Sweetwater Breeze (Sweetwater, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 9, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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Sweetwater Okla Sept 9 1909
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FRESH NEW GOODS-
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ughtifor Spot Cash and sold the same way hence
UR VERY LOW PRICES
homeland See us for we are now making room
a Large Stock of Fall and Win ten goods which are
ning ih soon Don’t forget the'tocation:’
£ Miles Noftfieast of Sweetwater
Therefore all Europe stands aghast
forsooth our Uncle Samuel has Cook-ed
the northern goose
The first bale of cotton atTexolasold
at 12 1-2 cents per pound They ought
all to brisg that much or more
The indemnity school1 tends it is semi-
officially announced will be the first to
be sold and the enabling act lands in
western part of the state will be next
Harry Thaw Has been appointed libra-
rian at the Matteawan asylum A per-
manent appointment during good behav-
ior we presume
The remarkable thing about most of
these feaUies-brained people who rush
alongreity streets In-ao to mobiles is that
they have nothinrgf Co rush about
The Muskogee police have instituted
a sytera of target practice at empty
beer bottles Their aim would proba-
bljptta steadier? i before' emptying the
bottles '
The proposed change in size of our
paper- money meets with ‘ opposition all
over the country It is not so much the
size as the lack of frequency that trou-
bles ourt people od the money question
TJlatost date for the final wind-up
of ! Agn terrestrial comes from the
Watch tower Bible and Tract Society at
Newark N- Ju The time given for ft-
nab preparation is five years
It is announced that Dr Cook is now
to be tempted to the lecture platform
to lelflwfiatthe Know about tbe north
A rather cold subject for a winter en-
tertainment Lets have him wait until
next July
While the- scientists havsf beeri obser-
ving arid photographing the planet Mars
is it to be presumed that they have
been thoughtful enough to note any
valuable ideas from the Martians in re-
lation to canal construction?
' Coli- Roy Jloffman is given as author-
ity for the statement that a large per
cenb-of the deefcwoad typewriters Used
by the last legislature has disappeared
Wonder if someone won’t steal the old
legislative hall and throw it out the
window
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And now since Dr- Cook has discover-
ed the north pole and nailed Old Glory
to the iceberg thereat what will become
of Waites Wellman’s oft postponed glo-
ry of mankind the discovery In his de-
rigable balloon Walter’s last collapse
off Spitsbergen occured just In the nick
o’ time ‘
The Civia Federation of Dubois Pa
organized a crusade against people who
work on Sunday EL S Hoover was
employed to secure the evidence and
among others arrested was a Miss Lu-
ther Th& young' Miss who eletks in a
confectionery store next proceeded to
secure the arrest of Hoover for wor
king on Sunday in securing evidence for
her conviction And so tho war goes
merrily on
CoL J T McCleary ex-assistant
postmaster general in President Roose-
velt’s cabinet J S Eaton and A C
Saportas capitalists are looking over
Oklahoma with a view to investing
some of their surplus cash They do not
regard the present shortage of crops
caused by the drouth as s serious ob-
stacle to the state’s future prosperity
Oklahoma’s natural resources are sim-
ply wonderful and the shortening of i
single crop will not affect our onward
march very materially
Th& interstate railroad Commission
recently rendered a decision in s- a i case
brought up from North Carolina' Involv-
ing' the stupendous sum of twenty cents
for overcharge irr a freight ' consign-
ment The attorneys’ arguments in the
case covered six type written folios ol‘
foolscap and the attorney fees probably
reached into the hundreds of dollars
But you see there is nothing like estab-
lishing a precedent 1 and defending a
principle
i Broomcorn as a Profitable Crop j another 25 per cent saving When you
That broomcorn is one of the safest j re(luire iZ OF broomcorn you don’t bad
cash crops for the farmers of this coun
try has certainly been fairly demon-
strated The plant is perfectly hardy
here and in ordinary seasons will ma-
ture a good crop of brush even when
planted after other crops such as early
planted com cotton or small grain have
been too far damaged by sand rain or
hail storms It is a safe crop to plant
usually up to July 1st and wiil some-
times mature good brush when planted
several days later We seldom have a
killing frost before November 1 to 10
and toe crop’ will easily make in four
months It is a crop easily cultivated
by modern methods— listed in harrow-
ing soon" after coming up and cultivated
with the disc monitor then finished off
with the ordinary corn cultivator It
requires no special machinery until har-
vested hence is not an expensive crop
on account of special farming or extra
tools
We believe however dhat the aver-
age farmer will find it to his advantage
to continue its cultivation for a series
of seasons instead of making a crop oc-
casionally We have often noticed that
the man who plants only an occasional
crop of any kind usually does so because
some of his neighbors the preceding sea-
son secured an extra good crop of that
kind or received an uncommonly good
price Fanners often make the mis-
take of jumping abruptly from one kihd
of crop to another without carefully
considering the probable result
This is often the reason why a crop
after bringing a good price one season
drops flat the next! We believe broom-
corn is one of the best money crops that
can be planted here but don’t plant all
to broomcorn In fact the farmer who
depends oh 'atly single - eftrp Is almost
certain to fail sooner or later Rotation
and diversity should be the watchword
Rotate your broomcorn with your corn
or any other crop and you Will improve
your soil and increase your bank ac-
count Any one crop planted continu-
ously on the same land will impoverish
the soil foi that crop We would not
think of planting broomcorn the third
consecutive season on the same plat of
ground-in fact it is far better not to
plant the 'second Rotate with corn
wheat cotton cow peas millet any-
thing almost and you are safe
But what we Wish to emphasize more
particularly is the marketing of the
crop A great many farmers of Okla-
homa' fcs those of ether -new states ifl
the past do not Shelter their stock and
implements as they should be it has hafd b a8simiate
been a task for many of us to shelter f tinr
our families well for the reason that
th country was settled in great ’ part
by a class of people who while rich in
industry and intelligence were poor in
purse andwd havd had to use every
conceivable makeshift to “keep the
wolf from the door’’ and hold on to the
homestead But we 'are losing many
dollars every year by not having our
stock-sheltered from the storm of win-
ter and our implements from the rain
and sun The remedy is not expensive
Try to hold hack enough but of your
crop returns to build a bam or shed the
principal part of which is a good shiri-
gle or galvanized iron roof and siding
The inside may be well braced but ad-
justable Make this buildirig-say '30 x
50 if you expect to false forty acreB of
broomcorn per year with the eaves not
over six feet from the ground Here
you can store your broomcom at time
of harvesting drying it off in the shade
to retain good color and avoiding the
disastrous results of a sudden downpour
of rain Bale your brush as soon as
ready and pile the bales under the shed
until yoil can get a fair price for it If
a buyer comes along and sees the farm-
er thus Bhaped up “this man will have
a fair price or I cant get his corn V As
it is now the buyer reasons ' to himself
that the weather is so uncertain and
these farmers have no adequate pro tec
tiori for their brush I can skin them
$10 to $20 on the ton by talking damag-
ed corn and lower prices to them If
you are raising 40 acres of broomcorn
this shed will very likely save you 25
per centon' its first cost every year you
use it 'Agaln you Will only require the
use of the shed for broomcom from
twd to six Weeks in the Year and the
balance of the time it will house you
stock and implements aod thus
ly need it for anything else
There is another idea in connection
with securing the best cash results from
broomcorn This crop of all others af-
fords a better and more unlimited field
for speculation by middlemen - agents
or buyers as they are usually called
than any other crop The fact exists
for three reasons First that the far-
mers are generally poor and need their
money promptly second that they have
no adequate place or means of storing
and holding the crop and third because
they act singly— every one for himself
These reasons are unequivocal but can
be overcome and every farmer who
will stop to think will 'See the “way
out in an instant The key is organize
Get together and unite as one man in
the handling and marketing of your
crop You can get the market quota-
tions on broomcorn just as well as these
sleek well-dressed “buyers” who spend
so many of your dollars for livery rigs
to ride over the country so often to buy
your broomcorn Rest assured there is
a decided difference between the price
you receive and the price these buyers
receive for the same brush This differ-
ence would build your sheds in a short
while - Then why not get together and
organize a “Broomcorn:Growers Asso-
ciation” before another crop is planted
study the best methods within your
reach for handling the brush and post
yourselves on the market price and you
can easily realize good money These
astute buyers will probably tell you that
farmers cannot Bell their brush to man-
ufacturers They can sell cattle and
hogs or any other product of the farm
and why not broomcorn Appoint one
or more of your best business men as
salesman with power to contract a giv-
en number of cats of brush and let them
go at the expense of the association to
Wichita or perchance Chicago and don’t
you know they can and will get you- a
good profit over any price the “buyer”
will pai ? The average manufacturer
prefers to buy direct if he can buy in
sufficient bulk These “buyers” are on-
ly buying for other buyers or warehouse
companies and each has his profit
Take the Lesson Home
James J Hill railway magnate phi-
losopher and publicist— in a way —gave
the Canadiahs some good advice in an
address at Winnipeg recently The ut-
terance having a golden rule flavor was S
“Don’t be afraid you won’t get peo-
ple but don’t try to get people who will
nave to be recivilized It is a long and
' a foreign popula
tion
Thh advice should be taken on this
side of the boundary line of Canada It
should be carried to Washington It
should be drummed into the- more or
iess pulpy heads of members of con-
gress If there is any legislation which
this country needs more than that which
will place more restriction upon immi-
gration we have not heard of it— Okla-
homan And the “undesirable Citizen” idea of
Mr Roosevelt was close to the mark af-
ter all though pot-house politicians en-
deavored to make political buncomb out
of it No doubt there Was where Mr
Hill got his inspiration While a large
majority of the immigration to our
shores make tho best of citizens yet an-
other considerable percent of them are
a source of continual trouble This lat-
ter class are not here With any intent
to assimilate but merely to profit by
the liberty guaranteed to them and to
exercise that liberty more as a license
than as a privilege They seem to have
a wrong conception of the liberty of
freedom of an American citizen and re-
spect obr laws through sheer necessity
rather than a just appreciation of the
mutual interest of alt citizens
When men were acting far from right
Then Teddy took his big stick out
And chased them wildly all day & night
With many an angry warning sho ut
He’d whack them fiercely on the head”
And in his anger frown on them—
“Bill” does as well when all is said
Ha quietly sits down on them
The man who rises early may inerc£
his bin and store
But— goodness— Low he geS-hirniAi
eirfect despised by the folks next door
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