The Guymon Herald. (Guymon, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 21, 1913 Page: 3 of 8
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FOR SALE
350 Head of
Steers and Heifers
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the
yearlings and twos. Will cut
bunch to suit buyer. Prices right.
Write or call on,
JOE McCUNE,
Tyrone, Oklahoma
THINGS OTHER
PAPERS TELL
i-
Judge R. H. Loofbourrow went
over to Oklahoma City on business
Monday. The judge is making a
last race for an appointment on the
supreme bench and it is the opinion
of those who are in a position to
know, that he will be successful.
He is well deserving of the honor
and his Beaver county friends will
be glad to see it bestowed upon him
—Beaver Herald.
J. P. Reeder left some fine grapes
at the Star office this week as a sam-
ple of what he has in his garden.
There were four varieties -Delaware,
< oncord, Niagara and Poplington,
and they were as tine as any we have
ever seen anywhere. One bunch
of the big white grapes weighed ovt r
a half pound. .Mr. Reeder says that
his vines are loaded to their utmost
capacity.—Stratford Star.
bitten. ♦ • Lige Lusk ran into a dog
while delivering mail on hiB route
Tuesday morning and was thrown
from his motor cycle. He fell on the
handle bars and It was reported that
his breast bone was broken. He was
able to run his route Wednesday
morning. This is the second colli-
sion Lige has had with the canine
patrons of his route. Lige will like-
ly be all right in a few days but we
have not learned the condition of,the
dog.—-Texhoma Argus.
liquid feed.- Beaver County Repub-
lican.
F. M. Maddox, staite surveyor, was
in Hansford and Hutchinson counties
this week and last, surveying the
land and correcting errors in the
land lines. There seems to be quite
a variation In the different block
lines and the leading citizens of the
neighborhood south of town decided
to have it straightened up. Mr. Mad-
dox is an old state surveyor and sur-
veyed in this country over forty
years ago, when Indian, buffalo and
mustangs were the sole inhabitants,
and can tell some interesting stories
of the early history of this country
A. M. Wllbanks had the misfor-
tune to lose his threshing machine
by fire last Thursday and L. I).
Pierce lost four stacks of wheat at
the same time. It is supposed the tire
was started by sparks from the en-
gine, as they had just pulled the ma-
chine in between the stacks and
gone to dinner, the lire starting
while they were away. Men are al-
ways unfortunate when they lose
anything of this nature, but it seems
doubly so this year, when crops are
short, and a man has gone to the ex-
pense of harvesting. A man in Och-
iltree county also had some grain
•Hacks burned last week. -Hansford
Headlight.
Silos hihI Silage
Jas. D. Bilbro, one of our promi-
nent north flat farmers, living two
miles southwest of town, was in this
week after the silo which he is erect-
ing on his place. Jim is putting up
a hinge door, stave silo, having a
capacity of 100 tons. With it he can
handle his big bunch of stock with
less work and trouble than in the old
way and at the same time put more
fat on their backs. Jim is another
of our progressive citizens who is
making good and is bound to win
out in the end. * C. F. Saunders of
Balko was in town Tuesday with
load of hogs for which he received
a check for >150. He had nine hogs
which weighed about 200 pounds
each and the price paid him was
$7.85 a hundred. Mr. Saunders has
little show for a crop this year, but
his hogs are going to pull him
through in good shape. He Is per
fectly satisfied with Beaver county
and states that he doesn't know
where a fellow could go to do better
Forgan Enterprise.
Joe Jantz, living five miles from
Under the influence of the torrid
sun a prominent citizen of this city
* rushed wild-eyed into the News
sanctum and thrust into the editor s
hands this deliverance: "Another
reason for building a silo is that if a
person remains in one of them for
ten minutes, after the fermentation
begines, he can acquire a mighty
comfortable jag.' One of our citi-
zens has discovered this, and says he
will build one in Liberal and charge
an admission of 25 cents for a 10-1 dray, has surely solved the question
minute visit." Liberal News. | or a good, cheap living and a means
I of paying his grocery bill. He has
N. A. Smith was over from Hayne, fenced in a small garden which be ir-
f .Monday, to see and hear about the rigaies from his windmill and the
silo. He had with him a line sample j \egetables which he produced there-
of broom corn, which he left at this j on are something wonderful. Tues-
offlce. it is of the standard dwarf j day he brought a supply to the Gray
\ariety and is of good color and is Mercantile company, consisting or
tine brush, with no branches or extra j cucumbers, onions, beets and cab-
large center stems. He has twenty ! bage. They were all as fine as can
acres of this particular grade of, be grown anywhere and show what
brush, and about twenty more of a | . an be accomplished on every farm
trade almost as good. Mr. Smith | in the county by the use of water
has been offered a good price already I from a windmill and a little hard
for his product, but modestly re- work. * ♦ Shaking of hogs: I.ast
I rained from stating the offer made] week Ban Wentz paid John Richard-
son of Ochiltree $1,636 for !)6 hogs
delivered at Glazier. Richardson
bought these pigs several months
ago for four hundred dollars. Feed
was plentiful in his locality and the
profit from his investment proved
enormous. Another man delivered
nine hogB which brought him $200
dollars. Charlie Bowman had ten
which weighed 2,330 which brought
$8.25, his check calling for $132.25.
These 10 hogs ran on a two acre
patch of alfalfa, and were fed on a
stack of feed that was not market-
able. Clear water was their only
him.—Liberal Democrat.
Little Marlon Edgar, the four year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Cav-
il anaugh was bitten by a rattler Mon-
day morning whilei out in the field
near his home. Dr. LaMar was
. ailed immediately and reached him
in about twenty minutes and every-
thing seemingly was done to coun-
teract the poison. It was thought
late in the night he was getting along
nicely, but later he grew worse and
succumbed to the effects of the poison
about eighteen hours after he was
mi:
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When that time comes to you, you know what tonic
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It has benefited thousands and thousands of weak,
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You can't make a mistake in taking
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The Woman's Tonic
Miss Amelia Wilson, R. F. D. No. 4, Alma, Ark.,
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Begin taking Cardui today. Sold by all dealers.
Has Helped Thousands.
(Continued from page 2.\
Ames, Iowa: Lincoln. Nebraska;
Manhattan. Kansas: Columbia, Mis-
souri: Fort Collins, Colorado; and
Stillwater, Oklahoma. Address the
application for bulletins to director
of experiment station. The lT. S. De
partment of Agriculture expects to
have a bulletin ready to mail August
1st on silos and silage that will con-
tain the results from much recent
investigation. It will be Bent free
upon application to the Secretary o!
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
Modern Silage Methods," price 10
cents, published by the Silve.- Manu-
facturing company, Salem, Ol'io, *s
one of the most recent and oest books
on the subject.
Concrete Silos. Bulletin No. 21,
published by the Association of
American Portland Cement Manufac-
turers, Land Title Building, Phila-
delphia, is a book of 67 pages. Con-
crete Silos, a book of 88 pages, is
published by the Cniversal Portland
Cement company, Chicago, Illinois
Both these books will be sent free on
application to the publishers. They
are of great value to the stockman
whether he determines to build
cement silo or some other kind.
The best crops for the stockman in
the southwest to grow for silage are
«orn. Kafir and sorghutn. He should
select! the one of these c rops which
will give him the greatest number of
tons per acre. The variety should be
selected to secure the largest yield of
grain per acre.
Farmers without experience with
silage, usually want to try other
crops in the silo, such as soy beanB,
cowpeas, alfalfa or sweet clover. Oc-
casionally one is found who wants to
silo turnips or stocl^ beets. MoBt
crops can be kept in the silo, but as
rule the greatest profits in the
southwest will be secured by tilling
the silos with corn, Katir or sorghum
and making hay of alfalfa, sweet
clover and similar crops. Roots may
be kept in a pit.
Never put plants with hollow Btems
like rye and oats, into the silo. The
air cannot be forced out of these
stems and a very unfavorable fer
mentation takes place. I tried rye
once. It kept green all right, but
the smell was so offensive that 1 was
threatened by the health oflicer. The
smell was so pungent that it perme-
ated the hair and Bkln of the men
who handled it and no amount of
bathing would remove the odor from
them.
The greater the feed value of the
material put in the silo the more
valuable will be the silage. Silos do
not create food, they simply preserve
it with much less loss than other
methods and keep it in the most pal-
atable condition.
Corn Kafir aud sorghum that will
yield 50 bushels of grain an acre 1b
worth much more for silage than a
crop that will yield only 20 bushels.
Some of the broom corn growers in
Kansas and Oklahoma put the green
stalks Into the silo after the brush
has been removed. The silo enables
them to utilize all the feed there Ib
In these stalks, but such silage Is
worth only a small fraction of the
Bllage made from Katir that will
yield a good crop of grain.
Corn should he cut for silage when
the kernels begin to dent. Kafir
and sorghum should be cut for sil-
age when the Beeds are ripe or at
least hard, but while the stalks ar*
full of sap.
Corn, Kafir or sorghum that has
been injured by drouth may be put
In the silo. Fair results are secured
from these crops even when the
drouth has prevented the formation
of much seed, and the silo is the only
way through which the feed value
of such material can be preserved
through the winter. The silage will
not. however, be worth nearly so
much as that from a good crop.
Many of the failures from feeding
silage have come from putting ma-
terial which is too immature in the
silo.
Immature forage stored in the silo
makes silage that is too add and it
is deficient in feeding matter.
One careful test with corn showed
that there was an increase of over i>5
per cent in feed value in corn be-
tween the time It tassels and tne
time when the kernels were dented,
and an increase of 70 per cent in
feed value between the time when
the kernels were lu milk and when
they were ripe. There is a like ln-
rease in feed value in Katir and sor-
ghum duriig the ripeuing period.
Every day during the period of ma-
turing there is au increase In feed
value and forage, for silage should
be allowed to become as nearly ripe
as possible and still have the leaves
and stalks lull of sap. When the
stalks become too dry and hard the
material does not pack closely and
the silage rots, molds or becomes
• re-fanged.
Some seasons hot winds, dry the
i rops so rapidly that they would be
destroyed if left in the field to reach
the best stage for silage. At Buch
times the only thing to do Is to cut
them and put them in the silo before
they become dried out. The silo pre-
serves what feed value there is in
the forage, but the silage is not
nearly so valuable as that from crops
that have developed properly.
Even in the southwest crops some-
times get frostbitten before they
reach the right stage to put in the
silo. The frosting does not partic-
ularly injure the feeding qualities,
provided the forage is put into the
silo at once. There is usually a
heavy loss when frosted matter is al-
lowed to stand long In the field.
The moBt conveninet length to
have the forage cut for silage is one-
half inch. Cut in this length, It
packs closely and is usually eaten
with little waste. It takes a careful
man to pack the silage thoroughly
when It is cut one inch in length.
Some of the feeders who have high
power engines cut to one-quarter of
an inch. There is practically no
waste in feeding silage cut in this
length: *it packs solidly and it Is the
easiest length to use when ground
grain is mixed with the silage at
eeding time. A machine will only
tut half as much material to one-
tji'.arter inch as it will to one-half
Inch. The cutter with a blower at-
tachment Is generally preferred to
one with a slat carrier.
The inside walls of the silo should
be kept wet while the silo is being
lilled. 'Dry walls, except in the raetul
silo, absorb moisture from the silage
material, often making it bo dry that
it does not settle well and as a con-
sequence becomes damaged.
The quality of the silage is largely
determined by the way the cut ma-
terial is distributed aud packed in
the silo at the time or filling. The
best man on the job should be in-
side the silo while it is being filled.
The cut material should be evenly
spread and closely packed through-
out. If It Ib allowed to pile up in
one spot and then in another and the
place beat ween is afterward filled,
the ellage will Bettle unevenly and
there will be numerous air pockets,
each one of which will cause spoiled
silage. Especial care should be taken
to tramp the silage firmly along tne
sides, as unless this is done there
will be small air spaceB along them
and every air space meaiis damaged
silage. Where It takes several days
to fill a silo, the materlaj should be
left heaped up in the center at quit-
ting time each night. This will press
the silage below more firmly against
the sides In the mornlug tne top
should be leveled before more ma-
terial is put in.
Care should be taken to see that
the grain ts evenly mixed with the
cut stalks and leaves. If this Is not
watched, the grain, being heavier,
will roll to the outside of the silo or
accumulate iu a low place. Then
when the silage Is fed, the stock may
have all stalks and leaves one day
and nearly all grain the next and get
badly off feed.
Coats, mules, horses and calves
have been put Into the silo to tramp
the material af It was being filled,
but one careful man Is worth a herd
of either.
When the silo has become filled,
heap up In the center and allow It to
heat for 24 to 48 hours. Then level
the top and soak thoroughly the top
three Inches with water. The heat
from below will make a mold coat-
ing through thla wet material and the
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Big Jo Lumber Co.
GUYMON. OKLAHOMA
Hard As
NAILS
But it Is still harder to find
a better assortment of hard-
ware than we have In stock.
Builders, owners, contractors,
carpenters, masons and other
mechanics will benefit by mak-
ing an Investigation of our
builders' hardware and asking
quotations. What we haven't
in stock at the moment, we can
get quickly.
MATHEWS HARDWARE COMPANY, Guymon
——
I. L. ENNIS
Town Property for Sale
Ennis Loan and Realty Co.
GUYMON, OKLAHOMA
BARGAINS IN OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS f'ARMS AND RANCHES
OPPORTUNITIES FOIt INVESTMENT UNEQUALLED
IF YOU WANT TO SELL YOU It FARM OR TOWN PROPERTY,
LIST IT WITH ME NOW
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $28,500.00
The
THAT M
NEVE
A BANK
ACCOUNT
Be it large or small Will
be a protection to you In times
of adversity. The First Nat-
ional never falls to extend to
Us customers every accommo-
dation consistent with safe and
conservative banking.
First National Bank,
OF GUYMON
— \
Langston Hardware Co.
Hardware, Implements, Furniture,
Wagons, Buggies, Carriages,
Windmills, Barb Wire, Stoves, Harness
Undertaking Goods
The City National Bank, of Guymon
Guymon, Oklahoma
United Stales Postal Savings Depository.
Ample resources to take good care of our patrons.
Accounts solicited.
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as soon as the silo Is filled, taking
out the silage to a depth of two to
three Inches dally. In this case, It
W not necessary to soak the top.
There is no advantage in weighting
down the top.
The silo may be filled slowly or
quickly without making any differ-
ence in the quality of the silage.
When the farmer has a smali force
and does not want to hire help, he
can put five or six feet of fresh ma-
terial in the silo each day and take
a week or ten days to fill it. Fresh
material should be added at least
large cutter and a big force the alio
may be filled In a day or a half day.
.More silage can be gotten into a silo
by filling It slowly, because it will
settle each day.- -H. M. Cotteral, Ag-
ricultural Commissioner for Rock
Island Railroad, In Southwest Trail.
If desired, feeding can be commenced.
mold will s«.< thf ellage air tight. other Where there 18
Thing* Wort I c Knowing
Cane seat chairs tightened, sponge
with hot water.
Mold prevented by small quantity
of carbolic acid.
Steel pens non-corroding, bit of
Iron in Ink.
Wood hardened by boiling in olive
oil ten minutes.
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