The Jacksboro News. (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. XVII
JACKSBORO, JACK COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAR. 14, 1912.
No. II.
Reward for Information
PIANO
The tremedous increase in population in Fort Worth, Cleburne, Wichita Falls, Abilene, Denton, Deca-
tur and all surrounding towns and territory the past two years has made it necessary for us to take a new
and complete census of all families who are NOT provided with a Piano, Pianola-Piano or Player-Piano.
In doing this we need the assistance of men. women and children, and they do the work without interfer-
ing with their regular duties.
We want the names and addresses of every family in Fort Worth and surrounding county not supplied
with a piano, Pianola-Piano in order to bring our file list up to date, and we offer the following liberal
rewards for this information
To the person obtaining for us the largest list of families, who do not own a Piano, Pianola-Piano or
Player-Piano, with correct street address we will present a
$350 Leyhe Piano Absolutely Free!
To the person sending in the second largest list of names of heads of families who do not own a Piano,
Pianola-Piano or Player-Piano, with correct street address, we will give a
$25 Chest Rogers Silver—26 Pieces
' and another Valuable Prize.
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To the person sending in the third largest list with correct street address we will give a
$25.00 Ladies’ Gold Watch and another Valuable *Prize.
To the person sending in the fourth largest list with street address will we give a
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$20.00 Washburn Guitar and another Valuable Prize.
To the person sending in the fifth largest list with correct street address we will give an
Ingersoll Watch and another Valuable Prize.
To all others sending in lists will ;be distributed
$1,000 Worth of Valuable Awards
In dASE OF A TIE, AWARDS IDENTICAL WILL BE GIVEN TO EACH.
We want the information as soon as it is possible to obtain it, and in order to beo f value it should
he accurate and ALL NAMES and ADDRESSES WILL BE INVESTIGATED BY US FOR CORRECTNESS.
In getting the information be sure to take name and address of the head of the family, and in sub-
mitting your lists give your own name and address in full; also state whether or not you have a Piano or
Player-Piano.
This census if of great importance to us. and because of it we are offering such liberal reward# for the
laformation—you ean easily earn one of them. - y
EVERYONE SENDING IN A LIST. NO MATTER HOW SMALL. WILL BE REWARDED.
All lists must be mailed or delivered to us not later than 1 o’clock noon, March 20,Band all successful
aantestants will be notified by mail.
Remember: Everyone will get anaward. If you only know of one family who does not own a Piano,
•r Player-Piano, send it in, you will get an awtyd. Think of your friends and neighbor# who have no peanuts, cow peas, soy bean# or
piano, and send in all you can think of—you may get the largest award. j alfalfa to raise them on. Experi-
BOYS AND GIRLS: Every boy and girl sending in one ame or more besides being eligible to the ■ ments have shown that with skim
grand award, will receive a SAVINGS BANK. These SAVINGS BANKS teach the MORAL of SAVING 1railk, peanuts and cowpeas and a
What to Plant in Place of Cotton. | which by the
C, M Evans, superintendent of r*e(I out even
Agricultural Extention, Agricul
tural and Mechanical College of
Texas, College Station, Tcxbs,
sajfs:
“A great deal of agitation is
being given the subject of cutting
down the acreage in cotton for the
coming year. Some farmers take
advantage of this propaganda to
increase their acreage. Other
men are at a loss to know with
what to replace cotton
Results of extensive experi-
. ments indicate that the wisest
, thing to do would be to plan to cut
| the cotton acreage permanently
1 and not temporarily. In that case
a system of live stock farming
could very easily be installed that
could replace cotton either partly
or entirely. In other words we
could simply follow the example
of what is being done on farms in
the corn belt states which are the
highest priced land we have.
In that case the first step in re-
placing cotton would be to er^ct a
small silo. On the average Texas
farm a silo twelve feet in diameter
and twenty-six feet high would be
the proper size. This would hold
sixty tons of ensilage and would
be enough to support twenty or
thirty cqws during the year. With
ordinary ^are in cultivation it
would take less than ten acres
planted with sorghum or corn or
kaffir corn to fill this silo.
If high grade dairy cows are
kept this would mean six or eight
in miU during the year and would |
make a new income much greater
than could be expected from forty
or fifty acres of cotton. The main
objection to the dairy business is
that it takes too much work but it
is a matter of common knowledge
that the northern dairyman has a
great deal more time for pleasure
and his children have more time
for school than the average south-
ern farmer.
The next step in replacing cot-
ton should be the addition of a
few brood sows and the growth of
some leguminous crops such as
way should be car-
on the cotton farm
- would be to raise what is eaten
ori* the farm. After this is done
it is an easy matter to keep a few
mules or high class horses which
can always be raised at a profit.
If this system is followed I con-
fidently believe that the Texas
farmers can cut down the acreage
of cotton so that the price would
be forced back to a paying basis,
but, I doubt very much after they
have tried this system of farming
there would be many vVilling to go
back to cotton even though the
price had been raised to a high
figure.
The Men Who Succeed
as heads of large enterprises are
men of great energy. Succpss,
today, demands health. To fail is
to fail. It’s utter folly for a man
to endure a weak, run-down, half
alive condition when Electric Bit-
ters will put him on his feet in
short order. “Four bottles did
me more real good than any other
medicine I ever took, writes Chas.
B. Allen, Sylvania, Ga., “fter
years of suffering with rheuma-
tism. liver trouble, stomach dis-
orders and deranged kidneys, I
am again, thanks to Electric Bit-
ters, sound and well.’’ Try them.
Only 50c at all druggists.
sad every child should have one.
Leyhe
1009 Houston St., Fort Worth.
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^lano
Company
B. HEYER, Vice P-resident and Manager. I
I little corn or rice
| prices pork can be
The News can and will do the small jobs of printing,
But we are best equipped to handle orders in
10,000 to 100,000 lots.
Here is where we skin the city printer in price, quality of
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paper, quality of printing and quickness of. doingthe work.
bran at usual
produced for
| less than four cents per pound,
j The average cotton farmer would
j need about four brood sows having
jtwo litters per year—averaging
, five pigs per liter raised or ten pigs
■ per year making a total of 30 pigs
: to finish for market.
With a little co-operaion of
neighbors in markeing these hogs
can be sold in car lots in the lar-
gest markets in the state.
Some object to growing peanuts
in that it requires a great deal of
work. This may be largely over-
come by harvesting the* peanuts
with hogs. This may be done by
using movable hurdle fences suffi-
cient to fence a small plot, say
bne eighth of an acre. In this
way the hogs are turned on small
plots at a time. As soon as they
harvest the nuts from one plot the
hurdle fences are moved onto an-
other plot. The hurdles sre us-
ually built four plank high which
means about 40 inches and are
made of either 1x4 or 1x6 stuff in
sections from 2 to 5 feet long.
The next step of course in re-
placing cotton would be to develop
more ettensiveiy poultry industry
of the farm. The next step—
Profit, in Chickens.
From 22 hens the editor’s wife
collected 39 dozen and 7 eggs dur-
ing February, 29 days
These eggs brought 2o to 30 cents
a dozen which made over $10 for
the, abort monh. The feed bill
amounted to $2.85 which would
leave a profit of about $7.00. All
of the feed had to be bought ex-
cept scraps fom the kitchen and
we have no other stock from whieh
the f6wls might glean waste or
steal.
The breed of /these chickens is
he Barred Plymouth Rock, though
we do not attribute so much to the
breed as to inteligent care. There
are several breeds as good or per-
haps better than the Plymouth
Rocks, but the mixed and mon-
grels are not considered in this
exception
February is about an average
month, of the year. March and
April are probably the most un-
profitable on acount of hatching
time where incubators ae not used,
but later, broilers and fryers come
on and the sale of these makes up
for the loss.
It is easy tn figure a fortune
from this kind of profit, but dont
try it. Many mefa have figured
out a fortune from just such data
simply by multiplying, but it will
not come out this way in fact. The
chicken business is very profita-
ble*^ a small scale, from 50 to
100 hens, but beyond that number
the profits begin to turn the other
way. The proceeds from poultry
in the United States is much mor«
than from cotton, and even in
Jack county it is often the case
that poultry brings in the most on
certain farms, but where a man
plants all cotton he has no time
to fool with chickens, hogs, milk
cows, truck, garden or orchard.
What We Never Forget
according to science, are the
things associated with our early
home life, such as Bucklen’s /'mi-
ca Salve, that mother or grand-
mother used to cure our burns*
boils, scalds, sores, skin eruptions,
cuts, sprains or bruises. Forty
years of cures prove its merit*
Unrivaled for piles, corns or cold
sores. Only 25c at all druggists.
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Marks, Tom M. The Jacksboro News. (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1912, newspaper, March 14, 1912; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth733539/m1/1/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.