The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-13
POLITICS IS slDETRACkEO FOR
COTTON GATHERING.


COTTON GATHERING.
For the next two or three weeks
politics in southern Oklahoma will
be at more or less a standstill. The
election is coming, but in the rural
districts the farmers are not attend
ing political spealdngs There are
plenty of speakers but there is a
dearth of hearers.
The conditions that have produced
this state of affairs are very pleas.
ing to the people of all political
parties The farmers of Carter county
are making about three times as
much cotton as they estimated they
would make one month ago. on the
18th of August perfect conditions
were reported to exist with the cot
ton crop. Two weeks later the boil
worms had done so much work that
farmers were discouraged, but the
not weather stopped the ravages Of
ilt hOlAllot q INV ram NtAhA' hAll
the plant gained back all it had lost
and the crop today is producing al.
most a perfect harvest Tanners are
up at four o'clock In the morning
and at daylight they are in the field
and stay there until dark drives
them in and then II Is often the
case that the tanner loads his cot
ton on the wagon, hauls II to the gin
and waits his turn after night The
gins are running until midnight all
over the county. The price is hug
ging closely around the fifteen cent
agement for the farmer to rush his
cotton into the market. There has
been a dearth of picHers in all por-
tons Of the county, but every day
now pickers are arriving from the
fields in southern Texas, where the
crop has practically been gathered
and each picker who lands in the
city easily finds a farmer to take
him to his plantation and who is
glad to give him good wages
The price of cotton seed Is also 90.
ing up and the cotton farmer this
year is making more money than any
other farmer and is making more .
clear profit than the man in busi- .
ness. The conditions are just as they |
should be. The man who follows .
the plow and who feeds and clothes
the world ought to have good prof
its out OF his business.
Lands in Garter county are produc.
ing more than the lands in Nebraska
and Kansas that sell for one hun.
dred dollars an acre one of the great
differences that exists between Ne
braska and Oklahoma is that in Ne
braska the farmers are out of debt,
the mortgages that we're placed on
the farms there ten and twenty years
ago are paid off and today the state
OF Nebraska is buying the bonds of
the state of Massachusetts. There Is
an overflow OF capital in that state
and the interest comes pouring back
every year. In Oklahoma the mort
cages have not been paid OFF, the
farmers are placing loans on their
property TO make improvements and
the interest money is leaving the
state instead Of coming in. Every new
country has this same condition to
meet and Oklahoma with its cheap
lands and productive soil is better
able to meet this condition and get
through with the payments than any
other new state (which has striven
for agricultural and commercial su.
premacy. The opportunities for
dairy farming, cattle and hog raising
Is better in this country than in
Kansas and Nebraska The forage |
crops grow luxurtantly and in greater
variety than In those states, the win
.ers are milder and less feed and
ess expensive shelters are required
L takes less money TO operate a
arm here, the investment viii not (
,e more than one-fourth as much and I
With the same income the interest ,
N the investment would of course |
q Just four times as great.
Carter county needs more farmers