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AGRICULTURE.
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Alfalfa In Nebraska.
Red Willow couuty is in the
■outheru tier, seventy miles east
of Colorado. The Republican
valle^ runs through the county.
It is a lovely valley, two or three
miles wide and very rich soil.
This is alfalfa land. It yields
three to four crops every year.
Notwithstanding the terrible
drouth it made three crops. Nine
tenths was cut four, and some
fields five times without irrigation
The season’s yield was four to five
tons an acre, some a little more
A field of one hundred acres made
610 tons. The liny in McCook,
our county sent, sold at $H a too.
Last Tear's crop brought $30 to
$40 an acre, in spite of the drouth
It has yielded over six tons an
acre iu a season. It has muds
four crops and then pastured two
months iu tho fall. Kight acres
kept twenty-two head of cattle all
the season. Fifteen acres were
cut twice, and then kept fifty-
seven threo-year-old steers till
Novombar. I have run cows on it
in Ootoh*r and November and they
gave as much milk ns in June.
Cows fed on alfalfa bay give a
goad flow of milk all winter with
out grain.—Calves and colts grow
all winter on it. Horses keep fut
on it.
I have farmed fifty years, fed
many kinds of liny, and likenlfalfa
beat. For hogs nothing equals an
alfalfa patch. Four acres kept
J0.H head, big and little. The last
of July fifty fat onoa were taken
to market. It is the first thing to
start in tho spring. Some is three
inohos high now. It stays green
till Pecomher. Sometimes it
yields two crops of hay tho year it
is sown. Nothing stands drouth
liko alfalfa. Patches sown eight
years ago—now resown—have
made throe to tour crops every
year, and not n year but the crop
would pay 10 per cent on $150 an
acre and on $300 to $100 an acre
some years. It did that last year
and still n few farms can be bail
at from $20 to $25 an acre if
bought of the owner, and one near
me nt $16. Good alfalfa land liko
this is really worth $100 an aero.
1 have farmed here twenty years,
and not fed stock threo months
any winter; some winters none,
.^'oavs snw^' wheut iu February
evexy year hut one. This year I
began on February 24. Since
then the soil has boon in good or
der; nevor saw it plough nicer.
A little ploughing wns done iu
January this year. Fall wheat
looks fine.—William Coleman,
McCook Neb.
Celery.
The Journal would like to boo a
few experiments iu the cultiva
tion of celery mudo in Ware coun
ty and would help any farmer got
tho seed if they will take the
trouble to make tho experiment.
In Florida, for tho past two
yearB, celery has been grown very
successfully aud it is said that
planters realize from one thou
sand to $1,800 on an acre of this
vegetable.
Nenrlv five hundred cars have
been shipped Irom Florida this
seasou.
Now is the time to put in your
celery seed. Make a rich lied of
woods earth or soil, and plant
them in rows about six inches
apart, made with n small stick or
your fiugors. Put iu your seed
thick, and smooth the dirt over
with your hand and press it firmly
Then cover with a sheet made of
corn or brau sacks sewed together,
and sprinkle the sheet every even
ing with water until they sprout
and come up. Then remove the
sheet aud keep them watered so as
not to allow them to sutler for
lack of moisture. Iu removing
the (beet, if it is very hot, put it
over them again in the heat of the
day nntii the plants grow hardy
and can stand thesunshine, plants
ore often loat by exposing them
when the tun is too hot-
Beauties of the Country,
’Tie said that man made the
city, ami (iod made the country.
If you wish to realize the immense
superiority of the work of the
"Architect of the Vniverse” spend
a few days on a North Georgia
farm.
The pure, bracing atmosphere
will soon clean your smoke-black
ened lungs and brace your Mag
ging energies. What a delight to
nunIV pare sparkling water will
out, a thought of the ubiquitous
city microhs. To exchange for th
din aud turmoil of the city
natures myrid dulcet tones, from
the cluck-cluck of the mother hen
and the shrill peep-peep of he
downy little chicks to the mock
ing-bird’s rollicking strains. Rut
even here there comes a remind
thut man works in the country.
An ebon plowman, with the lungs
of a Stentor, exhorts his mill
"Gee ilur Pete: it don rain so
much an’ you aint plmvd in so
long, yer wants ter pertend dut
yen done fergot how ter work—
yer aint gwinter fool me do, you
jest git Isay." And we moralize
that the curse that wns pronounc-
d upon the Tiller of Eden fell
upon the beast also—’tis toil and
sweat for both.
We turn our eyes and feet
ward the mist-veiled hills;
thread the forest maze and note
with reverent grateful heart the
leafing oak and tho modest violet
and pink-tinted azalea. Westand
in delight beside the yellow jas
mine, swinging its golden centers
in the morning breeze. We pause
beside the rippling strenm, shim
mering and dimpling over its peb
bly bed, and watch the graceful
fish darting hither and thither in
its crystal depths. Thou crossing
the groon valley gemmed with
dandelions nud daisies, we mount
up the rugged hillside to its lofty
top, turn ami listen to the trium
phant penn—the oak, the violet,
the majestic forest and dimpling
stream. The llower-gemmed valley
and lofty hill, bathed in the glory
of God’s sunshine all—all pro
claim, "The hand that made us is
divine.” — Nannie in Southern
Cultivator.
The Price of Butter.
What’s the matter with the
price of butter ? This is a ques
tion millions of housekeepers
would like to have satisfactorily
answered. Usually as spring
comes and grass and green food
can be had and the annual crop
of spring calves comes ill, there is
a great increase in the flow of
milk and quantity and quality of
huttsr. Rut we see just the rea
son now. Aii at ouce there is an
enormous rise in the price of but
ter. Scarcity ie the plea. Rut
that is a false plea. There is no
scarcity but an actual increase in
the daily output of butter. If
there is any scarcity it is a ma
nipulated scarcity.
At first Bight we might attribute
it to the effect congressional
terfereuce with the natural laws
of trade. The oleo-mnrgarine law
if it becomes a law will no doubt
have the etfoct of raising the price
of butter. Rut this sudden and
enormous rise of nearly fifty per
cent, comes before that bill has
become law. The only explana
tion offered yet is that thecapital-
ist. whose interests are secured by
this rise, have bought up tho but
ter and put it ill cold storuge.
This is a literal freeze out. They
propose to freeze the money out of
consumers pockets.
Cows cannot be raised to order
on short notice. Rut this move
taken together with the persistent
rise in beef certainly indicates the
propriety of raising cattle and
more cuttle. We have been tirg-
iog this course foryears and we
continue to say that there is money
in growing cattle, both for milk
and beef. For dairy purposes
raise Jerseys nud Ilolsteins. For
beef purposes raise shorthornes,
Ilersfords or Red Rolled.
Rut bo sure to have one or both
on your farm. They will make
money for you and help you to
make the farm rich.
Grass and cattle are the founda
tion for prosperity.—W. L. Wil
liamson in Southern Cultivator.
A farmer was shocking a field
of corn with one of those new
tangled machines, known as a
"Peering Corn Shocker,” when nil
Englishman who was playing golf
in an njoiuing field called the at
tention of his companion to the
queer machine. “What is that,
over there?" ho asked. 0“Oh,
don’t look I” his companion re
plied, “it’s simply shocking, don’t
you know;” anil it is further re
lated that tho inquiror is still try
ing to fathom Ins companion’s
moaning.
1 have heard Wilkes' Irish Specif
ic highly recommended by parties
who have used it. E. O’Haoan.
Big....
Bargains at
D. A. McGEE’S
This Week
Lots of goods to close out in all lines.
Always remember that McGEE sells the
best and sells “em the cheapest.”
Ware County Products.
Mr. W. B. South sent the Jour-
nul some samples of oats and
Egyptian onions Tuesday.
He says the onions are not so
large ns they were last yenr.
Tho oats are nearly six feet tall
ml are very heavily headed. He
snys he has a ten sore field just
like them.
They were grown on his place
iu the western part of the city.
Very rapidly tho country is be
coming all suburban. The coun
try conditions are now by far
more favorable than ever for pro
ducing the best in both mind and
body. “The railway hns broken
up the isolation of the farmer.
The literature and news of the
world now reach the farmer soon
after they touch tho citv.”
Every Lady’s Hat in the house at
selling price.
quick
Lot of new goods just in.
J. IN. KNIGHT,
dealer in
Pianos and Organs
AND ALL KINDS OF
Small Musical
Instruments,
VIOLINS,
GUITARS,
BANJOS,
MANDOLINS,
ETC., ETC.
Also the Mall*bearin'; Itomestic
Sewing Machines,
NEEDLES, OIL am. ai l
MACHINE SUPPLIES.
NEXT DOOR TO THE POST-OFFICE
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a Big line Colored Lawns at 5c„
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Fine line Silk Foulords just in.
The 35 cent quality at
Ladies’ Summer Undervest 5, 10, 15, 25c.
20 cents
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35c, or three pair for $100.
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Ladies’ Lace Hose, the 50 and 75c kind, at
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More Belts than any body,
all kinds and colors,
and the best line in
town to select from
Big Cut in Corsets
Big Line Premium Chinaware
just in. Better bring your tickets quick
Shoes
of the very best makes, cut to the bottom
this week to make room for new goods.
Four Spools best Thread 15 cents
Ten yards Calico 49 cents
Ten yards Apron Ginghams 49 cents
Ten yards Dress Lawn, nice colors, 49 cents
Ladies’ Sailor Hats 19 cents each
Children’s Sailor Hats 22 cents each
Our entire line of fine White Shirt Waist
reduced for this sale.
J D. A. flcGee. J