Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-28

space OF 1UO miles seven large rivers flow
| through the territory from the northwest
| TO the southeast. not counting forty or
| fifty smaller streams. springs and creeks,
| which are too numerous to mention. All
| this great water course gives moist
ure to the ground and atmosphere
| the cool nights in summer and the
| heavy dews almost like a rain.
| This fact is all in favor of sure crop of
cotton and tobacco, which the new set
| tier should keep well in mind and should
not fail to put IN at least limited space
| TO these great cash staples. Like the
! hog you do not have TO seek market,
the market viii seek the producer. If
| possible cotton and tobacco should be
! planted on second breaking and should
| be turned over from eight to ten inches
| deep, and the same for potatoes. OF the
| latter you can raise two crops during the
season. Winter potatoes should not be
planted before the middle to the last of
| July; early ones now. Early tnrnips,
radishes, peas, onions. beets at any time.
| In the fall sow ten to twenty acres OF rye
/ for stock and pigs. While corn may be
considered the great staple while the
| soil is new, you should be prepared to
| feed it all, ard put in diversity of crops,
such as oats, wheat, buckwheat, beans,
castor beans, fax and sugar cane, and
| your labors will be rewarded ten-fold in
success and satisfaction. Broom corn Is
a sure crop on Sod it is a cash article and
always in demand; you cannot raise too
much Of it.
! 1t is safe to say there are several hun
| bred old experienced cotton and tobacco
| raisers amony the colored people, many
of whom were former slaves in the
southern states, but now located in the
jack oak district. They realize the soil
and climate is all that could be desired,
and the timber to shelter the growing
crops from the occasional strong wind is
also an important factor.
The Oklahoma country is also the
home of all kinds of fruits and berries.
Vegetables grow almost spontaneously,
with little or no labor after they have
once been planted. The gardens at Fort
Reno, cultivated by soldiers at the fort,
have become, famous in all parts of the
territory, and now that the Rock Island
has reached that point Wichita Will be
supplied in a great measure with early
vegetables. No finer cabbage OF pota
toes were ever seen grown in Colorado
than those at Fort Reno. This fact es.
tablshes what may be expected all over
| Oklahoma as the towns and farms are
improved. Being from four to SIX
weeks earlier than Kansas there will al
ways be a ready market and small eX-
pense of carriage. In most cases two
crops can be grown III one season. y
farm without garden is like keeping
house without woman. Plant your
gardens early, plant your gardens late,
and you will have half of your living
the year round.
The fact that Oklahoma is a stock
country should not be lost sight of. By
all means you must have cows and their
calves kept upon the place. Ten good
COWS will support large family with
the gardens, and raise their increase as
net profit. Within few years you will
be independent. By all means keep a
good supply of hogs on hand. a few
dollars will start man III short time
on the road to plenty. 1t is said hog
cholera has never been known in the ter
ritory, and thousands have been raised
and shipped from the Chickasaw Nation
for years; long before there was any rail
road through the country.
must relate an incident that I wit
messed several years ago at the Wichita
agency. Some hog drovers from the
state bought one thousand wild hogs
of the Indians, who were to deliver them
in a corral at the agency on certain
date, and the time set to commence the
drive by the purchasers. When l say
''Wild' hogs, 10 deer or antelope were
eyer wilder, with the exception OF those
that were fed in and about the teepees of
the Indians. On the morning set when
~ !. H. INS, e hn
at least i've hundred Indians gathered
around with their blankets. expecting to
see all the hogs make break for their
old haunts, and the Indians would get a
chance to sell them over again to
the next hog buyer. The hogs were
sold at . low price. as the
Indians had calculated that by the time
they reached home they would have all
and the corral surrounded by the In
dlans and the hog men behind the hogs
But To- and behold. every hog moved off
with a slow. fat hog pace; in fact they
needed urging This was sumner, and
batiied the aboriginees. They shook
their blankets at the hogs, but no atten-
ton was paid to them. Then the In
dams would run up to the hogs. stoop
uON IL dtItt IOOh az NilSiIi, obGahO IiiNi
heads and hands. At last they discOv-
cred the secret of their weakness, and
such a shout was never sent up from a
band of Indians before. 1.-The white
man great heap smart. Indian no good.
Can't fool white man; he down Indian
They were mad, but laughed as | never
heard negroes or Indians laugh before.
The wiley hog men had stitched the eye
lids of all the wild hogs together and
blinded them, and the few tame hogs
were allowed to lead and the others fol-
lowed them 20 the state line of Kansas,
where a good round profit was realized.
Those Indians don't sell wild hogs in that
way now. They have progressed that
much in the hog business, and now let
agricultural pursuits by the white man
surround them and they will progress in
like proportion in everything else. Sur
round them with schools. churches.
made roads. fences and bridges and the
Indian problem is solved III the Indian
tsrritory.
Give US territorial government with
out DELAY. is our prayer, anu give us j.
V. Admire for governor.
SOME STARTLING STATEMENTS.
To the Editor OF the Eagle.
Here * a IA he. of bills before the present