The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-10-22
CUT COTTON
ACREAGE AND
GROW PEANUTS
CAETES COUNTY FE7yE7 -Es
-LsT Returned FRoy TEXAS.
WERE -E s." so1E REMARK
ABLE RESULTS.

ABLE RESULTS
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N-- Wz-rs- las already .eg-1 a. act
i've campaign 70 r=- t,e farmers C
agree 20 reduce ---.r c1-;1- zc-sz q
ard p-z-t pes---s instead z------
yes- He -s meeting v.-1 a pretty
SIG argument win -1= presa1. p--c-
% cotton 5-; Sill. believes -lz. be
r-l s-ccee1 IL getting the farmers
20 plant more PEANUTS another year
I1 speaking o. the matter IL a. i--
ts-v.sT yesterday morning N-. Wa
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Cotton a. Is cents per pound and
cotton seed a. upEzrts O. 50 per
ton looks awful biz-is big and
an afraid g. Eill tend 10 turn The
heads Of many Carter county farmers
another season; bat zhen the festive
boil veeTil gets through vi-1 The 1eIt
yezrs crops. there wont be much let,
10 sell q; any price. The farmer who
Is aise vill remember this next spring
before he plants h.s crop. FOR the boil
veevils are here BY the millions, and
unless be plants sons other crop 20
Offset the losses from he -epreda-.o1s
u The .eeyil. this country vilI De in
the same condition tla, the B-szos
valley country AID a. the country
south o, there In Texas was a few
years ago-Cl the verge o. starvation. /
BI; those people down there have
gone through the mile and recovered. /
and without the cost 0f a penny by
only a little wise discretion. EEDerl-
auces that cost that county thousands
Jt dollars are now free 20 us and the
wonderful change was brought about
By the humble little Spanish peanut
I recently made a TIP through the
country two hundred miles southwest |
ot Fort Worth 20 the towns o. STE
pheusyllle. Dublin. Consuche. and De
Leon. which are in the heart and cen !
.e- O. the peanut belt .. Texas. Wha. |
saw amazed and astounded me. !
saw thousands upon thousands 0. /
bushels Of Spanish peanuts In ware |
houses i1 these different towns. and /
thousands of acres o. growing pea |
nuts and farmers ploT.1g up the /
vines, th-asAers running like in the I
wheat bel, o. Kansas. all over that /
country Wagons lined up on the /
streets By the hundreds. all loaded 70 |
the top with large sacks o' Spanish /
peanuts with buyers on the streets
ss thick az the cotton buyers in Ard /
u0-e-0- more so. all armed with
.ta-p.p1i1'ai sampl.-r -.- sp0u.
such as The grain buyers use in a
grain raising section. ! saw cotton
.eed oil mills that have 10, crushed
. cotton seed 70 two years. Just as
busy crushing peanuts and making oil
md feed s,ufs. as our oil mills are
lera with cotton seed The farmers
.re prosperous and all have plenty o.
money, as the peanuts were selling
u from 1jc 20 81 per bushe,. and the
rop was making from $40 20 $50 PEI
ere. ! talked 70 numerous farmers
.l0 had gone broke or cotton. who
aid they would never 20 back %
ot-01, as the peanut is much easier
o raise and market. brings more mon
y on an average. and they do not
ave 20 work their wives and children
D the year in the fields as with cot.
1n. The peanut In that country has
lsO revo'u'i0nized the Nog business
prominent merchant and shipper Of
BE- Leon, who says he has been in
g-.uess '0r fifteen years. states that
here was never a car loaded with
ogs shipped out OF tha. town up
nti four years ago and that there
ave been big shipments every year
.nce and over one hundred cars have
cen shipped from that po.n, alone al
lady this season. Prominent growers
nd merchants OF that section esti- @
.ate that there viii ae three thou
and carloads OF peanuts shipped with
j radius OF forty miles and s,ill
ave plenty for seed and feed for :
lousauds o. hogs and other live stock.
Then properly cured the hay IS equal
, the finest alfalfa and is selling p
1ad.ly at $3.50 per ton i- that sec
on. Il IS estimated tv farmers
lere that the hay when properly !
,yed Win pay practically an the e1 :
snse OF the making and harvesting
the peanut crop. But with all this /
favor GF tho humble r4Hrrf+ 7 mould II