Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-06-10
.KRESS IN MIDST
Of FERTILE AREA
TWENTY THOUSAND ACRES IN
DIR CULTIVATION TRIRi1A
~ To THRIVING CITY.
D, paIl - 80 Iar-aranl,n,-

South Plains counties.
Immediately tributary a. Kress
this year viii be the haryests OF
over 10000 acres 81 past perfect
fertile soil and diversified produc-
tion soil whose actual farming de-
yolopment carries with II the great
by products ~ the cattle and hog
herd the dairy pcn and the poultry
yard
Krcs. station shipped last year an
aggregate ~ 50 cars Of wheat. oats
milo matte. kaflr corn and sorghum
ana millct seed and Is cars Of sor-
ghum and millet hays while occas-
ional grain cars are still being load
ed out
Fat Cattle Mud Hogs
Many cars OF steer feeders were
sent 20 outside fattoning points
while Z carload Of home finished .
aud year old steers were shipped
out. these boovcs heIng fed on
crushed milo maize and kafir corn
and recording actual weighing tests
in flesh increase Of from two 10 five
pounds per day the top two car
loads turning Kansas city scales az
an average of 1900 pounds per head
Taken the year around Kress sta
tion hog shipments will average aU
approximation Of two carloads per
months, these hogs being such prime
porkcrs that even their lean -treaks
lean toward fat
Geo Would Not Have Been Tempted
George Washington once refused
to tell lie about his little haIchct.
but George would not have been
tempted In this direction n his
natchet had been as big as that OF
tho Kress hen a hen whose chick.
ems alone annually bring thousands
of dollars TO Krcss farmers.
Figures carefully compiled hy =
r Moore. preacher. postmaster and
prosperous merchant. say that Tho
poultry. egg. butter and cream ship
ping value OF last year Appropriated
ten thousand dollars. figures which.
Mr Moore thinks wilr,t/ consider
ably exceeded this year.
Turkeys are becoming plentiful.
but so far. the husband habit of call
Ing their wives "Duckle," or Hon
ey' Is the only indication OF the
Introduction OF ducks or the bee
hive.
Coming Engine Irrigation
with an average depth to water
of 60 feet the Krcss region Is natur
ally IN line for a general develop
mcnt of engine we'll pumpagc irrig;.
tiun, an initial plant near kress be
ing owned and operated by the Tex
as Land and Development Irrigation
syndicate. while another plant will
very probably be- put In this year
hy Judge ! u. Webb on his arricul-
tural and fine horse breeding farm
I miles from Kress. this plant 10
have capacity for the irrigation OF
goo acres. with a speciality of altal-
IN culture The region is naturally
adapted TO alfalfa growing. with n
present considerable aggregate cul-
tiyation under rainfall and windmill
pumpagc irritation of small tracts.
IAN instance in the latter direction
being that of the +. i Skipworth
farm where I windmills with an
attached reservoir supply irrigation
water Mr. Skipworth. by the way.
has $500 sheep whose annual mon
ey returns well demonstrated local
sheep values.
krcsS
krcss Is on the Santa Fo railroad.
has $50 people. the busy Farmers
state Bank Methodist and Baptist
church buildings and a Presbyterian
organization q public school with I
teachers and an enrolment of leG
pupils. a feed aud meal mill, a Wide
telephone radius, the Kress Lumber
Co.. grain elevator a large and
well conducted hotel; a smooth bar
Der a patent Porter chicken chaser
DR. r L. Helm aud his well equipped
drug store the genial and perennial
ly Young Dr Ford. a big feed and
wagon yard should aud can have
two rural mail routes and has biz
and active general merchnts. !. &.
hagley being especially big
Among the merchants j. =. Linn
is lonE II not stronr -on bnttcr.
~ = Moore. is always cgging on his
trade. while !. G. Bagloy adds 10 nh.
popular business qualifications the
reputation Of being the champion
target shooter OF the Rress region.
Manager Harris. of the Kress
Lumber Company is successfully in
Producing among local stockmen end
farmers a silo made from 2Ni inch
lumber which can be- alike chcaply
and substantially constructed al
home Mr. Harris Is nov negotiating
about a dozen of these silos with ca
pacitics ranging from 100 TO 500
tons.
Noted Irrigation Plant
Nine miles out OF kress Is the
noted Market irrigation plant of J
ID r Bass which Is equipped with
Ia s horse power gasoline engine
hooked mp TO group OF four wells
Mr. Bass has 20 acres under fri
cation and. as an illustration OF pro
duction he has raised sO.0oo bushels
for onions IN one season.