegetable matter to make it! loose and spongy. They are fairly, rank feeders, and the soil should be! rich. Indeed, much of the damage | done by insects and diseases will not | be noticeable if these plants have | @nough soil fertility to keep them | growiug rapidly from the start. On the other hand, grown in a poor soil | s0 the plants are weak, it is almost impossible to keep them free from | Sod land turned under is an excellent place for these vine crops. As a rule, land should not be plant- ed to any of the plants of the gourd | family for more than one year in suc- cession. This is particularly true of watermelons. If watermelons are/ planted more than one year in suc-! cession, the grower rarely ever gets profitable crops. Growing plants of | the gourd family, then, should be! part of a general farm rotation, grow- | ing a single crop of the gourds, and | following with a crop of corn, wheat, | or -clover. Farmers are finding a) good rotation to be melons or one of | the gourd group, corn, wheat, clover, and then melons again. The land should be plowed in the jfall if possible. It should be har- rowed and worked carefully in the spring from the time it becomes workable until the melons or other | gourd crops are planted. This will ; kill most of the weeds and will set- tle the soil fine and compact below, |leaving a good seed bed on top. The | cheapest cultivation that can be giv en such a crop is the disking and har- rowing of the soil by way of prepara- tion before the crop is planted {| None of the gourd crops should be | planted until the weather and_ soil | are warm, as none of them will stand | the frost. Ordinarily in this state | they may. be planted during the last | half of April or very early in May. | They are usually planted in check | rows; the distance varying from 5 or | 6 feet apart each way for cucumbers | to 8 or 12 feet apart for melons. Per- | haps the most convenient method is | to cross furrow the land at the dis- | tances suggested above. Where the furrows cross, the hills can be made. The earth should be scooped out and a shovelful of manure applied if it is available. The soil is then thrown over this manure so that the top of the hill is level with the surrounding | soil. Six to tw. lve seeds should be | Planted in each hill in order to se- | cure « full stand of plants and also to | give opportunity for selection of the | best plants when the poorer ones are thinned out. When the third or fourth leaf is well developed, the plants should be thinned, leaving four plants to the hill for cucumbers and one or two for melons. The early cultivation may be fairly deep while the plants are small and before their roots begin to spread. | Not infrequently early in the season | rainy weather may prevent cultivat. | ing until the weeds get a start. If the early cultivating is deep these weeds may be more readily killed if | they do get a start. Later cultiva- | tion should be shallow so as not to break off the roots of the plants once | they begin to spread out between the fows. In order to maintain shallow cultivation, it should be frequent. | | OR. J. T. HULL Dentist Entrance same that leads to Stew- ard’s Studio. : North side square Butler, Missouri | H. E. MULKEY, Registered Veterinary Surgeon BUTLER, MISSOURI Cee is R. Guyton’s Livery Barn. OR. H. ™. CANNON | DENTIST Butler, Missouri East Side of the Square Phone No. 312 T. C. BOULWARE Physician & Surgeon Office North Side Square, Butler, | Mo. Diseases of women and chil-| dren a specialty. i B, F. JETER, Attorney atLaw ‘Notary Public East Side Square Phone 186 BUTLER, MISSOURI You Can Keep your hens healthy and by so doing get more eggs if you will DRS. CRABTREE & CRABTREE Office in Gench Block. use “CLEANO.” ’Phone No. 301. : A GALLON CAN WILL yest pe aaa een, | LAST A LONG TIME. — end Surgery. Diseases oe Calidren. Residence "Phone 194. | Residence ’Phone 541. JAS. W. HELTON, M. D. using clover frequently in the rota- tion. Where barnyard manure is; available, no other fertilizer will be needed. | PROFIT MADE IN SUNFLOWERS | Seed Is Used Mainly for Poultry Feed | —Plant May Be Grown on Any Corn Land. Sunflower seed is used mainly for | birds and poultry as feed. It is a na- tive of Kansas and the far western ; country. | Sunflowers can be grown in any; good corn land, but it takes the nitro- gen out of the soil in great quantities | and therefore the crop should not be! repeated on the same sod. ! Plant with a drill or corn planter | as you would corn in rows about 3%, | feet apart. The seeds should be three | or four inches apart in drills and | thinned later on to about 18 inches. | It requires from six to 12 pounds | of seed per acre and it should be) planted a little shallower than corn. | The cultivation must be very shallow | so as not to disturb the roots. After | the plants are in bloom ptnch off all} OF BATES COUNTY BUTLER, MO. at close of business, Feb. 20, '1912 RESOURCES Loans and Discounts.$369,578.98 Real Estate (banking .. 15,000.00 house).. 2,000.00 Furniture Cash and due from .. 139,635.45 . $526,214.43 other banks.. LIABILITIES Capital stock $ 50,000.00 Surplus . 85,000.00 Undivided profit: 3,128.23 Deposits. 438,086.20 Total. .$526,214.43 The above statement is correct. HOMER DUVALL, Cashier but three or tour heads. Harvest be- fore the seeds are fully ripe, as they | begin to shatter early, and it is also | difficult to protect them from the; birds which fall upon them in great; flocks. It is not easy to harvest the sun- flower, as they shatter so easily. { Sometimes they are threshed by: unning them through an ordinary separator, while some farmers con- struet a wooden wheel hanging on} supports like a grindstone. On the sides of the wheel nails are driven quite thickly and as the wheel turns round the heads of the sunflowers are | held against them and the seeds are thus removed. The seeds must be thoroughly dry ||| before being stored. They can be|]} saved in sacks or small bins and must ||/ be kept perfectly dry or they will quickly spoil. An acre of good land will produce about 1,000 to 1,200 pounds of seed. If ground and mixed with other grains it adds to the palatability and flavor of other stock foods. The large seeded variety is best for poultry and stock, while the small seeded varieties are used more for the table and also for candle making. Manufacturers of poultry and stock feed are the buyers. Co-operation Among Farmers. There is no doubt about the fact that co-operation among farmers is becoming more extensive and more profitable. Examples like that of the Ozark Dairy Association, with nearly 700 members, and the Fruit Selling Associations of the southeastern part of Missouri, prove the value of band- ing together. The standard of the product is raised, and extra charges are cut out, to the benefit of both producer and consumer. Forage for Hogs. The time is past when hogs are to be fed in a close lot, with corn and expensive concentrates. The ideal place for hogs, as proved by work done at the Missouri Experiment Sta- DUVALL-PERCIVAL TRUST C0. CASH CAPITAL, $50,000. FARMERS BANK BUILDING, BUTLER, MO. We have money to loan on real estate at a low rate F arm Loans of interest with privilege to pay at any time. Abstracts We have a complete set of Abstract Books and will fur- nish abstracts to any real estate in Bates county and | examine and perfect titles to same. We will loan your idle money for you, securing you Investments reasonable interest on good security. We tay. interest on time deposits. J. B. DUVALL, Vice-President, W. D. Yates, Title Examiner. W. F. DUVALL, President, Arthur Duvall, Treasurer. C. EK. 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 7 every broken as quickly as the land can be worked. Frequent cultivation, early, lets the spring rains soak into the ground in- stead of allowing them to wash off from the surface. This enables the grower to store up the early rains of the spring deep into the soll be- | low. The shallow dust mulch main- | tained on the surface later in the | season saves this moisture in the soil, so that it will be available to the plants during the dry weather of July or August. The most common enemy of these crops in this section is the -striped cucumber beetle. Usually this insect may be readily kept in check if the soil is rich so that the plants grow | tapidly, and if frequent cultivation is | given to keep the dust on the surface. | The cucumber beetle does not like | the dust. On small areas he may be kept in check by sprinkling air-slaked lime or ashes around the hills and re- applying it after rains have wet it down. In large commercial areas the growers depend on soil dust main- tained by cultivation to drive the in- sect out of the field. On a dry day, ‘cultivation may begin on the side of the field next to the wind, when the insect, to escape the dust, will go across the field with the wind. Fol- up this cultivation will drive the bulk of them off the field entirely. The fine dust maintained on the sur- face and scattered over tke plants will prevent his return until the d i 5 ai te 3 H |should grow. It smothers out crops. ‘It isn’t necessary to let weeds get a tion, is on forage where they ge ercise and green feed. Cowpeas, rape, and other similar crops form the basis of the best modern systems. Alfalfa stands at the head, where it can be grown. Exterminate the Weeds. ‘Weeds are worse than waste on the farm. A weed uses soil fertility that belongs to useful plants. It shades a little piece of ground where grass foothold. Before they go to seed they should be mowed. After a few years of careful prevention of seed- ing weeds would cease troubling the farmer so much. Care of Sheep. No matter if an ewe is four years old, if she has a good udder and good teeth and is otherwise in good health keep her two or three years longer. Most excellent breeding ewes can ; 5 i i to make money, improve the land, and be happy. does this is sci which have torn down AT SATISFACTORY PRICE Address C. E. ROBBINS, Phone No. 11 Butler, Missouri / MISSOU PACIFIC RON One way Colonist Fares Butler, Mo., to San Francisco and south Pacific Coast points $26.15. To Portland and North Pacific Coast points $27.00. Same rates applying to direct intermediate points. Through Standard and Colonist sleeping cars leave Kansas City, Mo., at 6:30 p. m. for San Francisco daily via Missouri Pacific, Den- ver Rio Grande ‘The Scenic Rail Road’’ and Western Pacific, through the famous Feather River Canyon. Descriptive time tables and pan- oramic views furnished on application. Let me help you plan your trip and check your baggage through and make reservations for you : ashen 9 T. C. Matthews, Assistant General Passenger Agent, » Mo., will take pleasure in being of service Write to him or to the undersigned : aig Frank P. Prosser, Dist. Pass. Agt., Joplin, Mo E. C. Vandervoort, Agt., Butler, Mo.