NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, FARM CHEAP LAND Why Western Canada Agricultu rists Are- Smiling. Low Overhead Expense and Bountiful Crops Have Enabled Them to Overcome Agricultural Depression. Tho recent agricultural depression brought to the eyes of tho world tho fact that ono of Its basic Industries was likely to suffer a severe blow un less steps were taken to securo a rem edy. 'Physician after physician ap plied remedies, but oven parliamenta rians and newspnpers wero unable to placo their finger on tho pulso that would respond. As It appears today. It was a spasmodic wave duo to tho ebb and flow of tho tldo of readjust ment that was bound to follow a dis turbance such as tho Great War caused. Psychologically It was bound to change; there was certain to bo a re Ilex movement that would bring agri cultural conditions back to tho placo where they normally nnd rightly be long. Efficiency and sound business Judg ment arc needed moro In ngriculturo today than ever before and are as Im portant to the farmer as to a railroad company, or to a great steel corpora tion. Tho farmer must endeavor to securo nn equal footing In the competition for a lower cost of production. In Western Canada tho farmer has como through tho dark era with that forti tude nnd determination so peculiar to a new country, and Is meeting tho chnnged situation with energy and a smile. In Western Canada the farmer Is not hampered by an annunl over head expense of henvy Interest on high-priced land. lie Is able to pro duce at a minimum, because his land value seldom exceeds $50 an acre. Owing to the fact that he Is farming lnnd tho price of which Is from $25 to $50 an acre, producing crops of whent running from 20 to 40 bushels per acre, and other grains In propor tion, ho ,1s able to produce at a low cost. Innddltlon to this, a fact which should not be lost sight of, is the lnrgo area that ho can farm at low cost, giv ing him an added advantage In reduc ing the cost of production. The corn that the farmer fully ex pected to bring him over a dollar n bushel, he saw carried away to tho market, and bring back n 30 or 40 cent check. Wheat for tho whole of Can ada averaged 80 cents a bushel In 1921 ns compared with $1.C2 In 1020; oats 87 cents ns ngalnst 53 cents; barley 47 cents as against 83 cents. Other grain prices similarly fell. Whllo other parts of the continent, where grnln-growlng Is carried on, have suf fered In like manner by deflation in prices, they have had to face a much higher cost in production, such as high rents, high-priced farms, and high taxes. Farmers hnd calculated on re ceiving war or nearly war figures for their grain nnd therefore were amply Justified In submitting to the tnx that sonring lnnd prices set upon them. ' Western Cannda fortunately did not suffer from Inflated land prices. There fore, when grain prices fell, the losses sustained were not so great; they did not cut out the margin of profit, ex cepting In some enses where some cli matic conditions caused It. Why not take advantage of tho Homeseekrrs' rate to any point In Western Canada, of return rate single fare plus $2.00, nnd get Information from the nenrest Canadian Govern ment agent? Advertisement. For Voters to Consider. It is a dangerous thing to give n bad mnn power, nnd a hundred times more to have him find out that ha has It. Exchange. Not at All a Bad Idea. Just as tugboats and American Le gion posts and suburban streets aro named In memory of persons who have been associated with them, so wadding gifts nro designated by the amo of the giver. When tho brldo cnlls to hubby from the kitchen for tho "company" silver, sho asks for "Aunt Bertha's" souplndlo or "Jack's" tea strainer, or "Mother Jones' " tea cup set. And hubby may Inquire Im patiently for the hnnd-worked towels "that Annie sent us." Of course, tho system may also bo used to flatter come old Uamo who happens to bo calling. Or Two Evils, Etc. Tho wife of a farmer had a tongue Mint cut like a knife. Ono dny tho minister passed tho farnistend and no ticed the farmer stnndlng cnlmly In the midst of a heavy downpour of rain. "Why on earth don't you get indoors?" ho queried. "Oh, sir, It's all rlcht," replied the farmer; "I'm shel tering frne tho storm. Man, I tell ye It's nnethlng outside tao what It is In Bide." Problem In Criticism. Criticism presents to the creator a problem which 13 never solved. Criti cism Is, to tho artist, a pcrpetunl pres ence; or perhaps n ghost which ho will not succeed In laying. If ho could Batlsfy his mind that criticism was a certain thing, n good thing or n bad, a proper presence or nn Irrelevant, he might psychologically dispose of It But ho cannot. Waldo Frank. Dally Thought. What u man has, so much ho la euro of. Cervantes. CORKKER ITEMS News of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points Throughout Nebraska. Tho suit of Raleigh Medicine com pany vs. W. C. Drake ct al has taken tho nttentlon of tho district court at Falrbury tho past few days. The plain tiff was awarded tho full amount of Its claim nnd Interest totalling $1,720. Two farmers signed a guarantee bond for G. W. Miles a patent medicine salesman. Mr. Miles died insolvent owing the company about $1,400 for merchandise. The bondsmen said they thought they wero signing n rccom jnondntlon as to the good character of Miles when In renllty It was n bond guaranteeing payment. The court held that Ignorance of tho contents of tho Instrument signed does not release tho signers when the Instrument becomes tho property of an Innocent party. John Gilbert, pioneer settler of Sa line county, nnd said to be tho Inst breeder of buffaloes In eastern Ne braska, died on his farm near Friend. IIo wns a former member of the Ne braska legislature. Mr. Gilbert main tained n trnct of land known ns Gilbert park, where for many years he had a lnrge herd of buffaloes. Ills health falling, ho turned tho herd over to the government on condition that tho an imals be cared for, and tho buffaloes aro now on a government forest re servo near Valentine, Neb. W. W. GUbaugh, banker of Bingham In tho sandhill district east of Alliance, estimates that the gross Income of trap pers and ranchmen In the western Ne braska snndhlll district during the sea son which closed February 15, amount ed to $1,000,000. Practically all of this camo from muskrat hides, the hundreds of sandhill lakes In the district ad jacent to Alliance, on the south nnd cast, being tho natural habitat of tho lowly muskrat. A western Nebraska Irrigation asso ciation, comprising the counties of Keith, Deuel nnd Perkins, have let the contract for tho completion of a per manent Irrigation survey. Tho pro ject begins on the south side of tho South Platte river near Ovid, Colo., nnd extends eastward elghty-flvo miles through Sedgwick county, Colorado, and Keith, Perkins and the wcst-twelvo miles of Lincoln county, Nebraska. Clark Stell, of Fremont, owner of Stell's Utility garngo, has disappeared. Tho garage doors aro locked and rela tives of Stell say they do not know where he has gone. Stell left Mnrch 4 for Chicago to drive a Cadillac auto mobile, It was said. Mrs. Stell, who is Uie daughter of a former professor nt Fremont college, filed suit for divorce, asking custody of tho one child. Tho contract for the paving of forty four blocks nt North Platte has beqn awarded. Tho city council was peti tioned by seventy per cent of tho prop erty owners for sheet asphalt. Work will begin the latter part of this month and Is expected to bo completed by August. The total cost will be $104, 000. Stockholders of the Columbus Can ning Co. have obtained the right to manufacture brooms and a factory has been put In operation under the name of the Nebraska Itubbersct Broom Co. Tho congregation of the Presbyter. Ian church of Scottsbluff, by n vote of two to one, decided to build the new church homo on tho site cf tho present ono near the business district. Auto dealers will stage a show at lloldrego April 5 to 8. The commer cial club Is bncklng the project. A stylo show will bo held In connection. Resolutions wero adopted at the meeting at Stanton of the Stanton County Farmers' union Indorsing tho formation nnd principles of the agri cultural bloc In congress. William II. Jones, bachelor Inmnte of the Soldiers homo nt Grand Island, 81 years old, has been married to Mrs. Nellie Woods. Tho bride is many years younger thnn Mr. Jones. For shooting ono duck out of season, and doing so without n license, cost J. W. Hasty of McCook a total of $75,90, Chief Gnmo Warden Kostcr stated. One thousand persons will take part In the "doming of Coronado, In Quest of Gold" to bo staged in Omaha by tho Knights of Ak-Snr-Bcn this fall. Tho comptroller of the currency has npproved tho application of the Frst National bank of Wlnslde to orgnnlze with n capital of $30,000. Tho state board of agricultural, which has In charge tho management of tho Nebraska stato fair, reduced the general admission price to the pre war level of 50 cents. The board was criticized last full for holding up tho price after farm products had fallen. Roy Underwood of York lies In a hospital with a broken neck nn'd lac erated scnlp as tho result of an nuto' mobile accident. Underwood wns en route to Fairmont and going nt a good clip when tho front wheel of his car struck a dog, causing the car to turn over. Tho corner stono of tho new Garden county court house nt Oshkosh was laid by tho Masonic Grand lodgo of tho, State of Nebraska A petition to enjoin Governor Mc Kelvie, tho department of public works, cnpltol commission, the Burlington rail road, Lincoln Trnctlon compnny, tho city of Lincoln and tho Lincoln city council, from constructing a spur on H street over which material will be hauled In tho construction of tho new cnpltol, was filed In district court by W. B. Coinsfock and E. J. Shis, ut tornevs. brought In their own name. Resolutions nsklng for n tariff on sugnr ns n protection to tho beet sugar Industry. hav been adopted by tho Scottsbluff Chamber of Commerce nnd sent to the senntors and representa tives from Nebrnska, nnd to Senator McCumbor, head of the sennto flnnnco committee Tho resolutions recite tho fnct that tho contracts for beets In Nebraska and oUier stntcs provide for payment for beets according to Uio selling prlco of sugnr nnd Mint Uio tariff affects tho selling prlco nnd there fore regulates tho prlco to b paid for beets. Fairmont Is In doubt na to whether to light tho town by long dlstnnt electric service or contlnuo Its own plnnt. At a mass meeting Uio Public Servlco compnny nnd the BU:o River Power company each made n prop osition. Tho matter was' dismissed when a motion prevailed to print all propositions on tho ballot nt tho election April 4. When Mrs. Loulso Schultz, 70, of Fremont, known ns tho "sandwich wo mnn" nt Union stntlon, was struck by n switch engine, she was thrown fifteen feet, but fell clear of the track. Mrs. Schultz gathered together her scatter ed sandwiches nnd walked home. A pbyslclnn sent there by railroad men found that she is not badly hurt. Mrs. Schultz hns sold sandwiches at tho trains for twenty 5'cnrs. The first church service In tho now Methodist church, being erected nt Al liance wns held Sunday, nt which tlmo tho north part of tho building will bo practically completed. Tho building, which will bo tho finest of Its kind in western Nebraska, will cost approxi mately $100,000 furnished. The board of education of Nelson Is asking for bids for tho erection of tho now $75,000 school building nnd also for the remodeling of the old one. Work on tho new structure Is to bo gln about Aprl 15. Seven hundred suits nro to bo brought In federal court, Omaha agnlnst parties who subscribed for stock of tho Skinner Packing company nnd havo failed to moke payments. Tho subscriptions npproximnto about $1,000,000. Dan Swnnson, stnto .and commis sioner, nnd secrethry of tho board of cducatlonnl lands nnd funds, has an nounced that he had Invested $75,000 of tho $2,000,000 bonus passed by tho last legislature In school bonds of tho city of Nelson. At the annual meeting of tho Assoc iation of American Medical colleges, held In Chicago. Dr. Irvln S. Cutter, dean of tho medical department of tho University of Omaha was elected vice president. Public schools nt Butte have been closed on account of n mild epidemic of Influenza. Practically all of tho high school students, tenchers nnd somo of the grade pupils are victims of tho disease. At a special election for $30,000 of intersection paving bonds held at Chad ron the vote stood 245 for bonds, 107 against. The paving Is for nineteen blooks, which contract has Just been let. Merchants' Week In Omnha brought more thnn 1,000 Nebraska and Iowa merchants to the city. It wns consid ered the most successful gathering of Its kind Mint has been held in Omnha. A library association has just been formed nt Dlller nnd the books arc to bo kept In the city hall. The member ship fee Is $1 per yenr, but many cit izens have paid larger sums. The council of West Point hns passed an ordlnnnco nuthorlzlng the calling of n special election for the purpose of voting on the Issuance of $17,000 water works extension bonds. A Nntionnl Indoor Swimming meet Is to bo held In Omaha at the Nicholas Senn swimming pool Mnrch 29. Wend ell of tho Omaha Athletic club Is mnn ager. Petitions are being circulated In Mnr quetto asking nn election on bonds In the sum of $12,000 for the erection of n new school building. During tho coming season tho Kountzo Memorial Lutheran Church Omaha, will be enlarged nt an expense of $150,000. The Omaha Auto club receives re ports relative to tho condition of all automobllo highways centering In tho city. Tho First Central Congrcgntlonnl church of Omaha costing $500,000 has been completed nnd dedicated. n. G. Stout of St. Paul has been re elected school superintendent. This will bo his fourUi year. Tho legion post at Arcadin has pur chased a store building und will con vert It Into club rooms. Flro destroyed tho five-ioom homo of W. D. Shnnl near Springfield. Mr. Slmnl was nlone In the house ut tho time of tho flro and almost suffocated before rescued. Tho firemen were un able to save tho house or contents. Tho loss Is estlmntcd at $3,000. Tho Scottsbluff public llbrnry, built at a cost of $15,000 by public sub scription, has been finished. Before It Is oceuplnd the llbrnry board Is plan ning to hold n "Llbrnry Day" when everyone In tho city will bo given an opportunity to give nt least ono book to tho library. Charles W. Brynn announced Mint Falrvlow, Lincoln home of William Jennings Brynn, nnd 10 ncros ndjolnlng, had been donntod to the Methodist Hospital association. Tho one condi tion nttnehed Is that It be used tor a hospital. For tho first time In Mm history of tho nfflpo n wnmnn linn fllml fn Mm j ofllco of stnto superintendent of schools in Nebraska. The lady is Miss E. Ruth Pyrtle of Lincoln, who has been in tho work In Lincoln for twenty years and Is now tho piinclpnl of tho McKInley Junior hli.ii school. IMPROVING SOIL AT LITTLE COST Sweet Clover Is Admirably Adapt ed Where Decreased Corn Acreage Is Advisable. CROP MAY BE SEEDED ALONE Fair Yield of Excellent Hay May De Cut If Conditions Warrant Farmer Must Judge for Himself What Crop to Grow. (Prepared by the United States Department ot Acrlculture.) Where a reduction of corn ncrenge seems advisable and the lnnd has lime enough,- sweet clover will lend Itself admirably to soil Improvement nt low cost. Whllo the usual way of seeding is on winter grain or with spring grain, Mie United Stntes Department of Agriculture ndvises that It may well be seeded alone on land that Is now without a crop. Such land should be hnrrowed ns early as pos sible and the seed harrowed In, or where tho land dries slowly tho seed may be scattered directly on the ground ns tho frost Is coming out. There Is no need to plow, nnd so prac tically the whole expenso will consist of the cost of tho seed which nt pros ont Is low. Scarllled seed should bo used. Small Cost of Seed. Tho prlco of white sweet clover seed Is today considerably less than hnlf that of red clover. If the seed Is on tho ground early the plants will keep ahead of tho weeds and, by September or October, n fair crop of excellent liny can bo cut If conditions warrant the expense of cutting. The hay will havo practically Mio same value as alfalfa or red clover hay. In the spring of next yenr tho new growth can be turned under for corn If that crop Is desired, or the field can be used for pasture. Sweet clover Is one of the best pas ture plants known. If pastured henv Uy enough It will keep green and growing all through the summer when most grass pasture dries up. It must Curing Sweet Clover Hay In Cock. bo kept closely pastured, however, since otherwise It quickly grows tall, blooms nnd becomes woody. If the field Is left In sweet clover during 1923 It can bo plowed that full for grain or go into corn In 1024. Do Not Improve Soil. During tho past few years largo crops of sninll grain and of corn have been grown, but these have not-nlwnys proved profitable, and, of course, have not helped to Improve the lnnd. The question of whnt to do under these circumstances Is important. If ensh returns arc necessary tho land not put into corn may be planted to soy beans. This crop will require as much labor as corn, however. Where tho great est possible economy In operation Is to bo combined with soil Improvement tho fanner will have to turn to grass or clover. Every farmer must Judge for himself whether to grow com, whether to sub stitute soy beans or somo other crop, or whether to rest the land nnd de rive little or ;lo Income from It for ono season. The abovo suggestion Is of fered by the Department of Agricul ture ns ono wny to Improve the lnnd whllo resting It, nnd to do Mils with tho minimum of expense und labor. BEST MACHINE FOR BLASTING Where There Are but Few Stumps to Remove Device Firing Ten Caps Is Satisfactory. Electric blnstlng machines nre small portable dynamos, so nrrnnged that nn electric current Is generated by pushing down n rack bur, which oxtends through tho top of the ma chine. They nre made In several sizes, somo firing up to ii electric blnstlng cups, other sizes firing up to 10, HO, CO, and even more. For tho farmer with but a few stumps to blast, the United Stntes Department of Agri culture hns found tho size that fires 10 caps will be lnrge enough to meet nil needs' but the size that fires !(0 caps Is moro generally used thnn any other In agricultural work. Blnstlng machines, as well as all other necessary blasting equipment, can generally be obtained from locnl dealers In explosives, usually hard ware stores, or they may be had by writing directly to any manufacturer of explosives. These machines seldom get out of order, but they should be kept In u dry place and should not be thrown ubout or handled roughly. HASTY CONCLUSIONS SHOULD BE AVOIDED All Angles of Farm Enterprise Should Be Considered. If Cows Were Sold Thero Would Ba No Way of Using Roughage La bor Also Would Be Lost, Ad ding Another Burden. (Prepkred by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Ilnsty conclusions should bo avoided In making use of the results of tho year's cost accounts for improving Mie organization of tho farm, warns tho United Stntes Department of Agricul ture. All good fnrmcrs know that sometimes n positive decrease In profits mny ensue If an enterprise bo dropped because, taken nlone, It linn failed to pay. Cows, for Instance, may not ,show n net prollt, but if nil tho cows were sold there might be no other wny of using tho roughnge, which would becomo a dead loss. La bor dovotcd night nnd morning to Keeping of Cows May Be Responsible for Making Hogs So Profitable. milking nnd feeding cows, nnd charged to them, would be entirely lost If the cows wero sold nnd noth ing supplied to fill in tho Mine. Thus nn ndded burden for tho maintenance of labor would have to bo borno by tho other enterprises. Tho fnct Mint tho hogs or tho corn crop bring the most net money during tho season Is no renson for assuming Mint nil tho activities of tho form in tho future should bo devoted solely to hogs or corn. It may bo that tho keep ing of cows Is pnrtly responsible for making hogs so profitable, or that the growing of whent, clover, or other crops in rotntlon with corn makes the latter crop much moro profitable than It would have been if grown alone. Similar conditions will bo met with on nil fnrms nnd, therefore, no sudden changes should bo mndo on the bnsls of what a single yenr's accounts mny Indlcnte. All angles of the enterprise should bo tnken Into consideration. POTASH IN WOOL RECOVERED Small Washer Has Been Designed and Is Being Tried by the Bureau of ChemlBtry. A small wool washer mndo for re covering potash from fleeces In a solu tion of suflkicnt concentration to mnko tho recovery of tho potnsh profltnblo lias been designed nnd Is being tried out by the bureau of chemistry of the United Stntes Department of Agri culture. It Is said that the averago fleece contains about -1 per cent of po tnsh by weight, but in Mio ordinary method of washing wool It comes out In such dilute solution Mint It docs not pay to recover the salt. About 000,000,000 pounds of wool nro secured In the United States each year, and if only 3 per cent of potnsh Is recovered It would amount to 18, 000,000 pounds of n.ctunl potash that would be available for use In fertiliz ers. Some nitrogen is ulso recovered from wool along with the potnsh. INOCULATION OF SOY BEANS When Sown on Land Not Previously Planted to Crop It Is Advisable to Use Culture. Natural Inoculation now occurs quite generally throughout much of Mio nrea where soy beans nro grown extensively. When sown on land which has not been previously planted to Mils crop, however, It I9 ndvlsablo to lnoculnte with the proper culture. Inoculation mny bo obtained, either through the use of n pure culture, a limited quuntlty of which can be pro cured from the United States Depart ment of Agriculture froe of chnrgo, or by the use of Inoculuted soil from n field where soy bean plants hnve pre viously developed nodules. Tho ln oculnted soil may be drilled In nt tho time of seeding, using the fertilizer box, or by thoroughly mixing a gal lon of tho soil to a bushel of seed. STRAWBERRIES ALL SUMMER Popular Varieties Are Progressive and Superb Resistant to Leaf-Spot Diseases. Strawberry plants which will con tinue to produce strawberries .until hard frosts occur mny bo grown In nil of tho northern United States and In the mid-western stntes. 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