FOR ESTIMATES ON
CEMENT WALKS
CURBS
CONCRETE
FOUNDATIONS
HOLLOW BLOCKS
AND
ORNAMENTAL WORK
OF ALL KINDS
SEE
J. J. VANCE
Alliance, Nbr.
John Snoddy, Pres.,
F. 8. Showers, V. Pres.
May Snoddy, Sec. & Trcas.
NELSON FLETCHER
FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY
Also Represent the
Nebraska State Building
and Loan Association
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BEETS ON DRY LAND
May Be Successfully Grown Without
Irrigation by Summer Fallow
ing Dry Land
BOX BUTTE MAY GROW BEETS
Take
in Front of the Checkered Front Stable
feu cao nearly always see a rig getting:
ready to start out. We will send one any
distance, for any purpose, at any time.
We answer all calls promptly
and will be glad to serve you in any way
ia which a rig is required.
H. P. COURSEY. Prop
PHONB i v
C. SCOTT
AUCTIONEER
Graduate Missouri Auction School
Dates may be left at Herald of
flee. Alliance, or write nie at
LAKESIDE, NEBRASKA
There are theories and theories In
regard to dry fanning No matter
how plausible a theory may look. If
It doesm't pan out when put Into
practice It Ih no good, but a theory
Unit has boem tried and proven mi
enessful Ib deserving of consideration.
Kn. in tini" to time there ban been
talk about growing beets without Ir-
rignMon In weatern Nebraska and
tome experiments have been made.
I ia generally believed that, much of
the soil of the country surrounding
Alliance ia adapted to beet culture,
the one difficulty standing in the
way of growing beeta being lack of
Irrigation
Then iir some who believe that
growing beeta here without irrigation
Hhould be thoroughly tested. J. N.
Johnston ia one of these persons. The
lore part of last month he wrote to
the Colorado Suite Agricultural Col
lege, lex-ated at Ft. Collina, for In
formation on tWa subject, and haa
received the following two letters
from Prof. Alvin Keyser, chief of the
department of the agronomy:
Fort Collins Colo., Dec. 21, 1911.
Mr. J. N. Johnston,
Alliance, Nebr.
Dear Sir: I have your letter of the
llth Insit., addressed to the Kxpeii
meni Station, whtch has just len
n ! erred to me for reply
We have had some experience
with beets on the dry land, and hh a
fJMieral result of that experience we
can ny that beets should be put on
well prepare! land. Csually this will
necaaHtaAe deep plowing and the
Hummer tllhixe system of cullure. In
the Humuuir tillage I would use a
modified system, say disking (In
land Vn the spring to retard the
growth of weeds which will start, an
to make it better able to catch mois
ture, and then plowing in July. When
the plowing is done It whould be very
deep, 10 or 12 Inches. The plow
should be followed with the dink and
harrow and the land left with per
haps occasional surface cultivation,
until the following spring, when it
should be plowed very early and ids
deeply as possible. The beets can
be planted in the proper iseaison,
which will be in April or .May in
your locality, where land is prepared
in this iway.
The thinning process differs some
wbat from irrigated conditions, in
that the beets .should be thinned
KOinewhaH more. Under irrigated
conditions it is the usual practice to
thin to about S Inches. m rich land.
Cnder dry farming conditions, e n
Where the land is prepared as al
ready Indicated. I would thin to 12
inches in the row and hav'e the rows
at least 20 Inches apart.
Very truly yours,
A IAIN KKYSKR,
Chiff of Dept. of Agronomy, State
Agricultural College.
profits could be obtained In aeaaons
like 1909. flrtme profitable yields
were obtained in 1910 on Hummer
fallowed land. In Colorado there
were a number of farms thBt obtain
h1 profitable yields hi till on land
that was Irrigated in the fall of 1011
but received no irrigation during the
season of 1911. I think this brings
out the point which Insures success
or spells failure, vie., the neraity
of having waiter In the noil. If this
can be kept by summer tillage or the
summer fallow, profitable crojm can
be growm. When the yield are
fairly good, Investment considered,
the profits are usually larger on the
diy land than under Irrigation, be
cause the costs are not so high. The
question which nricses la that the
crop Is not so certain on the dry
land as under irrigation except un
dei the most favorable aiwl advanced
culture conditions.
Very truly yours,
ALVIN KKVSKlt
It will be noticed that Prof. Key
aer, while believing that sugar beets
may be profitably grown In the semi
arid belts without irrigation, is not
extravagant in his claims. The plan
that he outUnes for experimenting
In very simple, It looks practical, and
could be easily tried by ainy farmer.
The Herald would like to see the
experiment tried extensively In Box
Butte and adjoining counties because
we believe it may be made a great
success. We wish to call the atten
tion of our readers to tiie fact that
other root crops are grown much
more successfully without Irrigation
in thin part of Nebraska than they
have been in the part of Colorado
that Ft. Collins and (Ireeley are
situated in, which we supose is
the part of that state where the ex
periments referred to by I'rof. Key
aer have been made. If beet grow
in" without irrigation may be carried
on fairly successfully in north cen
tral Colorado, we believe that it may
be done very much more successfully
in northwestern Nebraska.
vamoose and thus shut up, and wish
he'd never Been the sun I simple
and It's lots of fun. You get him
started to explain the failure of the
aeroplane; Juai why It won't amount
to much and why the men who work
with auch are foolish crar.ks and
crotchety, and are too dumb to think
or see. Then ask some questions on
vhl.s line, 'twill make him shut up
every time: What Is the difference
between a Farma.n and a Wright ma
chine? If aviators are Insane, pray
tell, why is the aeroplane? If IJleriot
flys out of sighit, please tell us now,
la Orvllle Wright? If business col
lege you slur, then what Is the
stenographer? If editors you do not
bless. Oh then, what will the print
mg press?
Ilarsconiiia.
TWENTY-FOUR FIRE ALARMS
Alliance Averaged Two Fire Alarms
per Month in 1911
Fort Collins, Colo., Jan. 4. lit 1 2.
Mr J. N. Johnston,
Alliance. Nebr.
Dear Sir: I have your letter of
the 29th UK., in regard to further In
formation concerning beets on the
dry land.
Beets on the dry land differ from
be, is under irrigation largely in
yield. Their quality has been high
wherever they have done well at all.
all ho the tonnage is usually much
les.-. Cnder the summer fallow, by
the accumulation of one season's
moisture to he:lp out the mo sture
falling during the growing season,
yields as profitable a-i yields i ider
irrigation have sometimes been ob
tained. The uncertainty of obtaining
as high yield makes the que ion of
profit quite uncertain as e jinpureel
with irrigutU a. 1 have t.ea as h gh
I 2o tons or' .sugar !. ti produced
on the dry la-id iu the vl.-uvty of
Ncrth I'la. e. I have also set n iu
certain Meaaons yields so low that
tluv did not pay tiie c u of produ.
"on. The thoroughness of culture
and th amount of moisture preetit
Vtll MaTtjaly regulate the profits
The com of cultivation on the dry
land i not as great as it W under
irrigation, as it is wot necessary to
furrow out and do the irrigating. Ir
rigation simply furnishes water nec
e.sary for high yields If the water
in not ued properly it will result in
Injury to the crop, which K not a
question that you have to consider
In your problem
Years of severe drouth like 1911
and 1910. iu most localities, will not
usually produce a profitable crop.
Yields large enough to pay handsome
RESURVEY OF TOWNSHIPS
Letter from Congressman Kinkaid to,
Box Butte County Citizen
Aa many Herald readers are inter
ested In the resurvey of parts of
western Nebraska, we take pleasure
In publishing the following letter
from Congressman Kinkaid to A. 1),
Weir of the northwestern part of
Box Butte county:
Washington, I). C, Dec. 27, 1911.
Mr. A. D. Weir, Mnrsland, Nebr.
My dear Mr. Weir: I have this
morning received your esteemed fa
vor of the 23rd Inst., and have care
fully noted Its contents. It will be a
pleasure to today order the bullet his
you specify sent you. and If you do
no receive the same In due time,
please advice me.
Noting what you say relative to
the resurvey of your township, and
replying, will say the difficulty as to
ret-urveyis not only in our district but
in other dlatHota is that the demands
for six li resurveys are so very, very
great that it is impossible for the
I cpartmenjt to keep the work c ur
rent. I have all along done the Ccn
gressnian's part, having provided the
law and the money, and it renin i n 3
the duty of the Interior Department
to perform the work. During fhe
past four seasons I have secured
four separate reaurveying corps to be
kept constantly at work in our dis
trict, and shall continue to do every
thing I can to expedite this work.
I have a bill pending now asking for
a special appropriation of one hun
dred thousand dollars for the pur
pose of resurveys in Nebraska, and
shall do all 1 can to secure a special
appropriation for this work at this
session.
Regretting I cannot advise you
definitely as to when a ri survey
may be made of your township, but
trusting the sain;- may net be too
long delayed. I remain, with coinpli
tnents of the season.
Very cordially yours.
If. 1'. KINKAID
Following is a list of fires In Alli
ance bust year, or rulher a list of
the cmIIs responded to by the fire
department, some of the calls being
false alarms, submitted by the sec
retary of the fire department, in
which the date of fire, name of prop
erty or owner thereof, loss, and
cause of fire are given.
Jan. 5, Mrs. Lotspeicii, no loss re
ported, water front in stove blew out
account frozen. No "fire.
Jan. 7, false alarm.
Feb. 16, Alliance Shoe Store, $1,
f15, spontaneous combustion.
Feb. 7, Catholic church, $4,000,' de
fective furnace flue.
I'c b. 22, hay rack in Simonson ad
d;tion, $5.00, ismall boys and matches.
March 5, Baptist church, $47, de
tective furnace.
.Mardh 9, small coal shed, $15, un
known. March 24, false alarm at Star res
taurant. April IS, W. G. Zediker, wood
shed, $100, unknown.
May 24, Mrs. Owens, false alarm,
gasoline stove.
June 10, 114 Yellowstone Ave.,
630. defective chimney.
June 24, barn at 7th and Iaramie
Ave., $150, unknown.
Sept. 6, false alarm at Hoist en 'a.
Sent. 6, Pardee bakery, $100, de
fective chimney in bake oven.
Sept. 22, E. Adams in West Lin,
$114.50. defective chimney.
Nov. 1, Mrs. Holdrege, $:S250, de
fective furnace.
Nov. 2, false alarm at Drake ho
tel. Nov. I, J. B. Denton's store, $685,
small stove in one of up-atairs rooms.
Nov. 6, T. J. Threlkeld and Owls,
$682, fire starred In bath roam.
Nov. 10, false alarm at Bill Beck
er's restaurant.
Nov. 10, Mrs. Elmore, $75, defect
ive furnace.
Nov. 11, Dan Fltzpatrick, $1,359,
fire started In cellar where they had
been thawing out water pipes.
Dec. 27, false alarm at barber shop.
Dec. 29, Joint O Keefe. $10, de
flective furnace flue.
Total number of fire alarms for
year 1911, 24; total loss reorted,
$12,167.50.
SNEAD SLAYS AGED MAN
Husband Kills Father of Man Who
Eloped With Wife.
A. B. Hoyee, fathe r Of the man ar
rested recently In Winnipeg, charged
with abducting Mrs. J, B. Snead from
a hospital in Fort Worth, was killed
by J. B Snead. a banker of Amarlllo,
Tex., husband of the woman with whom
young Boyc e is said to have eloped.
THE MARKETS
KNOCKERS
The men who knock should all be
bung, they're better off if they are
strung; but then. I s'pese they still
would kick and say that they were
feeling sic k A knoc ker k.iocka he
knows not why he knocks it men
attempt to fly, he says thai aero
plane arc punk and batsle liips
should all h sunk; he says that sys
tem is a thing that's unit used by
I'rii ee- and King, and if a man would
make i;ome dough he needs must let
th" red tape" go The expert
knee-kern "know it all," they keep it
up fi in Mining till fall, they knock
on mow, they knock ou rain, they
give the weather man the biauie But
somehow every now and then the
knot ker surely gets his w hen a man
shows up who really knows ami does
n't cure for all the blows; he shows
the knocker up just right and makes
him with Ids goods take flight, and
leave his paltry 'steen per week
tha other suckers he may seek. The
way to show- a knocker up, make him
Chicago, Jan. II, Closing prices:
Wheat May, 99:S.c; July, 94'sC.
1144c; May, tit fi 8440.
t'.'Ue; July, 44464 14 t.
616.61 May, $16 .10.
Coi n - Jan.,
Oats- .May,
Pork- Inn ,
I. aril l;-n..
Hi lis- - Ian .
TheCRYSTALTHEATRE
West & Braman, Proprietors
Hih-class entertainment at popular prices. Moving
pictures and vaudeville
114 Boa 6atta Avium
On half black narth of Burlington Station
West & Braman Rooming House
Crystal Theatre Building
We wish to announce to the public that we have taken
charge of the Younkin building and are now having it
thoroughly renovated from cellar to garret. We will
furnish our patrons with clean and comfortable rooms
at a moderate price. When stopping in Alliance over
night, give us a trial.
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If You Winter in California
You can go there over a very attractive route one of sunshine,
low altitudes and mild climate. You can go Burlington-Santa Fe, Via
Denver o Pasadena and Los Angeles in personally conducted tourist
sleepers, leaving Omaha every Tuesday night, train No. 9, and Denver
every Wednesday evening. Experienced conductors are in charge of these
excursions; you will enjoy your ride to California over these two first
class railroads. If not convenient to connect with No. I enroute through
Nebraska, use Kny of the Burlington trains into Denver, and let me se
cure a through berth for you, to be taken at Denver.
Then there is the scenic way to California via Denver, Colorado,
and Salt Ixike, with standard and tourist sleepers to Denver and from
Denver to the coast.
NATIONAL WESTERN STOCK SHOW
This Is held at Denver, January 15th to 20th. Everyone going
will receive a big welcome in Denver the city of sunshine and hospital
ity.
Homeseekers' Excursion Tickets to the Big Horn Basin, also to
the West, South and Southwest. Winter Tourist Rates to Southern
and California Resorts Cities, Etc.
J. KRIDELBAUGH, Agent
Alliance
L. W. WAKELEY, G. P. A., Omaha
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Chicago Cash Prices No. hard
tth.Mt. Btc$l ftf; No. 2 corn, U -. No.
2 oatH. 4He
Chicago Live Stock.
Chicane lau. 1.Y Cattle Kcc clpts.
lf.000; iniiMly l(lc up; beeves, 4 75(??
1,60; w. stern steers, l-i . 7 ." 4 .2' :
-ttockei :i lid ie"d 'is, S.S0fi.fA; cows
and In itVrs, 63.6006.70; calves, 66.66
7'j :.ii. lle.i; -Receipts, 3'JJHHI; .".tjlOr
up; light. 6.6466J6: he:iy. 66 lo
6.50; -ouch. ei.l'a t 25; pigs, 4 '. B
.50: bulk, ii.3ui 0.43. Sheep Re
ceipts, 20,000; weak: natives, f 'u
5.0H; westerns, 3t.o55oti; yeailinus,
66,6506.23; lambs, 4 8on 7.40.
South Omaha Live Stock.
South Omaha. .Ian. 15 Cattle Re
I aolpta. 4.100; H e- higher: beef steera,
6f.6907.36; cows and heifers, I&M6J
n.r.n atoekora and feeders, t ,1
st0; bulla, 64.ooa? 5 45: calves, 5.oo(r
7.75. Hogs Receipts. 7.900; 50 10"
nlgher: l.ewt laid hogs drought i
good Nttrhara, 4L06-16; light, 6.8g
QUI Sheep- Receipts, 3. 7io; stead);
arsthon 64.00 4.75: ewea, 63 00C
4.35; lambs. 45s6.65.
Boards
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for any part of a
house or barn.
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tStwcassar ta funk Wallace
Transfer Line
Household goods
moved promptly
and transfer work
solicited.
OfTIca at Rodgera' Grocery, Phone , Res. phone 563