The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 8, 1913, Page 7

i pay best on Miseourl farms can. be , Given, it has been determined pretty: definitely that when. one crop is grown continuously on the same land it ceases to be a paying ‘crop. for 17 years. of corn, wheat and clover. And on a third plot was grown a’ rotation of This field has a retation of The experiment ‘station at Columbia plant- ed corn on the same land. every ‘year | j Beside this, and during the same time, was grown a rotation grown year after year, the enemies of ‘that crop are nearly sure to thrive in the soil, If it is clover, the soil be- comes what we call clover-sick. If it ig potatoes, potato-scab becomes estab- to follow one anotner, the land he comes foul with weeds. When one of these crops is planted only every other year or every third year, the tween times. corn, oats, wheat and clever, corn, oats, wheat, clover and timothy. Then there is a difference in the On the seventeenth year of the trial| way the roots feed in the soil. The the yield per acre of corn was.as fol-|clovers go deep, while the grasses lows: feed near the surface. gain, clover Yield |is a heavy feeder on some elements, Corn | while one of the most important ele. 1905. |ments is taken nearly entirely from Bushels: Plot I. Corn 17 years ..........11.8 Plot II. Corn, wheat, clover, 17 st years ......65 Pena atas 50.7 Plot III. Corn, oats, wheat, clover, timothy, 17 years .......,....54.2 It is seen that by the continuous growing of corn the yield was reduced to where the crop was a losing propo- sition, Similar land yielded over four times that amount when rotated, It is not to be inferred from this that the fertility of soil may be built up, or even maintained, under a sys- tem of rotation. Even under rotation the elements of fertility are being con- tinually used from the land, and it is only a question of time until they are lacking to such an extent that the crops ‘are diminished. Where only one ¢rop is grown,” the yield’ ‘diminishes more rapidiy, because the roots are al- ways feeding in about the same layer of soil and make heavy drains on the same elements. By rotation the soil is made to grow orops profitably longer. As a rule, land that has been heav- ily cropped with almost continuous grain growing produces markedly bet- ter crops for several years after a good rotation system is established. Especially is this true where little or no manure has been applied to the land. This is not because the rotation adds plant food to the soil. There are a number of advantages derived from growing a variety of crops on the land. In the first place, there is given to the soil a variety of treatment. One year it will be culti- vated and the next it. willbe covered -with-some—hay-crop.--This-makes—it- harder for weeds and insects to estab- lish themselves. If the same crop is PREPARING SEED ONTS FANNING. AND ND TREATING... FOR. SMUT MAY. INCREASE YIELD. By c. E. isaune College of Agri: culture, ; University of Missouri. So far as the market value of the oat crop is concerned, it is one of the poorest paying crops we grow. The crop has desirable features, however, that may justify our growing it even at the present low yield. Oats have a decidedly favorable effect upon the} land, and when fed in connection with our other grains they furnish. what the other feeds lack, making a more ; has Showing annual yield where corn wa: grown continuously and in rotation. Peas and beans draw heavily Wheat takes bu. but feeds the air. on potash and lime. small amounts of these, heavily on phosphorus. Now, there is an abundance of phos- phorus in most of our soils, but only small amounts are available to plants at any one time. The amount is so small that wheat often suffers from want of it; so that wheat may be 2 paying crop if grown every third year. where it would not pay if grown every year. The distribution of labor throughoui the year is a minor point, and yet is an argument in favor of rotation. Our rich lands are slow to show the lished. If our cereal grains are made | d‘gease is more or less starved out be- Will Be Very Few Changes, the Leaders Say, NO CURRENCY BILL AT PRESENT However the Measure Will Probably ~ Be Drafted in Time for the Regular Session Which Meets in December. Washington, May 5—The Under- wood tariff revision bill is expected to pass this week from its scene of rushed consideration in the house to “tbe weighed in the steady balance of senate deliberations. It probably will be passed’ in the house not later than Wednesday night, just as it came from the ways and means committee, with free raw wool, free sugar in three years, its income tax, free meat, free flour and slashing reductions in live stock and manufactured articles. It is an open secret that the presi- dent, the finance committee of the senate and the ways and means com: mittee of the house had an under- standing that the tariff bill should be revised in all essential particulars in the house, if there are to be any changes, but whether this agreement can be maintained remains to be seen. Certain it is, however, that the majority senators do not contemplate naterial changes if it is possible to void them, Sugar Schedule to Stand. The sugar schedule with its imme ‘iate 25 per cent reduction and fre sugar in three years, is almost cer tain to remain as it is. Wool migh come out eventually. with a sligh duty. The only other changes tha! seem at all likely relate to stock. If President Wilson proposes to ask congress for currency legislation at the extra session he has not made any definite suggestion relating to it. The temper of the house is against it. Majority Leader Underwood said that the house would prefer to complete the tariff and adjourn, leaving cur- rency legislation in the making, to be ready for consideration next win- ter. The house banking and currency committee will be organized, however, as soon as possible. Representative Carter Glass of Virginia, who will be its chairman, plans to confer with President Wilson this week in an ef- fort to get his definite ideas on the currency. Message Ready Soon. It is probable that the president’s message on currency will be ready before the tariff bill is out of the way. Latest indications are that he will urge the investigation of the problem and the drafting of a bill in time for congress when it convenes in regular session next December. This will meet with the approval of house and senate leaders. Already the senate banking and cur- rency committee has begun its work, a sub-committee having been appoint- ed last week to draft a set of ques- tions relating to currency reform to be sent to bankers and financial ex- perts throughout the country. When these have been answered hearings may be ordered. In the meantime the committee may determine to call be- -need-of-retation.—They-have shown +- in the East, and are showing it mor: jand more:in the corn belt. one-fourth the total crop. Fortunately. there has been found a method of pre- venting smut. The treatment is generally applied ‘as follows: Mix ‘one pound of com: mercial formalin with 40 to 50 gallons of ‘water in a barrel, This formalin can be secured at any drug store. Aft- er the seed oats have been fanned, spread them out on.a clean floor and sprinkle them: with the solution until damp enough to pack in the hand Then turn with a shovel until all have been well dampened. Then shovel into & pile and cover with old sacks or car- pets for two or three hours. The oats should then be stattered and turned | occasionally until dry. As soon as dry the oats are ready for seeding, or may be kept until ready to use. The solution is poisonous in consid- erable quantities, but as recommend. ed is very weak. It will not injure the hands and is perfectly safe to handle It the oats are to be returned to the ‘sacks. from. which they were taken, tt fs ‘well to sprinkle the sacks with * some of the solution. a is. ere bet a — dis- if ‘eee Hee ocure atl ttle trow- i pened ane fore ft men of the financial world to supplement the hearings begun by the house committee last winter. JAPANESE ENTER A PROTEST Baron Chinda Instructed by the Mi- kado to Object. to Alien Land Bill Passed in California. San Francisco, Cal., May 5.—A ca- blegram from Tokio to the Japanese. American, a Japanese daily paper here, states that the Japanese gov- ernment cabled instructions to Baron Chinda, Japanese ambassador at Washington, to make formal protest against the Alien Land bill enacted by .the California legislature and now awaiting Governor Johnson's signa- ture, The message adds that the position taken by the Japanese government is that the United States government is responsible for the finding of a satis- factory solution of the situation in California. THREE CAUGHT ON A. TRESTLE Near Akron, Ohio, An: Approaching Train Forced the Men to Jump “to Their Deaths. ee RS atmo O., May. 8;Three men were a boy, & eon! of one of the ; ingurdd SHOT WIFE: AT DINNER PARTY ST. LOUIS WOMAN KILLED BY SPURNED HUSBAND. Frederick Hoehn Was ‘Enraged Be- cause Wife Refused Reconcilia- tion—Captured by Officers. St. Louis, May 3.—While seated at @ dinner party at her home in the Midst of a merry ¢rowd, Mrs. Emma Hoehn was shot and killed by her husband, Frederick, who is enraged because she had spurned his efforts at ® reconciliation. They had heen sep- arated six months. After the shooting Hoehn ran and was pursued to the cellar of his home by a deputy sheriff, where he was captured and turned over to the po- lice. He expressed no remorse be- cause of his act. Hoehn is 37 years old and a painter. His wife was 40 years old and had been married before. She had ‘sev- eral children by her first marriage, and Hoehn told the police it was be- cause of quarrels over the stepchil- dren that they separated. “I wanted to return to my wife and forget the past,” he said at the sta- tion. “I went there for that purpuse, to plead with her to come back and live with me, She met me at the door and refused to have anything to do with me.” The diners had just seated them- selves at the table when the door was thrown violently open and Hoehn strode into the room. “Well,” .he said, addressing his wife, “is it all right now?” Mrs. Hoehn, recovering ‘from her surprise, told him there was no use of resum- ing their old argument and started to sit down again. “Then take your medicine,” he shouted and fired at her. In his es- cape Hoehn passed a soda factory where the employes tried to capture him by bombarding him with empty bottles, TRAIN WRECKED BY A WASHOUT At Levant, Kan., on the Rock Island, One Man Was Killed and Three Injured. Colby, Kan., May 3.—Maurice Dun- nean, roadmaster, was killed and En- gineer Erickson and Fireman, Nicho- las were probably fatally injured when a Chicago, Rock Island & Pa- cific work train was wrecked three miles west of here. The train ran into a washout while on the way to repair damage by ancther washout. A cloudburst had washed out more than 200 yards of the track ‘of the Rock Island road near Levant, the first station west of Colby. A work train was made up at Norton and section men were gathered up at each station, As the train was running just west of Levant it ran into a place where the ground had heen washed from the track. The entire train was derailed. Four inches of rain fell at Levant within an hour. HEROES OF MANILA BAY DINED Twenty-One of the Surviving Officers Met in Annual Reunion at Washington. Washington, May 2.—Twenty-one of the surviving officers who fought under Admiral George Dewey in the battle of Manila Bay celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of the famous ‘naval engagement here at the annual reunion and banquet of the Society of Manila Bay. Personal reminis- censes of the battle were given by the diners. A feature was the read- ing by Admiral Dewey of a poem from Edward G. Curran of Philadel- phia, entitled “Lest We Forget.” The Alaska Jap Bill Vetoed. Juneau, Alaska, May 2.—Governor Clark vetoed the Anti-Alien Fishing bill, aimed at Japanese fishermen, just before the Alaska legislature ad- journed sine die. POLICE PUT TO ROUT BY WOMEN Wives of New Jersey Strikers Take Patrol Wagon Load of Prison- ers From Officers.— Burlington, N. J.. May 3—Women again took a leading part in the most serious riot which has yet occurred in the strike of the workers of sev- @ral iron mills in this city. 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