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ObmJK co&Vn^
after reading
The Marshal
ethis:
IN THESE commercial kuAfing
timet, when we're all buiy dial-
ing dimes, it's rcftful dow and
then to read a tale of other
days, of parlou* deeds and rattling
frays, of ftalwart fighting men. J*
"The Marshal" is a tale that leacU
n from a land of ftocks and deeds
and Wall flreet news by wire, to
one of gleaming sword and lance,
of donjon keeps and all romance,
of dangers item and dire. «J* The
neat Napoleon enters here, and
does some business a* a seer in
gracious frame of piind; and other
great men wander through the stir-
ring book and help you forget the
beattly grind. J* The hero is a man
you'll like; no finer e'er came down
die pike or faced misfortunes grim;
•o brave, so generous, to true, that
when you've read about him you
wifl want to be Ike him. So many
plr—nt people walk along the
Accy's track and talk m such a
charming way, that they wS seem
eld friends, and when they leave
you hope theyl come again upon
afuhaeday. J* Anobletiof mm
and demm with bone* hearts and
with sympathy, and you'll be glad
that you are human loo.
Oar nut Mnof
Don't mi— reading ft
Yma'B enjoy hutaOmui
Piano Tuning.
1 am prepared to an-
swer calls promptly.
A. DePARADE.
Not a Candidate.
George Priestly, the National
I Ommitteman from Oklahoma of
the ProKr28sive party, says in
an interyiew in the Tulsa World
that he is not a candidate for the
! nomination for governor at this
time, but sajs that conditions
I may arise that will induce him
j to get into the race He is re
ported to have said:
i '.'I believe" said Mr. Preistly
MAKING USE OF WATER I jp5*
Requirements Reduced by Thor-
ough Cultivation of Soil.
Deep and Frequent Plowing So That
Weathering of Winter May be Felt
to Great Depths and Strongly
la of Importance.
(Br W. C. PALMER. North Dakota Agri-
cultural College.)
One of the limiting factors iu crop
"'that men can be put up for the j pro<iuction in tbe dry farming region
state offices in commonwt alth, i 1b water. How to make it go as far
. t , , as possible is fully aB Important as
that regardless of par t} afhlia- geUing u lntQ the 8oi, aad keeplag it
tions, whether republicans or ; there. Dr. Widtsoe of Utah prepared
progresives, whom every man in I a paper for the Dry Farming Congress
the state can and will support,
who will redeem Oklahoma from
the misrule that has so sorely
afflicted us in the past seven
entitled, "How to Reduce. the Water ;
Requirements of Plants." It was in I
one sense epoch making. He opened
with the statement that it required j
from 300 to 3000 pounds of water to
produce one pound of dry matter. He
years. j quoted the experiment of Pagnous of
"Just a short time ago I was France who found that on poor soil it
. , „ ,.Q required 1109 pounds of water to pro-
taiking to a very prominent le- duce Qne pound of dry maUer, while
publican who was a floor leader | on fertile soil It required but 574. Ex-
periments in Utah brought out similar
results—for Instance corn grown on a
naturally fertile piece of land re-
quired 908 pounds of water to produce
Co-Operative Farm
Products Marketing
How It Is Done in Europe and May Be Done
in America to the Profit of Both
Farmer and Consumer
By MATHEW S. DUDGEON
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(Copyright, 1914. Western Newspaper Union.)
EGGS AND CO-OPERATION.
in the last convention. We dis
cussed the question of amalga-
mation and he declared that he
did not believe it was possible j one pound of dry matter. When ma-
, . nured it required but 612, adding some
for the two parties to come to-1 BOdlum nltrate ln addltlon t0 the ma-
gether under the name of repub-; nore reduced it to 685. in another
Massingale & Duff.
Attorneys-at-Lav
Will afiotioe in all Gonrts.
Cordell o-—o Oklahom.
lican, but did believe that such a
thing as the Progressive-Repub-
lican party was possible in the
future.
"Already the progressive
movement is accorrplishing
things. Many legistatnres both
democratic and republican have
passed progressive measures
and in that way the spirit of our
party is having a good effect on
the entire nation We don't care
who does the things just so they
are done.''
Regardless of partisan politics
Mr. Priestly believes that every
who believes in Oklahoma and
good, effecient and honest gov-
ernment should get together be-
hind some one man in Oklahoma
and tight the common enemy—
corruption in state govern-
ment—the democratic party.
experiment corn grown on sandy loam
not cultivated required 603 pounds of
water. When cultivated It was re-
duced to 262. On clay loam not cul-
tivated 635 pounds were required.
Cultivating reduced it to 428. On clay
■oil not cultivated 753 pounds was the
requirement—when cultivated this
was reduced to 582.
The significance of these figures is
not easy to estimate. In most sections
even in humid and irrigated ones but
especially ln the dry farming regions
water is the limiting factor in crop
production. By having the soil well
provided with available plant food the
plant can make more growth with
given amount of water—just as one
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Well Clothed Children of Co-operator®.
' Foynes, County Limerick, Ireland.—
As a housewife what would you think
of a plan of handling eggs which
would make e^gs boiled with the shell
on always available for the table?
How would you like to feel sure that
any egg in your basket could be
dropped into a kettle of hot water
with some certainty that it would
come out a palatable egg and not a
nondescript animal product represent-
ing the period of transition from egg
to chicken?
When you buy your eggs at the
grocer how would you like it if you
could be aB sure that they were fresh
would have to eat more soup if It were | an(j palatable as you would be if your
thin than if thick to supply a given j own hens had laid them yesterday
amount of food. Manuring by putting : and you yourself had taken them from
more plant food in the soil increases: tj,e nest and placed them in the
production without increasing the | kitchen?
moisture requirements. Cultivating j Now if the tales that they are tell-
by keeping the moisture from evapo-1 |ng here in Ireland and Denmark and
rating makes Ideal conditions for | elsewhere abroad are true, a proper
to pay about the market price for
i eggs when they were dellIveredI anj
! j later this price was supplemented by
; ! a division of profits. 
. j In this way it was possible to start
' ; the organization without any capital
! stock. It was agreed, however, that a
small portion of the profits be set
aside to make up a reserve fund, and
thus a small capital has been grad-
ually accupiuiated.
More Egg* Laid.
It soon came about that not only all
the farmers in the community were
furnishing all their eggs to the asso-
ciation, but they were saving their
pullets and accumulating a larger
number of hens to produce the egga,
for which they were receiving so good
a price. The city folk are helped, for
more good eggs reach them and reach
them in better condition.
It was deemed wise to enlarge the
territory covered by the association
and three or four substations for col-
lecting eggs were established- At
each of these substations, the eggs
brought in are carefully tested, and
after havirtg been packed are forward-
ed to Foynes to become a part of a
larger shipment to an English market.
The eggs sent in by each collecting
substation are kept separate and test-
ed separately so that if any local sub-
station takes any bad eggs and for-
ward them to the association at
Foynes, it is charged back with all
bad eggs found in the shipment. In
this particular association it is not
deemed best to brand the egfcs them-
selves, but even' case is marked, so
that the bad eggs can always be
traced back to their origin. There is
also back of every egg the guaranty
The eggs must not only be fresh. j of the association. Not only this byt
In sonjg a mere glance at the eggs themselves
want their c,a8S The egg8 in on<1
case are all of the aame size, of the
same color, and all have the fresh
surface which cannot be preserved if
but they must look fresh.
cities, moreover, the people
brown eggs; others will buy nothing
but pure white eggs. In some mar-
kets the small eggs will sell almost as , . . nrw„0(1
well as large eggs. In others non, eggs are long stored or much handled,
but the large ones need apply. In • The Irish Wholesale Society,
some markets, too, In fact in most j The Irish Wholesale society is a
markets, the eggs must not only bj | central association formed chiefly for
fresh and look fresh, but they must | the purpose of assisting the local or-
have a certificate of character at- | ganization in marketing farm produce
tached. This may take the form of a It is a federation of local co-operative
guaranty, or it may be simply the ; societies. It has headquarters at Dub-
brand, date or number of the associn- lin and is managed by shrewd, capable
ROBERT L. KNIE,
Attorney at Law,
Over Oklahoma National Bank.
Cordell, - - OHa
EDWARDS & BEETS.
Attorneys at Law.
PRACTICE IE ALL COURTS
J.T. • n New State Building.
Cordell Okla
BRETT B1LLUPS & RICE
LAWYERS
Practice in all courts in both
civil and criminal matters. Pre-
• pared to either defendfor prose-
cute in criminal matters.
Special attention given to civil
and probate practice.
Cordell • Oklahoma
His Stomach Troubles Over,
Mr. Dyspeptic, would you not
like to feel that your stomach
troubles were over, that you
could eat any kind of
germs to work on the inert plant
food, making it available and so a
larger plant growth. Part of the value
of the summer-fallow comes from the
plant food made available and not
alone from saving up moisture.
He Bums up as follows: "At the
present time the only meanB pos-
sessed by the farmer for controlling | in addition to giving you "strictly
transpiration and making possible! fresh" eggs, co-operation will give
maximum crops with the minimum I them to you at a cost no greater
- , , amount of water in a properly tilled j than the present cost of ordinary
looa you | goll to keep the soll ag fertlle ^ eggs
organization of the egg producing in-
dustry would give to eggs a definite
uniform quality. Here uncertainty as
to quality has been eliminated, and
co-operation has brought standariza-
tion, inspection, and branding, which
render every co-operative egg a strict-
ly fresh egg. The claim is, too, that
desired without injury? That | possible. In the light of this principle I From the Farmers' Standpoint,
mav seem 80 unlikely to you that I the practice usually recommended for j If you iook at it from the stand-
i t QI1 j i the storing of water and for the pre-; p0int 0f the farmer who has the fresh
you do not even nope ior an ena-j vention of the dlrect evaporation of J eggs in his ne8t> he ought to be
ing of your trouble, but permit, water from the soil are emphasized, j anxious to know how he can hurry
us to assure vou that it is not al- I I>eeP and frequent plowing, preferably, these eggs to market before they get
' in the fall, so that the weathering of! gpolled and are worthless. He is also
the winter may be felt to great depths j interested in getting a market that
and strongly, Is of the first importance supplies a steady all-the-year-around
in liberating plant food. Cultivation: demand for eggs for, unfortunately,
which has been recommended for the i hens have a habit of laying the most
prevention of the direct evaporation j eggS when the price is lowest. A
of water i3 of Itself an effective factor, farmer must have a market when this
ln setting free plant food and thus . time comes.
in reducing the amount of water re-1 And bo a little party of us Ameri-
qulred by plants. ; cans have come over here to see if
The experiments at the Utah station co-operation is anything that can be
referred to bring out most) strikingly , used in America to help the American
the value of cultivation ln reducing | farmer and the American consumer.
together impossible, If others
can be cured permanently, and
thousauds have been, why not
you? John R. Baker of Battle
Creek, Mich., is one of them.
He says "I was troubled with
heartburn, indigestion, and liver
complaint until I used Chamber-
lain's Tablets, then my troubles
were over."
gists.
G. E. WAGNER,
Att^rney-at-Law
Practices in all the courts. Prompt hi
tention gi"?n to all business Office ji
southwest :orner of square
L. H. LANIER
DENIST
Office in Bungardt Building
ALL WOORK GUARANTEED
J. MANSELL,
DENTIST.
Rooms 11 fit 12 Alters" Kerlev buildin
Sold by all drug- j tra.n8piration.
In the same connection it is Interest
ing to bring up the results of experi-
ments conducted by Prof. Snyder of
Minnesota. He found, for Instance,
that timothy grown on poor land had
a protein content of 6^ per cent-
while that grown on good land con-
tained per cent. In other words,
on the rich soil the plant put 36 per
cent, more food value into the crop.
In another experiment he found that
corn fodder grown on poor land con-
tained 6% per cent, protein. On the
same land manured, 9^ per cent. On
clover sod manured 10% per cent.,
or in other words two tons of corn
fodder from a rich soil contained more
food value than three tonB from a poor
soil. The plant 1b a good deal like a
carpenter, when lumber Is cheap he
wastes more As it gets expensive or
hard to get he uses It more econom-
ically. The same way with the plant
We are also going to Denmark. Bel-
gium and Germany to see if co-opera-
tion in those countries is doing what
Is claimed for it; to see if co-opera-
tion can be adopted and adapted to
American needs.
Co-Operation Market for Eggs.
The Irish co-operation egg market-
ing association is primarily for the
purpoBe of securing a good profitable
market for eggs. The market must
be reached promptly, the eggs must
not pass through too many hands.
They must not be shipped into a dis-
tant city, then half way back across
the country as is done with some
farm products in America.
By the time eggs that 6tart as
strictly fresh, have gone on a journey
like this and arrive at their final des-
tination they are no longer "strictly
fresh"—they are simply "eggs."
The co-operative egg marketing as-
sociation here in Ireland soon found
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it finds the food hard to get It! 0U{ that to successfully market their
makes it go further and consequently ,
produces a plant with less food value.,
Seed for Dry Farms.
ln no branch of the seed business !
1b there greater opportunity than in |
producing 6eed for use on dry farms.
The very life of the dry-farming indue-,
try is dependent on the quality used. |
For the man who is willing to learn j
and practice the principles of dry!
farming and who will devote himself
to building up a business of furnish- j
ing good seed, there Is eminent suc-
cess awaiting. He can fill his pockets
with worldly wealth and can also be
of great benefit to his fellow farmers
In reclaiming the arid parte of the
earth
members' eggs they must find a mar-
ket not too distant, they must ship
by the most speedy and direct route,
and they must so care for the eggs
during the shipment as to prevent the
deterioration that comes within even
a few days under unfavorable condi-
tions. In short, there is a double reason
for direct marketing of eggs; the first
reason is that any round-about, indi-
rect marketing costs the consumer
money and is an element in fixing the
high cost of living; the second reason
is that this long drawn-out process
of marketing renders this particular
product unmarketable when the mar-
ket is finally reached. Thus co-opera-
tive egg associations are doubly de-
sirable.
  | Quality In Eggs.
Clipping Fowls' Wings. After the direct marketing route
Some poultrvmen do not believe tn was established co-operative egg as-
cutting a fowl's wings by clipping off soclations still found that eggs which
the quills, as It makes them look un-1 were not strictly fresh when deliv-
sightly. Instead they spread out the
wing and cut the feather portion from
the qutll. This leaves bare quills, and ,
when the wing Is closed, it rarely j
show s that the wins has been tan - !
pered with Only the one wing Is thas
cut
tion itself. But the purchaser soon
learns not to buy eggs that are not
responsibily vouched for. This co-
operative association also takes note
of size in buying eggs and in selling
They find that gradually the public
is appreciating that a dozen of big
fresh eggs are worth more than a
dozen small eggs—that a pound and a
half of eggs is worth more than a
pound and a quarter. By offering
more money for big eggs, they are in-
ducing the producers to breed for
size of eggs as well as for number.
How the Irish Market Eggs.
We find here in Foynes a good il-
lustration of an egg marketing asso-
ciation. It is representative of many
others like it. The association hero
has built up a simple business system
that has accomplished three desired
things. First, the farmer delivers a
good quantity of good eggs; second,
he gets good prices; third, the city
man gets good eggs at a reasonable
price. Their system is not a complex
one, it has no red tape about it, but
is simple, direct, common sense—a
system that would work in any vil-
lage in America, provided only that
there were hens to lay the eggs.
Up to within the last decade rural
Ireland failed sadly of prosperity. In
many sections the farms were too
small for extensive grain raising and |
even for dairying, except upon a very ,
small scale. Even the smallest farms, j
however, had room upon them for !
hens and hens did well in Ireland. |
How It Was Organized and Operated.
The Irish Agricultural Organization (
society is an association formed for
the purpose of helping rural communi- j
ties to organized their business and
marketing processes. Sir Horace i
Plunkett, an agricultural statesman |
if there ever was one, is at the head ,
of thiB society. This association dis-
covered that in the neighborhood of •
Foynes there were many hens, but |
that the farmers were getting little j
profit from them because the eggs j
were not hurried to market speedily 1
enough, were not tested and were not
graded and, consequently, the farmer
received a very low price for his eggs.
Many cities on the other baud were
suffering because they were getting
poor eggs. So it waB suggested that
a co-operative egg buying association
be formed at Foynes. A man who un-
derstood/the marketing of eggs as
well as the testing of eggs and some-
thing of the raising of Chickens and
poultry was put in charge of the or-
ganization and a small store room was
rented. Tbe farmer was required to
deliver eggs three times every week.
He must gather every egg from the
nest the day it was laid. His nests
must be kept clean. He must keep
the eggs when gathered in a cool
place. He must bring in his eggs on
a certain day when it was arranged
to have enough eggs from other farm-
ers brought in to make a fair sized
shipment.
The eggs after having been tested
were graded as to size and color and
the man who had been placed in
charge shipped them to a market
known to him. guaranteeing them to
be strictly fresh, calling attention to
the grading which had been done.
The farmers were surprised to find
that a price several cents higher than
that which they had previously ob-
tained for eggs raised in that com-
munity was at once paid, and that
consequently their eggs were bringing
ered to the association could not be them more than they had ever brought
sold as strictly fresh, nc matter how
rapidly and directly they were rushed
to market The managers were com-
pelled to adopt very harsh measures
ln testing eggs delivered to them.
them before. When the farmer deliv-
ered the eggs he was not at first paid
in cash; he simply became a partner
with the others in the marketing ven-
ture.
men. They understand the market-
ing game thoroughly and have many
correspondents at home and abroad.
They are often able to foresee and
prepare for coming demands and are
always able to give valuable sugges-
tions as to when and where produco
can be best disposed of. Each week
this central society sends out to con-
cerns like that at Foynes letters of
advice giving prices and probable
points to which shipments are to be
made.
It will be readily understood that
with a skilled marketing man in
charge, neither time nor eggs ara
wasted in shipping to markets which
are already flooded with eggs. The
manager has correspondents and
business connections which insure^
him against any such losses. When
the eggs start he knows exactly
| where they are going, knows exactly
| who is to take them, knows that there
i Is not to be a flood of other eggs in
{ competition with his and knows that
I he will receive the top market price
for every egg sent.
What the Society Does.
! Last year this Foynes association
j marketed 1,560,000 dozen eggs. Tha
! total expense of handling all these
I eggs and conducting the affairs of tha
j association amounted to less than one-
I quarter of a cent per dozen including
weight from substations, drayago,
postage, rent and all other disburse*
I ments.
j The association has done eo well
! with the eggs that the members have
| asked the manager to market other
farm products, chiefly poultry, honey
and butter. While the associatiou
1 does not emphasize these other fea-
tures the poutry, honey and butter are
handled as advantageously and a 
' profitably for its membere as are the
eggs. Last year the members also
called upon the association to pui>
chase fuel for them since they found
that coal was unreasonably high and
difficult to get. Last year therefore
the association not only marketed tb<i
produce of Its members but assisted
in procuring cheap fuel for them. i
Prices Received-
On the average the farmer receives
about twenty-four cents per dozen for
his eggs, net. The consumer in Eng-
land or elsewhere more or less dis-
tant, is, of course, required to pay a.
slightly advanced price, but the in-
creased price to the consumer never-
exceeds seven or eight rents and is
generally much less. This relatively
small increase of price includes,
freight, marketing expenses, retailer's..
profits, etc. In this way the price to '
the consumer is never ac exhorbitant
one. 11
It has been found, toe, that thn- co-
operative association furnish^ a
steady demand for eggs so far as ibo
farmer Is concerned, ir the man r
discovers through his correspond, uoa
or through the I. A. O. a. that one
market is glutted, another is
searched for and found. Seldom lias
the manager failed to find some mar.
ket where there is demand for eggs
of the grade furnished by the associa-
tion. In any event, no egp, is wasted;
every one reaches the consumer in
good condition.
Notwithstanding our loyalty to
America, we are compelled to admire
this Irish system of co-operation, atirj
to admit that It surpasses our Ameri-
can methods of businesn it is rinre
economical of time and money. (Tho
farmer gets better prim and theje.'y
man gets better eggs, ho that we icaij
conclude that it benefit* both farmer"
and city man. ftut the best fcaturo
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of it is, that there Is a system that'
Later it became the practice ! 18 weJl adopted to the noeda of the
American people.