The Twice-A-Week Sun. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 26, 1913 Page: 4 of 8
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If we knew onedialf of the feet-0
that our farmer readers have learned
about farm problems bv hard- bitter
experience: and could print, them
as soon, or a little before the time
they ore actually needed, what a
help it would lie to our faraeT
friends. Will you help us do it.
Tf we can have your co-operation
we can make this department of great
value to all our readers. We would
appreciate any suggestion along the
line of your farming that will be
likely to help any of our folks dur-
ing the next few months.
Here are a few suggestions:
What have you found is the best
way to carry cattle till they get to
be 3 years old ?
What is the best variety of cotton
to plant, and about when is the best
time to plant it?
Are you raising Kafir corn? Tf
60 what variety and why?
What has been your experience
with cane hay, and which do you
prefer cane or Knfir hay?
These are only suggestions, the
list could be lengthened rndefinately.
any little suggestion or pointers on
anv farm question will be highly ap-
preciated and may bring you in the
prize.
inhabitants and, at, first, thought,
it might be ventured that a great
city like Philadelphia need havo
little consideration of farming.
Here is what the Philadelphia
Record says:
"The action of the Corn Ex-
change Nationat bank in offering
prizes of $1,250 for the best corn
grown this year in Pennsylvania.
New Jersey, Delaware and Mary-
land is an interesting indication of
the growing importance which fin-
anciers and economists attach to a
more careful cultivation of the soil,
if the farmer is to make the moet
of his opportunities.
If it is true, aa stated, that the
average yield of corn per acre is
less now than it was forty years a-
go, the showing is discreditable to
the present-day agriculturist, and
he should be stimulated in every
way to improve on existing meth-
ods of farming.
Here in the city we see so much
of manufacturing that we are apt
to overlook the fact thai, the farm
is the real basis of national wealth.
It is especially desirable that in
the east, where there are so many
mouths to be fed, the product of
the soil should be made as great
as j)ossible, so that we may be less
dependent upon other portions of
the country."
We clip the following from the
Farmer-Stockman, which will be
of interest as it shows the wide in-
terest taken in the progressive
farm movement: "Progressive
citizens of Oklahoma have been
for a number of years active in
every movement which would as-
sure more and better farming.
Prizes have been offered, exposi-
tions have been maintained and
demonstrations have been of mo-
nthly occurrence. Tlte results of
such a line of action in Oklahoma
were shown in 1912.
Special attention has been paid
tojthe work of the boys' and girls'
clubs in this state. The youngs-
ters of today are to be the succes-
sful farmers of the future, and the
accomplishments of the yonng
people of Oklahoma assure some
big things in the line of fanning
and the raising of livestock,
But let it not be understood
that Oklahoma is the only state
which has become aroused to the
importance of the factory of the
soil. Even in Pennsylvania,
where most of the monster steel
mills are located, we find that
more and still more attention is
being paid to raising better crops.
The Philadelphia Record, one of
the leading papers of the nation,
remarks pertinently upon the ag-
ricultural situation. The Record
is a great newspaper, is published
in a city of more than a million
Here is a good idea gleaned from
a correspondent, in the Missouri
Ruralist, that would be of great
benefit to the Oklahoma farmers
if acted upon:
I am going to tell you how I
raise two crops from the same
land in one season. I don't see
why more people don't do the
same thing aa it is very easy to do.
First I prepare my ground, get it
in fine condition and then lay off
in rows the same distance apart
corn is planted. I lay it off with
disk cultivator, taking off one set
of disks; turn disks to throw away
and this will mate a fine furrow.
Then I proceed j^to plant my pota-
toes about 14 inches apart in rows
and cover with a disk cultivator,
with all disks on, as this will not
give you such a large ridge. When
cultivating potatoes, or at the last
cultivation, don't ridge your pota-
toes; do all level cultivation, as
this is best in this section. You
can, and it is very essential to give
the vines some dirt. Now then"
get some millet seed and cow-peas
and sow, together or separately, as
one wishes. I prefer to mix the
seed. Sow over your patch im-
mediately after last cultivation
you give potatoes or just before,
If before, do not cultivate deep.
This is all, and now watch for re-
sults. When you cut your hay
cro]) you leave your potato patch
nice and clean to dig your pota-
1 toss, where otherwise you have!
| had a big weed pate ti to clean oil
j before you could dig then. Yan
can raise as much bay over yo?r
potatoes (and very often raise
•a) as you can in the open field
..ad it does not interfere with the
potato crop in the least. Last
year I raised a fine crop of millet
from my potato field and yet we
had somewhat of a severe drouth.
—Theo. H. Selb.
For more than a half century the
famous remark of William L.
Marcy—"To the victors belong the
spoils of the enemy',--was accepted
as a rule of action by the politicians
of every party. From the time
when President Jackson turned out
of office nearly every man who had
not supported him, national offic-
ials and clerks were through many
decadas discharged by wholesale
whenever the general government
changed hands.
Civil service reform began late
and has progressed slowly. even
to day there seems to be a Democ-
ratic wav and a Republican way of
distributing the mail, for each suc-
cessive administi ation continues to
make most of its pastoffise appoint-
ments from members of its own
partay. It is all very childish and
silly, but old customs are hard to
change.
Nevertheless, there has been a
marked advance toward more sen-
sible customs. Abraham Lincoln
was a great and good man, yet he
accepted the "spoils'' system with-
out a qualm of conscience. When
he became President, every man
knew that all the Democratic offic-
ers sad clerks Clerks throughout
the country would have to go. Ac-
cordingly, when he took office in
March, 1861, the office-seekers
thronged the capital filled and
overflowed the hotels, and button-
bolpd members of Congress, cabinet
officers, and even the President him-
self. They wanted to be collectors
of customs, postmasters, consuls—
each had picked his place. There
were not enough places to go round,
and although some of the applic-
ants were successful, others had to
content themselves with humble
positions in the department offices,
or go home, if they had money e-
noufch left to get there. Some
were still stranded in Washington,
needy and seedy, months after the
administration began-
We see little or nothing of that
now. The clerkships are protected
by law, and still more b7 public o-
pinion, so that an effice-seeker who
fails to get the job of his choice
has little to fall back upon. In
fact, offices high and low are partly
protected.
The President, it is understood,
has wisely decided that officials of
many classes shall be permitted to
complete the four years' term for
which they were appointed. Then,
perhaps, tkey may be superseded
by men who can administer the
offices in the Democratic way. At
all events' it is not worth while for
any one to go to Washington in the
hope of getting ao office. Those
who do go will not see the Presi-
dent, for he has declared that he
will not listeu to offiice-seekers un-
let he has invited them to come to
see him. The new system has not
done away with the Senators' "pat-
ronage," or with the patronage of
inrmoers of Congress and outside
politicians. That seems to be a
neccessary evil. Some one must
propose to the Presideet the per-
sona who are to fill the ofiices in the
several states, for no one man can
possibly know men and conditions
all over the country well enough to
make a wise choice in every case.
He must g.et advice from some oue.
Those who (five it are those who
have the "patronage"-- an offen-
sive word, but the only one that
describes the facts.
The evil of the system it that it
gives unworthy men an opportuni-
ty to promote their own political
fortune. -The Youths Companion.
COl'RT HOUSE NEWS.
Our popular clerk of the Super-
ior Court, R. A. Estus, will close
that office today, it having been
abolished by the Legislature dur-
ing the regular session, and he
will leave with his family for Mul-
hall, where he has a good farm.
Mr. Estus will be greatly missed
by the officials aud employees at
the Court House, and we wish
him success and prosperity.
Judge Hiner, of Tulsa, was in
the c>'ty today on business.
C. G Horner and Fred Green
have jufet returned from Kansas
City, where they havelieen look-
ing after legal business.
Curly Washington, colored, was
tried in the County Court yester-
day ou a charge of selling cocaine
and was found guilty by the jury
and sentenced to six months in
jail, Maggie McCrutcheon was
also adjudged guilty of the same
offense and fined $100.
The case of the City vs. Lewis
Ralsten is being tried in the
Connty Court toda^- The infor-
mation charges that the defend-
ant had liquors in his possession,
with intent to sell the same.
Neil Humphrey, District Cleik,
is spending the day at his fine
farm near Shiloh.
The Logan County Teacher's
Quarterly Examination is being
held at the County Superintend-
ent's office this week. There are
twenty-six applicants taking the
exams.
Arthur R. Swank, the Deputy
County Attorney, was in Crescent
yesterday on legal business,
Miss Dora Cooper, the pretty
Choctaw Indian girl who was ar-
rested by Sheriff Mahonoy at
Stigler last Thursday and brought
to Guthrie to straighten out the
little tangle concerning one $50
check which she gave the Lutz
Dry Goods Company on the Kinta
State Bank and which was duly
returned marked "no funds',
seems in good spirits today and is
not worrying in the least over her
trouble. She claims this short-
age was caused by persons who
had pledged to deposit money to
her credit and failed to do so, and
she checked on that amount, and
when she got home, found that it
wasn't there. She is at present a
prisoner at the sheriff's home,
waiting to receive money to set-
tle the deficiency. Mr. Lutz does
not care to prosecute the case if
he is paid in full, and the ooBts
are paid.
ilr. and Mrs. A. E. Kinney, ef
near Marshall, were in Guthrie
Friday.
if.ro is nc
atcil
the duty
/ uncirratsa.
'■r> inuc-h under-
ot being; happy.—
Hand3 of English Women.
T'no hand3 o£ Englishwomen of
anli are aristocratically shaped, but
hey are lone and sometimes too dry.
Its A Crime
To let your land wash away an allow
the rain fall to run off the field
when both are so important in mak-
ing a crop.
My Booklet entitled "The Level
Row System of Farming" gives
simple instructions how to cultivate,
to hold the land and put the water
into the subsoil where it falls.
It i? at once scientiffc and tbor
oughly practical.
It prevents the Washing, It con-
serves the rainfall. If you own but
an acre it will pay you to get this
booklet. By mail, One Dollar.
JNO, M. ENTRIKIN,
Route 6. Guthrie, Okla.
Dependable
I-TN e (pi o >
i ram be ;wce
—equipment that udc!s
to your comfort,
—schedules t-:.at serve
your convenience.
These are features that will
appeal to you if you make
your next trip via
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GimNID HmHlBBMiltfg.
We desire to make this department a useful means of coMmaaica-
tion between Our Folks who have anything they want to sell, or wiak te
purchase. Seed Corn, Eggs for hatching, Pasture to rent, Hogs for tale
etc. etc., can thus change hands at very little cost. Try it.
Rati: 1 Cent per word for two weeks.
CASH MUST ACCOMPAINY THE ORDER. Write your advertise-
ment plainly. Each initial of name, or number counts as one word.
FOR SALE.
FOR SALE—A good Refrigera-
tor, Cheap, at GatTney's, (>24 east
Oklahoma, Phone 727. 21 4tpd
FOR SALE—Three Indian Runner
Ducks white egg strain. Price 13.
Phone 9I.
FOR TRADE : — A seven-room
house, all modern, good barn, well
and cistern, to trade for a farm.
Phone (!56, or write R. N. Dunham,
Guthrie, Okla. —24tf
MISCELLANEOUS„
SEE JAKE WINGER, onr 1,800
lb Draft Stallion before breeding.
:! miles north-east of Meridian. R. 3
C, J. Campbell. I5tf.
WANTED—A man or woman in
every town in the county toconvass
for the Twice-a-week Sun. A good
proposition to the right person.
WANTED Horses and Mules to
pasture 6 miles west, on College
ave. read.—W. S. Kessler. [263tpd
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Hubbard, J. H. The Twice-A-Week Sun. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 26, 1913, newspaper, April 26, 1913; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc276843/m1/4/: accessed May 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.