The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-11-28
THIS AND OTHER sPEClALTlES
RAISING PER ACRE PROCEEDS
OF CoUNTRYS AGRICULTURE.
ALFALFA CROP SIOO,0OO,OOO
Durum Wheat Has Added $3o,ooo,ooo
to Crops in Dryer Districts-Ksfr
Corn surpasses Indian Maise in
Money Value Of Yield.

Chicago, Nov. 27.-Assembled re
ports of specialized and intensive
crops grown in the United States
show that more is being done to in
crease tle lollars-per-acre yield than
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson's
warning, when he opened the land
show here, would indicate, His re-
ports i'm the department of agricul-
ture no. only have reported yields
per acre far in excess of Illinois corn
crops per acre from orchards of
peaches and apples and the still
more profitable specialties of gin
seng. mangoes, ayocados, FIGS, grape
fruit and pineapples, but yields also
from straight farming" in various
sections where the staple crops have
been supplanted by specially field
crops.
In the northwest spelts, durum
wheat and flax have done much to
add to settlers income under ad-
verse conditions. The durum wheat
crop in the regions of small ram
fall now totals $3O,OOO,OOO a year,
but the value is low per acre. Alfalfa
has been seized upon both east and
west as high-profit crop as we'll as
soil restorer. The annual crop Is
now put at $l00,000,OO0 In the
southwest broomcon has won
sweeping victory where soil and eli
matte conditions We're favorable. In
the panhandle of Texas 1t has reach
ed it's maximum of success, the aver
age yield there having been found to
be three-fourths of ton with a value
of $lOO to $3.50 per acre. There
| broomcorn is grown almost on the
Wholesale scale that wheat is grown
ON the bonanza ranches of Norun
Dakota. and in the vicinity of Dal-
hart over 1000 acres of broomcorn
we're raised. In one case, near ANA
rillo. a field of l, 400 acres netted the
grower over $l4O an acre; in fact he
was offered and refused that figure
for his crop in the field, but decided
to install his own machinery and
manufacture the brooms and market
them.
Other broomcorn crops in the same
district near to Amarillo and Soncy,
Bushland. Wildorado Vega, Ontario
and Adrian have done equally well
on smaller scale. In the district
known as the Eastern Panhandle s.
600 acres of broomcorn We're grown
and $4,000 acres of kafir corn.
No region in the country which
recently was ranches and now Is NIL
ing up with a farming population has
more generally adopted what are re-
garded as novelties in farm crops
than the Texas Panhandle. The re
ror,s covering 125000 acres in one
district show 1880 acres of corn,
2O.12O acres of cotton, several thou
sand acres of alfalfa, broomcom,
kafir corn and millet, and only H.
500 acres of wheat. One farmer
in Hansford county, in the Panhan-
die. grows 4O0 acres of alfalfa almost
solely for the seed crop, making al
falfa seed pay him from 81 20 so
bushels per acre, 'caving his hay for
his own cattle and hogs.
In the southwest Of Teas ,ice
growing has met with " wing sue
cess. In the earlier Yeas The per-
acre yield was as high. 1s n broom
corn yield Of the Panhandle, but
during recent years the over-supply
of rice has depressed prices and dis
couraged rice production.
,Kafir corn so far has surpassed
even the best yields Of Indian corn
in the proceeds per acre Of the crop,
he yield being on an average from
40 to 60 bushels per acre and an
average price of from 50 to IS cents
per bushel. Prof Maiy, reporting
on this. pointed out its advantages
i'm certain localities. saying; "Kafir
corn has the habit of temporarily
. resting. as il were, during seasons Of
extreme drouht and heat, and then,
when sufficient rainfall occurs, TO
start out a vigorous growth and
make a bountiful yield of both forage
and grain