The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1913-10-30
CHAMBER or COMMERCE
Items Of Interest Furnished by
Secretary Geo. W. Briggs
About Lubbock

A few days ago we received
an envelop of clippings about
Lubbock, which had been cop
led from items which we had
sent out from time 10 time. One
item was sent TO twenty-three
different papers. This work IS
done through the Texas Com
mercial Secretaries and Business
Mems Association.
A gentleman remarked the
other day that he seldom read
this column, Its for out of town
readers any way" He was mis-
taken. for il is not written for
the eye of the nonresident
reader but especially for Lub-
book. We try TO make it worth
reading. though perhaps we do
not always succeed.
We consume s76O. 900. 600 of
manufactured goods per annum
in Texas and of this amount
$3.50, 900, 900 is manufactured out
of the state.
We consume $500. 900, 600
worth of dry goods and notions
per annum and Of this amount
$50, 900. 900 is purchased from the
jobber and manufacturer and
$3.50. 900, 900 from out of state
jobbers and manufacturers.
We produce approximately
1000. 900 bales of cotton in
Texas per annum. we consume
in cotton fabrics of all classes
30. 900 bales. we manufacture
40. 900 bales and the Texas
market takes only 80 per cent Of
our factory output.
We recently received a buIle-
tin from Oklahoma on the Value
of Feterita as a Grain Produc.
tive" p" IL is well worth reading
and should anyone care TO look il
over, we will be glad to show it
TO him. The Oklahoma State
Board of Agriculture recon- |
mends II in preference TO either |
dwarf milo or blackhull kaffir |
a. il is earlier. The following
are few quotations from the
bulletin:
The stem is quite sweet 90
that the stock readily eat the
whole plant. Il is more Of
irouth resistant.
One grower reports that he
received eighty bushels per acre
from a hundred acres, - that the
:rop matured in from sixty to
,eyenty days"
Another grower planted
saiiir and feterita side by side
md received more than twice as
arge a yield from the feterita
han from the kaffir. "
Still another raised three
.rops from the same stalk. He
April 9Th. In sixty
lays the first crop vas ripe. He
'ut the heads. and about ten
weeks later. about five suckers
,r stools had put or each stalk,
'ach bearing a nice small head !
about one-tnird the SIZE of the
irst heads. When these heads
we're ripe he cut them off close :
o the ground. The third crop
hen grew up from stalks wnicn
iad been cut off, each sucker
ipening a small head by Nov.
st. The total crop brought
bout 30 bushels per acre. inis
vas on light lana" F"
Another farmer says that ,
he -four from the feterita makes !
etter pancakes than buck :
sheat. >
The President OF the Connell ;
tate School OF Agriculture. '
lakes the following statement: :
/ tried out feterita by the side
I milo maize and kattir, and IN a v
'so wears test the feterita cut. 4
ielded both kafiir and milo r
lore than twenty per cent, and =
latured in ten days less than :
lilo and in more than twenty y
avs less time than kafiir. These Z
wo years were extremely dry
IG 1912 | sent out a
800 packages of seed to prac IT, tI
al farmers over 'he State, and n
blank statement for them to I,
II out showing the date and a
,anner OF planting, cultivatlng a
nd harvesting. the yield as v
with milo sand kafir e
nder the same conditions and
he comparative feeding value of n
9TH the grain and forage. A u