Harlow's Weekly (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 39, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 16, 1932 Page: 12 of 16
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HARLOW’S WEEKLY
A Crosscut of Oklahoma
entire system, as an econ-
Live Stock
Flourishing
4-H Clubs
Wil! Have
Camp Building
Railroad
Shifts Office
Employes to El Reno
State Crojis
And
Are
was
making an average of IS to 20 bushels per
acre. This is a lower yield than last year,
but compares well with the ten-year aver-
age. On account of the low price, farmers
have made every effort to lower production
costs and many are holding the grain in
anticipation of some rise in prices. On ac-
count of unusual rains in June, the ground
is in the best of condition, and favorable
Although the Rock
Island railroad re-
cently moved its dis-
trict offices from El
them with the Des
years,
the meeting.
are carried out in
county unit in summer camps.
is educational as well as recreational. Leader-
ship, games, music, nature study, canning,
health and judging schools are a few of the
subjects touched.
Reno, consolidating
Moines, Iowa, division at Kansas City, an-
other shift will bring about 40 employees
to El Reno this month. This is consolida-
tion of offices from Tattle Rock and Shawnee,
together with timekeeping for all enginemen
and trainmen from the Fort Worth, office.
The change to Kansas City left at El Reno
the division offices of the Oklahoma-Southern
and Panhandle-Indian Territory divisions,
with the dispatcher’s office. The road is
working out a plan for transfers and con-
solidations on its
omy measure.
The 4-H and home dem-
onstration clubs of Okmul-
gee County are building a
club house, the first of its
kind in the state, and perhaps first in the
nation. A tract of five acres on the lake of
Beggs has been given by the Chamber of Com-
merce of Beggs, and the building will have
connection with municipal water and light
systems. The Chamber of Commerce also
provides a road leading to the highway and
$200 in cash. The 1,500 members of the vari-
ous clubs in Okmulgee County have been
asked to contribute one dollar each from their
club earnings; and the several club groups
are contributing doors, windows, fireplaces,
book cases and kitchen equipment. The build-
ing will be 110 feet long by 36 feet wide, and
built of native stone picked up on the lake
site. It will contain a large auditorium, with
a kitchen at one end, and a stage at the other,
with cloak rooms, toilets and showers. A
drop partition permits dividing the building
into quarters for girls and boys. The county
has been divided into three sections, and club
members frbm each division will assemble for
one day’s work at the building site. Thecabin
will be used for club camps and meetings
the year round. The regular summer camp
has been postponed until August when the
building will be ready for use. In other
some scout camp has been used for
All phases of the club programs
short courses by the
The work
Wheat in Alfalfa County,
on the northern line of the
state, has given a some-
what better yield than
estimated at the beginning of harvest,
for immediate plowing. Much of the stubble
already has been plowed. ^Various truck
crops are shipped from a number of locali-
ties. Potato harvest in the southern coun-
ties, where most of the commercial fields
are located, was ended a week or two ago.
A few districts in the northern counties
have been shipping lately. Several carloads
of potatoes have been shipped from Lamont
in Grant County. A small co-operative as-
sociation near Afton has five or six carloads
shipped. This is the first year of the asso-
ciation, and if it proves successful, will have
more members and increased acreage next
year. ^Shipments of sweet corn from the
Briartown district are nearly ended, with
a total of 45 carloads estimated as the local
crop. Marketing of cucumbers from this
district is just beginning. Iln Adair
County, about 100 acres of green beans have
been planted, and six carloads have been
shipped. .Counting smaller shipments, the
amount marketed is estimated at 5,(MH)
bushels. Most growers here will plant a
second crop about the first of August, which
can be counted on for good production be-
fore frost. 5Few districts in the state
now’ have commercial orchards but between
3,000 and 4,000 bushels were shipped last
week from an orchard near Wynnewood.
This is the first good peach crop here for
several years. IJOne grower near Nash
in Grant County has a large field of cucum-
bers, and estimating from his experience in
former years, predicts 500 bushels for his
crop. ^Another Grant County farmer
has 85 acres of sweet potatoes. Last year
he gathered 3,(MM) bushels from 30 acres,
and is expecting as good a crop from his
larger acreage this year. ’Federal esti-
mates of the state corn crop, released this
week, give Oklahoma the largest crop in ten
years. It is estimated at 73,062.000 bushels,
which is 20,000,000 bushels more than the ten-
year average. IJThe pastures of the Osage
country have 150,000 cattle grazing as com-
pared to 136,000 at this time last year. First
shipments are being made, and the full
shipping season will be on by next W’eek.
About 85.000 were shipped in this spring,
the remainder being those which had been
wintered there. rA good lot of lambs
were shipped to Oklahoma City last week by
ranchmen of the Ardmore vicinity. The
average weight was 69 pounds and the sale
price $5.60. This was slightly higher than
the markets had been, the price of all live-
stock now’ showing an encouraging increase.
Oklahoma The Oklahoma 4-H
Team Scores In dairy judging team
International Contest won second in the in-
ternational contest at
the British Royal Livestock Show’ at South-
ampton. England.
The English team was first with 1.301
points out of a possible 2,160. The Oklaho-
ma group scored 1,187 points.
Milford Brown of near Marlow is captain
of the Oklahoma team. His teammates were
Forrest Fansher, Edmond, and Orville Sieg-
enthaler, Stillwater.
This was the third Oklahoma dairy judg-
ing team seut to England to seek the Daily
Mail gold cup and international honors. Th^
1928 team placed first. The following year,
the Oklahoma team was second.
Utility Properties of the Winchester
Company Oil and Gas company, which dis-
Is Sold tributes natural gas in a group
of northern Oklahoma cities, was
sold July 1 to the Standard Gas Company
of America, which is a holding concern.
Properties of the Winchester company are
pil>e lines, and the local systems at Wood-
ward, Waynoka, Avard, Quinlan, Cherokee,
Mooreland and Alva, and Hardtner, Kansas.
United States The United States
Biological Survey Biological Survey is
Has Quail Experiment co-operating with the
state Fish and Game
department in a large experimental project
with quail and prairie chickens. The Berry-
man ranch, in Ellis County, comprising six-
teen sections already is a state game pre-
serve. This project, the most comprehensive*
of tin* entire chain being established through-
out the southern half of the United States,
has been placed under the direct supervision
of Verne E. Davidson, assistant manager of
the ranch. Development of this area has been
under way since last February, yet hundreds
of special trees, vines ami other plants pro-
ducing foods coveted by quail ami prairie
chicken already have been planted. These
sjeecial plantings include 5(H) mulberry trees,
and a number of Scotch pines furnished by
the state forestry department. From the
Southern Great Plains service station at
Woodward were obtained 200 grapevines,
100 tamarix. 25 flowering willows, 25 heart-
leaved ivy vines, beaver maize, milo maize,
cow peas, mung beans, tepary beans, and
fileree.
The purpose of this project is to determine
whether such plantings will increase the
number of quail and prairie chickens in tin*
region so developed.
Canning And
Other Plans Made
To Care for Needy
of the state. The
The canning cam-
paign and work of com-
munity kitchens goes
on actively in all parts
Central Relief Committee
at Chickasha has secured several pressure
cookers with the help of the Chamber of
Commerce, ami has placed these under super-
vision of a matron, who will direct canning
work. Gas and other utensils are furnished.
This service is only for needy persons who
have their ow*n produce but no means of
canning it. ^In Carter County, nearly
all of the twenty-eight farm women's clubs
have undertaken some charity work. Many
members an* agreeing to fill a certain num-
ber of cans for charity. A check of gardens
is being made looking to gathering quanti-
ties of produce to be put up at a central
cannery. A free cannery has been set up
at Wilson, and there is a community cannery
at Ardmore, which takes toll of its canning,
for charity use. 1JA new7 canning kitchen
has been opened at Altus, and a member of
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