The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-08-09

temperature quickly unless the grain can be immediate
" spread out to dry
beam hung in a swivel, or placed on post Of
suitable height as fulcnm be used to great
advantage In dripping the grain into the water barrels
by the use Of little ingenuity an ordinary thresh
Ing engine can be used large scale for heating
water and dipping the grain
C. e. SANBoRN,
Entomologist A, NJ College, saltwater, Okla.
THE BOYS AND GIRLS AGRICULTURAL CLUB.
(By T. NJ teffords
IN last months Bulletin an article appeared on the
Boys and Girls Club Work In Oklahoma. Not half the
good thing that this club proposes do for the boys
and girls Of Oklahoma was told IN that article. ii
seems that everybody Is lending hand to make this
banner year aud to make Oklahoma the banner state
In this sort OF work An imposing array NJ organza-
tons and individuals Is back the movement It In.
cludes the State Board Agriculture the A. NJ Col
ege the six District Agricultural Schools the seventy
six County Farmers Institutes the Women's Clubs or
Auxiaries to the Institute. County Superntendents
the u s. Farm Demonstration agents, -nany CONNER
cia clubs, Senator Gore and individual citizens by
the
The premiums numerous and valuable Prac.
tcally every county will give fall exhibition and Of.
fer premiums 70 the boys and girls Many counties al
ready have their lists made out, and In some nsanc-
the premiums In county amount to several hundred
dollars. Some Johnson County boy will wiz $500
pony In contest The Ardmore Commercial
Club will send the boy growing the best 10 ears OF
corn In that county to Washington Suits OF clothes
watches pure bred live stock other things to de-
light boys and girls are offered In the various
ties. - al
Then many valuable state premiums are offered
One boy and girl In each county may win trip to
one OF the District Agricultural Schools for weeks
work there. Eighteen boys and girls may win trips
to the A. & NJ College for weeks work there. One
boy and one girl win win years scholarship in
District Agricultural School Senator Gore will send
one boy TO Washington.
The State Fair offers s500O0 In prizes to BOYS and
an additional $4,000 is offered by banks In fiftytwo
counties for exhibited the State air from those
counties
Then the A. & NJ College will conduct school OF
agriculture for boys at the State Fair Each county
may send two boys TO this school They aill be adj
mltted 10 the Fair and to the school By preventing
their certificates OF appointment huge tent will be
furnished with cots and the boys will camp on the
Fair Grounds for week There will be lots OF work
and lots OF play all week
Then the College will run live stock and dairy
train portions OF the State in October and clubs
will be asked to send delegates to meet this train
Boys and girls may obtain further information con
corning these matters by addressing the County Super
tertent Of scAoolA or the A. College, saltwater
~ JEFFORDS, Secretary.
OklshonA Boys Goru Cub
4 TREE PLANTING OR CIVIC IMPROVEMENT ON
THE FARM.
(By G. u. Sanborn)
The dry, hot, weather to which have been sub
ieced during July. and the to which we will
doubtless be subjected during the month two
will perhaps impress with the idea do not
have enough shade trees than any other method
is meant however to help each and every of u.s.
and especially the farmer living in treeess districts
to decide whether It will pay to plant shade trees
There is now widespread desire for better roads,
only in Oklahoma, but practically throughout the
United States Scientific principles being incul-
Gated and practeed for cheap, first class road beds
in order that we can accomplish not only more rapid
and pleasant travelling, but also in order that may
move the commercial products of the farm to great
er advantage. In this crusade for better road bed
there has however been very little or nothing said
pertaining to the walls and roof OF the road
Imagine for yourself two excellent road BEDS the
one nicely shaded with trees, the other bleak and
bare the Great Salt Basin Which OF the two would
you prefer a fitting boundary to your farm? The
answer is easy but you may say that trees viii not do
well in your locality. II this be true OF two
for is also true Either your farm is good, the
management Is good
II properly managed cared for trees OF kind
can be made to grow nearly anywhere. Our nursery.
have those that adapted to state and they
will gladly supply us with them II few local farm
ers. or all those living In a township would make
wholesale orders for graded trees the could not
only be obtained cheaper but the uniformity in size
growth and general appearance OF the trees throughout
the given locality where they would be planted, would
be beautiful and the chances for the growth and
development OF each tree would be better than in
where only few OF different sizes planted
here and there.
The benefits both direct and indirect arising from
shade tree planting many Some OF these often
either overlooked or unknown to us when
weighing the proposition OF planting or not planting
shade trees. In considering such important step
We should not overlook the following advantages:
I. WINDBREAKS: A few years growth in sin
gle tree will obsruct the passage Of wind. Several
years growth win cool the hot summer atmosphere
to some extent Several years growth in several trees
will reduce the hot summer temperature to a very
great extent Compare the temperature OF forest
through which the atmosphere can circulate freely.
with barren plain. II the trees Of this forest were
scattered over the plain. their cooling effect would not
be decreased. but probably increased The growth OF
trees around farms will produce the result
2. INCREASE RAINFALL II there be
increase OF rainfall brought about by the growth Of
trees, the checking, and the cooling OF the wind
will decrease its power OF removing the moisture from
the soil The increasing western trend of shade trees
In Kansas, and the increase yield OF the farms seems
to indicate that trees do increase rainfall
g. COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS. Some OF the nut
bearing trees first class shade trees Walnut and
pecan trees good examples. Along streams or in
low lands the improved paper shell varieties Of pecan