The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-09-26
AGRICULTURAL POSSIBILITIES OF
SOUTH PLAINS ARE UNDEVELOPED
EXPERIMENT STATION CROPS ARE SUPERIOR TO THOSE
ON OTHER FARMS; SHOWS NEED OF IMPROVEMENTS
EDUCATION FEATURES KARPER'S WORK
That Too Much Land and Too Small Production Per Acre
is Hwtul % the Farming Industry Here is Undiputed
by Those Experienced in Better Farming.

The value Of the farm lands ad-
jaeent to Lubbock is only partially
known.
This great fact is realized by
farmers, businessmen and stockmen,
yet getting down 20 an immediate
solution is a thing that is given too
little time, if we observe rightly.
The Agricultural Experiment
Farm, near the city limits of Lub-
book, and which is placed in no
more fertile land than is to be found
in most any part of the country, is
yielding as much as from two-fifths
to one-half bales Of cotton to the
acre in a good many tracts, whii
farms in other parts Of the county
are being raked TO the last row for
from one hundred and fifty to two
hundred pounds TO the acre, and
prospects for the second picking
are not at all promising.
This is matter Of farming al
together. Mr. Harper, at the head
OF the experimental farm, knows
soil formations. cultivation and
plants better than perhaps any other
man in the state, yet he is not an
old man by any means, and we are
sure that had he been in the farm
ing business from a producing in
stead of an educational standpoint
the resul of his work would be
Just as noticeable
Educate the farmer and the farm
or will build that industry beyond
the narrow confines it has known
since il has been "A vocation in this
country.
Practical farming dwindles in
comparison to the work Mr. Harper
has accomplished on the experiment
tai farm, and there is a reason, yet
there is not a boy on the farms of
Lubbock county but who can learn
the business just as well as Mr..
Harper has learned Il. and every
hour Of this time spent IN study viii
be well paid for before he will hape
aunlicd his knowledge 20 that indus
Try many years.
This b. matter which should
be given the closest consideration OF
all persons interested IN the de-
telopment of the great south plains,
and which will have 90 be looked af-
ter before the full value Of our lands
for farming purposes VIII be real
lied
There have been e great many
farmers So intensely Interested in
be ,hines that Mr. Harper has
on his farm that they have made
regular visits 10 the place 90 watch
developments and the value Of their
observations have boon realized,
while scores of Lubbock ounty
farm perhaps have never Visited
the pla0o. and perhaps don' alize
what is in store there ior them.
The farmer and bis problems are
of such vital Importance 20 the de-
velopment Of the plains country that
anyone interested in this section in
any way whatever cannot but help
take an active interest In them, and
t IS well therefore that business
men. bankers and merchants en-
courage the fellow who is doing his
level best 20 get the full benefit of
every days work on his farm, thru
systematic cultivation Of his land.
and IL will be but little while until
diversified, well regulated farming
will be the order Of the day on every
one hundred acres Of land in Lub-
book county.
a great deal Of attention given
10 poultry hogs, dairy cattle and
intensive farming on less acreage
s needed on the lands Of the great
South Plains.
An together for Immediate de-
velopment of the agricultural pos
sibilitics Of the greatest country
anywhere.