The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1920-01-15
'D1 TEXAS FARM NEWS

Deep snow and extreme cold weather, fol.
lowed by long period of drouth, has forced
Wyoming sheep men 10 ship over 100000 head
of sheep into the San Angelo country for win
ter paSturing.
The county superintendent Of the 400 pub
lie schoolhouses Of Erath County, are endeavor-
ing 10 have planted at every one of the school
houses small pecan grove.
Collin County is 10000 bales of cotton short
of the same ginning date last year The crop
is about one-thrd of a normal crop for the
county.
Long staple cotton has been grown near Yer
non and was grown from seed planted last June
and produced three-fourths bale TO the acre.
Rice growing will be attempted on large
scale within 25 miles of San Antonio this year.
Local buyers think that San Angelo will ship
40 cars of pecans this season. The previous
high record was made in 1917 when 30 cars
were shipped
The Boys Pig Club of McCulloch County
paid as high as $12500 each for registered pigs.
On ten and q half acres of land, W. A. Cham
bers living few miles south of Denton, raised
SOS bushels of peanuts, which he sold for $500
per bushel. He paid $500 an acre rent for the
land and estimated that his crop netted him
$4,000 an acre The hay from the peanuts
paid for the threshing and the rent on the land
c. B. Trimble a negro tenant on Lee Canter-
burys farm near GAINESVILLE, sold two bales OF
long staple cotton for zoe per pound. The bales
weighed 515 and SIG pounds and netted S72l5O.
Including the seed, the two bales brought S9Ol.-
So
About 10000 head of cattle are being sent
to Texas from Montana, Wyoming and Utah be-
cause of the severe drouth in these states
Hilton Howard, young negro on the farm
of Miss Maydee Barron. just north OF Sherman,
picked over 700 pounds of cotton from sunup
until shutdown, for which he received $1,000
for his days work
The Bell County turkey crop is estimated to
have been worth $4,000 to the farmers. An
average of % cents was paid by the buyers.
Washington County will this year produce
1000 bales of cotton as compared with nearly
$4,000 bales last year.
Simmons & OMary sold a pair of 3-year-od
mules, raised in Grayson County, for $4,000
The pair weighed 1900 pounds. Pretty good
evidence that Texas is as good a Embarrassing
state as Missouri.
Jack Middleton Of Scury County, near Sny-
der, made about as much money last year out
of sorghum molasses as his neghbor farmers
made out of cotton. He says he manufactured
1920 gallons and sold it for Sl.00 per gallon.
Another record breaking price was paid to
NJ Chesshr of Fulbright, Red River County
for two bales of long staple cotton The price
paid was 80 cents per pound
The First National Bank of Temple is pre-
pairing to invest the sum of $4,000 in pedigreed
hogs for the pig club recently organized in
that county.
Two five-year-old boys earned S1.3S and SLAP
respectively in one days cotton picking in Tay-
loT County. Many school children in West
Texas have made as high as $1,000 day pick
ing cotton in the field.
J. w. Brock of Grapevine, Tarrant County is
making $500 an acre from his cane crop this
year as a result of manufacturing his cane into
syrup He made an average of 60 gallons of
syrup from each acre of his crop and had no
difficulty in d.sposng of the product at S1.25
a gallon.
Houston Temple, 12-year-old boy of Dallas
County, bought a gilt hog with money borrowed
from local bank and when he paid the bor-
rowed money due the bank last week, he re-
ported owning a SOW and pigs worth 1915. He
received sos from the sale of three pigs and
$50 in prize money.
As part Of the program TO reduce the cost
of foods. W. Hartze of the National Wool
Growers Association. is conducting campaign
out of Dallas to teach the value of lamb meat.
Nh Hartzell says that we spend millions of
dollars each year for wool from other countries
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