Oklahoma Farmer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 9, 1908 Page: 2 of 16
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OKLAHOMA FARMER WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1908
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calious on ba ri/!■ ^
Matters will be
welcome here.
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Letters to The Farmer shou]d«bo writ-
ten on one Side of tlio paper only,and
should bo Accompanied by the name and
address of tho writer. Letters should be
made lis brl*f ns possible. Those wlio
wish their letters returned when not
used should In-^lrp^e postage.
how really to
increase wheat yield
When tho whole story of the wonderful
Adams wiiont Is simmered down the De
partmefit of Agriculture officials think
it likely that a strain of the same wheat
that hits been grown for years in vari-
ous mountain regions of the Won will
have been developed that will be valuable
for sonva of th(J dry regions in the moun-
tain states. They expect nothing aim >r-
mal, and they say they have 110 reason
to bc.llevo the wheat of the Alaska stratn,
ran be grown generally through the eouti-
try.
Acting Secretary Hays of the depart-
ment, who Is a wheat expert, Is not en-
thusiastic over the idea of a wheat dis-
covery that will revolutionize the bread
businoss, but lie lias given orders that a
thorough Investigation be made and that
If there is any merit in the discovery of
Mr, Adams it |„ fully recognized.
One fact of great Importance has been
emphasized by the reports concern ng
Alaska wheat. It is that by proper metn-
ods it is possible greatly to increase tlio
ylc'd of whe.it in this country. Mr. Hays,
In conjunction with officials at the ex-
periment station at the University of AI i n -
ne. ta, has jutt completed two bulletins,
which will soon be published, which w. I
tell in detail tho results of twenty yea s
of experiments in the improvements of
grains and crops in Minnesota. It will be
shown that through selection of seed an:l
hybridizing, the grain crops of Minnesota,
the wheat, flax. rye, oats and barley, have
bn>n improving and made to produce fi > n
10 to 20 per cent more. It is estimated
the value of Minnesota's Train crop- this
year wili be increased $2,000,000 by these
experiments
ience? Simply this: that what has be-^n
What follows from the Minnesota expe-
rience? Simply this: that what has o,an
done therr can l e done elsewhere. As-
sistant Secretary Hays has no doubt that
the wheat crop of this country, now
something over OOO.OOO.OOO bushels, can,
through the saYne methods that have !>■ n
successful In Mlnnnesota, be Increaaed t 1 Thei
700,000,0(10 bushels 'Washington I^etter to
'^>ston Transcript.
THE MISSOURI IVIEERSCHAUM.
'"hl.'i Ls the aristocratic name given itie
ne.n f"'l 'lipP- th° ,n0St of W'1''"'
nan.'fartuied In Missouri, its birthplace
being Franklin county, say* tho Farmers'
'l" ■ That count# liki s to bo«*t 0t its
„£lp® production. Compared with the
iu, "v iiNiiistry ot the county it la ahead
fo ( ut 'eg the year V.*r< the hen and her
pr gciiv produced f,,r (,vnnrt IMMi 1 In
dozens.. ,,r •Jl,;«l.2sa eggs. These* .vr.h
• ' 11 s Pounds ,.i 1 iyo nnd 20,410 pound* of
I .. ,V voultry. including: 1.W poun-Ls of
•Till **"-<>"Kht the countv UTT.or*
I ds s„m. though, fa 11# short of ro-
1 '■•"tity as large an amount
was realised from bar "Missouri
Meerschaum" products.
n<of iC°.r," c°h r'i|1"*' 'l"rin>? the y.'ir
• "'<• county export, ,f | ,s I!,.,
sides these she sent out 012,0C0 pipe stems,
■V' 'cleaners" and lOfi.WEi wooden pip,,
the entire classification brintfn in J.333 - .
wL « U * ',n,>ro th*n r,;,lf — much as
waa realised from either her live atook
er her grain exportationa, the former
bringing Jw.,.868 and the latter $*97 <U'S
It Is $$13f5.fru more tlmn she received f >r
her forestry shipments, nn(1 these wt.rn
'half ♦"«,5?n ilnl * U ls <>iKht an<1
half ilines as much as came from :,er
nil.tei. milk and cheese, and she isn't tho*
smallest county in the state, either, 'n
in exportation of dairy products. Clas-
eonade county "hipped cob pipes to t'ie
numlvr of ,.*-*««>. valued at \Lr..m and
showing a total shipment for the , wo
Counties ^of such pipes.
A DESERT PERIL.
"One Of the chief dangers to traveler
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WIIE.N.y°o onfe p,,t Amat'te one'of your
buildings you will be impatient (o get it on all
tlie otlicrs. 1 hat is thi experience of every'1
one who uses it, because Amatite is* its own
best -advertisement.
Not only is the first cost of Amatite low,
but its real mineral surface does away with
ell the bother and expense of painting.
Once you have finished nailing down Amatift
according to directions, you have a roof that will
give protection for many years and which will re-
quire fio attention whatever to insure it from leaks
. and trouble.
The busy farmer of to-day cannot afford to hav a
Ins stock and farm products suffer because of leaks^
nor can lie spend time on repairs and painting.
For these reasons thousands of successful far
triers all over the country are buying Amatite.
l hey realize that painted roofings are out of date.
Amatite is as far ahead of the " painted roofings " as the farm im-
plements of to-day are in advance of those used by our grandfathers,
free sample
To the progressive farmer we say-Send for a Free Sample to-day
and get in touch with the best ready roofing made.
BARRETT MANUFACTURING COMPANY
NCW York PVlIf"ncrr\ T)L!T-j.i i • —
i-covering
, every roo/
or\ the place
as the far r Rr,(1 Wastes
frin.i fnr"fa™'l Heath vallev arises
; , r as to U'e character of
h' infrequent pools* of water alon- the
route." said a mining engln^er 07 nen!
"The tenderfoot, srowinsr faint nnler
n"pnrh:":
tal seems absolutely n„re. Tr,. ,,,
K, mini** frJ\hin
i>ao«s that one draught win probably
cause serious if not fatal illness Th's
r. for nil its seeminsr purltv and
clearness, is loaded with arsenic "nd
llSpn" 6 * m*5 hM '"s< his fife hv its
"n,v the
in- mi A e11 ',Hn,c ,s fr",! lonls-
When 'Inhabited by hues and snakes
V. hen you come to a muddy poo] on 'he
of ^'hich Insects arc disporting
b tirr fh VPWr r^",si" it may be.
it -villi i *1 nn'^ Pn'afe- von may drink
Jth impunity, deopite its looks A a
nan will wTio Is crazy with thlrs't pro-
lwTaun " ^i«UTn|B8; "and" and "wrt-
• . sun. —T nltim«- vo merican.
New York Chicasro
St. Louis Cleveland
Kansas City Minneapolis
Philadelphia
Pitts burs: ^
New Orleans
Boston
Cincinnati
London, Ensr.
the palisades.
Counterpart Cannot Be Found
All the World.
milk cure 1s for that very prevalent an.l
distressing complaint known as tne
'"blues." Needless to say, a microbe in
the fons et origro of our periodical fits of
frloom and melancholy, w'hen everything
goes wrong and nothing goes right ai.ij
our temper gives way and nobody but
our ever patient dog can "abide" us.
But this particular horrid bacillus d.,,.5,
not like buttermilk. In fact, it complete-
ly quenches It so that when the "blues"
come on lie obvious course is to quaff
this fuid as freely as possible. Clearly
it is a thing no family should be without.
buckwheat production.
The story of the fall of the buckwheat
cake from the time of glorious tradition,
forty years nxro, down to the present is
one of sadness and gloom, savs tin1 in li-
ana Farmer. As told by the statistician
of the department of agriculture tnls
acme of our childhood i- f^f remain a
condition of innocuous desuetude in
1S16 when the first authentic buckwheat
returns appeared, the country devoted
1.015,'VO acres to the crop, and raised
-3,791,000 bushels of pancake material
with n farm value of *15,+13,000. Now
we hive hut about T50.PO0 acrcs, and raise
ltfiW.nno bushels worth some $S,000,0(K
In yc olden days Pi nnaylvanta was tho
banner slate with r'r.-frly half a million
kcrea devoted to buckwheat, and x ,v
York ca.rne second with 250,000 acre.;,
while New > ork holds the banner with
an area of 3S.OOO acres. During this po-
ri"d the -iv r«ge yield per acre for the
country hn<* decreased from 22 bushels to
about IS bushels. Forty years ago Main?
*rew an average crop of .11 bushels. Tr.-
dsv Iowa averages only 12 or 1J bushels
per acre. The*aeraV£o price on tho farm
has falk n about 10 cents a bushel.
There is scarcely a doubt but that the
r luction In the production of buckwheat
1m largely due to the adulteration of th2
flour that was sold by that nam® befot -
the pure food laws went Into etTcct.
Bhorts and poor wheat flour were mixed
with buckwheat flour, and people lost ap-
petite for the compound, and the demand
fell off It will revive apain when the
genuine article ls made and sold.
AUCTIONEERS
JOHN D. SNYDER
Auctioneer, Wlnfield, Kan.
sale* of Oklahoma Parmer rradcrs solicited..
Sold in «ev*u Hale* Inst year.
Fred A. Speakman
sJock AUCTIONEER
or wire me for dates.
WELLSTON, OKLAHOMA
The edge of the world, if such a tliln-
oo7 ',a/dly a rif1e shot away from
one of the centers of the world itself- tj,c
citv of New York.
I he Palisades, those mighty walls
wheieon the annals of the centuries are
jnavod-what an edge of the world tlieir
ip presents to him who comes, perhaps
at night, to their rouirh hewn elevation!
In ro other place other than this n^ar
proximity to man and one of his great-
est cit-es could a physical feature so pro-
foundly vast and impressive be so hid-
den from the world. Their counterpart
" '\P ,.fo"rd ,n all the world, m l
, Palisades are almost unexploited
and unknown to the globe-circling si-ht-
huntln* public that yearly traverses 'he
continents or seas to gaze at things less
wonderful in some distant field of nat-
ure s marvelous achievements, for little
does any one know of these titanic -.vails
jvho have merely seen then, from the
Tnnlson. Were the^' somewhere off in
bv a transcontinental thread of steel, tne
•1 lin<l c impnrativriy in^reessfhlo, reaeh^(J
guidebooks would he rich In their pictured
grandeur aijd man would, rove far <0
exi.lore them. -T'hllip Vrrrill MlgheU-ln
II' i*pi't' • jzine .
HOW the money GOES.
Recently T'ncle Ram's bookkeaera at
the treasury detiartment, charged Mm
with more than $1,000,000,000 a« the re-.-if
of the aflproprlatlons made by the
session of the SlTtloth congresJ for 1 ae
year beglnuin™ with July 1. Literal!*
thousands of s«partR« Items are :.v
, in ti IS trenx ndous aggregate, the great-
est. of course, being that of sal irles pai l
to government employes. This money, ns
well ns.that naid for other things, w'll
quickly flow back into tha channels of
trade throughout the counter. The .-1 ,sv
of«the year finds tlie" tieasiir\- scene Jevi ..
""" ""O behind. Tliat is there d. .■ 1, ,1
ex'st an actual deHeit. as ttlft n porta rften
erron-'.n-lv.sl.^e, of that arfou.it, but II...
frivernmenl spent that mue.h mere
Ury will not find itself enibarrnsr
the new and increased demands
I'., iyi(l the officials predict that It
soon be again taking in more than
out.
The gypsum mined in the United Stu es
in 1907 amounted to 1,751,748 short tons,
exceeding the production of 190t>, which
M-as far.ya advance of that of any previ-
ous year, by 211,163 short tons, or 13 7
per cent.
BIG FAIR OPENS IN
SEATTLE ON MONDAY
(Rastern Press Association.)
.e.itth, Wash., Sept. u.—After montas
of active preparation the first west«fn
Washington fair and livestock exhibition
Will open Monday under conditions of a
moat favorable character. The fair occl
pies a track of twenty-five acres con-
veniently located on the outskirts of the
citv, near I,ake Washington. There are-
several substantial exhibition buildings
for the display o fmanufactured produce
fruits, machinery, etc. .together with a
race track and a large pavilion for live-
stock. "A1 ldepartments are well filbd
with high clSss exhibits ,the display of
farming products and livestock bein< es-
pecially notable.
There will be a good crowd on hanil to.
day for the opening. The management
has set aside tomorrow as Taooma (lay
Wednesday as Kverett day, Thursday as
Farmers' day and Friday as Seattle day.
the occupation of moses.
Jamie, a line little fellow, had failed to
sense the meaning,of the verse he h id
been taught, "Moses was an austere man
nn.' made atonement for the sins of bin
people." Imagine the laughter w.iich
greeted his rendition of It, "Moses was an
ester-man ai\d made ointment for tho
shins of his people."
v r?*
A milliner feathers her ne.s^ by put-
ting feathers on other women's ha'ts.
OPTIMISM
A little looking for the light.
That's sunshine;
A little patience through the night,
That's sunshine;
A little bowing 0f the will,
A little resting on the hill,
A little standing very still,
That's suBsuine.
A Uille ,smllin£ through the tears.
That's sunshine.
A little faith behind the fears.
That's sunshine?
A little folding of the hand,
A little yielding of demand,
A little grace to understand,
That's sunshine.
—Stuart Maclean.
To arms! Come, to arms! Let us trample
n Wgrry and trouble today!
I'Ct us laugh them to hurried retreating
And smile them to utter dismay
r°m the ramparts of home let us'drive
them,
From lire let us turn them in scoru;
* or worry and trouble are cowards,
•that tly when good nature is born.
—Detroit Free Press.
^lis fruitless fi r mankind
1 o fret themselves with what concerns
thein not;
They are no use that way; they should
He down
Content, as CJod has made them, nor go
mad
In thriveless cares to better what Is HL
—rBrowning.
BOOK OF HOURS'
The State archivist at Frauenfcld in
the canton Of Jhurgovie, has disoov
been ?, .pv;,luable manuscript which had
ments ttaf & C°V^ for othpr docu-
ments. It is a portion of a Rook of
lours written In the twelfth century,
it is suppose,1, either in a j,wiFs -
German convert. This, at an event-,
1- the opinion of MM. Buclfi and Wag
nei, professors in tlio, university of Fri-
bourg, and other noteworthy personage,
in the world of letters.
In tin-course of a i^nth a caterp.l-
1, i0" fond welKhlng 6,000 times
the. weight of its body.
AMERICAN COTTON COLLEGE MI«ESUE
For (he odi.cn Ho.. ,.r - . OtORGIA.
thn
hv
inn
will
IOCS
til,
the education of tlio Fanners, clerk* kicrchnnta n* .
Bu™ — other?;,-,!:,TZtXSSTSSt
on IS C!tado's Of Cotton. Thirty
six weeks' correspondence course
you, Rig demand for cotton grnd-
course year
to class!fj- and put
day si hoi.1 rships in
under export cotton
ers and cotton tniyeYs
round. Write at onc<
buttermilk cures blues.
There are two new c tires, fine k bur
tormllk. The other is beans The buttc.
correct valuation
our sample rooms, or
men will complete
Session now open. Correspondence
for further particulars.
Aii Samp es bailed Us Will Go Graded
Free of Charge !
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