Cleveland County Enterprise. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 5, 1914 Page: 1 of 9
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CLEVELAND COU
VOL. XXII
NORMAN. OKLAHOM
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Large Crowd Witnessed and and others of the old settled west-
Enioved the A. & M. and ern 9tates together with the most
J J! ri O 'l progressive element of the east and
taanta re opecial south, turned to livestock farming
: with the result that they have not
Prof. A. C. Hatenbower of the j on'y built up their own farms but
A. & M. College spoke on import- through their example the aband
ant Forage Crops. Mr. Harten-!one<^ farms of the east and the
bower said in part:
"If you failed with alfalfa in
. your first: attempt to grow it you
probably were to blaine. If you
succeeded you know that you did
so because you had given your al-
falfa seed bed especially good prep-
aration ; had carefully selected the
seed and put this seed in with
care. No other commonly grown
washed out cotton plantations of
the south are being reclaimed and
regenerated.
"To the beginner with small cap-
ital we would say: Keep the breed-
ing females on hand unless you can
afford better or buy suitable num-
ber of the choicest grade stock
you can buy Breed to the best
pure bred sires obtainable. If vou
Red Oak Items
The attendance is increasing a
the Sunday school each Sunday.
Miss Mary Fowler visited in tin
Highland neighborhood with Mis
Maggie Ashford over Saturday.
Some of the farmers are having
a hard time to find safe kaflir an<
milo seed as well as peanuts. Tin
only safe kaflir or milo is the sect
bought in the head.
Oklahoma crop is harder to start— cannot afford to buy a purebred
but no other is more profitable j s',e by yorsuelt, perhaps you can
when you get it started. |.i°'n with your neighbors and buy
Alfalfa will grow on the poor-
one in common.
est uplands and will produce larger The good grade is nothing to
profits ou those soils than any other !1,6 ashaine(l of and for all purposes
crop you can grow on them. The that ''ie breeding sire may
secret of growing alfalfa 011 the ',6 et<ua'"ie'mlB',re('
poorer soil types is the use of Lectures on the special train
plentiful supplies of barnyard man-jxveie suPP'emented by interesting
ure, some ten tons to'the acre,' exhibit*. Four carloads of exhibits
about six months or a year sefore! were carried 0,1 the special train,
planting. If you cannot apply barn-1 ^ 'lese ('ars were arranged so that
yard manure before seeding try it visitors C0llld r s through them
as a top dressing in the late fall or continuously without having to get
winter. In starting alfalfa on the *'ie 'ra'n-
so-called 'blowey' soils, a light ap- The first car contained specimens
plication of manure before planting j diseased portions of livestock,
insures success. | An intetesting display of animal
"Alfalfa beats drouth. Alfalfa diseases was shown, with especial
fields during the past few seasons attention to hog cholera. An ex-
have been burned brown and were '''ibit of silos was also shown 011
to all appearances dead, but in the this ear.
fall they have given their quota of
production.
"Do not be afraid to use the spike
tooth harrow in the established
fields. This tool will keep the
weeds and grass out and will not
injure the alfalfa crowns.
"Cultivate your grain sorghum
crops, in fact all crops, to keep a
dirt mulch. A dirt mulch. A dirt
mulch loses its effectiveness in from
The second car carried livestock.
Two horses were shown, Gomme
Second, a year-old Percheron filly
and Sterling, a yearling Percheron
stallion. Beef cattle were repre-
sented by Briton Blackbird.au Ab-
erdeen Angus bull weighing 2,000
pounds and a hereford steer of ex-
cellent type. Two dairy cows were
shown, Carrie Gordon's Best, a
pure-bred Jersey with a year's
ten days to two weeks and should j record of 8,483 pounds of milk and
be renewed." I 496 pounds of butter, and Spot's
Prof. C. I. Bray, head of the de- Rosette, a two-year-old Jersey lieif-
partment of animal husbandry at j er 'n milk. The hog exhibit con-
the A. & M. College, said in part: sisted of Jupiter, a Poland China
"If we study the methods of the 1 boar, junior champion at the State
older agricultural countries we find Eair, and Stillwater s Climax,
invariably where grain or hay or I'-months old Duroc Jersey sow
other such products were shipped with her litter ot eleven pigs. An
eontinously without, precautions be-
ing taken to rebuild the soil, grain
yields have uniformly decreased be-
low the margin of profitable
production, the soil has lost its
original lomy texture, the lands
become foul with weeds and the
whole system has changed and be-
come unprofitable
imported Shropshire sheep and a
Horned Dorset sheep and her trip-
let ram lambs were shown.
The Poultry ear carried a number
of pens of pure bred poultry from
A. & M. College An interesting
feature of the poultry display was
two contrasted pens of poultry—
one of pure bred White Orphing-
Thc southern cotton planter turn- 'on hens and the other of mongrel
ed to commercial fertilizers, only hens. The average yearly produc-
to find that-whilethe yieldsincreas- tion of 124 eggs for a pure bred
ed the condition of the soil grew ben was displayed in contrast to
Whitwell's Furmers Store
The above store in appreciatioi
of the liberal patronage given ii
especially by the farmers in tin
surrounding country, has at all
times endeavored to merit, the pat-
ronage received by exerting its even
effort to serve its patrons in every
way possible by securing for them
the highest price for their pro-
duce and furnishing them with
groceries, dry goods, shoes, seeds
feed stuffs and field seeds at the
lowest cash price obtainable.
The policy of the store has been
a cash one and must continue to be
so in order to render the kind and
only kind of service the store will
render. No store can be success-
fully run on as low a margin of
profit as Whitwell's Farmers Store
is conducted on and do a credit
business. Realizing that many of
our patrons have not the ready cash
at all times and periods of the year
we have endeavored to meet this
want and still retain our cash policy,
by arranging to have some credit
paper carried, by our whole-
sale houses and private parties.
Such paper however must be of a
bankable character without the
banker's rate of interest.
All of our patrons who realize
that they may require some credit
during the crop making season,
and can furnish us with the kind
and character of paper we must
have, don't hesitate to come to us
and we will do all we can to save
them banker's rates of interest on
such credit paper. It not the inter-
est. we want, it is your patronage
and good will and o.nr low margin
of profit on our goods that we want.
Just you stick a pin in here and
show your appreciation of Whit-
well's Farmers Store as it is en-
deavoring to show its appreciation
of) your patronage.
Whitwell's Farmers Store
Don Biscoe has returned to N01-
man, and is again in the employ of
R. C. Berry in the dry goods de-
partment, where he cordially invit-
es his many friends to call and see
him.
steadily worse. The easterner in
many cases abandoned the farm and
moved to the western prairie only
to find that in the end his old meth-
ods soon produced the same eon-
tlie average yearly production of a
mongrel hen—(15 eggs.
The fourth car carried farm crops
exhibits and displays from the A.
& M. College Boys and Girls Agri-
ditions lie had attempted to escape, cultural (Tubs. Another interest*
The farmers of Wisconsin, Iowa! ing feature on this car was a model
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First National Bank
of Norman, Oklahoma
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS—E. B. Johnson, presi-
dent; Phil C. Kidd, vice-president, Wm. Synnott, Cash.;
Jas D. Maguire, C. S. Smith, O. H. Bcssent, F. Caru-
thers, C. D, Adkins, R. C. Berry.
This bank is always prepared to meet the legitimate
business needs of its patrons, and solicits your business
on merit. Courteous treatment and careful attention to
business matters combined with a conservative business
policy assure security and satisfaction.
A Local Bank For Local People
FIRST NATIONAL BANK of NORM AN, OKLA
show case and library case to make
the teaching of agriculture in the
rural and common schools easier.
The teachers who visit the train
are particularly interested in this
exhibit.
Among the persons accompany-
ing the Livestock Special Train <
its visit here were:
Dean B. ('. Pittuck, of the Col-
lege Extension Division, A. & M.
College.
L. F. Bacon, assistant general
colonization agent, Santa Fe.
Dr. Clarence H. McElroy, lectur-
er on veterinary medicine, A. & M.
College.
C. I. Bray, lecturer011 livestock,
A. & M. < 'ollege.
J. F. Jarrell, publicity agent,
Santa Fe.
A. C. Hartenbower, lecturer on
farm crops, A. & M. College.
T B Wortman, state supervisor
of A. & M. College.
A F Rolf, lecturer 011 poultry
management, A. & M. ''ollege
Mrs Beth Mull, domestic science
demonstrator, A & >1 College
Miss Martha McPheeters, assist
ant domestic science demonstrator.
A. «!i M. College.
Walter Stemmonspublicity agent
A. & M, College.
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Fox, J. O. Cleveland County Enterprise. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 5, 1914, newspaper, February 5, 1914; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc108437/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.