The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-02-20
MARKET FOR
BROOM CORN
Both Farmers and Buyers Are
Setting In Line for 1903
Crop
(From Tuesday, Dailyl

one OF the net results OF the Pan
handle Farmers congress In Decem'
her has been a more extended inter.
est In new products for Panhandle
farmers. Through the wide public.
| lty given the papers and discussion
OF that meeting notice has been d.
rected TO new products, especially
broom corn and sugar beets, all over
the Panhandle and II is reasonable
sure that both OF these products
viii be- given the most extensive trial
on The plains this year that they
have ever had.
To facilitate the securing OF seed
by farmers who will wish TO give
these crops trial members and
committees OF the Chamber OF Com
merce here. and also similar organi-
cations in other towns are arranging
TO have seed for sale themselves or
to have seed houses get supplies.
W. B. Patterson who had charge of
the broom corn program at the
Farmers congress. has had further
correspondence with men In the hus-
mess and personally and through the
Chamber OF Commerce has not only
received many inquiries and much in
.terestlng Information. but has ar
ranged with the Amarillo Grain and
Coal company here to get pure seed
for farmers who wish to use It, One
bushel Of tho seed which will cost
perhapnsi or So will plant twenty
acres, so farmers will not be put TO
q large cost for seed in planting
quito a field Of this crop.
mediate Market for Crop.
one advantage which broom corn
will have over all other crops OF a
more or less experimental nature Is
the fact that for every pound OF pro-
duet there will be ready market.
The bluk OF the broom corn crop Of
tho United states is now raised in
western Oklahoma and the country
around Canadian and Higgins is al
ready an important part OF that field.
For several years buyers for all the
big broom corn companies have been
visiting this territory. Most of them
must Of necessity stop over In ANA
rllo so that Panhandle farmers will
not have 10 wait for the erection of
factories or the creation OF a mar
ket In order,to sell their crop, Broom
corn is a staple commodity at all
times and while the price varies ac-
cording to tho season OF the year
and the amount on the market, the
commission companies are always
ready 10 make price on the pro-
duct. s tGV v.
A letter .of immediate interest to
farmers here on the plains is that
received some time ago by Mr.. Pat
terson from Richard A. Tillman, OF
g. Werlne, broom corn
at Woodward Okla,
where the conditions for producing
tho crop are much the same as they
are In tho Panhandle country. Mr..
Tillman writes; gQ
A Dry Climate Crop.
In the first place | cannot too
strongly advocate rs growth in your
section, for 1t is we'll known fact
that the broom corn plant is a mem
Der OF sorghum family and therefore
a tropical plant, being especially
adapted TO dry climatic conditions,
IN fact too much rain Injuries its val
he inasmuch that 1t stains It whilst
N the boot. The farmer can always
depend on raising broom corn when
everything else fails.
Different Soils Vary Fiber,
"As to its cultivation ! Will say
hat the different grades are espe-
,ially adapted to different soils. we
ire paying as high as 500 per ton
'or whHls Hbrush, bhls Is grown to
pest advantage on a sandy soil, as
he rich 81, X sollis too strong and
brush grows too Tong, neeessitating
90 much waste. II bears on an av-
srage of one ton to three acres Of
and, and can be- planted thick 1t
S shogtk zinc fibsfed brush, but like
III othef'farm products has got to'be
we'll taken cae.ot
THE 4 standard dwarf variety.
crown extepsiyelyan this section, can
De grown on any kind of soil We
ire paying from y5o to $40 per'toh
according to growth and fiber. the
hort flbered being in demand. This
grows coarse fIbered when planted
90 thin and the brush grows too
ong and rank, making Il undesir-
bile.