The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-02-23
TIMELY SUGGESTIONS TO FARMERS


every boy or girl does that but they should all do
Il and that is why say We us fathers aud mothers
should take these contests seriously They can do
for the real farm hoy than his rural school
hHs ever done toward directing his mind into the
business ~ farming. II Is the purpose OF the eN-
tension department n the college to serve each and
every boy or girl whose name they receive, but
those Ia charge of the work are going to demand
serylre In return 1herr no requirements In
any Of the contests that an not he fulfilled by amy
farm boy or girl who menns business. They want
live uu'A, and II yuu could have looked into thetaces
Of the m0re tEHn uuv hundred boys nnd girls who
lad woI. II fiye trip TO the short course ut still
watec IN january, you would agree with me that
the state IL getting value received for the money
spent In thS work. But do not think thnt the
good ~ the cOutcsts comes only to the winners.
ll,u known boys who never won a premium ana
who DliaOst lost their crop, who got valuable
lessons Just tho same Just to get the farm boy
or gir started thinking that there IL really some
thing Orth while the firm and put them to read
iug and studying-thnt IL the real good to come
from tie organized work. The boy or girl In one
Of these contest will begin To read farm paper
eatrr In life and will read It with greater un-
Outstanding than they otherwise would. The re-
suits uf entering " these contests, Is thht the
energy and thought Of the CHILD Is directed along
II channel into which II does not usually go until
driven by necessity The boys and girls club work
IL renlly the starter and vitalzer for agriculture
In schools Let's help 1t to make good
tDGING b1 SlANDNhD'
II a furmer has been living on Il good farm Tor
a long time and making fair yields and getting good
prices for his products most OF the time, what
would we think Of him II something turned up 10
cut the Income from his farm In hnlt, ana II
developed that during all Of this time he had not
saved up enough had sufficient credit to carry
him and his business to another cropI Now,
honestly what would u half dozen farmers ON
cold day sitting round the stove at grocery store,
say about one OF their nelghbOrs who allowed
r0aIya btYng aph NJ
them would yawn as he reached down into his
pocket for new chew Of tobacco, and say well,
that IL rather hard luck but he's got nobody to
blame but himself A man who has been working
AS good a farm he has all this time and got moth.
ing saved up needs to be- taught lesson or
course each one OF them would hustle round to do
whatever he could for him but that IL what they
would say and just how they would feel about 1t.
Now the question arises can we Judge a section Of
the country by the same standard that these farm
ers would Judge their neighbour without stopping
tO unrnvel the finer points Onthe pro con side
~ a situation Ike that II IL evident from the
editorial comment In northern. farm papers, that
they are interested Just enQngh to say that the cot
ton farmer has no one to blame but himself
OUT OF COTTON INTO HOGS
But the plight OF the cotton farmer has fur,
nshed text for the preaching Of a wonderful lot
Of good sermons diversified farming We have
felt the truth Of all OF them. The man for whom
they were intended must have felt them too. In
most instances he had felt them sometime before
he saw them In print. We found these conclusions
coming from farmers before we saw them In the
paper They seemed like echoes to farmer on
the farm. To me the whole thing has seemed more
ike Il great misfortune than II has a particular
fault OF anyone. Being OF the bunch to whom
the whole thing well known, It seemed II We
had much TO say II would be more like betraying
trust than rendering u service. For some reason
we have felt that the experience would teach It's
own lesson and for most OF us would be cheap
schooling for the future. The permanent good will
come to the country through the farmer who sees
his mistake and sets about In a deliberate aud In
tegent way to change his system OF farming for
greater safety In the future. But the farmer In
distress who permits himself TO be scared entirely
away from the only business he knows anything
about is liable TO find himself I'm n worse fix at
the end OF another year than he was at the end OF
the one just past Cotton Ia not the only crop on
the farm that man can or has lost money on. EI
tremes In the production Of other crops can be
reached In about AZ short a time as with cotton
There are very few farm products which have not
at one time or another had all the profit driven
out Of them by OverprOduction Hogs are now I'm
fair way to be the next to bit the bottom with
hogs at less than seven cents on the general mar
Ee and fifty TO seventy five cent margin for shin
ping and corn all the cotton country at seyenty
five 10 eighty cents per bushel II WIN take expert
handling to get your money back for the feed con.
Sumed Yet In the face Of this fact there IL being
put on all over the cotton belt one Of the greatest
hOg raising campaigns the country saw There
Is hut one result The bottom will 40 out OF the hog
business cotton will 20 up again and In few years
You VIII find the cotton farmer right back where
lie was before all this happened. Why not have
TINS make the farm feed the family" campaign
getlng II possible, some hogs every farm enough
lor meat ana some TO spare then accompany them
WIN the other necessary life preseryers" and YOU
VIII help us TO learn the lesson we so much need
10 Know All farms are not suited to hogs as A
business yet II IL safe to say that hogs should
ne on every farm. The average booster neither
knows nor makes any distinction II Ia ND 10 each
FARMER To know his own business IL IL not the
duty OF the farm paper TO head these enthusiastic
ana Well meaning campaigns II Ia rather its busl.
ness 10 hep In directing the real work OF making
goou on proposition as II is being put into prac.
lice 80 II you tackle the job we are here 10 helm
you all we can.
REAL Diversified FARMING
Ihe complaint that n farmer with n nnmhar ~
crops may get them tangled up with one anothar
hhu Oe compelled TO neglect one or more OF them
undoubtedly may be true, but this fact IL not exactly
mn argument against diversified farming n is
rather strong case against the ability Of the man
as farm manager. He Is simply short on organI
hauon' IL IN very important part Of diversified
s ihrm'ns 10 WoIA OUT the combination Of crops and
livestock which may be carried with tho iosvt
amount Of interference and overlapplng Raoi "A,
yersified farming, instead Of getting man Shallod
mp with half dozen Jobs for one ,lay and A sIi,,
chance for help, should make fair sized iob for
every day In the year and email him 10 emnov bIs
help II he needs any, by the year Instead OF by tbe
day Solving the problem In this way IL To eyepb,
ally make well organized business InstltutIon o,,,
~ the farm No fixed combination of crons md
livestock can he set up to m each farm in nny sec
tion Of the country. But with the purpose In mind
10 find the combination suited IN vnur forr, ,ha,