The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-02
Where LaWton, With Its Thousands OF Pop
ulation, Stands Today, Four Years
Ago Was a Desolate Prairie.
GREAT AGRICULTURAL
RESOURCES OF TERRITORY

falfa, cotton, broom corn, and the best
display of farm products. Pretty good
for a new country, isn't it? Think OF
Oklahoma beating Iowa on corn, Mime
sofa and Wisconsin on -four, Illinois on
broom corn, and the South on cotton?
1--WE successfully raise every fruit not
tropic; every vegetable, every grass-in
fact, every. product OF the farm, held,
meadow, forest, garden, orchard, or vine
yard that has been tried, and enough
beef, pork mutton, fowls, and dairy prod
ucts to supply the continent"
Judging from the number of hogs and
cattle you have, should say you found
that profitable branch to engage in"
I remarked.
eyes, that is true. This is an ideal
country for stock raising. AS we have no
severe winters, stock does not have to be
sheltered, and consequently there is no
money tied up in buildings. Then we
grow alfalfa, which is the best kind Of
pasture for all kinds of stock. Hogs and
poultry will live and thrive upon it. AS
hay IT. has no superior, alfalfa hay being
good winter feed for hogs as we'll as
cattle and horses. e
Alfalfa as a Hog Feed.
1.-TWO years ago I bought nine brood
sows, and turned them into an alfalfa
pasture, letting them run there, and
| breeding them. In the course of sixteen
months I sold the increase Of that drove
| Of hogs for $4,000, and I had fed them
| nothing but alfalfa. 1t is also an ex-
ceedingly productive crop. I get four
| cuttings a year from my alfalfa fields,
and each cutting will average two and
onehalf tons to the acre. And another
thing about alfalfa. You don't have to
| plant It every year. Once started it is
| there to stay, and the only trouble about
| it Is the frequent harvestings. If Okla
| homa could produce no other crop but al
falfa, her future as an agricultural and
live stock state would be assured"
Oklahoma as yet has not become great
manufacturing center, but good star
has been made, and it is only question
OF time when investors will realize the
advantages that it offers. The minerals
that abound in some sections are only
waiting for the men and capital for theil
development. The oil industry has beer
we'll developed, and many fortunes have
been made from the yield of the wells
But so intent have the people been in rails
ing wheat, cattle, and cotton for none,
to deposit in banks that they have neg
lected other things. So prosperous hav'
the pioneers Of Oklahoma been that the,
have hardly felt the necessity for goint
| below the surface to look for somethin,
to make profits on, and have general.
been content to hold on to a good thin!
without searching for better.
New People Coming In.
But new people are now coming II
singly, in pairs,: in groups, .ands3in col
onies, and these are the ones who will
develop the resources that have hereto
fore been neglected, and they are the PEG
pie whom it Is especially sought to in
terest at this time. The country Is full
of men who are looking for just sue
opportunities as Oklahoma offers, an
? Oklahoma welcomes them, and invite
. them to make thorough Investigate or
l AS class the people of Oklahoma ar
educated. A very large per cent Of the1
! came from states where education is tn
! rule, and they were therefore educated
Being accustomed to education, and be
h ing educated themselves, 1t was but nat
d ural for them to at once provide for til
s education of the children, and the resu
h has been that few, if any, of the oil
d states have better systems for publ
S education than has this young territor
= The public school system is the. pride
n Oklahoma, and is based on a thoroue
S and comprehensive plan. Over 1000, OF
o acres have been set aside for the school
:. and this land is leased and the proceed
d applied to the schools. -