The Coweta Star. (Coweta, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 11, 1913 Page: 7 of 8
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COWETA OKLA' STAR
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THE PESSIMISTS
COLD HARD FACTS ABOUT THE
OKLAHOMA AGRICULTURAL
SITUATION
ELMER BROWN COMPILES FIGURES
Which ' Prove That Crop This Year
' Will Total From Flftoan to
Toy Million Dollaro
' Mora Than In 1912 -
a aM —
Elmar E Brown secretary ot the
Oklahoma City Chamber ot Commerce
and one ot Oklahoma’a toremoat boost-
ora haa compiled a atatement ot the
agricultural resource! of the atate at
this time which la ot unusual Import-
ance and Interest Mr Brown Is a stat-
istician of recognized ability and his
statements and figures are those ot an
expert and may be accepted without
discount
Mr Brown In an address to the
members of the Oklahoma City Cham-
ber ofCommerce says:
Oklahoma la still suffering to some
extent from last summer's big scare
ELMER e brown
Secretary Oklahoma City Chamber of
Commerce
Everybody said the wheat was a com
- plete failure It was not but it seems
that nobody thought of correcting the
false report The oats crop was killed
In the same manner and then left for
dead Two months later we imagined
the' corn crop wouldn't feed the work
stock of the state The east still
- thinks so and so do some of our own
people who are never able to eradl-
cate bad impressions from their minds
As soon as the corn crop was disposed
ot we found that the cotton crop would
hardly reach 600000 bales And even
our good friend alfalfa was attacked
Well let’s see what really occurred
In the 1913 crop line The United
States crop report says our
Corn is worth $48000000
Wheat Is worth 13605000
Oats is worth “ 9476000
Total $71081000
The United States crop reports say
that last year our
Corn was worth '$41770000
Wheat was worth 15072000
Oats was worth 7988000
Total ' $64830000
The United States crop reports say
that the last year’s cotton was worth
- $67200000
1 ' The gathering of this year's cotton
crop is not completed yet but it is far
enough along so that a pretty accu-
rate guess dan be made as to what 44
will be The conservative ones are
guessing 900000 bales which would
give in addition 450000 tons of seed
Such a crop will bring $67600000
The alfalfa crop Is worth $3000000
more than last year’s crop
The kaflr crop Is not as big In yield
as last year’s crop but It Is worth
$2000000 more" r -
- - Fall pasture la a big Item this year
and is worth to the farmers of the
state $5000000 against practically
nothing last year
Now let’s foot It up' and learn where
we stand:
Gain In value of wheat oats
and corn- $ $251000
Gain In value of cotton 300000
Gain in value of alfalfa 3000000
l tin-in value of kafir 2000000
Gain in value of wheat pas-
- ture $000000
Total
$16651000
0 I I 4
The foregoing total Is what the most
conservative believe the gain willTie
I believe it will reach 121000009—
But there Is oil to be added It
has so Increased In price and Quantity
that this year’s production wilt be
worth $20000000 more than last
year’s
- Never were crops so badly mis-
Judged as this year Never did a state
come out of an unfavorable midsum-
mer period In such good condition
The late rains brought out late pas-
ture and matured both forage and
grain orops that were thought to bs
beyond redemption Early In the fall
It was believed that high-priced corn
would b little advantage because It
was believed that It would not do more
than carry over the work stock Ow-
ing to the abundance of pasture and
of excellent forage less than one-
fifth the corn mllo kaflr and oats
' crops will go to maintain the farm
work stock
It Is a comfort to know how Oklrw
homa stands among her neighbors Mr
John Fields of the Oklahoma Farm
Journal worked out of the government
reports the following table giving the
value of corn wheat kaflr and cotton
in 1913 per square mile:
Missouri i 3181
Oklahoma $1957
Kansas ' 1892
Arkansas 179$
Texas 1(43
This' year Oklahoma has increased
Its agricultural production about $300
per square mile while values have
scarcely held their own In the other
states But none of the other states
have oil or other minerals In large
quantities to offset Oklahoma's big oM
gas and coal 'production A fairly ao-
curate estimate of the mineral pro-
ductions ot the btates named Is as
follows: ’ -
Oklahoma per square mllo area $1143
Missouri per square mile area 500
Kansas per square mile area 300
Arkansas per square mile area: 200
Texas per square mile area 90
- Now then combine the agricultural
and mineral productions (including oil
and gas) and note the result
Oklahoma per square mile $3400
Kansas per square mile 2192
Missouri per square mile 2681
Arkansas per square mile 1998
Texas- per square mile 1703
(The foregoing table Is made up
upon’ the assumption that only -Oklahoma
has made agricultural gains over
the agricultural production of last
year) -
Another table Is necessary to ascer-
tain Oklahbma’s standing among its
neighbors It should be borne in mind
that the foregoing tables and the one
fpllowing do not Include all of the pro
auction's of the states named but In-
clude only the cereals cotton and the
minerals (including ett and gas) No
account Is taken of minor crops or
the livestock Industry The following
table shows the por capita value In
the states named: - "
Oklahoma per capita of popula-
- tlort $144
Kansas per capita of population 113
Texas per capita of population 116
Arkansas per capita of population 69
Missouri per capita of population - $0
The foregoing table Is A fair pre-
sentation of conditions in all but Mis-
souri In Missouri a much larger per
cent of the population Is engaged in
manufacturing than in the others
while the per cent so engaged in each
of the other states does not vary ma-
terially The livestock Industry In
Texas Kansas and Missouri Is some-
what more extensive In proportion to
population than in Oklahoma but the
inclusion of livestock would not ma-
terially change the relative standing
of the atates in the per capita produc-
tions The greatest handicap to Oklahoma
today la the fact that few of Its fore-
most citizens realize its worth — actual
or potential A timidity exists in this
state in Investments due wholly to
lack of knowledge of the true worth
of the state Land is selling for half
its real worth because of the lack of
knowledge of the state The timidity
frightens outside Investors and drives
out investment funds City develop-
ment Is held back for the same rea-
son The leading citizens of the state
need a course of instruction upon the
resources and productions ot 'their
state
Another feature of great Interest Is
the geographical location of the state’s
population It has been so often as-
serted that the wealth of the state lies
In the eaqt half that many even whose
Interests are In the west half have
been converted to that belief Investi-
gation proves the statement to be ut-
terly false The Vnited States and
state reports show the agriculttfral
productions to bs largely in the west
half of the state while oil gas and
coal are largely as yet confined to the
east half The following table gives
the percentage of productions in the
east and the west halves of the state:
East West
Items— - Half Half
Area cultivated 34 66
Cotton produced 48 53
Corn produced 34 6$
Wheat produced 9 91
Oats produced 83 ' 67
Broom Corn produced ' 0 100
Alfalfa produced 9 91
Kaflr and mllo produced 7 93
Butter produced 83 67
Cattle owned 43 57
Hogs owned 48 62
Petroleum produced 98 ’ 2
An effort to reduce the foregoing to
money values Indicates that the money-
values of the productions of the two
halves sre almost equal The census
figures prove that the two halves are
equal In population and the foregoing
table proves the equality of the two
sections in wealth-producing power
A state with such an eve'n geograph-
ical distribution of Its sources of
wealth and with such a great diversity
of resources as Oklahoma presents Is
dependable’ The marvelous recovery
from bad midsummer conditions this
year Is due wholly to the state’s splen-
did ollmatic conditions and Its diver-
sity of production It has a big ad-
vantage over Kansas In having cotton
and In having a longer growing season
which brings big profits to the wheat
growers from fall and winter pasture
It possesses an advantage over TM
In having a wheat climate to furnish
an Important grain production as wall
as pasturage - -
This brochure ought to give unfor-
givable offense to those Oklahomans
who have no faith In Oklahoma for
If the tables herein are approximately
correct such men are placed before
the publlo as senseless faultfinders
and In town parlance as knockers But
It Is hoped in this manner to furnish
the members of the Chamber of Com-
merce enough ammunition to driva the
knockers out of ths state
AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
IN WESTERN CANADA
THE LATEST METHODS ADOPTED
BY THE AGRICULTURAL
— COLLEGE8
- Scientific farming can be pursued
with more profit and advantage in
Western Canada probably than In
any other portion ot the continent
What iftay be achieved byTt (nay be
ascertained when It is known what
has been accomplished by the thous-
sands who have been following the
occupation for some time and made a
success of It with not even a theore-
tical knowledge They "have tickled
the land with a hoe” and become rich
But the question Is how long could
that continue The soli and the cli-
mate and every other condition favor
great results by a pursuit of such
methods as a technical and practical
knowledge will bring There Is In
the writer’s opinion no possibility of
failure Fully aware of this and also
of the grqat potentialities that exist
in Western Canada for the following
of the profession of farming as It
could be developed and carried on In
Western Canada the various govern-
ments have established thd machin-
ery that there may be developed a
class of farmers who In the posses-
sion of the rich soil ot that country
with Its abundant humus and Its phos-
phates and other properties with
which It Is so largely endowed will
make of -the' country the greatest
farming portion of the known world
The Dominion government showed
Its paternalism years ago when It es-
tablished experimental farms in Manl-
'oba and Saskatchewan The benefits
of these in the' matter of practical
education have been widespread but
the greatest benefit is to be observed
In the immediate vicinity of these
farms where the occupants have
brought their holdings into a high
state of cultivation and year after
yoar sees an added value
The Province of Manitoba Is sup-
pi amentlng this work by Its excellent
agricultural college manned by pro-
feasors of the highest - standing in
their various branches That this
work Is appreciated is shown by the
large attendance not only 'of the far-
mer’s sons but by the farmer him-
self and also by the sons of business
men and professors who Intend fol-
lowing farming as a profession and
tteit is what it is fast becoming
The Province of Saskatchewan
alive to the necessity of a higher and
a better system of farming has In
connection with Its university an ag-
ricultural college and what it Is do-
ing today In the matter of education
will be felt for all time to come and
It will not be long before It will be an
easy matter to pick out ' the farms
manned by graduates of this college
or the farms owned by those who
have gained from the experience
taught by-their neigh bpr
The same may be said of Alberta
The university at Edmonton has a
complete agricultural ’college Full
advantage of this is taken by hundreds
of students anxious to better their ag-
ricultural knowledge and fit them to
take hold successfully of the lands
that they expect to occupy This
province has also added demonstra-
tion farms in various parts which are
very successful inasmuch as farmers
visit them from all parts and take ad-
vantage of educating themselves for
short periods during each winter
Dean Curtiss of Ames Agricultural
College Iowa says:
"We of the United States think
that we know how to get behind agri-
culture and push but the Canadians
dare to do even more than we do In
some respects They have wonderful
faith In the future: they hesitate at no
undertaking that offers prospects of
results More significant still Is the
wide co-operation for agricultural pro-
motion Including the government
private individuals and corporations
and the railroads” - ’
"Canadians are putting great faith
in education for the development of
their resources — not the old education
but vocational and technical ' Prov-
inces that have less than half the pop-
ulation of Iowa and much less wealth
are appropriating more liberally for
colleges and schools Manitoba for
Instance has In 'the last two years
provided about as much money for the
building of an agricultural plant as
Iowa has appropriated In half a cen-
tury It has given in two years $2-
500000 for buildings and grounds for
Its agricultural- institutions
"Saskatchewan is building a plant
for Its university and agricultural col-
lege on a broader and more substan-
tial plan than has been applied to'any
similar institution in this country Yet
neither province has more than bait a
million population
"For publlo schools equally gener-
ous provision is made They are be-
ing built up to give vocational and
technical training as well as cultural
They lit the needs of the country ex-
cellently and should turn out fine
types of boys and girls They do this
with a remarkable faith in the value
of right education
"Dean Curtiss' was much Interested
In the many other ways the Canadian
government aids agriculture aside
from appropriations for educational
purposes They are aiding in solving
marketing problems they erg enoour-
aging better breeding' of livestock by
buying sires and reselling them at
coat and they are doing many other
things ot like character
- "I found that the government Is ad-
vancing from 60 to 85 per cent of
the money necessary to build co-operative
creameries and elevators" said
Dean Curtiss “and it is doing it at a
low rate of Interest and on long time
payments Where cattle need breed-
ing up the government buys bulls of
dairy Shorthorn or special dairy
breeds and sends them In at cost price
and on long time- payments” '
' The yield of grain la WestemCan-
ada In 1913 was excellent but not ab-
normal wheat going from 80 -to 45
bushels per acre and other small grain
with equally good averages — Advertisement
Just a Joke Girls
The late Timothy Woodruff once at-
tended an alumni dinner in'New York
—the dinner of a co-ed college— and
at this dinner in the course of a toast
the president of the college said: -"You
can always tell a woman who
has taken a university degree”
“Tell her!” Mr Woodruff interrupt-
ed "What can you tell her? You
can’t tell her anything She knows It
all”
Handsome is as Handsome Does
- Sanford — So you don’t believe in'
judging a man by his clothes?
Crabshaw — No Indeed! That’s the
way we judge a woman and look how
we get tooled! — Judge
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Progress in China has not yet ex-
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Little Charles is trying to learn to
control hie natuHlly violent temper
and every adult member of the fam-
ily is eager to help him The other
children too have been urged not to
do anything to render a fall easy
Charles ia an observant and quick-
witted youngster and the other day
when his mother proposed condign
punishment for some act of seriouB
disobedience he advanced a novel
plea for mercy
“Please don’t punish me mamma’
he pleaded "It makes me so angry
to be punished and I’m trying so hard
to keep my temper today”
Aa It Appeared to Him
Mrs T — How does my new spring
hat look Tom? -Thomas
— U r! It looks to me like
two weeks’ salary— Stray Stories
“All the world’s a stage” and there
are some people wt)o are giving vaude-
ville performances t without knowing
It
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tively drive out colds and stop til throat
ImtstioBs-So at Drug Btoses —
Nothing is 'more satisfying to the
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Be thrifty oa -little things ilka bluing
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Canfield, Leo. The Coweta Star. (Coweta, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 11, 1913, newspaper, December 11, 1913; Coweta, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2028686/m1/7/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.