Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1905-11-11
INDIAN TERRITORY CROPS.
Statistics Of Corn and Cotton Raised
in the New State Of
"Sequoyah."

The department Of agriculture did
not think it worth while TO estimate
the corr crop Of Sequoyah, or Indian
Territory. prior to 1901. In the econ
omy of the country at large that fruit
full, but undeveloped region, was con-
sidered a sort Of no mans land, and
It's products other than cotton not
worth tabulating. In 1901 tne corn
crop of S%equoyah was 17,SS3.-oi bash
els. In three years the yield has in.
creased more than threefold, the crop
of 1904 being 54,G25,OO7 bushels. 1t
will be much larger this year, because
more was planted and the season has
been better.
The corn crop of Sequoyah, AS well
as that of Oklahoma, Is already sufi-
GENTLY matured TO be entirely safe
from injury by frost, while that OF
Iowa, Nebraska and portions of Hi
nois will not be all safe from frost
before the end of September. And the
frost comes earlier in those more
northern ATTITUDES, which makes corn
growing less subject to risks in the
region Immediately south Of Kansas.
The nip of the frost, 1t Is true. does
not make the northern corn unfit for
use in fattening hogs and cattle,
though it does render 1t unmarketable
on city exchanges and destroys its
terminating quality. One great ad-
vantage of corn growing in the more
southern ATTITUDES is that the seed corn
IS never rendered barren by frost,
while in the more northern the farmer
will often find many bare spots in his
fields unless he has subjected his seed
corn to careful tests in order TO select
the fertile from the infertilc grains.
Statistics Of the S%equoyah cotton
crop run back further than those of
corn. In 1898 the yield was 207,S3S
bales. Six years later it had nearly
doubled, the crop of 1894 running up
TO only a little less than 400, 600 bales.
If we had no other news from Sequoy-
all but this exhibit Of increase in agri-
cultural production it would be easy
to form an idea of the great influx of
farmers in the last half decade, and to
understand why there re to-day in
Sequoyah so many openings in indus.
tries and enterprises other than agri'
cultural. OF the lists published by the
Business Mems league the other day
that for SequoyalI was by far the long
est.
Among the new industries needed
to supply the people or which a be
p~rofitably conducted there for export
of product are half a dozen canning
and pickle factories; wagon factories
and a number of shops for working
wood into hubs, spokes, AK handles
and so forth; chair factories, sash and
door factories, cotton mills, cotton gins
and oil mills, sawmills and hour mills,
foundries, ice plants, brick kilns and
glass plant; harnessmakers, apothe
and hotel keepers, mattress fac
tories, laundries and a scors of indus
tries besides.
The first Oklahoma list is not SO
long, but quite as comprehensive. A
notable feature of the indicated needs
of the two coming states, as well as of
Arkansas, is the frequency with which
canning factories and refriger'
ating plants for the preservation of
perishable products are mentioned as
enterprises promising good profits. The
fruit and vegetable growing industries
of the southwest are thriving famously
and the time seems not far distant
when the canned and preserved prod
ucts of this region will not only be
sold all over the United States, but
will compete in the markets of the
world with those OF France and Italy,