The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-03-21
(Winiam L. Curtis in Chicago Record
Herald.1

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We villa call Oklahoma the Miracle
state" because OF the wonderful things
that have occurred in It's history and
because its growth and development
have been more rapid than thar OF ATTY
other community IN human history
Oklahoma VIII be twenty tyo wears
old on April %, for ON that day, In
1889 the gun was fired which was
a signal for the rush OF home hunters
who had gathered on the -four borders
OF the territory to join in a race for
the choice OF farms and lots IN the
town that had already been laid ont
by government engineers Until that
date, the land being within Indian res
ervatlons, no white settlers eyre al
lowed to occupy it, and 'sooners' who
broke through the military lines to
get ahead OF the game were removed
by force.
During thbt twentyltwo wears a
population OF more than 100000 has
come into the state, and that total is
increasing at the rate Of 20 per cent
year The cencus OF 1890 showed
252,657 people; that OF 1900 showed
790.39l, and on June /, 1910, there
We're l,657,1555 Last year (1910)
the value of the crops harvested was
1921 $3.50 900, and the value OF the live
stock as reported by the census is
$13S.172,000
Oklahoma has more mules than any
other state in the Union except Mis-
] .tf Al tAD Mt NJ
Illinois, Ohio, New York and pennsyl-
yania combined. Oklahoma has more
horses than Kentucky has horses and
cattle combined She has S04 1000
horses. valued at $65, $4,000; she has
| 1871 900 mules valued at $20,655,000. !.
she has 100000 milch cows, valued at
SIT 1872 600; she has $500 beef cat
tie, valued al $31, 100000, she has L.
302 900 swine, valued at $l5,025,000.
The farmers wives received 100000
last year for their eggs and poultry,
most of which were passed over the
counters of the country stores in ex-
change for merchandise The climate
and other conditions are remarkably
favorable for poultry culture, and the
rich pasturage and abundant forage
crops make it an ideal dairy country
y ~
The soil, the rainfall, the climate
and freedom from the evils that farm
ers have to fight in other states make
Oklahoma the ideal farming country
of the world all conditions being more
favorable here than any other place
In he universe where mankind has
trit TO earn a livins by the sweat
OF It's brow The homes that stand
upon these beautiful prariees cost less
labor and the pioneers who occupy
them have suffered less hardships
than those of any new land that was
eyer settled
| Every staple that is known to the
temperate zone can be produced in
Oklahoma, and upon many farm
may be found growing side by side
all of the agricultural products that
thrive between the two oceans and
between the great lakes and the guilt.
Oklahoma can produce not only an
unlimited quantity of corn and wheat
but an unlimited quantity of cotton,
and the fruits of the South and the
fruits OF the North will grow in the
same orchard.
The area OF the state is 44.S24, 100
acres, OF which after only twenty-five
years 2l,353,395 acres are fenced, and
more than ten million acres are un-
der cultivation Only 2,S757O4 acres
OF farm lands were returned for taxa
tion in 1900, the taxable area having
been multiplied four times in TEN
years
Indian corn has the largest acreage
produces the largest yield and brings
the farmer the largest income OF all
the crops that he plants Aa total
OF 5.6l7,9l4 acres was planted to corn
last year, which yielded an average
OF sixty bushels to the acre. and IN
some cases as high as eighty bushels.
The yield was 90,639, ,496 bushels.
Nearly Az Of the crop was turned into
pork on the farms where it was
grown.
| The second crop is cotton, which
yields an average OF three-quarters OF
bale to the acre The acreage in
1910 was l,906,74l and the yield 776,-
6tO oaies Practically all of the land
along the southern tier OF counties
ON che Texas boroer IS planted to cot
ton.
There are counties In Oklahoma
where the wheat acreage is greater
than that OF any other crop, although
that grain ranks third in volume and
value of the agricultural products
The crop In 1910 was 22.6S0,647 bush
els, raised on 1888 acres Of ground
kaftir corn ranks next in improt-
ance with an annual yield OF about
l2,000,01O bushels Oats, barley and
rye are grown nthe higher lands
OF the western counties. and produce
equally we'll
The humble and honest potato Is a
great money-maker. two crops being
grown on the same ground each year
with a total yield of a million and a
quarter bushels. The first erop is
dug early in June and the WELD aver.
! ages about 80 bushels an acre The
early potatoes are shipped by train
loadsAiu Kansa sCity st. Louis, Min.
neapohs,i Omaha and other noihern
points, where they bring fancy prices
lIhe second crop dug IS September.
| Yields about a hundred bushels II the