Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1915-02-05

cotton dCFtatt may ut Ntuuttu tntIe
will be plenty OF land for feed and
food crops and for one or more cash
crops for fod and thus practice safe
farming this year. A large portion
OF the surplus garden. fruit and truck
crops may be canned and kept till
they are needed for the family table.
or perhaps you may can and sell
the products to the city people who
wish to buy.
Every fair day Is day to use in
preparing the land for spring plant
ing. The last .wo weeks have been
favorable for the work In the field.
the orchard, the garden, and on the
home grounds. Let us make the
proper use OF our opportunities to
get the land ready and plant under
the first favorable conditions. This
will be necessary IL we are making
a successful crop in 1915. a prosper
Gus year for the farm, the orchard,
and the garden.
IL is next TO impossible to have a
good garden without thorough prep
aration of the soil. Vegetables re-
quire a deep. mellow, frlable soil.
capable of retaining moisture and
giving up the plant food readily. The
early plants must grow readily and
at time when the conditions are
not the most favorable. And. unless
the soil is in the best possible con-
dition possible. failure is not at all
difficult.
Every boy in the country should
have a pig, calf. lamb. and colt
and should be permitted to raise live
stock. This is the way to increase
the income from the farm and at the
same time start the children into a
profitable employment. More ami
mails mean more food for the home,
as well as less cost in marketing the
crops.
Every pound of pork. every pound
of beef, and every pound of mutton,
every pound of butter and every doz-
en- eggs you produce on the farm this
year, whether you use these products
on your table or whether you sell
them for cash. will increase your in
come by saving in the marketing cost
and by conserving the fertility OF
your soil.
The first essentials in the peoples
feeding themselves is to raise plenty
of garden vegetables, the next an
abundance of fruit. then plenty o
hogs. COWS, sheep. etc. and trucl
patches to supply an abundance oi
everything that can be grown fol
home use.
Artichoke tops are fine for poultr'
They viii cat the green leaves il
summer and the artichokes fnel
chopped makes splendid groon FOO,
for them in winter keeping then
healthy and increasing the numbe
OF eggs
(From the Famer-stockman)
To the Editor: / think peanut
are Jar ahead oi co,.on VIII giy
you statement oil how planted, cu
ugatcd and harvested my crops am
also my gains.
Ihe ground was broken IN tho la'
before. listed TWO tuaoa = ,na agrln
and subaonea with nne-,o5Jn Ju4
ior plow. planted Ia tae uro.
and later used the section halro'
three times with 24-mch hc'
sweep. This Is an the cultivation
gave ,hem. / plowed them up wlt
24-lnch solid sweep, put in sma
cocks, let them stand ul cured Whie
was about ton days sno then put
the she'd i thseshed about 15
bushels oil nuts ana balea eight tor
OF hay
This crop was planted on ten acr,
OF the poorest ground In this neigl
borhocd. 1t had never grown &c
ton that would make a quarter Of
bale to the acre.-L. l.. Immel, At
ka. Oklahoma.
Plant a garden. Get the grour
ready now. Manure it and plow
deep before freezing weather. e.
the seed now. Save the seed 20
have or have the childrn do it. See
that will cot money in the sprir
can be secured now with but lit
effort. The production of the hon
supleis and the food ., oducts is Il
basis of all safe farming.-W.
Bentley.
Last year VIII Freeman, tena
on one OF the farms of A. w. Be
northwest of Lindsay, planted ty