The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, June 14, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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QET THERE
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A New Empire, 200 Miles Square—Pecos Valley, Tex.
One of the richest irrigable valleys in the United States, just ahead
of Construction of the Kansay City, Mexican & Orient Railway. A
new country—a chance to begin over apaln. New hopes—Prosperity
A country where Irrigation makes SUHE CROPS! Homeseekers are
flooding into this wonderful new country. By February 1st the Orient
Railway will cross the valley. Buy land now before prices advance.
The extensive Imperial Irrigation System, furnishing abundant
water to these Pecos Palisades lands, now complete. Water turned on.
Farmers are irrigating their land and building homes. The big Im-
perial reservoir, covering nearly 2000 acres, holds six hundred million
cubic feet of water, with 76 miles of canals.
Greatest Atfalfa and Fruit Country
Alfalfa is the wonder crop of the Pecoe Valley. Produces #75 to
$125 per acre. SIX cuttings a year. Alfalfa will make you rich.
F cts about lower Pecos Valley are amazing. In fruit, the land
should produce up to #1000 per acre. Peaches pay $1000 per acre;
Apples trees are worth $40 apiece; celery and asparagus f 500 per acre;
berries up to #500 per acre; cantaloupes $300 to #500 per acre.
Pecos Valley products won 22 First Prizes at F1 Paso Fair, 1009,
and some of its fruits beat the world at the St. Louis Fair.
Your OPPORTUNITY. Pecos Valley offers your greatest oppor-
tunity because land is now selling on easy terms and at one-fifth the
price of similar lands in older districts, and because it is just ahead of
construction of the railroad, duilding daily and spending large sums
in this territory.
Call on us today for full information about personally conducted
excursions and cheap roilroad rates to this wonderful Pecos Valley.
Elaborate literature free for the asking.
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For the Farmer
Plant or Sow Peas or Soy
Beans on Your Stubble
Land.
The small grain crop of the
State is now being harvested.
If the land is allowed to lie idle
it will very soon be covered
with weeds that will go to seed
and greatly increase this nuis-
auce next year. If it has no crop
on it with roots to protect and
hold the soil together, and the
season is exoeesively wet, it will
waste from washing and thus
lose a large amount of its soluble
plant food. If the ground i9 dry
and hard, the rain that should
sink in would run off and leave
the ground in bad condition for
fall plowing.
Practically all of these troubles
can be avoided and the fertility
of the land greatly increased by
disking it thoroughly, if it is
loose enough to prepare a good
seed bed in this way, and if not
by plowing and harrowing it
just as quickly as possible after
the crop is removed, and drilling
from a peck to a half bushel of
peas or soy beans to the acre.
The peas will grow rapidly if
the soil is properly prepared and
make splendid pasture for cattle
or hogs in the early fall, and hay
if you care to cut it and a yery
profitable crop to turn under as
green manure to add to the hu-
mus, pliability and fertility of
the soil.
Peas and beans being legum-
inous plants, vegetable bacteria
form their nodules, or tiny
homes, upon the roots and in-
crease and multiply under favor-
able contitions. at a fabulous
rate. It has been estimated that
these vegetable animals, as it
were, double themselves every
twenty minutes, that is, they
mature in that time and separate
into two individuals, each of
which ripens, as it were, in the
next twenty minutes and divides
again into two, both going tj
housekeeping for themselves,
and so on, in geometrical ratio;
where there was one a week ago
there are a billion now. If the
soil is sweet, that is, does not
lack lime, there seems to be
hardly any end to the increasing
powers of these little entities.
Their special value is in the fact
that they bring nitrogen from the
air into the soil and rapidly
transform it into nitrates suitable
for plant food.
It has been estimated that
where conditions are favorable
and the soil has been thorougnly
inoculated with bacteria from
growing peas, beans, alfalfa or
some other leguminous crop,
that the nitrogen brough into ti.e
land annually from this source
could not be purchased for less
than $20 or $30 per acre. An
nitrogen is absolutely essential
to plant growth and is one of the
most expensive of the mineral
plant foods, it should be clear to
every one that it is infinitely
more profitable to grow legumin-
ous cover-crops than other crops
of the same weight that return
just as much humus to the soil,
but do not draw nitrogen from
the atmosphere.
Plant peas and beans on your
stubble land and plant them now
Henry Exall.
President Texas Industrial Con-
gress.
Big Grain Crop.
What is believed to be the
largest small-grain acreage on
any one farm in Texas is that
on the J. H. Paine place south-
west of Denton. Mr. Paine has
on his place 1250 acres in wheat
and between 300 and 400 acres
of oats, making a total of nearly
1650 acres. It is not all in one
body but scattered over his big
farm, part put in by himself and
part by tenants. The prospect
is very good, but he would not
consent to making any estimate
until after he has thrashed except
to say that it was much better
than la3t year's crop. Mr.
Paine will hold about all Mr
crop until the price reaches a
satisfactory point. He has
granary room for more if not all
of the crop.—Record and Chron-
icle ,
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There is always a mighty fam-
ine in the land for the man who
is not in earnest.—Rams Horn,
HAY FROM THE SOY BEAN.
Directions For Handling Forage From
This Useful Plant.
For hay soy beans are cut with the
mower and as soon as wilted raked
into small windrows. They are allow-
ed to dry here for a short time and
should then be put Into small shocks
and allowed to stand uutll well cured.
Experience Is necessary in curing soy
bean hay, but those who have made
cowpea hay will find less trouble In
curing that of soy beans. A corre-
spondent writes in regard to curluu
cowpea hay that he sets posts about
one foot into the ground, nails cross
pieces near tbe bottom and shocks tbe
hay over the posts as soon as cut Tbe
forkfuls of pea vines are slipped over
the post which is sharpened, and a
good sized shock made. No further it-
dkvice for curing sot bran hay in
shock.
[From bulletin Kentucky agricultural sta-
tion.]
tention is given until the hay Is cured.
He claims that hay cured in this way
is of extra tine quality, but does not
say how much time it takes to handle
the hay In this manner. It would prob-
ably not prove practical on a large
scale, but is worth trying with a small
crop.
Another contrivance often used in
curing soy bean or cowpea hay is 11
lustra ted here. The hay is allowed to
wilt and is then raked into windrows
and piled over these frames. Being
held up from the ground and having
an air space in the center of tbe shock,
the bay, of course, cures quite rapidly
This apparatus appears to be more
practical than the one described above.
Neither soy bean nor cowpea hay
keeps well in a stack unless given a
good covering or timothy or other
grass, because the coarseness of the
stems allows the water to penetrate
so readily. The stack should also bt
made on brush, rails or boards to keep
the hay from becoming damp and
moldy on the bottom.—Bulletiu, Ken
tucky Agricultural Station
CO-OPERATION. i
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Co-operative effort has enabled §
many farmers and stockmen to |
improve their live stock. It is
an easy matter to secure tbe
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best breeding stock when a num-
ber of farmers buy males upon |
the co-operative plan. It does f
not require large capital to farm, li
but it requires Intelligence and |
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Silage Cheaper Than Pasture.
Dean Mumford of the Missouri Col-
lege of Agriculture makes the state-
ment that cows can be maintained
more cheaply on silage than they can
be carried through the summer on
blue grass pasture, where the land
costs about $100 per acre and Is suit-
able for growing corn. lie says that
there Is very little pasture land where
a cow and a calf can be pastured on
less than one and one-half acres, but It
is entirely possible to get twelve and
one-half to twenty tons of silage from
one acre.
Sorghum a Good Hay.
Sorghum is considered one of the
most valuable forage crops. It Is a
stronger feeding plant than corn and
will do better on thin lands where
summer months are quite warm.—
American Agriculturist.
Apiary Notes.
Don't use sulphuric acid for cleaning
beeswax, because it will burn the comb
and take the substance out of it to
such an extent that the bees will not
work upon it
Bees won't thrive in a cellar where
there are mice or any disturbing In-
fluences. It is well to partition bees
off to themselves where it is quiet
with plenty of ventilation and little
light
During spring manipulations, In pre-
paring bees for winter and at other
limes it may be necessary to feed them
for stimulation or to provide stores.
Honey from an unknown source should
never be used for fear of introducing
disease.
The flrst thing to be looked after in
making a bee cellar would be the loca.
tion. This should be in a side hill or
knoll sloping to the south where the
soil is gravel or sandy loam. By dig-
ging into the bank a cellar of suffl
cient size to hold the number of colo-
nies comfortably can be secured.
A curious Interference on the part oi
the honeybee in our economic que*
tlons has occurred In the tobacco rata
lng sections of the country. They are
gathering nectar from the tobacco bio*,
soms, and some of the apiarists com-
plain that the honey is flavored in h
way that Ib neither delightful oor
wholesome.
FOR THE HOME VINEYARD.
Qood Qrape Trellis That May Be Too
Expensive For Commercial Use.
A grapevine trellis described by the
Rural New Yorker, from which this
cut and this description are repro
duced, has a middle wire which goe«=
through holes in the posts. The mid
die slot sets down over the middle
wire, while the two outside wires run
through slots in the cross arm two
inches from the ends. The cross arms
are 1 by 4 Inches for all but end cross
arms, which are 2 by 4 inches. The
cross arras are nailed to tbe posts and
should also be braced by wire run-
ning from the ends of the cross arm
and then down around the post eight-
een or twenty inches below the arm
The stem of the vine is brought to a
height a little above the level of the
middle wire and tied to It.
Two canes that develop near this
level the present year are left next fall
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grape trellis.
[From the Rural New Yorker.]
and next spring are tied to the right
and left along this middle wire. Two
short spurs are left near this location
to furnish bearing wood for the year
following and all else removed. The
shoots developing from these grow out
and over the outside wires, making a
canopy, the fruit hanging in a natural
position beneath and protected from
the sun. This trellis simulates the po-
sition of the wild vine more nearly
than any other. The growth is out of
the way of cultivation, good air drain-
age is insured, and one can pass readi-
ly from row to row. This trellis is
recommended for the home vineyard.
The expense of construction makes It
prohibitive commercially except for
fancy table varieties.
<| GIVE THC 'DEN A CHANCE
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g trol the high cost of living if you ;
plant and cultivate the vegeta-
bles as they should be. By grow- •
lng the llviiig at home you will «
be in a position to save more of
the income from what you have
for sale.
For the Farmer Who Thinks.
If one extra potato were added to
each plant grown In the United States
the actual Increase In the annual yield
of the crop would amount to 21,000.
000 bushels.
Last July a Missouri farmer sowed
DIGEST OR DIE.
Showing a Way to Save Lives
By Strengthening Digestion.
It ie not what you eat but what
you digest that makes blood.
You may eat three "square"
meals a day and eti*rve to death.
Many thousands do.
The correct way is not to eat
more, but to digest better*
But your stomach is tired out,
your secretions soanty, your ner-
\er weakened* How can you
get a fresh start? How can you
give the stomach a rest, store up
a rich supply of gastric and oth-
er digestive juices, restore the
nerve force?
Take Dr. Richards' Dyspepsia
Tablets.
This is the best possible ad-
vice for millions of stomach suf-
ferers who have vainly tried
medicines and fads in diet, only
to grow Bteadily worse. Food
will make blood. Ordinary pills
and tonics will not. Try living
for two months on one of the so
called "blood making" medi-
cines alone, and see. Food is
the best medicine and food is
made effective by Dr. Richards'
Dyspepsia Tablets. That's the
secret.
The manners in which your
6tomach treats food is the differ-
ence between life and death.
If digested, food becomes pure
blood, energy, life. If not di-
gested, food becomes an aotive
poison, causing disease, and
slowly, death.
Dr. Richards' Dyspepsia Tab-
lets insure digestion.
That's about all, except, that
the tablets are for sales by'j. R.
Peel and that the price is fifty
cents per bottle. Made by Dr.
Richard's Dyspepsia Tablets As-
sociation. 53 Worth Street, New
York.
oats, corn and millet on a piece of
land that had been in early oats. The
early oats were used as roughage. Tbe
second crop proved highly profitable.
Hydrated lime may be needed on
your farm. On acid, low, poorly drain-
ed and soils where there Is a heavy
crop turned under lime Is generally
needed In liberal quantities to mak&
It produce profitably.
Clean, plump, selected seed, true to
variety, not mixed, free from weed
seed and from disease and with strong
germinating power should always be
planted by the farmer as a means of
increasing his own yield.
Professor Watts in his address be
fore the American Horticultural so-
ciety nrped the more general use of
irrigation in growing vegetable crops
and praised the Skinner system as
marking a new era in vegetable gar-
dening. It is an overhead system of
Irrigation.
Ends Hunt for Rich Girl.
Often the hunt for a rich wife ends
when the man meets a woman who
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temper. Her peach-bloom complex-
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blood her bright eyes from restful
sleep; her elastic step from firm, free
museles, all telling of the health and
strength Electric Bitters give a wo-
man, and the freedom from indiges-
tion, backache, headache, fainting
j and dizzy spells they promote. Every-
where they are woman's favorite rem-
edy. If weak and ailing try them,
SOcts at. J. It Peel's.
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The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, June 14, 1912, newspaper, June 14, 1912; Pilot Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth291221/m1/2/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Denton Public Library.