Oklahoma Farmer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 15, 1912 Page: 2 of 16
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OKLAHOMA FARMER, FEBRUARY 15, 1912
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WHEN TO PLANT BERMUDA.
(Uy K. A. Mitchell, Chandler, Okla.,
Special Agents XT. S. Department of
Agriculture.)
The time to set bermuda is from
March t to July 1. I shall set mine
this year in March, that it may he
out of the way of other farm work.
There is now plenty of moisture in
the ground and it will live until the
warm weather comes when it will grow
:and make an early sod.
We always advocate not pasturing
MEBANE COTTON SEED
WITH OKLAHOMA FARMER
It has been practically settled
that Mebane cotton is the thing
to raisei in Oklahoma. It is
hardier and will average 25 per
cent more lint than any other
variety. Proofs are ample of the
great superiority of Mebane cot-
ton.
The Oklahoma Parmer has ar-
ranged to get a limited amount
of the Mebane seed, Oklahoma
grown and absolutely free of the
boll wevil. Tills seed is special-
ly selected, carefully cleaned and
guaranteed to be pure Mebane. It
will go through an old reliable
cotton seed house, which will
ship this Mebane seed direct to
you for us, and guaranty it true
to name and free of weevil.
The price of this seed, with th®
Farmer, will be:
The Oklahoma Farmer three
years and ONE BUSHEL,
of choice Mebane seed $1.25
All additional orders above one
bushel, by the same person will
be $1.10 for the Oklahoma Far-
mer two years and one busihel
of choice Mebane Cotton seed.
Send bank draft, postal note
or your personal check with your
order.
This offer is f. o. b. place of
consignment, and shipments will
be made from the several places
in Oklahoma where the seed has
been engaged. Most of the ship-
ments will go out from Okla-
homa City.
Mebane seed is scarce. So
get in early. Get your seed on
hand and be sure of It when the
planting time comes.
If you do not desire credit on
your subscription for all the
j ears paid for, you can take
credit for three or more years
personally and have the paper
sent for any two year payment
to any one you may designate.
Address,
THE FARMER PUB. CO,
Guthrie, Okla.
BUSH and BOG PLOW^
Clark's Reversible Bush and
Bog Plow is just the tool
to subdue baked soil,
bogs or newly cleared
forests or stump land.
Cuts a track 5 ft.wide,
9 in. deep. ,Has eight
L'4-ini'h cutlery steel
disks. Turns the
earth to or from
stumps. Will kill any
bush or plant that grow.: and leave land true
and clear. Send For new book, " Intensive
Cultivation." It's Free.
CUTAWAY HARROW TO., *
w73 Mutn HI., IHg*anum. Cwnw.
the first season but we always have
pastured as there has been as much
grass the first year of setting as there
ever is of the native grass.
Miay is the best time to set ber-
muda but there is so mucih to do then
that we are apt to not get the ber-
muda in.
March setting should be covered
deeper than later lest a freeze should
injure the roots. Last year we' set
bermuda in July and September but
such late setting is not advisable.
So many write inquiring about seed.
The seedmen are the chief advocates of
starting bermuda with seed. Practical
men of experience set the roots from
hardy varieties. Occasionally we find
those who have been reasonably suc-
cessful in securing a permanent stand
of bermuda by sowing the seed. They
have sown it in some sheltered place.
To sow it out in the field it will winter
kill for years or until it becomes hardy
or acclimated as people do in going into
a different latitude. Better set roots of
a variety already acclimated. It has
•taken twenty years to acclimate the
bermuda now growing upon our farm.
Now it is a native of this latitude, and
will better withstand zero weather.
Bermuda is pushing northward every
year and being acclimated. Some day
it will be growing in Nebraska. It will
first be in yards in town, then in shel-
tered fields and later everywhere. When
its value as a pasture grass is once
known it will be sought by every farm-
er. But there is a harder line north of
which it will not be successfully grown.
A quarter of a century ago we
wondered if alfalfa would ever be
grown east of the Rockies. Now we
have it everywhere but the careful
farmer buys seed grown not far from
home. Our bermuda seed comes from
afar. Experience teaches us to touch
seed lightly, but set roots of the hardy
varieties. The expense of setting is
less than two dollars an acre exclusive
of the roots. The roots will stand us
the cost of digging if we have them
upon our own farm. If we buy from
some farmer who has them to sell they
will cost one dollar a grain sack full
or six sacks for one dollar. Farmers
who have roots to sell should adver-
tise in the papers as many would set
from one to ten acres if they knew
where they could get the genuine hardy
bermuda.
A piece of Bermuda root with one
joint will set a plat three feet square.
It will grow if in good condition and
buried aibout three inches deep in a
moist soil at the proper season. It is
slow to start, taking from one to three
weeks according to conditions. When
once started it bounds like a rabbit. It
is of tihe nature of a strawberry in
forming roots at every joint. These
runners cross and recross until the
ground is a perfect mat. With season-
able planting and good conditions the
ground should be covered by July. It
is generally set upon poorer land where
an acre will furnish pasture for about
two cows.
There were two exhibits of bermuda
at the state fair, one ten and the other
twelve feet high. There are three gen-
eral varieties: The large creeping, the
small creeping, and the fine unrigiit.
We prefer the large creeping for pas-
ture in the fields. It is common to find
stems two yards long. When a cow
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The patented wins feature elves the tire
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entering, which would cut, grind, loosen and
destroy the base.
That is what happens with ordinary car-
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and unsatisfactory. That is impossible with
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sound. The tiie stays on—gives long wear
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Insist on Goodyear Wing Tires—you'll
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An Improved
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\
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The hole being below the center, does not
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High grade, resilient rubber assures comfort-
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Our latest carriage tire book sent free.
Gives full information. (530)
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
TRENT'S
Seed Corn
First prize six successive yr . at the Kans. state
show, Manhattan. First two yrs. at the Nat'l. corn
show at Omaha. It takes corn to do this. I have It.
Pure bred seed of the Reid's Yellow Dent and Boon
Co. White varieties. Fancy recleaned Clover Seed,
pure Red Texas Seed Oats. Write for free catalog
S. G. TRENT, Hiawatha, Kan. Box 8
gets a mouthful of those long stems she
closes her eyes and dreams of eternity
while chewing.
It will never pay to place dry ber-
muda roots into dry ground and wait
for rain. Last year the rain did not
come neither did the grass.
We are spending most of our time
this winter answering bermuda grass
letters. Every letter is answered cheer-
fully, and gladly. We know from per-
sonal experience that! bermuda is a
good grass—none better pasture grass
for us.
We are also sending many agricul-
tural bulletins from our office and
ordering a free library from Washing-
ton, D. C., for all who write asking it.
We desire to place this free library in
five thousand farm homes this year.
Ours is not a war age. It is the
golden era of agricultural achieve-
ments. We are endeavoring to learn
how to better feed and clothe the ever
increasing millions. Every valley and
every hillside must support its man.
These must be grass upon the thous-
and hills for our cattle and hogs. Ber-
muda is that grass. When it comes to
every farm it will bring a greater pros-
perity than we have ever known. We
must have a pasture grass. Why not
BERMUDA?
F. W. King, of Maud, Okla., has
ordered eight bushels of Mebane cot-
ton seed, with the Oklahoma Farmer.
This pays him ahead on the Farmer
17 years—among the fartherest paid
in advance on our list. We have a
few paid as far as 18 and 20 years.
Mr. King believes in planting the best
seed and then, by careful cultivation,
getting all possible out or it.
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better than Hughes' other books,
"Three Years In Arkansas," and "The
Whole Dam Family."
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There are many localities where we have no agent, and if you
will write us, we will send you our catalog and interesting proposi- ^
tlon on a car for your own use. We also make a full line of car- to,
rlages and harness.
ELKHART CARRIAGE & HARNESS MFG. CO.
Elkhart. Indiana
Horse-
power
Starts From Seat
COTTON
Mr. Planter:—I have a remarkable
story to tell, and want you to write for
it—here I can only say :—Can show
you, by nearly 1,000 certified reports
that my latest strain of cotton—
tW 1. Produces from ont to three extt«
bales of cotton for every 5 acres planted
(which means 1 5c. Instead of 9c. ai the
extra cotton more than equals 6c.,
W 2. Produces a full crop in spite of the
weevil—making a bale to the acre when
other kinds hardly give bark the seed planted,
I wish to show you the 500 reports in
order to interest you, then I wish to
show you and your neighbors what this
wonderful strain of cotton will do in
your fields—in fact am so anxious to
show this, that I will give a semple
5 acre bag for a little work—will sell
5 to IO bags on 9 months time
(which shows my faith.) Write for
facts and plans to-day.
T. J. KING, Richmond, Va
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An oppossum eats tho head and neck
of a fowl, and kills only one or two
at a time, A mink bleeds his victim
in the neck and sucks the blood, and
will slaughter a dozen or more birds
in a night. Roth leave the carcasses
in the coop or house.
fm
the FARMER'S SON'S
GREAT OPPORTUNITY
Why wait for the old farm to become your In-
heritance? Hegln now to prepare lor
your future prosperity and Inde-
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katchewun or Alberta, where you
can securo a Free Homestead or
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NOW'S THE TIME
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cured from tho a l> u n <1 n n t
cropsof \Y licat.Oa ts and liar
ley, as well an cattle ruining are causing a
steady advance In price, (lovernment re-
turns show that the number of settlers
in Western Canada from the I . S.
(hirinc t lie hint year was iiptvardsof
1'45,000 ati<l I migration Is con-
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Many farmers have paid for tlielr
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Free I loineHteadsof I (it) acres and
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For pamphlet'.'I.astUest West, "particulars
as to locations & settlers'rate apply Kupt.
linnilg., Ottawa, Can., or Can. Gov. Agt.
Canadian Government Agent
125 \Y. IMli St. Kansas ( Ity, Mo.
WHEN ANSWERING advertisements in
The Want Ad Columns, kindly mention
the fact that you saw the ad in the
Oklahoma Farmer.
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Greer, Frank H. Oklahoma Farmer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 15, 1912, newspaper, February 15, 1912; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc88338/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.