The Arapaho Bee (Arapaho, Okla.), Vol. 30, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, December 1, 1922 Page: 1 of 4
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THE ARAPAHO
PIONEER NEWSPAPER OP CUSTER COUNTY A WELCOME VISirOR IN EVERT HOUSEHOLD
VOL XXX
Arapaho Custer County Oklahoma Dec 1 1922
No 4S
NATURE SOWS SWEET CLOVER
IN THE FALL
She Reveals the Secret of Early Pasture
It is a strange and mysterious
circumstance that as long as our
soils in the Com Belt were rich
and produced the paying crop
no one ever saw a sweet clover
phnt growing in that region It
is a historical fact that God pro
duces the right man to combat
every crisis o f human affairs
And I have often wondered if
God didn’t send the sweet clover
to combat the soil ciisis just when
the worn soil problem was begin-
ning to be a crisis in our agricult-
ural operations
I remember the first sweet clo-
ver plant I ever saw— It was less
than forty years ago I w as born
in one of the richest counties 4
the Corn Belt and in ail me
twenty-four years I lived thtrel
Lever saw a sweet clover plant
growing And I lived in the coun-
ty of my adoption another rich
county of the Corn Belt tenyears
before I saw one My first sight
of one was along a public high-
way and when people saw it
they wondered 'whence it came
and when it began to multiply
and grow in prolusion along our
public highways people were a-
larmed and thought that a new
weed pest had swooped down up-
on them and was going to take
possession of their farms ana
harrass them And when it was
found out that one of our bee men
had a few years before planted
Sweet clover on his larm tor his
bees they’ were sure he was re-
sponsible for the seeming pest
and he was censured and reproved
-as though he had committed
a great crime
I once had a neighbor who
: owned a farm adjoining my farm
on the north and who lived in
town and went to his farm each
morning and returned in the ev
ening It was his constant habit
when going to and from his farm
to stop along the highway and
pluck up every sweet clover plant
he saw saying that sweet clover
was a pesky weed and w ould take
possession of our farms if it wasn’t
fought and that he didn’t want
to get it on his farm And if the
reader could see that farm today
he would realize what a blessing
it would have been if ilie sweet
c over had got 'possession of that
farm long ago-for it has been
farmed for thirty years without
-clover or organic n after upon it
ana it is right now in the worn
soil class
Less than five years after this
-neighbor of mine - was so presist-
ently fighting the spread f sweet
clover I planted a field of it almost
under his nose as it joined the
yard and garden “of his farm
home I often wondered what
that man 'thougt of it and not
long since and after he had sold
the farm I asked him and this
was his reply: "I thought you
were the biggeit fool the county
ever produced” And no doub
there are some farmers now who
not knowing the virtues of the
sweet clover plant would think
the same way
Its Numerous Advantages 1
When I took up dairying as a
side line I found my greatest prob-
lem to be pasture for my cows
All my land was suitable for till-
age and I had no bluegrass pas
tun I had plenty of alfalfa
but it cou’d not be pastured con
i“ i
tinuously without injury and
then it was more profitable to
keep it for hay I found that
my cows did better when they
had the range of a good pasture
In casting about tor a pasture
crop I tried several grasses with -out
getting results Then I tried
sweet clover which solved my
problem I first tried it out in
this maner: Being in close prox-
imity to a canning factory 1 plow-
ed ueep six acres of second bottom
sandy loam and in me first week
of April planted it Lo peas for tne
canning toctoiy sowing and peas
at tat rattsoi lour bushels of seed
to the acre with a wheat drui
with grass seeder attachment
auu at the same time sowing
twenty pounds t o the aue of
sweet clover letung me clover
seed fall irom me seeder attach-
ment in front of tne disks
in just eight weeks iron the
time tne peas anu ciover were
sown me peas were harvested
and me sweet ciover was almost
as high as me peas The peas
were a paying crop anu in har-
vesting Cue clover was of course
clipped with me peas Within
two weeks however the clover
was ready lor pasturing and dur-
ing the summer anu tail! pastur-
ed it with my six head ot cows
and there was plenty of pasture
foi mem
The following spring the clover
came up early auu was soon Knee
high Tne previous summer my
blood sows had taioweu 150 pigs
and out of the lot mere were
twenty of uie sorriest looking
runts i ever saw 1 was actually
ashamed tor any one to see Uitm
on my larm i tiled teeding
tinm eveiy ming 1 couid think of
or learn about Out tltey just stay-
ed runts i kept intin tnrouh
tne winter and evey tune 1 look-
ed at thtm 1 vowed 1 would
knock tnem m tne head and
tnrow thtm in the vVaba&n River
which formed the western bound-
ary ot my larm But in the
spring I thought of that sweet
clover field auu what I had heard
about sweet clover doing tor run-
ty pigs and be ms afflicted with
the germ of trying out farm ex-
periments I drove those runts to
mat field and turned them in
And they got nothing else They
squea ed tor a few days until they
got good and hungry and then
feeling no doubt that it was root
hog or die they went after that
ciover Enjoining my hired help
to see v mat they had plenty of
water I avoided that field as I
would a pestilence for a month or
more ana then when I did get up
my courage to look at them 1 had
the surprise of my life I wouldn’t
have known those hogs had I met
them on the highway or on anoth-
er man’s farm they nad so chang-
ed in general appearence I kept
those hogs on that sweet clover
field until fall and they got no
other feed as 1 wanted to carry
out my experiment to extremes
and when I sold them for more
than $600 they were as healthy
looking a bunch of hogs as I ever
fed out
Perhaps the reader is wondering
what there was in the sweet clo-
ver plant which produced such
wonderful transfor mation in run-
ty hogs Those pigs of mine in
early life had intestinal'disorder
which caused them to be runts
and they needed the right correc
tive or curative agency or tonic
to bring them out of it and that
was coumarin long known to be a
great corrective and curative a-
gency or tome And the sweet my stock
cluver plant possesses coumarin in
great quantities That's what
maKes uus plant so bitter anu
which a t hist repels animals
Now those pigs simply got a good
dose coumarin ai-u it cleaned out
tile disordeis within luem auu
made wit m healthy ine tood
value ot tne sweet clover did iht
rest and made nogs out oi tnem
mnee mi expeueuee 1 nave
lelt dial i cornua i allot U to uy
to grow nogs iuuiuuv plenty oi
sweet ciovei pasiuie Anu i ltei
li ee to say mat me hug man is
losing ins gieatesl opoituutiy to
’produce cneap neaiuiy nogs when
ne neglects to grow sweet ciovtr
lor uitm un ms tor in
in me sp mg ul 19aU I sowed
ten aues ot sweet ciover auu uais
at me rate oi iwetuy punda ot
seed to me acie auu lue uauai
amount ot oaia to meacie on sec-
ond uuuom sauuy loam soil
wiucn not many jeai's ago was so
puoi it wo urn not piooucc twenty
uu&nel ot coin to uie acie YVUeu
tne oats weie Harvested tne
avveet ciover waa nail aaingnas
llie Oala auu Vcl luicK it Oeiife
Oouud green wrtii Uie oats i was
leariui mat it auu the oats would
1 mouid or rot eapeciatty it tne
weatnei mould oe rainy before
mresmug rut tne w earner was
lavoraOie auu me oat straw witn
the saeet ciover made a nne lot
ot leed tor winter auu Was greedi-
ly eaten by ail kinds ol slock
Yvumn a snort tune alter the
oats were cut Lae clover was read-
y tor pasture and the ten acres
made plenty of pastuie lor my
hi teen nead ot milch cows the en-
tire summer and fail And dur
ing tne summer of 1911 it afforded
a nne lot oi pasture and in the
fall tne field was plowed anu
pianted lo rye
Rye has not been generally a
good crop in tms county mis
year nut the rye on this field is
as fine as any rye I ever saw and
promises lo be the best rye crop
in the county And here is an-
other example of the sweet cle-
ver's being a fine forage plant as
well as a soil builder
The advantages of sweet clover
for pasture use that it comes ear-
lier than any other green feed
pasturing can start when it is five
or six inches high and it is not
affected by the - drouth Stock
should be turned in on it when
the clover is young- as there is
less coumarin in it then and stock
more quickly learn to like it
or ever will have It is leader-
Since sweet clover under no con-1 ies3 and unorganized but will
ditions produces bloat you need prove one of the mightiest forces
not worry about that as the in the control of future elections
coumarin in it prevents bloat I It consists of the thinking patri-
Then if it is pastured when young 'otic independent republican and
the nipping of the plants causes democrats who in their voting re-
more shoots ’to start up which gard first and foremost the welfare
makes more pasture j0f our beloved country
The mistake is too often made They are no longer bound by
in not pasturing early enough
and by not enough stock and the
The clover in this field is high
er than a man’s head and it would
have afforded the finest lot of
PMture the rntir ummer and
(all had enough lock bra turn
ed upon it to keep it within prop-
er bounds Of course one should
make the mistake of overpastur-
ing I always desired to have two
fiields lor pasture and arranged
it so that when one field was being
pastured a little close I could turn
in on the other By this method
I had a lot of pasture and kept it
at the right height at all times for
Buster McFarland s-rnusly cut
his brother J A McFarland Jr
in a fight over the car He was
not expected to live Tuesday
The boys had used the car in
Sweet clover can be sown alone Partnersh'P amt it appears they K Cloud id Mr Roy Ta’milge
both wanted it at the some time H iys in the sacred bonds cf matri-
Their parents are well to do ninny The Reverend Mr Hick-
people north of Butler and the ' man resident pastor of the Al E
communiiy was shocked at the ' church officiated
or with a nurse crop and in either
case it does well The general
impression prevails that it should
always be sown in the spring but
such is not the case In consider-
ing the proper Lime to sow it it
must be remembered mat rui
different time may be suitable
But we can haruly go wrong it we
follow Naluie in these things
Nature matuies the sweet clover
seed late in tne summer and it
fabs to the ground and ninety per
cent oi it Oi more m not geirni
nale until spring An accasioiiai
plant may come up Out it it does
winter wih do it no uaim Anu
that which comes in Uie spr ing
the very time it should come in
order to get errly pasture and
this to the writer proves that
the fall is ihe proper ume to sow
sweet ciover but not to early in
tali
It has been my experience mat
if it is sown in the spring it should
be done as cany as possible it
is well known mai oats anu bar
ley must be sovn early in the
spring if they are to make good
crops and tills 1 mink is the
reason why sweet clover uoes well
when sown wnn these crops
While 1 have had great success
in growing sweet clover when J
sown in tne spring 1 cannot re-
it a pc tid- mat ne ius I
waikeu the streets anu
call an instance when 1 sowed itiloU11 Ru°y fcaiong anu t iauK j
late in the spring Even when 1 1 Gauap pomioaiiy Uhen hem-
sowed it with peas it was sown 11Vcd tne oinei uay heoasuied
early And 1 have always sown them how inucii ne uad done iui
the scanti'd sweet - clover seed 'tnem lie nad nad Ihiee years
If you want early pasture sow Lu 1 ' Ue“lu iUo pnipu cy but aimos
your sweet clover late in the fail OIkoL 1L
without a nurse ciop then it wil
come quickly in the spring per
haps long before oats or barley
can be planted and then it will be
ready tor pastuie in less than
eght weeks
It is however a good farm
practice to make both fall and
spring plantings of sweet clover
No mistake is made in sowing i
sweet clover with every acre of cfertldr‘Uulii a c-nsLltutiuiial tuu
oats or barley you plant and allow- j Veruyli Lo wrlLe a new onsiitu-
ing it to grow for green manuring tlyn or Oklanoma
I have made it a practice to do The bunch of would-be statesmen
this and it was surprising the couid not write a constitution
benefits I got irom it Unat tiey themselves woum
By Willian C Smith in The J be satisheu with alter the ink on
Country Gentleman it got void
Ihe ship subsidy bill passed the
There is growing up in this
country the strongest and most
effective third party we have had
I the label and prejudice of party
1 but intelligently study the plat-
1 forms and personality of those
asking their sufirage and vote as
their intelligence and conscience
dictate having in view only their
countrys welfare There is no
place in this country for any oth-
er third party than the t of the in-
‘dependent voter ana may his
trib toomw
Mr Sarah Huston and Joe
Church were at Custer City for a
Thanksgiving dinner with Fred
Huston
Brother vs Brcuier
horrible
zountj ’s
1915
event It is Luster
liisl muider case since
Oakwood
Oakwood has a school fuss
that would make Arapaho affiam-1
ed of hciteii An enltrtainment
was held and a door entrance
charged
ed from a diuwer Then me
trouble began to brew Two
girls at the depot saw two other
girls go into the ingli school room
aero s the townsite and take the
money A boy wiio has tore-
port to tne coui t also attends
scnool Henry atoll claims me
giris at the depot had eyesight to
see half a mae bume children
have quit tne basket bans games
Three dollars was miss- '
hid in his home al I
inen he eaine a i urn-
Skeet Coleman was lieie ll is
not utten mat he conus hack to
hio old haunts At the laxieoale
sotnenooy
Camion
Our distinguished fellow citizen
Bill Duinell of the twenty-one
immoiluL we hope they wnl a-
cnieve immortality committee
in Oklahoma oily drutUng tne
agricultural program tor the com-
ing session ot lue stae legislature
The reconsLuuion league is now
h°use Jast Wednesday
Sam L Darrah is looking for a
suitable office room He will
practice law in Arapaho when his
term of oiiic e expires
Jim Bond and family departed
for Arizona Wednesday in two
cai a Mr Bono nopes to tecuie
worn as a biack&iuun on a big gov
emment irrigation project and in
tends to secure a desirable larm
under me duen wiien the reclum-
ation dam is completed four years
htnce
Pays advertize in the Bee
have seen me crowd j
at me uourt house Monday thel
Pth Pav‘u thouands of dollars
nLo county treasury on lots
advertised in the Bee
—
The two women whu sued Wm
1 ° "°”!“
gXtad ud Sr ’
were all riaht for the caies as
thev cam but thev
n T i
all right for other cases
have good memories
Lawyers
BKJ
Wcddiim Dells
Wednesday November 22 at 7
P M at the home of Air & Mrs
L o P Cloud in this city a very
pre ty home wedding was si em
nized w-hieh united Miss Gladys
Only relatives of the bride were
present and immediately after
the ceremony a sumptuous we id-
ing supper was served
The bride is an uwomp i-hed
and charming young lady why
has resided in Custer count alj
her life and who is he d in
highest esteem by a hostof irienU
aim acquuiniancts
The gioom Mr Roy T Hays
was reared in Clinton and is
most exemplary yuuug man and
holds a responsible position an
head mechanic in a large garage
m Duncan Oklanoma
After a shower party and char
ivan the young eoupe d'p re'
for Duncan Monday m n-nnq
where they wnl make the r iatuiu
home
ALTON— FLEE I’ WOOD
Miss Bonnie Action ami Mr
AI S I leetwood went to Kha-is
City Octobtr lirst urn were
led at uie rioine of Mr Fitel Woi d'a
bruther-in-law Joe Cr -p n m ijU'
league baseball 1 me ' wi n i
Ult wm 0 said Air & All F! a’
wood Lo lie Crta iinmv ’ W
are going to snow our inends to
Hernigton that a welding e m t
gypt a secret tor a tew week uay
Vvay Tne young couple gt
vvay with it uuln la week hen
news leaked out and a iepj4t
er had no trouble m
confession out of tnem
The bride came time last rirvg
from Arapaho UKiaiionij and
was employed in mui uu mesu
lit ms as a stenogiapne' ioi a lev
weeks when sue wenL lj L mjic:
Grove wneie sue went m in utlk
ol Anueisuu A: iUie na- rueys
She is an atuaue and tulente
young lady
Air Fleetwood has resided i
Hermglon lor me past two yea
ana is employed m the divisL
engineer’s office at me Rock i
land His perennial smi e an
never tiling good humor haw
won him a host oi iriends wlv
extend best wishes to him and hi
bude Air 6l Airs Fleet worn
have an apartment at the W 1
White home on Norlh Broadway
JUSTICE
Capes in court have thi i 4
humorous sides Both for ti
state and the pure and undefib
defendants
Our old Arapaho blackstuii
Dave Myers got convicledl
forgery this term and bhou
have been sentenced loi oi
year to the pen But did hip-
sentenced? No not much
He appeared the least concerr
ed of anybody when the gr-
victory tor justice was annom-
e i in court
When they sent foi Dave (
come in and stand up He r
porte(i a bed and could t
stand up
The judge departed on l
Frisco south Saturday T t
prisoner took the same fra
outh Sunday Tu Judge m
teUs anrbolj' wlcre he " '
Dave Myer never tol ‘
us where he was headed for
his hasty departure But he c-'
parted Justice U often an t -
J pensive faroe
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Lawton, Jesse Wilber. The Arapaho Bee (Arapaho, Okla.), Vol. 30, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, December 1, 1922, newspaper, December 1, 1922; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2307953/m1/1/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.