The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-04-17
Dame NATURE DECKING
The BILL BOARDS WITH
BUMPER CROP POSTERS
Prospects Never Finer for Banner Year
on the Farm Abundance of Fruit
Expected Wheat, Corn and
Cotton Coming "Sure
Feed Crops Planted

No advance agent who ever Travelled
"ahead" OF. a show and emblazoned
bill boards and fences with promises
of what the big production would be,
scared to dizzier heights in forecasting
events than has Dame Nature in bill
ing the prospective harvest that is to
be Grady county's in the next few
months to come. Unless future events
prove that the madam referred to
deals woefully in fiction, the people
Of Grady county will see the greatest
year, agriculturally, since the broad
acres that now go to make up comfort
able farms were naught but barren
prairie
1t seems that that Prosperity train
that has been chalked up late and
later for the past few years, is all
but whistling into the yards. Every
one knows that the weather man is
tickle scamp and that he sometimes
turns on the hot blast from furnace.
presumably located somewhere around
Ringgold, Tex, when, according to all
rules of common sense he should tin
the sprinkling can, but there are GER
tain facts that one simply cannot side.
step, pointing Enthusiastically to ban
ner year for Grady county, and in fact
for Oklahoma.
Fruit Prospects Bright.
At this time there were never better
promises for fruit crop that looks
like record breaker The dearth of
peaches last year, caused by certain
antics of one ]. Frost, at most criti-
cal time, has caused people to keep
an eye on the peach, apple and pear
blossoms that in the past week have
burst forth in such countless mum.
bers. Sure there was q wee mite of
frost at few days after the first buds
began TO become in evidence. At that
time, the general chorus of "Frost'll
Get the Peach Crop, Peach Crop,
Peach Crop, was heard in the land,
sung loudly by the Il told you SOS,
but they were doomed to disappoint-
ment, for the buds simply refused to
be killed and within few days were
no longer buds, but great big pink and
white blossoms that made the whole
country smell like Fifth avenue per-
fumery shop.
Those who are most interested and
who have examined the trees state
that unless a killing frost visits the
land at an early date, Grady county
will raise more fruit than the people
win know what to do with.
Farmers Are joyful
Those fellows you see on the street
that look like a man who had just
mailed money to himself, a grin that
threatens to crack their face from ear
to ear, are farmers. They have never
started a season under such promis-
ing circumstances. with so much
moisture in the ground, with a wheat
crop growing into ready money every
day and with general conditions so
much in their favor Considering this.
they have a right to look simply
ticlkled to death.
Those you see sizing up new au-
tomobile or a carriage are wheat
growers. There are more of them
than last year and they have now
growing great many more acres
than ever before 1t is conservatively
estimated that the acreage in Grady
county this year. hits or passes the
100000 mark. The recent trains, though
hard and Of wondrous quantity wash
ed practically no wheat out. only serv-
ing to start it with a lot OF added pep
on the next lap OF its growth.
A foot high or more, it is as healthy
looking as the prize winner at bet
ter babies" contest. Every day adds
to its growth and every day, an imag.
NATIVE mind might hear little more
distinctly the dropping Of the shining