The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-04-28

It "a y "a W lulllu lue tiineS VI Iu'
rou." md tumble days when he VIII;
was kest on the draw was thu
one WI hand held the guiding
reins of the community in which he
lived, is the stone-marked mounds
that here and there mark out for the
historian the spot where some noted
gun fighter of a by-gone age made
his last stand and died as he had liv
ed, without the fear of man in his
breast. During these days the good
and the bad alike lived upon these
hills and plains and walked and fol
lowed their respective avocations ac.
cordins to the.r inclinations. Every
man was the author of his own law
and carved out the every day life
which he lived so as to suit his own
best needs and inclnations.
But with the coming of the law
YER, the doctor and the farmer things
! changed. The vast plains where
'o"hiSu the ueiuS Vi lHe Opulent
COW man soon became criss-crossed
with the barb wire of the man from
the older state and the plowshare
began to turn the virgin soil and
/ crops OF cotton, corn and wheat
sprung up to be nurtured upon her
broad and responsive breast. The
Shrek of the iron horse succeeded
the whoop and yell of the cowboy
and the cross roads store side-step-
ped and gave place to the great en-
pOrium OF the modern city. Here
and there can be found marks of the
olden days; here and there NAV vet
be found traces of the early times
when each and every man was a law
within itself. Perhaps in the middle
OF some well titled field may be
found the rude stone cairn marking
the last stand of some one of the
fore-runners of the present time.
Carefully skirted and unmolested by
the hand OF the honest farmer who
now owns the land upon which this
man of the trouble-fraught days
fought his last fight his bones are
left to silently return to the dust of
mother earth. Unsung the memory
of some of these yet lives in the
breast of those of today and in MANY
instances these last resting places
are yet pointed out to the stranger
as Is silent heap of stone in a sister
county which marks the resting place
of those who fell by the hands of the
James boys of Missouri when surpris-
ed and attacked by United States
troops they escaped upon the old
Fort Gibson trail, leaving the dead
and dying to the attacking party to
mark another page in the history of
the border warfare of that day and
time.
Alfalfa and Red Glover.
Here are two crops that are re-
successive year No part of the coun-
try, anywhere nor under any condi-
tions. can hold a candle for either
of these crops to grow by. The alfal-
ia lands of the Dodge City section of
Kansas, nor those of the world-famed
Pecos Valley in New Mexico can
raise, with all their care and irriga-
ton, crops of alfalfa that equal those
of southern Oklahoma Western Ok
lahoma may have us slightly beat
en- in this crop, but this portion of
the state is still running her a close
second. Five cuttings in one year is
the story of this king of all great
forage crops, and that too, without ir-
rigation or other methods Of expen-
sive cultivation. The red clover is
Just coming into prominence in this
section. For years it was thought
that this great soil rejuvenator could
not be grown here, but the coming
of the German farmer with his ideas
of what could be gotten out of the
soil, the coming of these farmers who
belong to those who have made Iowa,
Illinois and Missouri the agricultural
states of the union, the coming of
this class of born tillers of the soil
has changed the face of things and
today We know that we can raise
red clover as we'll as a whole lot of
other states can and a whole lot
better than a number of them can.
This further exemplifies the fact that
anything that can be grown upon
the face of the earth can be grown
right here in our southern Oklahoma.
This Section Favored.
The section composed of Carter and
other counties lying in the great