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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
BY,PRODUCTOf DAIRY BUSINESS
CHEESE INDUSTRY VERY PROFIT.
ABLE SIDE LINE
Garfield County Farmers Find II 10
Better Than Making
Butter.

A new field of profit for the average
farmer is being opened up in Garfield
county and from the interest displayed
at lecture and demonstration con-
Quoted under the direction of the Enid
chamber of commerce recently the
plan probably will be given very
thorough trial in that county. 1t Is,
understood that state organization
contemplates sending these lecturers
on tour of those portions Of the
state where dairying is at all prac-
tlcal. The new plan amounts to max
ing every farmer a cheese maker on
small scale and assures them at the
same time a market for their product.
The plan combines a doubling Of the
value of the milk product on the farm
without increasing the labor OF prep
aration.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. r. Wiley, the lee
turers and demonstrators, are Garfield
county farmers residing on farm
several miles from Enid and for the
past three years have done practical
cheese-making on small scale as a
part of their farm work. The cheese
they made has been sold through an
Enid merchants assert that 40 percent
have been able to supply the demand.
1t was this demand for the home
made cheese coupled with the fact that
Tnld merchants assert that 40 percent
of the cheese sold in this city is sold
to farmers, that first directed the at
tention of the Enid chamber OF COM
MERGE to the possibilities Of cheese
making on a small scale by the indi-
vidual farmer Mr. and Mrs. Wiley
assert that during the three years of
comparatively poor crops and the long
drouth of 1913 they have had quite a
comfortable income from their cheese
which was altogether side issue on
the farm and was given no more
thought than is butter-making on the
farm where the housewife markets ten
or twelve pounds of butter week.
According to the statement OF the
| Wileys the apparatus for making the
cheese costs but little and Mrs. Wiley
says the cheese is carrier to make and
involves less labor than butter. An
other point which at once appeals to
the farmer is the fact that the same
amount of milk nearly doubles In value
when made into cheese as compared
with butter. The same quantity OF
milk will make four pounds of butter
or about ten pounds Of cheese. The
butter will sell for 25c cents a pound
or 81, while the cheese will bring lSc
pound, or $3.50. There Is always a
good local market for cheese and II
can easily be shipped any distance tc
other markets.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
GOUG|NG THE PUBLIC
Trusts Have Long Been Pleas
antIy Employed.
Talk Of Foreign Manufacturers
dumping" Goods Into America
Should Give Thought to the
Ardent Protectlonlsts.

There is a notion widely prevalent
that many foreign manufacturers pro-
duce goods merely for the fun Of
dumping them upon the American
market at less than cost price, X
such benevolent persons existed we
ought to encourage them rather than
bar them out. To get something for
nothing Is an experience nobody meets
SO often that 1t Is not welcome when
1t comes. But foreign factories, as
we'll as our own, are run for profit,
and no proprietor could continue in
business for long II he persisted In
giving his product away or selling It
at a loss. 1t may happen occasionally
That producer finds unstable stock
in his hands which he must sell at a
sacrifice; but bargains are much more
likely to be snapped up by buyers at
home than to find their way into ex-
port trade.
1t Is true that many American manu-
facturers have sold, and are continu-
ally selling. their products at lower
prices In foreign lands than In the do
mestlo market: but this only shows
the extent to which the American pub
lie has been gouged in the name OF
protection. 1t shows that their do
nestle prices have been exorbitant,
for It Is certainly improbable that the
long list of American staples and
other commodities. from beefsteaks to
watches, which have become regular
articles Of export, and which are
quoted in London or Berlin at as
many shillings or marks as they fetch
dollars at home, have been sold, or are
selling, at bankrupt or fire sale prices.
On the contrary, II this competitive
selling were Improbable 1t would
have been discontinued. The Amert-
can exporters are no more inclined to
dumping thier own wares abroad than
foreigners are inclined to sacrifice
their goods for the benefit of Amerl-
can consumers.
The notion about dumping Is sim
ply a protectionist fallacy 1t is prob
ably something worse-a subterfuge
TO Justify the imposition Of prohibitive
tariff duties and shut out competition.
so that the fieecing OF the American
consumer may be continued. An anti
dumping" clause would have been out
OF place in a tariff for revenue or even
in competitive" tariff. The con-
ferees did well In eliminating such a
clause from the bill. The administra-
tive sections OF our customs laws pro-
vide sufficient safeguards against
fraudulent undervaluations OF i'm
ports.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
STATE CAPITAL
NEWS NOTES
WHEN DID THE LATE LEGIsLA-
TIVE SESSION COME TO
A CLOSE?
IT'S GHOST REFUSES TO DOWN.
Although Gone and Forgotten Ned
Mcdaniel Seeks to Prove That
II is Still Grinding Away
At the Capitol.

Whether the fourth legislature is
really yet adjourned, or if the So
called sine die adjournment was in
accordance with the constitutional
provision, will be points raised in the
protest on the petitions to refer the
new election law. The legislature has
been reported as having adjourned
sine die on July 5. 1t is commended
that it really did adjourn the Monday
preceding. If that be sustained, the
petitions in the election law were fill
ed after the limit of ninety days, pro-
vided in such cases. This would also
knock out the petition in the capitol
bill. The two gambling bills would
not be affected, as it is said they were
filed in time purposely to escape this
question.
The formal protest against the cleo.
ton law petitions will be filed by Ned
Mcdaniel, secretary Of the senate,
within the next few days. Under the
new law Mcdaniel should be secretary
of the state election board.
Relative to the adjournment of the
legislature it will be contended that
on Monday previous to the Saturday
of the same week, when adjournment
was taken that a majority Of the
members of both houses went home;
that only few remained during the
week, with the president of the SEN
ate and speaker of the house, for
the purpose Of adjourning on Satur-
day. 1t will be claimed that there was
not quorum of either house present
when the final so-called adjournment
was taken, and that no final action of
this kind could be taken by less than
a quorum Of the membership.
Claims will be made that the con-
stitution, relative to what the legisla-
ture may do, provides that minority,
or a body less than a quorum of either
branch of the legislature, may adjourn
from day to day, and they may also
require the attendance of other or all
members Of the legislature. When
the members of both houses left for
their homes on the Monday preceding
the Saturday when it was recorded
that final adjournment was taken, it
will be contended that this really con-
stituted the final adjournment, or if
. that did not, then it will be held that
less than quorum can not adjourn
sine die, under which circumstances
the legislature was not adjourned, and
is not yet adjourned sine die.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
BIDS ARE WITHDRAWN.
No Oil Leases on Lands Protested by
Land Iessees Association.

At a meeting of the school laN1
board bids that had been submitted
by j. G. Elliott on school land in eight
counties for oil purposes and in which
the Oklahoma School Land Lessees
association had made strong protest,
we're withdrawn and no leases were
made on these lands at all. The coun-
ties in which the land lies are Lincoln,
Pottawatomie, Cleveland, Kay, Noble,
Garfield, Payne, and Comanche. There
are said to be valuable oil prospects
on these lands,
The school land lessees objected to
these leases being given individuals
because requirements as b develop
ment were not strict enough. The
lessees did not object to the state
getting the benefit Of the oil and gas
under these lands, if there is any, but
did object to it going to an individual.
Members of the school land board,
however, say the objection of the les.
sees had nothing to do with the action
taken sby the board.
A lease was given to Elliott, how
ever, on about two-miles of the Arkan-
sas river bed around Turkey Island,
According to the terms of Elliott's bid,
on which the lease was given he is to
pay the state ~ 1-2 per cent royalty
and bonus of $50 barrels of oil from
each well brought in.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
RsnsfIts Of Tariff RevIsIon.

In spite OF short crops at home
wars abroad, and most unsettled
financial condition In at least one ma
ton with which the United States has
a large commerce, business In this
country goes steadily forward. All
predictions that tariff revision would
preclpitate hard times have failed.
Instead Of looking on the Underwood
bill as a calamity, rational business
men look upon II as measure Of re-
lief. without which the country's af-
fairs would be much hampered In this
year OF bad happenings.
This view is the right one The new
bill is an example OF the new free
dom. II ushers in an era in which en-
terprise will not be strangled by
trusts. and consumers will not be
taxed to maintain monopolies. Tarir
revision could not be put to harder
test than that which now confronts It.
but It is standing the trial nobly.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
HARVESTING
THE PEANUT
HoeelNe THEM OFF ABOUT THE
BEST WAY UNLESS NUTS ARE
TO BE MARKETED.
HOGS EAT NUT, HULL AND ALL
But the Hay Should Be Harvested
First.-What the Nuts viii
Yield In OIL If Sent
to the Crusher.


Most of the peanuts which have
been grown in the west so far have
been harvested with hogs, and for the
cpresent that is undoubtedly the best
plan. In a few places they are grow
ing them for market, however, and
where they do, the peanuts are loosen
ed up by running the shear of turn
ing pillow with the mould-board re-
moved, just deep enough to cut the
root below the nuts. The field is then
raked into windows with a hay rake,
and in day or two, depending on
how quick they cure, they are put
into stacks convenient for threshing
The nuts are then threshed with
regular peanut thresher, and then hay
baled and stored or sold. The practice
Of moving the hay and turning in the
hogs t6harvest the nuts, is one which
appeals to me as the plan for the be-
ginner. It was at first thought that
the vines were necessary for the most
economic gains, as the hog was known
to eat more or less of them. But re-
cent tests have shown that hog will
make practically the same gains when
he is fed on the nuts alone as when
turned on a field Of vines and all.
The reason evidently lies in the fact
that the hog eats the peanuts hull and
all. The hull, in some way, furnishes
the bulk or the balancing element
which makes the ration complete.
Without doubt the peanut is one of
the most economic fattening ratlons
that has ever been found for hogs. 1t
seems that nothing is gained by feed
ing a part ration of corn in order to
make cheaper gains You are COM
PEELED, however, to feed corn two or
three weeks before marketing to-pTop-
| erly finish the meat. But the. pea
nuts value as a hog feed is not the
| first purpose of this paper, rather
to point out to the farmers Of the
short rainfall country, that in the
Spanish peanut they have crop as
reliable and can be made just as profit
able as milo kafir or cotton. AS a com.
mercial product it has several advan-
tages over cotton. In the first place,
every vestige of the crop may be con-
sumed on the farm, and the plant
makes the soil more fertile in which
it grows. If the market does not JUS
tify harvesting and selling, the entire
crop may be made into beef or pork
or milk and marketed through other
channels.
The Spanish peanut offers, for every
bushel produced, one gallon of oil,
worth rs cents, and 20 pounds of meal
and hulls worth 20 cents.
When the cotton seed oil mills Of
the southwest are so per cent peanut
oil mills, and believe will live to
see the day, cotton will be worth more
and SO will the farmers.
For more detailed information about
peanuts in general, write the United
States Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. c., for Farmers Bull
letin-431,
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
cIsvsIand,a Tariff Propheex.

Tariff reform will not be settled I'M
til 1t is honestly and fairly settled
President Cleveland in 1894.
The passing of the tariff bill by the
senate means the success OF a warfare
against special privilege started by
Grover Cleveland-a success which
seemed on the verge of attainment 10
years ago. but which was turned into
defeat through treachery,
In 1894 the Wilson bill as 1t passed
the house by a majority of rs was
creditable measure. 1t was notable
for its extension of the free list which
included coal, iron ore. lumber. wool
and sugar. But when 1t reached the
senate, where the party majority was
only three. the reactionaries got in
their work. The senate made 634
changes, large share Of them in the
direction of upward revision.-Kansas
City Star.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
eHARTEL FARM IRRIGATED.
Valley Of the Canadian Can Be Made
Green and Fertile In Dry Season.

A company OF about twenty Okla
homa City men including the city
commissioners, were the guests re-
Gently of j. W. Shartel at his farm
near Banner on the Ell Reno Inter
urban line.
Mr.. Shartel has farm Of $50 acres
some 200 acres being under irrigation
The water is obtained from wells that
are fifty-two feet deep to bed rock
Three pumps throw 1850 gallons
minute and this results in the ability
to flood an acre an hour to the depth
of three and one-hah inches. There
are twelve wells on the place, but
only seven are now being pumped.
On the farm are twenty-five acres
of sweet potatoes. ten acres in Span
ish peanuts, thirtyseven in alfalfa,
five in MELONS, four in tomatoes and
peppers, six in late turnips, and ten
in miscellaneous truck.
While all the country round about
is burned and dead this farm is a
great sight in its spring green. That
it is practical to irrigate here from
wells and profitable is being demon
strated by Mr.. Shartel whose bitches
and other arrangements for irriga-
ton were only completed July / Of
this year.
The water supply at the Shartel
farm cannot be exhausted and 1t is
believed in other places in the Ca.
madam valley like supply will be
found. A single well like that on the
Shartel place will irrlgate forty acres
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES
SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS

Oct. 10-11-Colt show, Geary.
Oct. 16-1S.-Peanut Carnival, duncan.
Oct. 13.-Sale Of school lands IN texas
county.
Oct. 1e-1s,-Latimer County Fair VIII
burton.
Oct. 22-23-Horsethief detective asso-
citation convention at Blackwell.
Oct. 26,-Presldential election, Mexico.
Oct. 26-Nov. .2.-Dry Farming Congress
Tulsa.
Oct. SO.-Sen. LaFollette speaks at OH
bart
Nov. 2O.-Joint Shrine ceremonial
Tulsa.
Jan. 5.-sale of Choctaw and Chicka-
saw lands at label.
Jan. s.-Sale OF Choctaw and Chickasaw
lands at Hugo.
Jan. 12.-Saie Of Choctaw and Chicka-
saw lands at Poteau.
Jan. 15.-Sale OF Choctaw and ChicE-
asaw lands at Wilburton.
Jan. t7.-Sale OF Choctaw and Chicka-
saw lands at McAlester.
Jan. 26-31.-State Poultry Show, Enid.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
shrieks Not Justified.

Our Republican friends are terribly
exercised over the revival of the spoils
system by the wicked Democrats. The
spoils system has not at any time been
quite dead. The Republicans have
kept great part of the really desir-
able places where men useful to the
party could get at them. The presi-
dent has Just filled humber of the
more important consular offices by
promotion. and there is too large al
number OF Republicans still on the
public payroll to Justify Republican
shrieks at political prescription
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
secretary,s Receipts Bio.

The office of the secretary Of state
earned and received 6,95O.O2 during
the three months ending September
80, according to the report given out
today. The receipts of the office are
divided as follows: Charter fees, $l2-
O73.O2; notary $1,79S; acquisitions, $40,
certified copies. $3S4.15; seal of state,
$4S6; recording, $54S1O; appointment
of agents, $6S; statutes sold, $2,5161
trade marks, $12; mis- cellaneous,
$9S.7O.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
New Poultry Association.

For the purpose of encouraging the
propagation of pure-bred poultry in
Pittsburg county, score of McAlester
poultry breeders met and organized a
Pittsburg County Poultry association,
Preliminary plans were made for The
first annual poultry show, to be held
in December. Poultry shows have
been held each year at the county Fair,
but since it Is an unreasonable time
of year to show birds in their lest
form, the later show was preferred,
w. s. Crowl is president of the new
association and Clyde Goss secretary,
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
oklahoma As a Lumber State.

Oklahoma is not generally consid'
cred to be a lumber state, but the
state was thirty-second in output Of
lumber the past year. Illinois, Con
necticut, Iowa, Wyoming, New Mexico
and South Dakota are among the
states falling below Oklahoma. The
output of this state in 1912 amounted
to 1896 feet. The output in 1911
avs 143,S69. According to this re-
port more than nine-tenths of the
present stand of yellow pine is grown
in the Atlantic and Gulf coast states
and in the states of Missouri, Arkansas
and Oklahoma
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
School for Deaf Now to be Built

After making certain changes in the
plans and specifications, the state
board Of public affairs awarded the
contract for the erection of new
buildings at the deaf school at Sulphur
to the Manhattan Construction compa-
ny of Muskogee for $149,470, The
fourth legislature appropriated $780,
900 for the work, and the first bids re-
ceived by the board of affairs were in
excess of this amount. The cost OF
the building was reduced by cutting
out certain plumbing work called for
in the original plans and specifications.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
county Fees !mproperIy Handled

There is a discrepancy of $9OS.1O re-
sulting from the handling of miscel-
laneous fees in the office of the clerk
of the Oklahoma county court, accord
ing to report on the office submitted
by F. w. German, deputy state exam
iner and inspector. 1t is said that OF
this amount 1921 shortage may involve
criminal prosecution. and the remain
der civil proceeding
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
EXPRESS COMPANIES LOSE OUT
Must Refund 100000 Rebate to Okla
homa Shippers.

WY lCluhN VI W
tween 100000 and 100000 to the
people of Oklahoma on excessive ex-
press charges paid since August l,
1909, is made possible by an opinion
handed down by Judge Robert l.. VIII
liams of the supreme court in affirm
ing an order of the corporation COM
mission, which not only makes this
enormous refund available to the peo-
pie, but carries into effect perman-
ent reduction of from Is to 20 per cent
in express rates on all commodities.
The order affects only shipments
handled between points in Oklahoma
by either of four big express compan-
les operating within the state,
This will be the largest refund the
corporation commission of Oklahoma
has ever secured and probably the
largest of any commission in the coun-
try. 1t is approximately 100000 in
excess of the refund ordered some
time ago on freight charges made by
railroads on certain commodities in
excess of those fixed by the corpora
ton cimmission in one of its orders.
A Big Task.
1t will be several months or posi-
bly, a year before the actual refund
can be made. The clerical force of
the commission will begin at once to
work out the details and the individu
al amoun& to be refunded which, 1t
is stated, is infinitely a greater task
than involved in the railroad refund
on freight rates, which now has been
in progress for several months.
The express companies have been
required by the commission to keep a
complete record Of all shipments
handled by them since August l, 1909,
the time the order became effective,
showing the difference between the
rate prescribed by the commission
and the rate charged by the company.
From the voluminous records the
amount each shipper or patron Of the
express companies shall receive will
be determined
The commission now has on hand
more than car load of reports from
the different companies and that does
not include all of them. The fact that
the report of one of the express com
panies for one month comprises more
than 10000 pages will give some idea
of the size of entire reports of the
four companies covering the forty
eight months since the order was is
sued
The case was argued before the SUI
preme court by Commissioner George
A. Henshaw and E. c. Patton of the
legal department of the commission.
Complicated Order
The order has been the most diff
cult and complicated the commission
has had to- deal whit since it's crea-
ton. The order was issued by the COM
mission on June II, 1909, to become eff
fective on the following August of the
same year.
The express companies objected to
the order becoming effective, on the
grounds that it was unjust and would
not permit them to realize a reason
able profit from their business. On
December 10, 1909, the commission
granted a supersedeas and the COM
panies appealed to the supreme court.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
To Change County Seat.

Petitions have been presented to
Governor Cruce asking him to call an
election in Payne county on the propo-
sition Of changing the county seat
from saltwater to Ripley. The petit
tions have been examined and the
proclamation prepared and will prob
ably be issued, as soon as the gov
ernor returns from his trip to Ard
more.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
Builds siIo Fast.

o. B. Reinhardt, prosperous farm
err living east of Nowata, built a silo
in record time. He started the con-
struction of a 1O0.ton wooden silo on
Monday morning and Thursday night
had it, filed with silage. Fully one
fourth of the farmers of the county
are building or planning TO build
silos.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
Capitol Election Petition Filed.

Petitions bearing 1S,O61 signatures,
asking a referendum on the capitol
appropriation bill passed by the recent
Legislature were filed with Secretary
of State Ben Harrison Thursday morn
ing. The bill making the appropria-
ton and authorizing work to begin
on the construction of a state capitol
which would have gone in effect mid
night Friday will be suspended until
after the election at which the ques-
ton of vetoing the law will be sub
mitted, unless the petitions are de-
cIared invalia
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
nc..at Public Victory. .

1t is a great party victory that has
been won, but 1t is indefinitely more
than a great party victory. It is a
great public victory for responsible.
representative government, and it
ought to give the American people
new faith in the integrity of their In,
situations.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-17
Gentry Appeal to Be Heard in Nov

Mrs. Alverta B. Gentry, convicted
for completely in the murder of her
husband in Oklahoma City two years
ago, will not know the outcome of her
appeal to the criminal court of appeals
for a new trial until some time in No
vember. The appeal was to have been
argued before the criminal court this
week being one Of the cases docketed
for the September term. but on the
request of Norman Pruiett, who is
busy at present in the Reuter- case.
The case has been continued.