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Largest Circulation in Red WillowCo
Entered at postoflice McCook Nebraska as
second class matter Published weekly
The Pennsylvania railroad since
1886 has paid 31000000 Irom it
relief funds
There are 100 vacancies in the
class to enter the United States
military academy at West Point
next June
With the fiscal year ending
June 30 1911 America almost
reached the billion dollar mark in
her exportations of manufactured
goods
The new apportionment bill giv
es Oklahoma as many congress
men as Kansas and two more
than Nebraska A remarkable
development Oklahoma
The senate by a vote of 38 to
2S Tuesday night adopted the
conference report on the wool
tariff revision bill already adopt
ed by the house The bill will now
go to 1he White Ilose for the
expected veto of President Taft
President Taft has vetoed tlio
statehood measure drafted to ad
mit into the union the states Ar
izona and Xew Mexico lie bas
es his objection to the bill on its
recall of the judiciary provision
Is it however a violent assump
tion to claim that the power to
recall is no greater nor less great
than the power to call or create
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100 The Tribune one year
GRANT
Modrell and Ebert of McCook
v i i over in this section buying
cattle last week
Harry Rath burn of Traer Kan
sas was over this section this
week with a Yost stock buyer
J IT rWseh has purchased a
line driving team for which he
paid 230
er traction engine They are go
ing to grade roads with it on the
Omaha Denver auto route
John A Hoffman had a fine
two-year-old colt badly cut up in
a barb wire fence during the elec
tric storm one night last week
dianola Iowa this week by the
serious llness of his sister
Hazel McKinney spent Satur
day in Mi Cook
Relatives from Plattsmouth are
a isiting at the Toogood home
Word was received this week
of the marriage of Viola Sawyer
and Willis Orket at Stockville
last week
The Beatrice ball boys played
the Indianola team here Saturday
the result being a victory for the
Beatrice team
I IB L Y Jff JfBt1
THE PEESCRIPTION
your doctor writes names the
drugs and quantities he
deems best for the patient
UNLESS THE DRUGGIST
fills the prescription exactly
as written he is undoing the
work of the doctor Bring
your prescriptions here
where they wall be faithfully
filled
A McMTLLEN DRUGGIST
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Corn Well Along Toward Maturi
ty Makes Best Ensilage
MAY BE GUT ALMOST ANY SIZE
By C W Pugsley Professor of Agron
omy and Farm Management Ne
braska Experiment Station
Formerly it was thought that the
corn should be quite green when used
for ensilage purposes It is now real
ized that the best ensilage is made
from corn which is well along toward
maturity when the ears are glazed
and beginning to dent is probably the
best time If cut before this period
there is not so large a proportion of
digebtible nutrients in the plants If
cut ery much later some of the di
gestible nutrients have been trans
formed into crude fiber which is not
so digestible The plant has also a
certain amount of that substance
which gives to ensilage the thing
sometimes designated as palatable
succulence Succulence is of course
one of the chief assets or ensilage
and corn should always be cut early
enough to insure this condition The
silo can be filled with corn which is
quite mature In fact at the Nebras
ka station one year the corn was
past the bot stage by one or two
weeks and was quite dry due to late
ness of cutting and dry weather A
small stream of water was kept run
ning in the blower and this gave the
dry stalks and ears sufficient moisture
to make a very good class of ensilage
It nas probably not as valuable as if
it had been cut at the proper stage
but it was worth a great deal more
for feeding than the fodder would
have been especially when used for
dairy cows
The machine used foi filling may be
tions of the ensilage such as the ker
nels and pieces of the ears will fall
closest to the distribution point while
the lighter portions husks and stalks
will bebcatteied farther away This
makes it necessary to fork over the
ensilage and with the greatest of care
the corn and stalks are not evenly
distributed Success in feeding de
pends to quite an extent upon the uni
formity of the feed used The distrib
uter will give an absolutely uniform
distribution and will save the labor
of one man in the silo
In filling it is well to keep the out
edges a little higher and to do most
of the packing at the outside of the
silo In tramping the foot should be
placed next to the staves and the en
tiro weight of the body thrown on it
This will pack the ensilage on the out
side in a manner that will prevent the
loss of a good many pounds The pack
ing is best accomplished by men con
stantly tramping Very often it will
1 ay to keep an extra man in the silo
for tills purpose although with a dis
tributer it is probably not necessary
to have more than two One man can
do the work better with a distributer
than two ran without it
The ensilage may be cut in almost
any size desired From one fourth to
one half an inch isprobably the best
size The customary size is about
one half an inch If much larger than
this it is not quite so palatable and
pieces are often left in the mangers
especially if the corn is rather mature
and the pieces happen to include a
joint of the stalk
It is well to have everything in
readiness for filling the silo by the
first of August It is much better to
be a month too early than a week too
late A drought may come and in or
der to save the corn crop it will have
to be put in the silo An early frost
may also come and if everything is
in readiness the ensilage can be made
If however it will take several days
to prepare after the frost and espe
cially if another one follows with
some severity the corn will be great
ly damaged From the farm manage
ment standpoint it is always a great
deal better to have things all ready
long before they are needed It
doesnt take any more time to see
that the knives of the cutter are
sharpened and that the binder is in
good working order at one period of
the year than it does at another and
it may mean a good many dollars to
the farmer No money is saved in
filling by attempting to get along with
too little help Filling the silo at the
hest is rather heavy work and as a
rule farmers do not like that part of
it which demands the handling of
heavy bundles of corn If teams and
men enough are on hand to complete
the work in a short time les3 trouble
will he experienced in getting help
One of the heaviest expenses in con
nection with filling is the cost of an
engine and engineer where one Is
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Ismail amount of corn Last season I
gives uie uusi sau5iuuiiun jim yieut
advantage of the blower comes in dis
tributing the corn in the silo There
is a certain foice resulting from the
blast of air which nables the silage
to be packed to better advantage if a
distributer is used it can be pur
Wesch brothers are overhauling chased for kom 12 to 25 and in
and repainting their 20 horse pow many instances will pay for itself in a
single seasons use The distributer
is merelj a series of joints of pipe
fastened together with snaps in a
manner to make it flexible The en
silage is thus evenly distributed all
over the failo which is not the case
when the cut corn merely falls from
the top of the silo either with a blow-
Jacob Wesch is giving his build r or chain carrier The heavier
mgs a new coat ot paint tins
week
Tom Momshy has a brother
here visiting him from the east
Edwin Carfield is expected
back from Missouri soon lie
has been there looking after his
timber land
INDIANOLA
E E Thompson and daughter
Mrs Harry LaBaron spent Thurs
day in Bartley
Several people were poisoned
with poism ivy while attending
the D of li picnic on Coney Isl
and Wednesday
Quite a number from McCook
cairn down Wednesday to attend
the picnic
There will be a union Sun
day school picnic in Handels
grove Thursday
Hiram Rankin of Cripple Creel
is hre this week on business
W A Jl Cool was called to In-
hired It Is hard to get a man to
come with his engine for less than 8
or 10 por day If the cutter is of
large enough capacity to fill a 100 ton
silo in a day every effort should be
made to do so Very often by the ad
dition of one t extra man and team in
hauling from the field this can be done
Some farmers favor getting a small
er cutter and letting the filling period
extend over more time In some in
stances this is probably an economical
arrangement I know of one man in
Iowa who uses a small cutter with a
chain carrier the type that demands
the least power and runs it with his
farm gasoline engine He uses the
help of the farm with perhaps the ad
dition of a few mn and will extend
the period of filling a 100 ton silo over
a week This of course has the dis
advantage very often of allowing a
portion of the corn to become too
ripe while the portion which was put
in first may be a little green especial
ly if some bad weather intervenes
There is no need of getting a cutter
with an extremely large capacity if
the purpose is to fill one or two medi
um sized silos on ones own farm I
have a 12 inch cutter with a traveling
feed table and a rated capacity often
tons and the boys reported last year
that the cutter was plenty large and
would take care of the corn as fast as
they could get it to the machine I
made a trip to the farm at the season
of filling and was surprised at the
manner in which the cutter would
handle the bundles without cutting the
bands In no case were the bands cut
and the cutter would take the entire
bundle I am satisfied myself how
ever that if J were purchasing anoth
er machine I would get one a little
larger to enable the man at the feed
table to got along with a little less
work and worry
The cost of filling will vary a great
deal upon different farms The value
of a ton of ensilage will depend to
quite an extent upon the methods em
ployed in growing the corn and in fill
ing the silo If a man is a good farm
er and raises a large crop of corn and
the cost is based on the cost of pro
ducing an acre of corn it will be seen
that this ensilage will cost a great
deal less per ton than the ensilage
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saw one farm where eight acres filled
a 100 ton silo while on another farm
not more than three miles distant it
took twenty five acres to fill a 100 ton
silo The market value of the land
was about the same It can thus be
seen that estimates on the cost of pro
duction will vary greatly probably
due more to the amount of ensilage
produced per acre than to the cost of
filling although that is no small item
The variation in estimates will not
be so great if it is figured on the
basis of the bushels of corn produced
per acre at market value Professor
Mumfonl of Illinois states that corn
yielding fort j -two bushels per acre
and worth 35 cents on the market will
give ensilage at 275 per ton In my
own instance last year where it took
eighteen acres to fill silos of 110 tons
each and wih an estimate of the corn
at sixtv bushels per acre at 35 cents
per bushel and with the labor of fill
ing extended over a period of four
days and costing 110 and allowing
the stalks to be worth 1 per acre
on the market the cost of ensilage
per ton was 259 Mr Rusk of Union
county lewa produces ensilage at
249 per ton for a 100 ton silo Pro
fessor Haecker of the Nebraska sta
tion bases his estimate upon the cost
of growing the corn and states that en
silage can he grown and put in the
silo at 195 per ton Mr Richard
son of Srott county Iowa says that it
cost him lor growing and fihing 115
per ton I have no doubt but what
careful fanners can easily produce
ensilage figuiing the cost on the mar
ket vahif of the corn if it had been
harectod and sold at 250 per ton
and at this rate it is one of the cheap
est and Ik st foods in connection with
alfcKa r r lover hay that can be pro
duced p the corn belt
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ETTING THE
EFFECT OF DROUGHT
Farmers Should Have Plenty of
Land in Alfalfa
By E A Burnett Director Nebraska
Experiment Station
The disastrous effects of the pres
ent drought can only be checked by
rain which must come soon Cultiva
tion may help some cornfields Those
having a good soil mulch can be but
little benefited bv further cultivation
except as they are cultivated following
a rain like the one of July 9
With the recent rain and others
which may follow the corn crop may
yet be about the average A large
part of the state will probably have
enough corn to make good silage
even without further rains On most
of these farms other forage will be
scarce and hard to get Where the
farmer can put up a silo ho can over
come a good part of this loss by put
ting the corn crop into the silo Ev
ery farmer who keeps over twenty
cows whether for beef or dairy pui
poses should investigate the silo and
probably should build one
Small grain fields are now ready to
plow if we get sufficient moisture to
permit plowing These fields should
be plowed at once Every farmer
who does not have plenty of alfalfa
should prepare from ten to forty acres
for alfalfa and sow the seed between
August 15 and September 15 The
land should be worked thoroughly to
make a good firn seed bed A good
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alfalfa field will protect the farmer
against next years drought Farmers
having plenty of land in alfalfa are
not particularly short of forage at this
time Good alfalfa hay and silage will
make as cheap beef or butter in sum
mer as fairly good pasture Every
dairyman should have both these
kinds of forage
The first crop of alfalfa was good
this spring over most of the state
small second crop has been cut and
we have a chance for two good crops
3ret 4 The rain of July 9 and 10 will
start a new crop We are almost
sure to have sufficient rains to keep
the alfalfa growing Alfalfa is one of
the crops which is not killed by
drought It simply waits for rain and
immediately begins work when mois
ture is available Get ready now for
next year
With July and August rains some
pasture for hogs sheep and beef cat
tle can be got from sowing Dwarf Es
sex rape Sow three pounds per acre
broadcast on plowed land Harrow the
the land thoroughly after sowing
Sorghum sown at this time will
make a fair to good crop if we get
rains immediately This makes fairly
good pasture for hogs but is not safe
pasture for cattle Sorghum is most
valuable as hay in winter
If rains come soon a large acreage
of winter wheat will be sown in hope
of recuperating our losses next year
For winter wheat plow as early as
possible Do not trust to plowing late
in August or September as good
stands of wheat are generally found
on land which has been plowed early
and prepared well
Farmers should take a careful In
ventory of their live stock and deter
mine whether they are paying expen
ses Young cattle especially calves
made money last winter in the feed
lot Many heavy cattle did not Do
not sacrifice the young stock Get
them ready to go to market fat rather
than sacrifice them at this time
Feed the dairy cows well no matter
how scarce your forage is
RED TAILED HAWK
NOT FOE TO FARMERS
Does Ho Deserve fo Be Under
Ban of Poultry Raisers
By John T Zimmer Department of
Entomology University of Nebraska
Among several of the birds of prey
which are popularly or unpopularly
formed chicken hawk and which
RED TAILED HAWKS
are therefore shot at every opportun
ity is the red tailed hawk It is a
rather large bird about two feet in
length in color a mixture of blackish
brown and fulvous above and below
streaked uith dusty brown and with
the tail rusty brown crossed by a
black subterminal band The young
have the tail gray with numerous
darker bars and without any of the
rusty coloration
The hawk is a strong but slow flier
and loves to sail around in the air
without apparent motion of the wings
and will often soar to such heights as
to be invisible from the ground Its
note is a shrill high keyed whistle
which has been likened to the sound
of escaDing steam
Although supposed on account of
its size and occasional depredations
to be an active foe of poultry raisers
the red tail is quite the opposite Small
mammals such as field mice wood
chucks squirrels rabbits ground
squirrels and even skunks are pre
ferred to other kinds of food When
these are scare the bird will feed on
insects of various kinds reptiles
trachians poultry and other birds and
sometimes carrion It is very proba
ble that most of the poultry and game
birds which are eaten are the sick or
disabled rndividuals which are unable
to elude the pursuer and if such is
the case the hawk is conferring a ben
efit by reducing the chances for the
increase of such stock In any case
the amount of this sort of food taken
is less than one tenth of the total diet
while the harmful rodents comprise
about three fourths of that sum and
the insects reptiles etc the remain
der
As may thus be seen the red tailed
hawk does not deserve to be under
the ban of the farmers and poultry
raisers because of the work of a few
other species which are true chicken
hawks It should therefore be pro
tected and not universally condemned
if occasionally seen near a poultry
yard
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SHOE
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Big Reduction Sale
of Low Shoes and
Slippers now going
ALL NEW AND UP-TO-DATE
OH STYLES
Phone
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New
Morris
Building
SPECIAL SALE OF ALL
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Marx
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suits except blue serges at 30
percent discount
THIS MEANS
A 3000 suit for - 2100
2500 - 1750
2000 - 1400
1800 - - 1260
1500 - 1050
1200 - - 840
1000 700
During this sale we toil sell all
low shoes at same reduction
All our straw hats except pana
masi are on sale at half price
A GALUSHA SON
Cut Prices on Coal
During the months of July and August on lots of
three tons or more we will make following prices
Canon Lump 800 per ton
Maitland Lump 750 per ton
Maitland Nut 700 per ton
Maitland Pea 650 per ton
Lignite Lump 650 per ton
Iowa Lump 650 per ton
Pennsylvania Nut 1250 per ton
Pennsylvania Stove 1250 per ton
Pennsylvania Furnace 1200 per ton
ColoradoJNut 12oo per ton
These prices areioo less than last winter and will save
you some money by putting in your winter coal now
Bullard Lumber Co
Telephone No 1
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