The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, October 20, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1911.
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Picture Yourself
IN A SUIT OF
Benjamin or Adler’s Collegian Clothes
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And you are dressed accord-
ing to fashion’s latest edict.
Go around to every store in
town, try on any suit that
pleases your eye, then drop
into our store and let us show
you these famous makes of
clothes and you will see the
difference in a minute. Ben-
jamin or Adler’s Collegian
Clothes are mpde from the
best materials that money
can produce, and the work-
manship, style and fit are ab-
solutely unequaled. We’re
showing hundreds of pat-
terns in the latest colorings
at prices much less than
you would expect to pay.
HIGH GRADE SUITS from :: $10 to $30
THE PRICE IS THE THING
THE BIG 4 STORE
East Side Square, Sulphur Springs
COTTON PICKING MACHINE.
Judging from the progress that has
recently been made in the cotton pick-
ing machine it will be but a few years
until it is a practical success and the
colored cotton pickers will then have
lost their Job and will have to look
elsewhere for work. A machine is
now being put on the market that will
gather the cotton at the rate of about
fifteen acres a day and do it nearly as
well as if it was-kicked by hand. The
promoters of the machine claim that
it will gather ninety per cent of the
cotton open and gather it as free from
.trash as the average picker. We have
seen the machine in operation and are
prepared to believe about all that is
claimed for it. With the large planta-
tions that are being planted in cotton
The First National Bank
The City National Bank
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $200,000
UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY
It is not what you make but what you save, that makes you in-
dependent; open an account with us and keep it growing, and when
you get old you will be independent. One dollar will open your
account; why not start now, tomorrow you will be one day older.
W. F. SKILLMAN, Cashier
SCIENTIFIC FARMING BEATS RE-
DUCING THE ACREAGE.
For years the Farmers’ Union has
waged a campaign for the reduction
of cptton acreage. The campaign has
not been .effective. It lacks force
because the population of the world
is increasing in greater proportion
than the area of cultivated lands.
The reduction of cotton acreage has
bee» urged with the very commend-
able view of increasing the value of
Cotton to the farmer.
Would it not be wiser for the Union
lecturers to teach the farmers of
Texas how to produce two bales of
cotton where one grew before.
T£ig is possible as has been demon-
ed in every cotton growing state
e application of scientific meth-
ods^
By increasing the production to the
acn§, the farmer adds to the value of
evefy pound of cotton produced by
savntg time and labor^ and land. Sup-
pose thirty acres were made W pro-
duce what forty acres produced be-
fore the introduction of improved var-
ieties of cotton and before he fertil-
ized his field. The saving may be
estimated in the amount of labor nec-
essary to the cultivation of ten acres
and in the value of the crop of feed
stuff or other products raised on the
ten acres.
No amount of campaigning and lec-
turing will cause the farmers to re-
duce the cotton acreage, unles it is
demonstrated to them that at the end
of the season they wil be in better
shape.
It is time to get away from the no-
tion that products of any commodity
is too great. It is time to study meth-
ods of cheapening the cost of produc-
tion per acre.-Ft. Worth Star-Tele-
gram.
the bunch of hogs came up and began
to attack it, biting it on the bloody
legs. The owner of the mule heard it
braying and went down and^ beat the
hog’s off with a stick. One of the
mule’s legs was torn nearly off before
he arrived and it is understood that
it has since died.—Paris Nlews.
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HOGS ATTACK A MULfi.
Constable Bud Hughes of the Tiger-
town precinct, ywho was in ttye city-
yesterday reported that a bunch of
hogs attempted to devour a live mule
near Direct a few days ago. The mule
bekmged to Dud I*om and while it
was in the pasture it became tangled tim«^
UP in some net wire and its legs' were
badly skinned in trying to extricate
itself. While it was on the ground
Watch for our weekly bargains and
save money. Gee & Harper.
JAPANESE FRUIT TREES.
Among the many ways of their own
that the Japanese have for doing
things is their system of pruning fruit-
trees. The system is called “tnan,”
and consists in training the branches
overhead the trellis-work, made of
bamboo or wire supported on wooden
posts about five feet and a half high.
This offers advantages in gathering
the fruit, and not only serves to pro-
tect the trees against wind and
storms, but is said to increase pro-
duction. Only very light pruning is
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ed for pears and vhies, less often for
apples and plums.—Youths’ Compan-
ion.
Opened by the present manage-
ment in January, 1884, we have
been doing business on the same
corner since.
With age we have not only gain-
ed experience, but also
Strength and
Stability
and are better prepared than
ever to take charge of any busi-
ness intrusted to us.
On broad lines, yet strictly in
keeping with sound and conser-
vative banking principles, our
strenuous purpose, supported
by perseverance, has earned us
the title of
“The Bank that
Does Things/
The First National Bank
SULPHUR SPRINGS, ; TEXAS
Capital and Surplus : $165,000
President
Vice President
Active Vice President
Ceshier
. Assistant Cashier
and the difficulty to get pickers at the
proper time it begins to look as if a
machiro will soon be a necessity in or-
der to make cotton raising a success.
The time was when the farmer plant-
ed a few acres of cotton and gather-
ed the most of it himself, taking prac-
tically all fall to do so, seemingly in no
hurry# but now with the big planta-
tions planted in cotton, producing
from a hundred to a thousand bales,
it becomes necessary to gather it
more rapidly. With the machine will
no doubt come a reduction in the cost
of raising and gathering a crop of
cotton, because a cotton picker, while
the first cost would no doubt be rath-
er high, would no doubt gather the
staple cheaper than hand picking.
The day of the cotton picker is com-
ing.—Weekly Texas Citizen.
AVERAGE CROP YIELD.
Reports received by the Texas In-
dustrial Congress from eighty-nine
counties in the state, amply justify
its w^rk during the present year in
advocating the adoption of better cul-
tural methods. Notwithstanding an
unfavorable season and the prolonged
drouth the combined average yield,
(estimated) of com per acre, raised
by the contestants for the prizes offer-
ed by the Congress, is 31 bushels, and
an estimated average yield of 58-100
bale of cotton per acre. It is, of
course, impossible for us to estimate
even approximately the average yield
of the state but it is not probable that
the corn crop will average over 15
bushels and cotton over 1-3 bale per
acre. The Congress will hold Its third
annual convention in Dallas within
the next ninety days, as soon as the
winners of the $10,000 in prizes can be
ascertained.—Texas Industrial Con-
gress.
WANT TO RENT.
Would like to correspond with any
one having a good farm of 75 or 100
acres of good, productive soil, good
water and fair improvements to rent.
Will consider either terms of third
and fourth or on halves. Aged or
disabled person having farm, but not
able to run same, write.
Prefer place with good orchard,
wood for fuel and pasture. Address,
P. O. Box, 145,
Itasca, Hill Co., Texas.
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Fanning, R. W. The Sulphur Springs Gazette. (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, October 20, 1911, newspaper, October 20, 1911; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth816627/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.