The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-02-06
REAL ESTATE DEALERS
DO NOT KEEP UP ON OK
LAHOMA7S GROWTH

itN W tiDn NOWitdcs 10 We NAO'N liitli
in a more scgtbern climate.
n Bermuda grass We have a sat
isfactory substitute for both timothy
land blue grass, one which enables the
farmer as well as the town resident
to have lawn of surprising beatty.
without The aid or irrigation. In fact
It readily withstands the extreme of
wei or dr. I'D the hotter the weather
the more thrifty It's growth. Where
esed as a meadow it yields as high as
six tons Of cured hay per acre in one
season, on ordinary Oklahoma upland
soil This hay has feeding value eX-
ceeding that Of timothy hay. AS a
lawn grass It has no superior; no
keep of the grass signs are neees-
sary where It is grown in fact It
rather seems to enjoy being treaded
upon and wooled abogt and as foot
mat Is pronounced ideal by the tidy
house wife II must be remembered,
however. that this grass cannot be sue
cessfully grown from seed IN this lat
itude. in fact it has become necessary
to develop a hardy species which
successfully withstands our most Sc
we're winters. and begins a vigorous
growth ahort April first It is easily
started BY menas of small pieces of
sod planted IN furrows three feet apart
and covered mead and ears with the
corn cultivator This grass now being
successfully grown in every county Of
Oklahoma. started from roots pro
eured from the Experiment station at
Saltwater. AS a pasture grass il is
admitted by all who have had expe-
rience With both the Bernrida and blue
grass TO afford fiIly three times as
much pastTage as VIII bige grass il
any cozntry. F'cI he stopping OF
washes, and the eieyaiiG8 of land sub.
ject to overflow Z HtA aO qpbl in OK
istence. II has been hltSI 10 grow
Tp through fteen inches OF stiff clay
tamped over II. II win successfully
Withstand submersion for two or three
weeks, and II left entirely uncovered
with sediment will in a few weeks be
as green and thrifty as ever Stock
of all kinds are Dassionately fond of II,
beth green and dried Il cannot be
successfully grown north of Southern
Kansas. The great "blgabOo' urged
against its adoption by the men who
have had it to deal with in the south.
which is that Il cannot be i.illed out
when once established. does not apply
this far north. The greatest d'fflaul-
" that has been fccnd TO be overcome
is that 1t kills ont too easily. It has
been growing on the Experiment sta
tioA grounds for fourteen years past,
and not spear of it is growing where
it is ? - wanted, besides why should
we wan, to kill it out; II is a grass
that We are wanting. and the more
the merrier. Bulletins on this sub
iect may be had for the asking. by
dropping a card to the director Of the
Experiment Station at Saltwater.
This great grass question is one
which is receiving agitation in our
Farmers Institutes throughout Okla
homa, which the real estate men might
fad profit In attending.
Oh.ahoma is the greatest country
on earth, not only because we can
grow everything that can be grown
anywhere else in the United States,
but because many crops we can grow
here are decidedly more profitable
tnan are crops Of like chara Ter in
many other sections of the country.
Oklahoma deeds no apology neither
does 1t require q stretching of the
truth to demonstrate It's advantages
over many of the other states,