Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-02-20
FLAX GROWING
WILL INCREASE
Hickox Says Fifteen Thou.
sand Panhandle Acres
VIII be Planted


In It's serial. special pages 81 Pan
handle-Plalns development articles.
the News. on Sunday last, noted thar
n l.. Hiokcov would plant this year
seven hundred Randall county flax
acres.
Mr. HickCoX. however. will also
plant this season one thousand acres
of flax in Potter county, in the VI
cinity OF Amarillo. while other farm
ers of Potter aud Randall will SOW
sufficient seed 20 bring the flax area
Of these two counties up to an lsrre-
gate OF at least thirty-five hundred
acres.
Mr. Hickcov. Who Is alike the farm
ing pioneer and seed furuishcr az
the ranhandle-llains flav industry,
SAYS TO the News that from Canadian
on the north 20 Slatou on thc sllt.
there win be soWn this season %
total of Of Toast fifteen thousand
acres of flax
Mr. UickcoN Randall county o.
acre flax farm returned him - bush
els 81 seed per acre, which he sold a.
an all around price of 81 per bushel
the seed harvest bringing him Owe.
$1,000.
.sEstimated on the above establish
cd harvest basis the 5000 acres
farmed 10 flax this season in the Pan
handle-Plains region will produce
225. 900 bushels OF flax seed, with a
market value of 1915. 600. TO which
can be added a flax straw forage
stock feeding worth OF 800, 600, or
totallzed flax money for this season
approvimatine one million dollars
In above connection. Mr.. HiokcoX
speaks highly OF flax straw rs a for
age stock feed and fattener, nc. him
self, now feeding for lee Biyins a
bunch Of three and four-year-old
steers on flax straw and milo maize
with excellent results.
Flax can be described as a many
pointed financial fact. probably hay
ing no superior among soil products
as an actual and active money multi
pie. II is at once agricultural, In
dustrlal and commercial.
Alike on the farm, in the mill. and
across the sale counter, II Is a money
maker and a money getter.
Its gifts 10 mankind include thu
production OF flax seed oil. certain
grades of which are now supercedin;
olive oil In table use, the manufac
ture OF cloth. tow, Irvine. rope ans
thread. and the recently established
facts that flax seed will make al
even better oil cake for stock fatten
Ing than cotton seed and that fla
stalks can be numbered with th'
valuable forage growths.
In addition TO the above. it can b.
we'll noted that threshed flax straw
mas lately proved itself superior e
sawdust for the summer preservation
of ice. that sod flax planting not onl,
returns n b%ountiful harvest Of IL
own. out constitutes an excellent pre-
pairing Of the land for the GROWN.
Of any other crop. that flax stalk
are warm fuel welcome In treeles
and coalless northern localities, tina
a properly introduced flax seed wi
remove a mote from your eve, a
though II has not yet succeeded In 81
iminating the beam from the eve q
your neighbor and, lastly, all Of Il
whose life il of sufficient span, We.
and feeling remember the flax sec
poultices our grandmothers used {
make.
Alike In regard 10 quantity an
quality OF seed and straw the fla
produced here cannot be ~anyvher
~excelled and the fifteen tpusan
acres sown this season will annual
logically expand until the Texas Par
handle Plains region will vie In agr
cultural and manufacturing value
with those OF the famed French an
Bclcian flax centers.