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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1910)
Why City Man Succeeds on Farm Nov. and then we see a city matt move out onto a farm ami in a short time build up a very successful bus iness. This is happening oft . nor in • he last few years, than it did a score of years ago. VV wonder why it is that one who •as not been engaged in farming, can >o quickly adapt himself to modern methods of agriculture ami do things after tie most, approved style. One reason is that we older farm < rs pet in the habit of doing some tilings pretty well, but along other lines we are not as progressive as we might bo. For instance, we limy see a farmer who is making money hand over iist with hogs. He sells a big hunch every year and gets in a wad of cash. He may raise good wheat too, i.rnl in that way adds another tuiieli of money to ins bank account. Then this same man. wlto handles two or til roe lines in his business in the best possible manner, may lose • ait in two or three other lines. Ho may keep a bunch of old cows that eat their heads off every year and use up some of the hog and end wheat money. Then lie may let the orchard lie barren and fruitless. It may be, that it will afford enough apples for the family use, but net ; dollars income is had from it be sides He may raise some light scrawny colt Is. stuff that a buyer will pass upon as indifferent, if not undesirable. Here is another loss again Hy half a dozen wj.yfa like this, he gets rid of most of the profit that the hogs and wheat are giving i hint, ami wonders why he is making narely more than a living. lie is progressive in a few lines, i at is in the deepest ruts in several • diets. We get in 1his fix because we de not stop once or twice a year and give our business a complete in vestigation. We think we are pro gressive and modern, but we are > nly partly so. We take farm papers with a de partment on every phase of our farm operation, but we have got in the habit of rarely looking sit anything Mit the columns that treat ol our ret I ranches of agriculture. We could learn, could rectify our i. istakes, but do not do it. The city man does differently. He lakes up only those branches of work that he lias investigated and' understands. He gets his information directly from the most successful *<‘n in those lines, studies every phase that he desires to take up. lie Handles only those tilings that he is almost sure are going to pay. lb- may have a great deal to e ,irc. but he proposes to enter only • hose fields that he is pretty sure W understands or < an easily man age. His interest does not flag; every de partment. is looked after because he i** not so sure of his footing in any one particular. Not many farmers in this section, nnt will lose almost every stand of nces on the farm. One dollars worth of sugar fed last October would have naved a swarm,now they are almost t total loss and there will be no nees except in the apiaries of the tegular bee-keeper. If a city man goes into bee-keeping, I - would have done that feeding, bad hr known the conditions, because he would have considered that a part of he farm management. His business training in the city, has made 1dm aware that big suc cesses depend upon every department tending that way. Thou tile city man knows that he is watched by liis old chums as well as the farmers of his vicinity—he lias a reputation to make all along the line. The old veteran farmer has made a success in a few lines and he hangs Ids whole reputation on those tilings, forgetting that the little leaks are eating his profits skin poor. He knows better, but does not stop to think and stays in the ruts. He forgets that bis state agricul tural college is issuing bulletins up on almost every point in which lie is interested, while the city man, awake to tin' importance of getting information from every source,reads and profits thereby. He may hear of some brother farmer making a big success along some line, but does not take the time to visit that farm and see for himself how it is done. The new beginner goes after the successful mini and gets an interview, ho learns from tlie best sources, the best methods in vogue. The lesson we old toggles can learn from these new beginners, is that we must cut out those tilings w are not familiar with, unless we go after Hie knowledge that we can obtain if we only will. Then tin new man takes up no more department:-; than iie can handle while we older fellows get swamped right along, year after year. Those scrubby cows, mangy colts and worn-out old horses are eating the grass that our thrifty stock should be getting. Then we must go over the list anil discover those departments that pay, cut out the others or go after the information that will make them add to the bapk account. Let 11s watch the city man as he farms, he may teach us something after all. Two of the biggest and most successful farms in Nebraska, are managed by city men and man aged well. Hundreds of other small er ones are being handled at a profit by the fellows who we farmers call city-bred. Put on your thinking cap and watch the city-bred farmer with unprejudiced eye. l>o you know that croup can be prevented? Give Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as soon as the child becomes hoarse or even after the croupy ci figh appears and it will prevent the attack, it. is also a certain cure for < roup and has never been known to tail. Sold by all druggists. Microscopic Mechanism. Myinec ides, an ancient carver, was so proficient in mieroscnpic mechan ism that lie made an ivory ship, with all its decks, masts, yards, rigging and nails, in so small a compass that it might have been hidden under the wing of a fly He also made a chariot with four wheels and as many har nessed horses, which took up scarcely more room than the ship. A Good Law. Under the law of Germany any per son killing a song bird of any species can be fined as high as $5 and sent to jail for as long as two months. No person is permitted to cage a song bird other than a canary. Any boy throwing missiles at a bird or taking away its eggs or nest can be severely punished. Such a law is needed in America. J A straight, honest, healthful cream of tartar baking powder. Made from Grapes. Contains not a grain ^ of injurious ingredient I_ i HOW TO TEST SEED CORN. A Simple And Useful Device For Tr.e Purpose. Tim best way to test seed corn is in a germination box. This is u sim ple affair and can be made by any one in an hour's time. Take a box six inches deep an 1 about two by three feet in size. Kill the box about half full of moist dirt, sand or sawdust. Press it well down so it will have a smooth, oven sur face. Now take a white eloth about ttie size of the box. rule it off check er-board fashion, making squares one and a half inches each way. Number the checks 1, ", 3, and so on. Place this over the sand, dirt or sawdust. Take the ears to he tested and either lay them out on the floor and mark a number in front, of each, or attach a numbered tag. Now take off about six kernels from each car 4not all from the same place, hut at several points on all sides.) Put these kernels on the squares corres ponding in number io those placed on tlie ears of corn, lie careful not lo gel them mixed. Keep the ears Humbert d to correspond I'XAt’TKY with the numbers on the square of cloth. After the kernels have been placed carefully on the cloth which covers the moist sand dirt or sawdust, cov er them with another cloth, consid erably larger than the box, cover this cloth with about two inches oT the same moist rand and keep the box in a warm place. It must not get cold. Tin kernels will gemiimit ■ in tour to six days. Remove the cover carefully to avoid misplacing the kernels. Ex amim theem can fully. Some will have long sprouts but almost no roots; others will not have grown at all, hut the kernels from ears which will produce corn if planted, will have both sprouts and good root systems. Compare the numbers on the squares with those on the ears. Put hack into the feeding corn bin the ears which correspond in number to ilie number on the square where the kernels did not grow or where they showed only weak roots. The ears numbered corresponding to those on the cloth which showed strong signs of life are the ones to preserve for seed. Every kernel from these ears should produce a stalk, every stalk an ear. Suppose one dead ear be planted. The planter fails to get one thousand stalks of corn—almost twelve bush els of corn lost. Ttie people of Nebraska cannot af ford to take a chance. The seed corn should be tested thoroughly be fore it is planted. Tlie state planted last year 6,461, 680 acres or corn. It will plant the same or more this year. Twelve good ears of corn will plant an acre. Tests made show that at least two ears will not grow. In some sections only six ears show they are capable of producing a strong corn plant, which will give the farmer good ears of corn, or ev en average ears. If two ears in twelve fail to grow, one-sixth of the corn land in Ne braska—1,076,946 acres, will be idle this year. That means the slate will produce about 26,923,633 bushels of corn less than the land should grow. Thai means the farmers will lose $13,481,816 by failing to amke amount when the land is there and the labor lias to be done whether corn fails to grow in one-sixtli of the bills or not. Legal Notice. E. S. I’yle, whose true nann is Edward S Pyle, non-resident defend ant, will take notice that on the 25th day of .January, 1910, Mrs. Sarah 1. Baker filed Ik-i lietltion, as plaintiff, in the District Court of Richardson County, State of Nebraska, against you the said E. S. Pyle, defendant, tin; object and prayer of which are to obtain judgment against you on a joint and several note made and de livered to the said Mrs. Sarali L. Baker, by yourself and Jennie it. Pyle which said note is dated October 12, 1905, and is for the sum of $150.00 with interest from said date at the rate of eight per cent per annum from said date, and which note be came due on October 12. 1900, and upon which there is now due, in cluding interest, the sum of $201.40. And you are further notified that at the same time, said plaintiff pur suant to the statute in such cases, made and provided, sued out an order of attachment against you in said cause on the ground that you are a non-resident of the State of Nebraska, and have real estate in said county and state, and, that raid order of attachment was delivered to the sheriff of said county on said date and that on the 26th day of January, 1910, he, the sheriff. did levy upon said land by attaching tlu same, which is located near the vil lage of Preston, Nebraska, and is described as follows: Being the 12 acres of land pur chased by you from the heirs of John Pyle, deceased, and situated in the east. 42 rods of the northeast, guar ter of the southeast quarter of Sec tion No. twenty, in Township one, north, Range seventeen, east oi tin 6th P. M., in Richardson County, Ne braska. And you are further notified that unless you plead, answer or de mur to said petition filed in said cause, on or before Monday the 7th day of March, 1910, the same will be taken as true and judgment rendered against you according to the prayer of said petition, and an order by said court will be had that said attached real estate be gold at public sale ns under execution, to satisfy whatever amount the court sljjall find due from you to tin- plaintiff herein, and pay the costs of said action and of said sale and of the proceedings In at tachment. SARAH I. BAKER. By John VViltsc and .!. E. I.eyda, Attorneys Hated January L'Stli, 1910. First publication Fob. IS. 1910. Report of The Condition of the Farmers Stale Bank Of I’reston, Nebraska Charter Number 708, incorporated in the State of Nebraska, at tin* close ot business February 12, l“lo. KKSHt'WCKS, Loans amt discounts.. $ 35,l72.til Overdraft*. secured and unsecured 3Mo.t4) llankinir house furniture and list tires U50.00 Current expenses anil taxes paid. 4u3.o7 Duo from nat'l, state and private banks and bankers . . $20,907.32 Currency I.5lf».0O Cold Coin . 410.00 Silver, nickels and cents 710.70 23.u34.1l Total $< 4),300.39 1.1 AIULITl IvS, Capital stock paid in $13,000,00 Surplus fund 2,1*10.00 Undi ided prolits. . *W4,04 Individual deposit subject to ! clock. -*30,W7.45 I'iuu cenilleates «,f deposit 13,074.00 43,712.35 Total ... $<>0.3W».3'» sTATK OF MC1IKASK A. / County «*f Richardson. ^ l, Clyde Thacker, cashier '»! Hie above nametl bank, do hereby swear that tin* above statement is a correct and true copy of then port made to the Slate li.inkiim Hoard. v i.YDK Tiiacki.k, Co hiei ATTK8TI VV. t . Maki.kavi . Director VV. A. (t kkkn\v a i n. Director. 1 Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of Fein u.iry. I'MO. (li'Y 1*. (Jkki >iWAi.t». Notary Public. M\ commission expires Dec. 22, I'dL Report of the Condition THE BANK OE SALEM of Salem, Nebraska. Charter No. 350, incorporated in the State of Nebraska, at the close of business Feb. 12.1910. nksoukcks. Loans and Discount $ 94,063.70 Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 1.365.13 Banking house, furniture and fixtures 3.686.85 Current expenses ami taxes paid- 189.70 ! Due from national, state and private banks and bankers 14,373.4# Currency . •. 1.570.00 Gold Coin 920.00 Silver, nickels and cents 194.92 2,o84.92 Total.$117,263.77 1.IAUIL1TIKS. Capital stock paid in . $ lo.ooo.no Surplus fund 10,000.00 Undivided profits. 7X5.02 I n<lividunl deposits subject to check. 66,268.75 Demand certificates of de posit. $10,210.00 76.478.75 Total ... $117,263.77 STATE OF NEBRASKA. / ss. Countv of Richardson, ’ !. R. It. Huston, Cashier of the above named bank, do swear that the above statement is a correct and true copy of the report made to the State Banking Board. R- B. liI'HTON. ATTK8T I S 1\ Gist. Director. W. A. G Kl.r.NVVALP. Doeelor. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19tli ti.iv of February. 1910. Guy P. Gkkknwai.h. Notary Public. My commission expires December 22, 1911. Report of the Condition Of tile Falls City Stale Bank of Falls City, Nebraska. Charter No. 159, incorporated in tin* State of Nebraska, at the close of business, February 12. 19!o KKKOUKCKS. Loans and Discounts $157,322.90 Overdrafts,secured and unsecured. 57U.99 Banking house furniture and fixtures. 13.20o.ini Current expenses and taxes paid 543. XK Due from nat’l, state and private banks and bankers... $42,852.14 Checks and iteuisofexchange 2/>oo.5u Currency 45,539.00 Gold Coin- 5,025.00 Silver, nickels and cents 1,338.14 57,654.78 Total 229,292.55 MA B1 LIT IliS. Capital slock paid in 50,oni).no Surplus fund lo.ono.no f Undivided profile M'tti.oti Individual deposits subject to check f|15.o5i..U fteniand certificates of de posit . 44.'WM Certified checks. 500.00 Due t«» uaUl.^iat. and priv?»* banks and bankers 7,*85.45 IlK,402.49 j Total 1 STATK op N KtUtASK. A, / ss. County of Richardson. ' I, VV. A. Green wald, cashier of the above named bank, do hereby swear that the above statement is a correct and true copy of the report made to the State Banking Boird. W. A. GKKKNW ai.p. Cashier. attkst: T. J. (i 1ST, Director. iii v P. (iKki-.nwai.ii. Directoi. Subscribed and sworn to Indore me this lHth day of February. 1910. John W. Powkll. Notary Public. M> commission expires November 25, 1915. ('lUSTOMKkS want what they j want when they want it, and wh« n tiny do they’ll buy y mr poods if you let them know you’ve pot what they want at the price they want to priy A1)VEH71SE Mr. M-reliant, tell the home folks you can fill their needs. You’ll tin 1 them responsive. (Copyright *J,». i»y W. N. U.t Shirt 1910 (tight Buy a Dinner Set and Make the Family Happy \Ye have 100-piece sets from to $40, and are offering some inducements to early buyers. We have the largest and best stock of tut Glass, Fancv China and Dinnerware ‘■i- 'V.". ‘i in the county. Seethe I lav ilaml cv Co. and Avenir Trench China Dinner Sefs dis played in our window. Buv Your Groceries cit Chas. T1. Wilson's Tfm O/.'tjr Body Of a Range Ill body of u i.i practically the life of a range. The* li e of a range depends on the material of which it is made. CHARCOAL IRON, l y actual lists, has been proven to resist rust, he it anil cry .tallr/atimi 300 % greater than steel. MAJESTIC RANH K HOLIES areall made of CHARCOAL IRON. No other range i i the world is made of this material. It co .ts con i li ruble more thnn steel, but the MAJESTIC never stands buck lor co. t when ii < an improve its range. By compar ing the life of old time Imn nails with the steel nails of to-day, ot old-style iron stovepipe and tinware with the present day sliel product, gives you ail idea of tiie lasting qualities oi the MAJESTIC over a sti: | range. This feature alone adds 300% to the life of the MAJESTIC. Jr* TA MklCrPTINN|NG AND . Kj. I MM MEL IX PLUMBING H. M. Jenne Shoe Store Exclusive Agents for the famous line of " BALL BAND RUBBERS, Rub ber Boots and Overshoes Everything in Shoes 1). S. ricCarthv mr DRAY AND TIiANSFER Prompt attention given to the removal of house hold goods. PHONE NO. 21 I FRANK PECK Auctioneer If you contemplate having a sale see me or write for terms at once. I guarantee satisfac tion to my patrons t-ALLS < I I Y, NEBRASKA CLEAVER & SEBOLD INSURANCE REAL ESTATE AND LOANS NOTARY IN OFFICE C. H. MARION AUCTIONEER. Sales conducted in scientific and husi nesslike manner C. H. MARION Falls City, Nebraska WHITAKER The Auctioneer Before arranging date write, tele phone or telegraph, my expense I G. WHITAKER Phono I6H 1.(1-2161 fall* City Nth DR. H. S. ANDREWS Uencral Practionecr Calls Answered Day Or Night In Town or Country. TELEPHONE No. ^ BARADA* - NEBRASKA DR. 0. N. ALLISON DENTIST Phone 24* On r Richardson County Hank. FALLS CITY, NEBRASKA re re. ROBERTS DEIN'FIS'F Office over Kerr’s Pharmacy Office Phone 200 Residence Phone 271 Office Removed to Tootle Block 6th and Francis Sts DR. W. S. F AST ST. JOSEPH. MO. Si'ivial attention to Ml-DH'I NI. KbiLAl. 1 luw asc- uf WOMILN ami (‘lllLDUMN EDGAR R. MATHERS ID EL N T f S T" f’honi's: Nos. 177, ‘217 Sam’l. Wahi Bl'ILDING