<head>The Homesteader - Dec 1905</head>
From THE HOMESTEADER Newspaper 14 December 1905
Woodward County Oklahoma Territory
Some of the original editions of THE HOMESTEADER may be viewed at Shattuck Public Library
Shattuck, Ellis Co., OK
What Another Oklahoma Man Has Done.
Four years ago last spring, Leroy HUGHES then 61 yers old and with a wife and five small children, came to a point near the present post office of Loewen, about 9 miles south of Shattuck. His worldly possessions consisted of 3 horses, 2 cows, a sparse outfit of farming implements, a tent, and $30.00. His principal stock in traid(sic), however, was a strong heart and a determined will, and undaunted by the prospect of hard labor and privation, he went to work to open a farm in the virgin soil. He went through the usual hardships attending, and tomake a long story short, he has provided for his family during these four years and brought his his(sic) land up to a state of cultivation where it was possible for him to show the following as the results of his labor:
This year he harvested something over 800 bushels of wheat for which he received 86 cents per pushel, or $688.00; 118 b. of barley worth 50 cents per bu.; 22 bales of broomcorn for which he received $150.00; threshed 290 bu. of kaffir corn from 10 acres of ground and from which he had fed 6 head of horses all fall before threshing; had 14 acres of Indian corn from which he fattened 9 head of hogs and then shelled 202 bushels of corn; threshed 74 bushels of broom corn seed, worth 50 cents per bushel; cut 14 tons of cane hay worth $5.00 per ton; sold $35.00 worth of hogs and $35.00 worth of melons. Summing it all up, he has derived a profit of at the lowest estimate of $1074.25 from this years crops. He now has 7 head of cattle, having sold several previouuusly and 6 head of horses and mules, and has built a barn costing $250.00. He has 114 acres of his farm in cultivation this year. How is this for a man now 65 years old.
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