The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-02-06

farming conditions in Oklahoma as
are the bankers, also that the bankers
individually and collectively, are anx-
ious to reduce interest charges and
to that end are working for more sub
stantial farmers as well as more sub
stanta. farms.
LeFlore's Peanut Industry.
! No other feature Of the innumerable
/ features Of the big meeting attracted
more attention than the peanut show
put on b. The delegation from Le-
FIoro county. Not content with wear
ing them as labels on their badges,
they literally had peanuts to burn.
T. p. Martin, Jr., of Oklahoma City,
spoke last night on the subject,
Livestock the best Market for Feed
Crops" and it was received with
marked approval.
Not only did Mr.. Martin give strong
argument for saving the wastes I
the farm by cattle raising but, Incl
dentally he boosted the home mar
ket of Oklahoma. He said that on
last Friday the two packing houses
in Oklahoma City paid out $4,000
TOR cattle and they gladly would
lave paid out five times that much
had it been available. He regretted
that it is necessary for packing
houses in Oklahoma to senG to north
ern states for material with which to
run the gigantic plants. The hog,
he said, is a mortgage litter par eX-
cellence. Jonah embarked in the
| livestock business when he went
II into whale, but he came out all
right" and in the opinion of Mr..
Martin, the Oklahoma farmers will
come out all right if they follow Jo-
nah's example.
For Exhibit at Dry Farming Congress
A resolution introduced by Tate
Brady OF Tulsa, which was unani-
nously adopted, called upon all OF
the states of the union and all of
the nations of the earth to send eX-
hibts to the Dry Farming Congress
which will be held in Tulsa next
October. This resolution followed an
address by John T. Burns, secretary
of the Dry Farming Congress which
was we'll received
II. II. Bell of Muskogee, newly
elected secretary of the association,
and farm expert for the Barnes
company, gave one of the most in
teresting talks of the meeting. lie
depiored the fact that so per cent OF
the farming land in eastern Oklaho-
ma is cultivated by tenants, indicat-
ing that this land is owned almost
exclusively by business men who live
in the cities and towns.
Some Interesting Statistics.
The following figures show what
proportion of land in four of the
eastern counties is not being culti-
vatod at all: In Muskogee county.
according to the latest statistics from
the federal department of agriculture.
there are $4,000 acres of farming
land of which only 217,O0O acres are
under cultivation; In Mcintosh coun-
ty there are $4,000 acres, of which
only $4,000 acres are being cult
waited; OF the 36l 900 acres of farm
ing land in Tulsa county. there is be-
ing cultivated but $4,000 acres; only
1876. 900 OF the $4,000 acres in Pitts
burg county are being TILED, etc. The
average value per acre of farm land
that was cultivated in 1912, IN these
four big counties, was only $l2.2J
| in 1912. Hence it is but simple
calculation to see what is being lost
by the counties on the east side OF
the state and it is due entirely to
lethargy, If ordinary business judg
ment were used" said Mr. Bell, the
taNes would be cut in two