El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-08
FARMING
PLAINVIEW GREAT
FARMING CENTER
Handles More Poduce Than
Ever Before; Cotton
Acreage Greater.

( Plainview. Tex. Feb. "A larger
amount Of farm and ranch produce has
come into PIainyiew during the month
Of January, 1912, than in any preced-
ing January. In the last 10 days one
pair Of scales has weighed 42O wagon
loads Of grain and hogs and 90 bales
OF cotton It is thought that the
threshing OF maize and kaffir will con-
tinue for a month or SO yet.
The various farmers over Hale coun-
y bring with them some very crafty
Ing statistics for the 1911 crop. H d.
Rosser, one Of the most successful
farmers in the southern part Of the
county, states that the past year he
Melted $500 from nine acres planted to
Watermelons- The melons were raised
without irrigation, were shipped to
central and north Texas, and netted
10 cents per melon. Their culture in
volyed not even the loss Of land for
the melons were planted between the
rows OF trees IN young apple orchard.
Peanuts Without IrriEutf0a.
K b. AavenhIl, IN the southwest
ern part OF the county, reports that he
raised without irrigation 800 bushels
Of Spanish peanuts on 10 acres Their
color was damaged BY q rain, but he
marketed them at 81 per busheI and
received q revenue from the hay be-
sides.
Robert Alley, in the central part OF
E1al6 county eApGElIn6nLeQ with one
acre planted to maize and irrigated
from his big well It yielded near 20
bushels q threshed grain and a large
amount Of roughness.
c. E. Ebeling, 8 Plainview farmer,
marketed his alfalfa crop locally yes
terday. The crop amounted to 125
tons and he received an average price
OF SIS per ton. The alfalfa was raised
without irrigation 1t is thought that
there are many others who have not
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the figures for the entire crop are now
seen 70 be much larger than were
given out at the close OF the year
Wanted-COttOn Packing Machine.
Experiments have been made from
time to time in the Plainview country
picking machines The trials have
been attended BY varying success. but
have been perseTered In because Of
the fact that in this section labor IS
so high and scarce and cotton so plen-
tiful that a large percent Of the 1911
crop remains ungathered- Even II
there IS no cheap negro labor IN this
country, its future as e cotton grow
ing section viii be thought to be
bright If machines can be substituted
for the gathering OF the crop The
acreage to cotton. in Hale county has
grown IN the past three years from
100 to 10000 acres.
Gins Cotton Bells.
ne Malone Eli EA64iA lew Is L--s
only ginnery in this section that is
equipped with the necessary apparatus
to gin cotton bolls (bolls that had not
matured when the first killing frost
camel, and cotton IS being brought
here from quite a radius. some coming
as far as so miles quite q lot has been
brought from around Floydada- The
gin is running all the time on boil cot
ton and turns out about 10 bales per
day
Jack FaIkenburg. who farms east OF
Plainview. reports that last May he
planted ~ acres in milo maize and
in October gathered and sold the crop
for 1872, which was nearly twice as
much as he paid for the land when he
purchased II not long ago. No irriga-
ton was used.
VIM. Becker from Illinois, was here
last week and bought q tract Of land
near Runningwat from W ". Jones
He will move 10 1t soon. Mr.. Jones
also sold $50 acres south OF town to
m Indiana party.