Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1915-01-15

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Webster City. Ia Jan II. 1913
Etitor Weekly News.
rurart. Okiahona.
D~rr SIrs
lave lust returned frou an sx-
tensive trip through oklahOua ani
Texas. a Part % which speas IN
looking over yuur csunty. ard Icok-
ing inte tNe methods employed n
finarcirE- raisinE and marketing o.
your erops. sut Sc cue great big
fall8ry in your system. which over
shadows everything else. ard that
> thnt your people fer the most part
are enc crop farmers. a systeui
Nktch. especially. vhen that one
crcp Is cotton. ~sTi keep your far7i
ers poor as ioaE as they stay wilh
Il.
I have observed one thing about
eoston and Il is that no natter how
loug a farmer has raised cotton. uur
how much he has raised. he is com
7slis.i 70 borrow moaey from year to
year. 10 live on while he makes his
crop. Al that though. your eotton
farmers are not getting an thay
should from their esops. IN the vay
% yield. due 10 improper and unsys-
temztic cultivation Of the Land. The
proper methods Of cultivation vii
improve your cotton yields a-d yet
lessen the expense per acre os grow
ing cotton
Your soil there is good better
on an average thzn in most parts
Of your state Your growing season
Is long and you have ample rainfall
Taken all in all. I should say that
you can raise almost anything in
Bryan county that viii grow any
where else In America
As farmer. I have made a sue
cess: hence. I feel that ny sugsgs-
tons ara worth a little bit I start
81 out With a quarter section Of To-
va land Which I bought on the cred-
IL. and began By raising nothing but
corn made some little money n
this way, and met my payments or
the farm I soo1 found that IL I
we're TO be real success az a farm
er. must diversity and do IL thor
oughly. / got a start on hogs aus
cattle and chickens had plenty
OF pasture for the hogs and cattle.
and good range for my chicken 4
also vas careful enough to raise for
age crops aEd small grain 10 carr
thrOush the year. al the stock that
7 vas raising Other lands I plant
ed to corn.
Before long my chickens and
mileh COWS provided food and cloth
ing for the whole family. and at the
end OF the year Ne usually had from
three TO five hundred dollars saved
from sales Of butter. eggs. and milk.
and garden products 1 always lad
five hundred to a thousand dollars
worth Of hogs 20 sell when the mar
kst vas right. and a carload Of fat
steers TO ship when things looksl
good. During the last ten years. I
have never failed to sell at leas.
SOC bushels OF corn after holding
back enough 10 fatten ny hogs and
steers on and 10 feed ny horses or
course I have no; done all this on
the original quarter ssetion OF land.
for bought tro more quarters sooa
after ! commenced TO diversity and
rotate my crops, and now own three
sections Of land that I have refuseI
a hundred dollars per acre for. The
value Of the land. OF course. has not
all been earned by farming. Tor
some Of this hundred dollar land
bought as lev as % dollars an
acre and the highest price l paid
Wos IS dollars an acre.
II your farmers In Bryan county
viii keep a few hogs and mileh
cows. and chickens; raise Kafir. fet-
eritz. cane. miIlet. corn. oats. rye.
and kindred crops. and cut their I
cotton acreage down. OF clear out Of
they are fixed so they can. they
will find themselves to the good IN
stead Of the bad. In few years. II /
they apply thorough methods in their
work, and careful selection OF seed /
A farmer with nothing but his team
and few tools who Is compelled 10
borrow money from the bank az a |