The Tangier Citizen. (Tangier, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, April 28, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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TEE TANGIER CITIZEN.
AN AGRICULTURAL PROBLEM.
Something For Farmers to Think
About.
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SAVE THE CHILDREN.
FREE MEALS SERVED UNFORTU-
NATE PUPILS.
KaM Ka«lt.
The necessity of providing ft
perminent and prolific pasture
grass becomes more apparent
each year. The wild prairie
grass, as has been the case in
the states, is losing vitality and
is dying on*. It cannot stand
close grazing, and will not sus-
tain the number of cattle or hors-
es that must be pastured on a giv-
en area in order to make the live
stock industry profitable. And
when it is once over-pastured it
takes a long period of rest for it
to recuperate; years in many cas-
es since there is no way of re-
seeding. As the country gets
older it is evident also that the
wheat pastures cannot be depend
ed on, even in seasons of a full
grain crop.
Illinois, IowarMi*souri, and in
fact ever^’‘sUte whose lands have
reached a high stats of cultiva-
tion, went through a similar ex
perienee. In those states diver
and blue grass gradually spread
out and finally replaced the na-
tive grass altogether, providing
five times as much pasturage to
the acre. This transformition
tcok years. The farmers made
no particular effort to assist in
the charge, l.&virg little faith in
the ability of their land to pro*-
CMct the mere valuable pasture
grasses. But the change came
just th$ same
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Tardy Efforts of English Philanthrop-
ists to Relieve Situation Which Is a
Blot on Great Nation's Fame—Good
Results of Scheme.
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like the Kentucky, variety from
| which it sprang, 'but similar and
much hardier.
This is not a pipe dream.
SCATTERED.
So it will be with Oklahoma.
Blue grass and clover will grow
just as readily and profusely here
as it does iu Missouri or Iov. s.
Iv trill have to be acclimated first,
but this can just ss well be done
in five years, if our farmers will
take concerted action, at to wait
fifteen or twenty years for the
natural transformation, as those
states did. To plant blue grass
other than for lawn purposes is
looked upon by the average Okla-
homa farmer as a piece of absurd-
ity. And so it might be if it was
the expectation to get a full
stand the first year. But if every
farmer will plant a few pounds of
vigorous seed in favored spots
each year, and care for it the best
he can, some of it will {jfow, and
the result will be the j^fppagation
in a few years of a luxuriant mead-
ow and pasture grass,'tiot exactly
There is plenty of evidence in
evetv Oklahoma city to substan-
tiate it. Blue grass has in many
instances spread out several rods
from the lawns, where it never
receives a drop ot water artificial-
ly. Yet it grows more rapidly
and thickly than the wild grass
with which it is often mixed. It
shows up green and vigorous two
weeks before the native grass
arouses from its winter sleep, and
freesss which kill every root of
Bermuda grass do not affect It.
During dry periods it holis its
color and continues to grow after
the native grass begins to turn
brown.
With blue grass well set in Ok-
lahoma pasture lands, those lands
will be worth at least twice as
much ss they sre now. And it
will mark the final passage from
wilderness to garden.
A birthday speech is like the
remains ot Dennis McCann.
When he was blown up by an ex-
plosion of dynamite a committee
was appointed to break the news
to his wife. After the spokes-
man had informed her of the
tragedy as gently as he could,
she ask if Dennis had been bad-
ly mangle;! “Well, yea,'’ said
the spokesman, "hit bead was
found in one lot, his leg in an-
other, and his arms in a tree half
a mile off.’* ‘‘That” said the
bereaved widow, “is just like
Dennis. He was always all over
the place."—Sel.
“Look here, Pete" said a know-
ing darkey to his companion;
,4doan stan* on’ de railroad."
"Why, Joe?" ** ^ase of de cars
see dat inoUf ob yourn, dey will
tink it am d? depo’ an’ run right
ini"
"No experience la needed to pick
out the typically underlet!,” a&ya a
writer regarding the children at a
“board school” In Leeds, England.
"Their looks and their clothing be*
tray them at the first glance. On
tbelr faces la the careworn, anxkms
look which la characteristic. Their
nondoscript garments cover rather
than clothe them. They are shod,
when they are riot actually barefoot-
ed, after a fashion that cripples thelt
movements rather than protects thelv
feet. Their whole appearance la elo-
quent of neglect, thrlfUsaspess and
dirt Their hair la unkempt, without
gloss and ominous of many evils;
their permanent teeth seem Vo decay
from the first moment of their appear-
ance ; the bones of their arms and
legs hardly soem to be covered with
flesh and blood. When there bap>
pcnB to be food at home they get some
sometimes. It depends on mother's
temper and how drank father, la.
When there la none they scavenge
abroad. The market pInset ad sight
are a very favorite hnnltag grcmnA
n*rv It la often ppanlbla to pick ^
haU-rottca frntt or other vaetngn
from the coalers' stalls, la there any
ay atom of purely mental edaoatton the
wit of man has yet devised that In
likely to transform these walfh ot hu-
manity into healthy, wholesome men
an<l women or useful cltlsonsT And
there are thousands of thena through-
out Great Britain.
“At 12 o’clock sharp the free-fdsd*
era clatter Into a classroom provided
for the purpose and take their seats
at the de:ks neatly covered with oil-
cloth They arc all the children of
the very poor. Every child haa a tin
I’iute piled high with Its dinner, a sut>-
btnntlal slice of wholemoal bread, n
tin spoon and a mng of water, served
by the cider Children. They make
very short work of it. There la n
clatter of spoons, a busy silence and
In half nn hour every trace of the Ini
terruptloa of the school routine In
cleared away. The principal materinlff
of the children’s dietary are whole-
meal bread, cocoa, meat. fish, met,
rice, lentil*, potatoes, onions and bone
gravy, with plenty of margarine sad
sugar. On these constituents, each
carefully chosen for Its food value. It
la possible to ring the changes of »
gtcat variety of meals.
“It may be said that each of ibo
children during the flr^t ten weeks of
this feeding Increased In weight from
one pound to five pounds. Hut statis-
tics are hardly needed to show the Im-
provement In the children’s phyatqun.
It is only necessary to look at thn
lree-ft!iV.ers alter racing the underfed
In the sarue school. They have lost
their pinched and anxious look: there
Is color In their cheek., lUe and
brightness in their eyes and firm (leah
cn their bones. It Is difficult to be-
lieve M at they arc of the same stock
and si me social category as their lens
f,• f<* schot ImsU"1. Each meal
t,* ■ 1 j.api (2 cent.) a head."
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Daniel, Thomas. The Tangier Citizen. (Tangier, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, April 28, 1905, newspaper, April 28, 1905; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc825529/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.