The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-04-26
ALL GROWN IN
OKLAHOMA EATS
FOR EDITORS
STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION WILL
BE BANQUETED AT STILL
WATER ON STRICTLY OKLA
HOmA PRODUCTS.

Saltwater, Okla, April 2i.-Okla-
homa farm products are TO have their
inning at a dinner to be served mem
bers of the Oklahoma Press associa
ton when they visit A. q NJ. College
May 8. The editors are TO come to
Saltwater by special train following
ne, May and s, and the chief fea-
ture of entertainment at the college
town will be a -in-Oklahoma
dinner
From soup TO cigars, every item
on the elaborate menu is to be Ok
lahoma product Even the table salt
is TO come from this state. The din
ner committee is now securing Payne
county for spring broilers of proper
size and fitness and a scientifically
bred and scientifically fed steer, a
baby beef from the college herds, is
placidly awaiting the time when he
is to be slaughtered for the glory OF
Oklahoma beef.
From many sections of the state
the articles for this menu are being
gathered Ardmore has promised
strawberries; Duncan, famed as a
peanut center, is furnishing that pro-
duet; a big milling company at Ell
Reno is sending specially prepared
flour for hot rolls, and a local mill
is grinding feterita meal for the
Oklahoma brown bread. All avail
able space in the college greenhouse,
not taken up by experimental work,
is being employed to force garden
truck. The abnormally late spring
this year makes it difficult to obtain
much of the stuff ordinarily matured
outdoors by May 3.
Even the Mattresses at this dinner
are TO be Oklahoma product. Thirty
pretty girls from the domestic science
classes of the college have volun-
teered to serve the dinner. The col
lege dining hall. where meals are reg.
ularly served to students at u 1-2c
meal, is TO be used for the dinner.
This is to be the first attempt ever
do ~ IN IN or
of strictly Oklahoma grown products.
The idea has quickly gained friends
come endorsements of the movement.
The A. & VI. College seeks to show
by this dinner that it is possible to
eat grown in Oklahoma" foods just
the same as it is to use made in
Oklahoma" goods. The added pros
perity to the state that would follow
the adoption of this movement by
Oklahoma hotels and restaurants is
easy to see Oklahoma folks in many
towns of the state will be eating
Texas-grown garden products at the
same time the editors are dining on
Oklahoma products at saltwater.
Some of the items on the menu will
be new to many of the visitors as
food products, for instance there is
Oklahoma brown bread made from
feterita meal and containing a lib
eral quantity of cottonseed meal.
For years chemists at Oklahoma A
& NJ. College have been proceeding
on the theory that the grain sor
ghums and cottonseed are valuable
for the dinner table as well as the
feed lot, and these facts are now
becoming generally recognized. Pea
nuts, usually eaten only as purchased
from the street corner roasters, will
be served at this dinner as a regular
item OF food.
The dairy products served at this
dinner will come from the A. & NJ.
College creamery. College made but
ter has been shipped by parcels post
all over the United States, and col
lege made cheese are widely popular