Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-05-04
FARMERS REPORT
CROPS ARE GOOD
ABSENCE OF FROST PROVED
GREAT RELIEF LOCALLY,
CORN ADVANCING We'll
Potatoes Are at the setting" Stage
Fields Sad 10 BE Remarkably
Tree of Weeds.

ising to return good yields. The abb
senCe of frost during the cool period
Of the past few days has worked a
wonderful relief among the Tulsa
County agrirulturists who believe ev'
cry danger Cf crop damage from that
source Is now past. Although tn.
Coldness Of the temperature Is said
TO be retarding growing vegetation OF
the crop producing varieties the add
ed moisture which came with the ad-
vent Of the temperature change last
Sunday came also as producer of
vitality and a stimulant for crops to
pull out"
Corn is advancing Iemarkably well,
say the farmers and it is estimated
that there Is fully twice as much up
to Il good height at this time than
there was n year ago the first week
In May The choking off OF tho rains
last July proved TO the farmers that
It was the early planted corn that suf-
fered the least injury and implanted
the firm resolution to have their corn
crop past the suffering stage this year
if a similar dry season came at no ear
lier time.
Potatoes are showing a healthy
growth of vines and it is reported that
the tubers are beginning to show well,
and il will be but a few weeks at the
most when Tulsans will be able to
servo home grown potatoes for break
fast, dinner and supper Gardens are
in the pink of condition and the truck
ers Of Tulsa County daily are replen-
ishing the local market with all the
commoner varieties of vegetables
adapted to this country-and that in
cludes all species.
Wheat anG oats are said to show a
splendid growth with prospects fully
half moro encouraging than they were
a month ago when the outlook had
Just begun to brighten. from the dry
spell Of the late winter.
| A greenness of weeds among all
crops is noted due in a large measure
to the absence of an excess of moist
ure
81 know of fields Of corn" said n
well known agriculturist of Tulsa
County yesterday, "where it is almost
/ impossible to discover even n weed
Of the hair-line variety. The crop is
now well under way and its yield de-
pends largely on the treatment It re-
cciyes during the next six weeks.
Corn which is stunted in its early
growth never makes the showing seen
with that w',ich grows without stop
ping from the time the seed is sprout-
ed until the ears are filled More
than half the expense Of making the
crop has already been incurred in the
rent, or preparation of the ground and
in planting, and It IS poor economy TO
risk the loss of what has been paid
out for the lack OF the additional la
Dor needed to make "A full crop. A
little work at the right time often
makes the difference between good
crop and almost a failure.
Corn can be narrowed twice and
then cultivated for practically 50
cents an acre, or close to it, Much
Of the corn grown in this section re-
ceives little more than that amount
of work, and the yield is proportions
ately in the amount of work. Two
additional civilizations can be given
for about the price OF one bushel oi
corn per acre, while there are few
fields In which the additional work
will not increase the Weld at least five
bushels per acre, and often much
more than that. Good cultivation Is
more important after the corn IS ono,
in the ground than any other one
thing can do.
Cultivation can hardly be too fre.
Quent II is Necessary to keep tho
weeds and grasses killed out but thai
is only one of the ways in witch cult.
walton does good. by keeping the sur
face Of the soil loose II dries out much
less rapidly than when n crust Is al
lowed to form, and when rain fan
II will be absorbed by the loose sol
instead Of RAINING off as light rail
would from a hard crust Even 4
there is no crust on the ground ant
the field has been cultivated since the
last rain, II should not be left NOR,
than ten days without having the sur
face well 'tirred. This IS specially
important IN times Of drouth, whoi
the culuvaCng cannot be too fre
quent II always done shallow Deol
cultivation at such times IS Otter
ruiuous, but when only about one oI
two Inches OF surface soil ls disturb
ed evaporation from below is checked
Il and the SOL Immediately bclos tha
stirred by the cuDtiyutor win remain
fresh and moist much lonrpr thai