The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1914-09-10
A Letter FROM
". B. GARRETT

Editor News:
The prospective yield of all crops
in this part of the Lone Star State is
generally satisfactory. A bumper
feed crop is already assured and is
being harvested rapidly. Many farm
ers here will make feed enough to do
them two years if fed economically.
The new crop of maize is being offered
at So per ton while old crop sold for
$50 and more a few weeks ago. A
ton of good maize will thresh out
about % bushels and a bushel of clean
maize is figured to be worth as much
as a bushel of corn, so you see that
SIS ton is mighty cheap feed. The
sorghum crop is a big thing here.
Thousands of acres planted here, and
when it heads out and grain reaches
dough stage, it is cut with a machine
called a row binder, which binds in
bundles which are put in shock and af-
ter curing out properly it is hauled up
and ricked to be fed out as fodder or
roughness, to cattle and horses etc.
1t is fine feed and when grain is
well developed it suffices for com
plete feed for work stock. Ranchmen
claim that it makes the best cattle
feed of anything they can get.
The cotton crop is evidently going
to be big one if conditions continue
favorable for the next 30 days. (They
count on cotton making up to Oct.
1st.)
An early freeze would very mater
tally damage the yield as so much
was late planted, but with contin-
uance of present conditions for growth
and maturity and a freeze not earlier
than Nov. 10, a bumper crop will be
a certainty in all west Texas as far
as | heard from.
If the farmers were just as sure of
a good price and plenty of pichers
as they are of good yield they
would feel much better.
No insect pests have appeared in
the cotton as yet. Boil weevils have
never struck this country yet, but the
boil worm sometimes ruins the crop
they tell me, but up to date they
have done no damage.
Cotton is opening quite rapidly on
some farms and picking has begun
but the rush of gathering will not
be on before October There was an
excess of rain here during August
On the 18th, 23rd, oath and 25th
nearly inches of rain fell against 16
of an inch in August last year. The
total rain fall to date this year far
exceeds last season up to this time.
Reece Adams returned from Abilene
the past week at which place he I'M
derwent an operation for appendicitis
recently. He is reported as convalesc-
ing nicely now.
We had the pleasure of several
days visit in San Angelo, the last of
August. While there we were the
guest of Mr. J. B. Bright our old time
friend and schoolmate He moved
from Vernon to his present home last
March. He is very pleasantly situat-
ed in northern suburbs Of San Angelo
about miles from court house square
out on car line leading to fair grounds.
He has a nice home, good house. a
good strong weel Of good water, wind
mill and overhead tank. A little or
chard and fine garden. He irrigates
both orchard and garden from well
By the way irrigation from wells is
quite extensively carried on in north
San Angelo. | saw one truck raiser
who irrigates is acres from one well
on 10 acres of his farm he had sold
$1,000 worth of truck and expects 20
realize as much more from same
ground this season. He was putting
out 3 acres in Celery when | was
there and from this plot of ground he
had already taken off two crops.
San Angelo is a substantially built
and fine little city of $4,000 popula-
ton, and is claimed to be the largest
wool market in the United States and