The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-17

small farmer can be made By any car
penter at a small cost.
The Weld varies, of course. with tho sol
and locality but a good average yield is
a ton OF thresaed brush from three 20
five acres. An experienced hand can cut
about one acre per day The threshing
and baling costs about 81 rer ton. The
price varies so much that the profits for
one year can seldom be assumed as a
standard. Ordinary brush one year with
another averages about SEQ TO $40 per ton.
1t is good crop on the sod. 1t shades
the ground and helps to rot the sod. be-
sides making as good a growth as kafir
or sorghum, without cultivation.
The seed and the stalks are utilized
for feed, but their feeding value IS low
and it would hardly pay TO raise It for
feed alone; although in the western part
Of oklahoma dwarf broom corn is sovn
for ''roughness' instead OF sorghum. be-
cause it does not sour in the stack so
badly. After the brush is harvested the
stalks can be used for forage ard then
plowed under, making an excellent green
manure.
There are mary varieties OF broom corn.
but Mammoth Dwarf, and Of the stan
dard varieties. Improved Evergreen. and
California Golden. have proven to be the
most satisfactory in Oklahoma Seed can
be secured from local raisers or from
western seedsmen-
Broom corn IS cash crop. and, Ike
other cash crops. has its favorable and
unfavorahle features. It's cultivation on
a very large scale is seldom succ sssful,
but If properly handed on small scale.
say from l5 20 % acres. for the average
farmer land especially on new land. where
the variety OF new crops IS limited) II
viii prove as paying ss almost any crop
that can be raised. Oklahoma has early
seasons. and can market the brush early
in the season. and for that and other rea-
sons. should easily become a great re-
source Of the nations supply Of broom
corn
While it IS not possible 20 accurately
forecast the outcome Of the wheat crop
reasonable prudence would suggest that
for the present wheat should not be pas
tured 70 any great extent. The conditions
have been such during the summer and
fail just passed that much wheat was
sown in sod that has been poorly pre-
pared. and even with the best OF prepsra-
ton there has not been sufficient nois-
ture for "a vigorous growth. There were
heavy rains during the fan OF 1910. and the
soil was filled with moisture and thor
oughly saturated. With these conditions
and favorable winter weather. wheat fur
nished an unusual amount of pasture last
winter. and WIS IN some ca ses actrsliy
benefited by rasturiug- The conditions
are entirely different at present IN gen
eral. tie fail rains have been sufficient
only 10 moisten the soil 70 a Depth ~
about elk inches. while the subsoi has
scarcely been reached by the water The
wheat is thus dependent upon The rains
that co-ne during the winter and while
Il IS possible that there might he Tien.y
~ rain for the purpose. the average ruln- f
falf # past seasons has becn FuGciert. =
IS true that feed IS scarce. and hisn ia
price and the wheat pasture sells far
eooe prices some prefer % take what is
to be bad in the way - rrs sture ffor .he
vhect crop. aa1 n plant some other CROP
II he wheat IS harre5 fIy tie nasttrrT.
rirr lhat possibly wheat may -ieIl
Wal. nezg harvest. even u Hat pssri-
I.o0keI ar in tris light rasrrus uh ~
pro- tle erfr tAoash .t ks tle eh
But = VIII rot CO to follow fte
lf lest wlrtfr. vhea q wac erarceir ras-
sltla g. pasture who7t too heavily