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The Hereford Brand
Vol. 7
HEREFORD, TEXAS. FEBRUARY 7. 1906
No. 52
The Great Question
With everyone who visits our place—How can you afford to
sell goods so cheap? We would answer~we are doing a
large volume of business and we have a "whale" of a stock
of everything for you to select from. Then how can you
afford to give such nice and useful premiums with each
$10.00, $25.00 and $50.00 purchases? We have been and
are still doing this for the purpose of making January and
February real live business months—and we have suc-
ceeded, too. Now for the next two weeks we will have a
live and wide=awake time. Interest is growing each day.
The scale of prices has reached the lowest notch on all kinds
of house furnishings. Come spend your money now and
get a nice premium and draw the capital prize February 15.
?
Wholesale and Retail
Furniture Dealer
E. B. BLACK
Wholesale and Retail
Furniture Dealer
A MESSAGE FROM THE FARMERS
Nine Years a the Plains Without
a Crop Failure-jWould Not
Exchange Farms.
SDGCESS IK CORN AND RIILLET
Land Easily Cultivated—Six Suc-
cessive Crops on one Piece With-
out Loss of Productiveness.
Dimmitt, Texas, Feb. 4, 1908.
The Hereford Brand
I see from the recent issues of the
Brand that some of the farmers are
giving their experience on the Plains
and, if agreeable, I will tell some-
thing of what has occurred with a
Missouri farmer. I came fro'm
Mercer county, Missouri, nine years
ago this spring and settled on the
place I now own, five miles west of
Dimmitt. When I first went there,
no fences had been built and there
was only one between my place and
Hereford. I began to cultivate the
land the first year, putting in about
forty acres. I have in nearly 300
acres at present. I have never failed
to make a feed crop and have fed
from one to four hundred head of
cattle each year. Eight years ago
I set out an orchard, consisting of
apples, peaches, plums, pears, grapes
and cherries. All the trees have
borne fruit and as good as I ever
raised in Missouri. My trees and
fruit haYe never been attacked by
any sort of worms. The grapes
have never failed and have never
mildewed or rotted. The cherries
bore an abundant crop six years in
succession. A man can cultivate
more land and with more ease than
in Missouri, because he can work
more days in the year. On one 20-
acre piece, I have raised millet six
years in succession, making a good
crop every year. The fourth year,
my neighbors said that in would run
not less than four tons to the acre,
which sold at the bam at $9 per ton ;
delivered at Hereford it sold at $12 ;
thus the crop made from $36 to $48
per acre. The farm I owned when
in Missouri recently sold for $50 per
acre and I would not exchange my
Panhandle farm acre for acre for it
and be compelled to live on it. I
own 3292 acres and have no land for
sale and it has never been on the
market. W. M. SMITH.
robinson's letter.
Hereford, Texas, Feb. 4, 1908.
The Hereford Brand :
My former home was in the black
laud district of Texas in Dallas
county. It was considered one of
the best farming parts of the state.
M.y special crops there were corn,
oats and wheat. I came to Here-
ford six years ago and have been
farming since. I take the same
pains cultivating my crops here as I
did there and I always make as much
to the acre on the average. After
the land has been broken two years
I have no trouble raising as much
corn to the acre here as I did in
Dallas county. From my last crop
of corn, I sold ten acres that weighed
out 50 bushels per acre and forty
acres that weighed 40 bushels per
acre. I have never raised any corn
here that made less than 25 bushels
per acre. I also think from my ex-
perience here in growing wheat that
this country is well adapted to that
crop. Last year my wheat which
was already jointed was frozen down
the last day of April, yet it succored
out and made 804 bushels from 50
acres. I consider it should have
made 25 or 30 bushels per acre bui
for the late freeze.
J. W. Robinson.
A GOOD SUGGESTION
Citizen Makes Timely Remarks
Wants Name of Town Known
and Streets Lighted.
1 To The Brand :
! It is an every day occurrence when
trains stop at the depot for passen-
gers to ask the name of this town,
what is the population, how deep to
water, etc, The town makes a fine
appearance and people are interested
¡ in knowing more about it. We now
have four passenger trains each day,
and in a few months may have six or
eight. This means thousands of
people passing through our town
every month, and I suggest that we
have two large signs erected, each
to be 25x12 feet, one to be placed
on the line between railroad risrht of
way and street directly south of
Easterwood's livery, and the other
on the same line just sout of Gass's
store. By so placing them they can
be easily read while trains are taking
water and stopping at the station.
These signs should be made as at-
tractive as possible and lettered by
an expert in two or more colors.
Something like the following should
be placed on each sign :
This is Hereford, Texas, Gem
City of the Plains. Population 4000.
County seat of Deaf Smith County.
Shallow Water Belt. We have an
unlimited supply of tne finest and
purest water at 40 to 60 ft. Ricnest
farming lands in the whole Panhande
and abundant rainfall to grow all
crops.
Fi\ e First State Prizes were award-
ed the Hereford exhibits at 1907
Texas State Fair at Dallas. Finest
milling wheat in the Southwest is
raised here.
No Saloons or Negroes in the
County. Main shops and division
point of new railroad now building
from Boulder, Colo., to San Antonio,
Texas, are to be located here.
Good College and Public Schools.
You are invited to become one of us,
in this land of heart's delight.
We should have the wording on
these signs differ somewhat, but
make them catchy as possible. The
wording I have used can be greatly
improved upon. We should be able
to erect these two signs, cover the
front with metal and have them
handsomely lettered at an expense
of about $50.00. I suggest that the
business men and citizens contribute
this, and I will start it off with a
donation of $5.00.
Another thine I wish to mention is
! the subject of lights. There is no
likelihood of Hereford having elec-
tric lights soon; the price of fuel
and the large amount of it required
¡ to run an electric light plant pre-
. eludes the possibility of our having
such lights soon. A brilliantly
lighted town is always a progressive
town aod the town that gets the
trade in every case. No other factor
in the business growth and trade
getting ability of any town is of such
vast importance as ell lighted
streets. Our main business street
should be well lighted, and the City
'Council owes that much, at least, to
our citizens. If you have not been
to Amarillo lately, you will be sur-
' prised to see how well the town is
lighted. The City Fathers there
have finally got up ;nlss a resu t
they have one of the best lighted
cities in the state. Good street lights
are a sure sign of a progressive up-
to-date community, and will always
attract progressive people. There
is now on the market a beautiful
1500 candle power gasoline street
lamp. It is sold ou an absolute
guarantee to give satisfaction, and
can be operated at small expense.
This lamp sets on a 12-foot iron post
and all operting parts are located in
the bottom of this post. It can be
set to go out automatically. Four
of these lamps, properly placed,
would light three blocks of Dewey
Avenue beautifully. If the city will
put in these lights I will see to it
that they are had at wholesale prices.
Yours for more light,
T. Pacittw
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Elliot, A. C. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 1908, newspaper, February 7, 1908; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth142551/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.