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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.
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