Garfield County Democrat. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 20, 1907 Page: 1 of 8
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Garfield County Democrat
vol. ti
ENID, OKLAHOMA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1907.
NO. 22
farm Department
iL,WHEAT PLANT LOUSE
■1
( Numerous reports have come
(from different parts of the terri-
tory that a small green bug- is de-
stroying' the wheat. This insect
Is the wheat plant-louse and
while it may at time become very
destructive, still there does not
feem to be cause for great fear of
its ravages this spring-. Texas
Reports considerable damage done
Ay this insect, but that state is
■Lrther south and oae could ex-
fSect more damage during the
|inter and early spring. Days
f'arm enough for the lice to work
bad yet too cold for the wheat
grow means that the wheat
just suffer, but as soon as rapid
growth begins it will more '.han
leep pace with the insects and
liiamage will be insignificant un-
less tbe lice persist until heading
ftiine. If the insects happen to
be present at the latter time,
khey will congregate upon the
pleads and completely rob the
ypains of their nourishment,
i From now on there are many
Jlatural enemies of the lice that
•ill very effectually hold them in
Check even when they are in con-
siderable numbers. On March 2
the writer found hundreds of
Small parasitic flies working oyer
the infested areas. This means
the destruction of hundreds of
these pests, for the flies deposit
their eggs in the bodies of the
lice. The lady bugs in great
numbers are feeding upon the
$ also. The natural enemies,
therefore, together with the rapid
growth of the plant, will prevent
very great damage being done.—
Experiment Station.
relief is in sight for the egg ship-
pers.—Farmers Mail and Breeze.
CUSTER CO. ALFALF A-
We have been urging that bot-
tom lands be sown to alfalfa all
over Oklahoma. With proper
preparation of the soil and any
sort of decent treatment, alfalfa
on bottom land is bound to suc-
ceed.
We have been advising caution
about putting out large acreages
on upland soils. A much smaller
proportion of uplands is suitable
I lor alfalfa. And cowpeas, gen-
erally- speaking, will give profit-
able yields on any upland soil
suitable for cultivation. They
furnish hay equal in feeding val-
ue to alfalfa.
Where the subsoil is open and
the surface soil is fertile, alfalfa
gives profitable yields of hay and
seed on upland. There is a
larger proportionate area of such
upland in Western Oklahoma
than there is in Eastern Oklaho-
ma. Quite a lot of good alfalfa
is scattered over the uplands of
Custer county and the acreage is
being- increased. Just what will
happen to this alfalfa in the very
dry years yet remains to be de-
termined. But in Kansas, on
similar soil, alfalfa growing has
been very profitable for a num-
ber of years and there is reason
to expect permanent sucess with
goad treatment here.—Oklahoma
Farm Journal.
BEWARE OF CHEAP
COLLARS.
Mr. Editor—First of all, do
not use a cheap collar. Use
nothing but a wool or cork-faced
collar.
| When you get ready to start
spring work, just plow a half a
day at a time for two or three
days and do not rush the team
1 Let them take it slow for per-
haps the first week; do not heat
them up, and you will come out
ahead of the man that starts in
■ith a rush.
111 or the first few days when
§>u unharness at night, bathe
lie shoulders well with cold wa-
|r to take the fever out, keep the
■liars and pads well cleaned and
§u will have a good pair of
houlders all the vvav through
BP season.
^Collars should fit close to the
lock with plenty of room at the
ifroat, the hames should be
jickled tight and the horse al-
lied to carry his head in the
)%iiral position. Let the team
2St a full hour at noon.
Thomas R. Filson.
f«ss City. Kan.
&IANY EGGS MAY SPOIL.
jThe hens of Kansas and Okla-
oma produce 12 million eggs a
JOnth for the shippers to handle,
Rides the eggs consumed in the
p^nes of the state and territory.
JBis means that the shippers
i?d out more than 100 cars a
1011th. The busy season is al-
iW|dy at Land, and it is expected
March will be the busiest
innth of the year. Members of
le Kansas and Oklahoma Egg
hippers association say the car
lortage is now so distressing
K 'arge quantities of the
■p will spoil before they can
■marketed if some relief is not
wen. A meeting of the sliip-
association was held a few
- «go in Kansas City to take
■S to obtain better car service,
presentatives of several of the
■ iiroads>ere r present, but little
PLANTING TREES AGAIN
If one tree out of every ten
that have been planted in Okla-
homa were living now it would
be a wooded country. Neglect
to care for trees makes business
for the nurserymen but it's not
the best sort of business, i!
would be better business if others
were induced to buy because of
the great success in tree growing
which their neighbors have had.
Trees must be cultivated if
they are to succeed in Oklahoma.
Many ask if Bermuda in the
lawu will not kill the trees. It
will not hurt trees on the lawn of
a man who knows that trees need
cultivating and who will give
them the cultivation they need.
Don't plant more trees than
you can cultivate. A patch of
forest trees, black locusts for ex-
ample, should have as much care
for three years as you give your
corn crop. Given this, they will
in the end pay better - than the
corn crops grown through the
years while the trees are grow-
ing, If neglected, you'll be buy-
ing more trees^ind sticking them
wheat louse or green bug. Oth-
er farmers tell us the same tiling.
It seems to be an unfounded scare
but who inspired the sensational
story in the Oklahoman of recent
date? Some one said it was a
story invented by the millers.
We don't believe they are such
tools for they were bound to be
exposed.
Farmers whom we meet every-
day do not seem to be in the
least alarmed about the green-
bug scare, and but few if any of
the pests which are said to have
ravaged the wheat crop of Texas
and to be on their way to Okla-
homa, have been seen in the
county.
Poltical Notes
This paper has watched with
consideiable solicitude > the effort
being put forth by our farmers to
erect a breastwork against the
organized greed of the Republi-
can constructed trusts and we can
see that it is uphill work, hut
they are making manly progress
and iu tune will succeed. It is
the candid belief of the writer
that we should pay to the farm-
ers' institutions more than for
trust products. In order to de-
stroy the trusts and bring them
to their knees, we should buy
nothing from them.
Harvey Williams of Cropper,
one of the best and staunchest
Democrats in the county, is being
urged to become a candidate for
Commissioner from the eastern
district. Democrats can (carry
that district by showing up tne
meanness and incompetency of
the incumbeut. Why, Epley, in
order to perpetrate a fraud by
cheating Chas. L. Moore out of
an office to which he was fairly
elected, went to jail, and God
knows this county would be better
off by thousands of dollars if they
had kept him there.
Up in Nebraska at a republi-
can convention some one present-
ed a platform that was adopted
with a whoop. After the adop-
tion it was discovered that it was
the same platform that had bee"
adopted years before by the Ne-
braska Populists, only the finan-
cial blank being left out. When
you left out finances in the pop
party ycu left out the party.—
Waukomis Hornet.
The Republicans recog-nized
the colored brother splendidly by
making D. L. F. Banks a com-
mitteeman from his ward. He is
one of the ablest jurists in his
party and should have had the
into the ground; making poor nomination for city attorney,
business for the sellers of trees! Judge James is too good a
and loss for yourself every years man to he sacrificed. He has
Oklahoma Farm Journal. numerous friends among us
Democrats who sympathize with
him most sincerely, but his doom
was sealed when Ilubbell was
pitted against him.
Good old Uncle John Dollap is
a strong man in his ward. All
his neighbors like and respect
him. He has served more than
one term on the council and his
experience and rugged honesty
will be of great service to our
city.
The Guthrie Register insists
that our fellow citizen J. Y. Cal-
lahan, will be ^ candidate for
railroad commissioner. It is said
that members of the Farmers
Union are urging him to run.
The Democratic convention
held last Thursday night was
harmonious and dignified. It
put up an exceptionally strong
ticket of good, clean men. The
ticket will be found in its proper
N< VLi:OUGIi PONDS
While it isn't pond building
time now, our readers should not
forget that the best use to which
a draw can be put is to build a
dam across it and use it for stor-
ing water. The cost is small.
Willows will hold the bank in-
side and bermuda will hold it out-
side. There will be an abund-
ant water supply; a place to go
fishing and for the boys to learn
to swim. And the wash on the
lower land will be stopped. Ex-
cept on the level lands, a pond is
a necessary part of the farm
equipment. But it should be
fenced, a pipe should be put
through tbe bank while it is be-
ing built, and a stock tank below
should furnish clean wafer,—Ok-
lahoma Farm Journal.
FARM NOTES.
The Democrat has talked with
Leroy Davis and Mr. Plumley
south and southeast of the city
•:i „
and painstakiug- officerQ in tbe
administration of the law and
that he will ever zealously guard
the interest of the peop'p."
Resolved that these r -nhi ■
be spread of record on the min-
utes of this* Club a'id a co-iy fu
nish. d each D ri- r
(>ui field count v.
paper of
A R pnM ,-nii H'riday
to this local that not nure tban-
one Republican c-r.u;. man
vou'd hi? elected ii tht><-iiv.
place.
The Democrats of the second
ward have put up a rustler
against John Cook. Decker is a
Democrat above reproach and
and they find no trace of the j will carry the ward.
Hon. Ch atj.es H. Pittman
In another columns of this
paper will be found the announce-
ment ot Hon. Chas. II. Pittman
for tbe position of Corporation
Commissioner of the state of Ok-
lahoma. This is a very impor-
tant and responsible position,
since the Commissioners will be
charged with the duty of con-
trolling and regulating the rail-
roads, telephone and telegraph
companies and all other public
service corporations of the state.
We are glad to see Mr. Pittman
announced for this position.
While he has been a citizen of
Oklahoma for only about three
years, yet he has shown himself
one of our most progressive and
public spirited citizens and in the
Constitutional Convention proved
himself one of the ablest men ot
the state. He has made a great
number of friends all over tbe
state anc\ we believe be will be
nominated and elected by one of
the largest majorities of any man
on tbe state ticket. If elected he
will fully discharge his duty and
keep faith with the people. At
a meeting of the Cherokee (Dem-
ocratic) Club ot Enid Monday
night the following resolutions
were unanimously parsed:
"Whereas, our esteemed fellow
citizen, Hon. C. H. Pittman, has
announced his candidacy for the
position of Corporation Commis-
sioner for the State of Oklahoma,
and whereas we recognize in him
a competent, efficient and faithful
man; Therefore resolved that we,
the Cherokee Club of Enid, en-
dorse the candidacy of Hon. C. H.
Pittman for the office of Corpor-
ation Commissioner of Oklahoma
and cheerfully commend him to
the people of the state as worthy
of their confidence and unstinted
suppoit; believing as we do that
he will prove to be not only an
exceptionally strongs candidate,
but also a most faithful, efficient
Farmers, SeeHere!
Why WILL you
continue to pay
commissions on
farm loans when
you can borrow
from us without a
commissio n of
any kind, and at
a lower rate than
otherschargeyou?
We can save you
considerable mon-
ey if you will see
us.
THE WINNE M0RT6A6E CO.
Room 16 over Am-
erican State Bank
rENSMAN BROS.
dealers in
Harness, Pumps, Cutlery, Paints.
Windmills, and a Ken,-ra'l line ot Hardware, Majestic
and Quick Meal Ranges, N wton, Scuttler and Weber
Wagons, James Oliver, Emerson and Bradley Imple-
ments, Champion and McCormiek Machinery, and Oas-
Olme eng.nea Agents for J. I. Case Threshing Ma-
chine Co. and McH arlan Buggies and Carriages.
1 be oldest and most reliable house of its kind iu Enid.
Phone 85. S E Cor. Sq. Tin s,;op
£3 ^ ■
< o. J. Fleming, Pr . T.Alt Vitw-Pi
Prank H. Lktboh, Cubhiei I
Enid National Bank
Siiccrss. tr til the B.m!< o( Enid
CAPH AL !*ULLY PAID, $iootooo.oo
Courteous an.1 Litu-r.-.i trmm; ,.i. m All
A first-class Rankin;; institute with la rye capital
conducted along f-afe and conservative lines
WE DO NOT PAY iPJTEREST
ON DEPOSITS
OUK STo; KHOLOEKS rtKE AS FOLLOWS:
S. T, Alton
M. M. Callaway
W. E. CoRdal
John Curran
G. E. Gannon
Frank H. Letson
M. C^lcc'i r.k
W. H Ki -r
J. E. McChrtat
J. D -ti,,;,,,,
C. E.
J. C. Roberta
11. L. Kobln-on
A. E Stenhe'if >r.
Glenn a Wallers
E. B. We .therlv
O. J. Fleminc
Shady Mound M of Poland Chinas
NOAII FINK, Prop.
Inspection invited. Young slock for sale
both male and female, and bred and unbred
sows. Everything- guaranteed.
Ranch y2 mile east of Ituna, Oklahoma.
l'ostoffice Enid, (). Rural Route No. I.
"Made in
Doesn't That Phrase Look Good?
And Manufacturers of such goods pay ccuntv and city
taxes. patronize home institutions, use all sorts of
Garfield County products. They help to increase the
value of your property and of your labor. It's wise,
if only from a business stand point to btiv goods
"Made in Enid."
Enid flour, ,-E:tgle." "No. 1," "Perfection,'*
none better.
Enid Brooms, from whisk to warehouse.
Enid Yeast.
Enid Coffee, fresh roasted. Enid's new coffee-
roasting plant.
I sell Enid Goods.
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