The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-04-29
Ntw Board VIII Be Named Week from
Tuesday; Committee to Choose Thirty
Candidates; Factory Proposal
is Presented
PROSPECTS FOR CROPS
FINE, COOPER REPORTS
Alfalfa Cutting in Progress; Acreage Of
Wheat Greatly Reduced But Much
More Cotton Planted; Corn
Outlook Bright

A new board of directors q the
Grady County Commercial ahd Farm
bureau will be elected on Tuesday
My y. AT the meeting of the board
last night. President GiIkey was IN
stmeted TO name a nominating com
mattee, consisting Of three men Mfo
are not members Of the present dl'ec.
toraie. Thirty candidates for the fif-
teen places will be nominated ara
the llombers will designate their
choice for president vice president
and treasurer. The election VIII be
b. ballot the box being placed AZ the
bureau headquarters
Mr.. Davis. of Rush Springs, owner
OF the cola f,ress oil mill in this "i;y,
was r-esen. with Col 0,Neill ana
presented tentative proposal fjr es-
taldi plant for the manufac-
ture OF a new kind of gin machinery
witch he has recently patented lie
indicated that he desired site but
did not want any action taken ''il q
co amiiiee of citizens have witnessed
a test II his machinery which he Alll
make tttu al Rush Springs.
Members OF the board present 81
the meeting were w. H. Gilkey. Cnn
Ashton i. L. Wallace. J. A. Robin
sea. Joras COOK. J. w Kayser, W. II.
roaahuc. Vim. Inman. Ben Morgan,
EYsns aud Secretary Clark.
9. c. Cooper. agricultural agent
addressed the meeting and told OF me
crop conditions in this section.
Mr.. Cooper stated the first cutting
OF alfalfa had commenced. He said
that yesterday morning n. NJ. Driscoll
and c. b. Campbell had started Their
machines and that the crop promised
10 turn out a good yield 70 the first
cutting.
In speaking OF the conditions u
growing crops. other than alfalfa
Mr.. Cooper said that wheat was do
ing spIendidly. He said that The
hard winter, following on the late
seeding would show a material short
ening Of the acreage-that a grea
deal OF the crop had been frozen ou
and the land rebroken and planted L
other crops. Mr.. Cooper said tn
wheat acreage would fall short 0
last years BY about thirty-three am
one-third per cent Others presen
at the meeting thought the acreag
was SO per cent under last year
Mr.. Cooper stated that tha growin
corn was doing splencidly. He sal
that the continued cold and we
weather had necessitated the rt
planting of great deal Of the earl
planted corn. but that the replante
corn was coming Announcing. grea
many farmers, Mr. Cooper said, ha
not replanted and we're depending o
stand from the corn planted earle
and during the wet, cola and incien
ent weather. Those. the speak'
thought were making a serious mi
take. Taken all together, Mr.. Cool
or entertained the opinion that u
corn crop in Grady county for th
present year would be a normal on
so far as acreage was concerned
about 10000 acres. The crop at u
present time, Mr.. Cooper averre
was fully three weeks behind. He a
ticipates heavy yield, saying tn
the late planting will grow up al
distance the earlier planted und'
more adverse circumstances
The cotton acreage, Mr. Coop
said would show decided increa
over that Of 1915. In 1913, the spea
or said. there was scarcely l,6OO acr
of cotton planted in all OF era
county, while this year fully lV'O
acres would be planted to the gre
staple crop of the southwest Z
IN speaking along lnese lines \
Cooper urged greater diversiti'
,lon Of crops on the farms of era
county. He advised that every