The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-12-14
CONFER ON
CO NJ M @ N
INTERESTS
"a.
So. Bankers and Planters Meet a
New Orleans to Work Out
Plans for Co. 0per-
alton
DlVERSIFICATION
OF CROPS URGED
Il
Encourage Raising Of Livestock and
Poultry; Gradual Marketing is
Stressed; President Pop
ular There

from New Orleans where, as president
of the Oklahoma Bankers association
he. attended the meeting of the South
ern Bankers and Cotton Growers asso
citation which met in the "Cresceni
City," December CT, with over one
hundred and fifty representative bank
ers and planters from nine cotton pro
ducing states in attendance.
Representative were present from
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Louis
lana, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi
South Carolina and Tennessee.
Among the distinguished and nation.
wide known guests who were present
and took an active part in the meeting
were w. P. G. Harding and Mr.. De
lano of the federal reserve board, and
Mr. Knapp of the federal agricultural
department.
The prime object of the meeting,
Mr. Dwyer stated, was to formulate
plans and devise means whereby a
mutual working interest might be eff
fected between the business men of
the country and the country's produc-
ers. 1t was the intention of the meet
ing, also, Mr.. Dwyer stated, to reach
an understanding whereby the agricul-
tural interests of the country might
be advanced, and whereby the man
who farmed the soil might be en-
abled to receive at all times the finan-
cial support necessary to his success.
Mr.. Knapp said that one of the first
elements of success in any agricul-
tural community hinged on the local
banker taking the farmer into his con-
fidence and to show the farmer that
it was his desire to work with him in
his efforts to acquire a competency
and lay aside sum of every year on
the profit side of his ledger.
Mr.. Knapp urged upon the bankers
and the planters assembled the neces-
sity of a general crop diversification
and crop rotation from year to year.
The ensuing general discussion, in
which different delegates took part,
showed, Mr.. Dwyer stated, that the
consensus of opinion was that the
shortest road to agricultural prosper
ity lay through diyersification of
crops. This did not mean an entire
change Of the crops planted each year
or an entire change from the crops
with which the farmer had a lifelong
acquaintance to crops of which he had
only theoretical knowledge. 1t does
mean, however, that the farmer should
exert his energies and direct his eff.
forts in the most systematic manner
possible toward making a living, and
little more, off his farm; that he
should be in a position, after making
a living for himself and family from
the soil, to have a surplus every year
to throw upon the markets for the
ultimate benefits of his family.
Another thing brought forth in the
general discussion by the banker and
the cotton producer delegates to the
convention, Mr.. Dwyer said, was that
first of all the farmer should be en-
couraged to raise live stock and poul-
try. No farm should be considered
completely stocked unless it had forty
or more hens, not less than two regis
tered sows and couple of well bred
COWS, all of which should be carefully
looked after.
mo farmer should put all his eggs
into one basket" Mr.. Dwyer said,
seemed also to be leading part of
the gist of the talks made by the sew
eral delegates. By putting all the
eggs in one basket was meant that no
farmer should feel himself justified in
planting his entire available lands,
and devoting all of his time to the
cultivation of any one crop. King
Cotton, the different speakers said, no
longer ruled supreme in Texas
neither did King Corn rule supreme
in Arkansas. Each had now becoma