The Eagle. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 18, 1901 Page: 1 of 8
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FOR HENNESSEY-
FIRST. LAST AND
ALL THE TIME....
THE
EAGLE.
"PUBLISHES ALL >
THE NEWS > v*
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VOLUME I.
HENNESSEY. OKLAHOMA. THf^RPAY. JULY IS. 1901.
NUM3E:t 11.
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NOW IS THE TIME
To register for a chance for a homestead, but it is more important that you
should be well fed and clothed, and the place to get all these necessaries
of life is at the
"OLD RELIABLE"
Humphreys Supply Qd-s Store.
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We keep the best of everything at prices to suit. Bring us your Pro=
duce. for which we will pay the highest market price.
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Stock Raising in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma is in the south. If it hud:
been settled fifty years ago, it would
now be struggling to get away from ex-
clusive cotton growing and making
every effort to chance to general farm-
ing. But the oldest part of Oklahoma
is less than twelve and much of it only
seven years of age. It was not, how-
ever, a howling wilderness so short a
time ago. Great herds of cattle were
grown and fattened on the nutritious
grasses of the prairies and protected
from winter's storms by groves of tim-
ber and steep walled gullies. Now all
is changed and every quarter-section is
being farmed. The stockmen and cow-
boys who were here in the range days
have remained. They knew cattle and
the Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and
Texas farmers who came in knew farm-
ing and now, they all know both cattle
and farming. While the wheat and
cotton crops of Oklahoma are of great
importance, the quiet and continuous,
money-making industry is the produc-
tion of cattle and hogs. Both the
wheat and cotton crops help to make
stock raising successful and profitable,
as will appear from what follows.
The chief factors in the production of
cattle and hogs are pasture, roughage,
grain, shelter, and good water. These
are available here in ways unusual in
most live stock districts and are com-
bined and used as the needs and ability
of each stockman will allow.
Beginning in April, let us follow the
season through. During the spring and
summer, native pastures furnish excel-
lent feed until about the middle of
August. For the next month and a
half, pastures are frequently short, but
are helped out by feeding Kafir or sor-
ghum fodder which is sown either
broadcast, in drills, or in rows. If the
acreage of native pasture is short, it is
supplemented by a patch of Kafir corn
or of cowpeas, pasturing each at times
when needed. Later in the fall, the
prairie grass again furnishes pasture.
Much of the corn and Kafir fodder is
cut and shocked or stacked. After the
pasture is exhausted in the fall, the
young stock is allowed to clean up the
corn fields. Frequently, cowpeas are
sown between the rows at the last culti-
vation and furnish much fall pasture.
Thi,, together with a small amount of
fodder, keeps them growing until about
the first of January. Cowpeas, sown on
wheat stubble after harvest, are also
available for fall pasture.
During January, February, and part
of March, the i.heat furnishes an
amount of pasture equal in amount and
vaiue to that produced by any summer
grass. Pasturing wheat, if intelligent-
ly done, does not decrease the yield and
many regard it as positively beneficial.
This succulent forage, fed in connection
with Kafir or corn stover and a small
amount of grain carries the stock cattle
through until pasture comes again.
As has been indicated, corn and Kafir
stover is put to good use. The latter is
frequently planted thickly in rows close
together and harvested with a corn har-
vester. Large areas are sown in sor-
ghum and when heading out, it is cut,
allowed to wilt, and placed in small
piles where it cures. After curing, it is
stacked or remains in piles and fed.
Prairie hay is also available, though to
a decreasing extent yearly. Millets are
grown and do well. On same soil, af-
falfa is grown and some alfalfa hay is
fed. Cowpea hay is also used to a lim-
ited extent. In the neighborhood of the
oil mills, cotton seed hulls are put to
good use as rough feed for cattle.
The grain feeds available are corn,
Kafir corn, cotton seed, and cotton seed
meal and bran. Some say beans are
grown but not in sufficient amount to
cut much of a figure.
The climate is such that very little
artificial shelter is used or necessary.
At most a shed, either of boards or
straw and poles sufficient to keep out
the few rains of the winter, and some
protection from the north winds, usual-
ly the side of a bank in the timber along
the creeks, is all that is necessary and
profitable. The stockman is thus at no
expense for barns for shelter for his
stock and for the storage of fodder.
As a rule, water is good and easily
secured, either from streams, artificial
ponds, or wells thirty to fifty feet deep.
In eastern Oklahoma, hogs are of as
much importance as cattle and their
production is an increasing profitable
industry. With the exception of one
year, losses from disease have been very
light indeed. The climate being so
mild, sows farrow at any and all sea-
sons. Fall and early pies have a better
[ chance than those that come either
during the very cold or hot weather.
Sorghum is used to a very great ex-
tent as hog pasture, and corn and Kaffr
corn for grain. The sorghum is sown
early and when well started, furnishes
| continuous pasture throughout the sum-
mer. The use of cowpeas for this pur-
pose is increasing. Exclusive grain
feeding is not the rule. During the win-
ter, hogs follow the steers and make
fair growth.
The feeding of alfalfa and cowpea
hay to hogs is increasing. It is profit-
able, effecting a great saving of grain
and improving the condition and growth
of the hogs. Last winter, a lot of pigs
fed Kafir meal alone consumed eight
and one fifth pounds of grain for each
pound of gain, while a similar lot fed
cowpea hay in addition required only
i four and three quarter pounds of grain
for each pound of gain. This more than
paid for the hay eaten and resulted in
a marked improvement in the thriftiness
of the animals.
The addition of a small amount of soy
bean meal to the ration fed to hogs
gives promise of good results. The prop-
osition is usually about four of corn or
Kafir meal to one of soy bean meal.
The advantage of soy beans and Kafir
lies in their ability to withstand drouth
and to yield well on upland that will not
produce corn.
In general, the Oklahoma stockman
is an experimenter and student a stud-
| ent of conditions rather than of theories
for he has been confronted so often by
conditions unknown and untried and
has overcame them that a new one
whets the appetite for another trial.
He knows but little of protem and carbo-
hydrates and nutritive ratios too little
! for the ideally best results. But he
knows a good steer or hog when he sees
it and knows how to produce them cheap-
ly with home-grown feedstuffs. Orange
.Tudd Farmer
Do you read The Eaole? If not, you
are missing a good thing'. It is only SI
per year.
Influence of Food on Peace.
A report issued by the Department of
Agriculture last week on the exportation 1
of farm products has a direct bearing
on the peace of the world. It showed
that last year Europe bough*: i-4 billions
dollars' worth of the fruits of America's
soil. Great Britian took million
dollars' worth of this, (Jerm i:-.v v third
as much'and the other states smaller
amounts. A coalition of the old world
against the United States i mean
famine prices throughout th ' <■ .iitineat.
Great Britain is the country which
would be most seriously affected. It has
a population of 41 millions, wh consume
about 20 million bushels of wheat a
month. The Liverpool Corn Trade News
gives the amount of wheat stored in eie-1
vators in Great Britain on Jnr.e 1 as 17
million bushels. Possibly as much more
was in the hands of wholsalers and re-
tailers as grain and flour. The whole1
stock available in case the island -.hould
be cut off from its foreign supplies would
last less than two months. At the first
prospect of war with the United States
prices of breadstuff's and meats would
begin to soar. By the time war was de- j
clared the poor would be un r>Ie to buy
flour or bread. In case of a protracted
struggle the sufferings of the siege of
Paris would l>e enacted on i larger vaie. j
The bare possibility of such an occur-
rence would be a powerful factor in the
prevention of war. At the first si^u 0f
a rise in prices people wou! i r tke fright
and the belligerent ministry would be
turned out. If the United State., should
decide that heroic measures w -re nec-
cessary to convince Great Br.ttain in
some dispute, Congress might lay an
embargo on the export of brea lstuffs.
While such an act would cause sharp
fail in prices at home, its effect in Eng-
land would be disastrous. Starvation
would threaten the island. From time
to timeEnglishmen have called attention
to this danger. The government has
taken the position that it can afford bet-
ter to maintain a fleet to prevent a block-
ade than to make provision for ■. food
supply at home. But in the event of
hostilities with America the British fleet
would not help the foo i supply. It \
might prevent a blockade, but it could j
not bring bread and m;at to th; pe>ple.
The re it or" Europe would not be so ser-
iously affected by a war with the United
State,. But it must be remembere 1
that agricultural exports from this coun-
try are only about 60 per cent of the to-
tal amount it sells abroad. When trade
mounts into the hundreds >i millions of
dollars there are powerful interests at
work to maintain peace. The influential
men of t nation will not see commerce
interupted if they can prevent it. In th^
case of Great Brittain their influent'
would be reinforced by that of the com-
mon people, whose bread and meat sup-
ply would be immediatly affected by
war. Even the great continental pow-
ers, such as Germany ami France, would
hesitate at the prospect of hostilities on
account of the commercial neccesity of
the United States, if for no other reason.
America's exports are as powerful a fac-
tor in its defense as its fleet. -Kansas
City Star.
The Clerk's Lament.
If I had but a thousand extra plunk*
or even five hundred I ween, 1 would
hike away to the cooling lake with its.
waters deep and green. I'd get away
from the smell of the store, let the fties
through the sugar roam, and never come
back from the water and woods till the
chill nights drive me home. I would
fish and swim and eat and sleep all
through the summer's day; I would listen
to the summer birds and watch the chip-
munk play. I would live like an Indian
high-rauck-a-muckand take on a beauti-
ful tan, with an appetite like \ billie
goat's or a stalwart hir'd man. I would
watch the playful chiggei chig,
and list to the song of the frog, as they
give their daily matinee from the center
of the bog. I would try to f. rget that,
boarding house, wheie I take my daily
chew, likewise the voice of the landlady
asking for the board bill due. Oh, I
would have a bully time if 1 had :i few
extra plunks; the fun I would have
would be so thick you could break it oft
in chunks. But here I must stay and
plug along while the. hotnes, hotter
grows, and the summer heat blisters my
feet and galls my tender toe,, i
only dream of a cooler land and think
some cooling thunk.-., with nary a chance
to realize, because 1 haven't the plunk i
—Tom McNeal.
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Hutchinson, J. E. The Eagle. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 18, 1901, newspaper, July 18, 1901; Hennessey, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc94542/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.