The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-06-30
NATURE MAKING IT GREAT
okIAHOMA'S MATERIAL PROS.
PERlTY IN RlPENING CROPS
BEST EVER KNOWN.

Guthrie. Okla, June 29-Thc wen.
dcrfu, richness and productivity OF
Oklahoma! Land of the rhapsodist:
region OF perennial flower and fruit.
ion In no other year since the
country was opened to settlement and
the plpwshare sunk In the soil has
there been promise OF such bounti-
iul yield of crops.
Ftum border to border uf the state
the answer to inquiries about crop
conditions is the samr-the best ever
known. Aud there has been no dam
age by insect pests that have causcd
losses in other years Last May
period OF dry weather made wheat
growers despondent, and there wac
prediction of short crop. This tenn
porary lack of rainfall left the corn
and cotton fields open to the plow.
with the result that these latter crops
were placed in ideal cultivation.
Then scasonablc rains began falling,
and have continued to the present
hour
Wheat has been harvested and is
being thrcshcd Farmers that esti.
mated n yield OF only ten or twelve
bushels to the acre are getting from
fifteen to eighteen bushels. and thase
In more favored localities that count
cd upon eighteen and twenty bushels
are putting from twenty to twenty.
five bushels into their granarios. The
increase over early estimates has
been from II to 25 per cent. Best of
all. the quality of grain is superior
to that of any other year. grading
from fiftyninc to siXty.'wO pounds
to the bushcl in Garfield and other
counties in the wheat belt sixty.thrcc
and on".half pound wheat has Deen
reported Many farmers have con.
trlctcd their wheat at more than "A
dollar II hushcl. and few of them On.
pcct the price to fall below dollar
This price should make the farmers
income from his wheat greater than
Il was in years when the acre yield
was larger The state department OF
agricul ur" places the wheat acreage
at . million.
Oats have shown the same remark
able growth and development "a
wheat. and the yield will he compare
lively as good The oats acreage Is
fixed at Soo,0OO.
Oklahoma's master crop this wear,
however. will he corn. The increase
increase over last year is placed at
% per cent and : million acres are
planted to corn The season has
brought every condition favorable TO
the maximum growth of this crop
The fields are free of weeds, the
stalks are strong and vigorous, the
color has the black green Of ripe
Triumph watermelon. and the soil II
filled with an abundance of moisture
Fine rains have fallen throughout the
state In the last few days The
growing weather could not be better.
the air humid This condition Is not
les true in Central and Eastern Ok
lahoma than in the counties bordering
on the Texas Panhandle, from Man.
gum to Woodward A correspond
cnt OF the state department of agri-
culture, writing from Caddo county.
declared that It probably would be
necessary to "annex' big part of
Texas to crib the corn Of Southwest.
ern Oklahoma"
Corn growers expect 10 get from
= forty to fifty cents a bushel: some
of them have contracted their corn
at fifty cents bushel Only few
weeks more OF seasonable weather
will be required TO place the corn
beyond possible danger. and the out.
= look for this IS extremely favorable.
u The 2,3lI 900 acres Of cotton In
y Oklahoma is later than usual, because
, OF cold, inclement weather at time
of planting, and is open to menace
Of early frosts. which would reduce
the yield. Like other crops how
: ever, cotton may be smiled upon un.
= iii brought TO n maximum yield
= Oklahoma's material prosperity has
been phenomenal, and the wonder NJ
residents Of other states The De.
40, 1T haa
been constant. The towns have
y flOurishcd TO an astonishing degree