Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-09-08


which nearly 500 bales were sinned
At Floydada the remainder coming
from Motley and other counties. This
year the station will probably load
out 5000 bales
The Mebane or Santa Fe railroad
cotton. as il is often called. is beine
considerably grown around Floydada
this year with alike profitable and
timc-saying results, as It is more pro
life In yield and Of earlier maturity
than any cotton heretofore grown In
the county.
Now Picking.
Mebaue cotton picking Is now in
progress. the first bale coming into
I Floydada q day or two ago.
Wheat this year yielded an aver
age OF fourteen bushels per acre. the
best milo maize and kaffir corn ever
grown In the county is now matur-
/ Ing in many locations.
Great Future Farming.
OF the county's $4,000 acres only
10000 are non-tillable, with but
three per cent of the tillable area
now under cultivation As this three
per cent has farming population Of
! ,OOO II can he readily seen that
Floyd county has great farming
future
| Iloyd COUNTY
The following descriptive matter
is from pamphlet issued by the
Floydada Industrial League.
Floyd County is just west of the
;lOlst meridian and on the 3ith par
5 allel OF latitude, and 100 miles south
: east of Amarillo II i. the most east
ern of the counties OF the CentraI
, Panhandle Country of Texas
p Just on the Plains coming froit
: the east she occupies a strategic 20
sition, commanding the passe, OF
3 easy grade leading down to the East.
b. ern markets and TO Ocean carriage
{, And when the railroads under con
! struction, and others projected, shall
] traverse the Plains, many shall swing
across our 1886 square miles OF rich
land
r The agricultural product, iu va
! riety are as numerous a. can be
p found anywhere else on the cont
J. nent Corn, wheat. oats. millet al
falfa. kaffir, maize and broom corn
n with large contingent OF The mos
\ useful garden truck Beets, cabbage
d pumpkins, beans. peas, lettuce. rad
ishes. etc. all yield under due cult
u walton a bountiful harvest Cottol
;, yields an average OF one-ha.f bal
g per acre and often bal" oats
P, millet, kaffir and maize are ."adin
h crops and yield abundant Cor
:. yields ordinarily 30 bushels p.r acre
d and in many instances from q" 70 .
l. bushels per acre Wheat N. be
come leading product 90. oar so
and climate is adapted fo I'. rrowtt
l. The average yield of wheat Floy
L. County in 1910 was 90 .".s p'
N acre
rs Alfalfa when planted .. ..cu
vi success SAYS Tho ND Sung
m Nebraska 10 Floyd Count rm"n
When you shall plant undo
al proper preparation OF fhe nd CO.
s- rect culture. YOU are l.. to r
10 val Nebraska Boo tH, 'r
DE- alfalfa
Our fruits arc %. D. Har...
and our fine orchard .. ' Good
el try many of them Ten -H ~ acre
.i. attest the thrift of Oh. ApI|
iarr am assured yield .rilt
years while pears r.. plum
U apricots. cherries. horr. 20 rrlH
OF grow and yield we'll
49, Extract from seI. ar'I0.
about The Plains CoUr. sam
Dixon. Chief Clerk per en-
Agriculture.
Passing from lla.. 'pt's
entered into Floyd CONF. Hr.
the best settled counU. p. AH.
Plains Country.
q have not visited .n. .H.
ties Of thc Plains. Dor .. af R.'
out hesitation that ... seen
county that oNceis FI0.. ouuF
beauty Of topography au. for ."r'
li'y OF soil Here with 'Iua. IuXu
sncc grow wheat and cotton. NAL
kaffir corn. alfalfa and s.rghum
terprise and intelligeu0. have dc
onstrated that Floyd oun'y sd
are especially adapted I'D fruits
apples. pears and cherries especial
I visited tho apple orchards arou
Floydada. and IN every instance
found them loaded with rlpening n
Of the highest type ana Of eNIu''
.olur and flavor