The Curtis Courier. (Curtis, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 7, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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DRY FARM NG SOT^S
Careful and Proper Ti'lrge In-
sures Success with Cereals
and Vegetables.
Large Areat of Land Popularly Sup-
posed to Be Worthless Exctpt for
Crazing Purposes Converted
Into Prosperous Farm
Communities-
By CONGRESSMAN F. W MONDELL,
OF WYOMING.
Experience, txtendirig over a Ion*
period of years, lu% rlenumsirated l» ■
yond a question' of doubt that with
cartful and proper tillage, all of the
cerea’s, aud a laigo varltty of vege-
tables, may be successfully and protlt
ably grown In loam Mill where the
average ruialall does not e&vsd 1-1 to
IS Inches annually.
Tire dry farmer should select a loam
soil. Personally I shou'd select for
such purposes what might he cull'd a
sandy loam, and (his being done, suc-
cess, with the rainfall indicated and
thorough tillage, is reasonably certain
My exrericiicc with dry farming ex
tends over a period of 2 • years, lu
which time I have seen urens popu-
larly supposed to be practically worth-
less exo | l for grazing purposes, con-
verted Into prosperous lann communi-
ties. Some of the crops I have, s en
raised have been phenomenal. Where
the location has been carefully select-
ed and the cultivation has been thor-
ough, I recall practically no fallun s.
It Is my opinion that th< re are very
largo areas which are still open to
homestead settlement quite ns good
um those which have been settled up
on heretofore.
My own experience In dry farming,
has been under the ordinary nnntml
crop system, hut 1 am firm’y of the
splnlon that ultimately, In this land of
limited rainfall, we shall adopt the
biennial system now so successfully
practiced eleaewhere. This system
consists of cropping one half of ilie
farm each year, and summer tIlllnrr ,
the remainder. Under this system. I
dry farming, so called, Is safer ar 1
On a Dry Farm.
more certain than crop raising In
! vtny localities usually having an
abundance of., lain; and under this
system much land still open to the
homesteader will produce as many
bushels of grain In a given number
years as much of the high priced
wheat lands of the country.
itiennial cropping, while it gives the
farmer as high as double the yield per
acre which he would otherwise ob-
tain, calls for a larger farm, as U
reduces the number of acres under
crop, and it was to meet this condi-
tion that we secured the passage of
the 320-aere homestead bill.
Cleft Grafting.
Cleft grafting is the style common-
ly used in fruit tries of medium or
large size, the end of the stock being
split to admit wedge-shaped scions.
Don't Kill Off Hens.
Do not go to killing oIY your hens
that do not lay up to the 250 a year
standard. Work tor as high an aver-
age in your flock as you can. but do
not insist upon the impossible. You
read u good deal about the wonderful
record some individual hen lias made,
but the money makers are the good
all around average flocks giving us
about 150 eggs to the hen. Let the
good work go on
Chicken Pox Among Poultry.
Chicken-pox among poultry Is an un-
common disease, but when contracted
is a nasty thing and not easily cured.
Damp quarters and wet yards are the
favorite breeding grounds for the dis-
ease. It can he hist treated by ap-
plying to the spots a salve made ol
one part powdered Iodoform and ten
parts vaseline.—Farm and Fireside.
The Disputed Nest,
liens have a way of settling dis
putes over a nest that ofteti results
in scrambled eggs. The hen iliut Is
given a setting of choice eggs should
be set w here there will bo no trouble
with other hens
DRY FACING E'.ST AND WEST
—
Well Tried 6y*tem cf Agriculture and
Can Be Relic I Upon Where
Rainfall It Scanty.
Dry farming n ay be relied upon I
where rainfall Is scanty. It Is a w< 11-
• •ltd system of tigi(culture, nt.d Is
Ici-id on scientific principles and il 1
practice of ages. Mr. Cenirbell I *
mst» mullzt d some very eld practices
and has preached them to th<* despair
lug farmers of the sent! arid wist, un-
til, aid'd by *cv< ral semens of exces-
sive rainfall, those regions have lot-
bided bop« Instead of despair, ar. J
successful farming scents lll cljr io bo
extended over tLoueands of square
miles where It would be Impossible
without the dry-farming system. Hut
he lias never rreached It as a substi-
tute for rainfall, nor has he < ver he'd
out to those countries ihc deceptive
hope that the climate wl'l < ver chang ,
says Farm and Fireside.
The fates—or, ns the ancients cal'e 1
It, "the stars"—have decreed that the
lands under the lee of tho Rocky
mountains must always he content
with Bcnnty rainfall. This does not
mean that great populations of happy
and successful people may not h*
sustained there; but il does m<viu that
such populations must succeed In spite
of the aridity.
In luet, the existence of this vai t
arid region and Ihc methods rendered
necessary by its natural conditions
seem likely to prove n h'esslrg to the
farmers of all the nation. Dry farm-
ing has Its lessons for the farm* rs of
the humid regions as well ns for tliorc
depending on Irrigation. If twen'y
inches of rainfall will mature crops,
why shou’d n ore be used when re-
ceived through ditches? Or If 13
Inches rau bo made to do, why use
more? Why not me the excess to
help out the drled-up acres beyond
the present limits of the flow? Iti
brief, the conservation of moisture In
the soli has one of Its chief uses In
extending the Irrig ihlc area of the
nation by making one gil'on of water
do the work done under n ore waste-
ful methods by two.
And over the entire country, where
rainfall is relied upon, the season h
an exceptional one in which dro gli's
of more or less si verily do not occur.
And whenever u drought ocrurs, tlv
remedy Is dry farming, whether th-
location be in Iowa or Ohio or'Colo-
rado. This present season has been
one of wide-spread and long continued
droughts In some regions east of the
Missouri. Crors have been shorten'd
up In yield—perhaps by Just theamoun'
which turns profit Inin Ioks—hy lack
of moisture. And yet there were co
I lous rains early In the season. Dry
farming would have held these rains
In the ground, and would have as-
sured plentiful crors all over those
afflicted fle’ds. Dry farming wont
hurt anything in a wet season; and it
is salvation in a dry one. Study It
It is worth your while.
Demand for Brcon Hogs.
In meeting the demand for baron
hogs the farmers should select some
one of the breeds which produces a
large pereentng * of lean meat. When
the pigs are young they should bu
ah owed to range far and wide, eating
alfalfa nnd the grasses, skinumd milk,
buttermilk, oats and barley. Toward
the end of the sixth or seventh month
when they are nearing^ the time for
market they may he fed some corn.
Hy selling the pigs at this period it
will he found that it costs less to pro
duce 100 pounds of bacon whicli re-
tails at 20 cents a pound than 100
pounds of mess i ork worth 10 or 12
cents a pound.
Dust Mulch for Orchard.
A dust mulc h is better than a straw
mulch for the orchard. The soil is in
no danger of staying wet for clays if a
dust mulch is made by cultivation aft-
er every heavy rain has dried siifit
oh ntly so the ground works perfectly,
whi'e n straw mulch will hold too
much moisture at times.
POULTRY YARD NOTES.
Don't wall until young poultry begin
to droop and die before looking for
lice.
When you have set all the eggs you
care to for the season, send the roes
ters to market. Their room is better
than their company.
As every chick hatched carries the
blood of the male, it Is important that
great rare he taken in selecting the
head of the lloek.
liens feel the warm weather as
much as other folks. Give them a
shady place to sit down once in awhih
and rest. They will do all the be.
ter for it.
Some folks think that hens do not
need oyster she'ls when they can run
out. Just try giving them some am’
se e how that is. You will be wisei
after that.
Hogs In Missouri.
In Missouri there are about 4,000,01
hogs worth at market pile, s m arl;
$i5,U0J,l)00. Hog cholera costs tht
growers of that state alone more than
$1,0.0,000 every year, and the loss
sometimes is more than {5,000,000.
NEWSPAPERS MIXED
IN BANK FAILDRE
INDICTMENTS AGAINST PARERS
IMPORTANT.
President W. L. Norton Making Bo-
picnic Effort to Meet the
Demand* of tho
* State.
Oklahoma City, Okla — Acting under
Instructions of Governor Haskell, As-
sistant Attorney General Georgs Hen
shaw, w tio Is conducting the grand
q InvestIgiVions here to feriot out
.wit-god ptafts In connection with tho
sale of liquor and gambling lu Okla-
homa, will stop the graft Investigation
and will Investigate sllcved violation*
of the Oklahoma tanking law In run-
nectlnn with the failure of the Colum-
bia bank In an attempt to secure In-
dictments arnlrst Frank II. Greer, ed-
itor of the Guthrie State Capital, and
Claude S. Htirr, managing cJItor of the
Guthrie State Capital, was summoned
to appear before the grand Jury here
nnd to bring copies of all Issues of the
Plate Capital slnre 1 he fullure of.the
Columbia Hank and Trust company.
Members of the stuff on the Okla-
homan. published here, will he sum-
mnned to testify concerning an Inflam-
matory story given them prior to the
rloslng of the Columbia concern by •
stranggr who. It Is now claimed, la an
Oklahoma City national hanker.
President Tlmherlake, of • etate
bank at Ada. Okla., has been sum
mol ed to appear and will be asked t#
testify concerning a telephone con
versation w-ith another Oklahoma City
ratio,ml banker about tbe Columbia
Rank and Trust company. The na-
il uinl bnnker and Greer will not be
summoned as this will give tkem Im-
munity under tbe Oklahoma consti-
tution.
The article In the Guthrie Capital
which aroused the Ire of Governor
Haskell, charged that Haskell was
whitewashing President W. I*. Norton
of the Columbia bank, nnd the coro-
pnny preparatory to the re-openlng of
the Columbia Hank nnd Trust com-
pany. nnd that the governor was
straining every resource to permit the
l ank to re-open so It would never bo
known who were the stockholders and
who secured loans from the defunct
concern State .officials aro accused
of borrowing loans.
The Capital also contained a charge
thnt depute hank examiner* had so-
lie'.'cd deposits In the Columbia Bank
and Trust company.
PeposHors continued to draw ont
their money, hut not In such number*
ns on the preceding day*. Statement*
concerning the amount of money paid
out, the amount taken from the state
guarantee fund and the condition of
the hank or 1he spoclflc things that
caused the s»ate to take charge of it,
are still not forthcoming.
President W. 1,. Norton and bl* as-
«nrlnte« are making their supreme ef-
'ort to nucter their resources to meet
»he demands of the state so they may
take control acnln. They are more con.
fldcnt than heretofore, but Governor
Haskell denied that r.ny understand-
In" has been reached
“All they need is ‘he necessary
cash. All there is ,r us to do It* to
count It. If they can get It they can
have the hank." was the statement of
Governor Haskell.
George R Hrown of Wellsvllle, a
dlree'or In the First National' there
and Interested In manufactures, came
in the assistance of Norton, who 1* his
snr-ln law. When seen Brown would
only say that be was here to assist
his son-in-law and that the outlook
was hopeful. No statement Is made
whether ihe emergency assessment on
state hanks will bn made.
Restraining Order Granted.
Guthrie, Okla.—Following the filing
of a suit hy a Chicago concern and
a Missouri man In the federal court
here. Dennis T. Flynn, of Ihe law firm
of Flynn & Atnes. Oklahoma City was
cranted a temporary restraining on
der nealnst the Columbia Hank and
Trust company hy Federal .fudge John
II Cotteral. The petition In the suit
asks for a temporary restraining or
der and a receiver for a Columbia
hank, now In charge of State Bank
Commissioner Young.
The plaintiffs are the National In-
snrnnee company of Chicago, who hold
a certificate of deposit In the Involved
hank for $25,000, and G. C. Smith of
Springfield. Mo , who la a depoaltor
• o the extent of $70,500. The petitions
allege that he Columbia bank I* In-
solvent; that Dank Commissioner
Young baa refused to pay their
claims, and that he la paying those
depositors whom he would befriend to
'he exclusion of others. Alleging
hopeless Insolvency and Insufficient
assets to pay depositor! In full, the
I petition nskR the court to compel Utf
* distribution of the fund* pro rat*. *
ROCK ISLAND PLANS PENNONS
Provide* for Elective Retirement at
Age of Bi »nd Compulsory at
70— In Effect in 19 0.
Chicago, 111.—The 45.000 or more
employes cf tbe Rock Island system
are to have tbe benefit* of a com
prehens', ve pension system. Data Is be*
In? gathered by the ofll-lals of tho
road which will enable thee to put
Into effect a liberal system by June 3D,
1910.
Compulsory retirement will take
place at tbe age of 70 years, and
elective retirement at 65 years Thei*
will be no limit set upon th* age at
which tbe company alii employ a
man In the fiist instance. In order
to be entitled to the benefits of a pen-
sion the employe must have been wl.b
the road twenty-five years.
The average salary of tbe employe
will be takou for the entire term of h i
employment, aud he will be entitled to
1 per cent of the a vet age salary for
every year of service rendered the
company. For example, If an employe
has a twenty-five year period of serv-
ice he will get for the remalmler
of his lire 25 per cent of bis average
salary for that time.
TOO SWIFT FOR THE JAPANESE
An International Marathon at Hsnolu*
lu Causstf Great Excitement
—American Easy Winner.
Honolulu.—An International Mara-
thon was run here and resulted lu a
victory for Nlgfl Jackson, au Ameri-
can, over the Japanese champion,
Tsukomoto, who gave up noon af-
ter tho fourteenth mile when Jacx-
son was a mile r.nd a half ahead.
The race caused great excitement
and many wagers were made on the
Japaneso by bis compatriots, which
were promptly covered by the Ameri-
can sporting men. Jackson made the
pace from the start with Tsukomoto
running clcse up for more than 13
miles, wljtn the American’s superior
stamina began to tell, and the Japa-
nese was forced to Btop with his train-
ers at the Fourteenth mile . He made
a desperate effort to close up the dis-
tance but after running a mile he gave
up, Jackson out-gaming blm even in
the spurts.
Jackson ran the rest of the 26 mile
course In easy fashion and crossed lie
line amid cheers of the Amerlcars In
the Immense crowd of Loth nations.
TEST FOR CENSUS AGENTS
Director Durand Announces That Ap-
plicanta for Appointment Will
Be Examined November 3.
Washington, D. C.—Census Direct-
or E. Dana Durand announces Novem-
ber 3 next as the date for making a
practical test of the qualifications of
applicants for appointment as special
agents for the collection of the thir-
teenth census statistics of manufac-
tures. mines and quarries. Blank ap-
plications may be obtained now by
writing tbe bureau of the census. No
applications which are received after
tbe close of business October 25 wwl
be considered.
Oklahoma Farmers to Meet.
Guthrie, Okla.—A convention of
the Farmers' Union of^^'ahoua baa
heen called by the **T~cutlve com-
mittee to meet In Shawnee. October
12, to consider the central selling
agency for marketing all farm pro-
ducts. The meeting will Include ail
union or co-operative concerns, such
as cotton gins, warehouses, elevators.
Mercantile and Industrial concern:
and will formulate the central agency
plan.
They Hope to Raise Fruit, Also.
Garden City, Kan.—Fruit raisers
In the Garden City section ate talk-
ing of the organization of a fruit
association In the spring. The remark-
able success in fruit raising in alti-
tudes practically the same as that
here, with the same attendant dan-
ger from frost late in the spring
and Intelligent preventative measure?,
has stimulated some of the fruit grow-
ers In this section.
Wright Makes a High Flight
Potsdam, Germany.—Orville Wright,
the American aviator, has hot two
new marks for aspiring rivals to stilve
for. For one thing, he reached
the unprecedented height for aero-
plane of 1,600 feet. Secondly he wxde
a flight with Prince Frederick Wl.l-
lam, tbe future emperor of the German
Empire as a passenger.
Spain Will Occupy Morocco.
Madrid, Spain.—It Is stated that the
government has decided to create a
captain generalcy In Africa with head-
quarters at Ceuta or Meltlle, the gar-
risons of which are to be raised to
15.000 men each. Gen. Marina, '..no U
now In command of the Spanish forces
In Morocco, Is mentioned as the tlrst
captain general tt n salary of $30,0ou
the Burred Her Fees In Hsr HAM.
Tbs extraordinary popularity ot fine
white goods this summer mskts tbs
choice of Starch a matter of grsAt too
portanc*. Defiance Starch, being free
from all injurious chemicals. Is tha
only one which la safe to use on flae
fabrics. It greet strength as a stiffen-
er makes half the usual quantity of
Starch necessary, with th* result d
perfect finish, equal to that when th#
goods were new.
Repartee In IK* Bright Family.
“The newspapers ar* making A
great stir about men's dlsincllnatloa
to marry,” remarked Mrs. Bright.
"Th* Bible says there are no mar-
riages In heaven." commented Mr. B.
“And what bss that to do with us?”
Bright larwhed.
" Perhaps they are figuring on hav-
ing a little heaven on earth."
dowt sfott. your ri.oTtnca.
Use Red Crow Ball lllu* and keep them
white se snow. All grocers, Be s package.
Strange bow a girl's Ideal can de-
velop Into merely her husband.
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■ani dlM-iiM-i. It li I ho-on* lily cured hy U»
rtcrea's reUete. Tiny »u*ar-couiod innalM.
Many a true word has been spoken
regardless of grammar.
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CALIFORNIA
PUBLIC LAND
DRAWING
ts.ooo seres of irrigated Government Lead
in Arkansas Valley. Colorado, will b*
thrown open for settlement October 21. !)og
under the Carey AcL Opportunity to gel
sa irrigated farm at low cost on easy pay
ments. Only short residence required.
Seud for book giving full information.
Two Butts* Irrigation and Rtssrvolr Company
Lamar, Colorado
Cheerful homes
Many things
combine to make home
cheerful, but no one thing
plays so important a part
as artistic taste in wall
decoration. Beautiful,
cleanly and wholesome is
Alabastine
The Sanitary Wall Coating
We he*# Idea# en color harmonise,
classic stencils, ond muen that will In-
tcreat the discriminating house owner.
These Ideas have coat us money but are
free to you. Ask your dealer er write
direct.
Alabastine Co., Grand Rapids, Mich,
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