The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-10-20
Itinerary Of Stock Tram
Great Work Of Board Of Agriculture Already
.3 Bearing Results as4a

county the banner agricultural county last year. is
third with 1919 acres Alfalfa county is fourth with
1903 acres while seven other counties have 10000
more
In Southwestern Oklahoma where entire farms are
being planted In Alfalfa where irrigation is at all posi-
bic Is where the crop is spreading the fastest
Despite the drouth of that section, which occurs
IN midsummer the crop is proving very remunelatite
revenue of from $40 to $50 per acre season under
favorable conditions is not an unusual yield, while as
high 500 has been made off irrigated land
On account OF the drouth last year less than ha
Of normal crop was harvested. The hay crop sold 10
$a,202,l2l and the seed crop for $216,004, making
revenue OF $40 an acre for the entire acreage
State a half crop.
The crop is IS per cent better this year than last
and statistics taken IN July showed that average of
i5 tons Of hay per acre had been cut up to July 25th
and the correspondents estimated that the hay yet to
be cut will average from one to and one-half tons
per acre besides good seed crop. The average mar
ket value OF the hay was shown to be $l.00 for the
State. AT this ratio the years hay crop alone should
be worth In the neighborhood OF sG000OO0 In Jeffer
county this year. near Carnegie, Whitman Bros
made yield of eleven bushels of seed Off three acres
which was sold at $3.50 per ton. r. e. Herring, Of
Elk CITY who has several hundred OF alfalfa this
year made yield of three bushels Of seed per Off
of number OF his best fields. A. S Beamer OF Geary
thrashed 244 bushels OF seed off Of forty acres which
sold the market at s2,440 Mr.. Beamer also had
three crops of hay, which sufficient to ray all the
expenses OF harvesting his crops this season AS
example OF what be done in raising alfalfa give
the following cunt of alfalfa raised Mr.. Ewers
Whites farm, near McToud Mr.. White, who has about
eighty acres OF alfalfa the North Canadian bottom
land has already had four good cuttings this year with
prospects for one or two more crops In good
he cuts six crops, which often make than one ton
per cutting Mr.. White mas one field from which he
has already cut flftytwo cuttings and he says the
stand Is just good and the yield just as much as
when II was first sown. One 2S-acre field this year
he has cut and sold s. 200 worth of hay the first
two cuttings On another l4acre field which he rented
for the season at $50 per he that the renters
lacked only s25 OF paying the rent with the first cutting
The cost OF production per ton is estiametd at about
s30o, the cost being sometimes less than this Mr.
Whites equipment aud years of experience however
enable him to harvest his crop at lower figure than
the average
Mr. Whites crop Is all sold as hay, except small
field which he uses for hog pasture The hay fields
are never pastured. Replying to inquiry OF there
being any danger OF production in alfalfa In this
State. Mr.. White says
There are thousands of OF good alfalfa land
In this state that should be in this crop There Is
danger OF production for the acreage increases
the demand Is bound TO increase. Alfalfa hay is the
very best there Is and the people Just beginning
find out the feeding value OF this hay and they are
demanding moro and more of It each year"