The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-12-05


nVe, and will figure by the market
price OF ten cents a pound. to be
worth 60 cents in town" Sweet
corn, which the same early autumn
sunday will be selling for thirty
cents an ear in Tulsa (if you can get
IL at alD will be culled by Joe. the
COOK, from the late corn patch on the
sunny side Of a nearby slope: egg
plant, large but tender; branded
peaches and plum jelly; okra of sur
passing. quality; mealy mashed pota-
toes; watermelon if you want it, and
mnk. tnat would be sold for double
cream IN Oklahoma City.
Just before the silent footed Ian
prlngss forward a perfect apple pie
(nls pantry stocked from the farm has
supplied the -four and the lard as. well
as The apples.) Col. Joe may give the
near-empty tureens an "up and down"
and remark quite casually that he can
see npthing excepting the sugar (and
aSlere is precious little of that because
they're living up to food obligations
out on the 101). was grown" on the.
ranch.
But IT'S war time and one must no
finger too long over the festive board
lest his appetite bertay his patrioti.
ism and besides Col. Joe has probably
put out the information that in the
hall is the stuffed head of the buffalo
which IS rampant one side of the buf-
Ialo n1ck1e, coin of the realm of the
y. >: "A. and plaster cast of the
bust of Old Iron Tail-the Piute In
dian whose head adorns the other
side OF the bison jitney. The 1O1I
Ranch furnished the models for both
buffalo and Indian-and both buffalo
and Indian have now passed to that
happy hunting ground from which mo
traveller" ETC., etc.
The Ranch Store.
Within a stones throw. of the
ranch house in the little store where
accounts amounting OF over $4,000 a !
month are carried Carried a long
time. some of them. says the senior
member who doesn't mind) and here
you NAV get a sip of cider from the1
press. fed from 160-acre orchard on
a nearby hill-the largest apple or
chard in Oklahoma, One step further |
leads You to the handsome new struc- !
ture which is building to- serve the |
ranch as storeroom, soda fountain /
dance hail, picture house, as a meet !
ing room for religious and fraternal |
organizations, and to accommodate |
as handsome a suite of business of
aces as are to be found in Oklahoma. |
black walnut wainscoting, head high, !!
the wood for which was cut from the !
ranch eight years ago to be seasoned |
ever since.
= aass'4ass across the road fremzth farm
lives the ostriches.. Mr.. and Mes
DANES; for, we. regret to state, the
ostrich on the 101 Ranch rs Nor
mon, and Col. ice thinks that due to |
the eXigeEcies of warning period
and the great need of populat ton, this !
phenomenon has been brought about, [
for the ostrich as a rule is very par
ticnlarly mOnOgomus. They have six
children-the three of them, and these
youngsters are the first ostrich babies
to be born and reared in the state Of
Oklahoma. You see it takes AZ days
to incubate an ostrich egg and as the
ostrich mother is given to leaving her
nests in a frivolous fashion, the eggs
generally become chilled in this
changeab1e climate and do not hatch.
Col Joe tried them in the incuba-
tor but the experiment was a failure,
and one egg which he placed under
a goose Matched an ostrich baby.
which so started the mother goose
that she dropped dead, and the baby
nerished for lack of care and atten-
tion. Therefore, the ranch is particu-
lerlv proud of these six health
Youngsters, born of a droughty Okla
hCma summer.
= Close to the ostrich farm and pok-
ing their white faces over the fence,
are 800 selected Hereford calves, Sc
!ected even though they are feeders.
because the Millers like form and
symmetry all about them everywhere.
These calves are grazing on the win
rxTh0 fI1l n fc
growth this fall than ever before, and
they will be ready for market two
years from now at a handsome profit
to their feeders.
When the wheat, which the cattle
are now cropping, is cut in the early
summer next year, big tractors imme-
diately turn the soil and it is then
sowed to corn, kafir and forage crops
which will be used to fill the eleven
big si1os of 600 tons capacity each,
which furnish the winter feed. No
crop, excepting the wheat is sold
from the Miller ranch except on the
hoof This year 700 Oacre wheat
crop was harvested, and each acre
averaged 18 bushels of wheat. You
may call this intensive crop raising
mining the soi1," but Col. Joe has Is
manure spreaders which replenish the
soil as the crops extract it's vital ele-
nents.
High-powered cars carry the gener-
a7issimO of the ranch to the farth-
est point of his $4,000 acres where
cowboys and cattle range supreme,
and he drives it across the pasture
with all the abandon Of a Yankeel
.apk driver going across No Mans
Land, merely remarking that ''timel
s the most precious thing in the
vorld-far more precious than auto
mobiles"
It's only a step, so to speak in the
,igh-powered car to the pasture of
he Dutch Belted cattle-pure breds
with scarcely a perceptible variation
IN their beautiful shiny black frocks
,Aitb n,ro white saSheS They have