Nebraska Newspapers

    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.