The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-11-24
PEOPLES FORUM

NOV the 2Oth 1909
My Dear Nephew.
Your Uncle Josh has bought him
stcnographcr 20 do HIS writing, he
says to tell you that his spelling
and writing Is not good so that
he has got me tSamanthyJ TO do
his writing for him
Your Uncle Say,d that ne would
keep you posted all the time about
what YOU should be doing along as
you 20 through the winter and the
whole year If you have ordered
fruit trees for Nov delivery set them
out at Cncc where they are to grow,
but don't do it again. make your or.
dCrs from here out FOR march deliy-
cry make the nurcry man dig them
at that time, never r.. trees In the
fall never set trees lu the fall, set
them IN the month march. n you do
your own budding do {, In march,
this will give you fruit 20" year
sooner than june bud
That killing frost come ON time.
now the last week iu Nov will be a
bad week cold rains and may be
some snow In the north part OF
Okla This coming week will be
pretty
Now YOU have hc..d about top
orp OF cotton, There s some cotton
up. open yet that the frost has bi
little, keep the stock cut OF the
fields and an grown bulcs will open
IN due time and yoJ viii get l5c for
&c. lu, II you turn Your COWS in
as some do you viii never know
what would have happened to it and
so stay in ignorance about an I'M
portant matter that YOU could have
known long ago.
Well guess you have gathered
your corn long ago, 50 that the
/ proper time to sole"t your seed has
/ passed, and the next best thing 70
do is to do It, pick ont the bes;
ears as you feed your horses and
other stock, put it away in a dry eel
lcr. get shallow pan. place in
/ IN" bottom of II piece Of blot
ting paper the sic of the bottom
Of Il. mark off in small squairs. mum
bu the squairs, take q grain from
the middle of each ear number the
ears lay these grains I'm the cores
pondug squair, of this paper whcr
YOU get a grain in each squair diI
another bloting paper I'M water. LET
il dream untill watcr quits runin-
from il then sprcd over the corr
place away IN w.rm dark plac,
oil the sixth to 10Th day uncover
,nd chusc out one half of the grain,
with tho shortos sprouts. throw them
away, and the ears Of corn from
which they was taken, YOU viii
then have pretty good seed corr
thus fair Choo, out two of tn,
grains and the ears from which they
come that has the longest auC
strongest sprout, his you plant ava;
To its SELF and YOU will have .
start Of good seed corn for youl
next years plant take the other
half 0,h" soeN and plant your field
now is the ;imc 20 get about IN.
seed corn business. don't wait Il
IS true that the state of Iowa doub
/ led its corn yca,l In the last or
6 years hy this seed selection
40, bad time to begin getting
your seed cotton. If you have not
bought nor do not intend TO by
seed from some responsible seed
grader, and you lid not go into
your field and gather from the stalks
choice seed you can now do the
next best thing first determin,
which you want, lint or seed. If lint
get "A quantity OF seed and when you
are NOT dong -omthine out doors
scpcrate from among the mixture
all seed except hose with lilt.c
lint on them also save all sma'
seed. save nothing except those that
is just alike In every respect, sam,
color. same size. and those that
the gin has cleaned OF all lint. with
a peck or two of thesc you VII
have \ start of seed which will sdr
prise you beyond measure. the the
following year you can gather from
/ the stalk at picking time just the
cotton you want 20 raise II lint Is
/ what you want if seed reverse the
/ operation. This has been tried more
than once and is one OF the secrets
/ Of cotton Improvement that the book
farmer has nor learned yet