Marietta Monitor. (Marietta, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, September 19, 1919 Page: 3 of 8
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A GOOD DAIRY
WILL BRING PROFITS
There has never been a
time more promising to the
dairy business than the pres-
ent time The entire world is
suffering today from a lack of
dairy products brought on
no doubt largely by the World
War Thousands of pitiful
little children have died be-
cause they couldn't get milk
Milk is the staff of life
Dairying however like the
profession of medicine offers
no prescription as a panacea
for all conditions but they are
some things that it be wtjll for
anyone to consider before at-
tempting to engage in this
business As a general propo-
sition it truthfully can be said
that dairying offers the safest
and surest kind of farming in
most sections of the country
There is no place I must say
more promising than Marietta
situated as it is with good
marketing facilities locally and
elsewhere as to that matter
In the beginning it ceems to
me perfectly safe to say that
dairying offers no “ get rich
quick possibilities" but it does
offer excellent opporunitie3 to
be safe in the long run All
great institutions are built up
on the "safe in the long run
idea"
There are many people now
in the dairy business who have
rounded up a few scrub cows
and milk them without know-
ing whether they are loosing
ior making money In some
cases they buy feed from the
local feed store and at the end
of the month if the milk check
comes to more than the feed
bill they have made money If
the feed bill is greater than the
milk check they have lost
money Anyone who practices
such a method is hot a dairy
farmer but a milk manufac-
turer His success will depend
'altogether upon the cost of
I feed and the selling price of
milk and cream
A real dairy farmer must
i keep the following points in
mind f he would be most suc-
cessful: 1 There must be easy
access to a good market either
by railroad or by local trans-
portation 2 Some particu-
lar dairy bred breed must be
determined upon and at least
a pure-bred sire of the chosen
! breed must be used on the
gradecows 3 The size of the
herd must not be greater than
the farm will offer 4 Utiliza
tion of labor 5 Unless some
“Thou Shalt Not”
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attention is paid to preserving
or conserving the manure pro-
that it is returned to the soil
duced by th£ dairy herd so
it seems questionable to me
whether the other returns will
always be great enough to
justify the investment-
1 Just for speculation 14t us
consider each part separately
wyuaMa?aie an!aa e
I can furnish you whatever you need in the
Hardware Implement and Vehicle line ima guar-
anteed quality and at an econoirtical price Don’t
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try to do without something that you really need
by using a make-shift Get the best out of your-
self and your help by using labor-saving profit
increasing modern appliances
NITURE!
When you buy furniture you are making a
permanent investment— you expect to live with
your purchase therefore make it one you will
never regret Our furniture is made to give long
and satisfactory service and stilly have grace of
line attractive style
We Have Special Offering in all
Kinds of Furniture
and see wherein Ihe elimina-
tion of one might cause fail-
ure My first condition demands
easy access to market Milk
and its by-products are pro-
duced for human consumption
They represent a highly peri-
shable product What is pro-
duced today or this week must
be sold today or this week
consequently there can be no
profit in this business unless
the products are marketed at
all times
You may ask what consti-
tutes a safe market I think
a fairly reasonable answer
be a creamery condensary if
you like cottage cheese fac-
tory and lastly and most vital-
perhaps for us milk for city
delivery It seems that for a
beginner the practice of sepa-
rating the milk on the farm
with a cream separator and
feeding the skimmed milk to
young calves and pigs is a most
desirable arrangement as it is
fulfilling the old saying "It is
safer to grow into a business
than to go into it” This how
ever is for the amateur and
not the experienced dairyman
that we are so deeply interest-
ed in here in Marietta where
milk is so scarce
Why is it necessary to de
termine early upon some one
breed? For the simple reason
that the ability to breed and
produce dairy cows better
than the average farmer
knows how to produce is a fine
point in dairying This point
was ground into me at the
Annual Farm Congress at Still-
water If you have good profits
part of it is going to be the re-
sult of being able to produce
100 pounds milk or 100 pounds
fat cheaper than some of your
neighbors Markets are the
result of averages and unless
one gets above the average
the profits are very meager
Developing a high producing
herd is almost a life-time job
and one cannot change his
mind often and get very far
Why should the size of the
herd be in keeping with the
size of the arm? Unless con-
sidered from a fancy breed-
er’s standpoint there is no jus-
tification for the purchase of
any geat portion of the dairy
ration particularly in rough-
ages The only justification
for any one Breeding a dairy
cow is that the cow can trans-
form a lot of pasture silage
and hay into milk which can
be sold at a profit while if
the cow was not kept a lot of
it would be necessarily go to
waste This often is the de-
termining point between profit
and loss-
In the next issue of the
Monitor I shall develop points
4 and 5 of this theme
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FOR SALE
At 9 Bargain
Good second hand piano
Overhauled by Dallas Expert
Mechanically perfect Beauti-
ful tone '
Part cash balance on time
W C PEDEN
Jeweler
R J Harlow and family
formerly of Ballinger Texas
are now residents of Marietta
having moved here last week
Mr Harlow will be employed
at Carey Lombard & Young
Co’s lumber yard in this city
DR W F MATHEWS
Physician and Surgeon
Office at
Selvidge Drug Store
Phone: Office 44
Residence 62
No 5354
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
The First National Bank
At Marietta in the State of Oklahoma at the close of business on
Septemuer 12 1919
RESOURCES
1 (a) Loans and discounts including redis
counts $26137461 '
(b) Acceptances of other banks discounted
None — bill of Exchange 344113
TOTAL LOANS 1 26481574 $26481574
2 Overdiafts' tecuied $225778 unsecured
$734253
S U S Government lecurities owned:
including U S Cert of indebtedness) :
(a) U S Bonds deposited to secure circula-
t'on (par value) - 125001
(d) Pledged a3 collateral for State or other
deposits or bills payable 400001
(f) Owned and unpledged
Other bonds securities etc:
(c) Bonds and securities (other than U S-
securities) pledged as collateral for state
or other deposits (postal excluded) or
bills payable - 39421!
(e) Securities other than U S bonds( not
including stocks) owned and unpledged
Total bonds securities etc ether than U S
Stock of Federal Revive Bank (50 per cent
of subscription
(a) Value of banking hoase owned and un-
incumbered 50001
(b) Equity in banking house
Furniture and fixtures
Lawful resrve with Federal Reserve Bank
Cash in vault and net amountsdue from na-
tional banks
Net amounts due from banks bankers and '
trust companies other than included in
items 12 and 14)
Total items 14 15 1168581
Checks on banks located outside cj city or
town of reporting banks and other cash
items
Redemption fund with U S Treasurer and
due from U S Treasurer
8
9
10
12
14
15
18
19
24
25
26
30
35
36
37
3S
42
45
50
51
TOTAL
LLAEILITIES
NCapital stock paid in
Surplus fund
(a) Undivided profits 2223900
(b) Less current expenses and taxes paid
Circulating notes outstanding
Cashier's checks on own bank outstanding
Total of item 35 356241
Demand deposits (other than bank deposits)
subject to Reserve (deposits payable in
30 days) :
Individual deposits subject to check
Certificates of deposit due in less than 30
days (other than for money borrowed
State Co or other municipal deposits se-
cured by pledge of assets of tins bank
Total of demand deposits (other thar fcmh
deposits) subject to Reserve Items 30
37 and 38 30105181
Certificates of deposit (other than for
money borrowed
Total of time deposits subject to Reserve
Item 40 4110000
(a) U S Government Securities borrow
ed without furnishing collateral securi-
ty for same
(b) U S Government securities borrowed
for which collateral was furnished
Bills payable other than with Federal Re-
serve Bank including all obygations Rep-
resenting money borrowed other than
rediscounts
Bills payable with Federal Reserve Bank
TOTAL
Of the total loans and discounts shown above the amount on which in-
terest and discount was charged at rates in excess of tbose permitted by law
(Sec 5197 Rev Stat) exclusive of notes upon which total charge not ex-
ceed 50 cents was made was None The number of such loans was None
State of Oklahoma County of Love ss:
I W G Davis cashier of the above named bank do solemnly 3wear
that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief
IV G DAVIS Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16 day of Sept 1919
M F LINEBURG Notary Public
Correct — Attest: S Westheirrer B A Diilard F B Conrad Directors
W T McCarty I
Marietta
D Hester Prop
All kinds of Fresh and
Cured Meats
Will buy your cattle hogs
and country produce and
will pay the highest mark-
et price
Marietta Auto (Co
When your car heed repairs
bring it to this GARAGE where
the w ork will be done by first
class mechanics who know
how— Promptness efficiency
and satisfaction guaranteed
We sell that good gasoline
FRANK B COVINGTON
West Main Stree' Marietta Okla
illinium
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Choate, Henry Willis. Marietta Monitor. (Marietta, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, September 19, 1919, newspaper, September 19, 1919; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1753365/m1/3/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.