The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 18, 1913, Page 7

ari ; To Thresh this Crop a Pea or Bean Huller Should Be Used—Nine Bushels Is Average Yield Per Acre By M. T. Miller, Professor of Agronchy, College of Agricukure, University of Missouri Cowpeas$for hay or seed should be cut with a mower, atid if the weather is. favorable, they may be cured in the swath. This method is not usual- ly satisfactory, however, as the leaves break off in raking up, espe- clally if one or two rains fall while curing. When cured in this way a hay tedder can be used with much help in hastening the curing. — A better way of curing in average | seasons is to cut them, and when Seal Cowpeas are being recognized more 2 and ca some of the smaller seeded varieties. Such a thresher may be modified, how: ever, so as to give fair satisfaction, by taking out a part ‘of the concave teeth and by using a large pulley on the cylinder, so as to reduce its speed, while the rest of the machine is geared up to run at about the usual rate. These are only makeshift methods, however, and a pea huller should be used if available. In this connection d more s one of our best short season wilted, rake into light windrows to cure. A side delivery rake can be used to great advantage in turning these windrows if the peas are not too viney. They may also be placed in rather tall, narrow shocks after they are partially cured and allowed to finish curing in thé shock. Peas planted in rows usually fall down badly and are much more dif- ficult to cut than when drilled. If they have been cultivated, the ridges of soft dirt interfere somewhat. There is on the market a device consisting of long fingers, which are placed on the mower to lift the peas and allow the cutter bar to run under them. Threshing Cowpeas. Cowpeas can be threshed with per- fect success only with a pea or bean huller. A wheat thresher may be used, but it cracks the peas so badly as to make it impractical except for WHY NOT MORE BIRDS?) THESE INSECT-DESTROYERS VAL- | UABLE TO FARMERS. By C. E. Brashear, Student in the Col- | lege of Agriculture, University of Missouri, Since most birds eat insects, and since many birds eat practically noth- ing else, it is their insect-eating habits that chiefly interest the farmer. When birds are permitted to labor undisturbed, they are continually searching the earth and air. The thrushes, sparrows, larks and wrens search the surface of.the earth for insects, or hunt among leaves and under logs for them. The warblers, vireos, creepers and nuthatches with their microscopic eyes scan every part of the tree or shrub—trunks, branches and leaves—and few living things es- cape them., The wood-peckers, not content with carefully scrutinizing the tark and limbs of trees, dig into de- cayed and worm-eaten wood and drag forth the burrowing worms, which in their hidden retreats are safe from other enemies. The fly-catchers, aided by the warblers, are even on the aler‘ te snatch up insects’ when flying among trees and branches; while the swal- lows and nighthawks skim over the pastures and patrol the air high above the tree tops for such of the enemies as have escaped pursuit below. Thus each family plays its part in the never-ending warfare, and the number of insects annually consumed by the combined hosts is simply incal- cufable. It is well that this is.s0, Bie a it should be sald that the introduc- tion of cowpea hullers should be en- couraged in all parts of the state where peas are grown. There are one or two companies putting out small pea hullers, which can be run with a two and one-half to five-horse power gas engine where farmers are inter: ested in hulling their own peas. The average yield of peas is around nine or ten bushels per acre. They may run as low as five bushels, or in exceptional cases, as high as twenty- five bushels. The planting of peas with corn for hogging down is one of the cheapest methods of making pork, and is com- ing into wider use every year. Sheep are also pastured on cowpeas and corn sown together in this way.. The sheep will clean up the peas and the blades of corn to the ears without se- riously damaging the-corn otherwise. imvasions. It is not, however, at such periods that their services are of most value. It is their persistent activity in destroying insects every day, at all seasons, and at all stages of growth—the long, steady pull rather than the spasmodic effort—that tends to prevent insect eruption and to keep the balance true. Few birds are wholly beneficial, and there are very few among the harmful ones that have no redeeming features. |. Most birds most of the time are bene- ficial; a few birds most of the time are injurious. Certain species may be beneficial in one region and harm- ful in others; or perform useful serv- ices at one season and be injurious at another. Much misapprehension exists as to the habits of owls and hawks. Ex- amination of thé contents of the stomachs of such birds to the number of several thousand has established the fact that their food consists al- most entirely of injurious mammals and insects. And that, accordingly. these birds are in most ‘tases posi- tively beneficial to the farmer, and should be fostered and protected. Among the wholly beneficial are the ‘arge, rough-legged hawk; its near rel- ative, the squirrel hawk, and the fou kites. ‘ The class that is beneficial in the amain—that is, whose depredations are of little consequence as compared with the good it does—include a majority of the hawks and owls. They are: March hawk, Harris’ hawk, red-tailed hawk, short-tailed hawk, short-winged hawk, broad-winged hawk, Mexican black hawk, sparrow hawk, barn ow}, long-eared owl, short-eared owl, great gray owl, Western owl, Acadian owl, screech owl, snowy owl, hawk-owl, cereene owl, pygmy owl, and elf owl. The class in which the harmful and beneficial qualities about balance in- cludes the golden eagle, bald eagle, pigeon-hawk, Richardson's hawk, prairie falcon and the great horned owl. The harmful class comprises the NEW YORK MYSTERY SOLVED! DISMEMBERED BODY OF GIRL HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED. Rector of a Catholic Church Confessed to Murdering His Servant and Cutting Up Body. New York, Sept. 15.—With the ar rest here of the Rev. Hans Schmidt. assistant rector of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church, charged with the murder of Anna Aumuller, a domes- tic, the mystery surrounding the find- ing twelve days ago of parts of the dismembered body of a girl in the Hudson river was solved. Schmidt. according to the police reports, has confessed, and at the time of his ar- rest attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a safety razor blade, “I killed her because I loved her 80 much,” Schmid: is alleged to have told his captors. But the police ver- sion of the motive for the crime is that the young woman was approach- ing motherhood. He had married her through a cere- mony of his own performance, with- out witnesses, According to the police and the dis- trict attorney's, office, Schmidt’s con- fession was full and absolute. In it he is quoted as saying that he killed his companion with a butcher knife and cut up the body in a bathtub. The woman was Killed, the police say. while she slept, shortly after mid- night, September 2, in an apartment in Bradhurst avenue, where the priest had placed her five days before, Five bundles, wrapped in bedclothes and papers, were made of the parts of the body. Five times Schmidt left the apartment house with a bundle to cross the Hudson river to the Jersey shore. Five times he leaned over the stern of the ferry boat in mid- stream and cautiously gave the river his burden. Then he returned to the church, AMUSEMENT PARK BURNED Revelers Danced in Glare of Flames While Buildings Were Being De- stroyed at St. Louis. St. Louis, Sept. 15—While an amuse ment park at Horseshoe lake, near Kast St. Louis, Ill, was being de stroyed by fire, a crowd of belated Sunday night revelers moved about from one building to another and danced in the glare of the flames from the pavilion they had just deserted. The main dance hall, a hotel and several other wooden structures were destroyed. The loss is estimated at $35,000 and is not covered by insur- ance, Cost of Living Higher. Washington, Sept, 15.—The cost of living on June 15 was approximately 60 per cent higher than the averaze vetween 1890 and 1900; more than 3 per cent higher than it was a year <g0, and nearly 15 per cent higher than it was two years ago. Fell With Bombs in Pocket. Tuluth, Minn., Sept. 15.—A stumble, with his pockets filled with dynamite. is believed ve caused the death of Eric |} years old, near Lester Park. Frazments of his body were recovered from among the stumps which he had been blasting. Wilson Back to Sign Tariff. Cornish, N. H., Sept. 15.—Believing that the Tariff bill may be out of conference and ready for his signa- ture some time this week, President Wilson plans to be back in Washing ton Tuesday. Soldiers’ Home Surgeon Out. Leavenworth, Kan., Sept. 16.—The board of managers of the National Soldiers’ Home have passed resolu- tions, demanding the resignation of Maj. J. L. Fryer, chief surgeon at the home. THE GENERAL MARKETS. neas City, Mo, carte teers Selected feeders HOGS—Bulk of sales. SHEEP—Yearlings . “Lambs . WHEAT—No. 2 hard 1913. 915 P7853 8 40 5 Sept. 16, E750 G 740 7:90 425 OATS--No. 2 white HAY—Timothy Prairie . BUTTER—Creamery EGGS—Extra . CHICKENS ST. LouIs CATTLE--Steers OQOeSOte e685 erry Ls G, Smith & Bros. 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And, debt tee Swate of said Fee and coupon hes requested me to exec: aid deed of tras bh r 1913, at the front (fell the town of Batler, W. PETERSON, Trustee. Notice. ce is hereby given that letters testamen the estate of J.C. M. Young,de to lersigned by the issouri, bear- i HI MISSOURI PACIFIC IRON MOUNTAIN Missouri Pacific Time Table BUTLER STATION CORRECTED JUNE 25, 1918 NORTH. ; Joplin Mall & Ex No. 209 St. Louis Limited. . 291 Local Freight, d INTERSTATE, WEST. . 688 Madison Local Freight, car- ries passeugers. No 637 Madison Accommodation. EAST BOUND ARRIVALS, No. 688 Butler Accommodation. 11:15 a.m No. 694 Butler Local Freight 5:00 p.m, Freight trains Nos. 693 and 694 carry passen- gers on Interstate Diviaion. No other freight trains carry passengers. All freight for forwarding must be at depot not later than en o’clock &. m. or be held for followin 6 forwarding. Freight for Interstate Division must be delivered before five o’clock p. m, No freight billed for this train in morning. R. D. Wanxrn, Agent. —— ane. Order of Publication. STATE OF MISSOURI, { County of Bates, In the Circuit Court of Bates County, Mis- souri, in Vacation August 5th, 1918, Order of Publication. The State of Missouri at the relaticn and to the use of J. H Stone Ex-Officio Collector of the Revenue of Bates County in the State of Mis- souri, plsintif, ve C.D. Butterfield, Defendant. The State of Miesouri to the above named di - fendant, Greeting:—civil action for delinquent tex Now at this day comes the plaintiff herein by Clerk of G fa the State of Missouri, ‘petition stat above named di ident of itis ordered r the fled by publication that plaintiff bes com- menced a suit pn ph this court by pe- State nature of which in Bates a Lot six (6), Block Com; "8 oye ate bee E 8 is ¥ Bit is af Ht rts gs | PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. J. M. CHRISTY Diseases ot Women and Children a Specialty BUTLER MISSOURI Office Phone 20 House Phone 10 DR. J. T. HULL 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 T. C. BOULWARE Physician & Surgeon Office North Side Square, Butler, Mo. Diseases of women and chil- dren a specialty. _B, F. JETER, Attorney at Law = Notary Public East Side Square Phone 186 BUTLER, MISSOURI OR. ROBERT E. CRABTREE General Practice. Diseases of Children. TELEPHONES Office 301 Residence 541 Office in Gench Bldg. TJ. HALSEY, M. D. 0. 0. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist and the fitting of Glasses BUTLER, MO Phone No. 45 Office over Peoples Bank Office Phone 3. Residence Phone 268 H. E. MULKEY,