The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-11-30
Landlords Liens.
Editor Ardmoreite.

EoltOr ArdmOrelte.
The many suits to foreeloso land
lords liens have caused me to do
much thinking during the year just
passed.
1 have not SO much fault to find
with the law as have with q system
of doing business which calls for such
legislation. Legislative bodies do
not pass laws without q reason for
them. The cause of the passage cf
the landlords lien law of Arkansas
must have been largely poverty or
inability to pay and that wanton dis
regard of contracts or promises to
pay which follows discouragement,
loss and undeserved failure.
The system of furnishing" is a
very disastrous one to the farmer
from a double point of view. He is
dependent when his contract is made,
and feels his dependence. His con-
tract is a one sided affair. The safe
guards are all on the other side. He
buys more,than he would buy if he
paid cash, and pays n higher price.
His market is limited, for he con-
tracts to sell the first ard best of his
crop 10 the furnisher. He has no
choice of markets. The furnisheer's
price is his market price. If the let
ter and spirit of his contract are not
faithfully observed, a suit in court is
the result; and then he not only pays
the costs and an attorneys fee, but
has bought at 4 high price and con-
sumed goods to the amount of his
crop.
Farmers-the real producers-are
poorly equipped for good farming,
and produce in a small way. Their
horses are poor and weak, their i'm
1 plements old in style and Intellectual
for use; and the result is a poor crop
compared to what it ought to be,
though it is produced at the cost of
a good crop.
A suit in attachment upon an or
dinary crop in the Territory by the
time the custodian and other officers
are paid and the crop marketed
leaves scarcely enough to pay court
costs.
So far have said enough to point
out the fact that have a remedy to
J sug gest, and 1 have. The evil can
J not be eradicated in a single year
but much can be done in that direc.
J ton. The time for renting farmG
will soon be at hand. This is the So
: luton: Diversity of crops and pro
J ducts. Cotton is too cheap for the
: producer to rely on it to make money
l anticipate the answer will be
This is a cotton country, and the
i other crop. The farmer who car
f raise good cotton can raise gooC
3 corn, oats, potatoes, turnips, sor
3 ghum and veget stables, and with thes
} things can feed hogs, cattle, horse
= and mules; he can raise chickens
j turkeys and geese All cotton or al
8 corn is not good farming.
9 The farmer can be the most indie
d pendent man on earth if he wills il
# Here in the Territory he is the mos
T dependent of all the classes that in
n habit this country. Corn at is cent
q per bushel fed to hogs with pork q
l. 3 1-2 cents gross is marketing tha
It corn at 35 cents per bushel. G:oun
If corn and hay fed to good COWS wit
n butter at % cents per pound is
v cents a bushel for corn and $3.50
If ton for hay on the farm.
Ie Fatten more beef and pork, rails
% more oats, wheat and corn, buy les
ic on time; and you will pay less coul
ID costs and wear better clothes.
e s. B. BRADFORD,
b Ardmore, l. T., Nov. 29th, 1903.
The Best Plaster.