The Minneapolis journal., 1905-09-25
COMANCHE COUNTY, OKLA,
ANDITS VARIED RESOURCES
Products of This Favored Spot Rival
Those of Every Section of the
United States.
BY w. HI. HORNADAY.
Special Correspondence.

LAWTON, Ok, Sept. 2o.-The second
annual fair and exposition of Comanche
county has just closed, and was a great
success In every feature. The heavy
rains marred the brilliant features of
the last two days, yet the management
announce it a financial success, and it
was grand success every other way.
The railroads gave special rates for
seventy-five miles, which enabled the
farthermost residents of the county to-
attend, many of them remaining during
the entire week.
The display of animals and products
would convince any one that the climate
and soils of Comanche county will yield
good and profitable results along the
general lines of farming followed both
North and South, while farmer can pur-
sue any of the specialties with more GER
tain profits than he can either North or
South. In fact, this county has as great
variety oe soils as any Of the New Eng
land states, without the necessity of fer
tilization on any of them.
There were fine vegetables of every
kind, while the fruits were finer and bet
ter than can be grown any where. John
Krupicka, who secured the silver medal
at st. Louis on his sixty-four pound
wheat, headed the list of wheat growers,
while the same corn growers who took
the prize at St. Louis exhibited larger
and better corn here this year. Better
cotton and broom corn were shown than
last year, while many of the newly sown
alfalfa fields are already showing good
yields. AS fine melons as were ever de-
voured by darky were on exhibitions,
This fair has clearly demonstrated the
fact that Comanche county can grow cat
tie with Texas, wheat with Kansas,
horses with Iowa, and hogs with Indiana,
cotton with Mississippi and corn with
Illinois, mutton with Michigan and mules
with Missouri, butter with Wisconsin,
potatoes with the Dakotas, sorghum wi tn
Arkansas, sweet potatoes with North
Carolina, watermelons with Georgia,
cantaloupes with Colorado, yams with
| Florida, apples with the Ozarks, peaches,
grapes, and plums with all the world,
and prettier women than Kentucky
The luxurious native grasses, together
| with the great variety of the most valu.
| able forage crops, are great help to the
stock growers, and especially the dairy.
men of this county. The climate re-
quires but the cheapest shelter for the
very short winters. In fact, the cattle
run on the pastures and wheat fields al.
most every day during the entire winter
Ihe water is abundant and of the bes
quality. High grades of best dair,
breeds abound at reasonable prices
There Is not a spot on earth where st
small an investment in land and plan
will place dairyman in as good a posi-
tion to make money as here in this grea
county of Comanche. The markets il
every direction are already here, ant
permanent. No section of the countr,
can put dairy products on these market
as conveniently and cheaply, and an,
oversupply on any of the markets will
crowd out the dairymen on higher price
lands and in less favored localities first
Hogs and poultry were displayed in fin
lines. This is natural poultry climate
While the records of the government sho7
there is no section of this great republi
as free from hog cholera as souther
Oklahoma and southern Indian territory
The oldest squawmen say they have neve
been troubled with that disease, eve
where the sanitary conditions aroun
their extensive hog lots were such as t
breed the disease in almost any othe
locality.