The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-09
]. F. Reeves of Richmond Tells
Of His Observations While
In That Section.
is VERY HARD TO KILL.
INSTANCES OF ITS GREAT VITAL
fTY AND ROOT STRENGTH ARE
UMEROUS-SToRY OF A WID-
Owls EXPERIENCES.
(By J. F. Reeves in The Western
Trail)

(By J. F. Reeves in The Western
Trail)
One of the sights that particularly
attract the attention of the northern
traveller in passing through Oklahoma
in the late winter and early spring, is
the presence of herds of stock of all
kinds, cattle. horses, sheep and hogs
pasturing in the growing wheat fields.
The Oklahoma wheat grower claims
and with solid experience to back his
claim, that the pasturage value of his
wheat fields will cover all cost of pro-
ducing the harvested crop.
Instances of the great vitality and
root strength are numerous. In one
case. CLEANED from what is deemed a
reliable source, widow living in one
of the thriving cities on the Rock
Island-Frisco Lines in central Okla
homa, was the owner of forty acres "
ing near the town on which in Deem
Der was a grown stand of wheat A
cattleman, grazing some distance out,
desired to feed about 2s0 head of cat
tie near the town where he could
have easy access TO the town and cat
tie buyers The widows forty acres
was the most available piece he could
find on which to feed his stock, and
he called upon the lady and requested
that she rent him the land until the
first of March. why, my dear sir,
she said, Il cannot possibly do that,
| have fine growing crop of wheat
on that land and L did well with
wheat on it last year; | could not af-
ford to let you have it. Well, but
Madam. how much wheat did you get
off that piece last year?" She stated
the number of bushels and the price
at which she had sold her crop, and
after little quick figuring, the cattle
man drew his check book and filled
out a check which he handed to the
lady. with the remark, We'll, your
wheat brought you so much, there is
a check for that amount, now VIII you
let me have the use of the land until
the first of March?" The widow, with
a check in advance for her prospect
i've crop. yielded gracefully and grant
ed the cattleman his request. so the
cattle were turned in and fed from
about January LIST until March lst
Naturally. the wheat disappeared IN
Ter the vigorous tramping it received, !
and when the cattle were taken OH III
he spring the widow sent man out
With team and pillow to prepare the
,orty acres for a cotton crop. 1hlS |
nan, after blowing a round or two, I'M
litched his team and went back 10 |
own. called upon his employer and
old her that he did not think 1t a /
rood idea to pillow that wheat up /
she's sure a-growing; the roots are |
Ill alive and she's beginning to look /
.reen." He insisted that it ought not
o be plowed up, and prevailed upon
he ladv to go out and look at it. She.
ook her lawyer along and they exam
ned the field carefully and became
convinced that the plowman was cor
ect in his Judgment. The forty acres
we're not plowed but allowed TO lie IN
eace. and the result was as fine
ron of wheat the next summer as 1t
ad ever yielded. So the widow got
wo good crops from her forty acres
here she had expected only one.
The moral of this teaches-That you
annot kill Oklahoma wheat after 1t
as obtained hold on the ground.