THE OKLAHOMA FARMER, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1910.
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eat more fruit and nuts.
(By Sam H. Dixon.)
1 do not believe we eat as much fruit
and nuts as we should. I want to em-
phasize this at the beginning of a new
year. We can not keep in first-class
health without some raw natural food
daily. The doctors ull agree on this
point. Vegetables and meats can not
supply the functions of fruit any more
than bread can supply the place of
water. Vegetables are all right In their
place and should occupy a place on
our table daily, but fruit and fruit
alone can fill the demand of nature
for this food. An apple eaten slow
just before one retires for the night's
lest is most healthful. Dried fruit
contains much of the medicinal quali-
ties of raw fruit, and where the latter
can not be secured will answer an ad-
mirable purpose. Fruits are never
high when we take into consideration
their value in the economy of nature.
Nuts are wholesome as well as
healthful and we should eat more of
them. They are nature's food for the
building up of the nerves and giving
strength to the brain cells. A dozen
•pecans eaten as one retires at night
for a period of a fortnight will cure the
most stubborn case of indigestion. Try
the experiment of eating more fruit
and more nuts and you will have
cause to rejoice in your change of diet.
•n
1 mere transportation of 100 persons to the
All Commual- 5 fLir WOKtern country.
J The eastern and middle western states
possess uncultivated lands today that
could yield profit to 10,000,000 more
farmers, and the productions of those,
lands would furnish the railway com-
panies of the sections names with mil-
lions of tons of additional freight. Well
done. Pennsylvania railroad: Let the
good work be extended all along tie
Uneg.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
cations on Farm
Matters will be
welcome here.
railroad starts a farm.
The announcement that an experimen-
tal farm is to be established at Bacon,
Del., by the Pennsylvania railroad for
the benefit of the farmers of the Dela-
ware penisula, extending through the
states of Delaware, Maryland and Vir-
ginia, is an item of the utmost import-
ance not only to the agriculturalists of
the eastern shore, but to the farming
Interests of the entire country and to
the public generally. President James
McCrea, always attentive and widely
active in promoting the production of
tonnage and the creation of traffic for
the great system committed to his care,
It Is said, visited this peninsula, gener-
ally known as the eastern shore, and
noticed but about one-half the acreage
was under cultivation and knew that the
cities of the country were pressing ii>
their demands for greater supplies of
the very articles these idle acres would
profitably produce.
The land for this experimental and
educational faim has been purchased by
the railroad company and a superin-
tendent of ability has been appointed
who will demonstrate the latest and
best methods of cultivation for the
farmers of the peninsula.
With a present population of nearly
300,000 people it is deemed possible to
double It in a few years through im-
proving the productive qualities of the
soil and the great profits to be derived
from the Improved cultivation. The rail-
way company Is setting an example to
all the other railway lines of the country
and through its facilities for inducing a
more dense population in the farming
sections it builds up its own traffic and
renders a most important and valuable
service to the country In thus lessening
the congestion of population in the cities
and providing additional food products
for those who dwell in them.
Thtrt are probably fair profits to rail-
way trunk lin'-s in transporting settlers
from the eastern coast to the far west,
tnit If those tlius transported were prof-
itably employed on the lands adjacent to
the lines which transport them the prof-
its from their labor to the railways
which carry them away would be a thou-
sand pel cent 'greater in the course of
five years. Another home e^tabished In
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, and
under cultivation in either of
three states is far better for
states and far more profitable
for the railways of those states than the
pllt
the
the
farm crop values.
The American farmer is nothing if
not progressive. The time is coming
when the world will recognize this fact.
11,- produced wealth In 190t  fur beyond
any former period of the country s
lilstorv. According to Secretary \\ il-
son it will reach near $9,000,000,000.
line are some of the crops and their
values: Corn, 2,767.000.000 bushels,
value $1,720,000,000; cotton and cotton
seed ' products, value $850,000,000;
wheat, 725,000,00 bushels, value $725,-
(,00,000; oats, 984,000,000 bushels, value
$400,000,000; hay, 04,000,000 tons, value
$665,000,000; Irish potatoes, 367,000,000
bushels, value $212,000,000; tobacco,
900,000,000 pounds, value $100,000,000;
barley, 165,000.000 bushels, value, $88,-
000,000; flax seed, 25,767,000 bushela.
values $36,000,000; rice, 1,000,000,000
pounds, value $25,000,000; rye, 31.000.-
000 bushels, value $23,000,000. The
estimate of the value of the cotton
crop may not be too low. A great
many think that it is too low, but ac-
cepting Secretary Wilson's figures and
we have an enormous revenue from
this one crop. According to Mr. Wil-
son's estimate the value of the corn
crop exceeds that of cotton in 1909.
where the money goes.
When Secretary Wilson of the depart-
ment of agriculture set his experts to
find out the price of beef and the differ
ence between its cost to the retailer
and cost to the consumer, he learned that
the average profit through * the coun-
try was 38 per cent. In one or two
places it was as high as 68 per cent.
Since that investigation was made, Mr.
Wilson'n field agents have been inquiring
into the difference between the prices
farmers receive for vegetables and the
prices paid by the ultimate consumei
Results of this inquiry have not yet
been published. In the meantime, the
investigation which is being made in
New York for the reasons for the high
retail price of milk has gone far enough
to show that the big milk concerns have
found a lot of money in the business
in addition to what goes to people who
own cows.
Some independent investigations of
prices are being made. The Washington
Post is trying to learn why vegetables
cost so much in the retail markets. It
reports that "retail grocers In Washing-
ton are making from 50 to 100 per cent
on potatoes, by buying these articles
of food for 20 cents a peck and selling
them for 30 or 40 cents a peck." Of
course, the grocers' profit Is not the first
profit. The commission merchant has to
be reckoned with. The Post man tound
an official of the department of agricul-
ture who is also a farmer, and who had
groat luck with his potato crop last fall.
That Is, he had luck until he came to
sell bis potatoes. His farm is Just out-
side the District of Columbia and re-
cently he brought 104 bushels of potatoes
to Washington and turned them over to
a commission merchant. He got $38 out
of the deal. "Thirty-eight dollars is no
price for 104 bushels of potatoes," this
official of the department of agriculture
says. "It scarcely pays for the time
and trouble of raising them." After
thinking of what he got for his potatoes
what others paid the retailers for
them, he reaches this conclusion: "The
difference in the price the farmer re-
ceives for his products and what the
housewife pays for them is preat, but
the farmer is not getting the money."
And nfter allowing for cartage, the re-
tailer's loss by freezing and decay, and
rent, light and clerk hire, he said
the price of potatoes should not
be what it Is. Perhaps he or some other
member of Secretary Wilson's staff will
presently sugest a remedy for condi-
tions which he believes to be wrong.
and
his
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A Well-Named Hatchet
It takes a mighty good hatchet to stand up under the rough
treatment it usually gets. There's one kind of hatchet that will
hold a keen edge long after the ordinary ''bargain' hatchet has
gone to the junk pile. It bears the name
KC(H KltffiR
The metal is best tool steel—the handle well-shaped, second growth
hickory. The Grellner Patent Lock Wedge makes it impossible for the
hatchet to work loose or fly off the handle. Every Keen Kutter hatchet is
edged and hand whetted at the factory.
The Keen Kutter Hatchet is only one of the many Keen Kutter tools
for the home and farm. All bear the Keen Kutter trade mark and are
guaranteed to give satisfaction or your money will be returned.
" The Recollection of Quality Remains Long After the Price
Trade Mark Registered is Forgotten. " —E. C. Simmons
II not at your dealer's write us.
Simmons Hardware Co. (Inc.)
St. Louis and New York, U. S. A.
Pryor Creek, Okla., Dec. 28, 1909.
Oklahoma Farmer, Guthrie, Okla.
Gentlemen: 1 noticed a plate picture
in your issue of Dec. 22nd. of White
Langshangs.
I wish you could give me addresses of
the breeders of these fowls as I am de-
sirous of securing me a cock of this kind
at once, and oblige, Respectfully,
P. C. AVERY.
Those having this breed of fowls will
please write Mr. Avery.
For parks, lawns and driveways the<
pecan, scale-bark hickory or the chest-
nut makes an excellent shade.
planting native nut trees.
(By J. M. W. Smith, Ft. Gibson, Okla.)
Not many years ago the nuts of our
native trees were considered merely
luxuries, to be eaten from the hand at
odd times, and were to be had in coun-
try regions for the going and getting.
Rut that time has passed away and con-
ditions have changed. The pecan, chest-
nut and shell-bark hickory nut are staple
market commodities and bring good
prices.
There aro thousands of farmers who
have no nut trees of their own, as these
with the oak, the ash and the elm have
been cut for the ibest timber or to make
room for more grain crops, cotton or po-
tatoes and in this manner thousands of
acres of valuable nut-bearin:  trees have
been thoughtlessly destroyed without
making any provisions for the future
supply. In many cases it will be gen-
erations before the average yield per
ncre of these lands will again attain un-
to that which was wantonly lost.
Nothing we can eat has a greater food
value than nuts, as they contain large
percentages of protein and oils.
The farmer need not he deterred from
planting a few nut trees on the grounds
that he would have to wait so long for
results. The pecan does well top-budded
on the hickory, pignut and inferior va-
rieties of its own class, and comes into
bearing in two or three years. The
American sweet chestnut does well bud-
ded or grafted on the chinquapin and
makes a low spreading tree hearing
nuts in four or five years. The scale
bark hickory nut may be top budded on
the inferior kinds of hickory and will
heeln bearing nuts in two or three years.
Nut trees should not he planted closer
than 25 feet apart each way. A well
drained soil Is best for the chestnut and
hickory, hut the pecan does best on low
damp soil.
T,and planted in nut trees will grow
pood grass and can be used as a pas-
ture which is beneficial to the trees after
they are large enough to be safe from
injury by stock.
Unlike other crops when nut trees be-
gin to bear they no longer need much
attention, but continue to improve for a
great many years.
There is scarcely a farm, no difference
how small, hut has a creek hank, hill-
side or some waste piece of ground that
could be profitably utilized as well as
beautified toy planting in nut trees.
i pom rtance good seed corn.
To the Oklahoma Farmer, Guthrie, Okla..
During the past months we have been
receiving reports from our agents, trav-
eling men, and dealers concerning the-
conditions of corn this fall. From these,
reports it appears that unfavorable^
weather has greatly impaired the pros-
pects for securing the right kind of"
seed corn for planting next spring.
We are informed that in many dis-
tricts while the corn was still in the field,
late and protracted wind and rain storms
were prevalent over the corn belt, injur-
ing the ears more or less. Now it is
believed that such unfavorable condi-
tions would greatly lessen the germinat-
ing power of the kernel if used as seed
corn; in fact, as many of the farmers
pick their seed corn from the best ears
on the stalks standing in the field, it
looks as though many of them might
either be entirely without seed corn or
be obliged to use a very inferior kind.
From all gathered, if this should prove
to be the case, care should he taken to
keep from jeopardizing the prospects for
a bumper crop in 1910
These facts have been so reiterated to
us and the evil effects of the late rain
storms seem to be so widespread that
we draw your attention to the matter
with an idea that through your paper
your can go more deeply into the sub-
ject, bringing it to the attention, not
only of your readers for their discus-*
sion, 'but also to the Experiment Sta-
tions and Agricultural colleges, In order
that some steps may be taken to warn
the farmers against planting corn with
diminished germinating power, and pos-
sibly put in their way opportunities for
providing themselves with proper seed
for next year.
Thanking you for whatever publicity
you give this matter, we remain, Yours
truly,
International Harvester Company of
America, by M. R. D. Owings.
The last seven teachers in Plaskett
Valley, a remote district in Monterey
county, California, have each married a
son of Amos Plaskett. a rich rancher.
Plaskett has one son left.
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