The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-04-28
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comes here from Missouri, Arkansas,
Iowa, Illinois or Ohio meets with
conditions such as he has been used
to and does not have to go through
an extensive course of training in
order to familiarize himself with ir-
rigation methods; nor does he have
to pay a heavy water right in ad
dition to buying the land Neither
does he have to invest 4 big part
of the earnings of the farm to the
purchase of fertilizer
All that is needed for successful
farming mere is plenty of energy
and systematic tiliing of the soil.
Our soil is of the very richest. but
it will not produce the crops and
lift the mortgage without the owner,
or he who cultiyates 1t does it prop
erly. With proper care and attention
the land here will bring in bigger
returns than the land of almost any
other section Of the country All
that is needed is progressive farm
ing. Less attention to one crop and
a greater diversification. Do not de-
vote too many acres to the worship
Of king cotton" nor too many to
the support Of king corn" do not
raise the idol OF kaHir corn and
bend the. knee of allegiance to it
to the elimination Of all other crops.
Let us have farmers who will de.
mand the proper toll of the soil
from the greatest number of the most
productive crops. and we Will soon
have it dembonstrated to the satisfac-
ton of all concerned that Oklahoma,
Carter county, Oklahoma, is the place
that the farmer is looking for
Wheat, that cereal that has placed
the German-Ame"ican farmer IN the
front rank of the successful ;illers
of the soil and made them the
leading agriculturists OF the land, will
as abundantly as it will anywhere.
Corn, the crop that has placed the
states of Illinois, Missouri and iowa
at the head of the column, in the or
der in which they are here mention
ed, will grow and thrive under all
ordinary conditions and make a
much larger yield than it will in
many sections of either of the three
corn states just mentioned. oats will
produce from forty to sixty bushels
to the acre, machine measure and
other crops in proportion. All that
is needed to make this one of the
banner farming counties of any
state anywhere, is the same care
and attention to the diversification
and the proper cultivation of the
crops as they are in other locali
ties.
Volumes have been written of
sunny Colorado with its fields Of
waving grain and its acres and
acres of "spuds" Much has been said
of the great things that can be ac-
complished in the irrigation district
out there, but little of the extraor
dinary expense of the irrigation sys-
TEN of farming. Take 1t from one
who has been there, that if the far
mer here would work half as hard
and take all manner and kinds of
advantages of everything here as
he has to there, in order to make a
living at all, he would be a rich man
in ten years time.
We do not say that we have the
best country that the sun ever shone
upon, but we do say that there is
not anywhere a section of the coun-
try that offers the same grand az
gregation of natural inducements to
,he enterprising farmer that this
does. All that is needed is energy,
hustle and a get there spirit to
guarantee success.
We understand that there is now
a colonization project upon hands
with a few of the prominent real es-
tate men looking to bringing into
this section more farmers to devote
their time and attention to gen
eral farming. to split up some of
the big ranches left over from the
time that the COW man reigned su.
| preme in this section, and to divide
them into bodies of from forty to
ane hundred and sixty acres and
then follow out a system of the
more intensive farming as followed
in the older states. In our opinion
there will be no mistake made by do
ing this and, should the plan be
carried into effect, the price of farm
lands will more than double within