Oklahoma Farmer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 17, 1904 Page: 2 of 16
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OKLAHOMA FARMEB, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1904.
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AIY PROBLEM Of COMMON INTERtST IN GENERAL AGRICULTURE WILL BE DISCUSSED IN THIS DEPARTMENT IF ADDRESSED TO THE FARMER.
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County Institutes.
The secretary of the board of agricul-
ture gave out the following complete and
corrected list of the dates of the annual
meetings of the county farmers Insti-
tutes "for this year.. The date for Beaver
county is not iflfcluded for the reason that
no organization has been effected as yet
In that county.
Comanche county (Lawton), Wednes-
day mid Thursday, August 17-18.
Caddo county (Anadarko), Friday and
aSturday, August 1'9-2G. ,,
Gr<*er county (Mangum), Monday and
Tuesday* August 22-L'.'!.
Washita county (Cordell), Wednesday
andtfl'hursday. August 24-25.
Roger Mills county (Cheyenne) Thurs-
day and Friday, August 25-26.
Day county (Grand), Monday and Tue.s-
fdav, November 14-16
Woodward county (Woodward), AV'ed
nesday and (^Thursday, November 16-t7
Woods county (Alva), Friday and Sat-
urday, November 18-19.
Garfield county (Enid), Monday and
Tuesday, November 21-22.
Grant county (Pon<y Creek). Kriday and
Saturday, November 25-26.
a, Kay xounty (Newkirk), Monday aijd
Tuesday® November 28-29.
Noble county (Perry), Wednesday and
Thursday, Novgnber ,10, December 1.
Pawnee county (Pawnee), Friday and
Saturday, December 2-3.
Payne county (Stillwater), Monday and
Tuesday.®3ecember 5-6
Kingfisher county (KingW.sher), Wed-
• nesdiw and Thursday. December 7-8. Q
Ceiiradlan county (El Reno), Friday an<j§,
Saturday, December 9-10.
De\ve> county (Ttitega), Monday and
Tuesday, December 12-13.
Custer county (Arapaho), Wedne'sday
%nd Thursday, December 14-15.
Kiowa county ^(Hobart), Friday and
^Saturday, Decemcer 16-17.
Blaine county (Wsstonga), Monday and
Tuesday! December lt*j|L'0. ,
«k Oklahoma county (Oklahoma City),
Wednesday and Thursday, December 21-
22. 9
Logan county (Guthrie), Friday and
Saturday, December 23-24.
It is proDable that a number of local
institute meetings may be held In con-
neotion with these, ffhe board of agricul-
ture plans to Ornish several lecturers to
attend $>hese institute meetings and the
Oklahoma . Agricultural and Mechanical
college will be represented at every meet-
ing, if possible. (S)
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Gains in Ettfctcrn Farming.
(Ifrof. L. H. Bailey, Dean Agricultural
Col1f'g^C#rnell University.
# Ordinarily the capital invested in ag-
riculture does not return as lar^e a rate
o£Linterest as that invesfed in mercan-
tile l^jisines^ but it is not in the hands
oi.businesi 'men. One of the reasons
why the relative returns seem small is
that the farmer gives more time to the
gracing of crops than to the manage-
ment of his business afiairs.
Another reason is that the individual
investment is so small. The amount of
capital invested in a farm represents
th# unit of uusiness. It is very small
These units are so small aawto be scarce
ly considered*business enterprises. The
ordinary farm represent^ an invest-
ment of $2,000wto $6,000. Yet farm of
^that, value generally supports a family
This of itself shows^a high rate of in-
terest. But the income is small, because
the investment is sm ll. *Vhenever a
good executive manager takes*hold of
lantl he can make money otft of it. th#
same as in any oth^r business, if h?
only invests in small farms and has
large acreage. By increasing his invest-
opment of ore. The average cost of liv-
ing of a farmer's family is from $400
to $1,000 a year. Sometimes®it is much
more. If a farmer can make a living
on the ordinary farm investment he
is thereby making a high rate of in-
terest on his investment. The rate of
investment is sometimes^Aisli as ten
per cent or even more.
There is a great quantity of good
and cheap land in the east. The coming
tendency is for people to settle in the
east rather than in the west.
There is going to be a revival of agrt-9
culture in the eastern states. There is
probably no place where one ct#i buy as
•much producing power for lirAle money
as There is much good land.
Agrictilftral interests are diversified.
Markets are good. Capitalists are grad-
ually reaching ouUin the country, in-*
vesting in lands and they expect safe
returns. The era of merf speculative
and fancy farming and bonanza- farm-
ing is passing and ®iow we have so
much scientific knowledge along tms
line yiui investments are graduall'
coming safei©
wheat, tough, or free from iiny cause
so badly damaged as to render it unfit
for No. 3 hard.
Rejected Hard—All very damp,
very musty or very smufty, trashy,
stack burned or dirty hard winter
wheat.
RED
I Red
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WINTER .WHEAT.
—To be bright, sound
weighing les# than
pounds to the ^pleasured
plump, dry and well cleaned red winter
ter wheat, not
sixty-one
bushel.
No. 2 Red—Snell be t&und, dry and
reasonably cleaned red winter wheat,
ant! shall weigh not less than fifty-®
niii pounds to the Bushel. ®
0 No .'!• Rtfl Shall htjv red winter
wheal, sound, and some bleached, but
not clean
factures was greater than in that Jf
agriculture. This condition will be fre-
quent hereafter. The United States is
now far ahead of England or any other
country in th'e extent of its manufac-
tures and its mining. The lead in these
two fields will undoubtedly be kept up.
Nevertheless the prospects for a
heavy cereal yield for J904 are*encour-
agin^j Good crops not only mean mod-
erate prices for food for the American
consumer. Under such conditions the
farmer and all his patrons will be
happy. In recent times the balance of
trade has been largely in favor of the
L'nit^J States in every year. There will
He no clilnge in this condition, it is
evident, in the fiscal year which is only
three weeks old. For the fiscal year
a 'ioi; l gor No. 2 ended on June 30, the country imported
a"j^ shall u i ;h tiui10j. -s than fl'iy-six i^arly $18,00(1,000 more gold than it
e\ported despite the heavy outflow of
pounds to the bushel.
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Illy be
s4 Red— To be thin, bleached or
red winter wheat, oreasonable
and unfit to grade Ng. &>d.
Rejected «%d—All
Grades Kansas Wh&it. •
The®tate grain inspection commis-
sion held its annual meeting at Wich-
ita a 1V\% days a^o anc^ fixed the
tough
sound,
ver.v (Tat ift' ver>
tough, Tery" smutty,, very musty,
trashy, dirty, damaged stark burned
or t hin y, ii^ut falling below No. 4
red. , _ •
WlllfElWINTi:K4VHEAT *
No. 1 White—To be bright sound dry
plump and well cleaned pure wlijte win
•
the meta
caual pi
is so m
hat
•'{pected
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account of the Panama
and other reasons. This-
better thau anybody ex-
the figures are extremely
satisfactory.
the general
outlook been brighter than it is at this
time. ® 0
Not in many years has
industrial and financial^
Smrtke
# cer wheat.
19t the
a week,
limes to
was
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A tltffty farmer in Oklahoma%as®b uilt a convenient *iter trough* iust
outside his fence on a roal that is traveled by a great many farmers lie
pipes the water fropi the tank on his barn to tin trough and supplies*
hundreds of thirsty horses during the s¥t#}ner. Whi.le this is a neighborly
act the farmer also h.tf an,eye to business. He makes it convun ent to
spend considerable time in ihe vicinity of (lie watei^jg trough, talking to
fanners who stop to ifie it and declares he has made a profitable investment
through.the trades he has^ftiade, though the medium of good feUow^hio uro
dtffed m this %ay. • ® '""r
ment he makes ttye whole investment
more efficient. " • o
Of course the returns cannot compare
with the returns frofh many mercantile
industries but the returns from many
of these are beyond the earning power
of money or of man. They are very of-
ten on a fictitious bas-is^f a speculative
character. Many capitalist have taken
hold of land with .no satisfactory re-
sults. This however is not strange.
They have not learned the business
of farming. A mail cannot make *a
farm financially productive without
knowing the buhiness of handling a
farm any more than he scan succeed
as a manufacturer of iroft without a
thorough understanding of the devel-
! AHIFQ 51000 REWARD! .
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_ a# never-failing
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, . to ft ria.VH w itliom Inn in, p in or ini« rffrenc<*
with woi I:. Noothcr remedy will do this s?i\.
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the" lunillJef "trinh. Ma
Miils, Buhr Mills Planers and Hay Presie#
Cataiog. FREE.
grades to govern?) the inspect iwn of
Kansas grain during the year com-
mencing Augus? 1. This commission
was created by the la"t legishCure for
the purpose of fixing uniform grades
for Kansas grain and not allow it to
be graced accordingly to rule; fixed by
the boards of trade for the ggain of
other states. oThe commission cannot
have more than two of its^hree mem-
bap of one politick party. It is com-®
Posed at present of S. E. Cole of Har-
per, H. Parker of McPherson and W.
D. Kuhn of Holton. KuRn is a demo-
crat. He was recently appointed
succeed P. M. Bakerspf Atchinson, de-*
ceased.
The rules just promulgated for the
inspection of wheat during the coming
year are as follows: ,®
KANSAS HARD WINTER WHEAT.
No. 1 Hard—Shall be pure, hard
winter wheat, sound plump and well
cleaned and shall not weigh less than
sixty-one pounds to the bushel.
No. 2 Hard—Shell be sound, dry
and reasonably clean hard winter
wheat, sound and some bleached, but
fifty-nine pounds to the bushel.
No. 3 Hard—Shell be hard winter
wheat, sound and some bleached, but
not clean or plump enough for No
2, and shall weigh not less than flfty-
ix pounds to the bushel.
Fires have been
in all portions of the reserve. The badlr
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|Jo. 2 White—To be sound, dry well
•cleaned pure white winter wheat.
NOp3 White—To be sound, dry white
winter wheat reasonably clean.
The Country's Crops.
Translated into bushels the forecast
which the government's expert makes
of the condition and the acreage of
wheat, corn and oa% at tf iK«t,ime is en-
couraging The indications are for a
yield of 664,000,000 bushels of wheatjS
2,537,000,000 bushels of corn® and 909-
0(10,000 bushels of^ats. In every item
this -would' he a gain over 1903. In
that year the crop was: Wheat, 637,-
000,000 bushels; corn, 2,244 000 H)0
and oats, 784,000,000. This wotftd' he
above the recent average for wheat,
would be the biggest corn crop ever
harvested except in 1889 and would he.
the biggest oats crop erwpt in 1889'
and 1902.
The great cereal crops do not enter
into the sum total of America's pro-
ducts quite so largely as they did once
Cotton has grown in a larger ratio in
recent years than has corn or wheat: '
Manufactures and mining now form
a much larger aggregate iu the in-
crease in the country's products thau
do the great, agricultural staples in
one recent month the export in manu-
Keep off Frost."
Some Alichigan grape growers last
|.\*ar ijjfved their vineyards from frost
liy lighting big bonfires $f pitch and
Iwood, causing dense clouds of smoke
lio arise over the orchards. A French
jwine maker at Rouen h^s^ried the ex-
jperfflient wiftl perfect success. His vine
j-vard covers about filteen acres and is
idividqjl into*live par^.-. ; ^ rated trom.
east to wes#by walks twelve to fifteen*
ifeet wiiWmd circled by *ii a\">nue of
(equal width. These wallft facilitate the#
[placing of the #res, which are built
in sallow basins sunk into the earth,
and rilled with fifteen ug twenty pounds
I of resinous matter and some pieces
: ^ot j.ine and other vegetable debris The
- I'fflins are about fifty felt apart. In
ft®-is we* very heavl for
and resource was had four
artificial fires. The* expense
$400. The effect was to preserve o
25 per cent « the harvest, or 125 to 150
barrels of wine.^Any'substance can"be
burned which gives a thick and abun- '
dant smokc^uch as grreen herbs, moss
damp straw, tufts of gihss, etc., but
the best results have^een obtained by
the h.#vy oils wli4fh are the residues
Oi gas. (§ •
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luisy to Kill Sweef Clover.
Sweet® clover if a grea* nuisance
when it spreads over the fields and
in the placeso where it is not wanted
but it can be easily killed by culti-
vatiofc, A great many farmers make
a fuss if sweet clover gets' into thor
rarms, but they evidently do not
«tan$nl ftff ValUe' Jt is a leg,!Mle which
affes nitrogen from the air at® is
therefore an exc^ent .plant to increase
soil fertility, ILJirodiiees hon«y of an
excellent flavor, it can be Wiled out
by cutting close.to the'ground whxm
the plants are in full bloom, but ?e-
ore the seeds are formed. Care must
t0 CUt at ,he- Proper time.
yjts thus mower! will
-- hardly ever
start again, but if they do, mow them
flown® when in bloom or cultivate
them, and they $11 quickly disappear.
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when 11 eiak ell's
Ointment ih n«ed.
Eczema, Tetter. I'im-
HEISKELL'S
OINTMENT
Holloway & Co., Philadelphia.
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