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GUTHRIE, OKLA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1906.
VOL. XV, No. 35.
50 Cents a Year.
INTERESTING FARM FACTS
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A North Dakota
farmer, who has
bought his share of gold bricks in his
time says he has never been bitten ex-
cept when he bought an article that was
not advertised in a first class farm
paper. Now when an agent approaches
him on any kind of a proposition and
can not show him an advertisement In
an agricultural papers of good standing,
he sets his dogs on him.
Tihe blaine hen worked overtime last
vear and produced 13,300,000 eggs, valued
brought to this country and established
on the experiment farms in New Jersey
under the will of the late Baroness de
Hirsch have left the schools and may
now be found selling shoe, strings and
collar buttons on the East Side in New
York. They claim that it requires too
much capital to start a farm. To over
come this objection the trustees of the
Ilirsch millions have about decided to
give free lands to Jewish youths who
plays exceptional shrewdness. He hangs
about the fringe of a flock of sheep and
while the herder and his dogs are not
looking circle around a Iamb, and grad-
ually force it to leave the flock. When
at a safe distance they quickly kill and
carry it off.
A movement is now on foot to form
farmers' unions in every county in Kan-
sas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, the Da-
kotas. Missouri and Oklahoma.
Mrs Elizabeth Condell who owns a 65
acre farm between Milwaukee and Chic-
ago, does all her own work. She plowed
every inch of the land, cut her hay with
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Olc. Farmer,
Gentlemen; We send you today
under separate cover a cut of one of our
prize winning Percheron stallions,
"Harper John" he is coming 3 years old
In the spring. We will have him and a
lot more at the A & M college short
course Stillwater Olc., January 7 to 12
for sale at private treaty, these horses
are all young and fully wiranted and
can be purchased right. We are going
to try and sell horses at a loss expense
at 52,038, 000 an average of 15 3-10 cents
per doz n. The experiment station un-
der the direction of Prof. Charles«D.
Woods, will try to encourage the hen to
produce by improved methods, a quarter
of a million dollars more next year.
Some of the Jewish students who were
will go to" Uganda, Africa, and promise
to follow agriculture.
Bears and coyotes •tire becoming go
numerous In Northern Idaho ns to prove
a menace to livestock. The bears carry
off young pigs, and the coyotes are a
terror to sheep raisers. The coyote dls-
a mowing machine, raked It up and
hauled it in. She is fifty-five years old
and in perfect health.
Plow as a Potato Digger
Farmers who object to the potato
digger as not doing finished work are
finding In the plow a method of elimi-
nating hard work, and securing the en-
tiro crop, unmutilated by hoe or hook.
The plow is sot low enough to cut be-
low all' tubers, and the team driven with
one horse on each side of the row. The
potatoes are thus thrown out in the fur-
row, and the soil so loosened that they
are readily freed from it by using the
back of the hoe, thus making "potato
digging" child's play, and cut tubers un-
necessary. The method enables one to
dig two or three times as many in a
day and not work hard, either.
Alfalfa growing Suggestins
Lately a query came to hand from a
hog breeder who desires a bit of rough
information on sowing alfalfa to get the
best results. His ground is good, aver-
age black soil of the west. He watns to
plant three acres as a starter.
We advised him to plant his seed bod
in the early spring and then harrow
thoroughly, getting the land into mellow
shape. It should not- be land that has
been foul with the weeds for years past.
In May, as the ground begins to wahm
up and is well moist from copious rain3,
the seed should be sown—twenty pounds
to the acre. Conditions oeing fair the
alfalfa should be up in a week, and th-m
It grows to six Inches, set the mower at
three inches and trim the whole of It
This strengh'th^ns the roots and they
shoot down deeper.
The second and third time it reaches
six inches, cut it and then if the season
is moist, you will still get a good crop of
hay. Cut It as for hay as It comts into
bloom and cure it in cocks so the sun
will not bleach it too much.
Water melons are now being exported
from the Pacific coast to Russia. Th_>
are packed with excelsior, two in a box
and the freight charges are $1.00 per
melon.
Nearly one million foreigners came to
this country last year, and less than 20
per cent of this number went to the
farms. The majority prefer to sell collar
buttons and fruit in the large cities.
(and hence a less price) than heretofore.
Parties contemplating buying in hhe
spring should by all means attend the
short course and see these horses. We
will sell to reliable parties part on time.
Yours very truly,
WALKER BROS. & CO.
HOtiS I   THE ' KCHAKD
Discussion as to whether it is well to
allow hogs to run in the orchard shows
difference of opinion, but brings out
good points pro and con. While It Is
generally claimed that the orchard
needs all the material it produces in the
way of grass as a fertilizer, on the
other hand it is aserted that hogs des-
troy much of the insect life, and as a
result the fruit s more generally sound.
In a young orchard damage may be
done to the surface roots by the root-
ing hogs, but where the trees are from
eight to ten years old little harm would
be done and the ground could be culti-
vated in^sipots at least.
KEEPING CAHBAGE^
Th*re are many methods of keeping
cabbages through the winter, but 3n«
of the simplest and pertiaps most suc-
cessful is to cut off the stems, take off
the outer leaves and then wrap each
head in paper—newspaper will do. They
are then ready for packing In boxes of
any convenient slz« and should be .-nit
In a frost proof eollar.