Oklahoma Labor Unit (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 25, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 6, 1913 Page: 3 of 8
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THE OKLAHOMA LABOR UNIT
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Farmers' Educational
fijl an^ Co-Operative
Union of America
n
Mattcri <f Especial Moment to
the Progressive Agriculturist
Common quality seeks a low level.
Debt is a malignant form of pov-
erty.
Education should be with a view to
action.
Politics, without education, is a dan-
gerous thing.
Clear-sighted reason is one's most
valuable asset.
Debts make cowards of us all pro- je(.^ thoroughly discus
vided we aro honest.
Success comes to the man who be-
lieves in succeeding.
Clean bodies and clean clothes have
a moral effect upon children.
We should water and cultivate the
flowers, and destroy the weeds in our
disposition.
No talents, no circumstances, no op
portunities will make a successful
man unless reinforced by a reasonable
amount of energy.
The man who hitches his horse to a
fine shade tree ought to be condemned
to holding the hitching strap in his
teeth until he learns better.
CO-OPERATE IN HOG SELLING
Practical Plan for Farmers Given by
W. J. Shuford at Conference for
Education in South.
The following plan for co-operative
egg selling by farmers was laid be-
fore the conference for education in
the south by W. J. Shuford of Hick-
ory, N. C-:
Any number of farmers from six up
ran start an egg-selling association.
They should have enough hens to fur-
nish at least two cases of eggs per
week at the season of tho year when
egg production is the lightest.
The amount of capital necessary
to start might be as low as $50 or
$100, depending upon the number of
members. There should be an initia
tion fee of $5 to get the# necessary
capital. Organize by getting the
farmers and their wives together to
talk the matter ov« r. There should
be four or five meetings, and the sub-
d, before get-
SOME OKLAHOMA FRUIT
UNITE TO GET FAIR PRICES
ting down to business. The farmers
should secure some central location
in the neighborhood that would be
accessible to all who might wish to
join the association. The school house
during the school term could bo a
place for the gathering of the eggs. i
The children could bring in the eggs
when they come to school. Sales,
etc., could be lcoked after by the
teacher.
Constitution and by laws should be
very simple. There should be an •
agreement in writing specifying fresh. j
clean eggs, gathered daily, and de-
livered at least twice a week to the
association for a given period; and
rules should be made th^t if a patron
brought in bad eggs over three times
Attorney Generals of Southern States he would be dropped from the asso-
Give Opinions on Scope of ciation.
Farmers' Co-Operation. A stamp should be given each
member with a number on it as a
To what extent may producers unite means of identification, together with
to obtain fair prices and better dis an agreement to attend a meeting
tribution? Is it legal for cotton grow when called by the president.
ers In each state to hold conventions. Officers should consist of president,
vote that the price should be a cer- secretary, manager and treaburer,
tain figure, and then through their with a governing board of from four
own state organizations urge upon to six directors. Possibly it would be
local granges and unions within the best to combine the oit:ces of secre-
Btate the wisdom of co-operating to tary, treasurer and manager.
demand and obtain such prices? Some nearby market should be se
We submitted this all-important lected and a good grocer found who
question to Jhe attorney general of desires a good quality of eggs. Hotel
Advertising
Talks
GREAT POWER OF
LITTLE WANT ADS
Have Prevented Suicides. Reunit-
ed Families and Cone Other
Remarkable Things.
The world does not produce better fruit than can be raised in Oklahoma.
The Riverside Farm, in Jackson County, is cne of t(.e bent orchards :n 'he
state. The above picture was mads of fruit from six-year-old trees. Tlie
big auto and the bright, healthy look on the little girl's cheeks may both be
credited to the "Early Wheeler" peaches.
ACRES MATED BY VATYI.1G QUANTITIES 0? WATER
Number of Acres irrigated in 1. 10 aud 24 hourc, pumping various Quantities
and irrigating various depths:
each of the southern states, says the
Iowa Homestead. Their replies indi-
dicate that such action on the farm-
ers' part does not violate the anti-trust
law in any of the southern state. The
Mississippi attorney general writes a
lengthy opinion to the effect that the
anti-trust law was not aimed at that
sort of thing, but that it is an advant-
age to the state and to the public for
growers to receive a reasonable price
for their produce. Evidently there
is not much danger but that the ef-
forts of farmers to co-operate in
marketing their produce wholly with-
in their state may be legal and not
subject them to prosecution. How-
ever, it will be wise for them to take
counsel on this point.
Interstate combinations of pro-
ducers to effect better distribution and
secure better prices may run up
against the federal anti-trust statute.
That is why so harmless a corporation
as the New England milk producers'
company had to disband as a result
of being indicted for violating the fed-
eral law. It has been succeeded by a
voluntary association, which strives to
avoid any conflict with the statute.
The organization of the California
orange growers, which so efficiently
promotes the distribution of that crop
at fair prices, has thus far escaped in-
dictment. instead of discouraging
co-operation, both federal and state
laws should encourage it.
(Note.—The coir men unit for measuring water for irrigation Is the ncre-
foot vliich is defined os the amount of water required to cover one acre to
the depth of one foot. Water however, can verv v Idem b" metrured directly
and college trade should also be cul- , |n af.r*.fe#t l'ence, feme unit for the rate cf ficw mutt be u.ed. The cub'e
tivated. ! foot p>,r }eec!:,i [s particularly Biol, sincn one ruble foot per second will
Shipments should be made two or 1 ^Piiver very clote to 2 acre feet a day (24 hrs.) For pumping, the unit of gal-
three times a week in warm weather, | jous per minute is used, 45') gallons per minute being equal to one cubic foot
and twice a week at other times ol per second.)
the year.
A record should be kept of all
eggs received, if any profits accure
they should divided among the
patrons at the end of the year, in pro-
portion to the amount of business fur-
nished.
Cash should be paid for all eggs as
bought, price based on daily market
reports.
Start the association in a small way,
give it a name, and sell your eggs
under this name. All goods should
be carefully packed in cartons.
DAMS THE CREEK CHANNEL
Farmer Near Enid Divises An Inex-
pensive Irrigation Plant.
3. W. Alfred, a farmer of near Enid,
Irrigates ten acres of truck garden
j with water from a creek. He erected
, three dams of earth in the bed of the
I stream to insure a constant supply of
I water. As each of the reservoirs thus
i created is exhausted, the next one is
{ lapped till a rain fills all three again.
' \ small gasoline engine and centrifu-
KILLING BOLL WEEVIL EARLY | ?al pump is used to elevate the water
about sixteen feet into trenches.
HIGHEST PRICE FOR COTTON
Movement Inaugurated at Bonham
That Deserves Consideration of
All Shipping Points.
Warning Sent to Farmers in Cotton
Belt Cautioning Them Against
Spread of Harmful Insect.
The department of agriculture is
sending out warnings to the farmers
in the cotton belt, cautioning them
against the spread of the boll weevil.
It Is also advising them through field
agents how to destroy and prevent the
spread of the insect. j
"Destroy the cotton stalk early In j
October if possible," advises the de- |
partment. " Destroy your stalks even ,
if your less progressive neighbor does J
not. It will pay. Clear off and burn
all your rubbish on ditch banks and |
other hybernating places for the !
weevil. This should be done early in
the fall.
•'Do not plant cotton after cotton
but plant your cotton on land that has
grown a heavy crop of cow peas, velvet
beans, Lespedeza, or some other legu-
minous crop to supply the land with
Watermelons and sweet potatoes are
(he most paying crops, according to
Mr. Alfred's experience.
He can always count on a large
yield of sweet potatoes if they art1
sufficiently watered He gets from
ninety cents to $1.50 a bushel, accord
•nk to season. The city sewage em-
pties into the creek out of which Mr.
Alfred draws his water and it has
oelped to enrich his soil. He intends
:o irrigate on a larger scale next year,
3onstructing larger dams and instal-
ling larger engine and pump.
$3,000 TO IMPROVE HERD3
State Board of Agriculture Generoui
With Stillwater
The Oklahcma state hoard of agri-
culture has authorized the expendi-
ture of not over $3,000 for the pur
chase of stock with which to build up
the demonstration herds at the state
A. and M collt ge, at Stillwater. The
herds have deteriorated in that many
animals are on harvd which are not
useful for instructive purposes, but
which are of pure blood and in abso-
lutely first class condition.
It is expected to sell off the unde-
sirable stock, and put the money back
into desirable animals, the limit of
$8,000 having been placed as the value
of the new stock which will be bought.
The merchants of Bonham, Tex.,
have organized-a company to offer the
farmers top prices for their cotton
The company does not care to deal ir. nitrogen and vegetable matter. Break
cotton, but will take it where the | the land in the fall or early winter
regular buyers refuse to pay the high- that is to be planted to cotton next
est market price. year.
The business men of Texas are be ; "Where sufficient, teams and tools
finning to realize that they can be- are available to plow under and com-
•ome most useful on the marketing pietely bury the stalks this should by
tide of agriculture and the Bonham all means be done. Where It is iin-
novement deserves the consideration possible to plow the stalks under they
if all other shipping points. should be uprooted, raked into wind-
Business men can employ their ener- rows and allowed to dry tor a few
;ies to no better advantage than to days. They should then be burned.
ssist farmers in getting fairer market To prove the value of destroying
Wheat in Sheep Feeding
Wheat may be used to good ad-
vantage in sheep feeding, proving to
he mere valuable per pound than corn.
At the North Dakota Station, where
two kinds of wheat were compared
with corn, it took 5.4 and 5.5 pounds
of wheat per each pound of gain end
5.7 pounds of corn per pound of gain.
Wheat Good For Hogs Those getting wheat gained pounds
Wheat is a good feed for hogs, and per day and those getting corn gained
in some cases has proved to be slight-1 .25 pounds per day, or a quarter of
ly superior to corn. ; a pound.
f^ures rnor i the thirteenth census
prices for their products.
the cotton stalks, the department con-
ducted experiments in Amite county,
Mississippi, last year and the following
results are shown:
On 117 acres where no stalks were
destroyed but where all other Instruc-
tions of the government were followed,
the average yield was 019 pounds of
seed cotton per acre. On 28 acres
where the stalks were destroyed be-
as the product must be taken (ore October 10, and the same cultural
Marketing Cream.
On farms where a hand separator Is
used more money can often be ob-
tained by selling sweet cream to ho-
tels, confectioners and ice-cream mak-
ers than by selling sour cream to the
creamery. Of course, it is more
trouble to market sweet cream than
sour,
to market oftener, and care must be
exercised to keep the cream perfectly
sweet, but where the market is not
too far away all these difficulties can
be met nicely.
Ice cream manufacturers desire a
thin cream, testing about 18 per cent,
fat, and this, of course, leaves less
skimmilk on the farm than when a
high-test cream is marketed, but the
better price received for the sweet
cream is usually enough to pay for
methods applied, the average yield
per acre was 1,050 pounds of seed
cotton, or a gain of 441 pounds of seed
cotton per acre, worth at that time
$17.64. was secured by early fall de-
struction of stalks. If it pays a few
men $17.04 per acre to cut their cot-
ton stalks before October 10, what
would it mean to a county if every
stalk in It were cut before October
I 10?
On the other farms in th« same
county where none of the government
I ! instructions were followed, it took
Health of Young Pigs. | from eight to ten acres to make a
Young pigs should not be given bale of cotton.
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this and the extra trouble.
cowded quarters. In order to keep I
ttvoi in a healthy, growing condition,)
a proper diet should be fed. Healthy
Crop in Poultry Yard.
Plant the poultry yards to some
Individuals possess a certain amount | crop if posible. If this is not prac-
of power to resist disease, and this ticable, keep the yard sweet and
plays no small part in preventing it. | clean by plowing and disinfecting.
The above map, drawn by ♦.he U. S. Census Bureau, from figures gathered
for the thirteenth census, shows the average value of farm land per acre for
each county in the
Seed Wheat j Sudan Grass
Much of the seed wheat in Okla-1 Sudan grass is a recent imporra-
homa is of inferior quality this year. | tion of the Department of Agricul*
Its
oma is of inferior quality this year, uon 01 me utpaumcui u. « ,«..
is quality can be greatly improve-i "re and has been tested quite thor-
y careful screening if one doesn't <" " * parts of the rnited
. .., «, r r„ States. It gives promise of being a
have a fanning mill on the farm,
will not be difficult to have the screen-
ing done at the nearest elevator. If
one-fourth to one-half of the grain is
saved, the quality of Hie seed will
be greatly improved, and there is no
question th.it the iacrea * in yield
will f > r r. ere man ray for the z\-
p«a£e of screening.
successful hay crop. It is an annual
grass, belonging to the same family
of plants as the sorghums. The
stems are very small and the plant
in appearance resembles very closely
Johnson grass. It loes not. however,
have any underground root s'alks.
! .-nee there is no danger of it becom-
ing a pest.
The want ad Is the modern miracle
worker. It performs feats daily that
could be accomplished in no other way
w ith the same swiftness and sureness,
i says the Chicago Tribune. The want
I ad finds homes for abandoned chil
| dren. It has been the direct cause of
| the marriage of young couples by
providing a position for the man with
' an income sufficiently large to enable
him to support a wife. It has reunit-
ed families—restored the lost son to |
his mother, published the wife's mcs-
j sage of forgiveness to the runaway
; husband.
Want ads have been published ask-
ing for rain and it rained. Can any one
j question the cause of the downpour?
' Lost engagement rings, love letters,
j and Boston bull pups have been found
I through means of the want ad
The want ad has prevented suicides
Men, despondent, moneyless, friend-
less, alone in a hurrying city, have
turned to the want ad as their last
resort. With no friends to tell the
"down and outer" of possible positions,
lacking the car fare and perhaps, in-
deed, the energy and determination,
because of continuous rebuffs, to seek
j a place by a personal canvass—an al-
most hopeless task in a city the size
of Chicago—these men have found
their chance in the want ad columns.
In some cases suicide may have
seemed the only way out, in most
cases a distant possibility—but still a
possibility—but with the appearance
of the want ad. carrying Its message
of a chance to make good, hope re-
vived.
To some people the want ad section
of a newspaper contains more ro-
mance than any other section, because
the romance found there is real ro-
mance, boiled down and not embell-
ished by a finished writer. Reading
between the lines, one can gather lit-
tle stories of the various activities of
life. A classified Bection of today if
read a hundred years from now would
givo material to the thinking man for
drawing a fairly accurate picture of
the life of this age. The lines of work
men were engaged In, the amount of
pay they received, the cost of many
articles we use today—these and many
other facts could be deduced.
These little stories contained be-
tween the lines of the want ads are
stories of the young and old as well as
of those in the prime of life. Here
we see a little girl seeking a home:
CONDITIONS FORCE A 12 YEAR OLD
girl to seek a home. No relatives known
financially able to care for her. Can you
assist? X The Tribune.
In another place a childless couple
or perhaps one whose children have
grown up—are looking for a child to
! adopt
A home broken up is indicated by
! the following:
I WTLT., J. M YOUR BARY DAt'OHTER
j III; wife heartbroken: let us hear from
you. C M. The Tribune.
j The list—fortunately not large—of
j those who will be "responsible only
I for debts contracted by myself" Indi-
| cates broken partnerships either busi-
ness or matrimonial. Hut the follow-
ing perhaps has a happier explanation
—the children have grown up
j FOR SALE-SULKY CART FOR TWINS.
The Tribune.
This advertisement would indicate
that some young couple were setting
up housekeeping:
WANT ED-SECOND HAND SET OF I
>i!\ r for family of two. X, The Trlb-
Hut this one appears to contain the .
Story of a jilted or so ially disappoint-
t young man:
l Ml S.\ LE BRAND N E\V DRESS SUIT
"And this one, that illness no longer
afflicts some member of the family:
INVALID'S CHAIR FOR SALE. X. The
Tribune.
In the want ads one can find for
sr.le cradles, feathers for the nest, and
even tombstones. A second hand mar-
riage license has yet to be advertised.
The want ad section has its humorous
aide as well as its romantic. At differ-
ent times many queer ads have ap-
peared. If you are a reader of this
section you will remember examples.
A look through the classified columns
any day probably will reward you with
a problem to ponder over or a joke to
amuse you.
This, the modern market place,
where buyers meet sellers in print as
they used to meet on market day, con-
tains a strange assortment. We find
an offer made to exchange lessons in
dancing for "time watching a tele-
phone;" a man, apparently with a sad
experience wants to exchange an auto
for a horse; another one has 200 dozen
tin boxes of healing foot salve to ex-
change, which should last one for
considerable length of time; an icebox
is offered for a parrot cage; a "fine
old violin, typewriter, and five acres
for a foot lathe;" a dramatic teaching
'or tailoring (a sartorial Hamlet in
prospect?); aud if you will exchange
what you have for a new face, an M
D. face expert makes old faces young
one sitting for what have you?"
One finds for sale a 'dump" and a
j candy wheel," whatever they may be.
And anything from medicine for your
poodle to second hand steel rails
may bo purchased.
Positions are offered to a "bull-
dozer," a young man to learn the aero-
plane business, a "collar stutter,** a
"pillmaker—mass," a "piano chipper,"
and to "teachers of everything from a
to z—aviation to zoology."
Lost articles, from a pencil to a
"shipperke dog," are sought, and
man's inhumanity to woman is de-
plored in the following:
PARTNER WANTED—LADY WANTS
Kent It man partner to operate on board
of trade. 1 understand board operating,
but have to have a gentleman for mem-
bership.
One finds places for everything,
from caring for trees, making bonnets,
and ragtime playing to chemical as-
saying Is taught. A naive ad is the
following:
SITUATION WANTED ON STAGE BY
young man No experience ns actor, but
I am a genuine comical character.
Would that there were more of this
kind on the other sldo of the foot-
lights!
PLAIN COPY MAKES ADS PAY
Don't Shoot Over Heads of People
You Want to Reach—What an
Illinois Merchant Did.
By HINTON GILMORE.
Much Is said regarding the psy-
chology of advertising, but there are
plenty of fellows who never took a
lesson In their lives who get returns
for their advertising outlay.
In an Illinois town of 15.000 there
Is a dealer In men's furnishings who
believes In advertising through the
newspapers, but it took him a long
time to make It pay. For years his
copy didn't possess the selling
"punch." It was being written by a
specialist and had won commendation
from people supposed to know good
advertising copy when they saw It.
Hut It was costing money and wasn't
getting the business, so the dealer
let the specialist out and began writ-
ing his own copy.
lie made a close analysis of previous
advertisements and noticed such gems
as "plu perfect tailoring" and "acme
of sartorial achievement," and It
dawned upon him that the copy was
over the heads of the crowd.
When he sat down to write his first
ad he recalled a boyhood acquaint-
ance—"Puck" Ransome, the village
bus driver back in the old home ham-
let. Now "Buck" happens to be a
man of low powered intelligence, with
a mere smattering of educational ele-
ments, but the dealer seized upon him
as a sort of composite customer and
addressed that advertisement to
"Buck." It was written so that
"Buck" could understand; anything
that seemed beyond "Buck's" grasp
was left out. The result was that
the copy was plain as day.
The merchant kept up this simpli-
fied ad writing, sending typical "Buck"
copy to the printer every day. Busi-
ness began to pick up and it's still
picking up.
Twice a year "Buck" Ransome re-
ceives a suit of clothes for his unwit-
ting service as an advertisement mod-
el. The fact that he doesn't know
where the clothes are coming from
keeps "Buck" worried.
Miss September Morn Again Rebuffed.
"September Morn" as a work of art
will not be barred from the Milwaukee
postoffice.
"September Morn" as an advertise-
ment. intended to attract attention be-
cause of her suggestlveness, Is "per-
sona non grata."
"September Morn," If she appears
as a real lady, Intending to appease
by the beauty of the artist's Imagine
tion, is all O. K. But her ladyship
must travel under cover or not at all
if she Is intending to slip something
over on your Uncle Samuel
Thnt is the mandate of Postmaster
David C. Owen. And he Is "the pow-
ers that be" In the Milwaukee office.
In
To Insure Success.
Advertisers should not Indulge
random, unsubstantial claims. Kvery
ad should put forth a real reason for
the purchase. Price an article so as
to bring a fair margin of profit, then
slick to the price rather than stick the
customer Advertising is a part of
the sales force and by truthful adver-
tising and carrying out a policy of do-
ing exactly what you promise to do.
having one price, marking all goods
with plain figure prices, one brand
of treatment for all customers and
selling a line of reliable goods that
best meets the requirements as to
style and price of a majority of custo-
mers- -you then cannot help but be
successful.
Buyers Being Educated.
The off repeated saying of Barnum
that it was easy to fool some people
continually, and all people occasion-
ally was probably true in his day but
it Is a known fact that It Is only part-
ly true now. The buying public are
being educated to the extent that It Is
a case of ' show me." I am from Mis-
souri just a short time until it will
be the only honest dealer, the truthful
advertiser who can deliver thu goods.
Born That Way.
The leading l.ady—1 want you to
follow my directions. I'll try to make
myself plain.
The Soubrette—You needn't try;
Nature has made you plain enough.
His Kind.
Mrs. Undersize—I wish I could have
known you In my salad days.
Miss Pert—I don't. 1 never cared
for Bbrlnip salad—Judge.
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