The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-26
NOTABLE V[lha|
CLEVELAND C0UU
Year Shows Apprecid 8
Gain in Livestock r. 4
sources Of County. 4,
NORMAN IS CROWuOC
Hundred New Residence
and Large Additions TO
University in Year. ia

NORMAN Okla. Sept. U.--(9pe{|
cial The last twelve months kav1
been important ones in the develeo&
ment of Norman and Cleveland coua(>Z
rha, development can be seen equalI
IN city and country, in new rcsid6neo4|
on newly paved streets, and ~ pvs1
bred live stock that has replaced sese
stuff on farms, in improvements In ~
Oklahoma State Hospital. osdinasllA
called the asylum. and OH the campu4
Of the University Of Oklahoma N
The Improvement Of live stock II
one OF the most significant additieof
to the farm resources of Cleve1G
county More than three hundred o1C
fifty pure bred Holstcin hulls. eQW(
and heirrs have been shipped In fSot
Wisconsin. Illinois and Ohio. n. ~
Boglc, with a dairy and farm Just eaoI
Of Norman, has been the leader In thjq
movement lie now has q hundfo4
head OF fine Holsteins on his farN(l
More than dozen others have inp&
ported smaller numbers. The impsov3
ed dairy COW is rapidly replacing NJ
scrub sister with Cleveland counl
farmers
Supply Of Beef Cattle. n
Reef cattle have also been impruvo
hut chiefly through the bringing ln r
better males, declares James LaNraoe(i
county demonstration agent, 10 whoq(
belongs credit for much Of the ssetevs|
lent showing made by the county. IN
cattle supply has not been depleted 81
preeiably by the war prices Tor beoG
cattle. The poorer animals have beo~
sent to market, Abundance Of ioe(
made possible by thousands OF aeres d$
excellent late feed crops, has cauoof
farmers to hold hundreds Of head e(|
stock that otherwise would have beeC1
sold. X
The same cannot he said OF hog&
High prices and scarcity OF corn hav1
combined 10 produce heavy salea ifoV
many swine herds. But there Is pient3
OF breeding stuff left. 81
Horses Sent 10 War.
Cleveland county has sent not IN
than $50 or 400 head Of horses isf)
mules to the war markets, No injuetI
to necessary horse power has resulte4
Rather, the farmers have obtained oN
excellent price for surplus that M
already crippIing the horse breeding ~
duNry.
Beside, this, tractors are alseo1
taking their place on farms In this se6a
ton. Not less than a score ol thD
are already In use in Cleveland couatvl
Better farming methods Of ell Mo1l
are q part Of this same aRgresive sp1CV
that IL bringing IN tractors aMd bot(
bred livestock More silos have ~
constructed during the past year ~
in similar length Of time ever bef(s4j
The Moore Milk Sellers associAgD1
Is one OF tho' cooperative otGanixat IL
working 10 the financial interest OF ~
farmers The company does thoustQ4o
Of dollars worth Of business . yeAfi
selling milk and purchasing coal 6ed
other supplies for It's members.
Much Building at Norman.
The city Of Norman has seen llte
completion Of perhaps a hundred NV
homes during the psN year or iifteea'
months. The building movement NJ
not been 40 marked since war beona.
but a number Of \good bungalows Mvo|
been completed this summer, PgpbS
ably hundred were used for the hsto
time with the opening OF The university
year, last September.
Paving Of Norman streets has beso'
halted temporarily only by the ~
ability Of contractors to obtain ~
p!cs Companies have been lay)no
asphal, and brick paving almost coaY
tnuouslv for the past ten months. VI
The Masonic hall, a $4,000 bsIeA
structure, is one OF the semi -putil1
buildings completed during the ~
twelve months The Junior high schoe5
building put up on the unit plan, Was
one OF the frs, Of It's kind in Oklahousa.
The Pierson hotel three.stosy
frontipuad m pa0a "A colusvAn Az