Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-05-29

imately LOO cars, and Fort Worth
has about As per cent of this capacity,
or nearly half of the entire cold storage
business Of the state is done in this
city. The ice plants in the city, other
than those connected with the packing
industry, will make 7l5 tons daily.
Those connected with the packing
plants will make as much more.
Fort Worth is in Tarrant County,,
So miles south of the Red river and
325 miles from the Gulf of Mexico.
The area of the county is ST., 800 acres
about twice as large as the State of
Rhode Island. Nearly all Of this land
is arabic, Az All acres are in farms
and 262, 228 acres are improved. In
other words, the improved acreage of
this county is approximately as great
as the total area of Rhode Island.
Some farm statistics:
There are 1888 farms operated by
their owners and 1,784 operated by
tenants. Only 30S Of the farm work.
ers In this county are of African de-
scent. The value is $25, O45, S13. Cat
tie on farms, 81,402 head; horses, 1913
head; mules, 6,57S head; sheep, 1876
head; swine, 14,172 head and goats,
.697 head. The value Of dairy products,
exclusive of home used, is $39S, 548,
and Of crops, exclusive of home used,
Is 81, 615. 72S.
This county, and the surrounding
territory offers attractive o%pportuni-
ties for farmers Of skill and experience
and the novice can do better here than
in most places. There are q great
variety of soils. The bottom lands
adapted to corn, cotton and feed crops
is valued at from $40 to $75 per acre;.
the black waxy prairie. especially adap-
ted to small grains but on which,
corn, cotton and forage crops do well,
Is valued at from $50 to $125 per acre..
the sandy loans are valued at from
$35 to $40 an acre, and they will pro-
dnce melons, fruits, berries, peanuts
and a great variety of other crops.
Farm labor is paid 500 and board, and
crop season labor is paid 81 to $3.50
per day with noon meal.
By reason of superior railroad facili-
ties and possession of the Chamber of
Commerce Auditorium, Fort Worth,
10 addition to many other things, is
the Convention City of Texas. For
this year 45 conventions have been
held, or are to be held, ranging in at
tendance from so to 5000 people.
Practically all of the state is In closer
railroad connections with Fort Worth
than any other of the larger cities of
Texas, and it is therefore found that
both economy and convenience dictate
the use Of this city for convention hold
ing.
At Fort Worth are located ten fac
tories for building silos Of all styles,
wood, steel, hollow concrete, concrete
interlocking blocks and solid concrete.
This is a development of agriculture to.
which the attention of Texas has only
been recently directed, but has had a
wonderful adoption by the progressive
agriculturists and stock raisers of
Texas.
VISITORS "sEE IT ALL"
Many Of the visitors had never been
through packing houses and expressed
a desire to ''see it ALL" when the Ar
o plant was reached and guides
were furnished by H. E. .Finney, gen.
eral manager, and Dan G. Black, as
sistant to the manager, Mr.. Black TAX
ing charge of one party himself. Both
Of these gentlemen will soon leave Fort
Worth for the Argentine, where they
will take charge Of the Armour inter-
ests In South America.
The Armour plant a an interest
ing revelation to most of the visitors,
to whom 1t was open from top to bot
tom. The killing of animals was wit
messed by many, though some pre-
ferred to pass by this feature of the.
business. The plant has a capacity Of
thousands of animals daily and the
meat from it is shipped to all parts of
the United States. The by-products-
are shipped to the Chicago plant,
largely, to be converted into the spe-
cialties which have grown up out OF
the packing business, and In which
sp~ecialties much of the profit Of the
packing industry is said to originate.
After the trip through the plant the
members Of the association returned to-
the Westbrook, where luncheon was
served. Homer HARDWOOD, Of Michi-
gan, and Joe Mitchell Chapel, Of Bos-
ton, were the principal speakers. The
afternoon was spent without program,
but in the evening q cabaret dinner
was served at the River Crest club,