The Oklahoma Farmer and Laborer (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, July 28, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK
Gorkdenced Statement as made on call oi'the Comptroller at the close of busi-
ness June 7, 1911.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts
United States Bonds -
Furniture and Fixtures
Bonds <fc Warrants
('ash & Sight Exchange
CASH
Total
- $109,178.57
25,250.00
0,000.00
$ 45,2J0.05
114,910.8(5
11)0,120.91 ] 90,12(5.91 j
$890,555.18
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock
Stii |>!ns and Pi r>tits
('irculation
DEPOSITS -
Total -
S 50,000.(10
14.91 >2.15
25,000.00
:5< )0.05:>.: :>
$890,555.48
Your most careful examination of the above statement is invited. It amply supports the worthy ambition
of this hank that its affairs are conducted along safe and sound hanking lines, yet giving to the community the
best of banking service. Well equipped in ever\ way to give our customers the b> st of banking service, coupled
with absolute security. WE INVITE YOU TO FAVOR US WITH YOUR BANKING RELATION.
AMERICAN NATIONAL
STRONG SAPULPA, OKLAHOMA.
BANK
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State Farmer's Institute
The annual meeting of the State
Farmer's Institute will be held under
the supervision of the State Board of
Agriculture at Stillwater August 8.
This meeting is for the purpose of se-
lecting members of the Board of Agri-
culture who hold their offices for five
years.
No argument can be made against
these meetings. They help to dessemi-
nate the ideas of better farm conditions
and better farming, but this benefit is
easily abused under the present law
authorizing the organization of county
institutes, and giving the State Super-
intendent of institutes supervision over
them. This system was probably in-
tended to work all right and probably
would if divorced from clicks or combi-
nations. A loop-hole in the law leaves
it possible for the State Superintendent
of Institutes to call at least one meet-
ing in each county each year. At this
meeting the representative from the
county to the state meeting is chosen,
It is readdy seen how the State Super-
intendent to connivance with the mem-
qers of the Board of Agriculture can
select a place and time regardless of
the wishes of the County Institute and
gather a few friends in to hold a meet-
ing and select this county delegate.
The delegates are paid for making this
.trip to Stillwater and really enjoy an
outing at the hauds of the Board of
Agriculture.
In the coming meeting two members
of the board are to be elected. The
term of J. C. Elliot of Pauls Valley and
C. p. Brewer of Helena, expiring.
These gentlemen are both active can-
didates for re-election. A hard fight is
being waged against them on the
grounds that they have been disposed
to use the state board of agriculture for
partisan purposes in violation of the
spirit of the law creating the board,
which wan intended to keep it out of
politics entirely. It is also alleged that
they have been making the job pay
more than they are expected to earn.
The law provides that they shall receive
$(i per day for the time actually served.
It is said they are, claiming time for
practically every day in the year.
But this as it may there is need of an
overhauling in this branch of the state
administration and a pretty good way
to begin is to leave these gentlemen at
home and give some one else a chance.
The combination might in this way be
broken.
A loud cry would go up from all over
the state if the people generally under-
stood the manner in which the farmers
are being farmed through the present
system of county institutes, as manag-
ed by the Superintendent in charge.
Ditto Oklahoma
It is too much to hope that the crops
this year in the western part of the
great Mississippi Valley will be up to
the average but certainly things ai-e
looking better.
There is now every reason to hope
that Kansas and Nebraska will get a
fair corn crop. The wheat crop was a
good average crop. The hay crop will
be short, but better than could have
been anticipated two weeks ago.
Things are hardly ever quite as bad as
they might be and generally during dis-
couraging seasons are not as bad as
they seem.
A considerable part of our troubles
are imaginary. We'add to the real dif-
ficulties by anticipating evils that may
come and may not. The health of many
people is seriously affected by brooding
op the troubles that haven't come yet,
but which they think are going to coine.
It is never well to count chickens be-
fore they are hatched and estimate pro-
fits that may never materalize, but that
i is a good deal better than to be con-
tinually figuring on disaster. The per-
son who spends all his time building air
castles usually doesn't make a success,
but the castle builder is far preferable
to the chronic grumbler who sees noth-
ing ahead but storms and disaster.
This is not a very good year in Kan-
sas as compared with seasons that have
passed or seasons that are ypt to come,
but if might be a lot worse. With more
than 170 million dollars on deposit in our
banks, or more than $100 per capita,
we are not iu desperate condition- Mail
& Breeze.
Danger Now in Cane Pasture
Reports of cattle being poisoned on
green sorghum pasture are coming in
early this season, and there is a reason
for it. The poison that causes the mis-
chief is prussic acid and this develops
best in dry, bright sunshiny weather,
such as has prevailed for several weeks.
During wet, good growing weather,
there is little danger in pasturing stock
on sorghum. It is often stated that
only the second growth of cane is poi-
sonous and that the dangers are greater
after frost. One authority holds that
the second growth is not more danger-
ous than the first growth, although, as
the fall season in the West is often
bright and dry, conditions are then more
favorable for the forming of the poison.
Frost is believed to be without influence
except as a fore-runner of a period of
bright, dry weather. Growth arrested
by dry weather before the plant begins
to mature presents a favorable condi-
tion for the piison to form. It was al-
so found that an animal fed heavily on
a carbonaceus food, such as corn, will
require a much larger quantity of the
sorghum to show a poisonous effect than
if the sorghum was eaten on an empty
stomach.—Osage Journal.
Not enough attention has been given
to the character of seed corn.
How Indians Get Rain
Farmers along the Canadian River
near Wetumka have been much inter-
est d in the novel efforts of the full
blood Indians to obtain rain. The full
bloods, becoming alarmed at the drouth
and fearing the loss of their crops and
consequent famine resorted to native
traditions. The white farmers along
the Canadian noticed hundreds of tur-
tles that had been tied on the river bark
within an inch or two of the stream but
| not close enough to touch the water un-
J less there should be a rise in the river.
| The full bloods who had caught the tur-
I ties and staked them out explaining
that the turtles in their agony would
pray the Great Spirit and that their
prayers would be answered with rain.
— Wewoka Democrat.
Peas put back the fertility that the
corn takes out.
Stall manure applied to the ground
fresh is much better than manure that
has been weathered by standing in the
barnyard.
During the hot weather the work
horse gets thirsty the same as a man.
Whenever you go to the fence-row to
get a coo( drink from the jug remember
that the horse would like some too- A
horse will endure better and last longer
if frequently watered while at work.
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Johannes, Fred C. The Oklahoma Farmer and Laborer (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, July 28, 1911, newspaper, July 28, 1911; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc102263/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.