The Higgins News (Higgins, Tex.), Ed. 1 Friday, August 1, 1975 Page: 2 of 12
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DIVERSITY OF CROPS, ALFALFA. STOCK POSSIBILITIES.
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Farm scene in Lipscomb County
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To show the comparative value of investments in
farm property, according to the last United States
census valuations, the following table is presented:
Nel Value
of products
$175,573,238
189,260,606
101.623.420
106,828,655
151,039,057
Iowa
Illinois
K ansas .
Missouri
Texas
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10.45
15.09
12.24
20.74
Value
of farms
$1,555,515,4S0
1,810,558,860
673,443,350
872,581,893
727,899.308
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in alfalfa near Higgins, sixty feet to water. He has had this stand
three years, averaging three cuttings of hay, with one ton to a cutting.
E. C. (iray has sixteen acres in alfalfa at 100 feet to water. He sowed
liis first six acres in September, 1906. and ten acres in 1907. His hay
crop makes one ton to a cutting, with three cuttings for the season.
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Fifty or sixty different crops can be gresvn in Northeastern Pan-
handle country. No section of country can produce such a diversity
of good quality crops. In no section of the country has the farmer
more to market from spring until winter than here. He has prac-
tically something to market the year around. Wheat yields from 15
to 35 bushels per acre; oats from 25 to 60; corn from 25 to 60 bushels
per acre; kaffir corn and.milo maize will thresh out as much as 50
to 60 bushels per acre; broom corn is a profitable crop, 350 cars
shipped this season ; cotton, when properly cared for, is a good crop;
we are able to grow, and do grow, both large and small fruits. The
soil is especially adapted to the culture of apples, peaches, pears,
plums and grapes of all kinds. Vegetables are raised in great pro-
fusion and are of excellent quality. A record of $400 from one acre
in tomatoes has been made in Ellis county, Oklahoma. Melons and
cantaloupes are of fine quality and of prolific growth. Our mer-
chants are prepared to buy and handle all kinds of farm products
from a hen’s egg to a load of wheat, and always pay the highest mar-
ket price anywhere, therefore the farmer is blest and made happy in
a land of plenty.
There are many instances where a good stand of alfalfa is found
on land 100 and 125 feet to water. The soil, a sandy loam, with
clay sub-soil, and no hardpan, makes this possible. The alfalfa pos-
sibilities are greater here than in any section that can be named
relying upon natural conditions for its support. Alfalfa lands are
most valuable of all lands, because of the increasing demand for
alfalfa and alfalfa products. All alfalfa lands are to be the high
priced lands of the future.
This is the best hog country in America. Cholera as unknown
The climate, altitude and all other conditions, including alfalfa for
pasture, make it exceptional. Hogs will grow, feed and fatten or
alfalfa alone in this locality. Thev can be put on the market at :
cost of one cent a pound.
Diversified Crops, Best Stock Country in America
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As a stock country it stands alone when the future is consid-
ered. Native fed cattle have always been top-notchers in the mar-
kets. The improved stock of the future is to surpass Kay county,
Oklahoma, Northwestern Missouri, Kentucky and Virginia, world-
famed in thoroughbred stock. It is contiguous to the 40th parallel
of latitude, bordering on which is the choicest stock in America.
This is the least developed, but it has greater advantages. When a
grass-fed pony can be taken from the prairie and rode forty miles
without a feed, it means something when this stock is bred up to
that point that makes a thoroughbred, because the endurance is na-
tive born ; give him speed and training, breeding, and here is the
horse to beat the world. The same is true of all stock.
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The future of this section from an alfalfa standpoint is beyond
the dreams of the most optimistic. There are thousands of acres of
ideal alfalfa land, that in a little while will become choice and val-
uable. Today these lands are nominal in price. In a few years all
good alfalfa lands will easily sell for $100 an acre. F. W. Latimer
of the Higgins Hardware Company, has cut two crops of alfalfa hay
in one month on Wolf Creek. One crop was cut June 1: the other
June 30. There are thousands of acres of this kind of alfalfa land
on Wolf Creek. Clarence Parker on Wolf Creek, on fourteen
acres of alfalfa, got forty bushels of seed, which sold for $10 a
bushel. In addition he cut three cuttings of hay, averaging one ton
to cutting, which sold for $8 a ton. J. A. Abner has thirty acres
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