Home, Field and Forum (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 2, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 1, 1898 Page: 1 of 16
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VOLUME 6.
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA, FEBRUARY, 1898.
NUMBER 2.
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A ROUND-UP CATTLE CAMP AT DINNER. ( From a Photograph Taken on the Waahlta River, Oklahoma.)
OORI AT THE PARIS WORLD'S FAIR.
The nations of the earth are to come
together In a great exposition of their
progress, as evidenced by their products,
at Parts, In 1900. It should not be over-
looked that the United States Is essen-
tially and pre-eminently an agricultural
nation, and any exposition of our prod-
ucts should be agricultural to a very
large extent. It may do some good to
display our accoutrements of war. It
will undoubtedly be wise to show our
skill aa manufacturers, especially of such
goods as we produce In excess of the re-
quirements of our own markets. It would
be short-sighted indeed to omit to dlB
play the food and fiber products which
we desire to market abroad. It must
not be forgotten that two-thirds of our
foreign sales are of agricultural prod-
uct!. We shall do well to exhibit what
we have to sell.
Juat now the world Is wondering
where It Is to get its bread. The growth
of population is continuous and rapid.
The world's wheat areas have ceased
to Increase. The reserves produced by
the rapidity with which the wheat areas
of the great West were brought into use
hare been consumed, eo that it Is now
poesible for speculation to send prices
of wheat up instead of down. American
corn M a bread-making material Is ex-
cellent By 1900 not unlikely the moat
Intenaely interesting exhibit that nay
coMtry make In the old worM will
be an exhibit of bread and a bread-
making material that can be produced In
great qpBBtltlea. The exhibit of IMO
ah on Id Mke corn a leading feature.
it Is expected that the preeeat Oon
IMPORTANT TO ADVERTISERS.
PROSPERITY OKLAHOMA
Editor Home, Flejd and Forum:—Dear 8lr: In answer to your Inquiry of
recent date, as to the general Improvement in the implement trade, I beg leave
to say that the trade la more than double what It ever has been slnre the open-
ing of thle Territory, and it continues to grow. Farmers are paying cash ai*i
collections are good. I think you will And this the case all over the Terri-
tory. Dealers with whom I have talked all report an enormous trade. The out-
look for Oklahoma l« moat glorious. Yours respectfully,
BEN F. BERKEY.
(Mr Berkey Is one of the leading Implement dealers In Oklahoma, and Mayor
of her capital city.)
These farmers have a $50,000,000 purchasing power, and
the HOME, FIELD AND PORUM, Oklahoma's Agricultural
Paper, Is the one great medium through which the most pros-
perous of these farmers can be reached.
gress will make an appropriation of
$520,000 for the exhibit of the United
8tates at Paris. The recently organ-
lied Malte Propaganda urges that In
making this appropriation the bill pro-
vide that the Secretary of Agriculture
be "authorised to prepare exhibits of
agricultural producta, including corn and
its various products, to be exhibited
under the supervision of the Commis-
sioner General, at a total axpeaae not
to exceed 175,000."
This la not too great
the aggregate appropriation to Ml
for this great agricultural prodnet,
yet the preaaurs brought to bear oft
gress from other interests is such that
agriculture, whjnh is more Important
than all others combined, may be al-
lowed even lens. It will be well for
termers who desire to have the farm
properly represented at Paris to write
to their Senators and Representatives
in Congreas urging the setting aside of
at leaat 176,000 of the proposed appro-
priation as above Indicated.
It woold be of great value to the pub
Uc generally If it could be known Juat
how large' a part transportation com-
panies play in editing Klondike lltera-
Artichokes.
Editor Home, Field and Forum:—The
artichoke la becoming a very popular
artlole of food for hogs, botJh on account
of its productiveness and Its health-
preserving qualities. It Is the greateat
tuber to yield extant, yielding as mnch
as 1,500 bushels per acre, 500 buaheki
being an ordinary crop. I have grown
from 500 to 700 bushel* myself; and aa
for west as Great Hend, Kan., aa dry aa
It was last summer, they yielded over
400 bushels.
Its great yielding qualities makes It
a very cheap feed, and the manner of
cultivation Is very simple. They can
be planted fall or spring (freealng doea
not Injure them) and are cultivated like
potatoes, and after frost they are ready
to turn the hogs on them to do the har-
vesting.
Hog-growers in Illinois and Iowa,
where the merits of the artichoke we
known, claim that H Is a positive pre-
ventive of cholera. It is a laxative food
and comes In during the aosaon when
the grasses are gone. For sows they are
a moat excellent feed, on account of their
mllk-creating qualities
In Oklahoma and Arkanaas hoga can
work In them nearly all winter. If any
one -knows of anything that Will be bet-
ter and cheaper for hogs I should be
glad to hear what it la through the
columns of tble paper We all want to
learn. A. O. L.
A returned Kloudlker says that one
year's provisions and 91.000 In caak
should be the equipment at everyone
who emigrates to that frosea
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Soule, J. S. Home, Field and Forum (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 2, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 1, 1898, newspaper, February 1, 1898; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc102581/m1/1/: accessed March 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.