The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-04-05

What blue grass Is TO Kentucky. |
Ucrmuda is To Oklahoma. and more,
10 the opinion of cluster OF men .
who wcr, at the hotel Wilmington /
last night. These gentlemen were j. /
=. Connors. president Of the state .
agricultural board. Charley Barrett, /
secretary of the board. L. T. Rex. /
rCat. farmer from Keller, ana /
Perry u Maxwell, banker, but a
man VINO lives on Il farm OF ten /
acres adjoining the city and Who has f,
one fourth of his holdings now sod
ded IN bermuda. RcXroat and Max
we'll are both Kentuckians. They
know what blue grass has done for
that state and they know what the
y ssibilitics are for Bermuda here.
Lands not as good as Carter county
lands are worth from sl25 10 $500
an acre when 1t il sodded. bermuda
has more fatproducing properties
than blue grass. it will feed more
cattle to the acre than blue grass
and the prejudice that exists against
Bermuda IN this country Is not well
founded. Many farmers will not have
Bermuda because it cann1t be
stamped out. because 1t Is impossi'
| blc To get rid of II and the man
| who wants the grass likes II for
/ the very same reason that the other
I d. has
ten acres in Bermuda he Is trying
/ out the experiment for this county
/ and says he believes he will be sue
/ cessful beyond a doubt. The agri-
cultural men said It was expensive
and slow To begin from the seed, that
1t is better to turf the land. that
it should be planted out In the spring.
say about the first of May, but as
"A matter of fact It will grow In this
country II set out in August
The president and secretary of the
beard mad been to Tishomlngo to
visit the Murray agricultural school
located at that city. They We're great
ly pleased with the work of the
school The school has one hundred
acres OF land the stumps are being
gotten rid of. the land is getting in
good shape for yielding harvests
the cattle are doing well and the
appro priation made for the purchase
OF feed for the daily cattle has
never been touChd. The college sells
enough butter and cream to buy
feed for the cattle. The farm il
stocked with Jersey cattle. The
board regards this> led aS the
best suited for the colleges. espe
cially for the beginning No cattl,
u viii he sold from the college farm'
until all are supplied with what they
IT need
The legislature made an apprOpri
ati for the purchase of 50 acre.
y additional land for the Murra,
" school and when President Con
y ners was en- route To the school {,
investigate the lands and the needs
u of the college he was inclined to tn,
belief that 100 acres was sulflcien
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