The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-04-29

ed with fine native grass suitable for pasture
meadow.
LIVE sToCK.
Before Oklahoma was opened to settlement
vas the richest pasture land known to the cattle
Cattle not only lived through the winter
the open range but often fit for beef in Feb
ruary aud March What more need be said Of our
advantages for raising cattle and horses Grain is
needed during the mild winters to keep up the
animal heat Whatever is fed will result in growth.
flesh milk or butter and profit Very slight shelter
is needed for the finest stock and the of only
moderate means put his money into live stock
instead of expensive barns, does he feed out
during the winter to keep his stock alive, all he can
raise during the summer
TINE is MONEY
The Oklahoma farmer is a very busy man He
gets time to spend unprohtaby in the village
He must his in February; the should
be in the ground by March Ist to April 10Th by the
time this is laid by the hay oats and wheat
waiting. after these secured the
gathering. and the cotton picking, and as soon as
moments time presents itself he should commence
powing and keep it all winter. Fall and winter
powing is the proper thing here both for tbs soil
and for the crop. There is another good thing
about it, the work is spread the whole year and
the farmer does need to hire much helm the
weeks time eating their heads off is the
in severe climates. On the whole. Oklahoma
is the place for a to become independently
Portable in a short time frcm MS work
MARKETS.
The Oklahoma farmer has that best of all mar
kets, home market Two great lines of railroad
north and south through the territory. and
others coming in from the On the lines
already built the Santa Fe and Rock Island have
sprung up many large towns ranging from 500 to
people. These non producers and have
come to stay. The farmer has not yet been able to
supply all their needs, while competition among the
merchants in these towns has placed the prices of
all their at bottom prices; the farmer here
is as a matter of fact favored in these respects be-
yond any other state territory.
SCHOOLS.
Two sections in each township apart for
the of the public schools There is now a reve-
from the leasing of these lands, with fund
from their sale when Oklahoma is made a state
There is also Territorial University. Normal
and Agricultural college and Experimental Station
well provided for by government appropriation and
two more sections of land in each township in the
Cherokee Strip and other lands yet to added to
the territory making nearly oneninth of the entire
domain, devoted primarily to the cause of education.
Splendid schools are in operation
Oklahoma will be represented by no dark spot
on the educational map.
CHURCHES
Oklahoma settled by a people who have
paid much attention the preparation for religious
worship. Take for example Guthrie the Capitol
City. She has two resident Bishops Catholic and
Episcopal. A fine Convent school and church are
under the eye of the Bishop. while the Protestents
are represented in fine church buildings by the
Episcopal. Presbyterian, Congregational, Methodist
Baptist and Lutherus
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
No state or territory is better adapted to that
system now generally conceded to be the most GER
tainly profitable to the farmer.
territory where wheat. corn cotton tobacco
fax, oats and potatoes grown successfully and
which is the home of the fruit and vegetable fami-
lies; where malaria and musquitos only conspic
uous by their absence; where the summers are com
Portable and the winters mild where good pure
water is plentiful: where there is timber sufficient
for cheap fuel, and not plentiful to make the
clearing of farm the work Of a life time; where no
large tracts OF land are held by railroads or non
residents. but where every quarter section is
pied and being improved to the advantage of its
neghbor; where the people law-abiding indus
trious and well todo. where the soil is new with all
its producing powers still intact say to a locality
combining these advantages make mis-
take in coming either to make il his home in
vest his money
FEW JOTTINGs
To show the various products raised in Okla
homa Territory, give the following results,
which can be verified by writing to the parties here
in named:
John Massey owns 16O acres one ue north
west of Guthrie In the summer of 1893, he sold to
w. A. Clark, proprietor of the "Welcome Grocery
$40 worth OF Straw berries gathered from five
planted In Strawberries; he also sold to the same
party $s4 90 worth of Raspberries Mr. Massey
owns valuable farm, and is first class citizen
and farmer. He formerly lived in Franklin County,
Kansas. He says his oats yielded 56 bushel per
acre. This year he has Is acres Of Strawberries
which promise a large yield.
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Sam Rasure owns 40 acres In the = OF Sec.
s. and located One-half mile from Guthrie. He had
this planted In Irish and Sweet potatoes: fifteen
acres OF Onions and the balance in garden vegeta-
bles. He says he made his living and cleared 81, 500
in money, farming this 40 In 1893. From the
yield OF six acres, planted In Early Rose potatoes.
he got 300 In cash from W. A. Clark, proprietor OF
the Welcome Grocery"
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Mr. Sam Knawles, an Arkansas negro, lives SIX
miles east from Guthrie. He planted six acres at
Cotton and from these six gathered six bales
OF Cotton, sold the to Coyle & Smith, OF Guth-
rie, and got S30S.45 cash.
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VIM Stoval rented the east y Of the northwest
= OF section 3, from Mrs Wallahan. He sOwed il iu
wheat which averaged, machine measure, forty
three bushels per acre.