La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 12, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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THE LAORANOE WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Tess=Ted School Shoes
“ARE BETTER.”
One School Bag Given Free With
Every Pair, At
2* Heintze=Speckels
• • • •
Company.
History of a Boy’s Corn Crop.
The following history of his one-
acre corn crop was written by
Harry Schieberle, a 14 year old boy
living at Cost, Gonzales county, a
member of the Boy’s Tri-County
Corn Club. Harry’s exhibit won
a prize at the corn show held at
Flatonia last Friday.
This land was plowed with a
disk plow, 9 inches deep on Decem-
ber 26-27, 191°, a few days later it
was harrowed with a tooth harrow.
On February 1st it was harrowed
with a disk harrow. It was laid
off in rows 3 feet 6 inches with a
riding cultivator about the middle
of February. On March 8, opened
furrows with middle buster, drilled
in 100 pounds of cotton seed meal
with fertilizer distributer and then
planted with riding planter. The
furrow was 8 inches deep. Left
the corn as it came up 6 inches in
the furrow. When the corn was
Mch. 18 _____....____ 1 inch
Mch. 22.............. 0 inch
Mch. 25..............1 y? inch
Apr. 1............... 0 inch
Apr. 2............... 0 inch
Apr. 20 ___________.. . .1 inch
Apr. 23...... 0 inch
Apr. 25______________1 $4 inch
May 2____•_____...... 0 inch
May 11 ..............i0 inch
May 12..... 0 inch
May 28________...... 0 inch
Corn gathered on the acre was
4i0 bushels. Calculating the
price at $1.00 per bushel the result
was:
4i0 bu. corn..........-&0-75
Expenses,.............. 13.90
Profit per acre...........$27.85
About one-half the corn is good
seed corn worth $2,50 per bushel.
Harry Sciiieberle.
Mrs. Walker, widow of Dr.
Walker of Schulenburg, now living
with her youngest daughter at Tex-
two inches high I harrowed it with arkana, Tex., spent several days
a tooth harrow, and again when it, in this city this week, the guest of
was eight inches high, and thinned
to a stand when ten inches high.
Then ran out middles with a
buzzard-wing sweep as deep as two
good mules could pull it. I plow-
ed corn twice with a riding culti-
vator, first time deep and the second
shallow. On May 1st I drilled in
100 pounds of cotton seed meal,
making 200 pounds for the acre.
After the corn was in tassel I plow-
ed it three times with Devers culti-
vator to keep moisture in the
ground. The corn was plowed 8
times in all. After the corn was
laid by there was scarcely any bed
at all, but when the corn came up
it was six inches deep in the furrow.
Every time I plowed it I put a little
more dirt on it, so that the roots
were in moist ground when the
summer heat came.
the editor's family. Mrs. Walker
was on her way home from Schu-
lenburg where she had accompani-
ed the remains of her sister, Mrs.
Bill Upton, who died at Houston
last Sunday night. Mrs. Upton
was in her 74th year and was a re-
sident of Schulenburg in its early
days w here Mr. Upton was a promi-
nent business man. Mrs. Walker
has many friends here who were
delighted to see her and who
sympathize in her bereavement.—
Weimar Mercury.
An alarm of fire was turned in
just at the noon hour last Thurs-
daj. Both companies responded
promptly, and discovered the kitch-
en roof at the home of Mrs. Len-
show was burning. The fire was
extinguished, and no damage re-
This was a very dry year in our! suited except a slight burning of
section. The rain fall was:
Jan. 23-27 .......... 0 inch
Feb. 11-12............10 inch
the roof.
WANTED—One small load of
I”! Spirella Corset
MADE TO
YOUR MEASURE
The Corset of
STYLE, HEALTH
COMFORT
Will Not Rust or Break
Mrs. B. CLINE, Corset/ere
LaGrange, Texas
Texas Live Stock Value.
Feb. 16-18............ 0 inch'corn. At Journal office.
Washington, D. C., October 6
1911.—Statistics relative to the do-
mestic animals, poultry, and bees
reported on farms and ranges for
the state of Texas at the Thirteenth
Decennial Census, April 15, 1910,
are contained in an official state-
ment issued today by Census Di-
rector Durand. It is based on
tabular summaries prepared under
the direction of Dr. LeGrand Pow-
ers, chief statistician for agriculture
in the Bureau of the Census. Speci-
al attention is called to the fact
that the present statement relates
only the live stock on farms and
ranges and does not give the figures
for the cities and towns of the
state.
AN AGGREGATE INCREASE OF
$73,191,000.
The aggregate value of all do-
mestic animals, poultry, and bees
in 1910 was $313,764,000, as com-
pared with $240,573,000 in 1900;
the amount of increase being $73,-
191.000 and the rate 30.4 per cent.
The total value of the domestic
animals was reported as $308,282,-
000 in 1910, as against $236,228,000
in 1900; the increase amounting to
$72,054,000, or 30.5 per cent.
The poultry was valued at $4,-
807.000 in 1910, as compared with
#3.595.000 ”1 19°°: the Rain being
$1,212,000, or 33.7 per cent.
The bees were valued at $675,-
000 in 1910 and $749,000 in 1900,
a decrease of $74,000, or 9.9 per
cent. _
Excursion to Bishop.
The date for the excursion to
Bishop, advertised for Friday, Oc-
tober 13, has been changed to Sun-
day, October 15. All parties in-
terested, who wish to investigate
the best lands in the State should
join Messrs. Turney and Hackebeil.
Train will leave LaGrange at 9:38
a.m. and connect with the Sap at
West Point. Be on hand and join
the crowd.
German Day at the Bluff last
Friday was slimly attended in the
afternoon, and as a consequence
the prize shoot was cancelled. At
night, however, the crowds cam.e
until the surrounding woodlands
echoed with merry laughter. The j
younger generation were out in
large numbers and “swung around 1
the circle’’ until the “wee sma’ '
hours a-yant the twail.”
FOR SALE—Two gentle work i
horses and one 2-year-old registered
Jersey bull. Apply to
Paul Handrit,
[2t] Winchester, Texas.
The coolest place in town!
Where ? The Airdotne.
AwakeToYourlnterest
Don’t Dream About Other Values
When you can get the market’s best from us
for the asking. Don’t close your eyes to the
advantage of good things in Clothing which
we offer you. We make all kinds of suits,
Fashionable .but not too expensive. You’ll
find that the quality always harmonizes with
the price. Call on us next door to postoffice
I L. C, DRUNNER, merchant ta.lqr
10^0^00^00^
Statement of The Condition of z
The John Schuhmacher j
State Bank \
LaGrange, Texas j
At the Close of Business September 1st, 1911 «
RESOURCES j
Loans and Discounts................$251,266.15 2
Furniture and Fixtures........v...... 2,503.12 |
Depositor’s Guaranty Fund.......... 1,753.42 |
Cash and with Banks............... 181,040.26 |
LIABILITIES |
Capital Stock.......... $100,000.00 2
Surplus Fund....................... 3,700.00 |
Undivided Profits................... 2,814.93
Deposits.................. 330,048.02
Total........................$436,562.95
Above Statement is Correct.
C. J. Von ROSENBERG, Acting Pres.
LEO FREDE, Cashier.
A Man With
Blinders
is he who selects his harness
from a catalogue. The poor-
est harness may make the
prettiest picture. Better come
here and see what you are
getting. We may be deficient
in pretty pictures and glitter-
ing promises, but our harness
does our talking. •
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“Texas Pride” Saddles and Harness. LaGrange, Texas
SOCIETY PRINTING
EXECUTED ACCORDING TO
FASHION’S LATEST
DICTATES, AT THE
vJOB OFFICE OF
THE JOURNAL
LAGRANGE, TEXAS
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La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 12, 1911, newspaper, October 12, 1911; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth996996/m1/4/: accessed May 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.