Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-01-28

1 please. Ihat is the only way ]
farmer can make anything out Of
cotton.
II am afraid that more cotton will
he planted in our county this year.
Whenever cotton goes to ~ cents IL
Is safe to figure that a large crop
will be planted che next year. ] am
Of the opinion that II will be mis-
take to plant more cotton this year,
great mlstake-but one Texas and
the South have been making for
twenty years.
II believe this, however, That ev-
en- II more cotton is planted, the far
mers in this section will at the same
time continue to live at home in a
large measure, and will not be de-
pendent on cotton, as in former
years they have been"
He owns 500 acres, $50 being tim
ber and 250 in cultivation and pas
turage. The odds and ends" in
cotton make total of about 40
acres There are forty acres in
Bermuda, ten Of sweet potatoes. fif-
ty Of corn and peas, twenty of pea
nuts, five Of tomatoes, two Of straw
berries, four OF blackberries, forty
in peaches and apples. two of pIums,
two to five acres of Irish potatoes,
and several acres each of ribbon cane
and sorghum and truck.
Horses and Cattle.
He plants three vegetable gardens
each year. for spring. midsummer,
and late season production, turning
cattle into each patch in turn, and
feeding them, thereby fertilIzlng the
land. Il have to put up feed for the
cattle somewhere" said the Colonel.
"and bis plan is economical and at
the same time improves my land. "
There are fifty to hundred of hogs
on the farm and forty head OF cattle,
both dairy and beef. AS has been
said, Colonel Camp uses over ten
miles of hog-proof fence in appor-
tioning the various divisions of his
land into which he turns different
lunches Of hogs from time to time.
He also has sixty head of goats and
has found them very effective in
clearing underbrush and enriching
the land. He did not sell his pea
nuts this year, the local price of 62
cents not being satisfactory to him.
He fed good many and is holding a
quantity. Recently in shipping a
carload of hogs to market the pack
ers made deductions for hogs fatten-
ed on peanuts, and the Colonel says
this is causing some people to shy
from enlarging their peanut acreage.
He sold $400 worth of turnips from
five acres last summer, after maxi
ing big crop of sweet potatoes from
that land and then turning the goats
on it. He raised several varieties of
peas in the orchard. planting them
between the fruit trees. He ships
fruits and vegetables to number of
towns away from home. as well as
much to the local market, and puts
what is let in his home cannery.
What is being done on this farm
demonstrates the possibilities of di-
versification on any farm. either in
Texas or Oklahoma. 1t is the will
and determination to do these things
just as Colonel Camp has done that
count for more than enything else.
While with the renter, diversified
tion may not come so much as a
welcome measure for conservation,
for the reason that he is so often
hampered by orders from the man
who owns the land; yet, to the aver
age farmer who owns his farm, and
the renter who has little ahead and
is unrestricted, or unhampered by a
mortgage which necessitates the
planting Of cotton security, diversifi-
cation to an extent he has hardly
dared to contemplate will prove a
habit that will bring many comfort
ing thoughts and feeling of home
security. II one has enough to eat
and his stock provided for, with a
fund for clothing necessities, for ev-
en- one winter. he can afford to hold
those products which are always in
demand on the market, when he is
convinced that the current price is
too low.
It's a mighty nice thing to have
the cellar and smoke house filled and
a plenty in the barns for the stock.
49, 400 BALES GINNED IN COUNTY