The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 18, 1912, Page 6

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BOULWARE Physician & Surgeon Office North Side Square, Butler, Mo. Diseases of women and chil- dren a specialty. B, F. JETER, OVER 65 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE ’cockerels and pullets are left in the flock? They will be scrubs, and the next year's flock will be scrubs. One of the best indications of the ' probable ability of the growing chick- | must be deep chested, bright eyed and The shape of the head is a The accompanying active. good indication. | illustration shows a striking example of the difference in vitality“between two chickens that-came from the eggs the same day, from the same incuba- tor. The deep, strong looking head, with a short bill, is the healthy one that should be kept in the flock. The long, scrawny looking beak, called a “crow-beak,” is always an indication of low vitality. If a disease should GOOD SEED BED NEEDED By M. F. Miller, Professor of Agron- omy, University of Missouri, The Missouri experiment station at Columbia has made no experiments with the single idea of determining the best methods of soil preparation for alfalfa. However, various experi- ments in which different methods were used indicates what appear to be the proper and improper methods. In the first place, it may be said } that on soiis well adapted to alfalfa the matter of soil preparation is not of so much importance as on those poorly adapted to the crop. It is to these latter soils that the most atten- tion must be given. On such soils, where fall sowing is practiced, it is best to have the land plowed a con- siderable time before the time to sow the seed, in order that it may become well compacted in the under layers. Recently plowed soil is not a prop- er seed bed for alfalfa, for, like wheat, it requires a loose surface soil with a compact soil beneath. Usually wheat land may be turned for alfalfa with | good results if the wheat is gotten off sufficiently early, and providing the land 1s reasonably fertile to furnish plant food for a permanent stand. A crop that removes much moisture from the soil, such as oats, cane or cowpeas, is to be avoided unless they may be removed early. Wheat, too, will dry the soil very much unless the summer is one of considerable rain- fall. difficulty as regards moisture, but a dry fall makes it very important that the water should not be so completely removed from the soil to begin with. The surest method is to begin the preparation of the land in early sum- mer and to. harrow it whenever a crust forms or weeds start. This con- serves the moisture and fertility and frees the land of weeds, so that when the alfalfa is put in the land is clean and in good condition for its growth. Of course, the character of the land must determine largely just when this preparation shall be done, as care must be taken to prevent the serious washing of the surface, a8 occurs on the bare uplands. o Anyone sending a sketch —_ pee eee nai Scientific handsom: 4 lation of any Attorney atLaw = Notary Public East Side Square Phone 186 BUTLER, MISSOURI ORS. CRABTREE & CRABTREE Office in Gench Block. 36 1Breadway, *Phone No. 301. ro. nee If you need to. patronize the drug Da. J. W. Cnasrazs. | De BR. E. Caanraze. 4 e Internal Moticine | General Practice. | 740: let us give you a tip, go to Hess. Diseases of Catidren. | The drugs and price are both right. Residence ‘Phone il. 96-tf. Clover sod pastured down, liberally dressed with barnyard manure and turned under early in the summer gives one of the best seed beds for alfalfa. Heavy bluegrass or timothy sod should be turned under early in the spring if one wishes to sow such land to alfalfa. A lodse, porous layer, Selected eggs, candled and packed in cortons, bring a better price. mistake to put a single poor egg on the market. en to give good results later, is the vitality and constitutional vigor. The‘ same rules apply in estimating this that are used in judging horses or cows, or any other animals. They ~/they-dtd no good. A moist fall will allow alfalfa to | | follow any of these crops with little apoceteavanarenasanl amen ee id Itisa is possible to go through the flock of ! dinner, picks out the best looking one growing chickens and pick out the of the lot, the way for him to do if he would have a better flock next year results, and the ones that will always and more profit from the eggs, would be to catch the ones that show their luck of vitality. Then the strong ones will be left for breeding stock, and + the flock will be improved. ia ' A white leghorn hen at the Univer. sity of Missouri. Poultry Department having a record of two hundred eggs in one year. OU a ate a a a a ee ne ae {this reason that the ground must be PREPARING ALFALFA LAND; so carefully prepared and as many of | the weeds killed as is possible with the means at one’s command. Plowing for alfalfa should be deep | and thorough, especially if done early jin the summer. If done later, care !should be taken to plow no deeper ; than can be well compacted by roll- |ing and harrowing before time for sowing the seed. Subsoiling has often | been recommended, and doubtless on soils with heavy clay subsoils it | would be of benefit, but the expense and difficulty of doing the work just in the proper manner usually makes | the practice inadvisable. The experi- ment station has conducted no inves- | tigations on subsoiling on the heavy | clays. Final preparations of the seed bed should be thorough, although care | should be taken not to have the land ) in such fine shape that the beating rains of the fall will pack it seriously or cause it to wash badly. In the sev- eral instances at the experiment sta- | tion stands have completely failed, | due to the heavy beating of fall rains, which either washed the young plants | out . or compacted the soils so that | .The best time to sow is just aftera good rain in late August if possible, but judgment should be used if a rain does not come. If the land is prop- erly prepared and a loose mulch has ;been kept on it by harrowing for some weeks, there is little fear re- garding the seeds germinating. Usu- ally when the soil is moist the plants !are up by the third day, and with a | week or ten days of good weather fol- lowing, without washing or beating rains, a stand is almost assured. These suggestions, of course, do not apply particularly to bottom lands, except in @ general way. Scientific farming is not the use of peculiar methods and different crops. It is the using of the old crops in a better way. It is throwing out the parts of the system that don’t pay and leaving those that are profitable. It is selling the cow that is a scrub and buying one that pays a profit. It is raising an extra colt a year when geldings were used before. There are no secrets about it. , The essentials to success are a keen observation and a will to do. This is as the depart- ment of farm management of the Uni- versity of Missouri preaches the doc trine. In districts where hawks give much trouble to chickens, there is a method Earned Surplus The Farmers Bank of Bates coun- ty while employing only‘conserva- tive methods in the donduct of its business has earned its Surplus Fund and Undivided Profits of $40,000.00, the largest of any bank in the county, which is proof of good management on the part of its officers and directors. The same care which has made this bank so successful will be ap- plied to your banking business if you deposit your funds with us. 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