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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1909)
Miss M. Ruth Taylor TEACHER OF PIANO 324 West Idaho. Phone 205 Edith M. Swan TBAOMEtl OJ- PIANO, HARMONY and1 Musical History Studio 424 Laramie Avcnuo Jh r n o Li ISO ' WILLIAM. MITCHELL, ATTORNEY AT HW. ALLIANCE, NEBRASKA. EUGENE BURTON Attorney at Law Office In rooms formerly occupied by K. C. Noleman, First Nal'l Dank blk Phono 180. ALLIANCE, NED. H. M. BULLOCK. Attorney at Law, AJLX.XA.1VCJK:, IS1C13. WILCOX & BROOME LAW AM) LAND ATTOHNCYS. Long experience in state and federal courts and as Register nhd Receiver U, a. Land Office is a guarantee for prompt and efficient service. Office In Land Office IIiiIIJIiir. AU.IANCI2 - NKIIKASKA. Drs.Copperndll & Petersen OiSTLOI'Al IIIC PHYSICIANS Sutceors lb' Drs. Froy St Balfo) " Over Norton's Store t5lfice Phone 43, Residence 20 DR. O. L. WEBER DISEASES OF Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Scientific Refraction GEO. J. HAND, II O Al i: O l A T II I C I'll YSIU IAN AND SURGEON Formerly Interno Homeopathic Hos pital University ot Iowa. Tbone 231. Onlce ovor Alliance Shoe Btori . Resilience Phone V3l. DR. C. H. CHURCHILL IIIYSCIAN AND SURGEON , (Successor to Dr. J. E. Moore) OFFICE IN FLETCHER BLOCK ,, Omco tiouri-li-)Sa, m. 2-1 p.m. 7:30-0 p, m. Office Phone 62 Res. Phone, 85 nrrATcopsiYrivrDr I'hjHlcInn and Surgeon Phone 300 Calls answered promptly dny and night fron pBlloe. Onicesi-Alllnnce National Hunk Ualhllng over thu Post Ollice. drTchasTeTslaglie WITH DR. BELLWOOD Special Attention Paid to Eye Work Drs. Bowman & Weber PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS First National Bank Bldg. Rooms 4.5.6 Office hours, to to 12 a. m., 1:30 to 4, 7 to 8 p. in. Office Phone 65 Res. Phone 16 & 184 Dr. H. R. Belville :niE3:&TG:'XST All first-class up-to-date work done in most careful manner PHONE 167 Opera House Block Alliance, Nebr. T, J. THRELKELD, Undertaker and Emhalmer office phone 498 res. phone 207 ALLIANCE, NEBR. THE GADSBY STORE Funeral Directors and Embolmers FUNERAL SUPPLIES OFFICE PHONE 49S RESIDENCE PHONES 207 and 510 Repair Work Sewing Machines and Organs. Have secured the services of a prac tical mechanic and can guarantee all Work done by him. Don't trust your work to travelling repair men. This man will be here permanently. Re pa rs rnd parts fui pished fpr all ma. climes Phone 130. Geo. D. Darling. Home Course In Live Stock Farming III. Live Slock Farming and Soil Fertility. By C. V. GREGORY, Author of "Home Courts In Moderl Aarlculture, ''Maklntf Money on the farm, ' Etc. , Copyright, 1000, by American l're Attociatlon. WHEREVER grain Is grout continuously foru number ol years the soil decreases In yielding power. If the prac tice Is kept up the yields will finally become so low ns to ho unprofitable, mid the land Is said to be worn out. The fnct Is It Is not worn out any more than n sickle Is worn out when It becomos loo dull to cut. Both the sickle tuid the soil need n certain amount of treatment before they are in shnpe to use ngaln. In the ense of the soil nature will restore It to Its original productivity FIC1. V. HOW rKllTlMTT IS W8TKl If given time. Crops of weeds will spring tip, make a considerable growth and die down and rot. In the course of 11 few years the humus supply will be renewed, locked up elements of fer tility will become available, and thf Held will again produce profitable crops. If rotntlon Is practiced so ns to even up .the demands on the soli, with clover or some other legume to gather nitrogen from the air, the soil will continue productive for n much longer time. Even then It will not keep on yielding prolltable crops always, Com mercial fertilizers may. help to stave off the day of reckoning, but after the farmer has contributed hundreds of dollars to the pockets of the fertilizer manufacturer he will tlnd that even this method of maintaining fertility cannot be depended upon. Keeping the Soil Productive. There are three factors 011 which the productivity of the soil primarily depends-the amount of available min eral plant food elements which It con tains, its physical condition and th amount of moisture It will hold. Ni trogen, one of the three most Important chemical elements In the soil, can b obtained from the air in unlimited quantities by the use of legumes, buch as clover and alfalfa. The other two. phosphorus tuul potassium, are present In must soils in fairly large qunntltleu. although much of the supply Is In unavailable form. Good tillage and well planned rotations do much to make these elements available. When the total supply becomes low It can be renewed by the application or ferti lizers. This Is all. however, that for tlllzers will do. They will not im prove the physical condition of the soil nor Increase Its moisture holding capacity. The use of liberal amounts of clover lu the rotation will add to the humus supply of the soil and so lucrease Its moisture holding capacity. Humus acts like a sponge, forming a store liouse for water that would otherwise be wasted. Humus also Improves the I physical condition of the soil, making ! It lighter and mellower. Take u nan-1 ful of clay and a panful of rich black surrace soil, wet tnem thoroughly and place them In the sun. When the clay Is dry It will be baked almost as hard as a brick, while a little stirring will make the black dirt as mellow as ever. This difference in the two soils Is due solely to humus. The humus supply cannot be main tained by the use of clover miles n crop Is plowed under at frequent- In tervals. It takes considerable time for this clover to rot enough to form humus, and the turning under of so large tin amount. or green matter at once Is liable to make the land "sour." This condition can be corrected by th? use of lime, but this means trouble and expense. The Value of Manure, The only way to keep the s.dl in the highest possible state or productivity Is to keep live stock and apply the manure to the land. Barnyard manure adds large amounts of the elements ot fertility to the soli. An average of SO per cent of the nitrogen; phosphorus and potassium u the fwi 1. , P'l ,. I out In 'ii '!. .:..;. j ,, ,.t eel I M:.i,M 'j f . t i .--. . . nn I inwiM In vmi nc -t 1 1 ' j tnenlH of fertlHiy i -i wticll grali Is sold as cumpaitii Mum' reumv ed by live stool: niv utmlngly showc In I he following table. The prices ot the elements are Hgiued nt the npprox itnate rate that would have to be paid If they were purchased In the forti of commercial fertilizers. The npprox lmate yield of one acre Is given in end case: ValUo of th nitrogen, pho Kind of crop. phorus nnd potait Corn slum contnmni Grain, 75 bushels Ji , . 8totr, two tons, ..' s .. Total , $21. i Oats Grain, SO'bushels..... $5.4: Straw, 1V4 tons , 4.st Total jio. Whoa't- Grain, 21 bushels.... 6.1! Straw, 1 ton z.t? Total ., tf.u Timothy. 2 tons jiu.J( Potatoes, 200 bushels , , is 4) Fat cattle, 1.0UU pounds 4. Fat hogs. 1,000 pounds 3.1; Milk, lo.OOO pounds io.ll iiuttcr, 600 pounds l( This tnblo shows nt a glance tut great economy, considered tro.'Ji a fer tility standpoint, of marketing grain in the form of live stock. Adding fer tilizing materials to the soil, however, Is only one of tho wayp lu which ma nure Is beneficial. It nclps to break down the unavailable minerals. It adds humus, itnd this Is of a kind that mixes readily with the soli. Thus the physical condition and water holding capacity of the soil are Improved even more than where clover Is used, in stead of plowing under clover It cau be fed. The resulting manure will dc the soil utmost as much good ns the clover would If turned under. Thus both the feeding and fertilizing values arc obtained from it. By using a regulat rotation with clover and feeding all the rough feed and most of the grain on the farm the soil can be brought up to a very high state of productivity and kept there for tin Indefinite period of time. Jn an experiment at the Ohio experi ment stntlon where manure was ap plied every three years to 11 rotation of corn, wheat ami clover at tho rate of eight tons to the acre the average Increaso lu yield was 11.7 bushels of corn, S.ao bushels of wheat nnd GSI pounds of clover. The value of the Increased yields due to the eight tons of manure was $17..'5-', or SU.17 per ton for the manure. This was for manure that was obtained in the open yard. Manure that had been tramped down In sheds where It was under shelter L had a value of $2.5)3 per ton In Increas ed crop yields. The results obtained on n little run down farm In Pennsylvania strikingly show what can bo done with manure. This farm was so badly exhausted that It would produce. scarcely any thing. Dairying was Introduced nhd the manure applied to the land. After a few yenrs of such treatment nnd without the addition of nny commer cial fertilizers whatever the produc tivity of the farm was so greatly In creased that nn annual revenue of $i!00 to the acre was received from It. The effect of manure continues for a great many years after Its applica tion. Experiments with manured and unmanured land have shown that the yield lu the manured plots was con siderably greater twenty years after the Inst application of manure was made. Applying Manure. The best results are obtained, how ever, when manure Is applied fre quently and lu comparatively small amounts. t For the ordinary Held crops an application of eight tons to the acre is sulliclent nt one time. To get the required amount on each acre nnd to get it applied evenly n spreader Is a necessity. Manure spread evenly over the ground is much more effective than that thrown about In FIO. VI, MAXUltU PILES IN OPEN TAItD. large chunks, as Is usually done, with a pitchfork. Still worse is the prac tice of dropping the manure lu piles, leaving It nearly all whiter and then toward spring scattering It about with a fork. In addition to spreading the manure more evenly, the spreader saves work enough to warrant any one who has much stock In buying one. The spreader should be kept In use practically the year round. Slanuro left lu the open ynrd for six months' loses nearly half Its fertilizing value. Manure kept In sheds does not lose In value nearly so rapidly. A practice that Is sometimes followed on dairy farms Is to have n shed In connection with the barn, keeping the cows In this shed most of the time, turning them Into the barn only long enough to be milked. A plan that Is preferable to this Is to have a small shed over the door where the manure Is thrown out. The spreader ean be backed Into this shed ami the manure loaded directly on 10 it at seasons of the year when manure m h spread dheMlv upim the I'Hil- .t ot her (lines iie manure 1 1 ip vm tut Into in sik! and li-ft iut until It ' b- twilled. Great REMOVAL Sale BEGINNING "SATURDAY the loth . Greatest November Sales Women's Outer Apparel Thanksgiving is just a few days away. Here is the place to. select your complete outfit for the occasion. Excellent quality in Outings New line of C. B. Corsets Extra showings in hand-made Drawn Work and real Cluny Hats, Suits. Coats and Skirts All new and the highest types of fashion, made especially for us 25 OFF ON ALL 11ILLINERY SUITS $27.50 $ ''J Suits at Jmtjf l2ts16 SlUtS sr 5i8 $1C OK $17.50 $1K Suits I0.U fin:ts Ivl Suits $10 Suits at $8.00 Children's Coats $10 Coats S6.50 Coats $7. en L'H .It -r 1 - xj Coats 15 $5. 00 j Coats 0 im $2 Underskirts now 51.50. 25 25 off on all Silk and We will move to the new building by Dec. 1st, and therefore we are offering you some strong bargains CHOICE WINTER APPLES Oar load just arrived on north track, between freight house and station. Several varieties, in first-class condition, which 1 wish to sell im mediately, hence will make prices lower than have yet been offered in Alliance on same qual ity of Apples vvN2iiL 50 R. SIMMONS M. Armstrong Coats $9.50 Coats . $7.25 8.00 Coats . 6.00 7.75 Coats . 5.75 7.50 Coats . 5.50 Waists' $6.00 Waists . $4.50 4,50 Waists . 3.75 2.00 Waists . 1.50 1. 00 Waists . .85 off on all Skirts Wool Scarfs i y