The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-12-19
DEMONSTRATION FARMS.


by5anusry 1st IT Is hoped 10 have tn. complete
f5ttH Of the County Demonstration Farms ready for
Jiklribution
Tb hste no record OF anything In nature being bora
i0 grown and We are glad to believe that the same
&fu hold true of this department The years expert
nee has just broken the crust and laid out before
xht things which we ought to do, and has helped to
yolHt the way to their successful accomplishment
fihAl reports are in from more than half the counties
and among them can be found facts that when prop
eycofnpiled win be interesting and valuable to the
public. NJ sass. ,.sl
Ikthod interest the cotton farmer to know that the
Demonstration farmers who have sold their cotton 10
the SecdEhaye received average price Of s4e0 per
hundred 1ounds. while those who have had their cotton
anned have received for the lint alone sam equivalent
70 1At4s per hundred pounds for the seed cotton
delivered at the gin The oil mills have paid for cotton
ssfd this prices that would net from 800 TO
slt.0o per bale above the cost Of ginning and bahg
the cotton.
Adding the oil mill value Of the seed to tho price
received for the lint have net result OF soA0 per
hundred pounds OF seed cotton.
number OF the reports show that the farmers have
been able sell their seed planting purposes a
prices which, eeded to the price OF the lint NET more
than $500 per cwt
These figures are not included In our calculation.
because H. is our purpose TO demonstrate what all
fsr1.crs may do II they will
All farmers can not sell their crops for seed
All larners can get The oil mill price for their cotton
seed and the price paid by the ordinary street buyer
tor their baled cotton.
Figuring on this basis alone, nc flnd a difference OF
Stccuts per hundred pounds about sl20o per bale.
Part or this difference Is attributable to the fact that
the demonstration farm cotton far reported has net
above s6 pounds OF lint per hundred pounds OF seed
cotton probably some pounds better than tue
average Of the state H
This ssuld still leave difference OF some 80 cents
per hundred pounds Or $500 per bale. to be
accounted for
1ns II not to be taken as conclusive evidence that
seed cotton buyers OF Oklahoma have net $500 per
bale on al the cotton purchased by them In addition
ot46 profit made by the buyer OF baed cotton
doe6 mean that II you handled cotton decently
AtlItefed II ct the gin clean and dry and In proper
ctAditi6n for ginning and then sold 1t for mill run
price, that you lost $500 per bale your cotton that
3op ebud have saved BY having II sinned selling your
- for on mill pries. and your bale to the street
gHl ys have 40 certain guarantee that the amount
vklck ron oet win be pacsd To the permanent credit
= the nan Who bought your cotton Tho careless s:)
16iffwunt ~ Helghbor who drove up 70 the GIN just
boin1 yuu and whose cotton contained 200 pounds OF
water and 100 pounds Of sand and who also received
ebo mill run" price, peeled" the buyer for all the
brofIt he made on your load and then some
suspect had better round off this article before
am too strongly criticised for meddling With private
affairs.
/ appreciate the fact that it is not business 10
te]i the citizen what he shall dove are only hired
rands while ne is the boss. sissg
II u the duty as well as the privilege OF the hired
mar to call the bosss attention to where he is losing
money as TO whether he profit thereby is left to his
Own option.
Ne will thoroughly demonstrate this year that the
farmer who planted improved cotton seed delivered his
cotton AZ the gin in suitable condition, and had II
sinncd selling the lint and the seed at the customary
than the average OF those who sold In the seed Each
individual farmer is left entirely free to follow either
method.
.-sss CAMPBELL RUSSELL,
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