The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-02-20
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PLAINS LAND
Plan Suggested for Proposed
Prize Contest Excludes
Irrigated Land
(From Fridays Daily)

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! w. Zimmerman and j. NJ Nicely, OF
the Amarillo Chamber OF Commerce,
the following plan has been pre-
pared and presented for the proposed
sugar beet contest for Panhandle
farmers this year. This plan has not
yet been definitely considered by the
Chamber OF Commerce but It indi-
Gates roughly the conditions with
which Panhandle Farmers will be ex-
pected TO comply and II is for that
reason OF immediate interest, The
report is AK follows:
Seed Must BE the Same.
owe submit the following rules
to guide the farmers In the Pan
handle who propose to plant sugar
beets and contest for the prizes to
be offered by you for the hest acre
OF sugar beets grown on the plains
this year 1908.
"First-Beets 10 compete for the
prize must be grown from seed pro-
cured OF the Amarillo Chamber OF
Commerce.
Second-Partes desiring TO enter
this contest must notify the ANA
rlllo Chamber Of Commerce not later
than May I.
Indicate Mode of Cultivation.
"Thlrd---It is recommended that
the beets be planted in rows not
farther than twenty inches apart and
thinned in the row to six inches
apart, thinning should be done when
the beet shows from three to four
leaves. Pillow the ground from ten
10 fourteen inches and deeper II pos
sible. Work the ground thoroughly
until It Is in fine condition before
planting. Plant the seed from one
and one-half to two inches deep, Be
gin hoeing the beets as soon as they
get up we'll, as this early cultivation
is he most important ever done
Never cultivate deep but keep the
surface crust thoroughly broken.
Fourth Amarillo Chamber
Chamber of Commerce will send an
agent who with the assistance of
neighborhood farmers is to pull up
and weigh two average square rods
out OF each acre OF beets entered in
this contest to determine the weight
OF the crop produced, this report to
be signed by the agent and witnessed
by the grower and two other wit
nesses.
Bar out Irrigated Products.
"Fifth--Beets entered for this
contest are not TO be irrigated or
grown on sub-irigated land, The
prizes are to be given for crops
grown on plains land.
"Sixth--Each farmer entering
this contest must exhibit not less
than twelve beets at the Panhandle
Fair TO be held in Amarillo in the
fall OF 1905"
Urge Use of Imported Seed.
The provision in this plan which
requires the farmers who compete
to have purchased their seed from
that ordered by members of the
Chamber of Commerce here may not
be finally adopted but the matter
OF seed is one of the most important
points about the crop and the seed
which will be placed on sale here
will be OF the very highest sugar
producing standard. II has been
found by the sugar factories that,
although beets produced in this
country can be made to yield a high |
percentage of sugar, seed from stock
grown in this country produces beets
which show falling off in the
amount OF sugar For that reason
the big sugar producing companies
require the farmers around their fac
tories TO purchase seed imported by |
the factory companies. This seed is
sold to the farmers practically at cost
so the advantage 10 the farmers and |
to factory is mutual For like rea-
sons II has been thought best to get
the farmers here to plant imported
seed because the amount OF sugar
which the beets from their crops
show will be carefully noted by SUI
gar producing companies. It iscllke-
ly also that the seed offered for sale
through the Chamber OF Commerce
here or through some similar agency
will be sold even with the added
cost of importation, at as low a price
as any that can be obtained In the
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V. V. Akin and r. Mcdonald are
two Kansas cattle buyers who are
here looking over the field.