Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1905-11-09
INDIAN TERRITORY CROPS.
Statistics Of Corn and Cotton Raised
in the New State Of
~Sequoyah.-

The department Of agriculture did
not think il worth while to estimate
the corn crop Of Sequoyah. or Indian
Territory. prior to 1901 In the econ
omy OF the country at large that fruit
full but undeveloped region. vas con
sidersd a sort Of no mans land. and
its products other than cotton not
worth tabulating. In 1901 Iae corn
crop OF Sequoyah was i7.Ss3.-ss bush
els In three years the yield has in
creased more than threefoId. the crop
Of 1904 being SASS. 007 bushels. 1t
will be much larger this year. because
more was planted and the season has
been better.
The corn crop Of Sequoyah. as we'll
as that OF Oklahoma. Is already sum
GENTLY matured 10 be entirely safe
from injury by frost, while that Of
Iowa Nebraska and portions of Illi-
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 il does render il unmarketable
on city exchanges and destroys its
terminating quality. One great al
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 cfren find many tare spots in his
fields unless he has subjected his seed
corn to careful tests in order to select
the fertile from the infertile grains.
Statistics Of the Sequoyah cotton
crop run back further than those Of
corn In 1885 the yield was .01.s3s
bales SIX years later IL lad nearly
doubled. the crop Of 1894 running up
10 only little less than 100000 bales
II we had no other news from Seguoy-
an but this exhibit Of increase in agri-
cultural production il would Be easy
TO form an idea Of the great influx Of
farmers in the last half decade. and to
understand why there are to-day in
Sequoyah 50 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 Sequoyah was by far the long
est
Among the new industries needed
10 supply the people or which can Be
probably conducted there for export
OF product are half 4 dozen canning
AMI pickle factories. wagon factories
and 4 number Of shops for working
wood into hubs. Spokes. AZ handles
and - forth. chair Factories. sash and
door factories. cotton mills. cotton gins
and oil mills. sawmtils and hour mills.
found-ies. ice plants. brick kilns and
glass plant. harneSsnaSers. apothe
earfes and hotel keepers. mattress fac
tories. iauntries and a score Of indus
tries bssftes
The arst Oklahoma lis; IS not &C
iouE but quit- a. Comprehensive A
astahle feature q tl-e Indicated neo,is
q the tws coming srares. as veil as Of
Arkansas. IS the frequency with which
frHst ezznlz< fartories and r~frixsr
arf-E plants for th@ pr~Serxation Of
nsrishEhle 2ru.iurrs are mentioned n
enterprises promising god PROFITS The
fruit ana Vegetable growing Industries
- - southwest are thriving szmously
ant the tine seems rot far distant
when TIRE canned and preserved prod
arts of thss re<zoa Etu nj onIy -
sell al ever the United States. but
wfIl cumpeie IN the markets Of ,hs
Eorlt Eith t.nze q France aad Italy