The Oklahoma Farmer and Laborer (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, June 2, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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V
AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK
Condenced Statement as made on call of tHe Comptroller at the close of busi-
ness January 7, 1911.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts - $169,773.60
United States Bonds - 25,250.00
Furniture ana Fixtures - - - - 6,000.00
Iligh Grade Bonds & Warrants $ 47,700.96
With United States Treasurer 1,250.00
CASH - - - - 141,075.84 190,020.30
Total $391,049.90
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock
Surp us and Piofits
Circulation
DEPOSITS -
Total -
$ 50,000.00
7,674.15
25,000.00
308,375.75
$391,049.90
f *1 • } V T8t.careff"! exa,ninati«>n of the above statement is invited. It amply supports the worthy ambition
ot this bank that its affairs are conducted along safe and sound banking lines, yet giving to the community the
best ot hanking service. Well equipped in even way to give our customers the best of banking- service, coupled
Lw.th absolute security. WE INVITE YOU TO FAVOR US WITH YOUR BANKING RELATION.
AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK
STRONG SAPULPA, OKLAHOMA. LIBERAL
HOIK OF THE it LOT
Strong, vigorous pigs when a week
old will care for themselves, barring
•iccidents.
Uniformity in the size of a bunch of
hogs has a great deal to do with the
price they will bring.
When the boar pigs are about five
months old they should be separated
from the rest of the herd.
if the spring pigs are doing well hold
them steady until fall and then push
them hard to the market.
More small hogs have probably been
marketed in the past two years than
ever before during the same time.
When the green corn comes along a
little later, do not stuff young pigs all
they will eat, or thumps will be the re-
sult.
A field of sweet corn sown broadcast
the 1st of June will make fine feed in
the fall, as the pigs are extremely fond
of it.
When a hog reaches 200 pounds in
weight it requires extra good care and
expert feeder to continue to lay on flesh
at a profit.
If the litters begin to run down in
number and size the fault is seldom to
be found with the boar, but it generally
lies with the sow.
A lousy pig is a sure sign of a poor
farmer. Once thoroughly infested the
only way to get rid of the vermin is to
dope the pig with some good disinfect-
ant.
if your barn and feed yards have a
proper system of drainage, there will
be little danger of rheumatism among
your pigs, if you have not worked out
such a system, do so now.
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In dipping pigs great care must be
exercised to cover every part of his
body from tail to snout. If a patch as
big as a thumb nail is left untouched it
may contain the nucleus of a new crop.
Many farmers use a boar of different
breed of that of their sows to produce a
cross. Sometimes this is good practice
for the first cross, but the sows from
such a cross should never be bred.
SUMMER TRtHTMENT OF TOUHE THEtS
The first summer after the young tree
has been transplanted from the nursery
to its permanent place in the orchard is
a critical period in its existence, and it
is hardly too much to say that on its
growing during this period depends in a
great measure the future value of the
tree. If its growth is checked at this
time its full development will probably
never be realized. Much of the first
season's success or failure will, of
course, depend upon the care with which
transplanting was done in the spring,
and yet attention in the summer is nec-
essary to bring the tree through in the
best condition.
The great danger the tree will en-
counter is the scalding effect of the mid-
summer sun and weakening of its vital-
ity by the drying of the earth about its
roots. The injury thus occasioned may
be very much lessened by keeping the
soil about the roots fine and covered
with good thick mulch, The mulching
should extend as lar from the trunk as
the roots run, and will be all the more
beneficial if it extends beyond the ends
of the roots, as a greater amount of the
soil will be kept moist.
The young tree also needs to be kept
free from insects, as these pests are
more capable of injuring the tender
trees, and the latter are less able to
withstand their attacks. Newly set
trees, as well as those of medium size,
frequently require light pruning during
the summer season to give them the
proper form. Of course, care must be
taken not to remove enough to check
the growth of the trees.
A little attention given at frequent
intervals during the summer will keep
the young trees growing, will prevent
much of their nutriment being expend-
ed in growing crooked or straggling
branches and tufted masses of shoots,"
will check the depredations of insects
and in other ways assist in the develop-
ment of perfect trees.
IISPOlI T0_KtU_BllNDEL10N5
Last year B. O. Longyear of Colorado
Agricultural college discovered an ef-
fective and practical method of clean-
ing a dandelion lawn, other than by
hand digging. He did it by the use of
iron sulphate applied as a spray. He
succeeded with three applications in en-
tirely killing all plants of this common
lawn without injuring the grass. A
portion of the lawn so badly infested
that hardly anything but dandelions was
visible last year is now without a single
plant and the grass has thickened a
great deal in consequence.
A solution is made of copperas, or
iron sulphate. This is dissolved in wa-
ter at the rate of 1 1-4 pounds of salt to
each gallon of water and should be ap-
plied to the lawn with a spray pump so
as to wet every plant. It will not do to
use a common sprinkler. The solution
must be put on in the form of a fine
spray applied with some force to be most
effective. A common bucket spray
pump, or even a hand atomizer for small
areas, is suitable providing it makes a
I fine forcible spray. Do not try to hit
j the dandelion only, but cover every
square inch of the lawn. In this way
all seeding plants will be killed.
Put on a second application in two or
three weeks and a third and possibly a
fourth late in the summer if any of the
dandelions start into growth. The
grass will be blackened for a short time,
but soon recovers, and after watering
a d mowing will appear darker green
thi n before. Do not allow the solution
to get on a stone or cement walk, as it
produces a rather permanent yellow
stain.
Secretary Walter Wellhouse of the
Kansas Horticultural society has ex-
perimented along the same lines and the
results he obtained coincida with those
of Prof. Longyear in Colorado.
Subscribe for the Frrmer and Laborer
HARPER BROS.,
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Phone 231. East Lee Ave.
SAPULPA, OKLAHOMA.
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Johannes, Fred C. The Oklahoma Farmer and Laborer (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, June 2, 1911, newspaper, June 2, 1911; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc102255/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.