The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-05-24
CATTIEMAN GIVES WAY
TO TILLER OF THE SOIL
Reports TO Agriculture Board
Show Results Of Progress
i've Farming

That farming can be successfully
undertaken in the panhandle Of Okla
homa is shown by the 1909 agricultur-
al statistics received from Cimarron
county today by the Oklahoma IS ate
board of agriculture The total value
of last years crops was $lS6,O53 as
compared with $63,l61 for the pre-
vious year. The prospects this year
are for a much larger yield in all the
crops. The report shows that all the
farms in what was formerly called
mo Mans Land" Is being settled up
rapidly, there being 1852 farms in
cultivation last year as compared with
1850 farms for the previous year
with an Increased acreage OF 90 per
cent.
Last years corn yield was 1850
a gain of 3S4 bushels over the 1908
crop. The 1909 wheat yield was Iii
500 bushels, as compared with l,7SS
bushels the previous year The oats
yield for 1909 was 1888 bushels as
compared with 500 bushels in 1908.
Barley and rye were grown for the
first time in the county last year
839 bushels of rye and l47 bushels OF
barley were raised. The sorghum
acreage last year was 2,i1O acres as
compared with 1904 acres the yejr
before. Last year 101 1854 bushels OF
milo maize were harvested as com
pared with 2O,3i9 bushels in 1908.
The county has 926 acres of alfalfa,
a gain Of 57l acres In one year. Hay
sold for $7343 last year and $2,ll7
in 1908 Last years broom corn crop
brought $iS,37l, as compared with
$99S6 for the previous year. The
Irish potato crop last year was ! $50
bushels, as compared with 148 bush
els for the year before. Poultry last
year brought $l,S32 as compared with
$6ll in 1908 Eggs brought S2,220 in
1909, and SiS5 in 1905 Livestock sta
tistics show t0l3 more horses, 23l
more mules and 3l5 more milch cows
than in 1908. The value OF animals
sold for slaughter last year was $20,-
1884, as compared with $S,l22 the
previous year.
Some Alfalfa Statistics.
According to the 1909 agricultural
statistics, Alfalfa county las year
had boss acres OF alfalfa. Stats
tics gathered last month show that
575 aces were planted this spring
Jackson county Is the banner alfalfa
county of the state, having approx
mately $4,000 acres. Custer county
Is second with II 900 acres and Alfalfa
county Is third The report shows
that 507 more farms were titled IN
Alfalfa county last year than for the
previous year with an increased acre
age in cultivation OF 176l5 acres
Last year 14.1S9 more acres of corr
was raised than In the previous year
The wheat acreage for 1909 was 6,73l
acres less than the 1903 crop. The
oats yield in 1909 was 340,572 bushels
as compared with 1880 bushels II
1908. The county raised only nn'
bales of cotton las year, as compared
with 249 bales the previous year
Fifty acres of milo maize were plant
ed in 1909 as against IA acres in 1913
| The 1903 broom corn acreage was l.
042 acres as compared with 254 acre
in 1908. Poultry sold last year TO
$34,2S7, as compared with $25,677 70
the previous year Eggs brought s65
S13 In 1909 and s5i,1l3 in 1908. LIN
stock statistics show 74i more horse
225 more mules and asses and 81
more mich cows than in 1908. Tn
value of animals sold for slaughto
/ for last year was $726,8 as cOmpal
ed with s583,719 In the previous yeal