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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1916)
mm mmm AT THE DENVER A CHILD CAN BUY AS SAFELY AS ITS PARENTS v - , '-. ; - i ' . ' ' ' " ' . - ' . ...... - -: - :v". '. : - . - - . . , ., ....... . , . . 1 . . : ... ...... .. J-?j.: . . . .. - . . - 4 , f- . , . 1 ' ; - ' ". ' - ' : , ! . ... .-.v . : . i, J-' ."i v . -UJffi-. ". , . ' " . . .' Wffi ' 1 ; Iff THE DENVER-A Great Merchandising Institution Built Upon the Solid Foundation of htegrity and Absolute .Reliability! THE GREAT HORSE SHOW AND LIVE STOCK SALE to be held at the big Stock Yards Stadium January 16 to 22 will be visited by hundreds of stockgrowers throughout the West. Special railroad rates have been granted by the various lines reaching Denver and there will be very special shopping advantages on account of the annual January Sales and Pre-Invetnory clear ance of surplu Blocks. If you are to be one of the many visitors in Denver on this occasion and we trust that you may be we extend our hearty welcome and a cordial invitation to make this greatest western store your convenience. A Special RequestTest the Honor of This Store! In the old time store-keeping there was so much untruthfulness, bartering and deceit that it is little wonder that there are still many who believe that business is never conducted upon really honest lines that require absolute truthful advertising and a sincere, honest service to customers. This store stands as a great, splendid monu ment' to business integrity. ' The Denver Is the New, Absolutely Reliable Kind of Store: All prices marked are in plain figures, and everybody pays the market price, there is no exception or favoritism. We mention our Important January Sales, and Remember that At fro Other time in the Season Are Such Economies Possible WOMEN'S AND MISSES' APPAREL Annual January Clearing Sale of all Winter Garments now in progress. ONE-FIFTH OFF CLEARANCE OF MEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING January 1 to 15 LINENS, DOMESTICS, BEDDING, January 3 to 15 LACE CURTAINS, DRAPERIES, January 3 to 8 SHOE CLEARANCE January 3 to 15 MUSLIN UNDEROARMENTS, January 10 to 22 WHITE GOODS, EMBROIDERIES AND LACES January 17 to 29 We carry everything worn by Man, Woman, Miss, Boy, Child or Infant, and everything for Household Use or Ornament PREPAID TO YOUR NEAREST POST OFFICE OR STATION, Excepting in such heavy merchandise as Furniture, Etc. WHEN YOUR HOME STORES CAN NOT SUPPLY THE GOODS YOU DE SIRE, TRY OUR MAIL ORDER DE PARTMENT. THE LARGEST STORE WITH THE LARGEST STOCK AND LARGEST BUSINESS IN THE WEST. FATTEN SWINE ON. OLD C0R3 Plae Anlmali In Clean Ptnt and Ah low Plenty of Room Guard - Against Hog Cholera. With grade pigs. It takea from sto to eight bushels of corn. Judlcioaatf fed. to make 10.0 pounds of pork. Cara leas feeders do not get as good a ra suit for the corn fed as this. It will take much more corn to fafr ten a hog In cold, wet weather ttaaa it does In mild weather. Put the hog up that are to be fatted In clean pen, do not crowd, feed what corn they will cat up clean at each meal. Give plenty of pure water to drink. Vot best family pork and lard, old cor and water is all they should hT four weeks' feeding should put them In good order for butchering. Farmer, having plenty of acorns in the wood lots, can fatten their hogs mostly the fallen nuts; this was the regular custom years ago and la still followed in some sections. It la a good one, alt that it needs is a tight fence aroun the woods. Brood sows will wlntef better in the woods if giren a log pe and a dry bed of leaves. Eight-month-old shoats, weighing 160 to 180 pounds, make the best fam ily pork., shoats fed on clover and grass pasture'; during the summer and given a bushel of old shelled cor make the best flavored meat Tata class of pork commands the highest market price. If hog cholera prevails In jovf neighborhood, allow no stranger t visit your pens. Stray dogs and bo zards are liable to spread the plague1 as they feed mostly on dead animal. Keep the feed troughs and pens clea and dry and allow no filth of any kind around the pens, as filth breeds dia ease. MANURE IN THE BOX STALLS More Bedding Is Required to Keep Animal Clean Ideal Breeding Place for Flies. (By J. N. ALLEN.) The production of manure In the box stall is probably the best of the old methods, since it requires the least expenditure of labor. However more bedding is required to keep the animal clean and the accumulated manure furnishes an Ideal breeding place for flies. The manure so produced, if kept evenly distributed over the floor, will be thoroughly compacted and will su tain only a small loss of nitrogen sc lo;ig as the animal remains upon it but if the manure is allowed to remaia in the stall after the animal is removed there will be considerable loss of nitro gen both as ammonia and as free nltro gen, due to the drying out and break ing up of the uric acid into ammonium carbonate, and to the action of the bacteria on the organic nitrogen com pounds. DEVICE FOR FEEDING SILAGf Lots of Work Required in Crlng fer Cattle Unlets Owner Has Oood , Head for Business. Silage is the great feed-all of the? successful American live-stock rarna. says Farming ltusiness. The feed ing of it requires lots of work, unless1 the feeder has a bend for business; Here is a device for feeding silage from a bank silo, v.hicii s 'n use on s Nebraska farm. It may also be used1 CROP ROTATIONS Nebraska Agricultural Kxperiment BUttlon at North Platte PublUh ee Report for Eight Years The Nebraska Agricultural Experi ment Station has recently Issued Bui letln 1S5, "Rotations and Tillage Methods in Western Nebraska." This La a report of eight years' results of growing crops under various methods of tillage and In various rotations on the table-land of the North Platte substation. The following subjects are discuss ed and the yields given of various crops grown under the conditions In dicated: "Weather Rather Than Tillage Controls Yields." "Summer Tillage vs. Continuous . Cropping." "Spring Plowing vs. Fall Plowing." "Corn Stubble vs. Grain Stubble for Small Grain." "Effect of Sorghum on Succeeding Crop." "Barnyard Manure." "Green Manure." "Rotationa." . "Crop Sequence." "Alfalfa and Brome Grass." "Sorghum as a Forage Crop." "Relative Values of Crops Grown." The following paragraphs are tak en from the summary of the bullet in: The results of eight years of care ful experimentation thruout a series of unfavorable years indicate that the common methods of growing crops In this region the results' of thirty years' experimentation and ob servation by intelligent farmers are founded on sound principles of eco nomic production. ..Moisture condi tions are so all-powerful in controll ing yields that tillage methods, rota tions, crop sequences, and soil fertil ity are all thrown into the back ground. The changes in weather conditions from season to season and from day to day of each season are so radical and so various that one system of tillage may 'succeed one year and another system succeed the next year. However, there are a few rather broad principles that apply to a wide range of conditions covering the medium and also, many of the ex treme conditions. Alt or tnese prin-1 clples are subject, to modifications, as there are no set and fast rules. It has been rather clearly established that moisture is the chief factor con trolling crop production In this reg ion. There seems to be an excess of fertility over available moisture at the present time. Therefore, any ex pense incurred for 'the purpose of maintaining or Increasing the fertil ity is largely a loss to far as the yields of the succeeding crops Indicate. Moisture is largely lost thru vege tation rather than from the surface of the soil. The soil mulch assists In retaining moisture under certain conditions but does not always retain sufficient moisture to pay the cost of maintaining an ideal mulch. Sum mer tilling the land retains a part of the rainfall and gives some security against urouth. but the cost of sum mer tilling has not been fully paid Mr Increased yields of corn or prlin P'a'n. While the soil and crocs re spond ,o thoro methods of tl'lage, they do not respond sufficiently to extreme methods of tillage to pay for the added expense. A system of tillage that does not permit the soil to be robbed of mois ture by vegetation which has no mar ket value, and that keeps the surface of the soli from becoming hard and smooth, seems to accomplish the practical ends of tillage. While more labor than Is required to ac complish these ends may Increase the yields, yet the increase is likely not to be sufficient to return as much for a unit of labor expended in the ex treme tillage as in the less Intensive and more practical tillage. Summer tillage and green-manure crops have Increased the yields but not the profits, because of the In creased cost per acre. The results reported In this bulletin indicate that the less expensive methods give the greater proms. As the yield per acre is Increased beyond a certain normal, the cost per bushel, on the average, will be Increased. It Is probable that the farmer who Judiciously combined live-stock farm ing with grain production secured a profit during the most unfavorable season. This buleltln may be obtained free by any resident of Nebraska upon ap plication to the Agricultural Experi ment Station, Lincoln, E. A. Burnett Director. Feeding From Bank Silo, on above-ground silos, however. On man can handle 100 head of live stock) easily with such an arrangement, the) carrier track being extended out over, as many feed boxes as necessary, -handle the cattle or sheep to be fed. The boxes for feeding may be ar ranged in pairs, the posts that support the inner sides of the boxes extending into the air to support the track for the feed carrier at their upper ends. WARM, DRY PLACE FOR H0QS e Animals Will Not Thrive and Give Sat isfactory Returns If Allowed te 8hiver In Cold Pen. By all means give the pigs, whether they are Intended for store hogs or pork hogs, a warm, dry place In whtak to aleep. No hog will thrive and malm satisfactory returns when compelled to shiver on a hard bed In a cold pesw or to huddle up or lay against th side of the building where they suffering from cold. Do not allow too much air above Pigs. It Is better to make a false erlng over the nest to keep the eoll air from coming down from above. While we are anxious to exclude the cold air from the nest, there should always be an abundance of pure air tor the animals to breathe, as it will en able them to do much better work la digesting the feed than if confined to eu pea where the air is umwr. 1