The Lamont Record. (Lamont, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1909 Page: 1 of 4
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Laiiioiit Needs a Booster Club. V/iiy not Organize one.
LAMOXT.
MIOMA, Ailiil
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FIXING FOR WHEAT
Til'1 sta tenu m t of a correspond-
ent in the last issue of the Jonrn-
al that it's the farmers own fault
when his land fails to produce
profitable ,\ iolds of w heat is es
sentially true. Except during
the one “green butt year”, there
has been nothing to prevent prof
itahl! yields of wheat in those
parts of the state a I ipted to
wheat raising. Tin* methods and
hick of methods are to blame.
1 n tin* f i •<* of tin* well known
fact that wheat never has been
grown with profit on the same
land indeiini!elv without change
of crops and proper attention 1«
1 lie ma’nt(manci■ "i tertility. < fi
lahoma wheat growers generally
continue I putting the same land
t i wheat just, as ! mg ns they '‘got
the so *<1 back.” Then a great
many wait wheat entirely and
started in growing something
olse, following t lie same method
of continuous crapping which
brought f lilure with wheat.
Wheat is high in nr ice now. It
has been a fairly profitable croj
in ()klahouia tills season an 1 then
will be a large increase in tin
acreage sown this lull. It is <le-
si cable that tin* acreage be in-
creased. Hut i lar moio desii
able that the methods be im-
proved. If good methods weri
used in preparing the land and it
good seed were prop rl.Y sown or
every acre put t > wheat in Gxhi-
hoina this fall, the same acreage
which we had this year might
easily produce twice as mud
wheat.
There is no mystery as to tin
methods which should be* follow,
ed. They have been clearly e:.
tablislied by the many farmers
who have grown wheat profitably
and by the car *ful experiments
begun by the Okldioma ex peri,
mentstatiun in 18'J:2 and continued
for fifteen y ars.
Wheat should be grown in ro-
tation with other crops and land
to be used for wheat growing
should have a crop of cow peas
grown upon it, to be either pas
tured oil’or plowed under, at least
once in every three years.
It is useless to sow wheat on a
poor seed bed. Land to be sown
to wheat this fall ought all to be
plowed before the mi Idle of Aug-
ust. If the plowing must be done
hater, it should be shallower.
And all plowing for wheat .should
he finished before the middle oi
September. Sowing wheat with
out plowing the land is specula-
tion with less chance of winning
than buying or selling whet l'u
tures in a bucket shop.
Frequent harrowing after plow -
ing is necessary. It firms the
soil; prevents loss of moisture
through the growth of weeds and
grass and by evaporation: and
keeps the surface in.condition to
absorb and retain any rain which
may fall.
Plump, sound seed, free from
trasii and smut, must be sown if
good yields are to bo expected.
The work of the Kansas experi-
ment station in distributing the
s< ed of first class varities is now
available to Oklahoma farmers.
Some of them have Oklahoma-
grown seed of the Kliurkof varie-
ty for sale. Reliable seed of this
variety and oT other strains simi-
lar to Turkey wheat, ma.v easily
be obtained in Kansas from th
growers. In, practically every
Oklahoma community where
whegt has to he grown to any ex
tent, there are men who hav<
grown good varities ami followed
methods which have improved
In? quality of wheat. Seed Iron
i hem is better than from uncer
a in sources. Tim price of goo<
<eed wi'l he high; but wheat i:
ligli, too. '
Average results show Ilia'
wheat, should b>* sown bet w ent
September -0and < )etohei ”<>. In
regions where the llesskm !ly ha*
teen making trouble Octobei
sowing is best.
That’s about all there is to k
except the work. And there’s
)|i*nty of work if the wheat croj
is put in right. Hut the certain
ity of good yields pays well fo
lie difference in t lie cost of pul
ing a wheat crop in right am
outling it in any old way, just so-.
0 get it done. O. K. Farm Jour
nnl.
SUNDAY MO! IN ING DA IIA
On Sunday morning, August
fill, The Oklahoma City Kven
mg Times will launch a Sunda;
norning daily, which wiil make >
he only seven day paper in tin
southwest.
Mr. Benedict, the editor am
general manager, unnou: ces the
here will be no extra charg*
nude for the Sunday pap< r, hi
that it will be sent to each daiA
subscriber.
It will contain not nnl.. the fn
press reports of the world, but
fifty-seven special corn*- pondents
in the state will feed its Sunday
morning columns with live news
sent over the wire not stub
news written after it is a week
>ld.
SpOiial staff men *at Washing-
ton and Guthrie will toil the ad-
ministration news by wire.
1 n addition, the Oklahoma Press
Service, one of the st.ongest
news gathering agencies of the
West will supply its full rep nd.
It is the intention of the mar.
agement to make The Sunday
rimes the great state-wide pauoi
if Oklahoma. It is not known < i
this time what the size of the pa
per will bn. However, it will ion
tain over -5,000 words of tele
graph in state and world’s news,
a real estate section, a foreign
.section, state news section, edi
torial section and magazine sec
ti ui. cunic section in colors, ii
idditiou to the regular city new-
spac ■ required to cover the field
in tiie lead of all competitors.
As is well known, this is tin
1 idlest, season in the newspapei
business of the year, and the in-
tention of The Times in starting
a Sunday morning paper at this
time was in order to be fully
equipped and in perfect sha] e
for the heavy fall advertising. •
Watch for the Sunday T'nies
on August 8th.
Gault McConnel, from east of
town six miles, was in Monday to
get the tanks, pipes, etc., for put-
ting an air pressure water sys-
i*ni in his house. The News man
saw tin* outfit at Strecker’s store
and heard a little explanatory
talk about it by Callahan and
came to the conclusion that it’s a
tine thing to have, if you can af-
ford it, as nearly all farmers oan
this year. The principle of the
thing is siuinlo a windmill pumps
vvat< r inf ) an air tight tank, at the
-ain*? time pumping in cuougl
iir to force the water throughout
the house. It's t!.,* saint as a
ml low wire gasoline lamp, on a
iarg'*r scale. Met ’oimell u ill in
iis hath room with a hot wale
ink, I id>. sink, etc., just the sum
14 if lie had coilUectiiin vif|| ;
ity paver plant. The tanks go
imlor the ground to proven
freezing. Grant County Now.-.
SIGNIFICANT
The ot!i**r day a merchant in ;
learhy town saw a farm o’ ri
reiving goods at tlm station fron
Chicago mail order home, sa.\
lie M uscotali (Kalis ) li •eon;
’lie goods were in his line am
lie same had been carried in hi
4tore for yeaiv. Ii * unprea lua
he farmer and said:
‘T could have sold you ov<*r.\
irticle you have t.!i**r<; for les?
none.y th in you paid tlioCnieugt
louse, and saved you t'a • fi *igh1
insides.”
''Tlit'n why on earth t idid y i
eiy so?” answered the f train
‘ 1 have fallen the M us -at,ah K
ord for years, and have nev-*
et'ii a line about your selling
host* gi o Is. Tin* Chicago bolls-
ent advertising matter to me
sking for my trade, and thc.\
»t it.”
TAFT AND THE TARIFF
Those impatient ones who hav<
>een cmupTining that Presiden
'aTt did not tr.kean active part ii
iriii*making must now fi»**l mol i-
tied. Almost at the very begin,
ling of tnc tariff revision sossisi
i number of newspapers pursue!
he president with supplication-
Init he i*nter di re**t!y into 1 lie no
gotiations. 'That would h v he *r
the Roosevelt way. mid tin* souls
of the low traiif zealots yearned
f >r noise and spectacular effects
Hut the amiable Mr. Taft sail
milling and only smiled upon hi-
critics. While the two bodies oi
•ongress were sweltering am
wrangling over schedules, tin
lrcsident played golf and enjoyei
iims'*f as best lie could in tin
fetid atmosphere of Washington.
Tilings have taken a new as
poet. The president has laid
iside his golf sticks and is now
seriously intent upon, scrutinizing
In* work" of the conference con -
riittee. That ho has well defined
h*as about the tai iIT is shown b\
iis insistence up in certain cluing'
*s which will modify the tarifi
bill according to Ids notions oi' n -
vision. He lias wielde 1 no “big
stick” mid he has made few, i1
my threats. Hut senators am
representatives are listening t<
.•very word he utters, f >r there is
i dignified aiithority in his atti
ude. 11 * waited until the propel
moment for his interference, and
i.hen lie interfered withoutpassing
the hounda.fy line of executive
discretion, lie is exercising his
•(institutional right to advi.se con
gross, and lie also acknowledges
iis resjiorndbi ity as a party load
*r by taking counsel with his fel
low Kepiddican statesmen.
Pr°siden£ Taft long ago com.
mtt' d himself to tariff revision
It is true that his party’s plat,
orm said nothing about revision
downward, but Mr. Taft has al-
ways maintained the necessity for
townward revision. It was on'
• r**ly consist! nl. ifial I.** unike
plain ti congress a' Lit* projer
tone tfie Kind of a bill !•'• *. i aid
sign and | oiut, out tin* 1;.- ahilii'( S
'I a bill that i.i* would not, sign
bd.y in this way could congress [
ie a fie to lorutululo a measuie
bat would si‘cure i,xecii1i\o a| •
iroval. ” bis semis to 1 av * bi'ei
i •eoiiiplished, th;* ri’.M*li b.»ing
icasured which gives gmieral r< *
isimiol 11j«• tariii srhi'dulcs am
arries nut the liepuhlii an oiut
•i'll) pledges to the -ati d,i tim
». the president ami countoy. ii
filar as suidi a complicated in -
I *rt iking can ho made satisI’acti -
.\ • K. ('. Journal.
FRIGE OF GOAL
'This office received a con muni
it ion from (•oi-poration Cominis
ioiier McA!ist"r, stating tdiat i
was his intention to make a \igm -
ms i i vc.stig ition of the coal busj
l ‘-s oi tin* state. He requests*
' I or illation about tin* price oi
c I January 1st and July 1st. Ik
bites that the < ’ommis-ionei
ude siih.stanii il red nation in tin
height rates on coal from (fitly
lerna points Io Oklah mri j>.hit*
ml that there is C'lnsinorabh
•onipla.n that tin* price of con
uis not been ro.iue d. Last yea
luring the campaign tin* charm
was made* that there had b • -a m
'•eduction of any conseqm u, i ,
mil we investigat 'd tin* charge at
his point, and 'hand that a r<
luction of l.i cents p<.*r ton \v;e
mule from McAlisb - to Lamm
('•oni what it was in S-ptemL*
1 POT. This embraces the thru
vlien it is claim *d that a “sail
stanf ial i educti<*n "had b <•:; madi
• n March lP H. We are willing
o furnish him all the informatioi
ibtainuble, if it will reduce tin
price of coal. The dealers pro! t
s about $1.00 per t* n, a el tkr.t
ias to include the slack, ham ling
mil shortage. The freight rate
Tom McAlister to L i munt is Mb.'
per ton and the pi ice at the mine
,s $-1.00. Goal is selling here at
efimO. You can keep these tig
figures, ns they are the in font a
fcion which will he sent to the
uimniission and when they make
their report, you will have your
iwn evidence for tin; proof of
their statement.
CAN fTNUG Til A PL HIT.
The? campaign to secure a re
fereyidum on the Tayli r election
law ami to continue the light, now
icing waged under Chairman Joe
Norris of the republican state
committee, t<* make Oklahoma a
republican state in the next elec-
tion. will he rushed incessantly.
This was the decision of a confer
*nei* here, during the past week
between Chairman Norris and
James A. Harris of Wagoner,
treasurer of t,he state commit tee.
Chairman Norris confirmed the
above today when queried by a
newspaper man, and also added
that during his temporary ab-
sence from tin* state, James A.
Harris, who is a member of the
state committee as well as its
elected treasurer, has been desig-
nated by him as his acting chair
man.
“This is a time when nothing
should be overlooked that will ad
vance the interests of the repub
lican party,” said Chairman Nor-
ris. “It is a time when important
prepositions :*. p, udinv, includ
ug tin* 'i.lor law r» feroiu’um,
l id f )!• t!; 'a r . s Ml I have dosig
n did Mr. Harris to look after the
wor! during m\ nh.ser.ee tempo,
rsii i 1 .v Iroai the stab*. As treas-
urer of the s! a; e com init tee a ml
is one of its members he is in a
losilion to direct the work and
,ee 'hat nothing t! at needs alien-
ion, is left undone.”
Mr. Harris, the siding chair-
nan, sis treasurer of the stale
•oio mil ‘re stood next in line to
'huiriuiin Norris officially. Ills
lesignation by Mr. Norris is si
veil d served position and is also
n line with his selection as tresis’
irer by the committee.
GLEANINGS.
Two Kansas farmers one of
hem a Republican and the other
i 1) -moerut, were quarreling over
’heir political beliefs. The more
hey argued the lathersipartthey
trifled. Finally they called in a
leig'ibor to soMk* tin? dispute.
Phis neighbor was a hum who
leldom said anything; who went
ibont his business, was a good
•iti/.-'.i sind substantial in every
vay. “Weil,” lie replied, after
) ith had stated their sides, my
am and l have been hauling
vhesit nearly forty years now.
Ph&ic are two roads leading to
t/i * mill. ( me is the valley road
md tin* otl er leads over the hill
hi the t mi Her asked
ne which road we came. I{e al-
ways asks: “Is the wheat good?’,
The newest “mean man ” story
In a western county of Kansas
he dead body of an unknown man
was recent y discovered. In his
> >eki ts th'-.v found $100 in bank-
notes and a big revo'ver.
“Wlnit about iff” .asked the in-
nocent one.
“You would i-xpoct that they d
have used that hundred in finding
.iis reialives, or, lading in that,
have given him a decent burial,
now wouldn’t your
“Sure.”
“Well, they didn't.” is the an-
swer. “Tin y arraigned his dead
tody b: 1 ire a justice of the 1 6ace
for carrying concealed weapons
and filled him $!00, and buried
him in the potter's field
This is the tallest corn story of
the season, and is being told
miong the traveling men over tl.e
state. It is said to have been in a
ietter written home by an East
orn visitor: “Most oft lie Kansas
streets are paved, grains of corn
being used for cobblestones*
while the cobs are hollowed out
for sewer pipe. TVeliusk, when
ta coil off whole and stood mi end,
in ikes a nice tent for the children
to play in. It sounds queer to
hear the feed man tell the driver
take a dozen grains of horse to
feed over to Jackson s livery sta-
ble. if it were not for s ft deep
soil here I don't see how they
would ever harvest the corn, as
the stalks would grow up as high
in the air as a Methodist church
steeple. However, when l!:eears
got too heavy, their weight 'press-
es the stalk down in the ground
on an average of ninety two feet;
and thus brings the ear near
enough to the ‘ground to be
(.hopped off with an ax.”
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Bradfield, O. J. The Lamont Record. (Lamont, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 5, 1909, newspaper, August 5, 1909; Lamont, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc956845/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.