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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1913)
BOX BUTTE COUNTY LEADS IN POTATOES 522,785 Bushels of Potatoes Raised in Box Butte Countv in 1912. Valued at $392,088. Other Big Crops Interesting Facts and Figures Bulletin No M, isiMieJ by the Bur- valued at $4,241. The average yield u of Labor and Industrial Statis- Pr 24 bushels tie, covers rrop statistics of Ne braska for the year Mil and com parisons with preceding years. This includes acreage of crops, orchard ctatistics and live stock statistics. Te report shows as follows for Box Butte county: Farms Box Butte county has farms on which the owner resides, and XS farms which are farmed by tenants. This total of 456 farms contains :'.55, 401 acres, of which only 46,070 acres Millet and Hungarian Grasses l,Ml acres were planted to millet and Hungarian grasses. r,27" tows were raised, with a total value of $60,662. The average yield per acre was 1.8 tons. Sorghum Cane 2!H acres were planted to sorghum cane and a total of 1,600 tons was raised, with a value of $12,800. The average yield per acre was 5.6 tons. Totals The total value of crops raised by are in cultivation. Hundreds and uite county tarmers uurmg thousands of additional acres are r 1912 Is. according to the being places under cultivation each report, $1,251,648. The average val- year and the larger farms are being e cre of cultivated land of pub-divided into smaller holdings by crops raised during U year is the influx of new settlers from $27.16. eastern points. The average size of The values placed on the crops the present Box Butte county farm named in the report were the aw, 1s 779 5 acres, each farm having an ae prices received for the crops in average of 103.2 acres under culti- the state during the year and were vaition on each average farm. Ixjss as follows: than one-seven'th of the land now in Crop Price farms is cultivated. Corn, per bushel $ .60 Potatoes Winter wheat, bushel 85 Box BuWe county leads the state Spring wheat, bushel I. ttM production of potatoes. This bushel year 5,503 acres were planted to po- Barley, bushel ttne in the county, producing a Ryp. bushel Lrtal of 522.785 bushels, valued at Alfalfa, ton I2.M $392,088. The average per acre is Ha'. ton 11. oO 96 bushels. The average value perjSpeltz, bushel 43 peri of the potato crop te $62.25. MHb t. ton .11.50 Contractors in Box Butte county will : Hungarian grasses, ton 11.50 r.rnUh the seed and do all the Sorghum cane 8.00 vork, including planting, cultivating ' Potatoes, bushel And harvesting for $12 per awe. ! r corn, ton Thiu u . 1 1 1 1 1 1 i.aw a net orofit of $5926 per acre on land which can starte farmed by owners is 72.448; by now be purchased at an average tenants is 65.275. The total number price of $30 per acre. These fig- ! ,' ps included in the grand tc:al i res seem rather fanciful but the f 127.723 farms in the II ate Is 27. 1 u.vau of Labor and Industrial Sta- 821.904. of which 12.468.663 acres, or tisties has compiled its figures With J HUle les than one-half, are uu ,lns,aking care and infinte labor. or cultivation. Box Butte county has the land for cix! .-..'more farmers. It leads the state in Box But.te county had 510 acres w , , . 'potatoes and is near the head of rlanted to flax during the year. The " " ,, 'he list in many other crops, in itaitement does not show the income ... ttiHemeio . . spite of the fa-t that practically ev- f pom mis crop um " " - nal men state thait the average 5 .36 .65 .70 6 p. m This is the regular supper hour and the banquet will make It unnecessary to buy any other up per. The most Important feature of the banquet Is the toast list The toastmastcr will be one of tin- !; ! the state a man of statewide reputation Those on the list will Include the governor of the state and distinguished gentlemen and la dle. Ladies are especially Invited to attend. The price is seventy-five cent per plate. Reservations mus; e made early in order to Insure a I'lace at the table. Those desiring to attend should send notice to Chairman Banquet Committee, Uni veratty Farm, Uncoln, Nebr., togeth er with 76c for each place desired THE CATTLE SITUATION A CONDITION, NOT A THEORY A Sensible Woman Writes Interest ingly on Saving the Girls, and Gives Good Advice ARTICLE WORTH REPRINTING The Norfolk. Nebr., Press Is edit ed l a woman, a married woman, n ejrihle woman. Mrs Marie O'Don noii Weekes. She wrltts In. en.-. I'ifcly on some subje:.s that we men editors do not mention often, per liHtis not as often as we should. In the issue of the Pre of January , Mad, Mrs. U'eekts had an article tin The cattle market at the present: thp mpon ..A (.on(Hon X(rt time seems to be in a rather disor ! Tllwv wnk.n are pleawd to ganized condition However, we see ' u,tah M foHoWB: no reason v!inteer for alarm over he matter. This is grand weather Tin re is not much use In trying for cattle feeding. There has been ,( her. she has gone beyond and Is now an abundance of both recall." declared a well-meaning man ,.hQ.. on.l fnttpnln food and, the oner day when he was asked if Veils Uhoes Look Over His Line Hunan, Edwin Burr, E. P. Reed, and Sherwood Ladles' line Is the finest line shown west of Chicago by any retail dealer. Look Them Over people will eat meat, why, there fore, should the unfinished product be sacrificed because of a flurry in something couldn't be done for a wayward sixteen year old girl who : traveling a pace that is significant the market? The thrifty growing H Ignominious end. And the stc r nicely laying on flesh is pay- I H tWt ad commentary on our ing his board and keep by ndded I methods of olvili:r on, is no more beef value. Production Is not keep- d no less than environment has ing par-e with consumption. The "tade her. Were a new and strange slaughter of potential beef supplies disease to strike its venomous fangs goes on. the calve are ruthlessly valuable lwre. tow or ho, killed, and the numbers of cattle on 1,1 li,,u ! the red tape of I feed are decidedly below normal. government bureau would be It Is well to ship good cattle Just unwound and everything possible as fast as their condition warrants, j w'ould be done to save the stricken Holding cattle that are ready for j animal or at least to save those of market with the expectation of a in danger of contagion. To rise In values has been, and nlways 1(1 ' f) M have jails and police will be. a risky proposition. ; courts ami homes for wayward girls Abnormally high prices cannot be , but we never put them in any of reasonably expected to be obtained j th places until it is too la'e, un indefinitely at any season. There will come a recession, which cannot be essentially called a slump. In oth- til -hey have shown symptoms of the destroying germ and there is little chance for recovery and ti ¬ er words, we believe the margin 1-- 01 P laining their original moral vlg tween the raw and the finished Of In the name of all that is good, .78 The total number of farms in :he ery acre of many counties In the eastern part of the stale is being . v. .. ,,. i . i . i ' i ' is 30.00 .,-,.. u. e- - farmed, while here only one-seventh Seoarators, Milch Cows, Live Stock .' u.. and is unJer cultivation. Land is cheap iind Opportunity awaits the farnver who desires to grow high prieed i rops on low priced land. I BEE KEEPERS WANT INSPECTION ... if In the county there are a io .m m 71 hand separators and 2,052. milch cows. There are i.i,o m-.m r ca-ttle, 2,064 lu;ul of h )gs, horsi I and mules. Poultry There are 1 .S6!i dozen hi kens I i c- -t.iven nther fowls, making a Big Loss to State Through Oi tillll w wwaaa total of 24.373 fowls In the county. orn I The Staite Bee Keepers' AssocLa- There were 13 330 ares planted to''i'n will again ask the legislature to corn during the year 1H12. on which fPIM the nee inp-tlon law whih I o t .i ... .1.1, . i . ,1 . i i rfhe .total nroduxlion was 361'7t 0U., . ....... 4f '7 IllIU hel ner ses'on or an ww psy " (ure. The value or this crop is $217,546. Winter Wheat The bee men say that the : disease known as "KVml Brood" U pausing a to.al loss of not less than J a quarter million dollars in Nebras ka every year. This disease, which is of bacterial nature, is rapidly transmitted from hive to hive, de stroying the bets in the infant .-lute. The average hive of bees Is reck oned to be worth about five dollars, ami will produce under good man agement another swarm and five There were 1.643 acres planted to winter wheat. 34,566 bushels of win ter wheat were raised, an avei ige of 21 bushels per a: re. -ll a total value of fit ,11 for the y a is crop. Spring Wheat 6.4S4 aires were planted In cpring . m... mini uitmI tint ion was wiien. ... ij- .... dollars' worth of honey during the I"t68ti bushels, an average of 20 i-a," ... i ' summer. Besides these valuable ele- tmshels oer acre. The total value of I . ou"u" ' iments of profit, the bees perform ;ui Ihe crop Is $110, 2-' i.iportant economic function in the 0t pollination of fruits, vegetables and 6.878 acres were planted in oa cropj, The department of en- ipnoducing a total f 226,074 bushels. iClm)lot,v ,,, ht, i'iVeraity has valued at $79,440. The average ben ,,,.1 an exhaustive field yield per acre Is 33 bushel. invt stigation of the relation which Barley Mm sustain to the su-cesful poll 1- KJ a-res wcif planted to barley. mfnj of alfalfa and the increasing producing a total of 30,752 bushels. ot tnt. Beexj ,.rop. These iniesJiga valiicl at TM average yield liolltl wll) 8loNX ,luU , ,u. ,mil per acre was 31 bushels. sustain a vital relation to successful Rye ,ioductioii of alfalfa seed. I M acres were planted to rye, , Tha bee keepers state that the producing a total of 4o.ti''i' bushels, disease which threatens the exter with a valuation of $2H,484 The av niination of their industry can be MUM yield per acre was 2o.r bush readily controlled under competent iuspe'tion, and they will ask that Alfalfa he Htate Kntoimdogist be officially IjU a re are planted to alfalfa. J i barged wl'h this duty in conformity win 'It i.riHliM-eil a total of 4,3X0 tons, i'wi.h the sy.stt iu which now prca 's nrodud will toe wide enough to give ! " can we expect oi the girl born the feeder the wage of which the j cureless if not Immoral parents laborer is worthy. The market is v 'h.se home environment is anything not. The American people love beef ; 'oit whnt i. ought to be. whose edit too well to allow it. We will hatr I gained in the street, the reactions but we will also have re ! " carefully conducted dance overle8. Avoid the former by strlv- , hall, whose body Is half clothed and ln,g not to feed a declining tendency. ! Poorly nourishetl and w ho has noth By all means ship your finished cat- j 'n- nothing, nothing in all her life tie but don't rush In the unfinished to teach her the love of beauty, simply because someone gets scared ' cleanliness, motalily, service o a h and cries, "Ship everything, the er ' "tost or all to a Hup; :ne Be market's ruined." ins whose tenderness could forgive . a Magdalene? "Prt y ', .! Ii k NEBRASKA'S RECORD en," the prey of the man who ad- AS A FRUIT STATE mires the face but sneers when she I turns her back and who wouldn't Winner at World-Shows Forty Years marry her because she Is not of hi class, at the depots, on the Btreeta, Before you Invest in orchard land here and there and everywhere, a thousand miles away, listen to a j where llWle girls should not be, lis few facts: Forty-three years ago tetyin,? to the sweet, and Insincere, Nebraska contracted the habit of stories of some selfish man who winning first prizes at world fruit would strike down his best friend shows and has kept it up ever since, were he to talk in the same way Among the treasures of the S' He and for the same purpose to his sis- Horticultural Society are a lot of ttr or daughter. But did you ever medals awarded for the excellence stop to think that lose poor gir i j of Nebraska fruit in compel it io;i wnom you contempiousiy pity are with the best that could be produced sisters and da ugh te-rs- sisters and by skilled horticulturists from every daughters who lack the things your seotion. Kx-Governor Robert W. Fur- sisters aaid daughters have but who nas was during all the long period of by rtason of human merit long for his public lle one of the most loyal those things that delight every wo- and consistent boosters for Nebras- man. tJood clothes, entertainment, ki, and hi.- chief pride was the de- prettily furnished homes, appetizing velopment tit her fruit Interests. The viands how many girlis have these j following medals awarded to (lover- material things to blame for their nor Furnas for Nebraska fruit are downfall? Norfolk has its quota of now In the possession of the Hortl- pretty, helpless chickens and, yes, cultural Society: more titan Its share of hungry, plti Massachusetts, silver medal ....I86H less wolves and worse hah all i; has New Jersey, silver medal 1871 s ores and scores of disinterested, In American Poinologl-al Society, I active and don't-havetlme-to-bother- bronze medal 1871 with-some-body-else's-glrl people. Centennial Kxposition. Philudel- phla, one bronze, one gold and OBITUARY five silver medals IW Columbian Kxposition, at Chicago two bronze medals 11M Trans -.Mississippi Kxposition, Om aha, two bronze medals 18i8 Fraiis M. Baker was born In In diana. February 8, 1X52, and died at his heme in Alliance, Nebr., January 10 Ittl.t 4e would Iihvi lieeti alictv Be-ide these permanent trtMbt' nex( the records or the Horticultural bo ciety disclose a bewildering array of minor winnings at practically every lr infancy his parents moved to Falrbury, III., where he grew to j ii 1 1, In ii i.l ,'i.t rHAtfUut ffir ulirkili h.ilt exposition of national scope for the 1Illo fron ,nen IO hj, nasi forty years At the Paris Kx , n . ! past forty yea ! position Marshall Bros, of Arlington : won two gold medals on Nebraska apples. At the National Horticultur al OonSMM In IH$ Nebraska grow lers atercd thirty p' ites in the ':n c'ty nine yeaii ago last O fober In Dairbury. III., Oct. 18. 1883, he was united in marriage to MUs Lena j II Zbinden, who with three children urvive him. Mis. I.. I). Katon of Torrington. Wyo., Mrs. C. S. Olson valued at $54,570. Hay The hay acreage in Box Bo-:-county is I3.JI75. The total pi-odu. lion for 1M12 was 1H.9S4 toais, valued at $22ti,S16. The average yield toay was 1 .43 tons per acre. Speitz mi a majority of the houey-proditcliiit; stales. Ol CORN IMPROVERS' BANQUET The Corn Improvers' Banquet has fiecoma sn annual affair and is jileasantly anticipated by all niein toeis und friends of the Aaoiat Ion i , ...... ,1.., v ,1 w lat ictt ""' 'MM,C - . of Kverelle. Wash., and A b. it M Uf apples; in these claaaes they com- f Ipeted with thirty-one states; out of the thirty entries, Nebraska won - r s. wt n: y-.-ight premiums, as follows: .teu firsts, eleven seconi.s and .'lilil thiids. The land which has been growing his "fruit for forty ytara la Juat be I ing discovered by NetorasJtana, who .it ed no' go outside their own state to find abundant opportunity for suc cessful fruit-growing. The great fruit show which will Ik- made at Lincoln the week of January 20-24 will dem onstrate to the world again that Ne braska ranks high In opportunities 411 acres were planted to speitz ij, w Ue heUi at the Lindell Hotel With a total production of !,864 bu .'on Monday evening, January 20th, at tin Vr. Baker had been a iiu uiber of lb Presbyterian church in I ilr l:iry since 1803. He W94 a in: M ' ) ira(iw, and a ineiiiBer of the Brick Mason's union. Much of the time he labored under gr. M diffi ulty be cause of impairetl healtli. For tw. n iv five years he was a great sufferer, the cause of. which medical skill was unable to remove Four years ago be met with an a cideiil which ag gravaHed Ihe trouble and the past two years he was almost a constant sufferer until death came to his re M.ritol Hair Tonic keens scalp in a healthy condition, pre- I He.f. veil's the halt from rilling out. re- Funeral service was held at the stores ii to Its uatural color abd if hou , ehlirgt, of aBlor of M. K used regularly keeps the liali soft and fluffy F I imi:. church, Interment in t.reenw.MKl Advertisement Jan 2 cemetery Monarch No. 1 Dip 1 to 75 Cures Scabs, Chases Flies, Sure Death to Lice Certificate of Government Approval on every can THE BEST FOR Sheep, Cattle, Horses, Poultry and Hogs USE IT NOW Gvaraitrrerf by RoC Ckemlcml Comcern, Lincoln, Nebr. sow by j. R. ACHESON Sweep Your Floor with Paroline i In the ortice, store and home the most disagreeable nuisance is dirt and dust caused by sweeping. This can be avoideJ by using Caroline. Paroline is a scientific compound of vegetable oils and other substances. You sprinkle a small amount on the lloor before sweeping. It gathers up and holds the dust. It is antiseptic and prevents disease. Paroline costs very little. A small amount goes a long way. I se it once. You will wonder why you didn't get it sooner. For Sale at The Herald Office in Any Quantity FRESH FISH Any Kind of Fish You Want, Every Day in the Week OBANNON BROS. Zrix"a.It arid Produce Store ROWAN S CORNER PHONE 9