The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-06-18
COUNTY AGENT
COOPER REPORTS

TUESDAY, June ~ vent out Hoi "a
and visited Mashall Johnson, his corn,
wheat and oats look good. Then to
see j. c. Goods bermuda grass hay,
which looks good and is giving him
lots of good pasture; also visited Fred
Abercrombe, who, has demonstration
Of peanuts and Sudan grass, which
looked very good. Wheat also looks
good The second cutting of alfalfa OF
alfalfa OF j. c. Good on this place II
ready to cut Monday and Mr.. Good and |
Marshall Johnson are going to COM
mence cutting wheat Monday. In Of
flee three hours; three farmers in Of
flee Then Mr. Cook, member of the
commercial board and / made trip
west of town to see the wheat. Visit
ed VIM. Bryant, who was cutting wheat
with two binders: also Mr.. Horn, who
was cutting wheat with Two binders.
Wheat is very good in this section,
with the exception of few fields that
the army worm bothered some. Sam
Heifner's demonstration of corn looks
very good, being thoroughly plowed
| and clean of weeds. Robert Lyle's
corn looks very good. Also M. N.
Driskell's demonstration of corn Is
growing very nicely. his wheat, which
also looks very fine, is standing up
straight. This shows that the wheat
was pastured late this spring. The
standing is much better than the
wheat that was not pastured.
Wednesday, June 8: In conference
wit F. f. Ferguson until 2:30 p. m. We
made trip to the country to VIM
Smiths to see his wheat and oats and
talk over the fair proposition. Wheat,
oats and corn look fine in this dis
trict Covered ten miles. Wrote six
letters, then went to w. Fl. Hopkins
farm, who has demonstration OF corn.
Also visited his two boys, Robert 5.
Hopkins and Charles White. who ara
corn club members. The corn looks
good except one plat which was wash
ed quite bit and he lost a lot of corn.
Travelled four miles.
Thursday, June 10: Went to the
country this morning west Of town
and then to the Verden district. Wis
tied Robert Lyle. who has 1000 hogs
at this time, Then to M. M. Driskell's,
who has demonstration of 1870 acres,
which looks fine, also bis two sons.
who are corn club members. The corn
looked good. Then to Green Taylor,
who has demonstration of alfalfa and
onions. Then to Mr.. Meek who was
plowing corn and whose wheat, corn
and oats look fine His daughter, Miss
Inez, is. member in the better bread
club and is getting along nicely with
the work. Then to Milton Campbells,
who has a demonstration of 80 acres
of corn and who was plowing corn
with five mule team cultivators; corn
looking good. His father, G. B. Camp
bell of Minco, is member of the state
board OF agriculture, and owns this
farm, and also the farm on which w
G. Garrett lives, and also owns lots of
other good land in this country. Also
visited Mr.. Garrett. who has demon
stration of so acres of corn all alter
nate rows with cowpeas; corn looking
very fine and Just planted the peas
Travelled 2S miles today.
Friday, June II: Call to J. d. Chas-
tain's place this morning about Z
o'clock to see if his wheat was ripe
enough to cut Also received call over
phone at O'Clock this morning to
come to see p E. Standige to see
some hogs that we're sick. Visited the
following farmers on the way to Stan
y diges. Mr. Forbes, who was cutting
rye also Henry Gickler, who has a
very fine field of wheat Then stop
ped at Cid Friends, who has goou
wheat and corn Then to D. D. Folir
mer, who has a nice bunch of hogs
and very fine field of corn. Also visit
ed his son Charles, who is a member
of the corn club; his corn is looking
good and perfectly clean. Charlie has
brother Elmer who also has an acre
of corn, but is only nine years old; his
corn is very good and just as clean
at Charles. That shows that the lit
tie folks are interested in this work.
He says he wants to be club membe-
next year Charlie is also pig CLUB
member and has a good pig to start
with Then to s. w. Heany and son,
who are baling alfalfa hay with a
gasoline hay press. They also have
demonstration corn. kafir corn and
Sudan grass. Then to d. c. Worches-
ter, who directed us to Mr.. Standig's
place. found that Mr.. Standig's hogs
had been sick for almost two months
d and had lost 2S'or 80 and one had just
"a died thiq morning After QxQminins