The Newtown bee., 1906-03-23
ATTRACTIONS OF OKLAHOMA.
BY ATTORNEY W. d. BOsLER.
Shawnee, Okla.

0u0WuCOs ONA0s
Editor BEE: In continuing my letter
to your readers will give due regard
to all the interests of the country as
appears to the newcomer.
The county In which Shawnee Is
situated is country of diversified
farming. There Is hardly an American
agricultural or horticultural product,
outside OF the tropical fruits, that can
not be successfully produced here.
The staples, corn, wheat, oats, rye,
barley, broom corn, cotton, potatoes,
alfalfa, clover and natural grasses
grow to perfection. Vegetables, such
as tomatoes, melons, sweet potatoes,
sweet corn, squash, etc., grow In i'm
mense crOppage.
The following few illustrations are
common items all over Oklahoma.
A few miles from this city farmer
planted IS acres of Irish potatoes and
gathered in the month Of June 1856
bushels and sold them for 10 cents per
bushel, bringing him $500 20. He
then planted second crop and gather
ed for q second crop 411O, selling for
@3O82.5O, total product being 1851. 10,
at an expense OF S25 81 per acre.
135 acres Of corn yielded $3.50 bushels,
selling lOE 4OC PoI OuSuci' u0 AcAP
used on this farm was the owner and
two hands at Sls per month. Turnips
weighing 104 pounds we're raised.
A seven acre truck farm One-half
mile south Of here raised 500 in veg
etable, one acre of tomatoes netting
Sl45.
Another upland farm raised 20 acres
Of corn, yielding 1855 bushels; II acres
of cotton netting 1894: % acres OF oats,
so to go bushels to the acre; potatoes,
fi'st crop, 140 bushels to acre, selling
for SIC, second crop, Is bushels; half
acre of sweet potatoes yielded two
20 pounds; pumpkins weighing 81
pounds.
ALFALFA Is ALSO RAISED EXTENSIVELY
in some parts Of the territory. The
summed up as follows: Eight acres
planted, in 1901, -four years old)yielded
In three cuttings 80 tons, besides $8s
worth of seed. The alfalfa sold from
% to go per ton. The same party
raised five acres of Irish pototoes, the
first crop yielding him 1875 bushels
making S11O2, second crop SO bushels
to the acre, brought 1857; total 1920
or 1858 to the acre; 20 acres Of cotton
yielded SS48; 81 acres of corn averaged
10 bushels per acre.
All over the territory comes the
same reports and wherever there have
been plentiful rains the past year even
these figures have been beaten. In
this county the rain exceeded 81 inches,
which was too mucn to have first
class cotton crop. The territory OF
Oklahoma raised $4,000 bales of cot
ton last year, bringing 1Oc per pound
Greer county, in the southwest part
holds the record for cotton producing
In the United States except one cOun
Bear in mind that the past year has
been an exceptional one, and in many
other years it will fall below the aver:
ages below given. This is true OF
western Oklahoma, and should an ex
tended period OF drought occur that
part of the territory would depopulate
just as rapidly as did western Kansas
few years ago.
The past year averages of crops In
the territory has been something like
this given by statisticians: OATS IS to
80; corn, as to 90; wheat, Is to IS. The
farmers have not as yet become inter.
ested in diversified farming, but as
soon as they do they will find that
prosperity faces them Ia q greater
crop.
FRUIT OF ALL KINDS CAN BE RAISED
WITHOUT EFFORT
and without doubt Oklahoma will be
one of the future great fruit growing
districts of the world. The peaches
and apples shown at-the st Louis Elk.
position exceeded In beauty all Others
upon exhibition. Peach trees bear In
three years and apples in five.
The climate FL is delightful as rule
opens about March l, and although the
summers are comparatively hot, the
thermometer ranging from 80 to ITO
degrees, the evenings are always re.
freshing and cool owing to the mild
southern breezes that blow all the