The Oklahoma Farmer (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 33, No. 7, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 10, 1923 Page: 3 of 40
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Volume 33 - Topeka Kansas
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Natural Growth and Expansion Conservative Business Methods and Attention
to a Steady Dependable Market Have Resulted in Business Success
' ' NNATURALLY rapid expansion
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of business so luring at the
time of unnatural profitslout
which only a year or two lat-
er hee:utie the rocks on ‘'hich ninny
business institutions wrecked did not
distnrb the balance even growth and
profits of the Ili liandale Farms Okla-
boma county Central Oklahoma Yet
o study Of the organization of the
krill and the methods employed shows
Chat nothing has been omitted that
contributes to safety in profits and
natural growth Gambling chances
never are taken
Mach of I he l Ulla ndale Farms
viiieli consist of Go acres lies in the
:Cley of the North Canadian Elver
:Ind is ideal alfalfa land 'The pro-
prietor is Fred T Miller and the
tutnager is E G Jeffrey The farm
is operated on a partnership basLis
'The locatien of the farm with refer-
ene to markets and the productivity
cf the soil is sacti as to lead to op-
litnism viten looking into the fu-
ture Dna therefore to venturesome
enterprises ' Pod the fact that every
stp has been taken cautiously and
ith the assurance that it was on
isolid ground before the next step vas
planned in part accounts for the
other fact that 19122 was one of the
banner years for this farm In Pr22
rnAny farms were trying to make up
l'ir what they lost in 1920 and Er21
One example of the methods used
111 feeling their way along IS the Min
r in which the crops are disposed
or Not a large list of crops is grown
but alfalfa wheat barley oats and
corn the crops to vhich the land is
l't's't adaPtc'd and Nalell fill the most
important place in the feeding of the
livestock of the farm always have a
hat
om time ago the Oklahoma
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Farmer ised a eall to tractor W
owners and operators e asked
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that you write us a letter tell-
111'4 us about your tractor how you
York with it what you have dote!
with it: and how much it 1i costing
pm to keep the machine running In
fact we asked you to tell us all about
poir experiences with a tractor
We received a number of letters
The entire editorial force has spent
-4one time deciding vhich IA the best
ind which is second best Imt we think
that we have decided fairly and just-
ly We also think our readers will be
intereted in knoWl112: what these
Lave done With their tractorQ No
I oubt there fire many of our readers
who have had even better success
lith their tractors or some who have
(lone much more With their machhies
lint they (lid not write to u4 about it
so we don't lanhy The next time we
!lave such a contest we'd like to have
a great many more letters from Our
readers The prize-winning letters
follow the first taking a cah prize
of $5 and the lecond -$3
Rules for the Tractor User
Ita Ve been operating tractors for
fOveral years and has-e handled so-
cral different makes We started out
svith an old three-whNder and did not
'have much luck with it Then we
ought another make but found it
was not what we svanted We then
bought a 154:0 four-wheel tractor
with which WC' 11:1Ve had very good
ktIccess We also own a small tractor
It cost us something to learn tal we
THE OLDEST FARM PAPER IN OKLAHOMA
ARTHUR CAPPER Publisher JOHN FIELDS GEORGE BISHOP and W A CONNER Editors
illandale Farm
place About 100 acres of alfalfa usu-
ally is grown Hogs are pasturing on
it thruout the year but this does not
intetfere with its being cut for hay
"It sounds like good business to
talk about feeding the stuff you grow
to livestock- you keel) on the farm"
said Mr Jeffrey "but we have found
I hat thk practice iS NV rOlig j list about
as often as it is right We feed our
alfalfa when it is as cheap as any-
thing else NV( have or can get but
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April 10 1923
By W A Conner
Three Views on Itillandale Farms—Mteep and flogs lia‘e Mnde Cood Returns
on the Investment Thru Efficient Feeding and Marketing- Practices
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have about tractors but we have had
some good experience and I think I
can say safely that I have learned a
few of the things which tend to make
a tractor serve over a longer period
of time I enumerate some of these
Items here:
1 ITq‘ a good grade of lubricating
oil be(Inse it requires real oil to stand
lip under the speed of a tractor engine
the load it palls and the heat at the
time of year when moq farmers are
using their tractors most
2 Never overload your tractor for
that causes excessive wear
3 Don't run the tractor motcr fast
Ernest
By Frank A Mecket
t a Safe Pace
when it gets beyond a certain price
N Mahe the exchange for a more
economical feed The same thing is
true about wheat It usually is grown
for milling purposes At the present
time we can get only $1 a bushel for
our ‘vileat by hauling it to tOW11
WOUld have to pay $1S0 a hundred
for shorts and haul it back home
Wheat at $1 a bushel is only
ltundred so ( would belosing money
by making the exchange As a ITSUIT
or than it should be ru Keep it
the speed indicated on Lie nameplate
of the tractor Never try to finish tt
land by noon which should take you
uhtil night to finish
4 Never run the engine when the
compresion is bad Examine the
valves and be sure they are seating
properly
5 Don't try to run the motor when
011C cylinder is missing Stop and ex
amine the spark plugs carburetor and
valves
IL Drain the old oil If(da the crank
cae every four or five days and In
frch oil
Oklahoma City Oklahoma Number 7
Myhre of Cordell 1441t11a County Oklahoma in the Field With Ills
15-30 Tractor and a Disk and Darrow Combination
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of this condition we grind our wheat
and feed it to the hogs which 1$ the
most econom Ica I use we can make
of it"
'Winter barley 14 another of t
feed in crops t ha t has been found
dependable and a very sat isfact ory
hog feed The '200 acres of corn each
year usually about supply the live-
stock needs but when the crop falls
short purchases always are made
early in the season in carload lots
before the prices begin to advance
The livestock usually kept consumes
about 10000 bushOs of corn a year
The business of I he Hilla nd:1
Farms never is allowed to be caught
in a cramp If a carload of corn or
some other necessity is to be bought
and MN° are not enough earnings to
the eredit of the fa nil to pay for it
enough farm produce of some hind 'IA
sold to take care of the purchase
Credit facilities a re not taken :tdva
tage of because to do so is not c4th
sidered good business
"We have found it an tolvtthlage tcts
give our farm heir) an interest in thq
business by allowing the 111011 a Cer
tain per cent of the farm profits"
said 'Air Jeffrey "In a ‘vay it intiles
us all partners and equally interested
in making- every lick count It tits()
makes our help permanent and con-
tented" Altho about 100 bead of cattle fink
"roughed thru" every winter enough
to use up unmarketable feeds cattle
feeding has been engaged in rather
sparingly It 1) considered one of
uncertain elements of the farm bust
'less Silage and low grade alfalfa
hay are used in this W1 Y
No "dead heads" in the way or live-
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it Tractors
7 Keep the connecting' rod bearingi
tight at all times and keep every nut
and bolt on the Joachi ne drawn up A
low-e nut or bolt may result in 10()
worth of damage in 1e-4 time than it
takes to tell about It
S I do not think It is a gpoll thip4
to try to 11e ker04eii t la a togh sptt1
motor it will litq igtiitt f4o quickly tot
gasoline and some of the liquid hero
:ene its down the cylinder
pat the plto11 4 and dilute the oil la
the crank ete-e s4)oti retitts
NA (Int ring4 1ktons4 cylinder vans and
bea
Thk -0clas :14 if it a great deal
iool after but it will not take more
than a few minut' tinte each day
nnil it certainly will be worth
Ernest McKee
AVabita Co AVest ern Oklahoma
Tractor i4 "Man-ofAll-IVorti"
bonglit a tractor in June 1919
three and ono-half yoars ago Thq
firq thing I tackiod NVith
WilS) ft road hauling joh 1 ulled a
6000-pound load :t2 miles a day for
ahout two months and made tq:- a
any Qn that job Then I usel the ma-
clitting otrtt After cutting Coo
oats 1 ran a hay haler and thou
used tip titctor for plowing (lisLing
seeding :Ind harrowing
I hall hay to market Ivith this trac-
tor pulling two wagons with CO halel
on each (we 1 i1' uso it for pump-
ing water for the livestock- Wipm
dkkInz I pull a ha rrow behind Up)
dlc-)1 awl do a plights good° job too
In the Avintor I tNe it for sawin
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Fields, John; Bishop, George & Conner, W. A. The Oklahoma Farmer (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 33, No. 7, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 10, 1923, newspaper, April 10, 1923; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Topeka, Kansas. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2051042/m1/3/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.