Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1921-03-12
PROSPECTS FOR BUMPER WHEAT
CROP BRIGHT; PRODUCERS AND
DEALERS ARE VERY OPTIMISTIC

Tractor and implement dealers are
necessarily brought into close touch
with farmers they serve. and as 70.
suit oi the contact Amarillo dealers
share with the Plains farmers optimism
as 10 the 1891 crop. Farm problems as
well as prospects are noted by the deal
ers, and they are no, uni, as TO the
prospects for making heavy sales II
tractors and implements this year.
Last year 1900 farm tractors were
sold by Amarillo dealers The situation
Is much changed from that u year
ago. Last season the problem was To
get tractors and machinery to meet
/ the demand NJ Innhandl. farmers. Hun.
drrds Of orders were cancelled on ac.
count ~ inability % got machinery
from the factories This year the iac.
tories hope 20 meet tn demand. and
while an increased acreage is b,ing
sowed 10 grain. the market price. to.
eethcr with memory ~ car shortage
grief, causes many 10 hesitate about
Incurring further obligations. This hes.
itnncy u H. generally believed hy the
tractor men. Will b. largely overcome
by the unusual encouraging outlook Tor
bumper crops
Business Is very satisfactory FOR this
season of the year. -iys ". \. Fisk.
manager OF the international Harves.
ter Company's Amarillo house. The
demand Is not as strong as last spring.
when machinery could not be- had from
the factories 90 supply the demand.
says Fisk. but orders are increasing at
a gratifying rate There was $40 600
worth ~ farm equipment shipped out
from the international companys house
at Amarillo last month, and IL will
reach $780, 600 this month. according 10
Fisk
Manager Fisk has been In tho ANA.
rillo field long enough 90 get a porspoc.
tive ~ the situation and wheat grow.
INK In this Plains country has only b..
gun, he declares. The Panhandle Is TO
actually h. the bread basket Of the
southwest according To the Information.
al Harvester man. The conversion II
the Panhandle Plains into one vast
wheat field II possible only through
the use ~ machinery. and dealers oX.
pect 20 ship train loads of tractors.
threshers and other implements 20 Anna.
rillo for distribution among IN. Plains
farmers.
The header and thrcsher combine l.
NaNmffI a III. IIsHr.a HI.E -
he predicts u viii b. The future har
ves,er II grain In tho Panhandle That
tn header md thrpsher combined h.
being adopted hy farmers IN borne out
By the international Harvester sales
only eight ~ the combines were sold
In 1919. Last year 3li We're sold. and
Manager Fisk expects the sales 10
reach 500 this year While grain in
N" black lands ~ East Texas must D.
cut before Il reaches stage ~ ripe,
noes required f0r the combine an 10,
Plains. straw. unaffected hy rust
'lnds unill the grain D. IN condition fDr
'hc header and ihresher combine. 900.
Srryei Fisk
Nctwithstindirg tho outlook for ns
kNfN ffuF NJ the ruins over Ufu
duced. farmers ure somewhat ohitv
about buying more machinery. q L.
Roberts salesman Tor Taylor Aul'mln
machinery. finds Eui for 10. financial
depression and the loss grlin growers
suffered lHst season. this year would
have been o." titipn ~ last lu the
scramble for farm machinery. boz Rob.
erts belief ~" and his partner alone
put out iS3 tractors last year. but u
viii h. beyond he expectations n that
many orders 40. filled this year
Over 20 Per Cent Increase.
The Increase in acreage - wheat this
year viii ho go por cont or NOR. Rob.
'rts 'stimn''s tn, greatest Increase.
according o. h.H 90. ryationg. win DO
ir the South Plains On tho southern
portion ~ a." Panhandle the increase
viii D" 80 per cent. snys Roberts. IN
that section. al cotton land. aud much
~ the row crop land e ~ sald. are b..
INK sowed 10 wheat
Tho wheat crop h - far advanced
nov ~ u wns May ! last year. Enys
Manager Roberts and he ufsflicts haf.