The Democrat-American from Sallisaw, Oklahoma • 3

THURSDAY OCTOBER 6 1932 THE DEMOCRAT AMERICAN SALLISAW OKLAHOMA Page Three NEWS AND VIEWS INTEREST TO ARMERS A PAGE DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT COVER CROPS WINTER PRESENT SEVEN1BENEITS "Green Grown On Otherwise Idle Land Preserv es Soil and Cuts Cost Seven ways in which winter cover crr ps can benefit Oklahoma farmers are pointed out by County Agent Bfuman Buch crops he says have these ad vantages: 1 They give cheap winter pasture 2 Help prevent soil from washingaway 3 Save the most soluble and most expensive plant food 5 Help maintain the supply of ni trogen in the soil 6 Decrease the cost of living on the farm by giving cheap feed for dairy cows and pigs Decrease cost of production by increasing the yields per acre of the cash crops used in rotation with the cover crops Are Used in South Though use of winter cover crops has not yet been established as a custom it is a custom among some of the best farmers in the South the County Agent says A winter cover crop is any crop that is planted in the fall of tlje year and ocrupies the ground all winter This' cover crop may be wheat rye or bar ley and in southern Oklahoma oats may be used It may be a winter le gume like hairy vetch or Austrian winter peas or it may be a mixture of a legume and a non legume That cover crop on the soil all win ter saves a large amount of soil from washing away has been shown on the experiment station near Guthrie where a field planted in cotton con tinuously without any cover crop has lost average of tons of top soil per acre per year the last two ears from erosion while the field in small grain has lost only 1 8 tons per sere per year Add Organic Matter In fact" the County Agent says "any loss of plant food from drainage and erosion is much more seiious in robbing our soils than is the depleting action of crops giown on the Winter cover crops also prevent 1OS' es of organic matter from the soil and if the residue is turned under In the spring the most important constituent and in fact the basis of soil fertility organic matter Is added to the soil If the winter cover crop is a legume inch as vetch winter peas or a clover or if it has a legume mixed with it and if nodules develop on the roots of the legume the cover crop will also add nitrogen to the soil If moisture conditions are favorable during any time in September or the first part of October it is possible to secure a good growth of a winter cover crop before freezing weather Bauman says Vetch and peas usually require i little longer for getting started and making a good growth than do the small grains such as wheat rye or barley Vetch Best in East In the western part of Oklahoma wnere most of the soils have enough lime for producing alfalfa and sweet clover successfully the Austrian winter pea Is an excellent winter legume and under these conditions usually makes even a larger growth than hairy vetch In the eastern part of the state on soils that are too sour to grow swet clover or alfalfa without the addition of limestone and on soils very low in available mineral plant food the hairy vetch is a safer crop than the Austrian pea These winter growing legumes make tneir bieeest growth during March Apiil and May and provide the largest amount of pasture early in the spring while the native grasses are gening a start The winter cover crops are especial ly valuable following clean cultivated crops like corn and cotton where thecil would otherwise be left bare all winter These cover crops may be drill ed in between the cotton rows with a sn ail three row drill or they may be sewed broadcast and harrowed in with a small shaped harrow or a Pianet Jr type cultivator or of course crops may be drilled in on a cn cultivated seedbed with about the same preparation as for a wheat crop Now is the time to drill rye wheat or barley or a winter legume such as hairy vetch or Austrian winter peas A istnan winter peas ate costing about five cents per pound this fall and hairy vetch about eight cents per pound It requires about 20 pounds cf hairv vetch per acre and about 40 pounds of Austrian winter peas per acre Cheese Recipe Since cooler weather is here farm people are thinking of making cheese Below will be found a method which will prove satisfactory if directions are followed: Get a dairy thermometer cheese cloth and a box of No 2 Rennet Tablets They come packed two bot tles to the box twelve tablets to a bot tle They usually can be had at any first class drug store but if not in stock they will either order or tell you where they can be obtained One tablet is enough for ten gallons of milk If you use less milk then tse a proportionate amount of the tablet There is no need to buy a hoop Simply melt the ends off a one gal lon syrup bucket It is about the size to use for seven gallons of milk Two of what are known as are needed These can be made of an ordinary board sawed round so they will fit loosely inside the hoop or bucket Be sure that the milk is sweet Randall Cafe 50c armers Produce 50c A Harrison $100 Bill Luton's Radio Shop 50c Weaver's Cafe 50c Bert Cotton $100 Herring Hardware $100 Roberts Toler Co $100 rances lora 50c Ingle $100 Ted Super Service Station 5 gallons Conoco gas A Graham 50c in merchandise Hawkins 24 lb sack flour Hawkins Grocery Co 24 lb sack flour or best 2 pts jelly Ivey's Drug Store $100 in merchan dise Sequoyah County Times two sub scriptions Sizemore's barber shop 50 in hair cuts Barber shop 50 in hair cuts Rockett 1 wedding fee Service Station $100 Conoco products Mayo Hardware Co $100 in mer chandise Vian Vicinitv Raisin? Good Grade of Cot ton it is Reoorted Cotton in the Vian territory accord ing to the reports coming from the Government classing office continues to be of a good grade and staple Re ports received by the Haddock's Gin Co at Vian and including cotton graded up to September 24th since September 10th show that 77 per cent of this cotton is strict middling 25 per cent is middling and 25 per cent is good middling in grade The staple is holding up well and if this length of staple continues to improve Vian will again become a point where cotton from Vian sells in price The staple of the cotton included In this report was as follows: 8 per cent 1 inch 102 per cent 1 1 16 inch 314 per cent 1 inch 40 6 per cent 1 inch 145 per cent 31 32 inch and 25 per cent 1516 inch These reports are furnished weekly ing to violence Violence will cause the loss of sympathy for their cause Some may say that they do not want sympathy but yet the only way the battle for higher prices will ever be won will be through education of the public who are users of farm products making this public understand the situation of the farmer and this in corporates a certain amount of sym pathy The farmers of Oklahoma are wise in agreeing not to use violence What the farmers need is more peo ple thinking of the farmer and his condition Taxes on farms and in terest on borrowed money have not been reduced as have the price of farm products Every word in that old statement about the farmer beingz the backbone of the country is the truth Stigler News Sentinel PRICES CHAPEL NEWS The revival meeting closed Sunday night but Mr White will be back on the 4th Sunday of this month There will be singing next riday and Sunday nights Grace Kee and Johnnie Brooks spent a while Sunday evening with Virgil and Anna Williams Wayne Barrett and James Wilson entertained the young folks with music Sunday evening Those who at tended were: Robert Whitworth Wil son Barrett Junior Howard Earl Eual May and Edna isher Bernice Whit worth Catherine Williams Delola and Agnes Emberton Mrs Sarrah Williams and small son Carl spent Sunday evening with Mrs John arris Miss Gladys isher Agnes and Ver sia Whitworth spent a while SurttDy evening with Mr and Mrs Arlice arris and son A large crowd from this place at tended the singing convention at Buf fington Sunday evening Mr Arvil Miller is staying with Mr and Mrs Adams of New Hope Rhdcia Williams is enjoying her new home at Tulsa Miss Ina Jordan is visiting her grandmother of Gore Miss Louise Barnes spent Wednes day morning with Catherine Williams a good plan to take the milk obtained at night and morning place in a large container and heat to 86 degrees Hold the thermometer with one hand with the bulb in the milk while you stir the milk from the bottom with a ladle or other utensil so the milk will heat in uniform manner After about one minute of 86 degrees heat remove from stove and mix in the amount of cheese coloring desired Then add the rennet tablet which has been dissolved in two or three ounces of cold water Stir thoroughly cover with a cloth and let stand 30 to 40 minutes The milk should then form a soft even curd Take a long knife and cut in columns each way let stand a few minutes until the whey begins to rise then place on the stove again Lift and stir the curd gently and break into small pieces about like grains of corn If handled too roughly it allows the cream to escape Heat slowly until it reaches 98 degrees then after a minute time remove from the stove and pour off all the whey possible Spread a clean cloth (a flour sack ripped open is good' in a large pan and pour the curd into it Raise it up and drain two or three minutes salt lightly and is then for the hoop With cheese clotn line your hoop Place one of the followers on top This one should have an upright piece nailed to the center for the bar of the press to rest on Either have a press of some sort oi use weights If weights better have two each one weighing about twenty pounds When you first place the cheese in the hoop put one of the weights on the bar In about ssix hours take th? cheese out of the hoop straighten the cloth turn the cheese over and put it back in the press Let it stand this way (with one weight still' for five or six hours then place the other 20 lb weight on top of the first one Let this stand ail night then remove the cheese from the piess and rub with butter Turn it night and morning for a week then one? a day until it is thoroughly cured This cheese will be good to eat when 30 or 40 days old but every week's age that is added improves it Be very careful to keep all flies away from the cheese Let it have plenty of air It's delicious and a fine inexpensive addition to any larder DONATIONS ROM VIAN Solicited by Vian Home Demonstra tion Club Committee: Moody $100 McNabo $100: Mr Wilson 50c Allen Co Mdse $2 00 Vian State Bank $200 Carter Drug Store $100 Hu gins Bros $100 Booth S100 Hefner 50c Tate and Brock man $250 The Kerr Glass fg Co in order to increase the interest in home can ning and also to assist the ladies and I 4 club girls have made the follow ing jiffer for our one day fair here on October 11: Women's Division: Three dozen Jars size and style be selected by the winner for the best exhibit of vegetables packed in Kerr Jars Three dozen Kerr Jars size and style to be selected by the winner for the best exhibit of fruits packed in Kerr Jars I Girls' Division: I Three dozen Kerr Jars size and style to be selected by the winner for the best exhibit of vegetables packed in Kerr Jars Three dozen Kerr Jars size and style to be selected by the winner for the best exhibit of fruits packed in Kerr Jars I Individuals or clubs may compete DONATIONS ROM SALLISAW Moore's Tire and Battery Shop $100 Geo Howell i 50c Perry Campbell 50c Jennings Shoe Shop 1 pair shoes half soled Palace Drug Co $100 in merchan dise Towry Cash Store $100 in merchan dise Dan Matthews $100 in merchan dise Matthews Bros $100 in merchan dise Seaman Store Co $100 in merchan dise Rhodes Barber shop 1 hair cut Cherry Winter $100 in merchan dise Sallisaw Bakery 1 cake ears 24 lb sack flour Smith 10 lbs sugar Electric Shoe shop 1 pair of shoes half soled Storts Baiber shop two hair cuts 3 shines Agent $1 00 Haraway 50c Hall 50c Southwestern Gas Co $1CO Mansfield Lumber Co SI 00 Garrett 05 Ashbrook Hampton's Garage $100 Geo Sanders 53l Geo Check $100 Tointcr's Service Station $100 Will rancis $100 Gilbert $1 00 Wheeler Lumber Co 50c Campbell 50c red Johnston $103 Wheeler $100 Cailin Rogers 50c Mattox Garage $1 00 Sallisaw State Bank $200 Bradley's ive Ten Cent Store 50c oreman 50c Harper 50c Dr Harmon $101 Mrs McDonald 50c PICTURES SHOULD SUIT ROOMS IN WHICH HUNG STILLWATER Okla Sept (Spe Pictures must be appropriate to the rooms in which they are hung Landscapes portraits flowers com positions and subjects of equal inter est to all in the family should be used for Vian territory by Dept of Agriculture our Club Bovs Attend the Musko ree ree air An even dozen of 4 club boys went from Sequoyah county to the state 4 club school which is held every year at the State air These boys and girls were the guests of the air Association until Wednesday noon October 5th While there they will take instruction from the state club agents in the selection of proper live stock poultry proper methods of can ning and sewing and home improve ment Those making the trip this year are Adrian VanHerwynen Betty Jo Van Herwynen Cora Rape Jimmie eath er Thomas Hale Dave Galloway Har mon Cox Bernice Wrigley Louise Sloan Mauretia Sweat Leia Pattonnd Pauline Keller These club boys and girls were tak en to Muskogee last Sunday by the County Agents and II Bibb They icturned Wednesday morning THIS ARM PROBLEM Milk'is dumped by farm pickets was the headline on one of the morning papers this week This farmer's strike seems to be far reaching The latest outbreak is in Georgia armers in Oklahoma have already organized but have agreed not to resoit to vio lence This farm strike is just an other unusual thing that lias happen tl during President Hoover's admin stration The farmers are fakin'1 his means of telling the world that hey have not been getting a fair pric or their products The population tiie United States could not live Ion without the farmer and yet today he is about the lowest paid workman i the country We do not blame farmers for protesting against tie low prices armers should organic and try to get a better price but doubt the advisability of then resor Miss Melba Renfroe spent Sunday with Eunice Marrs Miss Hazel Partlow spent Sunday with Virginia Baker Miss Mayme Smith spent Sunday and Eunice Maris Melba Renfroe Ruby Sherrell spent Sunday afternoon with Ruby Griffith Miss Virginia Baker took supper Sunday night with Hazel Partlow Miss Hazel Partlow and Ruby Grif fith spent a while Saturday with Char lene ullblight Mrs Sherrell spent Sunday af ternoon with Mrs Claud Griffith Mr and Mrs Henry Sells spent Sun day afternoon with Mr and Mrs Sells Miss Melba Renfroe took supper Sunday night with Ruby Griffith Mr Earl Phillips who is attending school at Warner spent the week end at home We were proud to have the boys and girls from Akins us Sunday night Then names were: Jessie Par son Susie Wickett Beaulah Wickett I essley Marion Stewart Noal ine loyd Loeta and Opal Walters Ruby Lane Junior Pitman Isaac Thomas and Mr and Mrs Richard Lane Mrs Idus ullbright is on the sick list at this writing Everybody come to Sunday school AKINS NEWS ITEMS (Crowded Out Last Week! Player meeting was well attended Wednesday night and singing Thurs day night Mr Belve Barger spent the week end with Calvin and Jim Masterson Those who visited the Bud Roger: home Sunday evening were Mrs San Emberton and children May isher Edna isher and Bernice Whitworth and Mr and Mrs Screws and son of Sloans Chapel Miss Gladys isher took supper with Virsia and Agnes Whitworth Mr Rider called on Annie Wil liams Saturday night Mrs Sallie Whitworth spent a while Monday morning with Mrs Colonel ines Miss Leia May Tillary red Taylor Miss Esther Barrett spent Sunday night with the Williams girls Those who took supper with May and Earl isher Sunday evening were Bernice Whitworth Catherine Wil liams Delola Emberton and Wilson Bai rett Those who spent Monday morning with Albert Masterson and daughter Marie were: Mr William Masterson and wife and son We were sorry to have Mr and Mrs Ben aulkner leave this community They moved to Sallisaw Mr Masterson spent Sunday with Mr Perry and Eugene Masterson Mr and Mrs Hooper Parsons spent a while Sunday night with Mr and Mrs Goy Mr Jim and Calvin Masterson at tended singing at Badger Lee Sunday night Valt Knox and a bunch of girls and boys were seen car riding at Akir3 Sunday evening Mr and Mrs rank William and daughter ronle Marie moved mon day Mr Sam Emberton spent Sunday evening with Ossie olsom Miss Catherine Williams spent Mon day morning with the Whitworth girls Mrs Charley isher returned home Thursday after a short visit with rel atives in Sallisaw Those who visited the Williams home Saturday night were Mr Nail ine Marie Cook and daughter iori Crystal and Rider Miss Opal Walters of Akins is spend ing a while with Mr and Mrs Casi Walters of Sallisaw Preaching was well attended Sun day night with Rev Crow and son John Paul filling their regular ap pointment Sunday school wasn't well attended Sunday on account of rainy weather but let's everybody come next Sun day ossils found in Oklahoma New Mexico Colorado Wyoming and Ne braska were added to the University cf Oklahoma paleontology museum thii fall in the living and dining rooms says Miss Mary Penn of the Okla homa A and College household arts department Photographs and calendars have no place in such rooms she thinks Personal pictures and subjects for individual tastes are for the more pri vate rooms and should please the oc cupant: old fashioned prints or gay modern ones for the young girl's bed room ships maps hunting scenes for the boy's room: nursery rhymes animals and similar subjects in the child's room A common error in hanging pictures is that of hanging them too high INDIVIDUALS CAN SECURE ARM RADIO SCHEDULE STILLWATER Okla Oct (Spe Programs of the armers' Radio hour over KVOO from the Stillwater studio on the Oklahoma A and College campus will be mailed regular ly to farmers and other persons in the state who are interested according to Scholl assistant director of ex tension at the college and director of the radio programs The armers' hour is broadcast from the Tulsa station front 12:30 to 1:15 every Monday Tuesday Wednes day and Thursday Information on a wide variety of topics prepared by the A and college specialists is broad cast A new rushing system eliminating the bid house which had been de scribed as by university offi cials was tried out by sororities at the University of Oklahoma this fall No Wonder the armer Gets a Headache These Days al srrrittli SB BMV 7 SkE1 HO.