The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-05-07
STOCK GIVES
WAY TO CROP
Col. PatfraIh'S Interesting Talk
Of Big Changes Effected
Since 1876
(From Mondays Daily)

In rs the plains part OF this
country was covered by antelope,
buffalo. fine mustang horses; the
broken part Of the country was full
OF deer aud wild turkeys and the
sandy part OF the country was full
OF prairie chickens and quail all
over the broken country, showing
that II Is a natural livestock coun-
try for domestic animals as we'll as
wild ones; also for poultry, horses,
mules, cattle and sheep; and as time
has proven there Is no better hos
country In the world than this.
Perhaps the first domestic stock
that was ever in this country, Hon.
Charles Goodnight OF Goodnight,
Texas, and Hon. T. S. Bugbee OF
Clarendon, Texas. will tell you when
they came to the country there were
Mexican villages up and down the
Canadian river, successfully engaged
on a large scale In the sheep industry
and were driven out by the cattle
people when they came to the coun-
try and either bought or leased the
land In this part OF Texas, The ey-
idence OF this being good cattle
country Is proven by the fact that
the L. S. ranch's record shows they
have branded rs per cent calves for
the last seven or eight years, which
is equal to anything that has been
done anywhere In the ranch country
on large scale, so far as | know,
The cattle bred in this country can
be developed into the best beef steers
OF any cattle bred in the United
States. which Is evidenced by the
premiums that the ]. AS, X. I. It's,
L. SIS and the Mill Irons have taken
in the last tea years at the Inter-
national Fat stock show at Chicago,
ILL.,, the Royal Fat Stock Show of
Kansas City, Mo-, also at the Worlds
Fair OF st. Louis, Mo. Further is It
proven by the premiums that Mr.
John Hutson OF Canyon, Texas, took
on his fine Hereford bulls at the
Fat Stock Show at Denver, Colo, in
I190S. These premiums were obtain
ed, not because the judges felt par
tial toward this section OF the coun-
try, but because the cattle OF this
Dcountry so far excelled those OF the
Nother sections that the judges, In
justice to themselves and 10 protect
Their own reputation were compelled
to award the premiums to this sec
ton OF the country, as herein stated,
all OF which can be easily proven by
investigation. All OF the aforesaid
cattle were bred here, within a radius
OF 100 miles OF Amarillo and finish
ed In the central states by various
feeders, except Mr.. Illusions cattle
which were bred and developed here.
Int is well known that cattle can be
successfully developed and finished
here as has been established by Col.
IT. S. Bugbee OF Glare Ion, Texas,
and Others.
II is we'll known, horses and
mules, that are second to none,
can be successfully bred and devel-
oped in this country. Mr. Trigg
who lives about eighteen miles east
OF Amarillo has been for number
OF years successfully engaged in buy
Ing young mules in Central Texas
and bringing them up here and de-
veloping them to his profit and sat-
isfaction
This IS also a natural fruit coun-
try. This country up and down the
streams. was originally full of wild
grapes, wild plums, some wild cher
ries and ourrants. Fine apples and
peaches have been grown in the larg
est part OF this country; equal 20 any
grown in the United States.
It Is we'll known that milo maize,
Kaffir corn and sorghum can be sue
cessfully grown every year in this
country In great abundance; with
perhaps greater tonnage to the
acre by one mans labor than else
where IN the United States. Alfalfa
can be successfully grown in this en-
tire district. Sugar beets, pump
kins. COW peas and gubas can also
be successfully grown in this coun-
try, and are all excellent feeds. And
/ believe that cotton can also be sue
cessfully grown in this section Of the
country, which would give an add
tional money crop, and the seed
would be an additional feed crop,
and the cotton stubbles would be an
additional fine winter pasture, and
the growing cotton would cause a
cotton seed oil mill to be establish