Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 21 April 1910 — Page 3

Girls' Coats

Three bargain lots that will go quickly Saturday. Good styles, good quality, the kind of coats a girl should have, practical colors and serviceable materials.

Reefer length jackets of fine materials, lined or unlined, were selling as high as §7.50, now §3.75.

Nobby mixture jackets with box fronts and shaped backs, lined with serge or Italian sateen, regularly priced to S10.00, now §5.00.

Box reefer jackets in white stripes and a variety of nobby mixtures, were selling as high as §20.00, now §7.50. —3rd floor, front.

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GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN.

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Entered at tile postoffi.ee, Greenfield, Ind., as Second class matter. N. R. SPENCER, Prop.

REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET

Secretary of State

OTIS E. GULLEY, of Danville. Auditor of State JOHN REED, of Muncie.

Clerk of Supreme Court

EDWARD V. FITZPATRICK, Portland. State Geologist W. S. BLATCHLEY, of Indianapolis.

State Statistician J. L. PEETZ, of Kokomo.

Judge of Suprenie Court—2d District OSCAR MONTGOMERY, of Seymour. Judge of Supreme Court—3d District

ROBERT M. MILLER, of Franklin. Judges Appellate Court—1st District WARD H. WATSON, of Charlestown. CASSIUS J. HADLEY, of Indianapolis. Judges of Appellate Court—Second

District

DANIEL W. COMSTOCK, Richmond. JOSEPH M. RABB, Williamsport. HARRY B. TUTHILL, Michigan City.

Treasurer of State.

JONCE MONYHAN, of Orleans. Attorney-General FINLEY P. MOUNT, of Crawfordsville. Superintendent of Public Instruction SANUEL C. FERRELL, of Shelbyville.

REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.

FOR REPRESENTATIVE.

John Ward Walker, of Center township, is a candidate for Representative of Hancock County, subject to the deciscn of the Republican Nominating Convention, to be held May 21,1910. Your support is earnestly solicited.

FOR SHERIFF.

Frank Furry, of Center township, is a candidate for Sheriff of Hancock ounty, subject to the decision of the Republican nominating Convention to be held May 2ist. Your support is earnestly solicited.

Richard M. Pauley, of Jackson township, is a candidate for sheriff of Hancock County, subject to thedecis on of the Republican nominatihg convention to be held May 21st. Your support is earnestly solicited.

James Dangler, of Green to nship, is a candidate for Sheriff of' Hancock county, eub:e to the decision of the Republican nominating convention, to be held May 21st, 1910. Your supaort is earne tly soli ited

FOR RECORDER.

James A. Yeateh, of Blue River township, is a candidate for Re order of Hancock county, subject to the decision of the Republican Nominating Conveution to be held May 21st. Yeur support is earnestly solicited.

Sherman Rothermel, of Green township, is a candidate for Recorder of Hancock county, subject to the decision of the Republican Nominating Convention, to be held May 21st, 1910, Your support is earnestly solicited.

CORRESPONDENTS AND ADVERTISERS

On account of the large circulation of the Daily Reporter and the limited capacity of the newspaper press of this office, it has become necessary to go to press on the weekly Republican early Thursday morning. Country correspondence and advertisements received Thursday morning seldom appear in the Weekly paper. We regret this but it can not be avoided under present conditions. It therefore becomes necessary to mail local country news sent to us by our correspondents, not later than Tuesday morning, and advertising for the Weekly must be in the office nob later than Wednesday afternoon. 2113

DISPLAY OF Y0UN6 MEN'S c, WEAR, FALL 1910

Alfred Decker & Cohn, originators of "Society Brand" clothing, will have their models and fabrics on display at our store Monday, April 25th. You are invited. 0. Williams Co.

HOG RECEIPTS LARGER PRICES 5 CENTS LOWER

Closed at High Poimt on Buying By

Shippers.

Indianapolis, Ind.. April 20. Receipts—4,500 hogs, 1,450 cattle and 200 sheep, against 5,350 hogs, 1,463 cattle and 37 sheep a week ago, and 3,465 hogs, 826 cattle and 35 sheep a year ago.

At the start local packers offered 10 to 15c lower prices, but the early reports from other places were better and before the trading had progressed far shippers came into the market with several orders and final sales about steady with yesterday. In the average, however, there was a loss of 5c compared with yesterday's average. Sales,ranged from §9.05 to $9.35 and the bulk of the supply sold at §9.18 to §9.25.

Cattle buyers were more particular in making ^selections, and sales in general were about 10c lower. Female butcher cattle were not plentiful and they sold at strong prices. Bulls were steady to strong, as were also calves and the feeder market was quiet.

There was a fair run of sheep and lambs and there was a fair variety. Local killers were the principal buyers, and they took the offerings at steady prices. Wool lambs sold for §9 50 and wool sheep for §8 down.

FOUNTAINTOWN.

Mrs. Elmira Keaton, Mae Keaton and Elmer Rafferty were at Carey Keaton's near Maxwell Sunday.

William Crail, of Newton, Illinois, is at the bedside of Adam Brown. George Brown and wife were shopping at Indianapolis Friday.

Mrs. Low and Mrs. Farley were shopping at Greenfield Friday. Dr. Miller reports a bouncing baby boy at the home of Cecil VanSkoik and wife.

The C. H. & D. station is receiving a new coat of paint which adds much to the appearance.

Paul Jones spent Sunday with his grandparents. C. R. Milbourn and wife are caring for a baby girl since Sunday evening. Dr. Miller was the attending physician.

Cattle Feeders Association. A special meeting of the Indiana Cattle Feeders Association will be held in the New Judging Pavilion of Purdue University, Lafayette, on Saturday, April 30th, at 10 o'clock a. m. This occasion will mark the closing of one of the most profitable cattle feeding experiments conducted at the Purdue Experiment Station. A feature of the program will be a resume of work done during the feeding period just closing and a presentation of results secured and cost of gains. A visit to the experimental lots will be made in connection with this part of the program and the merits of the different rations as shown by the condition of the steers in the various lots will be discussed.

Good Horses.

Busy place at the Rising Sun Stock Farm these days. The colts this year as usual, are up to the standard requirement of the farmer and the successful breeders always patronize a good horse after he has been tried and proven good. Each year finds the breeding stock at this farm in greater demand, and the farmer who wants to raise colts with good breeding, individuality and show ring qualities are going to this farm every day. d&w

Greenfield Market.

These prices are corrected dally from quotations by the H. B. Bolt Market, New Milling Co., Barrett Grain ft Elevator Oo and local grocers.

CATTLE

Steers $4 00 to $6.60 Heifers 4,20 to 5i75 Cows 3 00 to 4.25 Bulls 4.25 to 5.20 Veal Calves 5.00 to 9.00

HOGS

Good Medium to Heavy....$8.50 to$ 9.00 Ordinarv Light to Choice.. 9.00 to 9.50 WHEAT Per bushel 75c to $1.00

CORN'

Per bushel 52c OATS AND RYE Oats, per bu 35c Rye, per bu 60c

HAY

Timothy, per ton I $13.00 Mixed, 10*00 to 12.00 Clover 8.00 to 10.00 Straw, 4.00 to 6.00

SEEDS

Clover Seed, per bu $5.00 Timothy Seed," 1,75 Selling price. Clover Seed $7 50 Timothy Seed 2.25

BACON AND LARD

Lard .l6c Bacon 16c BUTTER AND EGGS gs Eggs, per dozen H#il8c Butter, per pound.... 18c to 25c

POULTRY

Turkeys, per pound ...'..16 tb 17c Hens, 15c Ducks, 12c Geese, ff oer pound zJQc

I believe I said last week that ninetenths of the failures to secure a stand of alfalfa by seeding in August were due to a lack of readily available plant food in the soil at the time the seed is sown and the plants are starting. Now I earnestly plead with those who are thinking of spending good money upon an alfalfa venture to take this statement to heart. It is the most important thing that I or anyone else can say about the growing of Alfalfa in Indiana. It is always difficult to grow any plant successfully upon our soils which has made its home for centuries upon the lighter soils of warmer climates, where the liberation of plant food is so much more rapid than in ours.

Alfalfa is native to the sandy loams of semi-arid lands under warm suns and has never known the hardship of wresting its first food from lumps of clay. The native alfalfa plant has wonderful facilities for gatheringplant food. Its leaves breathe the nitrogen from the air and its roots grow deep into the soil and gather mineral foods which are far below the reach of other plants. But this is not so of the baby plant just emerging from the seed. Then it must have plant food in abundance, directly within reach and in a form easily taken nip by the smallest tendril. Where this need is not supplied there is the old story of a poor stand. A soil may be rich enough to produce six tons of cured alfalfa upon an acre in a single season, yet this will prove no advantage at all if the young alfalfa plants are stunted and stowed in their growth, because that richness was not in form that it could be used when it was needed most.

Any of our land which we would consider good enough to SOAV to alfalfa is most certainly stored with sufficient plant food to produce bounttiful crops of hay for an indefinite peripd of time, but it is seldom cn our best land that there is present at seeding time sufficient plant food in an available form to start the crop as rapidly evenly and vigorously as it should be started. As we all know, all our plants make their most rapid growth in spring and early summer. That is to say, there is more plant food available during May, June and the fore part of July than later in the season. It would appear then, in view of its great need for a vigorous first growth that it should be sown early in the season when conditions are more favorable to a rapid plant growth. But alfalfa ean not sagely be sown before July 20th. There are at least two important reasons for this. One is because weeds are almost certain to appear in the spring seedings, which are sure to kill the young alfalfa plants by crowding and shading. The other reason for late seeding is that there is a furgus disease, known as "Leaf Spot" which usually attacks alfalfa about the middle of the summer. Plants which are not well rooted are almost certain to be injured and killed by this disease. For some reason the Leaf Spot does not effect any damage after Aug. 1st.

The standard date for seeding in our locality is the first of August and it is probably unsafe to vary from this date more than ten days either. As we have seen, there is one serious objection to seeding at this time—that this is not the seasou of the year when the forces of nature rapidly charge the insoluable mineral elements into available plane foods. Since experience has shown that the time of seeding cannot safely be changed, then this objection must be overcome. In some manner the August seed bed must be made to grow alfalfa as rapidly as the garden grows lettuce in May. If your land is, to begin with, fertile and well drained and you have good seed to sow, the only thing that remains to make success certain is to see to it that there is in the soil at seeding time that which will nourish the first six weeks of growth.

If it is true that practically all failures to secure good stands of alfalfa by August seedings are due to a lack of available fertility in the soil at seeding time, then it is a fair conclusion that it is a very difficult thing to bring enough of the plant food that is in the soil into an available form at the time of year when alfalfa must be sown. It is time that the process is somewhat tedious and difficult. But I do not believe the difficulty of the task explains the failures. I believe that farmers do not do what they ought to do to get the seed bed right for alfalfa because they do not know what to do and not because it is too difficult to do it. t-..

There are at least three ways which tend to bring about that high degree of plant food availability, which is absolutely essential to the alfalfa seed bed. First, by not removing in the shape of some crop, the plant food that has been made available by the frosts of winter and the snows and rains of spring and early summer. There is a strong temptation to remove a crop of wheat or oats, plow under the stubble in July and seed it to alfalfa in August. These crops re-

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move a large portion of the available plant food. The chances are probably twenty to one against success where alfalfa is sown upon wheat or oats stubble.

The removal of an early hay crop is less dangerous than the removal of grain crop but neither is the wise thing to do. Some allow the small grain or hay to make a good growth

and turn it under shortly before ma-1 plantfood in the alfalfa seed bed is to turity. It is a mis fake to permit too get it from some outside source and much growth to take place before breaking, for two reasons. First, because too much straw at the bottom of the furrow may interfere with he rise of moisture, and second, beeai.se there will be a great deal of the season's available plant food enter into the immature crop which is turned under and this must decay before ii is again available. It is doubtful if sufficient decay will take place to liberate much plant food by the time the creasing the yield of hay and lengthalfalfa is to be sown. The better way ening the life of the stand, that it is is to permit only a moderate growth usually time and money saved and of any crop upon the lard before gained to sow two acres, which are breaking. The point is this—if the well manured than four which are soil has accumulated ava ila ble plantnot. food during the winter and spring,

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don't spend it upon another crop be- although manure is certainly helpful cause you need it for alfalfa. in starting the first growth of alfalfa, The second way to provide avail- it cannot be depended upon too able plant food for the August seed-' largely for this purpose. It can harding of alfalfa is by thorough pulveri- ly be distributed and mixed evenly zation and frequent stirring of the

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seed bed. There is no need to enter prevent an uneven growth of alfalfa, upon an exploration of the manner in The final step toward providing suffiwhich the cultivation of the soil in- cient readily available plantfood, creases its potency to produce plant growth. We are all perfectly familiar with the practical workings of this fundamental principle of agriculture.

There used to be a practice many

Therefore when crops were planted the following season, they found their rations doubled, as it were and they grew with such increased vigor- that the year's idleness of the land seemed not a loss, but a gain. Now we are not going to permit our land to lie fallow all of one season and most of another before seeding to alfalfa, but we may take a lesson from the old English practice—it is that the longer

years ago upon European farm lands throughout the central states and of allowing the fields to lie fallow every third or fourth year. A field was plowed in the spring or fall as usual but no crop, planted and the soil was stirred throughout the season to prevent the growth of weeds. The ground .was "resting." In other words the usual portion of plant food was becoming available throughout the season, but there were no plants growing to remove it.

I which shall be within the reach of I every plant at the very beginning of its growth, is to drill evenly over the seed bed just before sowing the seed, a generous application of a high grade phosphate fertilizer. Alfalfa growers

even in Kansas have come to regard that the sowing of alfalfa without fertilizer as a very risky proposition.

Now I have grown alfalfa and fed it and I want to see others reap its benefits, or I would not go to the trouble of writing these letters. But I certainly do not want to induce any one to go into alfalfa venture without knowing what he is going up against. In my effort to guard against painting the alfalfa proposition in too bright colors, I have probably overdrawn the difficulties, which need to be overcome in its culture if success is to be attained. But the great number of failures which have occurred, tend to make one conscervative in his advocasyof alfalfa. It is certainly far more profitable to allow land to grow up in rag weed than to seed it to alfalfa without regard to its soil re-

quirements. Thad Snow.

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our land lies bare of vegetation, and the more frequently stirred and the more finely it is pulverized before Ave sow it to alfalfa, the greater will be the. accumulated store of available plantfood to give the young plants the quick and vigorous first growth, which costly experience has proven to be strictly essential in Indiana.

The third way to provide available

Joe Raven,

put it there. The more I read about the growing of alfalfa and observe its behavior upon my own land and the land of others, the nearer I am persuaded that it is commonly unwise for the average farmer to prepare j0E RAVEN is a handsome mahogmore land for alfalfa then he is able

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to cover well with stable manure. 15.3 hands high and weighs 1,100 The use of manure is of course not pounds foalea in 1905, bred at Greennearly always essential to success, £|yhe to ^horsetf but it is always so helpful toward in- ith a fine mane and tail and fine disposition. His blood lines are of the best. Even common mares bred to a horse of this class can not fail to produce foals that will find a ready market as carriage horses or roadsters as well as general all purpose horses.

Trial 2:20.

Wilkes Stallion---Season 1910.

riy brown with star in forehead,

With forty days work as a 3-year-old he trotted a trial mile in 2:20. He was second prize light harness horse at the Indiana State Fair last fall.

JOE RAVEN 47608 was sired by Raven Wilkes 13853, he by Guy Wilkes 2867, he by George Wilkes 519, hs by Hambletonian 10.

First dam, Hazel. Second dam,

Hazel White.

Terms

Joe Raven will make the season of 1910 Denny's barn 3% Fortville, Ind., and north of the Denny the Greenfield and

at Andy H. miles south of one-fourth mile school house on

Noblesville pike at S15.00 to insure standing colt, or §12.00 to insure mare in foal. Parties parting with mares without my consent will have to pay me $12.00 at once for service fee. I will not be responsible for accidents or escapes, but best of care taken of mares sent to me I

Owner, Chas. O. Deriney,

Greenfield, Ind., R. R. No. 2, Box 40. KEEPER, ANDY H. DENNEY.

Public Sale

I, tho undersigned, Executor of the last will and testament of David Henry, deceased, will sell at public aution at Maxwell, Indiana,

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Saturday, April 23, 1910

Beginning at 10 o'clock a.m., the following' personal property, to-wit: Household goods including fnrnitnre, consisting of a couch, cupboard, tables, bureau, chairs, carpets, beds and bedding, heating and cook stores^* dishes and man? other others articles to© numerous to mention

TERMS—Cash. JOHN T. HENRY. Executor.

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