The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1907-11-28
, GETTING IN THE CROPS.
The Importance Of Safe Shelter Em-
phasized by e. L. Vincent.

l am never really happy till all my
farm crops are safely under cover. |
In fact do not know that have any
crops that will bring me anything
until all have been slowed away ont
of the reach of storm and weather.
The next thing to this is threshing
out of doors just as soon as the grain
is dry enough; end often we are not
able to do this because we cannot
get threshe, when we want him.
l know it costs TO provide buildings
for large farm. The first expense of
building in these days is high, for
lumber and building material of all
kinds are high in price. 1t is also a
fact that the farmer who has many
buildings must set aside no small
sum every year to pay for repairs and
insurance.
| And yet, stop and think that the
loss of one crop through storm or
other adverse circumstances would
! Offset all this and more, too for
! good many years. Take wheat crop
of 80 acres, for example. Say that it
would yield IS bushels to the
acre, which, by the way, is the report
from one of the first crops threshed in
Illinois this year. That would mean a
yield of 800 bushels, worth at fair
estimate dollar a bushel
There have been years when we
have lost about one-half the value Of
our crop by reason of storm. We could
not thresh when we should and the
grain we did get was not worth as
much as it would have been could it
have been put in the bins in good or
der. What does this mean? What
but that we have sustained a money
loss of $3.50 in that one years crop.
That would keep the buildings up in
good repair for a great many years.
But wheat is not the only crop most
farmers of to-day harvest. There is
hay, one of the best crops we have,
bringing at the present writing in
some parts of the country from $40 to
$25 ton. Also oats, another fine
crop. The value of these depends
largely on the condition at marketing
or feeding. Stacking is always q
risky business. Not one man out of q
dozen can stack grain or hay so that
it will keep any length of time
Nothing adds to the looks or the
worth of farm more than good barn:
or sheds for storing grain. Prospec
tive buyers always notice the condi
tion of these buildings, and if there
are none to notice they are very ap
to pass on until they find farm whicl
are thus furnished.
Still another point in favor of plent.
: of barn room is the stabling o
stock. The day Is fast going by whel
u any farmer will feel easy in body o
u mind while a lot of his stock is ou
y in the storm. Just think of the tel
= rible losses every winter from stoc
y exposure in the west! Leaving tn
1 humane part of it out of the questio
just now frC-n an economical stand
point alone not a single farmer in a
. this country can afford to stand sti
Q and let considerable part of his her
. die in the winds and the SHOWS of ou
II northern winters.
Shall a man incur a debt to bull
y farm barns? | hate debt as much a
II anyone on the face of the earth; bu
i really | would rather go with poo
a clothes for years and years and econt
i mize in other ways rather than
go without barns. They will soon pa
J. for themselves They are the rigt
% thing for every up-to-date farmer
y Farmers Review.