Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-06-04
WHEAT
MEANS MILLIONS
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development and heavy and wealthy
population In large sections OF West
ern Kansas.
the farmers Of western Kansas
did not and do not become discour-
aged with either a partial or total
failure OF wheat as they look % the
average. which experience has
taught them TO boz profitable.
Right now. Western Kansas, and
In fact. most OF he state Of Kansas,
including Oklahoma. are in the
throes Of a Ions drought. with at
tendant high burning temperatures.
causing big deterioration 10 the
present wheat crop and under the
most favorable conditions that can
take place from now on their yield
viii be greatly reduced. win entire
failure no doubt in not q few sec
tions. They realize that this has
happened hitherto. and also realize
that next year may be a bountiiul
one.
The wheat belt Of the state of
Oklahoma Is Just about the same as
that Of the Panhandle. Oklahoma
has had complete failures on account
% drought and high temperatures.
and two recent partial failures were
In 1909 and 1911, but had a bumper
crop In 1919. They also had in
the previous years about the same
experience as had In Western Kansas
but the average Is getting better as
time goes on and they are now
classed as a wheat state, with suffi-
Client strength % bee a factor In the
markets.
Right here would state that
Kansas has pursued a course with
reference 10 wheat that could b"
followed with inestimable profit boy
the Panhandle. and that Is their
policy OF careful seed selection. The
agricultural bureau of the state
government OF Kansas has been
very progressive. They have sent
Representatives 10 the wheat produc
ing districts OF Asiatic Russia and
Turkey. aud also European countries
and found and brought thither the
best aud most suitable strains OF
wheat and introduced them with in
calculable profil To the Kansas farm
ers.
This was followed by a general cd
ucation OF the farmer as to the best
methods of cultivation, and the
careful selection OF the heaviest and
best seed wheat In this way the
average yield per acre throughout
the wheat belts of Kansas has been
Increased several bushels, adding In
the aggregate millions of dollars 10
the annual wealth production of the
Kansas farmers. a similar course
viii eventually be pursued In the
Panhandle. Il only to have the All
Panhandle Fair" as to proper
means and instrumentalIty OF at
tanning these ends.
We now find certain communities
In the Panhandle having gwen vari-
ctics Of wheat brought from Asiatic
Russia. and Turkey. who produce
biz Yields certain years, and fairly
gcod Yields off" years, and II this
we're known TO all the Panhandle
farmers there is hardly any section
that would not produce proiitably
wheat crops any and every ear and
with the All Panhandle Fair this
Intelligence. through the exhibits.
lectures and oommingling Of The
farmers could be made known to
practically every farmer, To hc fol.
flowed hv a Widespread dissemina-
ton of the best selected and adapted
seed. as above mentioned
Particular attention Is called "a
the Panhandle wheat yield of last
ycar. I'm the counties OF Hanstord.
Ochiltree. Lip.comb. Hemphill, Gray.
Wheeler Carson. Roberts. sherman.
: Dallam. Moore and Hutchinso, There
We're Yields generally varying from
. to % bushels per acre, and 90
Potter. Hartley. Farmer. Randall
Swisbcr. Rriscoe. Hale, Floyd, eros.
by, Lubbock. Castro. Deaf Smith
Armstronc ana Donley. there were
Yields yaryiug rom 10 TO % bushel.
per acre. and that. too, OF non-irri
gated land, and last year did not
| anything like compare with the bet
ter yields of several previous years
n one-half If this scope had beer
IN cultivation with one-fourth Their
: o. In wheat this particular scope
would have shipped around twenty.
live million bushels. bringing in q
the farmers the rise Of twenty mil
lion dollars.
From this b. would be easy TO de
( duce that some day. not FAR distant
the Panhandle will be produciu'
around twenty-five million hushel|
: OF wheat annually. with ultimat'
p%ossibilities of a much greater pro
! duction. aud sin leave room for al
p the other crops needed. and ! Consid
Ter this forecast as entirely sane an'
reasonable 70 only the Panhandl'
farmers will set together and wor'
out the problem In unity and alonl
rational lines
The Texas Railroad Commission
J has provided low freight rates 70
{ the transportation OF grain original
Ing within the limits OF the state an
Panhandle Wheat T. now aud alway
Will be worth N average OF some D