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ABSTRACTERS
F. E. REDDISH
Bonded Abstracter.
I have the only set of abstract
books in Box Butte county. Office
tn McCorkle Building. 10-tf-570
TO RENT
Large furnished room for rent;
suitable for two gentlemen. 908
Box Butte avenue. Uhone 292. Mrs.
L. D. White. 4-969-1
office
On Saturday afternoon, Dec. 30. C.
C. Williams on his way home with a
suit from the tailor's lot the irons
ers. A reward of five dollars will be
paid for the return of the same to
Rehder's saloon. 4 l-965
Four room, cement block house, in
Belmont Addition to Alliance for
sale at a big bargain. Will take less
.than it cost to build if MM soon In
quire Si HmM office. 4t!64
FOR RENT Well lighted
room. First National Bank.
MISCELLANEOUS
Walnuts and hickory nuts, Iowa
grown, 1911 crop, at 7 cent lb.
(or Walnuts, 10 cents for Hickory
nuts. J. P. BARGBR.
210 Toluoa Ave. Phone 604.
4-It -962
Cleaning, Pressing and
Dyeing
All kinds of dyeing, dry cleaning
and pressing. Dress trimmings col
ored to match goods. Plumes clean
ed. colored and curled. Curtains
colored and pressed. Gloves, hosiery
and evening dresses in dainty col
ors a specialty. MRS. W. H. ZEH
RUNG. 315 Sweetwater Ave. Phone
287 52tf895
TAKEN UP NOTICE
Taken uu by the undersigned on
North-east Quarter (tt) Section Thir
ty-three (33) Township Twenty-five
(25) Ranee Forty-seven (47), one
yearling red heifer with white face
(Signature) P. J. ROCK.
52-5t-138
Money to loan on real estate.
B. Reddish.
F.
3tf
Rowan & Wright, coal, wood and
pasts. Phone ft. tf
NOTICES
If you want first class painting or
paper hanging, call E. C. Whisman.
phone 709. 818-tf-28
FOR 8ALE MISCELLANEOUS
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Phone No. 5 for coal and wood.
VAUOHAN & SON.
43tf702
FOR RENT. - One furnished room
light and heat. 504 Box Butte ave
Phone 90. 2tfH49
NOTICE OF SALE
Coal office at Rowan's feed Btore.
ROWAN & WRIGHT, phone 71. tf
E. L Gregg & Son have a large
amount of first-class alfalfa and wild
hay at a reasonable price.
48tf779
Old papers at The Herald office at
5 cents per bunch.
FOR RENT. Two furnished rooms
for light housekeeping. No children.
603 Box Butte avenue. Phone 196.
3tf959
NINE ROOM HOUSE for rent or
sale. Mrs. S. J, Holdrldge. Phono
675. ItfPW
DRIVING HORSE FOR SALE
On account of the "Auto" I will
sell my driving horse, "Royal". A
bargain to anyone wanting a safe,
trusty hor.se. You all know him.
See him at Spry's barn.
l tf-936 H. H. BELLWOOD.
A GREAT RECORD
Hard to Duplicate It in Alliance
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN NEBRASKA
(By Frederick M. Hunter. Principal Schoal of Agriculture, University of Nebraska.)
THE GRANGE
MOVEMENT
Twenty one Organized In Nebras
ka Within Last Year.
NEEO OF SUCH QRGANIZATIOH
CISSFS IN DAIRYING. SCHOOL OF AGRICl LTURB, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
N
KRRASKA'S great industrial ques system realty deomcratle for It Is not
MOM are strictly agricultural, democrat ir, Judged by Its present day
Other states In the great Missis results To do this means that we
slppi and Missouri valleys have must, have a system which gives to the
Nebraska's great industrial ques-1 future tiller of the soil both ft broad
tlons are strictly agricultural. Other culture and technical knowledge of his
BtAfea In the great Mississippi and profession, for such it really must he
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF BOX
BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA.
In the matter o fthe application of
Caasie D. Hall, Guardian of the es
tate of Mignon M. Hall, Willis Y
Hall and Vivian E. Hall for leave to
sell real estate.
Notice is hereby given that in pur
suame of an order of t lie Hon. W
H. Westover. Judge of the District
Court of Box Butte county, Nebras
ka, made on the 26th day of August
1911, for the sale of real estate
hereinafter described, there will be
bold at public vendue to the highest
bidder for cash at the west front
door of the court house in the city
of Alliance, in Box Butte county,
Nebraska, on the 13th day of Janu
ary, 1912, at the hour of 10 o'clock
A; M., the following described real
estate: an undivided three-lourths
interest in Southwest Quarter of sec
tion 27, Northwest Quarter of sec
tion 26, and Southwest Quarter of
section 25, in township 27, north of
range 4i west, also west nair or sec
tion 1, in township 26 north of range
47 west, in Box Butte county, Ne
braska, subject to lie dower right Of
Cassie D. Hall, widow, being the in
terest and estate Of said minors in
said land.
Said sale will remain open one
hour.
Dateil tliis 20th day of December,
L9U.
Caesie 1). Hall, Guardian of the
persons and estates of Mignuii M.
Hall, Willis W. Hall, and Vivian K.
Hall.
"2-4T-I40
Scores of representative citizens
of Alliance are testifying for Doan's
Kidney Pills. Such a record of lo
cal endorsement is unequalled in
modern times. This public state
meat made by a citizen is but one of
the many that have preceded it and
the hundreds that will follow. Read
it:
Mrs. Robert Blcknell, 504 Big Horn
Ave., Alliance, Nebr., says: "I have
known the merits of Doan's Kidney
Pills for over three years. 1 first
used them In Pleasanton, Iowa, and
after coming to Alliance about a
year ago, I procured a supply at
Holsten's Drug Store, as they are
the best remedy I have ever known
for disordered kidneys. For a num
ber of years I was afflicted with
kidney compLaint and was unable to J
find permanent relief until I began
using Doan's Kidney Pills They dis
posed of the pain in my loins and
also strengthened my back. Since
then I have felt like a different per
son. 1 cannot recommend Duan'b
Kidney Pills too highly In return for
the benefit they brought."
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Fositer-Milburo Co.. Buffalo,
New York, sole agents i for the I n it
ed States
Remember the name Doan's and
take no other.
LOW RATES TO DENVER SHOW
The railroads have granted special
rates to the National Western Stock
Show, to be held in Denver, January
l: Mi to 20th. I-nun all points on
the Colorado Midland, Cripple Creek
lines, Denver & Rio Grande, Colora
do & Southern, Moffat Road, and
competitive points on the Santa Fe,
a rate of one fare for the round trip
is made, and on the prairie lines the
rate is a fare and a third for the
round trip. These rates will enable
stockmen and farmers from all parts
of the state to attend the big show
in Denver, and it is expected that
there will be a large attendance.
The Denver Stock Show is the
big agricultural event of the west,
and no stockman or former can at
ford to stay away from it for busl
ness reasons. It is promised that
the coming ahow will be the largest
ever he4d, and quite a number are
planning to go from this sec tion
Did the hair you are wearing grow
cn the head of a sickly "Chink"?
Heal American hair, grown in Box
tiutte county, made into switches at
the New York Hat Shop.
49tf791
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this paper.
Dr. Boland, phone 3
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problems, too, but lor none of them
does every Industrial question lead so
directly to the farm and the man who
lives on it as in our own state. Ne
braska la a State of practically one re
source the farm. All our neighbor
ing states, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa,
South Dakota, etc., have large agrlcul
tural wealth, it is true, but in each of
them other great interests, for exam
ple, mining and manufacturing, pre
sent their problems for popular atten
tion. The first phase of the industrial
question in Nebraska, is "How shall
we make our farming intensive?" Ag
ricultural production in the United
8tates is not now keeping pace with
the rapidly increasing population. For
generations past the continually In
creasing demand for agricultural prod
ucts caused by the growth of popula
tion has been met by the occupation
p.nd tilling of the seemingly almost In
exhaustible supply of new farm land
But now the supply of tillable land in
regions where climatic' conditions
make ( rope poaalble without the cost
M Irrigation has been almost ex
hausted Yet the increase in our pop
ulaticm lias been greater than ever
before. The great question is how to
make- our farms meet the increasing
demand.
Not long ago a Nebraskan, very
much interested in scientific farming,
was traveling in France. He was at
guest on one occasion at a rural home.
The family of five members he had
known slightly for some time in a
business relationship. The home was
one of luxury and almost affluence.
They were investing money ceintinual-
lv in American securities, chiefly
school i .olid s. and had at that time
several thousand dollars Invested in
this way. Yet the only income of
this family consisted of a farm of
Seven acres of "impoverished" French
soil. This Instane, according to the
Nebraskan) was entirely typical of the
intensive farming carried on In
France, and such results were mad
possible hy the French system of ag-
cultural education.
The other phas? of the problem
which Nebraska must solve for herself
h the Improvement of rural condi
tions, so that the general city-ward
trend of the population from the older
rural com munitles may be checked.
It is true that the census of 1911
bowed n small per cent increase even
in the rural population of Nebraska
But this increase was due most entire
ly to the growth of western counties,
where new land Is yet being devel
oped, and where rural conditions arc
as yet not In the least permanent.
The more established rural commit
D'ties showed the same decrease in
population that was so manifest in
Iowa and among all the older rural
populations. The continuation and
the spread of this tendency is sure to
bring disastrous results to our state
and nation.
Xehiaskans then are chiefly con
terned with the questions of how to
niake farnrng to the highest da free
productive, and how to make rural
conditions socially attractive, so thai
Aiu.ricin rem life may continue to
be, as In the past, one of the great
est factors in our civilization. The
So'utlon of these problems depends,
in ;i great degree, upon the syst. malic
o:- :r iatlon and effectiveness of agrt
nuHitral education. The hN stop ir
this .nil); ion is the organized process
Oi . i mutilating sc ientific agiicult irul
knowledge or one might call it thv
working out of the science of agrlcul
ture. Great progress has already been
inudc in this work. Experiment sta
tion), have been in operation for a
considerable number of years in all
the states and territories. Investlga
tlons in universities and colleges have
gone far toward placing the various
subject which constitute agriculture
niion a genuinely scientific basis. Fed
eral laws and the I'nlted States de
partment of agriculture have lent
their ild In this first step of a great
movement The amount af scientific
knowledge accumulated is far in ad
vance of what the general actual fiat
tic e will be for years to come.
Hut this knowledge is not in the
possession of the masses of the people,
and the great work of the future is to
bring it to them. To do this means
that wo must maks our educational
come.
To accomplish this purpose of
bringing to our farm populations of
the future, both a brond education
pnd a knowledge of the most up to
date and scientific farming we have
no adequate educational system. We
need an elementary school system for
our rural districts which educates for
the farm instead of away from it;
which groups itR Instruction about ag
riculture and rural life as the central
Idea instead of about preparation for
the classics and a professional career.
We need in these rural schools teach
bis who are sympathetic with rural
life and conditions and who know how
lo be leaders In these communities.
We need, too, a high school system
which not only prepares for college
and university education, but which
Klves a thorough, yet sane and work
able training In the things which Ne
braska boys and girls must do in life;
a system which is capable or training
young teachers to be leaders in our
rural schools and communities. To
really reach the masses of our young
people and accomplish In them the
twofold purpose I have named abjve,
culture and technical training--the
purpose the realization of which will
solve the problem of our rural life
we must have the aid of both these
great agencies the rural schools and
the high schools.
The I'niversity of Nebraska is seek
ing to lead in accomplishing this pur
pose. In addition to its efficient ex
periment station. It maintains the
College of Agriculture, organized as
one of the great divisions of the uni
versity. This organization is of col
legiate rank and admits students from
accredited high schools, it seeks to
train scientists and lenders in agricul
tural thought In this college some
three or four hundred young men and
DWen are enrolled. These will grad
uate from the University of Nebras
l;a at the end of four years with the
degree of B. Sc.
In addition to this, the School of Ag
riculture is organize d as one of the
departments of the college. This
school is of high sc hool rank. It ac
cepts pupils directly from the eighth
grade, and in a four-year course gives
a fairly good high school training an1
a thorough technical training in agrl
iulture. The four-year course can be
: ompletcd in two years by those who
have had a three or four year high
school education before registering
For young women the four year course
consists largely of home economics.
It can lie completed in two years
also by those having a good high
school education. The session of the
four-year course is six months in
length, beginning about Nov. 1 and
ending about the last of April each
year. In this institution some four
hundred young men and women are
registered. As in past years, about 90
per cent of these will go back to the
farm and become leaders in the work
ing out of Nebraska's industrial sltua
tion.
An additional winter course of six
weeks Is given each year for young
farmers who cannot come in for the
longer session. Some two hundred
usually register for this course.
It will be noted that there are In
all somewhat less than one thousand
students who receive each year any
thing like an adequnte training for a
distinctly aurh ultural career and this
in a state who.- only resource is ag
riculture. It is the great purpose of
our universltv unci of those who have
at heart the future of our glorious
commonwealth to bring the work of
these Institutions already establish -d
to an Increasing number of our young
people whose fortunes will be eter
na.lv bound to the life of tlie farm:
and through the other agencies which
are only beginning this great work
to make it possible for every boy and
girl to guarantee the future, not only
til flnaucial success, but in broad think
Ing and right living.
net iled facilities for the promotion o.
their work It also contains a RUtabc r
of large class rooms, which nre to be
used for general school purposes. The
building will stand on the site of the
old horticultural building T! a appro
prliition for this tmlldlng l IMOOO.
and it is hoped by tat reginti that
the hiils for the erection will eoe,
within the appropriation, M Tint U c
can proceed t once rnel the bul1tl2
be read) for aa i this ear.
FEED FOR OA RY COW:
One of the Important conditions tact
cause the cow to give more milk dur
ing the early spring and summer in
that she obtains succulent feed. To
maintain a good flow of milk during
the winter some form of succulent
feed should be given.
By the term succulent feed in meant
one having that property possessed by
green grass. Such feed has a value
outside of the actual nutrients it con
tains, on account of its favorable ef
fect on the digestion of the animal.
I'here are- two methods in use for sup
plying this food during the winter sea
son. One is the use of root crops and
the other is the use of silage. In some
parts of the world the use of root
crops Is almost universal, and Is the
solution of the problem. In this state
the use ol silage Is far more practical,
however, than the use of root crops,
and for that reason It Is recommended
exclusively for this purpose.
There Is no way in which the corn
crop can be better used to advantage
than hy putting It Into the silo. More
feeding value can he obtained from an
acre of corn kept in this way than In
r-m other condition. Silage Is palata
hie. and cattl" relish it as part of the
roughness.
In feeding silage it must not be ex
pOOted that it will be sufficient as the
only roughage Hay should be fed In
addition. The hay that goes well with
silage to make- a balanced ration Is
clover, alfalia or cowpea hay. From
3n to tr i' nnls per day is c ounted a
reasonable feed of corn silage. It e
he fed to gllBQet any stock.
SHORT COURSE BEGINS
The winter eo.iise ol the School of
Agriculture opened as usual on Jan
J and furnishes the best of opportu
nltles lor fanners boys and young
farmers who can spare the time for a
month or six weeks to study practical
agricultural problems under BXP r
teachers. The instruction Includes a
study of fli'ld crops, the iu.'ging 0
com and other grains, a study of sol
management, bortlculture, etc, In V
live stock department attention is gh
en to te Keeling of live- stock, th
Judging of horses, cattle, and swine,
ami practical methods ot maintaining
I jive stock farm. Instruction Is giv
en In dairying and in animal diseases.
The operation and management f
farm machinery Is also stu lied, with a
view of fitting the student to make a
better selection of the machinery pur
chased, to take better care of that now
on hand, and to operate farm machin
ery with the greatest economy and
success.
lectures are given in farm manage
mi nt dealing with the organization ot
the business of the fa-m. the met ho Is
of conducting faun operations, and a
study of profit and loss under differ
e-nt methods of farm management.
The winter course has always drawn
u large number of young fanners who
wi: h to practice the most up to date
me thoels, and tho.-e who have been in
attendance have greatly appreciated
the advantage, which were offered bf
this course.
New Buildings for University Farm.
The Miu-w. i Miy-.is advertising for the
election of a large fireproof building
at the University farm, which is to
bouse the depart mcnta of agricultural
botany, horticulture, and entomology.
These departments have been greatly
crowded in recent years, especially
horticulture and entomology, and this
aew building fjlll furnish very greatly
Th" n. citings of organized agrlcul
ture at the Unlversitv farm will open
this year on Jan. 15. with the Associa
tion of Agricultural Students. On
Tuesday the Corn Improvers' associa
tion. tbe State Board of Agriculture,
the Improved Live Stock Breeders' as
so. m tion. and the Horticultural soci
ety will hoid sessions. On Wednea
day. the 17th. all of the above named
societies. together with the Nebraska
Faiin-rs' congress and the Dairymen's
association, will be in session. Most
of these societies continue through
Thursday, and a numbe r of them hold
meetings on Friday, it is repotted
thui the governor's reception will be?
he Id on TUeaduy ITanltag lan 18. At
the geu Tal meeting on Wednesday
N. nlng Mr Will B. Otwell of Illinois
will speak. Mr. Otwell Is reported to
be one of the finest nlutform orator.
In the west on agricultural sub) m ts.
By 10 A. Burnett, University of Ne
braska. ,
The grange movement, which hag
been strong for many years in the
astern and middle states, is gaining
a foothold In Nebraska, where twenty
one griumes have been organized with
in the Inst year. At a recent meeting
oi Hie lUaie lir.iiige, the Hon. J. v.
Ream of Broken How, Neb., was elect
ed master of the State Orange.
The grange Is a farmers' organiza
tion, national in its character, with
county, state and national organisa
tions. The membership consists mala-
ly of farmers and farmers' wivea, wft
members of their families over foee
teen years of age.
The purpose of the grange Is to fur
nish n social center, wtmre men and
women may meet together and dlscuae
those questions which are of personal
or community interest.
The need of such an organization
has been apparent for many yeara.
Farmers have had little opportunity
to meet in a social way to stady
questions which relate to their bual-
ness Interests and the enjoyment aad
COUt fort of their families.
Perhaps tht' largest benefit which
comes from the organization of
grange comes to the farm women and
the children, who are more Isolated
than the men. having lesB opportunity
to meet each other In their dally occu
pations. The women find the grange
a place where they can study ques
tions pertaining to the health of thalr
families, to household management.
where they can learn of good and help
ful books, and where they are stimu
lated to a deeper study of tbe prob
lems of country living. The young
people find In the grange an opportu
nity for social life wlch Is not found
on the isolated farm. They are In
duced to a study of current day prob
lems by hearing these things discussed
by the older members. They help in
the program by readings, recitatlona,
songs, etc. Men who have never be
fore addressed public audiences or
taken part in public- debate, learn to1
do so among their friends and neigh
bors in the grange, and greatly In
crease their efficiency and their use
fulness In the community through tno
c onfidence and the experience they ac
quire In their local grange organiza
tion. The increase in land values haa
made It necessary for the farmer to
he more efficient than In pioneer days.
Farming Is a business, in which the
land is capitalized up to Its full earn
ing capacity under good management.
The farmer In these days, to be a
busine ss success, mint und 'rstand the
principles of soil fertility and soil
management, mil t ust put these prin
ciples Into pra-i'ce. Few farmer
have studied the . quest'ons In tbe
schools, and Mtev must depe nd upon
their Individual e riencc or upon In
formation which. '.' cy can gain from
the outside for t':e Impi ovenn nt of
their farms and the increase of the'r
crop yields The grange Offers an op
ium i rnit.v for thfl study of ctcntlid
methods and of th best pra' t'cal ex
perience of the neighborhood. Th
grange lecturer, I . a ayatemstlc pio-
grum, inn cover a Saiffl range ef sub
jects in a season ard can inul.e the
meetings B real nool tor the mem
bers. It Is frie'y admitted bv farm
ing lonimunUles tbit Abnae aeichhgf
hoods Which have hnd local farmers'
oi tanlzatloits are naahrg progressive,
mere rosperpUOi and use more sd
ranced methods than communities
wbeie no such stimulus has been at
w. rk
One of th gregtOSt problems at tbo
present ' i ' I keep the educated
man and v. oi. un upon the land con
teuted with th. Ir condition. This can
onlv be accomplished where the com
munity offers social advantages sufll
. i nt to meet the needs of educated"
met, and women Some form of farm
ers' orgnnizat'on is necessary to fill
this need, and Hi. grange throughoat
a large not tion of the United States
hue been able to meet this demaiu
in ii fully perhaps than any other
organization, especially in the east-
cm and cntral states, where tns
grange ba- long been tn existence, te
its Influence' upon agricultural conda
tlons sesen.
The grunge is non sectarian and
dot s not affiliate its -If with any poMt
Ical party. It takes its position upon
I public -inestion after a full dlscue
non of the question. Independently f
the view of political parties. Tha
grange ts a secret organization It haa
a ritual, and in many respectB is sim
ilar to other fraternal organizations.
After a charter membership has been
fonii.-d, it lnites members to Jol
only upon election The grange" tB.
however. ItbUieeJve kg its objects. M
pirns to secure as membe rs tbe farmer
and his family and those who are e
peclally Interested iu the promotion of
s better agriculture in the country
Nebraska la in need af Just such ae
organization as the grange, and ther
good piogress which has been made Id
the last year ts an iudwation that ua
der proper guidance it will grow until
It becomes a powerful stimulus iu tno
ttei ment of the social and busi
ness conditions among our farmers-