The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-04-30
FOR
PANHANDLE
Seed TO be Furnished Farmers
10 Establish an Additional
Money Gree

More cotton in the upper Pan
handle and more money for upper
Panhandle farmers Is the doctrine
which is beginning to be preached by
a number of men interested in de-
veloping the country here. u. A.
(PaD Paffrath, the indefatigable
booster for the Panhandle who be-
lleves that nothing is impossible for
Panhandle farmers, Is one OF the
most earnest OF the advocates Of more
cotton for the upper Panhandle and
J. II. Avery. OF the Chamber OF Com
merce committee on agriculture, is
another who Is endeavoring to put
cotton raising on a practical basis.
Cotton VIII Help Paokery.
talk cotton" urged Mr.. Paffrath,
yesterday in speaking OF crops for
Panhandle farmers. you know l
believe in wheat and sugar beets and
kaffir corn and In all these products
but | want to see Panhandle farm
ers take more interest in cotton. Get
gin clubs organized all over these
upper Panhandle counties so that the
product can be cared for when the
farmers raise It, Cotton is growing
all around us here and there is no
reason why cotton should not be de-
veloped as a successful crop here.
II Is a money crop. Wheat and corn
are money crops, OF course, but cot
ton will give us an additional money
crop. Sugar beets are all right but
they are not money crop yet. Farm
ers can get money for their cotton
whenever they want t. Another
thing that makes 1t desirable for
Panhandle farmers TO raise cotton is
the value OF the feed crop that goes
with cotton. Every Panhandle farm
or needs cotton seed. Get cotton
started in these counties and you can
have an oil mill here at Amarillo to
buy the seed product OF all the farm
ers in these counties. That will help
the farmers and it will also help the
cattle feeding industry because you
Will have the meal and the hulls
right here TO feed cattle. The oil
mill will help the packery and the
packery will help the oil mill. They
go together"
Get Acclimated Seed.
An effort is being made now to
get the three railroad companies here
to foster cotton planting by buying
a quantity OF acclimated seed from
farmers in the nearest Panhandle
counties where cotton ia being grown
in commercial quantities. This cot
ton will be handled through the
Chamber OF Commerce here at actual
cost and the roads will be reimbursed
in that way for their expense in get
ting the seed.
The importance OF getting accli-
mated seed is being more and more
realized as the line OF the cotton belt
is being pushed west and north. A
few years ago it was thought impos-
sible TO grow cotton outside OF East
and South Texas. Now some of the
biggest cotton counties are in the
West and counties like Hall and Chill
dress Of the Panhandle are figuring
heavily in the totals of cotton pro-
duction. A number OF growers have
been working toward the production
of strains OF cotton which will open
early in the fall and the results al.
ready obtained prove that this can be
done By getting seed from these
other Panhandle counties for use in
surrounding counties here an oppor-
tunity will BIO given this year for
successful crop raising and It is be-
lieved when the industry is taken up
In earnest in these counties, its own
worth will establish It in Importance
and value to the country.
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