Excellent Type o' Structure Used
at Government Farm.
Structure Present Very Attractive
Appearance and Has Proved Sat
isfactory in Service Details
of Construction.
There are numerous forms of indi
vidual hog houses constructed to be
pertable and adapted to accomme
ate a bow with pigs, or two or three
hogs. Almost every portable house
that la built possesses certain features
peculiar to itself and rendered neces
sary by the circumstances which It is
Intended . to meet. The type of hog
house described here has been suc
cessfully used on the government ex
perimental farm at Deltsvllle, Md.
This house presents a very attrac
tive appearance and has proved satis
factory in general service. It is sim
ple in construction and possesses all
the essentials of an ideal hog house.
It can be moved from place to place
whenever desired The perpendicular
front and End View of Portable Hog
House; Roof Open for Sunshine,
Back Open for Shade.
walls furnish plenty of floor space,
which can be used to good advantage.
The doors, ventilators, and roof are
bo arranged as to provide for ample
fresh air and shade. The wires fas
tened to the roof and lying on it serve
to hold up the back for ventilation
and to shade the ground. The back is
swung open and the hooks that bold
It shut are hooked In these pieces of
wire. In the winter the house can
xbe closed to shut out the cold winds
end the roof opened to give fresh air
and sunlight to the interior.
la moving the house a good way is
to take a chain or a strong rope and
fasten it to the runners through the
holes bored for the purposes, fasten
to a clevlB, hitch on a team, and take
1 the house wherever desired.
The runners are the foundation of
the house and should be of sufficient
dimension (3 by 6 inches) to hold the
house well off the ground. Wood
wfcich is short-lived and decays when
Perspective of Portable Hog Mouse,
Showing Framing Detail.
placed In contact with the ground can
not be recommended. The more dur
able woods are fir and cypress. Two '
Joists are used to stiffen the floor, ho
1-inch material is of sufficient thick- j
ness to make a good floor. The frame i
Ib built of 2 by 4-inch material. '
The house is covered with by 2- i
inch tongued and-grooved pine boards
which is very tight and sheds water.
Ten-inch shiplap could be used satis
factorlly and will reduce the cost c
building the house. A satistucto
fend'r is made by fastening 2 by
inch pieces flatwise 6 inches from i
floor. Fenders are absolutely neei.:
sary for the protection of the young
pigs.
Paint will aid in prolonging the V.fe
of the house as well as improving the
Back View of Portable Hog House,
Showing the Ventilator and Back
Closed.
appearance. Any good paint which
will stand the weather will be satis
factory, but two coatt thould be given ,
to thoroughly cover the wood. The
inside of the house can be given a
good coating of whitewash. This will
give ft a clean and sanitary appear
ance. Keep tha Saws Sharp.
Some men sharpen saws about as
they do their razors. The more they
sharpen them the duller they are.
Now. there is some man In your neigh
borhood who tan sharpen saws. Oo
and ask him to give you a few point
ers, and then let them point. A sharp
saw Is a blessed good thing to have
on therfarm.
M-nev Wrst-d.
No use ror' lrji hard snd scrimping
to buy a "ire tMng for the farm or
home and thci t it spoil out In the
wtt. or use it as if it bad no fecllugs.
bq jW'.
nu i to
Siily People Attended Monthly Meet-
li5C at llotne of Win. Ilust, Sr.,
North of A 11 In nc
The regular monthly meeting of
the Farmers' Club was held at the
home of Wra. Rust, Sr., four miles
north of Alliance, on Tuesday. The
number of people present was esti
mated by a Herald reporter at sixty,
and the meeting was an enjoyable
one.
Dinner was served at 12: SO o'clock
a la Boston" style, and it was the
flnont we have ever had the privilege
of enjoying. It was a genuine, old
fashioned home-cooked chicken din
ner with all the "trimmin's and flx
ln's" that go with it. We ate and
ate bp only a newspaper man can eat
wheu he gets next to a square meal,
and 1'nally became ashamed and
quit. And the good housewives ob
served our appreciative and longing
glances toward the still well-filled ta
ble and provided us with a goodly
sarapl of each cake to ""take home
to the folks". We now know from
experience that the farmers' wives of
Box Dutte county are Vithout a peer
when it comes to knowing what to
cook and how to cook it.
After dinner had been eaten and
the men had enjoyed a smoke in the
warm spring weather outside, the
meeting was called to order in the
parlor by Alex Lee, vice president.
Browne Griffith, president, was com
pelled to leave early and was unable
to stay for the business meeting. Al
ex Lee acted as chairman, and Mrs.
L. M. Beal as secretary. Art Groves,
secretary of the club, was called
away with Mr. Griffith.
Lloyd Thomas of The Herald was
called on first by the chairman.
Lloyd stated that after, the big din
ner he had more on his stomach than
on his mind, but talked for a few
minutes, telling of the good work
which had been done by the club and
speaking of Its future, and telling of
the relation of the newspaper and
the farmer. .
F. M. Seidell, Box Butte county
farm demonstrator, was called on
and spoke on "Marketing Problems".
Mr. Seidell' has the confidence of the
farmers, and the talk made by him
was instructive. The following dis
cussion brought out many points of
Interest and resulted in much good
to all present. Other things brought
up by Mr. Seidell was the monthly
Farmers' Exchange bulletin, the first
issue of which was published Febru
ary 1.' He told of coming meetings
at which experts will be present from
the Department of Agriculture, and
urged that every man. woman and
child make It a point to attend these
meetings.
Mr. Seidell also spoke of the de
mand for potatoes in Texas for seed
and Bald that he is looking up the
markets there. He called attention
to the boys' and girls club work and
the educational value of a county
fair. D. E. Purlnton spoke on crop
wmm
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Belgian
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I 'm fi
Lot the other fellow experiment. You want to
know what your prospective car will do. The ree
ord'df Ford cars in the service of more than a mil
lion owners is the best evidence of Ford reliability,
economy in operation and simplicity in handling.
Average two ceiUs per mile for operation and main
tenance. Touring Car $440 ; Ktinabout $390 ; Coupe
let $590; Town Car $640; Sedan $740, f. o. b. Detroit.
On sale at
FORD GARAGE
Keeler-Coursey Comp 'y
- GAS, OIL, STORAGE
reports. Several new members were
admitted. .
The next meeting of the club will
be held at the home of Browne Grif
fith, president, March 21.
Traveling MtMi Appreciate L.xul
Beginning last Monday the Bur
lington started running its local
freight from Alliance to Guernsey In
stead of from Bridgeport to Guern
sey. The local leaves Alliance at
about 4:30 o'clock in the morning
and gives traveling men a cbanco to
nt onto tho river tefltory eaty avi
make much belter time. .
CAItl) OK TI1AKKS
We desire to extend our thanks to
the many friends, and especially the
pupils of the seventh and . eighth
grades of the Central school and the
Freshman class of the high school,
for the kind assistance and sympathy
extended in our recent bereavement
in the death of our husband and
father. I
Mrs. T. F. Brow-n and Family..
amid
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a. , ... a 7 : .. ;
-Weight from 1960 to 2100 Pounds
If You Want a Good Stallion, Worth the Mcney, tfjcFinest
'InHiann Horses, See or Write
BAKER HORSE CO. J- w- Cunningham, Manager
ALI.IANt.l-: IIOTEI, Al.LIAN F. NEBRASKA
Horses c in be seen at Zdiker'S Fhrn, back of Christian church
9 '
WANT NEW VIADUCT
Petitions Are Out Awklng Burlington
to Install New Viaduct Under
Tracks in W'ewt Alliance """"
Petitions are being circulated ask
ing the Burlington railroad to con
struct a "viaduct, elevated crossing
or subway" over or under Its tracks
between Piatt and Emerson avenues,
starting on Second street and ex
tending across or under the tracks
south. This is on the road to the
stockyards west of the Rowan &
Wright elevator.
Another petition being circulated
at the same time is addressed to the
state railway com mission asking the
commission to order the viaduct.
Persons who are acquainted with this
kind of work estimate the cost of a
viaduct at approximately 114,000.
No. 2 can lied ltnpherri'n in Kj
nip, 15c. 1j. If. IIHUIIjAND.
Percheroe
til' iH'.U .'e P--r it '
V. 1-. Powell, One of Itos Unite Conn
ty's rroNroMn Fartner,
Tell of Trip Fjt
The people In the enst have come
to know Alliance through the pub
licity secured by our Commercial
Club. C. L. Towell. a prosperous
Box Butte county farmer living two
miles north of the city, made a trip
to eastern points late last fall, re
turning Just before Christmas.
While stopping at Cleveland, Ohio,
Mr. Powell was s mazed to find that
Alliance was as well known there as
Omaha or Denver. Mr. Burtlett,
head of the firm of Bartlett & 8om
mer Manufacturing Company, a large
firm, told Mr. Powell that he made a
trip throtiRh last summer and stop
ped over in Alliance for half a day.
He told Mr. Powell that "Alliance
was the best town between Chicago
and Sun Francisco." Mr. Harrison
of the Harrison Brick Company, a
mammoth concern, told Mr. rowell
that although he had never been
west he bad read much of Alliance
and thought It ruust be a large town
and a live one.
Mr. Fisher of Fisher & Sons, the
largest department store in the Unit
ed States, when he learned that Mr.
Powell was from Alliance, expressed
a wish to see the town about which
he had heard so much and read' so
much.
HOWARD HERE 28TH
Burlington Immigration Agent Will
Confer with Iiocal Feople Re
garding Immigration
S. B. Howard, Immigration agent
for the Burlington railroad, will be
in Alliance Monday, February 28, for
the purpose of taking-up the propo
sition of encouraging settlement in
Box Butte county. A special meet
Ing of business men and farmers of
the county has been called at the
city hall for that evening and It is
urged that those who want to see the
county settled up with more farmers
be present and submit their Ideas.
Mr. Howard will tell at the meet
inx how some other towns in the
west are solving the problem of get
ting settlers for the vacant agricul
tural lands.
The speaker of the evening at the
annual banquet of the Alliance Com
merclal Club, to be held Wednesday
March 8, will bo Henry Augustus
Buc.htel,.chanrellor of the University
of Denver. Ills subject will be "The
Pleasantness of American Life .
The Hillsboro (Ohio) Dispatch
says: "For eloquence, diction, rapid
action. Intensity of thouKbt and nu
mor Governor Buchtel's lecture sur
nan-ifd unvthlnir ever heard in Hills
boro." Hear him at the Phelan Op
era House March 8. '
I
.II!.'. I 1ttu'l
fronted With Hon Which Laid
314 Egg In 368 Days.
Not very many years aro tha 200.
egg hen made her appearance. She
was not greeted with ooen arms br
poultrymen, but was rather considered
to be a freak an excentlonal beln
that would not perpetuate her kind.
iter cool reception, however, was no
more than over before the 200-etc
hen became a "common" occurrence.
In the four Missouri egg laying con
tests 149 hens (or 10) laid 200 eggs
or over. The Individual record last
year went to a Buff Wyandotte with
247; I the Connecticut contest, a
Rhode Island Red laid 257 eees in the
tame period.
But with the close of the Philadel
phia-North American contest at the
Delaware station poultrymen are con
fronted with a hen which laid 314
eggs in 865 days; Oregon hens have
also produced aver 300 eggs In a year.
How la the 300-egg hen being re
ceived? Almost In the same war at
was the 200-eee hen. Wonderful
strides have been made and will be
made to get high producers. But the
real problem before poultrymen is to
perpetuate the egg laying qualities
a Men have been develoned. The 200-
egg hen may toon be classed In the
same way that the 200-eez hen wat
classed a few years ago.
Poultrymen may well be nroud of
what they have sccomolished. but
they cannot rest satisfied until they
perpetuate the desired qualities. And
that takes yeara of experience and
carerui selection. Orange Judd Farm
er.
MANURE IMPROVES THE SOIL
Important, Especially In Garden Oper
ations, That Fertilizer Bs Rot
tad or Composted.
Manure adds plant food to the soil, :
and it also Improves the texture or
physical condition of the soil. This
latter effect is often its greatest value.
If one wants mere plant food alone,
he may often do better to add it la
A' Covered Manure Shed.
Borne more concentrated form. .It is
important, especially in garden opera
tions, that the rouimre.be rotted or
composted. This la accomplished by",
letting it decay in pjies. The compost
pile should be flat on top and from
u to 5 feet high. Cow manure is the
moBt desirable for garden or house
plants, it docs not Wurn or lose its
strength, and may bo kept tor a num
ber of yesrs if piled under shelter, be
coming more avai'able each year. It
mixta wolf ith sri and loaf mold. .
When once roUH. this mnnure is very
rrt'ng and easily assimilated, by
'liUlitS.
CULTIVATION FOR CORtf CROP
Keeping Surface In Fair Condition and
Free From Weeds Will Be Found
of Greatest Value.
In view of the fum:cnv,belief and
nractlce that corn : -.Id b, cultivated
frequently expe.in-il3 lourtrted on
an Illinois farm are quite i,m" int.
One field was left uncultivated; on
a second weeds were cut with as little
JisturbH.T-e to the soil as possible; on
a third cultivation was given in the
usuai way. The first had almost no
crop; I he second gave 47.3 bushels of
corn; the third 42.9 bushels. In other
words. !.Tk of cultlvAtlon was better
than cultivation provided the weeds
were kept down. Tbo' reason evident
ly was that corn, being a sur'ace
feeder, was able to. get more plant
food on uncultivated ''soil. Similar re-
suits were said to have been secured
, even Jn dry years.
While experience seems to indicate
that' abundant cultivation is good for
most crops, with corn there is good
reason for believing that as shallow
and-Infrequent cultivation as will leave
the surface in fair condition and
keep the ground free of weeds will be
. of most value.
CROWN GALL IS INFECTIOUS
Communicated From Tree to Tree
and From One Plant to Another
Many Planta Affected.
Crown gall la an Infectious disease
and can be communicated from tree
to tree and from one plant family to
another. A partial list of the plants
upon which It occurs naturally and up
on which It has '. been 'produced by
laboratory Inoculation includes the
daisy, tomato, potato, carnation,
peach, rose, cabbage, grape, hop,
susar beet, turnip, red beet, carrot,
radish, chrysanthemum, oleander,
marigold, pyrethrum. almond, clover,
white poplar, Persian walnut, graj
poplar, cotton, alfalfa, raspberry,. ger
anium, apple, willow, quince and to
bacco. i w i w 1 1 g nvnin inu I rvupifl,
I TV. lo.. , -. - ,
iwiurr woo PlttCKS new
clover on the site of the old stack is
1 breeding worms and trouble.