The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-01-25
George Bishop In oklahoma Farm
Journal

botik' bANhbll III 'hlhl'hA@ ~ 81
journal
Well wc are good and ready tpr o.
rain and believe We are just about
az well fixed FOR the winter us vr
have ever been since We have been Iu
oklahoma All feed is threshod on
housed. Last week We threshud our
cowpeH seed with the small hand
threSher which We purchased several
years ago when We thought there
would be little extra money boo
growing cuwpeas for sale. We soon
Baw that there was mo- money iu poas
Tor sale. only one year did We sell
enough with price enough TO call II a
paying proposition The na1t year
We had TO feed quite lot TO the hogs
and the same the next year. and
from then on We have only grown
or rather gathered enough for out
Opn use
We picked thom before the hogs
were turned in and kept thom in the
barn loft until slack time IN the
fRll work Knowing what / do now
about the hand thresher and the
blAck-eye pea, would not buy any
machine tor threshiuE You have
thom TO put through tanning mil
10 grade and clean ana taken out the
split peas before they are ready foi
sale or planting can choose Il
windy day put them I'm wagon boI
and take a short handle Wtch fork
end scoop and thresh them about
a. fast and with fewer cracked
peas than l can with one Of IN,
small hullers In the barn lor M,
hulls are saved for feed dom
really know the feed value. but mule,
and cows eat them greediy
We use them 20 sprinkle the rot-
tonseed meal over for COW feed,
The peas are treated to klll m,
woevi AS soon ss threshcd. We find
1t good plan 10 have things ulk,
this prepared aud ready lu plant
when the hurry mp time comes boo th,
spring
The kaflr seed was uld solicited
and then rr-selcctcd and stored tn,
hcst heads. which is uu. the biggest
pile by whole lot aIr set aside fol
planting the patch whore We viii d,
our field selecting uoNt year kanl
heads that are anywhere near per
feet are hard u lind and they do not
reproduce TO the extent We would
Ike or had expected nu, there H
progress enough 'u believe that iI
viii pay to keep ou us We have
started
We handled our futprIu seed IN,
same way and us we stored n Ia IN,
racks tor safe ana dry keeping
The unlformy and quality OF heat
ana seed MS they appeared com.
pared with the bulk iu the bin gs,,
quite feeling or satisfaction tina
we had taken the time even I'm IA,
BUSY season. 'o do tl,s job Fotcru
has a. much greater per cent OF um
formIb Zoo good head formation than
kaflrvoln We get out no seed %
either hunr or rclrup for sale. J
Ia too hlg job unless man b
fixed TO mako 10 quite part NJ hi
business
We sold last season over a hun
dTsd bushels Ia our county to thos
who came tu the hin for the threshe,
katir People came who had rale
to gel stands from high priced Kali
seed They came saving that the
had heard that / had lunroorn ths
would come ny We took % From
the bin and graded it for q doIlnr
buBhel We gold ~ as feed kanI
each man buying oi nls own risk
mention this lo show thta kafi
pro-erly cared rr boz harvesting an
binning win mot be- nurr for gsrmin
alton
believing in the plan NJ "farmln
for living first" We began ON m
garden. There s barely euouE