The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-02-24
HOG INDUSTRY IS GROWING IN
THE SOUTH PLAINS COUNTRY
LOCKNEY SHIPS Is CARSONE WEEK

from Lockney 10 cars OF hogs and
cars Of cattle, making total
Of rs cars Of livestock in one week.
This week we win ship several cars
of hogs and cattle. not counted in
on the grand total for January and
February.
These are some splendid figures,
and is proof positive that Lockney
and Floyd county is forging 20 the
front as n livestock shipping center.
II is said that we have the best bog
market on the Plains. The hog
shipment has been something Won
derful, and the end has not been
reached yet. Hogs are coming in
TO Lockney daily. There are herds
Of them in pens in the elevator dis
trict ready for shipment. These
hogs were fattened out on last
years maize crops. Instead Of sell
ing the maize on the low market
our people have fed il 20 hogs,
which viii enable them 90 realize
a handsome price for their feed
stuff, when driven or hauled to
town on foot and wrapped up In
hog skins.
You can talk about your market
ing associations 90 benefit the farm
ers, and the Beacon is friendly TO
them, but there is nothing that
will, and is, benefitting the farm
ers OF Floyd county ike this d.
versified farming. Had they not
been for our hog crop this year
L,r
bunch Of Plains suckers. Had Il
not been for the poultry we have
shipped from Lockney, and the
money paid the people from same,
we would have dubbed il like those
unfortunate farmers down in the
boil weevil district. Our livestock
industry is pulling us out Of some
very tight places. There is no way
60 keep a farmer down and out
when he helps himself. He can,
and always has, helped himself
when he has a nice bunch Of hogs
10 market He always lives AZ
home and puts his feet under the
mahogany three times a day when
he has a large bunch Of poultry TO
market. He is independent and
can look the world squarely in the
face when he bears biddy adyer-
Using her products by the friendly
and familiar cackle. The farmers
Of the Plains country, especially
Floyd county, will neglect big re-
sources if they fail TO plant few
acres TO chickens and hogs this
year. Wheat has all but bankrupt
ed this Plains country, and when we
speak Of the Plains, we include
Floyd county as a large portion Of
same, and if wheat farming is con-
tinued on the same scale, as We
have grown il in the past few
years, we will all be broke, and
viii have our applications filled
with the poor-farm managers. II
can't be done. Cotton alone has
broke Central, North, and East
Texas What the one-crop plan
failed TO do for the farmers Of
those sections, the boil weevil did
the rest. We haven't the boil Wee
vii, but will go the same bankrupt !
route If we stick 10 the all wheat |
idea. Wheat production on the
same scale we have been farming |
IL in Floyd county the past five
years has broke every man in Kan
sas. u will break every man In !
Floyd county If not stopped. The
Beacon urges, in order to avoid the !
fate Of Kansas, that we adopt a I
permanent policy Of raising some
wheat each year, and some cotton
each year, and some maize each
year, and lots Of hogs each year,
and let the poultry roam the prai-
ries in droves. Let the cackle Of
the hen be heard by the thousands |
on each farm. Arrange TO feed !
every pound Of maize you raise.
In this article and before we
conclude. the Beacon wishes 70 |