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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 9, 1911)
jUIMQEjtatMD Published every Thursday by The Herald Publishing Company. Incorporated Lloyd C. Thomae. Prea-Treas. F. A. Pierson. Vice President. John W. Thomat, Secretary. John W. Thomas. Editor. Lloyd C. Thomas. City Editor. Mrs. I. U. Hosklns, railroad corres pondent. Mlaa Agnea Moravek. Hemingford correapondent. Entered at the postorflce at Alli ance. Nebraska, for transmission through I he mails as second class matter Subscription, $1.60 per year vance. In Ad The circulation of thia newspaper la guaranteed to be the largest In western Nebraska Advertising rates will be furnished on application. Sample copies free for the asking. THIS PAPCR REPRESENTED FOR FOREK,i ADVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICr" :EW YORK AND CHICAC . BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES BIG GATHERING OF EDITORS Nebraska Press Association to Meet In Omaha June 5. SAFE AND SANE PROGRAM. INCREASING CHOP YIELDS TEN REASONS WHY FARMERS SHOULD ROTATE CROPS AND USE BARNYARD MANURE By 0. W. PuusIjFY, Professor of Agronomy and Farm Management, Nebraska College of Agriculture. executive Committee Meet, to Make Plana for Coming Convention Feat urea of the Entertainment Will Be Visit to Stock Varda and Packing Houses at South Omaha. Editors of Nebraska will meet la Omaha June 5, ti and 7 for the annual i many fields In the central weat which 13 We hear a area! deal about the ro tatmn of crops. It Is altogether prob able that one reason why the yields of corn have not been as great as the) ahould be Is that the farmers have b"cn growing torn year after year on the same ground If they have ro tilted at all It has often been with corn, wheat and oats There arc THURSDAY, MARCH 9. 1911. THE ALLIANCE HERALD la a newspaper dedicated to up building the moral and material In tereets of Allanca, Box Butte coun ty and western Nebraska. Ita pol icy la to deal fairly with all inter eeta and men. It printa the newa fully and aa accurately aa possible. It means to be a household, office and atore neceasity and aa such con tinue to enter a rapidly growing number of homes, officea and storea throughout thia end of the atate. As a NEWSPAPER and an ADVERTIS INQ MEDIUM It atanda supreme in Its field. The job department haa the largeat patronage of any in west ern Nebraaka and every man on the force is a apecialiat in hia line. DRAWS GOOD CROWD Alliance Band Makes Hit at First Ball. T. S. Jones a Good Director. The recently Organised Allium e hand Bade a decided hit at the Oral hill given at the opera house last evening. A large crowd tea ambled 10 hear the open air concert, which i.iik cry good. There were twelve pieces. In the orchestra, and thia was the first time all had played together. Alto gether twenty-five dances were wl v en. The music was Indeed good and Mr. Jones has made a reputation for himself as a band director Miss Killn McNolty. o f Chadron, was In the orchestra ami proved be! self to he an artist She is I teach er of the violin and will le with the band at future events The receipt! were rather small but the good time furnished will draw big crowd on April 3rd, When an Raster ball will he Riven at the opera house by the hand. OUTBUILDING BURNS An outbuilding In the rear of tin residence occupied by Tom Jackson a colored man. in the east part of town, caught fire from an unknown cause this morning. The fire de part meat extinguished the hln.e in thort order. It is hoped that the city will soon take up the purchase ol an auto I've wagon for the department. On windy days, like today, a fire in the edge of town could gaiu much head way before the department arrived The mayor, at the banquet given by liook and Ladder Company number ihree recently, stated that lie did not think It would be long before an auto wagon wab secured for the de part up nt The member ol the de pa i t ment are anxiousiy watching See this pledge fulfilled. meet inn "f the Nebraska Press association This announcement is made from .he office of C, C. Johns, secretary, ot Qrsnd Island, and is couple, with the statement that it will be the biggest meeting ever. The entire executive committee of the association met In Omaha last week, i ud it was the first time the entire committee was ever brought I ) gether to make plans for a meeting. Those present, WOW! A H. Wood, president, of the Courier, (Jefttlg ; Ro.4l L. Hammond of the Fremont TtlbUnc, N. .1 i iidi of the wahoo Democrat, E R. ParceU or the Chief at DroUan How. A W. I.artd c the News at Al blon. siid T W McCullough, mmiglng editor of the Omaha ii ie. C c Johns, secretary, was also present and a number of the representatives ol the Omaha Commercial club and n -.,,a pets were invited in. While the program Is In the course of preparation, it can be said the meeting will he run on a sale and sane plan. The headquarters will he at the Hotel lioyal and the meetings held in a nearby hall. The session will open Monday morning ami all entertaining ill be don between times no leav ing a session for a frolic The flit have not been seeded down since they were first plowed. There are many other fields where manure has never been added. By rotation of crops, we mean a change of crops. For example, a two year rotation would be corn one year and wheat the next, then corn, then wheat. A three year rotation would be corn, wheat and oats, and then the same crops repeated. Rotations of this kind, however, do not benefit the soil greatly. A rotation to be of much benefit should Include some legnml nous crop, or a few years In pasture By leguminous crops we mean pod bearing plants, or plants that have nodules on their roots. Red clover and alfalfa are the most common, al though all clovers, peas and beans are also leguminous plants. These plants, by means of bacteria, have the power of using the free nltrqgen which is In the air Other plants have to de pend upon the nitrates of the soil for their supply of nitrogen. Since nitro gen is one of the most important ele ments of plant food In our soil and the one which gives out first, you can readily see the Importance of growing n crop in the rotation which will get e supplv of nitrogen from the air. and which will piohahly leave the soil areata! w.e en.tois wu. spem, hi ie rphpr ,n nfroKn ..m it WM oeforf. great v ,-ia i noil neii; me seeomi tin guests of the Ontahai Ad club t1 smoker, and the third at. the annual dinner, one trip already certain la a visit to the Cnion Stock yards and packing houses, with a dinner which will heat anv barbecue. A month!' bulletin, to b known as the AU Sin Hen Editor." will be Is sued, beginning; With the March num ber, giving newg of the coming meet Ing and making announcements In COD nectton with it CD III To Improve the Physical Condi tion of the Soil. The physical condition of the soil has a great deal to do with the yield of the irops grown thereon. No crop can do well on soli which does not work properly. Furthermore, It Is vnry difficult to economically farm land which Is out of condition IV To Use Different Kinds ot Flet Food. Plants have different feeding pow ers. Some will use certain elements which are not used in great abundance by others. A rotation will therefore give certain elements In the soil a chance to accumulate for succeeding crops whiih demand a large quantity. Certain plants also have the ability of getting more plant food of a cer tain kind from a soil than have others. V To Use Food in the Soil at Differ ent Depths. Hardly anv two plants have the same sort of a root system. Some are deep rooted, some shallow. By a ro tatlon we can use the surface of the earth at different depths. This will enable a portion of the ground to "rest" during different seasons. VI To Help Control Fungus Diseases. There are fungus diseases which can be greatly reduced or entirely ob literated by crop rotation. They live over from one season to another, but must have the plant upon which they trew to live during the second year. If this plant is absent the field will be freed from disease dining the third year following There are probably fttngUS diseases of the soil which de pend in like manner upon the growth of certain cropl end upon the treat ment of the soil incident to the the plant WM grown. It' In it 1..,, t I,.. Dri,Ulh t It.,, . ' T . , , growth ol certain crops crops, u sufficient supplv of barnyard P manure la added, to give plenty of or game matter, tin- probabilities are VII To Help Control Insect Pests. Th" entomologists tell us that many that the productivity of the soil can of the Insect i nemies of the grains be maintained or increased. The de land grasses can be entirely done away Composition of the manure in the soil with n a tew seasons by proper rota Wlll give the very best place lor bac tlon of crops They mast have ccr OMAHA PREPARING FOR KENNEL SHOW Competition Open tn All Dogs Re gardless ot Their Pedigrees. Just, how Nebraska stands in the dor world will be shoayi March 43 to 25 Inclusive, when the Omaha Kennel club will give a show and invite every dog owner in the state to bring in his canine and have him marked up by A. F. Hochwait of Dayton. O.. and Dt George W. Clayton of Chicago, two of the best Judg"s In the United States To get up Interest all over the stat the Omaha Kennel club has issued a premium list and offers tl,20t in cash prizes, twenty five silver cups and other trophies to be awarded the own era of these aristocratic dogs "While some are improving Nebraa ka live stock and others are working tn get better grains and grasses, we must not overlook the improvement of the Nebraska dogs," said Secretary R. T. Burns of the Omaha club "We ought to have the beat non-sporting dogs In the world out here In Nebras ka and we hope to m:ke this a three point show It will be a two point show and held under the rules of the American Kennel club. No pedigrees will he necf-Ma;ry to show Ah dogs all we want is for all Nebraska to turn out and show our friends that we have dogs out been Ih Nebraska as well as hogs and cattle" The club givujg this show in the The above picture shows the effect of roiation on adjacent plats of corn at the Nebraska Experiment Station. The corn to the right was planted on ground which had been seeded down for several years previous. The yield on this plat was considerably gTeatel than the yield on the plat at the left or the picture, which had been In grain out iniioualv terla to work The organic matter .tain crops upon which to live if the will make the soli more easily tilled, crops are not present they die in a Will help to conserve the moisture, 1 yeai or two will admit air more freely, and will VIII To Help Control Weed Pests, make conditions more favorsble for j There arc some weeds which csn the conversion of soli particles into ; best be controlled by cultivated fields, available plant food. (while there are some Which are best Bearing a rotation in mind which handled by seeding the ground. A Includes legumes and manure, we note ! farm well rotated Is always easier to the following ten reasons why the keep free from noxious weeds, farmers of Nebraska should practice ' IX--To Enable Beneficial Bacteria to suitable crop rotation in their en deavor to maintain the productivity of their land I To Increase Nitrogen. A rotation of crops which Includes a riovei and barnyard manure will in the laii'l at the Omaha Auditorium has arranged w th most '"stances leave reputable brcedeis of a l the well , end of the rotation as rp h or richer Makes Home Baking Easy AKlNS POWDER Absolutely Pure Thm only baking no mono from Royal Qi Op m of Tnrmi NO ALUM,M LIME PHOSPHATE Develop. The irieotlrti tell us that we are greatlv indebted to bacteria tor the growth of our crops Cer tain kinds n bacteria are at work all the time mak ing plant fi;od in the soil avallab' Other kinds are at work in ihe root" n' leguminous crops, using the ti nitrogen of the air for te benefit of the rop A rotation of crops and an addttkm of manure make the soil home or bacteria more early ideal X To Hflp Distribute Labor Through out the Year. Many farmers find considerable iif Home Course In Tree Preservation ST. PATRICK'S GIRTH DATE IS UNKNOWN By JOHN DAVEY. Tather of Tree Surgery. VI The Trees and the Song Birds. (Copyright. IPIO, by American Press Asso elation, j AS I speed over the country in my lecture work on The Salvation of Our Trees" there are many things to inspire and cheer the heart especially that of seeing what at tempts people make to grow trees, shrubs nnil flowers. I Sometimes feel that I should like to get off the train and show people just bow. To KM everything seems so simple. There is no luck, no chance; it is all cause and effect. Lean Jnl what to do and do It, and sad Mother Nature Is there ready to do nil the rest, and, say, does she not do finely? The one discouraging thing Is, as is often the ease, to meet some stupid. bigoted, conceited old ass who thinks he knows ail ami can't even raise a good crop of womIs. In tbe decade that is about to dose tbere Is truly something Inspiring. In that abort time, since my old Twee Doctor" rais ed the cry for "our wounded friends the trees" and tbe Cleveland news papers re echoed tbe rail to tbe nation, prm ii' ally all the newspapers have lent their a Id, and tbe great maga zines have ne noble work, and the education Is thorough, but bo slow. As yet tb re Is not 5 per cent of the adults th; t are awake to tbe real, de plorable condition of tbe trees. Toe deterloi 1 1 ion of the trees la faster than the education aa to how to take care of them; hence my only hope now Una with the child. Illustration No. 11 shows Mr. and Mrs William Lodge of Silver Lake. O. known breeds to be on hand with in nitrogen than it was at the negm some of thotr stock and the show talking At the Minnesota station. tun Omaha w;ll be an excellent place U I pound of nitrogen was gained per buy a good thoioughbre.i dog. Anv sere of soil in twelve years In this docs shown for sale will l guaran i manner in the surface soil, while the i teed to be Just what the ate repre- sub soil contained one third more nl . .j L j 1 ...... ik. i . .1 : i . it,.. I .......... I peaua ai onai ...... . .... . fivulty in tecurlng labor at season! wmana peo.ue reei iney are givne At several ewi one me y mm i creoai . , , , pH,it,n Tnev do not nog owners o; tea siate an oppoitu nas sienum i in reason, oy a rotation oi this kind (I To Increase Organic Matter. Leguminous , tops, pastuies undtwav belg Mi Id be asgployed nrottsb f fcomv.,,1 ,nnr.. will all mill to the I .l iriiiK the ntite year This is oft-r nity when they offer the services or these two Judges, who have he n counting the fine points on dos fo twentv five years and will be glad to rOCOtVS sod mark every dog sent In," said the secretary. Por a number of years a dog show of some character hus been held In onnet1on with the Trans-Mississippi Pou't"' show, but dogs of good b oo 1 bsve Seen increasing so rapidly in Ne braska the last few years that it la row possible to have a "bench show' almost all dons R ro irtesv the Ken nelVlub ha arranged to admit cat. use any labor excepting during the grOWlMg and harvesting seasons The proper "Hall IB of crops would make It advisable o feed live sto k and bstVi soil organic matter, which in turn will give to the plants more plant foo.i i.nposeible .inless crops are rotated PREVENTING HOG CHOIERI. After thirtv years of experimenting scientist.- In the employ of the bu reau ot animal husbandry of the rim ALTHOtTOH It Is well known that when the convers'on of the northern countries of Eu k rope to Christianity wns sys tematically entered upon by the early church women exercised a remarkable Influence in securing proselytes, there Is, strange to say. no record of uny spe cial work of the kind done by them in Iteland. While Clotilda, the queen of the Franks, curried the faith to Clovis. and Bertha, the queen of Kent, and CJtsella, the queen of Hungary, were leaders In their own countries, no Cel tic woman's nnme Is so identified. St Patrick seems to have had the chief work, as he bus the chief glory. In con nection with the first religious trnlnlng of the Emerald Isle. Sent to Ireland by Pope Celestlne In the early part of the fi".!i century, he confined his labors to n Octal part of the country', but visited every chieftain and province in turu. To ;i W.dsh In vader who had carried atrajr, among other prisoners, many neophytes and had committed many ntrocitlca in his raid S?. Patrick addreaocd tueanly let ter of his authorship known to be ex tant. This and his "Confessions" are tbe only authentic remains of his lit erary work. Both the birth and death of St. Pat rick are Involved in so much uncer tainty that, as Is the case with so HW ' mMJT 1 .-91m I ll KO. 11. CHII.PRKH A.RK HOT.PINO BBF.P IiXNQ WAl.Nt-r TBEI'H. It is not only interesting and pretty.' but there are the panfoundeat of thought! clustering around It The little boys are holding a couple of ; seedling walnut trees, the seed umtsi of which I brought from the old Charles Dana place. Desoris island,' Glen Cove, S. Y. The plants are! ii year old, and they, li is hoped, win grow up with the children. To give gQ idea of what one generation 1 could do We call attention (o lllus- ! irution o. u. These trees (the lar gest oues i were planted thirty-three years ago by the grandfather of the Children In re seen. They were plant-' ed rijjlit and then taken en re of, and here they stand, honoring tbe memory I of the patriotic clthsen who believed that one of the best ways to serve one's country Is to plant trees. This new movement, the saving of our song birds, exhibit an unaccountable slow ness on tbe part of the average adult to be aroused to one of the greatest nietiH -es that have ever been know n In the history of nations, tbe total ex tinction of our song birds by the Eng lish sparrow and the crow. Unless the Increase and depredations of these two fiends are checked our native small birds cannot last for another decade. Already we learn that an av erage of one-fourth of all the crops . e.v-'- v KSLaaE9LaLXn47 fj I 1 aaaaaaat ' -iSaaaaaaaalaaaafaT' . f "J ' ' TWTTlBlTaBLaaaa cording to the size of the animal, in tt d under the skin In producing thltt serum, pigs are used that are immune to cholera by ha viiu' recovered from an attack of the disease, or by having been inocu ed State department of agriculture, lated. Thee pigs are then made hy have pifeiied a method whereby this oerimuiune imore than immune) by Bgoai deadly of all ho diseases can be linjeinng under tbe skin iarg amounts thege being a big demand for a stat . at sjow ' Kntries for the cat show are being i L . . i , nikav -- . - - fcs- -S I I v,i., . i laLaa h.m. i taster . L ear 1 r k Premtue. Ilats entrv blank for Pntm aim omuir.. .... u, wmmm ...... - ..... the eo will he sent free to anyone " l l-now.n .the set im (the holera Three weeks after njec in Nebraska oa request to the eeere- : " l,tiun n ",,l" The pi or sygltJaai the pig kg bled froaj the uil. the is neettfu mpui ae iroti cnoieea ay iciot resauvea, nun ip nuui ib i-rm'jj havibi; a doae of ) mm, varying ac foi jbv. i N 12. IKKKS ClASlkll TUlKlT-THIlt-K i 1'kuji AUL IV OHAMiVA i ii J I. . -1 - riil. d: t.N i. i ui.ustiu nun m. it of die United Vtuten la destroyed by in-e : "neatruj nil the laawctivasvw bird " gays Mi' helet. 'ami in iiiue , yeais the bumau race will perUb froru tbe race of the earth." i want mi reader to help restore aud preserve toil BOOg birds. The .only way to do this is to destroy the , Hoed tab sparrow, wbhli destroys the 1 ou-,- birds There is au 'uprising'' ; nearlv all over the eoumry against tb! i. . aatl Tbe Kng't-b SpaireilW must be de I stroyed if we :re to save tiur tree- ' All our treer. will be rgiaad iy haaartg 'If Ihe sparrows keep up Iheir fight Kgalteit tbe bteeel kliliiitf bird 's-, fa Owtaba ST. PATHICK. ! many heroes, the anniversary of either event must be fixed principally by con i lecture. Some gutborltlea give u lati ! lude of teii years from ;i"7 as the prob able time when be wus bom, and opin ions as io Ids death place tbe time any where from the year 4tat to 4!Ut, thu , giving him an age of from seveuty j eight lo much beyond a hundred years. li' an authentic date cannot be tiled I upon I here may bo some authority for the characteristically Irish assertion of i .lames Whltcomk Riley, that It was upon St. Patrick's day. In the middle of July, The weather it was cold and wet, but the day was hot and dry. Some iristimen Ueld that be was boru ou March H, wine ethers contend ed that his birthday was on the next day, and while they contended a solon bent on peace suggested lo "split the difference" by adding the two dates, and so came Patrick by his birthday, March 17. If the legendary story of ihe good saint's doings Is to have any credeuee he should be considered as (be most chivalrous champion and friend of the weaker sex. As Ihe destroyer even in but one country of liiut arch eueiuy which myth and art have so continu ously associated with the fall of ihe I race aud the unhnppinoaa of woman I St. Patrick made the land of the Sham po k, as Moore tells us. so safe aud ' glad a spot the maiden was secure I from harm wherever she went; Bir Knight. I fret not the least alarm; No son of Krln would offer me harm, I For. tboaajh they line woman and 1 In l store. Sir Knight, tliey love honor and virtue more. St. Patricks day is usually cele brated in Ireland with a fair, or "pat i tern day," when various ways of net ting the simple panannta1 money are devised by tbe wily tent owners, who Mil hue American gold rings" for a shilling and yell iheir wares with all the lustiness of Mnniel O'ConneU s fls.V wnaagu A dance on the village green or near the town pump is oue of the great fea tures of the day. Shamrock are worn by everybody, and tbe little girls wear rroaooa made up of gayly colored rib buna on their right arms, over which Is pit -.ed a shamrock, denoting their loyalty to Iheir country aud the church Local orators deliver patriotic nidi' 'sses. hoys bet ou the annual don key races, priests preach long aeruions on "the glorious patron saint." Hi" po IV a watch for revolutionary riois. aad carful mo' hers look out for Cupid's p nta, but withal there la n tr.nl lion tu Ireland Hist more nee'e f.-'i it 'mi n n- iiav 'inn mot.- 'ov .i ant If jm wuuld ve our trees deatroy j .. 0M ,h the F.ugibh spa re.-era -t!r But uu ou.- tdamea St PalriHi kul ilsys.