Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-01-19
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SPECIAL 10 Daily Meas
Plainview. Tex. Jan. lS.-A train
ten miles long would he required 20
ship Plainyiew's exports since Jan
uary !. 1871. out 20 the world. That
g.. the stuff that has been shipped
BY freight Butter, eggs. poultry.
cantaloupes. etc. have gone out by
express in enormous quantities. One
Plalnview firm has shipped on an Az
eraPe 90 cans OF cream per week for
the past six months \ can contains
10 gallons OF Jersey Juice and AZ
present prices brings 81 per each.
From summing up of the reports
Of Plainview's farm produce shippers
and making a rough estimate OF ;he
freight sent BY individuals II is found
that 1900 cars-putting II very con
servatively-of the fruits of the farm
and ranch have been shipped in the
time stated above from Plainyiew
alone. there being several other ship
ping points In Hale county.
Public cotton. welrher Dorset has
adjusted the weights Of his scales o.
$50 wagon loads Of grain. hay cot
ton hogs. etc. since December 20.
and states that a large portion Of
th, lAll crop Is Just nov beginniu-
90 turn Something Comparatively
Now for outgoing freight ears from
pl0invicw has been cotton. and 1914
was me seco.d wear that the Plain
viow country has tried the staple.
but its growth mot with success. At
least .0O0 bales will be ginned AZ
plainview. 500 having been already
turned out and there are three more
were only 500 acres OF cotton in the
county and one gin. There were a
fe wover goo cars OF alfalfa included
In the list and that hay has aver
aged a little better than 81 per ton
for the past twelve months Put
ing II az ten tons 10 the car Plain
views alfalfa crop brongh her $780,
900. without adding in the revenue
from the sale OF the seed Several
hundred cars Of throshed kaifir AMI
maize have gone out and threshing
on those crops is Just now on IN ea,-
nest NiIl"t h7t, corn, oats. broom
corn, p'rlpc-. fruits. etc. have add
od their quota The highest priced
truck cars that have gone our we're
tho iced gri.v contaiuing 1au-
views can'ul1une crop last summer
However rhiryicW has rolled 0ut
ul'y or more ears OF hogs which
averaged $1,000 per car ono Plain
view firm las shipped cars of
mules 0n.une 20 70 'h, car and
hrincina an average price OF Sl25
per head Cattle shipments were
H..,o. ..f uar considerably usr
or than they were q few years ago.
\ few horses were shipped and ,he
plCating frou an occasional sheep
car was heard
The 1911 wheat crop amounted 10
Approximately zoo coo bushels.
which means 100000 Tina, is, the
portion Of the Hale county crop that
was marketed at PlainvleW About
half was or will be ground here and
half shipped Of what has already
been disposed of, and a large por-
ton remains In the aranarias OF the
srowcrs yet From all indications
Hale county led the state last var
in the production of wheat. both as
to amoWit.And WELD per acre II is
reported that one planyicw farmer I
Ihreshed 5000 bushels oi crain u /
ALT Kinds the past year, At Il prot I /
u from $4,000 10 50 0CO. Several I
wheat gr1wers averaged above > /
bushels per acre. and one farmer |
who made - bushels per acre cDaim-
I'd II he had gotten his irritation
we'll finished IN time to have flooded |
us 'l'V WI AlN-lt NiNNNlll Nf I
Noull have doubled his yicld. How
yer, artificial rainfall apniied 10
wheat has never been trird he,e and
While It might mean @ douhlnr ip |
10 the Weld, wheat r1isins vit'rut |
irrigation is h-lly profitable year in /
md year out.
\ totaling mp Of the above fig I
res shows that the "hiuyi,W tar.- /
Pts aud ranchers have received a noe
.,,enue from tier crops onC herds /
The figures VII con.;arc radly With |
hosa OF an oder agricultural sec /
lion as To amount. tut Wien l. is /
.rmemhered that filiayiew has had |
p railroad onl, a few years. hat our |
'opul't.on is parse rs yet and that |
err farmers are Just beginning TO
.,am the proper methods NJ pro tue
inc and the best paving crops the
results are highly gratifying. Nv.
more, they are mar, elous no doubt |
&c the many people tho have always
onsdered this section more or less
1 dcse,t-at the best onl.' a stock