The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-01-10
CROP PROSPECTS
BRIGHT FOR 1920
DECLARES OWENS
ditions Favor Bumper Yield from
Grady County Farms During
Coming Season.

one Ci the best crop years Grady
county ever saw, j. w. Ovens, coun-
ty agent, in a statement yesterday
afternoon predicted bumper crops for
1929 in Grady, pointing to present
| conditions as indications. He said
The prospects for a crop in 1920
For Grady county were never brighter
1t is regrettable that more wheat
could not be sown, for it will be a
profitable crop Other small grains
of course can be planted on much OF
this lost acreage, and should be plant
ed for the reason that row crops are
slow crops and require longer pc
ricd of abor to handle. We can not
afford to plant the whole country in
row crops. | would recommend that
where possible the small grain acre.
age tat is to be seeded this coming
February be divided between oats
and barley just have a certain
feeling that this is not strictly speak
ing an oat producing section There
fore | would net recommend all cats.
Barley will make if oats do, and it
is certainly a more profitable feed
crop than oats, standing next to
corn, or to be exact, barley has 30
per cent Of the feeding value Of corr.
I'VE will plJnt lots of corn in 1920.
Every indication points to a corn
year, but TIE land ought to be Sc
lected, using bcstom land for corn
and the higher and tighter lands for
small grains ana Kafirs.
The cotton acreage in my estiml-
ton will be doubled This may be
logical, but doubt it. If we plant
and raise more cotton than we can
gather-it will not be logical. The
small acreage planted i'll 1919 has not
yet been gathered and the chances
are much cotton will be seen in the
fields in March. Certainly the labor
10 gather our crops is not in prospect
No man can say for a certainty that
he viii be able to command anymore
labor this year than in the one just
passed.
Careful planning of our farming
operations for 1920 is absolutely nee
essary. More so than any year ]
have ever known The necessary Ia
Dor for the handling of all farm crops
will be the governing factor in pro
duction. and in harvesting what is
produced This can be regulated
somewhat in the production end of
the farmers operations by using more
care in preparation for the crop to
te planted. No amount Of cultivation
will make up for lack in prepara-
ti0n, consequently, every one should
use all the time possible in prepar-
ing the seed bed before the crop is
planted
This will cut down cultivation,
because the harrow and disc viii Gov
Ell more land than the cultivator
''The town man should begin now
the preparation of his garden. The
II. c. of L. can be regulated wonder
fully by good garden.
1--WE will have a wonderful crop of
insects damaging to farm and garden
crops this spring and wlen the time
rolls around a campaign of eradica
tion may be necessary. We can con-
troll most of these insects and the in
formation will be available in due
time.
Lets all get in behind our agri-
cultural activities this year and see
to it that we do the job well. We
need to put moro finished product
from the farm just in proportion to
the advance going on all the time in
au,ting out more finished product
from the factory. Our step in cot
son development has demon strated
this and the same holds true in all
our crops and farm products