Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-11-13

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place elise, Just the same as the yege-
tables of the garden here produce As
no place else and carry with them a
quality unapproachable. Small fruits
ana vegetables grow freely each yeaF
and yield immensely, returning large
/ profits for tho care bestowed upon
! them Cautaloupcs aud melons aro
/ raised Tor the northern markets AT q
good profit and many carloads were
/ this year shipped from Tnlsh county
The fruits that grow here Include
nearly all of the better known yarie-
ties that flourish in the temperate
zone. Apples. pears, peaches. grapes,
crab apples, plums, aprlcOts and doz-
ous OF other species arc great eros
each year. The soil and even tenn
perature 10 particularly adapted 10
the growing OF fruit. Pouches hero
begin to ripen carly In une, and the
first OF November stlll finds them on
tho trees, nice and Juicy and ready
for tho teeth. This is because So
many varieties may be grown. Thous-
ands OF acres Of Elbertas are beng
sot out In Tulsa county and ,he de-
mand Is always heavy. The Craw
fords are usually cultivated for tha
late crop Late frosts I'm tho spring
n raIy eyer catches tho buls ia OK
DEora. 1nd whom tic orchards of
ra' great frit BEN further north ara
irr those ~ th.- section or Dkh-
hD ma arc bending hr9ea,h thr flood
Of frmt which hangs from thcw
bcurb
THE average rainfall is 3j.5
inches as can be verified by oyamn-
ing the charts prepared by tho
United St4tes governments weather
bureaus Tha precipitation here Is
just about the same as it IS in llli-
nois. indiana, Iowa. Eastern Kansas
ana Missouri Throe-fourths Of tfis
rainfall comes at the time when the
crops are growing. or from early
spring until early fall There : as
much difference. II must be reme,n-
bercd in regard to rainfall in Okla
homa as there is in Kansas, whore
the western part of the state does
not nearly experience the average
fall Of the eastern part, and the same
crop conditions prevail IN the two
parts Of each state.
In short, everything is here that
crops noed, The days are sunshlnS
in summer and assure an abundant
yield, without excessive hifmidtY,
and are intersperscd with nights cool
enough to be pleasant and at the
same time not cool enough to rctara
tho most delicate crop in that re
spect. All of these things speak fol
the reason why Tulsa county meets
with the approval OF the agrlcultur-
lists who have come TO know it more
thoroughly than 1t is possible 70
krow a country through the medium
Of the press,
There are no lands known to the
world which produce wealth and all
the luXuries which accompany 1t IN n
single season. But there is vast
difference between the land one Sec
ton Of the country and the land OF
arother section of the same country.
| The available acres of Tulsa county
are inferior to none in produciNe
! qualities. and the diversity of thr
crop lies almost at the will of the
planter Dark to Hight chocofats
loan, such as comprises much II tho
farming area of Tulsa county. is al
ways favored by agriculturists Of e<-
! perience and knowledge. The rich,
sandy soil OF the country adjacen;
| to the rivers and streams Is sought
| by many persons who come from
other places to farm In Tulsa county.
| r'or men who follow farming ano
| horticulture differ in their ideas OF
what is best to facilitate food produc-
| tion Just the same as men of all other
! # llowings permit their ways OF
| thinking to stand at a contradictory
angle With the ways OF thinking
| their contemporaries entertain.
| All In all. 1t would be matter of
| long and tiresome search. were ON
to assume the task of finding moro
| promising. or, for that matter 4
more satisfactory and result making
/ part Of the country than Tulsa
/ county when the situation is consider
I ed from the farmers standpoint. The
price OF desirable farm land in Tulst
county Is far below that Of like land
quoted In other places Of the coun'
try. There is no comparison between
the prices obtained for Tulsa county
land and land in the states where
population Is dense, even thou9l'
official reports show that less is pro-
duced from the same amount Of land
in those sections than is produced
here. The fact that as good or bot