Thursday, April 3, 1919
THE ALLIANCE (NEBRASKA) HERALD
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CONDITIONS
INDICATIONS FOR MAMMOTH CROP OF SPRING WHEAT, IF
SEASON FAVORABLE, BUT CORN WILL RE
MAIN KINO OF CROPS
Two weeks ago I mentioned that
the acreage planted to corn in west
ern Nebraska will probably be no
larger this year than' it was last, al
tho the amount of land planted to
crops will be larger than ever before.
It now seems probable that the num
ber of acres planted to corn in the
state as a whole will be considerably
less than in any recent previous year.
With farmers in this' country
. crowding every acre possible into
wheat this spring in order to secure
the government's guaranteed price,
which applies to this year's crop, it
, Is possible that they may be over
looking a better bet. There will be
cattle and hogs to be fattened next
fall and winter, and no matter what
the price of corn may be, it will be
purchased for that purpose. The
price is sure to be fancy, and there
can be no doubt tnnt the avert.;
yield of corn, in thib state at least,
-will be much in excess of spring
wheat.
The average itld per acre In Ne
braska last jf!iv was 17.7 busnn'3 of
corn and 11.0 bushels of jprut
wheat, or a yield of about two-tii rd?
as much fprl'ig wheat as corn. De
ducting tne sew. planted, '.he ,-iet
yield of spring wheat was only a lit
tle more than three-firths that of
corn. In thirteen counties the yield
of corn was double that of spring
wheat and more than double in
twenty4-three counties; while in the
southeast part of the state, which
-was drouth-stricken last year, the
yield of corn was the same per acre
as spring wheat in five counties and
one bushel per acre less in two coun
ties. -
I urn muring ii..: guess that the
average net yield per acre of spring
wheat in the entire state this year
will be less than three-fifths that of
corn, with a probability that it may
not exceed one-half. If that turns
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GREAT STATE OF NEBRASKA
out to be the case, it is more than
probable that the farmer who puts
in a good crop of corn and cultivates
it well will be ahead of the man who
devotes all his ground to wheat this
year.
Viewed from Patriotic Standpoint
Viewed from a patriotic stand
point, it was the farmer's duty last
year to grow all the wheat possible;
not so this year. The price of pork
is already soaring and advices from
Washington are that the experts of
the Department of Agriculture pre
dict it will continue to go up.
Within two weeks from the time
that the government fixed price on
pork was revoked in March, it went
up abou 2 per 100 pounds, whole
sale. But hams, pickled pig's feet
and all pork cuts will not stop there,
according to department data.
"Farmers are rushing" plans to
plant spring wheat to sell at $2.26 a
bushel, the government guaranteed
price," said Professor E. II. Wilcox,
of the farm management bureau.
"Corn is being crowded out. Ac
cording to farmers' present plans,
the crop will go 50,000,000 bushels
short.
"Farmers will then have to feed
$2.26 wheat to fatten hogs, instead
of corn at $1.50 a bushel.
"Potatoes also may be crowded
out by wheat. A boost of perhaps
25 per cent in potato prices may also
be expected."
SUGAR PLANT IS NOW
MANUFACTURING POTASH
Ktghteen to Twenty Tons per Day
Made as Ily-produrt at Scotta
bluff Sugar Factory
The sugar factory at Scottsbluff is
making from eighteen to twenty tons
per day of potash salts as a by-product.
The output is of course very
small as compared with the 900 to
1,000 tons per day manufactured by
the Iloffland, Antloch and Lakeside
plants near Alliance, when running
at full capacity, but the process used
is interesting and was described as
follows by the Star-Herald in its Is
sue last week:
We live and learn. A Star-Herald
representative being duly alive last
Wednesday and visiting the Scotts
bluff sugar factory, learned some
thing. That is, he tried to learn
something, but still there is a cer
tain mystery about the process of
extracting potash from the waste
material of that institution that he
hasn't just straight through his
head, despite the fact that Chief
Chemist U. L. Colwell labored pa
tlently and with long suffering to ex
plain; and that is this stunt of burn
ing of water. Chemist Colwell ex
plained that there was a sufficient
amount of carbon contained in the
water after the evaporation to pro
duce its own fuel, bit to see this
fluid churning about in the pit and
then cnterli.; the lf-0 -'not-long fur
nace, wile i liko that of.Liii;d is
neated 'sovsn times hotter thin it
was wont 'o n ' ai 1 . pui.li t; c it
the afoves'tld tiro, biiv2'm:i'1 tome
rather unpl.'aji.t topic Hat the ie
pdrler in 3ii y u;h licf.-.l exjoundtd
from Hiul Shell Mitli nil.it
Despite the fact that he had heard
of the potsh improvement and from
a distance watched the various oper
ations of construction, the news man
had always had a sort of hazy Idea
that when -"evaporation" was talked
of and the giant tank mentioned,
that it was something on the order
of a settling basin and that all that
was required was to allow the water
to run over shallow pans and (hen
go and scoop up the potash crystals
li a washtub and sell them. He had
purchased potash in the drug stores
for u throat gargle and knew of
exaporatlon because of the fact of
watching the salt gather In shining
flakes after a "header" In the Mexi
can gulf and a few minutes spent Jn
the sun thereafter. It was all
wrong, all wrong.
Under the guidance of Chemist
Colwell, a visit was first paid to the
evaporators being used in the pro
cess of refining molasses. As the re
porter gathered, a sugar factory, af
ter a sugar beet falls into Its clutch
es, is like a meat packing plant. With
a packing plant in handling a hog
nothing is wasted but the squeal.
With a sugar factory, by the same
token, nothing is wasted, because a
beet has no squeal. From the very
outset of the transition of a beet in
to sugar, therefore, provision is
made. First, the water that is used
in the process from the Scottsbluff
and Gering factories is stored in the
gigantic tank awaiting the close of
the sugar campaign; the molasses is
also "pushed to one side until the
first and chief operation is carried
out, then attention is given to both,
and that It is which is occupying the
attention of the factory now and will
contniue to do so until some time iu
May.
In the retining of an additional
quantity of sugar from the molasses
there is again a by-product of water
which goes to the potash plant after
having certain undesirable contents
removed by filters. This water which
has a reddish brown complexion
makes its first appearance In the plf
aforementioned, and is automatically
"scooped" into the furnace by an
endless chain running over large
wheels and reminds one of the good
bye view of a stern-wheel steamboat.
T' ere are portholes along the base
of the furnace, and Mr. Colwell op
ened some of these, showing how
this same water was faring en tran
sit. At the start there aeemea to be
WANT TO BUY LAND
We have customers for fifty quarter-sections
of Box Butte County
land. If you have land In Box Butte
county to sell, call at our office at
once. THOMAS . BALD INVEST
MENT COMPANY, Alliance National
Blink Building, Alliance.
Jump from Bed .
in Morning and
Drink Hot Water
Tell why everyone should drink
hot water each morning
before breakfast.
Why la man and wnman tint tv,
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lime. reelinir nprvnna rlaannnrtnn,
c - - - uD.i'uimirui,
worried; some days headachy, dull and
unstrung; some days really Incapacl-
iaiea ay iiiness.
If WO &11 Would nrartlna inM h.ti.
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Ing, what a gratifying change would
ianj imce. insieau or inousands of
half-sick, anaemic-looking souls with
pasty, muddy complexions we should
See crowds f htnnv kaaKti
cbeeked people everywhere. The rea
son Is that the hnmnn mvatam fins. nn
rid itself each day of all the waste
wuicu u accumulates under our pres
ent mode of livfntr .Vr,r
of food and drink taken into the system
nearly an ounce of waste material
must lie carried out, else It feruienta
and forms ptomaine-like poisons which
are absorbed Into the blood.
Just as necessary as It la to clean
the ashes from the lurnace each day,
before the flra will hum hrinht .
hot, no we must each morning clear
me mHiao organs or tne previous day's
accumulation .of indigestible waste and
body toxins. Men And woman vhutltM
sick or well, are advised to drink each
morning, ocrore breakrast, a glass of
real hot water with a teaspoooful of
limestone nhonnhatn In It V
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less means of washing out of the
Biumacu, uver, xianeys ana bowels the
indigestible material.
and toxins; thus cleansing, sweeten-
wk ana punrying me entire alimen
tary canal before putting more food
Into the stomach.
Millions of Deonla vrhn find tfcl
at constipation, bilious attacks, acid
stomach, nervous days and sleepless
Eights have becomn real rranka ilutni
the morning inside-bath. A quarter
yuuuo oi umesione pnospnate will cot
COSt much at th rim a- tlnra hn tm
sufficient to demonstrate to 'anyone.
ti cleansing, sweetening and ireahen
uc effect upon the system.
fcbout a tifty-nfty cnance that it
would put out the fire, but the next
porthole showed that the fire was
gaining, and before the other end of
the furjiace was reached the reporter
became convinced that there was no
chance for extinguishment. Ills be
lief was verified a few moments later
when the end of t' e kiln appeared
and he saw what had gone in as wa
ter come out a dark and discouraged
looking ash.
This was scooped Into barrows,
weighed and then spread upon the
floor of the cooling room, where it
smoldered and smoked and some of
the carbon, which had failed to go
up In smoke during its transit
through the furnace, gave its expir
ing gasp. Then to the rollers, where
the ash Is flattened out, and if that
was not enouga it is shifted to the
grinder which is stentorlous piece of
machinery, and possibly because it
from, the storage basin, from which
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evergrowing army of friends, young
and old.
For half a century druggists every
where have told it.. Put a bottle in
your medicine cabinet. You may need
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everywhere. i
Bowels Acting Properly ?
They ought to, for constipation
makes the body retain waste matters
and impurities that undermine the
health and play havoc with the entire
system. Dr. King's New Life Pills are
reliable and mud ia action. All
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If your dealer does not
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F6r several years past wc have teste
a large tester, built according to the plans
Agriculture. The value of tested soedp to
an assurance to you that the seed is full of
plant under proper conditions you will not
I have used Griswold seeds and have
1SFACTORY. Last year
tribute my success partly
used. JOHN W. THOMAS, Associate Edit
ALL
We have made one
all seeds by pound instead
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE
Illustrated Catalogue and Prico List for 1919 sent free on application. Write
for it NOW.
Griswold Seed & Nursery Co.
Lincoln, Nebraska
la, gets the last whack at the potash
and hopes to secure credit for the
whole works. From the grinder the
finished product Is let down in a
proper chute and sucked 200
pounds of land encouragement to
each bag. -
Some eighteen or twenty tons of
potash are produced each day, tho
niaterjal coming from the Steffen
process with the molasses and also
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TESTED SEEDS
d all garden, field and grass seed. We have
approved by the Government Department of
the buyer cannot be over-estimated. It is
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lvays found
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ality of Griswold seeds and plants which I
to the superior qu
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SEEDS BY WEIGHT
important change, which we believe you will like. We quote
of pintc, quart, peck and bushel.
an electric pump Is steadily sending
a stream to the factory for Alteration
and for further evaporation, adding
to the Impetus already given It by
wind and sun.
It's an Interesting process from
start to finish, showing the wonder,
ful strides made In the larger manu
facturing Institution to take care ef
waste to the end that there shall be
no waste.
Seeds
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