The Oklahoma Farmer-Stockman (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 24, Ed. 1 Monday, December 25, 1916 Page: 2 of 24
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A New Sized Tractor
Cx now prescats to the Agricultural
World a fifth farm tractor— conservatively
rated as nine horsepower at the drawbar
end eighteen horsepower at the pulley
This 9-18 Is especially designed for
smaller farms Its performance Is remark
able At all of the tractor demonstrations
held recently this Case 9-18 proved ft sen-
sation It was welcomed by men who
wanted a smaller sized tractor backed by
a big and long established company Pro
viously our own 10-20 was looked upon as
the smallest standardized tractor on the
market In the quality class
This new final-type Case Tractor is the out-
come of several years of field and laboratory ex-
periments based on 20 years' experience In the
gas engine world And back of that are 73 years
of experience In manufacturing farm machinery
Cass never lets the fanner do tne experimenting
That rule means money to yon and protection
In this smaller slxed tractor are combined the
merits of all tractors now on the market together
with Case principles of construction and Case
national service This makes a combination
Is not to bo found elsewhere
Case now manufactures five types of tractors-
rated as follows: P-18 10-20 12-25 20-40 and
80-60 — In addition to the regular line of Case
farm machinery
Before buying a tractor know the Case line
Better be safe than sorry
In commemoration of onr seventy-fifth anni-
versary we have lust published an unusually
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for distribution This costs ns 20 cents to pro-
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wmi joins anxious to cut bln cattlo casturca n and
I am over-anxioui to sec more of my sell them on long time If the federal
nephews -get homes of their very own land act materialises and money is really
It beats life insurance miles made available at ‘‘not less than 6 per
cent" the time is red-ripe to get homes
If you have land you can be your own
producer and do your ‘own high living
You can support your family from this
land while it advances in valuer and
then you can turn it over to them when
you transfer your citixenship from dust
to glory I
One very important factor on the farm
now is to economise time A poor man
starting in to buy a home should place a
monetary value on his own time While
he should conserve his strength and en-
ergy he should also make the most of his
time because it is his stock-in-trade and
his only working capital Now let us
ask ourselves honestly how many days
out of the 365 do we put in in actual con-
structive work in the field? I mean
work that brings profit
You must confess that too many of us
put in too much time “piddling" and
“puttering" around Of course we keep
busy but it is for the most part at some-
thing that doesn't bring results— dollars
and cents
Allow me to repeat what I have said
before that we should live in the field
and visit the house instead of living at
the house and visiting the field occa-
sionally You have money invested in
your team and you feed them the year
round It costs $10 a month to feed a
horse now
How many days of 10 hours do you put
in the field with your team at construc-
tive work? I consider that it is a point
well taken that too much of our work is
of a destructive nature instead of a con-
structive nature We buy buggies on
time pay exhorbitant prices with usu-
rious interest piled on top and put in too
much time in the lanes
Now I believe in good roads you bet
But listen boys we can’t make a living
in the lane We must quit the lane and
get into the field where cotton and corn
and wheat and maize grow The time
has come in the farmer’s history when
these things signify Significance at-
taches to the price that the farmer is
getting for his products and to the price
he has to pay — if he fails to raise the
luscious juicy things that make for good organization of the proposed society The
living With specific directions right be- object of this organization shall be the
fore our eyes with tools that have al-
most intelligence with prices that top
anything ever dreamed of by the wildest
dreamer the chances for getting a home
are brighter and easier than ever before
since Adam was a boy '
Emphasizing the wisdom of economiz-
ing time let me say that you should take
a row out every time and bring one back
every time that you go to or come from
the field You will be surprised at the
amount of land that you will plow by this
method
You may have to come in after a
drink you may have to come in for a
wrench you may want to come in to
kiss Malinda A thousand times you will
be coming in and going out Rows should
be a mile long if possible No time
should be lost turning and shaving up
your team Plows should be broad and
short and while you are cutting a long
swath you should also cut a broad one
More depends upon the width of the
furrow than the depth Set a peg there
If you want to sleep sound eat hearty
and pay for a farm get outof the lane
and plant long rows and lots of them
Here where the land is fresh and rich
and the rainfall is only 24 inches a year
about all that can be done is to keep the
More About Maxican Dean
Prices for the Mexican or frijole bean
In New Mexico ranged from two to four
cents a pound until this year when they
went to five and a half to six cents a
pound The bean crop is like the broom
corn crop as far as prices are concerned
but we can eat the beans when they are
cheap and can’t the broom corn
These frijole beans will grow only in a
climate that is clear of hot winds that
is grow profitably In my locality we
raise from 500 to 1000 pounds of the
beans to the acre This year was a short
year for the beans in Mexico but just
the same the man that planted beans is
on “easy street" This certainly Is a
bean country and the industry has a
great future before it
As the old saying is it is a poor man's
crop One man can handle under ordi-
nary conditions as much as 40 acres with
a team planter and a cultivator A
harvester can be had for $35 to $40 with
which one man can cut from 10 to 15
acres a day If he has the right kind of
stuff in him he can thresh them out him-
self saving the threshing bill One of
my neighbors had 28 acres of beans this
year and they netted him $750 above all
costs after keeping seed enough to plant
50 acres another year We live at an
altitude of between 6000 and 7000 feet
above sea level — Will Pearson North
Union Co New Mexico
Horticulturists to Organize
There will be a meeting of the horti-
culturists of - Oklahoma at Stillwater
Oklahoma on January 4 1917 The pur-
pose of this meeting will be to discuss
problems having direct bearing on gen-
eral horticulture and also to organize a
state horticultural society All horticul-
turists of the state no matter in what
particular line of horticulture are urged
to attend the meeting and assist in the
MENTION THB FARMBR STOCKMAN WHIN WRITING! APVIRTIilRI
home county and is generally found in
surface of the ground clean and pray front rank in -all - matters affecting
for water water and more water But asrlcultural development
you want to keep the surface of enough — —
ground clean to amount to something
when a good year “hits" Land here
pays for itself in one year when it ‘“hits"
Get land I Plant trees and shrubs and
flowers Help hold the earth together
and keep it from going into the gulf
Help lessen the cost of your own living
and help feed the increasing multitude
Americans must eat Foreigners must
eat Soldiers and children must eat We
must have more producers and fewer
consumers more practical farmers and
a higher field-yield It is nonsense to
say that the earth won’t feed the people
any longer Millions of acres have not
felt the touch of the plow in the great
undeveloped west Run your eye out
over the vast prairies As far as you can
see and as far as the ear can hear can
be seen but the grass and sky and be
heard nothing but the wierd cry of the
lean wild coyote west of Meridian 100
This ja fertile Jand and the time la ia
INDEX TO THIS NUMBER
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Beane More- About Mexican 830
Cotton Seed Meal vh Tankage 830
Country Clubs With the 842
Co-operative Failures 831
Co-operation Fundamental Principles of 831
Dairy Cows A Farmer and Seven 829
Eggs in Winter Getting 845
Fairs Judging Community 887
Fall Plowing in Relation to Rainfall 882
Farm Loan Rates Those 844
Farm Tooht Shelter for 844
Goats on a Blackjack Farm Fifteen 883
Good Cheer In the Home 840
Grain Elevators Farmers' 881
Grange Idea Spreading the 882
Live Stock Show the International 83S
Markets The 848
Peas Black-eyed 884
Potash The (Supply of 884
Quarantine Raised Tick 844
Rainfall Its Influence on Fall Plowing 882
Bandy Farm Managing A 884
Bchool Problem The Community 880
Sheep A Start With 884
Sheep and Men Who Keep Them 883
Steer Feeding Silage In 384
Sweet Clover Plans 184
Tankage vs Cotton Seed Mealitf
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Williams, Carl C. The Oklahoma Farmer-Stockman (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 29, No. 24, Ed. 1 Monday, December 25, 1916, newspaper, December 25, 1916; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2046585/m1/2/?q=%22new-sou%22: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.