The Hooker Advance (Hooker, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, October 18, 1907 Page: 4 of 8
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only when it is safely invested.
Burglars may annoy you;
Bad loans may cripple you;
Speculation may ruin you.
The
Citizens S
Bank
Here arc the Direc-
tors of this Hank
J. H. HAWKINS
A. C. MURPHY
J. S. MORRIS
C. P. MURPHY
Is safe because it is governed on
a conservative basis. It holds
your money where you can get
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A FEW,, SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES YET FORWENT
THE HOOKER ADVANCE
By JESSE S. MOFFIT1
Subscription, per year Ji.oo
Entered at the post office at Hooker,
)kla., as tecutid-clasi matter.
VALUE OF COTTON
IMPROVEMENT
Circular No. 1, Sept. 1907.
From The Oklahoma Experiment
Station. Stillwater, Okla.
i- j yield of cotton on the Oklahomr
definite plan and the crop
proved thereby each year.
The Experiment Station can-j next five years
not do this work for the farmer.; accomplish this the acreage must
All it can do is to determine be decreased and every
farm should be doubled in the
and in order to
fundamental facts that may be
applied to the general improve-
ment of the plant. The in-
dividual planter must apply
these principles to his own case.
one in
any way connected with the in
dustry must do his share toward
helping to better the conditions
under which cotton is grown. It
will be but a matter of a few
cotton
"IF IT AIN'T RIGHT, WE'LL MAKE IT RIGHT"
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware
etc., at HAL REID'S
JEWELRY STORE
Fine Watch Repairing a Specialty Liberal, Kan.
Hooker, Okla
| J. S. Morris Co. I
AGENTS FOR
SCHOOL LANDS,
FARMS, RANCHES,
RELINQUISHMENTS
No Charge to Show Lands.
Notary Public—All legal documents correctly drawn
Town Property bought and sold
Owners of the Murphy-Morris Addition
Good Bargains in Town Lots in all parst of Hooker
COAL
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have on .hand afgood supplj
Best Colorado Coal
Morrison & McKiernan
We alio have a full line of FJoar and F«ed. HOOKER OKLA
A Boy or a Girl
Can Earn as Muck as a Man
W o- want boys and girls who want to earn money to
Hohfit swhwripUoBMo TI* Kansas Citv Weekly Star
on t hesitate- because too are .young, as you cm'do the
work as readily as older persons and we will pn\ \-oU
K the same. he Kansas City Weekly Star Ys'tho
best known weekly newspaper in the west and your
III V'F!1VV(,rki"f fop " wil1 P .v Iwncl-
•somHy, not ,n toys watches or other small wares, hut
Address ^ 1 uyfo1' tmns an<J ful1 '"formation.
The KANSAS CITY WEEKLY STAR
KANSAS ritv un
Make Final Proof Before
J. S. MOFFITT
U. S. Commissioner
HOOKER, OKLA.
Homestead Filings and „ -Jjk Contests Acknowledged
¥*rA Proofs Taken ^ and Testimony Heard
Transact your land office business here
AI>V*NCE OFFICE, HOOKER
One of the most important
problems before the Oklahoma
farmer today is the improvement
of the cotton plant. No otht
line of work that will tend to
improve farm conditions offt
the possibilities that are open to
the cotton producers who will
take advantage of the opportun
ities that lie within this plant for
improvement. But few cultivated
plants are as susceptible of
improvement through selection
and breeding as is the cotton
plant and yet it has received less
attention perhaps during the
many years it has been grown
than almost any of our cultivated
(''•ops. The average farmer pays
more attention to the selection of
his watermelon seed than he
does that of his cotton Seed.
Such a state of affairs ought n°t
to be.. Statistics show that the
yield oT lint cotton for the Unit
etl States is only about 190
pounds per acre. This is just
about enough'to pay for cost of
production under present condi
tions and yet it has been shown
time after time that highly bred
cotton, under proper conditions
of soil and climate, is capable of
producing as high as 1000 pounds
or more of lint cotton per acre.
Something is surely wrong when
such a wide variation exists be-
tween the average yield and that
of a few fields where selection
has been practiced.
If the farmer is to realizo as!
he should on his cotton crop, the
gross income per acre must be
ncreased. This may be done in
two ways: (l) By'in creasing the
market price of raw cotton; or
(2) By increasing the yield per
acre. With cotton averaging
about ten cents per pound, the
first, method cannot be depended
"pou to give permanent relief
| since there are factors to deal
*WowcM«« oag with that the farmer cannot
j influence to any great extent,
j The latter method, however, is
| fully within the control of the
j farmer and any system that will
i work toward the desired end
j should be adopted by the Okla-
| homa farmer at once. Smaller
acreage and larger yields of
better cotton should be the object
sought, and in most cases it can
be obtained.
There are several ways in
which the yield of cotton can be
, increased quite materially: by
' the use of manures; by the use of
I the very best machinery andtools
for cultivation; by improving the
mechanical condition of the soil
through better tillage; and last
| and most important of all, by
j the continued selection of seed
from plants that show them-
selves superior to their kind in
those characteristics that it is
desirable to prepetuate in the
| cotton plant.
The selection of cotton seed is
a problem that each individual
cotton planter must work out
for himself and not until each
| planter does adopt some dciinite
method of seed selection can we
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The stations of the southern1 years until the Mexican
states have given a great deal of boll weevil will have spread over
attention to the cotton plant, all the cotton growing sections
They have tested and classified of Oklahoma, and when this time
varieties, tested all kinds of, comes it will be necessary to
fertilizers, introduced new modify our system of cotton
varieties and made an endless growing to some extent. The old
number of crosses. Perhaps J slip-shod ways will have to give
the most important thing they ; way to more scientific methods
have done as far as the planter if the growing of cotton is to be
is concerned is the classification j a profitable business. This year
of types and the information they i 90 per cent of the late cotton was
have given on the qualifications ['destroyed by the weevil in the
that go to maty; up a good plant southern part of Indian Territory
in each type. The study of the!and this condition will prevail
methods of combating cotton j over all of Oklahoma in a few
insects is another place where i years. Early maturing varieties
the stations have been of great j and better culture are about the
service to the planter, but it | only remedies. These things pay
whether we have weevil or not
so let us begin to put them into
practice at once.
Notice
Notice is hereby given that the
annual stockholders meeting of
the Beaver County Co-operative
Association of America, will be
held at Hooker in Beaver county
Okla., on the 2nd Monday in Oct.
devolves upon the farmer
make use of this information or
it will be of no benefit to him.
The mer& fact of having know-
ledge of these things will be of
no profit unless he learns to turn
the knowledge to some advantage
to himself.
Every farmer should have a
seed breeding plat of his own
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so isolated from the general field , 1A , , .
that the possibilities ol crossing 19'" 10 °c ocli ,m" ° o
would be reduced to 'the"®?™"? transact 8 cb °th«
minimum. On this • breeding m"'V C°me Worc
, . , . ,. , said meeting.
plat, constant selection can bei
made and a higher standard ot , ""ess our hands th,s 12th da,
perfection reached each year. ^ ^
A person passing through a Held *' How' „ ,
can readily see a great variation | —— J' ' ^ec*
in the type of plants. This is I Notice
true even in fields of highly bred Parties who gave notes for
cotton and it is due to this tend-j horse and jack service of J I)
ency towards variation that such Gondii's stock will please settle
rapid progress can be made in | same with O. F. Conwill at D B
breeding. Two plants may grow | Almond's store or at Citizens
side by side having equal op- Bank, 24-tf
portumties and one yield twoj r—
hundred fine bolls and the other ■0
but ten. It is the elimination of
these unfavorable plants from a
R. BOLIN. ROBT. HALL O. C. ARMSTB
BUlLDERy
HARDWARE
BOLIN, HALL & CO
LDMBIi
Coal, Posts and Wire
Eclipse Wind Mills
Lincoln Paints & Oils
HOOKEB,
0KLAH
F. L. Norbur
Notary Public j* All Deeds Legally and Carefully Exe
REA L EST AT
Business and Private Houws for Sale or Bent. Stocks of Merchandise f,
ALL KINDS OF INSURAN
Written in Old and Kellable Companies.
Pensions and Legal Advice HOOKER, OKLAHC
A deeded quarter 3 miles from
town. Inquire st this office.
field that gives the farmer a
chance to improve his crop and
all such plants should be removed
before the blossoming period
when there will be a chance for
the intermingling of pollen.
A great many Oklahoma farm-
ers are contemplating the adop-
tion of the breeding plat method
of improvement but at the outset
they are confronted with the
difficulty of getting the selected
seed ginned in such a way as to
insure its being kept pure. It is
the object of this circular to urge i
upon theginnersof.the state the)
great advantage, not omy to the
Hooker Blacksmitl
and Machine Shop
^ General Blacksmithing and Wood Working
Guns, Bicycles and Sewing Machines Repair
L. C. Almond, Mgr., Hooker, Okl
Church Directory
BAPTIST CIIUMOH
Baptist services at the school house
the L'rul Sunday in each month.
_ Preaching on Saturday eveninjrat
7 o clock. Sunday at It a. m. and 7
p. in. •
Sabbath school ea^li Sunday mom-
my at 10 o'clock. Dr. W. j. Risen
SUptr.
Ladies Aid Tuesday afternoon each
week. Mrs. H. G. Bardwell, Pres.
SEVKNTH DAY ADVENTIST CIIUBCH
Sabbath school every Sabbath at 11
i in. ,1. O. Becker, Supt.
Preaehinuf, followed by prayer and
•cial meetings, 2 p. m. J. J. Schitr-
ner, Elder.
^r. e. cnuacn' south
•i ^"n(lay scll°o1 every Sunday at 10
Preaching the first, third and fourtl
farmers, but to themselves, ofjsuX?tt^
offering all assistance possible in i £ra>'e"neeting Wednesday night.
ti,;.. ....... i. o .! . , I. hp worth League every Sunday
this work. Seed selection can- i """
not be made of much value to the',,A". are inv,ited to attend each of
, . . • i the above services.
H. I). Joimsos, Pastor
planter unless he can be'assured
of lieing able to gin his selections I
in such a way as to keep them [
free from other seed. In many j
cases it has been impossible for I
the planter to get his own seed |
back from the gia Under such
conditions cotton breeding is
impossible. The ginnc
CHUISTIAN CHURCH.
Preaching and communion service
at 8 p. m. on first Sunday and at 11
a. m. and 8 p. m. on third Sunday.
It. It. Cokfky, Pastor.
Chapter U
A n ordinance to provide for the im-
levies provemfent of streets, sidewalks and
tribute upon every pound of cot- pul,lic highways in the town of
Hooker.
article
ton that the farmer raises, hence
increased yield and better quality , n J
is ot great importance to him. of trustees of ato n of Hoff
There arc several ways in
Which ginners may be of service boulevard and Broadway in
to plaincrs*in theoffort they arc
making to brtted np their cotton. u'n fcetwidth, and that said side
It is possible for them to be
great assistance in the selection by the board of trustees.
of proper varieties for planting, Sec- - -Said walks shall be made of
and in .be socurin|!„f seed that
is known to be reliable, at reason- me"t the lower strata, or groutinir
able prices. After this pre,in,. •£
inary work has been accomplish-1 t0P la^r or strata shall eonsistof two
ed the dinners should so arrange .Cth^S
M their machinery that selected thick and the top or surface layer
ever hope for anything like per- cotton may be «>nn<wi sha11 b® one inch thick,
manent improvement in cotton fear of mixing, j
production, either in yield or this material may b
quality f)f lint. It will not until after the busy season,
answer the - purpose for the it interferes in no way with the ^'ateTytta^[to?nedU bi Sie mar
farmer to purchase well bred regular work of the gin « the manner provided by law.
seed each year, or every few There are on the market a ti?
years, for this course usually ; number of excellent gins of small iP,r.°^rt;v f?,1)0 !lL "nce notified of said
results in the seed "running size, ranging from ten to thirty Sec.S-Wh^veT'^u i
' ' ' hat could be installed in la^^n ®a'^s^et wh?ch a^on'the
board of
A Million Acres of Wheat Lai
Rich Level Prairie * Thousands of Homester
Baca County, Colo
?0UwM,a uCo/,n^of ttC Sutc «•* Clear Title Lands, ev<
foot tillable, $3.50 to $5.00 J. Running Streams, Tim
lor Fuel and Fence Post* J- J j, ji ^ ^
STEWART (El
Real Estate, Abstracting and Locating
LAMPOR
SPRINGFIELD, COI
I J. N. McEnulty Real Esta
| and Investment Compar
?/ldciLT,S- .Sch?°l Land Leases. Headquarters for H.
mn ?pga,ns in ,^otlses an^ Lots. Houses for 1
iw deeded r arms ranging in price from $700.00 to $4" 00'
Money to Loan and money advanced on real estate for pro
up. Money furnished on short notice.
Livery, Feed and Sale Barns
hrstclass Accommodationt. Barns South of R. R. and opposite P.
XIool*er, Oklahoma
■+I+B+B+B+B+B+B+B+B+B+B+BfB+B+B+B+B+B+B+B-«-fB1B-l
ginned without
The Ki„„inK jf^a%KB,.^SSfSS
deferred ls lll're1b.v levied against said abutting
and tlie r,'sl)(,ct-iw owners
and thereof, the amount of such tax to be
mit" through neglect by the time
* FRESH. MEATS
Bread and Pastry
always on hand at
■ m Jll/ICCt \\\
grade established bv
. nt-Kiwtoy hum imo saws, rnai eouia oc installed in Kl,°
I the plant has adjusted itself to | the average gin at small cost and trustees a uix rP. i -
I lts ,lt'vv eiiviromnents, and new operated with the power already the --ie ? w"'be Riven
rownents, .and
'd has to be purchased and tliel hand: Tin
>peration repeated. This pro-1 f*"' the jjurposi
A COMPLETE LINE OF BAKERY GOODS
Bread, 1 ics, Cakes, etc. Orders taken
for specialties in our line
E. W. FERRIN, Prop. Hooker, Ok!,he
e gins are built shalfbe
•of ginning select
; quality
sired
>f cotton
standard.
For the Advanc
from Now Unl
January J, 190
m I - fi S ft
- i d'Mn,uK nfiuei,- PW'Pert.J, eicept for repairs and alter-
eess will never bring the yield or | «d seed and are readilv clean* d t'lmo't iWalk? wi)icl1 lnaJ' from
up to the do i and easily handled. One of these Whir1 an elZ ? board*
Each farmer small gins put in for the use 0forfd>nance shall ta^fSc^ from and
1 •• profitable the 121,1 da>'of OctoU;r, llW7an^
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s'' <■ s- -n : '• 1 1(1 ti-kean iiiiores! in . . .. , Hlake'Prcsldent-
, , ,,n,: I, , 1,!,KKrn'. Town Clerk.
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HORSES BOUGHT AND SOLD
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