Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1907-06-14
PRESENT CROP COMPARISONS.
Conditions on the Plains Compared as
Against Iowa, Missouri. Illinois.
the OakOtas. etc.

cOnQltlOnS mere ana elsewhere
and the effect upon crops the
Daily Panhandle editor in that
paper, issue of last Saturday,
says:
Prospective land buyers from
the northern States find the Pan
handle in a rather unattractive
condition at the present time. In
fact old settlers of the Panhan-
die are prompt to admit that
crop conditions at present are
worse than they have ever been
within their experience. This is
due to unreasonable weather
during the past sixty days.
Comparison of the conditions
in the Panhandle with conditions
in other parts of the country will
find the former still most ia
vOred.
The writer has been in the
North for several months. He
has travelled extensively over sev-
eral States and marked the crop
conditions on his rounds. He
finds the Dalotas barely out of
the freezing period. He saw
Michigan, New York and Ohio
visited with several inches of
snow by the last of May. He
found Illinois sunless and prac-
tically hopeless as concerns
small grain crops. He finds Iowa
far worse off than in many years.
In many places cattle cannot
even sustain life in pastures and
are still fed on soc corn. But
last week Il heavy frost killed po
toto vines and so effected the
small amount of growing corn
that most of it will have to be re-
planted In Missouri the fruit
crop is killed and there is little
hope for the staples of corn, hay,
wheat and oats. Wheat in Kan
sas has little of promise for the
farmers. The green bug has
played havoc in Oklahoma and
parts of Texas. From the frigid
regions of Canada comes the
chilly intelligence that the most
brave of the farmers have at
tempted to SOW wheat between
the hours of and / of the after
Moons, while the rest of the day
is passed in coasting and sleigh |
riding.
Thus, briefly, the situation is
summed up as it is in the world
around us. In these countries,
or many parts of them, there is |
little hope for other and later
crops. Their seasons are such |
that they cannot grow and ma
ture them before the time of fall
freezing.
1t is different in the Panhandle.
Wheat and oats are a partial fail
ure this year Still there are
fields which promise a fair yield. |
But both these cereals are as yet |
experimental in the Panhandle.
They will grow here as well as in
any part of the United States,
when the weather conditions are
favorable. But the Panhandle !
always has last resort. Indian
corn, Kathr corn and sugar cane,
milo maize and millet are to be
depended upon as sure crops.
They are the standby" crops
of the Panhandle. Any Plains
land will raise two and three tons
of millet and Sl5 to $50 worth of
corn and cane per acre, with or
dinary care and in common mar
ket. Land that can be bought at
S15 and $40, whereon even under
most unfavOrable conditions, such
as prevail this season, as much
or more can be raised than is
asked for it, is certainly not an
unsafe and unwise investment.
The Panhandle, with its possi
bilities for diversified farming
and stock-raising, is today dem
onstrating its advantages over
other parts of the country in
practical way. 1t is "A test case,
so to speak, and the Sl5 and $50
lands of the Panhandle make
far more favorable showing than
the 500 and $3.50 lands of the
middle West. The high-taX and
igh-priced lands of the North
appear in poor light when pitted
against the low-priced and low
taxed lands of the Panhandle in
an actual test.