The Nowata Advertiser. (Nowata, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, April 24, 1908 Page: 3 of 8
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NOW FOR BUSINESS
See us in our new quarters in the Key’s building,
formerly o:cupied by the Nowata Dry Goods Company
Ice Cream Freezers, Garden tools, Screen Doors,
Hammocks, Adjustable Window Screens, Screen Wire
Gas Fixtures, Pumps, Wind Mills, Tin Work and
Plumbing. Free estimates made on everything.
Simpson, Bros. Hardware Co.
HORTICULTURE
Roberts Realty Co.
For Insurance
Companies among the best. Fire, Lightning,
Tornado, Plate Glass, Accident, Burglary
ADVICE SARCASTIC.
C. C. BARNES
Telephone
3*7
Contractor and Builder
Rear County Jail
Estimates furnished on all (lasses of Building
Job Work a Specialty.
I fire insurance
I The Garnett Co.
I Roo
Room: 9 and I®
Lawson Building
And let the Advertiser do
your Job Printing. No order
too large nor too small. Print
anything. Print to please v
Au advertisement in The Ad-
vertiser is just the thing to
tone up your business. All
the news all the time .'.
Frank Swanson
A. S. Price
Ed. Carletcn
Swanson, Price & Company
MEAT MARKET
Fruits, Vegetables, Fish and Game in Season
Phone 43
Nowata Nat’l Bank Bldg.
THOMAS & CRITCHER
AGENTS FOR
York Cleaning and Dye Works
French Dry Cleaning, Scouring and Gar-
ment Dyeing. Hat Renevators.
NOWATA, OKKAHOMA
THE DIBBLE.
Make Quick Work of Transplanting
by Ita Use.
The transplanting peg is a little
known Implement. It would be profit-
able to many to
form Its acquaint-
ance. By it much
profit and pleas-
ure can be de-
rived from the
garden. To trans-
plant by making
holes in the
ground with your
finger ia a« crude
as to cultivate
with your hand
instead of a hoe
or plow.
The rapidity of
an expert in set-
ting plants with a peg is a surprise
to the i»o\lce. I have had men peg
in 20 plants to the minute or 1.200 in
an hour. Steel pegs are for sale, but
a wooden one costs nothing and is far
better. As plants are of different
kinds and sizes, I find different slze3
and shapes of pegs necessary, so I
whittle the pegs to suit the kind of
plants I am setting.
The right use, and the rapid use,
of the peg will gradually be learned
by practice. If the ground is too wet,
dirt will stick to the peg; if too dry,
will fall back into the hole when the
peg is removed. In either case, this
can be avoided by giving the peg a
twirl as tt is removed from' the hole.
Sometimes the hole is too small to
admit the plant. This can ho over-
come by wabbling the peg while ma-
king the hole.
When the plant is inserted, con-
tinues the writer in Farm and Home,
the dirt should be pressed firmly about
it with the peg. This is done by a
movement of the wrist, in which the
peg is thrown from an upright posi-
tion to a sharp slant, so that while the
point of ti>e peg has pressed the dirt
on the far side of the plant, the side
of the peg, by a semi-circu’ar move-
ment of the hand, has pressed the
dirt on the right ar.d on the side next
to you. Thin movement is not easily
learned.
To gain rapid movement practice
by counting four. When you say one,
pick up the plant with the left hand;
two, make the hole with the right;
three, insert plant with the left; four,
press the dirt about the plffnt with
the right. Begin very slowly and in-
crease the movement until you are
planting as fast as you can count.
You will be surprised how quickly you
attain this speed.
FARM NOTES.
Every farm should have some live
stock.
An animal's comfort means the own-
er’s profit.
It is never wise or profitable to keep
an animal in poor flesh.
The trained veterinarian should be
encouraged and patronized.
No one who has to labor for a living
should slight small indu.-trl: .
Good crops, stock, fertility and in-
dustry are the essential features in
good fanning.
There i3 a certain satisfaction in
taking a yearly inventory of the farm.
It is the best way to find the. "leaks,”
too.
Keep the land as rich as possible.
Angleworms work more in rich land
than in poor land, and they constantly
improve the soil.
Plow Up Thin Meadows.
If meadow's are thin they had better
be plowed up than left to lie in hope
that they will recover their old vigor.
It is difficult to apply manure effec-
tively from the top. If the laud is
plowed up and given a free application
of manure and then put into some
crop that will require cultivation, more
progress will be made than can he
made in any other way. Many a thin
meadow is.kept year after year, hard-
ly paying lor the work put upon it in
mowing and curing the light crop of
hay, which is often very wiry. When
a meadow becomes thin it is a good
indication that it should be put into
some other crop for a few years.
Bordeaux Mixture.
(a) Five pounds copper sulphate,
five pounds lime. 50 gallons water,
(b) Two pounds copper sulphate, four
pounds lime, 50 gallons water. Dis-
solve the blue vitriol, one pound to one
gallon of water. Slack the lime. Di-
lute both the lime and copper sul-
phate to half the total number of gal-
lons of bordeaux to be made, and pour
the two through a strainer into a third
vessel. The produce of this third ves-
sel ia bordeaux mixture. If the mix-
ture turns blue litmus paper red add
more lime.
How You Can Avoid Being a Book
Farmer.
Every now and then we find a farm-
er who has a horror of book farmers
and would not for any consideration
be oonsldered by his neighbors as
9uch. We wish to help this fellow and,
therefore, make a few suggestions.
First, we advise him not to keep
any books for his farm operations.
Simply go along from year to year,
taking what you get without know-
ing what it costa you, avoiding all ac-
curate knowledge of what it has cost
you to produoe a ton of hay, a bush-
el of wheat of oats, a pound of pork
or beef or butter. Such Information
as this Is dangerous to the man who
is fearful of being a book farmer.
Don’t take any agricultural papers.
They, too, are dangerous, for they
might set you to tiilnking. They might
contaminate your mind with the re-
sults of experiment stations or the ex-
perience of farmers. If you read any
agricultural paper at all, read one
that somebody has sent you for noth-
ing in order to get your trade or your
patronage or for some other reason,
honorable or dishonorable. This will
not do you much harm, but better not
take any at all.
By all means keep away from all ag-
ricultural Institutes. Avoid particu-
larly any lectures that have the least
tinge of science. It is true that sci-
ence is only the application of com-
mon sense to farm operations, and
that it only teaches how to obey the
laws of nature; but science smacks
of book farming and, therefore, every-
thing that has the remotest connec-
tion with science should be avoided
Keep away from farmers’ Institutes.
To further avoid any possible dan-
ger of becoming a book farmer try
to find fault with the operations of
your neighbors. If your neighbor
across the fence has 80 bushels of
com this year while you have only
40, try to explain it in some way that
will not be a reflection on your own
practioe. You might say that his
land was better to begin with, that he
was lucky, or that he happened to
plant just in the right '‘sign.” You can
easily explain his success without giv-
ing any credit whatever to what is
known as book farming. You can also
explain why he raises large Utters of
pigs, or has large yields of milk, or
gets better weight and better prices
for his steers. Cultivate the disposi-
tion to find fault and criticise in
every way possible.
If these directions, says Wallace’s
Farmer, are followed, we will guar-
antee that the man who follows them
will not be regarded as a book farmer.
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8 WOODY
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•ADDITION,
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WELL PLANNED FARM.
One
Farmer's Idea of Dividing One
Hundred and Sixty Acres.
Seeing in the Farmer recently plans
for well arranged farms and deeming
this a matter of sufficient importance
for the consideration of our fellow
farmers, and our mutual assistance
along this line, I submit the follow-
ing diagram of a farm of 160 acres
in 11 divisions, two or ten, one of 20
and three of 40 acres each, writes
correspondent of the Indiana Farmer.
The farm has a road on two sides
and fronts the east. The ten acres
on which the buildings are located
consist of six divisions.
No. 1 dwelling and door yard, 2
orchard, 3 family garden, 4 front barn
lot, 5 truck garden, 6 barn lot, with
public noao . woern siOe
We are the Sole
Agents for Woody
Addition S S>
The beautiful ten acre-tract
adjoining the the towu on the
north. This ten acre tract
has been divided into thirty-
six lots, two-thirds of which
have an east front, and the
entire addition has an east
slope. Already eight of these
lots have been sold, in reality
before being placed on the
market. This shows that
wanting Nowata property, and
seting these lots, means buy-
ing in Woody addition. Rvery
lot in the addition is on high
ground, is well drained, and
commands an excellent view
of Nowata.
Let Us Show You
Lime Sulphur Wash.
Twenty pounds stone lime. 15
pounds flowers cf sulphur. 50 gallons
of water. Slack the lime in the cook-
ing receptacle. With a little water
make a thick paste of the sulphur.
Witch about ten gallons of water, add
the sulphur and the slacked or partial-
ly slacked lime and boil, preferably
by steam, an hour. Add enough water
to matee 50 gallons. Strain when put-
ting into spraying tank. Use while
warm if possible. This is the best-
known r.emody for scale insects.
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Plat of Farm.
ample room for feed troughs and
straw stacks, allowing no stock loose
in front lot. 7 open wood, pasture,
used for night pasture during the
summer, for the work horses, also
bandy for the milch cow, 8 perman-
ent pastures, with some timber af-
fording shade in summer and a wind
break in winter. Nos. 9, 10 and 11 are
10 acre fields for cultivation, and
will admit of the three years’ rota-
tion plan. Some of the good features
of this plan are these. The larger
fields avoid the great expense of much
fence building, and this is quite an
item at this time. Again from No 8
stock can be turned to any field on the
farm, doing away with the need of a
lane, or driving stock over cultivated
fields, getting from one to another,
which are very objectionable features.
Some one may object to this plan
jn acoount of lack of permanent pas-
‘tire. This can be easily managed, by
removing the fence between 8 and
10, back west to the middle of 10,
lion you have 40 acres and if still
more is wanted take this fence away
ind use it in making three equal di-
rislons out of 9 aigl 11; this gives ^0
acres of permanent pasture, of handy
access to the barn and .field aluo. This
a a true diagram of a farm made out
>f a heavily timbered forest. It re-
tired 30 years to bring it to Its pres-
ent state of completion.
I would add two or three pounds of
vhite clover seed per acre for perma-
ient mowings, as it makes a thick,
ich bottom, writes W. A. Ford of the
.vlassachusetts Agricultural college.
THE GARNETT COMPANY ^
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our power to make our business dealings
satisfactory and profitable to our clients.
We advise to their interests even when
there may be a sacrifice to our profits, get-
ting reward in a larger number and bet-
ter satisfied list of friends, customers and
prestige.
Insurance of Every Known Description
Companies among the best
1 Roberts Realty Company
1st door west of court house
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Long, Frank B. The Nowata Advertiser. (Nowata, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, April 24, 1908, newspaper, April 24, 1908; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1320400/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.