The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-03-24
CLUB TAKES ACTION
on several Matters Of Importance TO 4
Uify.

on several Matters Of Importance 10 The
Uify.
The Guthrie club held n business
NEE sting last night and heard an nd
dress by Colonel Pittmsn, OF the Mus
kogee road, lie reports progress in
the ork. W. L. Mittinger, Of Pnr-
cell, addressed the club relative to the
new cotton compress.
The club decided TO call a meeting
OF farmers TO be held in the probate
court room Saturday, April 2, at 2 p.
M, to organize q fruit shippers pro-
tectve organization. The following
letter was presented;
w. II Coyle, Etq President Guthrie
Club, Guthrie, o. r. Dear Sir:-Re-
ferring to the conversation had with
you and your citizens concerning the
possibilities of the country immediate
ly tributary to Guthrie, we repeat
what we said then, that it is our
opinion, based on our observation and
the reports made to us by disinter-
ested observers, that your section Is
adapted to the cultivation Of fruits
and high class vegetables TO q marked
degree, and we would advise careful
and well. directed experimentation the
coming season for the purpose OF de-
termlniug which of the finer products
It would be most profitable for your
farmers TO engage in as speciality.
The matter of special products has
been given attention by several COM
munities in the west with remarkably
profitable results, One point in Mis-
souri, the latitude of which is almost
exactly that OF yours, the cultivation
of the straw berry has been great
success, some 500 cars OF same having
been shipped from there last season
| Other localities have taken up the cul
tivAtion of high grade potatoes, celery
cAulihower, apples and csntAloupes
with equally as marked success. The
| Arkansas valley of Colorado has
greatly increased the value OF its land
through their success in the cultiva-
tion OF the csntAloupe, the acreage in
which is doubled this year.
We believe your locality, having as
great natural and distributing advan.
tages as any one Of the points which
have M ade successes in some particular
field, can do equally as well, II not
better, with any product which, after
a careful examination, you find your
locality can excel in by pursuing the
same methods which brought then
success. We would particularly cal
your attention to strawberries, as
pAragus, cantaloupe, wAttrmelons
lettuce, onions, potatoes, ehicory, ap
Piles and peaches.
We would like IN this connection tC
call your attention to the fact that Il
1 - H. "A ~ al - coil
or other advantages that these com
munities made successes OF their ape
cial products. The main cause wal
that the cultivation, the preservation
of grade, and marketing OF the pro
duct was done through an organizA
tion composed of farmers and market
ers of these products. The value o.
an organization for the purpose o.
providing for careful management IL
raising the crop and In directing the
harvest, aud, what is more important
for marketing the entire yield through
one interested and intelligent sgeGcy
whose interest will bs to keep al
standards and maintain the price o
the yield, cannot be over estimated
We have in mind numbe
OF communities where advantages
in certain products have been les
through indiscriminate shipping Il
irresponsible commission men, result
ing in the raisers netting nothing fo
their labor. II Is the object of thes'
organic atoms - see that the produce
is Of uniform quality aud that moth
ing but the beat is shipped. II pro
vldes on assurance TO the railway com
panies of an even and sufficient volume
OF business which will enable them e
give a service such as they could no
90 sibly give to small shippers whose
,hlpmeut would be irregular, AnC
makes the handling OF the product al
ibject to frst.class commission men
rhrough such an organization the cos
Il raising and marketing the tota
product is materially reduced, thereby
euRb bling each member of such al
irgan zation to net more than he pos
IDLY could in handling his product in
diyiduAllY.
| feel it is not necessary for me Il
iwell on the merits OF diversihcatloI
as principle. 1t is our conviction
that II the farmers Of your community
would devote fair acreage to sucl
products as your organization would
dud your soil is best adapted to, AnC
Of which you can raise the highes
grade In that particular product, they
will be enabled, even at the loves
price cotton has ever reached, to mak'
more money than the farmer who de
votes his entire acreage to cotton d
wheat, as the staple may be.
/ write this letter In the most gen
eral way, as / believe It was your In
tention 1t should be, holding myself il
readiness to furnish more speciac par
ticulars II YOU desire them.
Yours very truly,