The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-08-19
CONDUCT FARM
WITHOUT LIVESTOCK
MOTOR POWER FURNISHES NECES-
SARX DRAFT Ar WALNUT
VALLEY FARM

Conducting a farm without using a
single work horse or mule, doing the
work of many horses and men with
only one little machine and several az
taohments and trying 60 demonstrate
10 the farmers OF Carter county that
it Ia not necessary to have large hold'
ings OF land in order 20 use economically
the best. most modern machinery FOR
farm work. h the task undertaken by
suggs 4 Reid owners of the Walnut
Valley farm, little more than two
miles west OF Arimore,
Motor power. instead " natural horse
power Is the keynote OF the Walnut
Valley farm, It's owners drive 20 and
nom their homes here In Arlmore 70
their farm IN automobiles, Zach has
one. a Clow,Elkhart and Chevrolet
Arriving az their farm they step
cut of one motor vehicle into an
other. far more Interesting and useful
than the pleasure machines AN imnle'
ment which plows, harrows, plants, cul
ti,ates ana harvests nearly any Kind OF
a crop lt is Moline universal tractor
After receiving permission trom Jake
L. namon, president W the Ringing
railroad % use It's rightofway FOR
planting. E, 7, Reid ioekeyed the tractor
with It's blk disc pillow attachment up
and down the rightof'way Tor more than
two hours. as a result OF which the
partners have an additional acre of
land 90 plant In wheat, sorghum, or
any other suitable forage crop,
Although the right'ofway is almost
entirely solid sod, little difficulty was
experienced IN plowing It as easily as
Il IL had been In cultivation for years.
Diversified and intensified farming
also arr hy,wor,ls on tbs new scientific
farming establishment and almost every
crap suitable for food ana feed Tor men
and animals VIII be grown Potatoes,
onions heets and turnips win he among
the principal crops, while large part
of the land win be planted 20 wheat and
corn.
There also is ample room on the place
Tor stockraisins and q, is purpoScd 20
place hrge herd of goats in pasture
there az once. \ large hog pasture also
has been lenced on. and although there
arc only a few swine on the place now,
the herd win be augmented from time
70 time, until il reaches really ereditable
proportions
I'VE are not farm experts" Colonel
sidney Suggs said ~Rut We DO realize
the value ~ applying every possible
Improvement to the conduct OF farm
work lust as in any other business,
and We are going 70 try 70 demonstrate
the value of using motor power, instead
OF natural horsepower on the farm.
Whether a farm is twenty OF twenty
thousand acres. the use of motor power
in its cultivation is desirable. because
such machines can be kept In use prac-
tically an the time And one OF the
best parts of their work is that they
don't cat their heads or while they arc
not busy
In orier 60 demonstrate the ac, that
a man should take carc ~ anything
which Is worth buying the partners
have built a Argc. modern she'd 20
shelter their tractor II Is on the
hcallton road az the entrance % the
tarrn ana when completed Wiu have a
so,i3 concrctc floor. with rubherod root
ms ana other improvements % make
u weatherproot A small offcc also
Nin be built
The Walnut Valley farm. alyhough
,ontaning only loS acrcs.. Is one of the
'rctticS, picces ~ farm property in iht
,ounty Almost every Kind ~ sou 90 l,c
round anywherc In the county car bc
,0uud on the nrn. lrom the lighJ sanly
oam ~ the hul,cpS o. the rich black
snt ~ the crcek bottorn
A small crcck supplied with water
,r,m a ois spr.ng runs 1Agonal.y
,hrough the property, and wv natural
,ish ponas Win De stocked with game
sish iu thc neav oaturc Morc than l1V
ouc peean tvrcs ana forty walnut tvcts
In the crcck bottom are amorg ttt
larms other ASSETS
Ca,onel Suggs toyueriy was publisher
of The Ar,lu,or.te. and Mr. Re3 was
cnployVl n the ucchArscal department
We have heen prcachins Sc.tnt1ic
fsrmns tor wars" Colonsl Susgs Ssil
'Sn3 uD,cSs Ne u,skc sys>3 a, the Work
yvv have uDjcytsken. Ne niiO eNpcc; Co
b. run cUt 90 the oounty."