The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-08-19
MEETING OF FARMERS
The ok ahOma Agricultural
Society Having All Enthus.
iAstic Meet.

meeting IN this city was tho event OF the
society and large number Of delegates
end other persons interested IN these
great and farreaching subjects were IN
attendance.
The society is IN FIRST class shape, and
is now one Of the most potent influences
for the advancement or enlightened and
scientific farming to be found in
the territory. c. NJ. Morris, IS
sistant horiculturalist Of the A. and NJ.
college at saltwater, delivered a splend-
i'd address on grape culture, with illustrs-
tions showin- the enemies OF the grape
and the diseases.
Ia the evening the first .eddress was
made by NJ f. Burtls on the subject
OF Wheat Growing" He was followed
by Professor John Fields. director OF the
A. AMI NJ college at Saltwater who
spoke as follows.
Connected. as is the Oklahoma OK
pertinent station. with the Agricultural
and Mechanical college it's functions are
not clearly distinguished from those Of
the college. Briefly. the work of the sta
tion is to discover new truths or new APP
plicatons of old ones. connected I'm any
way with the great, many-sldei industry
OF farming. and to publish the results
which q has secured. The work OF the
college, on the other hand, IS to lace
systemauzed knowledge bearing i'm any
way upon agriculture or mechanic arts
in a shape available for those who wish
to acquire IT, The whole field Of knowl-
edge is open to the college and to those
Station has a few specific questions TO
answer and the answering Of them must
be done in such a way that there Is no
uncertainty. no doubt. no revision.
II is now eight years since the estab-
llshment Of the Oklahoma Experiment
Station. Tho question IS many times
asked. what good has the Station done
for the farmers Of Oklahoma?" II / felt
that an apology for the work Of the sta
ton were necessary. I might reply that
the farmers Of Oklahoma have no right
to complain as they have never contrib
uted TO its support. But I have no apol
ogy TO make. Acquainted as ! am with
the work OF the stations in the United
States and with many OF the men who
are working in them ror the advance
ment Of agriculture. l am not at all
ashamed OF the work OF the oklahoma
station.
Those OF you who have bean through
! the trying days after tho variou' 'pen-
ings-thr5uF1 the wearisome e1,rl to
make Q. '.incthlnR Whe'ei thing Nss-ipust
know that every enterprise hal 70 aars
| through tn same experience. You must
know that the establishment OF an insti-
tuition for accurate experiment and re-
search also had lts immense amount OF
work to be done before a showing could
be made Would a meeting and an ex-
hibit or the sort that we have here now
have been possible five years agof
What has the Oklahoma Station done
for the farmer? Much. I shall not tire
your patience with recital OF what has
been done The published bulletines--42 IN
number-and the summary of the results
now being sent out tell OF the results I'm
plain, practical way. II makes rather
dry reading to the admirer OF the beaud
ful In literature but Il would be dryer
still were to attempt to talk # TO you.
Two points occur to me which viii fur
nish dt1 Ia answering the question HAS
Il pa:d7' IN a bulletin 1. sued more thaf
a year ago It was stated that castor
bean pods were worth ten dollars a tor
as fertilizers. Castor bean pods had never
been studied before and their value was
not realized. Let us imagin that every
grower Of castor beans made good use OF
the pods after their value had been made
known TO him. At ten dollars per ton
800 tons would pay for the cost OF th'
Station for year. Are these 500 tons o
a
course there are many times that many
The Station has done much to help Il
forming a correct estimate Of the valu
OF Kanr corn. It has grown It under vary
ing conditions. fed It in different ways
and pu' haled several bulletins about II
Ore point on'y-it has shown that on
hundred rrund OF Kafir meal Is equal 1
feeding value to 1866 pounds Of Kahr corr
Everyone knew that there was a differ
ence but they didn't think It was half s
great as that. Give the Station cred
with the Lne-half-it has saved cents o
every bushei OF Kair corn fed. Are theI
three hundred thousand bushels a. Kaf
corn fed each year? at the : t'hts pt
husl e. which the results OF the Hxper
L'ent stauon have added to its value n
SIS DO which the Staten costs rot n
T'rritcry but the United States, has be,
sa'st IT, ere are bu. two examples
might enumerate a hundred.
Let me cite Just one more illustratlo
Last summer. about this time or a litt
later. complaint reached us from Carrie
county that the farmers horses were a.
ing. Our veterinarian started over. dro'
all OF two days and nights visiting diffe
ent places wher the disease appeare
and got back looking much the worse Z
wear. He found that a smut growing
a certain variety OF grass was the Gauss
a bulletin was sent 10 the newspape
and to the farmers IN the locality whe
the disease was prevalent. In this WI
and by correspondence. the farmers we
told the cause and the easy way 70 ayo
the trouble-simply by keeping the
norRes out OF pastures n which the SIC
was present. In reporting the cause
the trouble. we called II "smut on gran
grass"-we might have said that II W
'Usdlago boutelouae growing on BOUT
Qua oligOstachya," which IS the latin
It, But We didn't do IL. The loss OF
Il horses at $50 a piece means the loss
$4,000. By pointing out the way OF pl
venting this loss, the station has aga
paid for what Il costs.
In each OF the cases cited. there was
possibility OF doing something for a lar
3. number. II only a few horses had be
sick or a few cattle were dying, It wol
10 have been none OF our business The 81
=, ton does not maintain free yeterina