The Oklahoma Farmer and Laborer (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, May 19, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK
Condenced Statement as made on call of tKe Comptroller at the close of busi-
ness January 7, 1911.
RESOURCES
$169,773.60
25,250.00
6,000.00
Loans and Discounts -
United States Bonds -
Furniture ana Fixtures -
IlighGrade Bonds & Warrants $ 47,700.96
With United States Treasurer 1,250.00
CASH - 141,075.3-1 190,026.30
Total $391,049.90
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock
Surplus and Profits
Circulation
DEPOSITS -
Total -
$ 50,000.00
7,674.15
25,000.00
308,375.75
$391,049.90
Your most careful examination of the above statement is invited. It amply supports the worthy ambition
of this bank that its affairs are conducted along safe and sound banking lines, yet giving to the community the
best of banking service. Well equipped in ever^ way to give our customers the best of banking- service, coupled
with absolute security. WE INVITE YOU TO FAVOR US WITII YOUR BANKING RELATION.
AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK
STRONG
SAPULPA, OKLAHOMA.
LIBERAL
BENEFITS OF BETTER STOCK
The farm should have on it all the
good stock it will keep and the help you
can give the proper care. The well-
bred, profitable kind of horses will do
the same work —except more of it—than
the scrubs are now doing. It is just as
cheap and much more profitable to have
pure-bred beef cattle instead of common
stuff. If you are milking a few cows
and selling the cream you can have, if
you will, cows which produce five or six
times as much milk as scrubs.
You can have pure-bred hogs which
make pork cheaper than scrubs, and you
can sell a sow or a boar for breeding
purposes. A few sheep will help things
along. Not one of these improved
kinds of live stock will in any way pre-
vent or interfere with the growing of
wheat or corn for market,which may
just now have your undivided attention.
Think this over. Resolve to get a few
animals of better than common stock
next year. The good ones increase rap-
idly and soon you'll have all you can
keep.
However there is some show for the
broomcorn men of western Kansas and
Oklahoma. The Illinois raisers of that
crop say there is not even a fair day's
wages in it at present prices and the
growers of Cumberland and Cole coun-
ties, where more broomcorn is raised
than in any other part of the country,
have signed an agreement not to raise
any more for five years unless the deal-
ers will guarantee them $120 per ton in
advance of planting. If 'Illinois quits
raising this crop the dealers will expect
Kansas and Oklahoma to fall over them-
selves to make up the shortage. In
such a case, the thing to do is to make
contracts at a profitable price before a
Seed is "put in thaground.
In planting a tree it is well to let it
incline a little in the direction from
which the prevailing winds come. Later
it will straighten out instead of leaning
the other way. .
Frequent gathering of eggs means
fewer broken ones and that in turn les-
sens the chances of the egg-eating hab-
it getting started. ' *
CANE AND KAFFIR FOR FORAGE
Onn of the very best forages is a mix-
ture of equal parts of kaffir corn and
cane. This can be seeded with a com-
mon wheat drill, using about a bushel
or a bushel and a peck per acre. If a
wheat drill cannot be secured, a com-
mon corn drill may be used. Plant as
for corn and double back, planting in
the middle of the rows, This will make
the rows a little less than two feet
apart.
After this is done, run a row once in
each of these middles, so that the rows
will be less than a foot apart. Set the
drill to run as rapidly as possible, using
the next to the largest plates that are
sent out with the well-known corn plant-
er. The thicker the seed, the finer the
stalks will be, and the better the stock
will relish it.
The seed can be planted any time be-
fore the lstof J uly. The ground should
first be plowed about three inches deep
and harrowed till every clod is pulver-
ized.
BENEFITS OF THE WINDBREAK
WINTER 0ARLEHOR HAY
Barley properly cut and cured will
furnish a very nutritious hay that is
readily eaten by all kinds of stock.
When intended for hay it should be sown
more thickly than when intended for
grain. In growing winter barley for
hay the mistake commonly made is in
letting the crop become too ripe in the
belief that better results will be secur-
ed if the grain is allowed to fill*
This is done at the expense of the'
stem and leaves, as much of the mater-
ial from which the grain is produced is
stored there. The barley is bearded,
and if left too long before cutting, the
beards become hard and will injure the
mOuths of the animals. When the crop
is cut in the flowering stage the beards
are soft and will be found less injurious
then if allowed to ripen further. The
crop can be cut with a mower and
handled like other hay.
Drop a few radish seeds in the rows
when sowing slow growing seeds. The
radishes will mark the rows and hoeing
can beginsooner.
Every orchard should have a wind-
break to protect it from the winter
winds. This break should not be too
dense, as it will cause dead-air pockets
to form in places where the air does not
circulate freely, and in such places plant
diseases will thrive. Forest trees are
good windbreaks.
Small orchards should have wind-
breaks on at least three sides of them.
In large orchards the fruit tree itself is
in a way its own protection, but in the
small orchard of young trees without
some sort of protection against the cold
winter winds they will freeze.
Hogs have been very high for the last
two years and everyone has rushed into
hog raising, with a future prospect of
selling them at cost of production or
maybe less. Two years ago broomcorn
was out of sight in price and an im-
mense acreage was put out with a result
that last year the crop hardly paid for
the work laid out on it. This is the way
it seems to go in farming; all chase
after the high market like a flock of
sheep. Next year will probably be a
good time to get back into broomcorn
raising while in two years it will be
time to stock up heavily on hogs.
Read the Farmer and Laborer.
MAKING ACRE PRODUCE MAXIMUM
Farmers will have to learn more about
quality and less about quantity if they
wish to continue to make profits. It is
not necessary to know how to get more
acres of land as it is to know how to
make the present number of acres pro-
duce more bushels. It is not necessary
to get more hogs to feed as it is to know-
to make the hogs already on hand to
attain their maturity in the least pos-
sible time at the least expense. The
same is true of orchards and other
branches of farming.
It is true that a pile of cornstocks
will rot down to almost nothing in time.
So will manure. But this is no sign
that it is not a good thing to put the
manure on the land and it is not a sign
that cornstocks plowed under do not
furnish a great deal of goodness to the
soil. A great difference could be notic •
ed in two fields side by side if on one
the corn was picked and the stalks turn-
ed under and on the other everything
was cut and taken off and nothing re-
turned.
When building the poultry-house ar-
range it so it will be almost out of doors
in the summer time, and easily trans-
formed into snug quarters for the win-
ter.
Prize Offers from Leading Manufacturers
Book on patents. "Hints to inventors." "Inventions needed."
"Why some inventors fail." Send rough sketch or model for
search of Patent Office records. Our Mr. Greeley was formerly.
Acting Commissioner of Patents, and as such had full charge of
the U. S. Patent Office.
GREELEY & MANURE
Patent Attorneys
Washington, D. C.
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Johannes, Fred C. The Oklahoma Farmer and Laborer (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, May 19, 1911, newspaper, May 19, 1911; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc102253/m1/2/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.