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SOtlTH KANSAS TRIBUNE, JULY 21, 1915. THREE Most Pay Taxes. (Continued from page two); Average Farm Lacks Power. As has already been hinted, this, under present conditions, ig almost an Impossibility. The ordinary farm does not possess sufficient power to do the plowing at the right, time and at the proper depth, and to perform the other operations neccessary to secure the results that have been secured at the experiment station.

Till-is much more closely related to fertility than many realize. Tillage for developing deep water-holding capacity, the destruction of weeds and the retaining of water in the soil has been given the greatest prominence, since, in the early development of land at least, moisture Is usually the limiting feasor Call's explanation of this apparently high yield as compared with the yields of the previous three years is, that during the extremely dry season of 1913 the land was cracked open to an unusual degree. The air thus gained access to the soil and, with the fall rains and the water conditions, soil processes ordinarily brought about by cultivation too: place. The crop has not been harvested this year, but on a recent visit the writer could not help but notice the very poor appearance of the wheat on this plot that had been disked only as compared with the plots plowed seven inches deep early in the summer. Inquiry was made as to the moisture present in these plots.

usually large acreage, ideal weather coniitions from the planting time up till the wheat was matured, and last, but most important of all, an unusually well prepared seed bed. In the year 1913, on account of the extremely dry weather, there "was almost a complete failure of 8,000,000 acrfsrpf corn. This corn land had been given the best of tillage during the summer, and as it had produced practically no crop the soil contained an. abundance of plant food. Fully 3,000,000 acres of this ground was planted to wheat.

It had virtually been summer-fallowed and had thus a much larger amount of The farmer whose farm of March 1 Is now part of the bed of the Kansas or Arkansas river, the one whose rich land' now is covered by several feet of sand; the" merchant whose stock of goods has been destroyed by fire or flood all these will have to pay taxes on the assessed value of their property March 1, 1915. Attention is called to this fact in a decision by the state tax commission on an appeal from Dexter, Cowley county, to have their tax abated; In this particular instance, the records show the merchant had merchandise valued $4,410 listed for taxation. His goods were destroyed by fire after the assessment was made. He appealed' to the county commissioners, who declared he must pay taxes just the same. Then he went to the state tax commission, and this body declares that under the law there is no remedy.

"There is no statute which gives element In crop production. I ft--- Showing Results of Early v. i the tax commission or the board of At the Beach, the Mountain Resort county commissioners any authority to abate a tax for any such reason," reads the opinion of the commission. "If this rules were to be observed, there would be constant demand for the abatement of taxes upon property loss or destroyed by fire, flood or otherwise; and In case of animals, by death after March 1. No such relief is contemplated by the statute, nor is there any provision of law which even suggests that the remedy sought may be given in such cases." or wherever you may decide to spend the summer you will find the clothes and furnishings you buy here are of the correct style and the proper fabric for the 1915 season.

VV are Snnwinor fho rrannina Palm RrV. -U. 11 11 A. i-, f.r 7 -y Aa.iLu ucavu suits liimu wttsu wen anu wear wen. Uutht before you go and have the consolation of knowing you are properly enuiDoed arts! of rn -1 1 ft.

uvj nuvmiue in price. I rnvxivfi tTi ic CONTINUOUS CONTINUOUS- 1 -3 CONTINUOUS CONTINUOUS- Plowed Seven in. deep Yield M5i. Ho wed ScoU Three in. deep Jxrvcn in.

deep '1 i Three in. i I i i r. Those needing Table- Linen will find It to their advantage to go to the Baden Department Store and look over the excellent line and assortment offered. Never before have such values been given to the people of this city. By purchasing in large quantities this reliable store is able to give you more for your money than ever before and those who have traded here know that means much.

Our Summer Togs for Men and Young Men are Not Surpassed Either in Quality or Price Palm Beach Suits, Traveling Bags, Suit Gases, Panama and Straw Hats of thej Better Sort, and Packard and Nettleton Summer Footwear and you have Hie advantage of buying at a store whose ability to serve you is considered one of its big assets. Come in today. THE BADEN CLOTHING COMPANY Early and Deep Plowing Makes Wig Wheat Yields A Successful Library. There was a time when there was opposition to the Carnegie Public Library for which that eminent bene miumiiiimmimimmiimmiimil Thls has been accurately determined, and Professor Call stated that at no time had this plot been lower In soil moisture than the other plots. Lack of moisture then could not be considered responsible for the poor appearance of the crop.

Tillage Helps Nature. A good many years ago Jethro Tull, one of the early agricultural writers of England, wrote a book called, "Horse-Hoeing Husbandry." Jethro Tull did not know anything of the chemistry or bacteriology of the factor donated $22,500 in cash, in con Mr. and Mrs. A. H.

Black are hoping to get started today for a few weeks at Chautauqua Lake. A. E. Todd has the contract to build a cottage home for John Bertenshaw and brothers near Country club, to become the home of their parents. tillage than is ordinarily given to the preparation of land for wheat.

Of course, this condition was abnormal, and the farmers of Kansas may not deserve so much credit after all for this extraordinary wheat yield of 1914. It serves to demonstrate, however, the importance of careful preparation of the ground if increased yields of wheat are to be expected. Dean Jardine further maintains that while the acre yield for the season of 1914 was unusually good over the state as a whole, it was not any larger, If as large, as some farmers in every wheat-growing section of the state produce every year. On those farms the land Is handled in such a Mrs. Clate M.

Ralston of Stillwell. who with Miss Kelly, has been visiting her sister Mrs. R. C. Gris-ham on East Myrtle, returned home last week.

Mrs. Ralston was the first bride in Independence, coming from Illinois and moved into the first two-story house in the then hay town early in 1870. Her husband then a hardware man and an attorney. Mr. and Mrs.

W. M. Wade leave tomorrow for Idaho and then for Frisco and San Diego to attend the big fairs. sideration of the taxpayers contributing at least 10 per cent towards Its maintenance. From the day it opened it has been popular, and been patronized liberally and annually It is better serving the public.

It is governed by a board of directors appointed by the mayor, and who serve for the honor, and without pay or perquisites. Last week Mrs. Mattle Davis, the efficient and hardworking secretary filed the yearly report. Here are a few facts: Special Prices on all Colored Linens 50c value, 38c; $1.00 value, 75c. Baden Department Store.

Attorney Jake Bertenshaw and wife leave in a few days for Yellowstone park where they will spend a few weeks in the Northwest. No Call for County Warrants. Winsor Crepe, 25c value, Special Price, 15 c. H. Baden Department Store.

Three thousand, three hundred Dr. J. B. Edwards of Chanute, was visiting Independence Thursday, guest of his sister, Dr. Mamie way as to put the soil in the very best possible condition for the production Chummy Old Friends and seventy-four persons used books from the Library last year, about one-third of the population of the city.

County Treasurer Wadman informs us that there will be no call in August to pay off county warrants. (More were called in February than all the warrant levy for the year would have paid- therefore no call until next February, and those holding warrants will get interest six months longer than they expected. of a large crop. The ground is plowed early and deep, thus giving a con Las Wednesday Harry Sinclair, one of Tulsa's big operators in finance soil, but had observed closely the results following tillage. "Tillage is manure," said Tull, and he wrote a book about It.

Professor L. C. Call, of Kansas state agricultural college, has been studying the results of tillage In developing available fertility in the soil, and he also says "tillage Is manure" to the extent, at least, that without it a soil, no matter how full of the materials needed for plant growth, cannot become highly productive. Tillage helps Nature to bring plant food to available form. Water Not Always Limiting Factor.

On land that has been farmed for a good many years, it has been demonstrated that water is not necessarily the limiting (factor. In the seed bed preparation studies that has been going on now for five years at the Kansas state agricultural college, one of the plots have been disked only each year Just previous to seeding time. This is the only cultivation this plot has been receiving. The first three years it averaged only 6 2-3 bushels of wheat an acre. In the year 1914, the big wheat year, this plot produced 22.42 bushels per acre.

Pro- Tillage is manure to the extent stated above, and this plot which had received the minimum of preparation is without doubt very low in fertility. It is evident that the usual methods of tillage are entirely Inadequate. The plowing that Is done Is seldom deep enough, and often Is done at the wrong time. Much of the tillage work, such as harrowing, packing and other forms of cultivation. Is omitted entirely or performed at the wrong time.

It has been proven abundantly that these methods of tillage are capable of producing larger yields than the average farm Is now getting. The man considering tractor farming must of necessity take Into consideration, In comparing horse-power with mechanical sources of power, the possibilities the tractor has of performing these various operations as they should be performed In order to give the best results. The question of making the acre produce more, and in so doing, return a greater net profit, it Is of primary importance. It Is because of this fact that so many are Interested In the possibilities of the tractor as a source "of farm power. where they count in millions, and N.

F. Veeder was over from Cher-ryvale Saturday and reported that lightning destroyed a wheat stack north of town on the smelter farm on Friday. siderable period of time between plowing and seeding. During this Develop Plant Food, period sufficient cultivation is given George McCullagh of Galena, a big producer of zinc ore that is making millionaires over night were holding to destroy weeds and encourage and promote the agencies In the soil working for the development of an abundance of available plant food. But what Dean Jardine is endeavor H.

F. Sinclair, who with his wife, are spending the summer at Atlantic City, stopped off Thursday to see A. C. Stich, enroute to Tulsa on a short visit. a reunion at the Booth hotel.

In the yesterdays of Independence these financiers were Independence "kids and schoolmates" and attended the old Fourth ward school where it was often designated as "The Tannery." They talked business, as well as old times. The variety of goods offered this season for summer dresses makes the selection better and especially If you come to this store for we have made a special effort to get the newest and best materials offered In the eastern markets, and by purchasing In enormous quantities we are able to give you the most possible for your money. Come In today and select your patterns. Baden's Department Store. ing to point out Is that what happened In 1914 to enable Kansas to pro duce a much larger wheat yield than the average can be made to happen nearly every year if farmers would only handle the wheat ground along Its maintenance cast J3.475.81, and City Clerk Krlenhagen telephones us that your property pays only one-tenth of one mill tax for the library, while Its books reach without expense every one who desires its benefits.

Where the money goes: For new books and binding, $900; newspapers and periodicals, $113; salaries and wages, telephone, $30, and the host of miscellaneous expenses, $370. When it started in 1907 there were 2,752 volumes, used by 737 people; last year 7,435 books used by 7,435. The maintenance cost was then last year $3,476. The expenditure for books In 1907, $394 has been increased to $900 in 1914 and newspapers, from $22 to $113. If parents do not get more out of the Library, they only are to blame; if their children are not benefited it is the parents' fault, as the higher class books are there for them to select.

The public owe the Library Board a big debt for what has been done for the dear people In the way of Library education. T. B. Wallace is home from Arkansas where he has been a few weeks on a business venture. But the rains and the floods, the steam heat and mosquitoes were a little too much for him to enjoy camp life.

Palm Beach Cloth, 36 to 50 Inches wide, 25c to $1.40 per yard. Henry Baden Department Store. the lines Indicated. Fair Premiums. George E.

Barnes and family of Bought the Old Ice Plant. G. L. Hayward, a banker, one of the old timers of Elk City where he Perry, came here Sunday to A Bright Idea for Good Roads. The commissioners of Marion county have hit on a new plan to save road work, and keep part of the road good.

The Board recommends: Last week A. W. Finlay of Elk had grown wealthy, has abandoned visit his parents. His father William got so bad that his physician had Falls was an Independence visitor The rush for the Panama-Pacific exposition, and Frisco and SanDlego continues. Some predict a drop off In the travel, but the experience at others was that the crowds continued until October, but the fall months are the best in the South.

the friends and town and gone to and it is understood purchased the old Ice plant-produce house on Twen tiona. in Morton county, to open a "The premium list for the coming fair and racing meet of the Montgomery County Fair association to be held here Sept. 28, 29, 30 and Oct. 1, Is off the press and Is now being placed In circulation. The premiums offered this year are about the same as those given last year, and it is believed that they will bring out a large number of exhibitors." Coffeyvllle Journal.

him taken to the Montgomery County Hospital, where he can be kept under a nurse's control. All hope to see new bank. tieth, opposite the Missouri Pacific station on Myrtle street. We under rapid Improvement. Farmer W.D.

Felts of North Eighth stand it is to be repaired and put in is threshing on his wheat "After a rain all vehicles travel the same side of the road, using the same track leaving the other half of the road to settle and dry. By so doing that will not need working thereby saving taxes." Another wise suggestion: All farm and business interest stay at home until the roads are good keep off when they are damp. rarms in Liberty townsnip. He re good condition for a new enterprise to be opened perhaps in October at least It is to be occupied, and will ports only thirteen to sixteen bushels per acre or about half a crop. These are some of the best wheat lands In Death of James A.

Wade. make added business for our city. Perhaps local capital may head the Special lots in Sheer, at less than half price. Baden Department Store. Kansas.

UN OK IE ANY 0TD enterprise. Every woman will be Interested when we mention Oxfords and fine MEHSPAPER IS Hosiery, and every woman will be more than interested when we tell Sunday morning the friends of the Walter M. Wade family were shocked when the phone bell rang, and announcement made that his brother, the well known old bachelor, James was dead. Saturday night after other members of the family took their bath, James went to his room and then to the bath, and as he usually did, locked the door and they heard him turn on the water. Sunday them that we have the nicest line of Shoes for women and young ladies THE WEEKLY KANSAS CITY STAR that we have ever handled and that our stock of Fine Hosiery is second to none in this city.

Come In and see the fine assortment we are offering morning mr. waae went to get a at low prices. Baden's Department pitcher of water but the bath room door was locked and supposing his Store. brother had gone there, he went down stairs. Returning he tried the door, and then went to Jim's room across the hall and found the bed had not been occupied.

Then he got a chair, looked In the window and saw his brother In the bath tub. Help was called, the door forced open and the body taken out. It Is supposed Captain J. E. Stone of Caney was in town last week.

He dates his residence back forty-six years and is still boosting for Caney. His eye of faith sees another smelter to be erected there within a few months and operated largely by home capital. He tells us that his old friends of thirty and forty years ago are fast crossing the great divide, but that he still has for a companion Dr. A. Taylor, who had pioneered there among the Indians before he arrived.

The Weekly Star, in addition to printing the en-i tire news of the week in concise has Absolutely Accurate Market Quotations So valuable are these that such are copyrighted by The Star and appear only in this newspaper. The Weekly Star has also the famous Chaperon Feature which furnishes free, advice and help on many perplexing problems. Also "Answers" which takes care of all questions the reader cares to ask. It has a practical, successful Kansas farmer in charge of its Farm Department, which Is of great value to all farmers and stockmen. The Weekly Kansas City Star isn't for any limited set of people; it's for every member of every family.

If you don't find something of interest in a particular issue, well, the office looks on that issue as a failure. 25c pays for one year. TCI UEE3LY ITJ13 CITT ST3 ILZHS CITT, E3. In city or country, for business or pleasure, under all conditions, the mechanical perfection, strength, light weight and simplicity of the Ford car make it the people's utility. And they average only about two cents a mile to operate and maintain.

Barring the unforseen, every retail buyer of a new Ford car between August, 1914 and August, 1915, will receive from $40 to $60 as a share of the Ford Motor Company's profits. Touring Car, $490; Runabout $440 Town Car, $690; Coupelet, $750; Sedan $975; f. o. b. Detroit with all equipment.

PHARES ROOT, Agent INDEPENDENCE, KANSAS It's too Warm to Bake and especially when you have such a complete bakery that bakes such good Bread, Cakes and Pies as we do. We employ only expert help and use only the best of everything In our products. Keep cool this summer and keep in a good humor by getting your Bread, Pies, Cakes and Pastries of us. Satisfaction guaranteed. Pioneer Bakery Volts Bro.

he had turned on the water, and usually he took a hot bath, that after he sat down in the tub, he reached and got the cake of soap, and was overcome by the heat and his head and body fell forward, as his hand still gripped the cake of soap. James A. Wade was aged 71 years, was reared in Missouri, and after his brother had been here several years In the grocery business James came in 1877 and has always lived with his brother's family and been employed about the store. Probably tne most complete stock of Ladies and Misses Cndermusllns, Night Robes, to be found In the city Is carried at the Baden Department Store. The' largest stock ever brought to the city was purchased by this store for the spring and summer trade and every woman in the city and vicinity should acquaint herself with this stock and with the very close prices at which these goods are offered.

Baden's Department Store. church, and his past or Rev. W. P. Wharton, officiated at the funeral at the Wade home yesterday afternoon..