The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, June 13, 1913 Page: 2 of 8
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Plaster, Roofing,
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Lumber, Lath,
Posts, Shingles
Sash, Doors,
Blinds.
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and meet him. He
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Le Tulle Mercantile
Co., Bay City, Tex.
Owners and Controllers of the Best Bay City, Surburban and
Farm Properties in Matagorda County, Texas
THE PAINT WITH A
MILLION FRIENDS
Government
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COWPEA—PLANTING
AND CULTIVATION.
planting.
With favorable weather conditions
peas will grow until frost, especially
those that make most vine; so, while
they can be planted almost any time
after the weather gets warm ,the soon-
or they are! planted the more growth
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LEWIS & FOULKS
Attorneys-at-Law
Boney Building
Bay City,
The Grace Piano
J. E. GRACE, Manager.
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MASURY
Where There’s a
Farm There Should
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IN TOWN!
Do you remember him?
He is an old acquaint,
ance in a new garb!
Look Him Over!
Spell His Name Back-
ward and if you do
not recognize him
Come Here
San Angelo.—The scholastic popula-
tion of this city has increased ninety-
one for this year over that of 1912.
The census just completed shows 1963
against 1872 in 1912. This is taken as
an indication that the city’s popula-
tion has increased approximately 500
during the past twelve months.
Brownsville.—L. L. Whitney, form-
erly secretary of the Board of Trade
of this city, has been selected as sec-
retary of the Board of Trade at Saint
Petersburg, Florida. He will assume
his new duties September 1.
Isn’t is about time that you buy that new piano you have wanted •
so long. I will make the terms to suit you, and the price lower than 2
same piano can be bought elsewhere, so call in the store and have Z
a talk with me or write for catalog and terms. •
We also have a complete line of Victor Talking Machines and Edison S
Phonographs, also we carry about two thousand records for Victor and 1
Edison, so come and select your records or send in your order . w
Victor and Edison machines are sold on easy payment plant if <e- 1
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When
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Buy
Land
Exclusive Agents Bay City Town Co., Frisco Railroad Com | j
pany lots and Magill’s Additions to Bay City.
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Summer Tours and
Service
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Comfort.—The commissioners court
has named June 17 as the date for
the holding of the election to deter-
mine whether Kendall county will is-
sue bonds for road improvement.
THE SOUTHWESTERN
TELEGRAPH
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TELEPHONE CO,
DALLAS, TEXAS
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Lookin’ for a farm, Mister. My daddy bought his from the
Bay City Realty Co. You better see ’em, too.
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The progressive farmer .sur-
rounds himself with modern
advantages.
He, too, appreciates that con-
venience ministers to health,
happiness, progress and wealth.
What does he do?
With other neighbors he
starts a Rural Telephone line.
Enough said.
Apply to our nearest Manager for in-
formation or write to
Gainesville.—A brass band, compos-
ed of twenty-five young men has been
organized here. Gainesville already
has a young ladies’ band.
Fort Worth.—Practically every bill
poster in Texas was present at the
eighteenth annual meeting of the Tex-
as Poster Advertising Association,
which convened here, June 11. Much
business of a technical nature was at-
tended to.
We have
Soil Reports
gorda and Brazoria County
Lands, and a Colored Chart
with accompanying analy-
ses to show you.
You Can91 Go Wrong
by dealing on. Uncle Sam’s Guarantee
We Are The Pioneers
In the land business here; have large list of city and farm proper-
ties, and are prepared with every reasonable accommodations
to do business with you on large or small tracts.
DoriH
Trust
Tolucl
will be the benefit from them. While
using large quantities of moisture,
peas at the same time require well
drained land and are able to make
good growth on dry soils because their
long tap roots enable them to draw
moisture from great depths. They
can be sown broadcast, in which event
they will not require any further work-
ing, or, better still, they can be sown
in drills eighteen inches or two feet
apart and given one or two work-
ings. If the season is dry, or it is late
in the season, the land had best be
broken flat, and the drilling done
thereon. Early in the season, or with
poorly drained lands it is well to sow
them upon a slight bed. When sown
broadcast it is well to use from a
bushel and a half to two bushels of
seed to the acre, depending somewhat
upon the size of the peas, as they dif-
fer very materially in this respect. In
drilling them, aim to place one' pea
plant every two inches in the drill.
They will require no thinning. After-
cultivation consists simply in keeping
down weeds and grass, and keeping
the soil loose. Ordinarily they will
require not more than two cultiva-
tions, as by that time the vines will
cover the ground. Peas are sometimes
planted in corn, and in the more humid
sections this is always to be recom-
mended. They may be planted in a
drill upon each side of the row of corn,
or may be sown broadcast between
the rows just before the last working.
By following this practice and then
turning under everything after the
corn has been gathered, the land is
very much improved for next year’s
crop, and at the same time the corn
that is growing upon the land is help-
ed. This practice is not so advisable,
however, in the dryer sections, as the
peas are apt to rob the corn of needed
moisture.
Immediately after wheat or oats are
cut, cowpeas should be planted on the
stubble land.
TEXAS INDUSTRIAL CONGRESS.
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MONEY TO LOAN.
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On real estate security, In any
amount from $1000 up, on long time.
Prompt service. Reference: First
State Bank. For particulars see E. C.
QUEREAU, Austin Block, Bay City,
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Math Iture has provided plants that if
W. D.; consideration
$8564.50; lots 15 and 16, in the Col-
onial Land Company’s subdivision of
the Kemp pasture', containing 475.8
acres.
Southwestern Development & Land
Summer Tourist Fares
be in effect daily June 1 to Sept.
30 inc. and good for return until
g October 31, 1913.
COLORADO
and
CALIFORNIA
And all Principal Resorts North
and East
Thru Sleepers
to
Mrs. M. C. Wheeler to R. G. Pal-
mer, W. D.; consideration $260; lot
No. 4, block No. 58, in the town of Pa-
lacios, Texas.
J. J. Shockley and wife to B. E.
Norvell, W. D. with V. L.; consider-
ation $1650; lot 9, block 5, Morton’s
addition to the city of Bay City.
E. M. Badouh and A. M. Badouh to
Laura Moore, W. D. with V. L.; con-
sideration $140; lot 11, block 103, in
the town of Markham, Texas.
K. P. Schaefer and wife to
Schaefer, W. D.;
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Under this headline the Matagorda
County Tribune publishes a very inter-
esting little article telling of the suc-
cess that one of the farmers of that
section is meeting with this year in the
production of corn.
Here is the report:
C. W. Lee, who has a small farm
near the county bridge on the river,
brought to this office this morning a
very fine specimen stalk of corn. The
stalk is about eight feet tall and is
possessed with three “shoots” every-
one of which will make an ear of corn.
He has four acres like the stalk he
brought us, each good for 100 bush-
els. Last year on one acre Mr. Lee
made 80 bushels and did not have as
good stand as he has now.—Texas
Farm & Fireside.
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WANTED—25 hands first day of June
to chop cotton. $1.00 per day and
board. See, write or phone—2 long
W. L. Lankford, Chalmers, Tex. Stwp
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11 from Waco to Kansas City.
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• DR. C. R. BYARS •
• Physician and Surgeon •»
• Offers his services to the citi- •’
• zens of Bay City and vicinity. •*
• Office phone 71; residence •'
• phone 178; office Holman •'
• Bldg., rear Opera House. •
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consideration $5600; the northeast
quarter of section No. 11, block No.
8, I. & G. N. R. R. Co.
M. F. Glen to J. S. Carroll, W. D.
with V. L.; consideration $1120; the
northeast quarter of section No. 11,
block No. 8, I. & G. N. R. R. C. sur-
vey.
Mrs. Bertha Boyd et al to Mrs. M.
Geneve Moritz, W. D. with V. L.; con-
sideration $1.00; blocks 2 and 3, out
of and a part of section No. 9, con-
taining 10 acres of land.
Mrs. M. Geneve Moritz to Mrs. Ber-
tha Boyd, W. D. with V. L.; consid-
eration $1.00; blocks 2 and 3 out of
and a part of section No. 9, contain-
ing 10 acres of land.
E. C. Boyd to R. D. Moritz, W. D.
consideration $1.00; lots 3 and 4, sec-
tion 28, containing 54.60 acres of land
out of the Edmond P. Crosby and
John Duncan original surveys.
Theo. F. Koch to George A. Miller,
W, D. with V. L.; consideration
$2461.50; 82.05 acres of land out of
the G. W. Nexen league.
T. J. Head to J. E. Head and W. H.
Head, W. D.; consideration $16.00;
lots Nos. 7, 8 and 9, block 186, in the
townsite of Bay City.
D. P. Moore to W. D. Smith, W. D.
with V. L.; consideration $350.00; lot
4 in block 15, in D. P. Moore’s second
addition to Bay City.
Valley Fruit Farm and Garden Com-
pany to C. C. Carlson, W. D.; consid-
eration, $1.00. Lot 13 in block 1, in
the city of Francitas, Texas.
Valley Fruit Farm and Garden Com-
pany to G. W. Work, W. D.; consid-
eration $210.00; lot 14 in block 125,
in the town of Francitas, Texas.
J. E. Martin to K. E. Martin, W.
D. with V. L.; consideration $75; lot
No. 9, in block 10, in Magill’s addition
I to the city of Bay City.
O. P. Rauch and Minnie E. Rauch
to G. F. Wilbur and M. E. Wilbur,
W. D.; consideration $350; lot 12
in block 1, in the town oL Palacios.
Valley Fruit Farm & Garden Com-
pany to Mrs. Ida Waddell, W. D.;
consideration $210.00; lot 6, block 11,
in town of Francitas, Texas.
Mrs. Ida Waddell to Antonio Bucch-
holz, W. D.; consideration $200; lot
6, block 11, Francitas, Texas.
Fred E. Mather and wife to Samuel
Mather, W. D.; consideration $1050;
hoick 1, in section 4, out of the I. &
G. N. R. R. Survey.
The Palacios City Townsite Com-
pany to Gregereos Zafereo, W. D.;
consideration $175; lot 2, in block 96,
in the town of Palacios, Texas.
WILL S. HOLMAN"
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Bay City, Texas.
Will practice in Appellate.* Supreme anc>
Federal courts.
Office in the court ouae.
Floating in the air over every acre I
of soil, there are over seventy million j
pounds of nitrogen is the element of ’
plant food in which soils are most of- 1
ten deficient and for which plants most ’
often suffer. To buy nitrogen in the
form of fertilizers costs twenty cents
a pound, and the nitrogen bill makes
up over one-half the total cost of all
fertilizers o'rdinarfly used. Yet Na-
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upon the ground and then turned un-
der are able to reach up into this vast
Supply and drag it down into the soil,
and put it where plants can get it at
a very small fraction of this cost.
These are the legumes of which the
Co. to M. F. Glen, W. D. with V. L.; ordinary cowpea is a very important
member. To those who know the ben-
efits to soil of a crop of peas it never
ceases to be a wonder that they are
not grown to a very much greater ex-
tent upon every farm in the South, and
it is to teach their value that an acre
has been included in the Model Farm
Contest of The Texas Industrial Con-
gress. It is astonishing, judging from
the number of inquiries, the lack of
knowledge of this plant among so
many farmers, and this bulletin is
written as a quick means of answer-
ing these inquires.
What is known as the ordinary
Southern cowpea is teally a bean, and
there are many different species in-
cluded under this one name. They
differ all the way from their habits of
fruiting, time of maturity, and from
making scarcely any vine at all to
very heavy vine producers. For
pounds of nitrogen collected from the
atmosphere these many varieties dif-
fer very little in proportion to the
number of pounds of vegetable matter
made. But that variety will be man-
ifestly best for this purpose that makes
the greatest growth under given con-
ditions. Like all plants that are
grown over a wide area, there are
many varieties of peas, and the same
variety often bear a widely different
name. In selecting a variety then, to
plant for soil renovation it is well to
study closely its growing habits and
plant that variety which experience
or other information teaches will make
the most vine. Pease are probably
less affected by change of soil than
any other plants, so it is not, as a
rule, necessary to pay much attention
to where the seeds were grown, al-
though, all else being equal, it is ad-
visable to make home-grown seed.
Peas are subject to the disease known
at root-rot, that is so common in cot-
ton, and, for that reason, care should
be exercised in planting them upon
such land. There is one variety of
peas, however, that will resist, or is
not subject to the disease, which is
known as the Iron pea. Fortunately,
it is one of the best vine producers
known, so1 it should always be planted
where land is affected with root-rot.
While peas have a wonderful knack
of making a fairly good growth on
even the poorest prepared land, they
do1 much better when proper care is
taken in this respect. Deep plowing
always pays well with them, and the
better condition the soil is in the more
certain and remunerative will be the
crop. The nitrogen gathering power
of peas is due to the action of certain
organisms that attack themselves to
the roots of the plants. Sometimes
these organisms do not exist in the
soil, and, as a consequence, the peas
will not do well. Many of the failures,
especially in the dryer sections, can
be traced directly to the absence of
this germ. When absent, however, it
can be supplied in a number of ways.
The best, cheapest and surest way of
doing this is by the addition of a few
loads of stable manure. Scatter it
broadcast and harrow it in some little
time in advance of planting the peas,
and there will generally be no trouble
upon this score. One^can also inocu-
late soils foi’ peas by scattering a few
hundred pounds of soil taken from a
field that has already produced peas,
or one can buy a material specially
prepared for this purpose. Peas, of
course, do not require nitrogen in the
fertilizers used upon them, but they
are very heavy users of both phos-
phoric acid and of potash, and it is
well to see that they are well sup-
plied with these materials. On or-
dinary loam soils it generally pays
| well to apply three to four hundred
pounds of acid phosphate for peas.
On the more sandy soils equal parts
by weight of acid and of kainit
would probably give better results.
If the soil is very poor it sometimes
pays to add also about a hundred and
fifty pounds of cottonseed meal at the
time of planting so as to enable the
peas to grow on while waiting for the
nitrogen germ to1 get in its work.
All fertilizer should be added about
■ the time or just before planting. It
can either be placed broadcast upon
the land and harrowed in or it can be
Dallas.—The Ford Motor Company placed in the drill just ahead of the
announce that they will soon begin the
construction of a five-story building
here to be used as an assembling
plant. The building wil be of rein-
forced concrete and brick, and will be
modern in every way, and is said to
be the largest of the nineteen assem-
bling plants operated by the concern.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, June 13, 1913, newspaper, June 13, 1913; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1299631/m1/2/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.