The Lamar register., 1921-07-13
WONDERFUL AGRICUL-
TURAL DEVELOPMENT
Doll-Lamb Land Co. Have Wrought
Wonders in Country Just South
of Lamar.

grow where one grew before have
been spread in prose and verse, but
how much more deserving are the men
who make $4,000 bushels of wheat,
the staff of human life, grow where
il was never before believed even one
bushel could be successfully grown?
That is what the Doll-Lamb Land Co.
has done within q few miles of La
mar in the face of the most trying
business conditions of the past gener-
alton.
A little more than year ago they
bought nearly fifteen thousand acres
OF land within distance of from
five to fifteen miles of Iamar-land
which even its owners believed was
only fit for grazing cattle. So firm
ly were they of this opinion that the
extent of their agricultural efforts
was about forty acres of COW pony
feed. Undismayed by general disap-
proval Messrs. Doll and Lamb COM
menced to break land and plant to fall
wheat to demonstrate to others that
the land would do what they believed
1t would.
They had made a study OF the latest
methods OF approved farming in the
plains regions and put these into force
in their development work here. They
planted $500 acres of fall wheat, which
came up and looked so fine last fall
that il attracted the attention of all
visitors to the country. and they soon
commenced To make many sales. Lat
er they planted several hundred acres
Of spring wheat as test crop and
several of the land purchasers have
planted crops of corn, wheat, rye and
barley. SO that there are in all nearly
five thousand acres Of crops this year
where last year was only the little
40 acre tract. The Tightening of the
money markets last winter interfered
greatly with their work but they have
with great grit persevered and are
now reaping some Of the pleasure of
proving they were right
The writer took trip over a con-
siderable portion Of the tract this week
in company with Mr.. Geo. Doll, and
this trip will pay any one interested
in Lamar and prove a revelation to
all who have been doubters, because
you can right now see almost every
step of the game and satisfy your last
doubts as to the genuineness of the
achievement. With the hundreds of
acres of spring wheat still green, the
fall wheat some of it still ripening
in the fields, dozen headers harvest
ing other fields, still others covered
with the grain stacks, the big thresh-
ing outfit sending out stream of
golden grain, big trucks hauling il to
market, half a dozen tractors with
discs preparing the ground for re-
planting. and two big tractor plows
breaking out more raw land, there is
nothing left for imagination. 1t is all
right before your eyes.
One special field contains a few
acres each of several varieties of
spring wheat, rye, barley and speltz
planted along side Of each other and
showing what each will do under ex-
actly the same conditions. All are
making good showing but the speltz
has the lead.
Preparations are being made on
every hand for permanent improve
nents on the tract by the purchasers
already in possession. Good homes,
barns, sheds and many other neces-
sary farm improvements will soon
cover the tract and the next year will
see development far exceeding the
past The company itself will put in
seven thousand acres of fall wheat be-
sides other crops and the farmers now
on the tract will add enough to this
total to make ten thousand acres of
wheat besides several thousand acres
Of other crops next year, where two
years before were forty acres of feed.
The wheat has practically all been
running above 15 bushels to the acre
and the six hundred acres SO far
threshed have yielded little better
than an average of l6 bushels. As
some of the very best fields have not
haor fni,cbod and tho snrinu uheat ie