HJCR1917A_13.jpg HJCR1917A_14.jpg HJCR1917A_15.jpg HJCR1917A_16.jpg Volunteer transcription - part 7 Linda in MO Jefferson County Record, Hillsboro, Mo January 25, 1917 No. 5 ~ Notice of Good Roads ~ Everyone interested in good roads in Meramec Township come out to Cedar Hill Saturday, January 27 at 7:30 p.m. Chas. BRACKMAN, Chairman ~ Notice County Warrant ~ County warrants which are reg[can’t read] ed will be paid January 16, 191[?] Frank DIETRICH, Treasurer [page 3] Castoria for Infants and Children Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signature of Chas. H. Fletcher In Use for Over Thirty Years A helpful Remedy for Constipation and Diarrhea and Feverishness and Loss of Sleep resulting therefrom-in Infancy. The Gestaur? Company, New York Henry HURTGEN & Sons. First Class Horse Shoers All kinds of Machinery repaired on short notice. Try us and see, automobiles repaired. Hillsboro, Missouri Buy your Keen KUTTER Tools etc. from R. a. MARSDEN, dealer in general merchandise, harness, shoes, etc. Hillsboro HOLEKAMP Lumber, Distributors of the renowned Baever Board, Certain-teed Wall Board, Bishopric Board For inside and outside work. Give us the size of your building and we can tell you the amount required, also the cost. Yards: Afton, Kirkwood, Old Orchard, Webster Groves, Gratiot Station St. Louis, Planing Mill, Old Orchard ~ All Over Jefferson ~ Peter GLATT of near Maxville was a Hillsboro visitor Monday and gave us a call. The Library Association is short of funds. Have you paid your quarterly dues! Do it now. Judson POUNDS and wife of Morse Mill were in town Friday and settled a little court matter out of court. Circuit Court has adjourned until April 2nd at which time all the jurors are ordered to report for further duty. Sheriff Frank CLARK and his deputies are making good in the court room and are attending to business and obliging to the attorneys, witnesses, and visitors. Keep it up. Sheriff CLARK returned from Jefferson City Tuesday evening where he went tot take a prisoner, William LOESCH of De Soto. the trip was made in about fifteen hours, a record breaker. Schools are hard at work on the “Exhibit” display, only a month off. Citizens other than school people are looking forward with pleasure to the big event which begins Washington’s Birthday. George F. BOOTHE, an attorney of Sedalia has business in court here last week in court. It will be remembered by Jefferson County people as the former County school commissioner. He also taught in De Soto and Hillsboro. Dr. Kirk, Banker Gus WENOM, constable TANBOLD and about half of Rock Township official and civil were here on witness service in the KOHLER trial Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The case is laid over for trial next term. Miss Etta FRISSELL of De Soto Star Route, a well known teacher in the county is critically il at her home having been stricken with peritonitis more than a week ago. Her physician Dr. GIVSON has pronounced her out of danger at the last report yesterday. Miss Lillian, a daughter of Rev. A. HILKEMAN, one of the county pastors, graduated from the Grover Cleveland High School tomorrow, and the Record friends acknowledge with thanks an invitation to attend. Congratulations and good wishes to the young lady, who made some friends in this county while here on a visit last summer. The open winter has been an advantage to the poultry business, eggs being plentiful and forty cents a dozen, here and higher elsewhere. A Rock Township poultryman told us last week of getting more than 1,000 eggs a week. He has a machine and delivers them to private customrs [sic] in the city at 42 cents per dozen. The Jefferson County hen, like the Jefferson County cow, is a real source of revenue. W. A. BERGMEYER, a son of Esq. E. BERGMEYER of Antonia, arrived in the County January 9th for a visit to his parents and the scenes of his childhood. Mr. BERGMEYER is associated with Mr. Andrew KOHLER of Great Bend, Kansas and expects to remain in the county until February 1st. He was a recent visitor of the county seat and while here called on the Record for which he has been a subscriber of long standing. Charles VIEHLAND and Louis VIEHLAND of Oerman were in the county seat paying taxes yesterday. The former has lately returned from St. Louis where he had his eye removed. Sometime in the fall, while riding home in the dusk, a low hanging branch pierced the eye which had ben blind for about eight years. His suffering necessitated its removal, and altho he is still compelled to wear a bandage, the healing progresses satisfactorily. Robert A. HOLEKAMP whose farm home is “Sorgenfrei” two miles north of Hillsboro has an important letter before the farmers and dairymen of Jefferson County which appears elsewhere in the Record columns. He is a very practical man, is thrifty, energetic, wideawake and anxious to be of benefit to his neighbors and the county farmers. His article should be read by all the farmers and the business men of the county. Mr. HOLEKAMP is not the only wideawake farmer who has expressed a lively interest in “Farm Agent for Jefferson County” to the Record and urged us to push the matter. Let us hear from others at once. Farms Wanted I have cash buyers for several small farms. If you want to sell, list your farm with me. F. J. ADAMS, Real Estate, Hillsboro, Mo. ~ Missouri Farms Need Lime ~ The use of ground limestone of some form of lime to sweeten sour soil will soon become regular farm practice in many parts of Missouri. The reasons for this practice were given by R. A. KINNAIRD of the College of Agriculture in a recent lecture during Farmer’s Week at the University. Soils which were originally poorly supplied with lime and even limestone soils have lost so much of the lime which they formerly contained that crops suffer from soil acidity. The continuous leaching to which soils in the humid regions are subjected and which is greatly increased by cultivation is largely responsible for this loss of lime. The greatest soil acidity, therefore, is in those soils which were originally poorly supplied with lime and especially in regions where the land has been cultivated a long time with little attention to soil fertility. Practically all of the soils of the prairie region of northwest Missouri are quite sour. In the northwestern part of the state there is much less acidity. In the Ozark region soils derived from limestone have been leached until they have become very acid. There are also soils in the Missouri and Mississippi River bottoms that are sour. Not all crops are injured by an acid soil, but unfortunately most important cereals and forage crops, expecially clovers and alfalfa, cannot be grown successfully on a very acid soil. Acidity is indicated by the failure of these crops and by luxuriant growth of red sorrel, Canada blue grass and water grass. To sweeten an acid soil, a sufficient amount of finely ground limestone or slacked lime must be scattered evenly over the plowed ground and worked into the top soil. Ground limestone is usually the cheapest and most satisfactory in general, though it takes effect more slowly than quick lime, slacked lime or hydrated lime, and a larger quantity must be applied to get the same results. The screenings from the ordinary rock crusher can be used. Coarser material has little immediate effect on the soil, but if a much larger quantity of the course material is used it will keep the soil sweet for a longer time. Screenings can be obtained at from one dollar and twenty five cents to one dollar per ton. In some cases where hauling from the railroad is expensive and where limestone is accessible, small grinders can be used to grind the limestone on the farm. Persons interested in the use of limestone on acid soils should write to the College of Agriculture, Columbia, Missouri, for more detailed information. ~ Bees Help Fruit Growers ~ Did you have a full apple crop last year? Failure of some varieties of apples may be due to lack of pollination. T. J. TULBERT, of the College of Agriculture, told farmers’ week visitors at the University of Missouri recently how bees helped to make fruit crops. Many varieties of apples like Arkansas Blacks, Jonathan and York Imperial are self sterile and corss pollination is absolutely essential if a set of fruit is obtained. Other varieties like Ben Davis, Yellow Transparent and Willow Twig are only partly self fertile and again cross-pollination is necessary. The numerous white snowy flower clusters act as a guide to the insects and may attract them far away. When a bee alights on a flower its hairy body may be covered with pollen from another variety of apple. As the bee works its way down to the bottom of the flower to get the nectar it rubs its dusty body against the stigma or female organ of the flower and cross pollination is accomplished. It is a well known fact among the bst [sic] fruit growers that the weather conditions during fruit bloom has much to do wit hthe [sic] setting of fruit. If the weather is clear and warm at the blooming time the bees are active and cross pollination process rapidly, while if the weather conditions are wet cloudy and cold the insects are not active and usually a poor set of fruit is assured. Strong cold winds may often prevent the bees from cross-pollinating one side of the apple trees and this may account for the set of fruit on one side of the tree. Actual counts and observations at blooming time have shown that the honey bee is decidedly the most important insect in the work of pollinating the fruit flowers. Many counts have shown that from seventy five to ninety per cent of the insects pollinating the blossoms were honey bees. The wind cannot be relied upon as an agency to transfer pollen from apple tree to apple tree through out the orchard. This work must be accomplished by insects, and the honey bee is by odds the most important of them all. Bees will pay for their keep in honey, aside from their services in fruit production.