Hereford Reporter (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, February 28, 1902 Page: 1 of 8
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reford Reporter
VOL. a. NO. 2
HEREFORD, DEAF SMITH COUNTY, TEXAS, FEBUARY 28, 190a
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There has been a great deal said
in the newspapers of the country in
the last two years about the farmers
raising broom corn, and many far-
mers have gone to raising it without
investigation. A correspondent of
the Farm and Ranch says there are
two varieties, the Standard and the
Dwarf. The soil of Texas is better
adapted to the Dwarf. . The Stand-
ard, or large growing sort, is too
long and the straw too coarse.
There is a great deal of waste in it,
therefore the manufacturer or dealer
is slow to take hold of it, while the
Dwarf is finer straw and a shorter
brush, and at the same time produ-
ces as much salable product to the
acre as the Standard. It can be
planted on light or heavy soil with
good results. It takes about three
acres to the ton, and the farmer can
usually get from $60 to $100 per ton
forfine^ea-green Dwarf broom corn,
and it cost him about $40 per ton to
raise, allowing him $3 per acre rent
on his land and pay for cultivating
it. In other words, It costs him $40
per ton if he rents land and hires all
the work done, to raise the crop and
harvest the same. Of course, there
is a little expense in starting. One
wants shed room, which ought to be
slatted up and slats to lay the straw
on, say three to four inches deep, so
it will not heat after the seed are
scraped off. One should have a
horse power, also a cylinder scraper
with teeth in it about two and one-
half to three inches long. The
scraper should be run at a high rate
of speed, so as to take the seed off
by the handful as soon as put on the
scraper. The Dwarf variety only
grows about five or six feet high and
should be harvested while the seed
is in the doughy state. It should
dry out thoroughly in the shed so all
of the sap is out of it. Then it is
ready to bale and for market. An-
other feature of the Dwarf broom
corn is its foliage is heavier, and if
cut green with a self-binder and
shocked makes very fine roughness
tor cattle, and if the season hits
right you get a second crop, not
quite so good as the first, but often-
times pays more than enough to
cover the expense of raising the first
crop.
Broom corn is drilled like sorghum,
stalks left three to five inches apart.
It should be planted when y¿u plant
corn, or any time up to May 1.
Hereford has a broom factory and
pany of her nearby farmers are al-
ready engaged in the raising of
broom corn, with profit to themselves.
As this soil is especially adapted for
the raising of this valuable product
we believe it would pay many more
of our farmers to engage in its pro-
duction, there being an excellent
market for it at home and abroad.
Don't Ask for the Old Woman.
Good story is told in Missouri at
the expense of its once famous gov-
ernor, Claiborne F. Jackson. Before
he solved the enigma of love-lock he
had married five sisters!—in reason-
able lapses of consecutiveness.
After one wife had been lost and
appropriately ^mourned he espoused
another, and he kept his courting
within a narrow circle of his own re-
latives, for he rather liked the family.
The antiquated father of these
girls was almost deaf, and when the
governor went to this octogenarian
to ask for the surviving daughter
the following conversation ensued:
"I want Lizzie!"
"Eh?"
"I want you to let me have Eliza-
beth!"
"Oh, you want Lizzie, do you?
What for?"
"For my wife!"
"For life?"
"I want—to—marry—her!"
"Oh, yes ! Just so. I hear you,
boy."
"I'm precious glad you do," mut-
tered the governor.
"Well," slowly responded the
veteran, "you ncein't halloa so that
the whole neighborhood knows it!
Yes ; you can have her. You've got
'em all now, my lad ; but for good-
ness' sake, if anything happens to
that 'ere poor misguided gal, don't
come and ask me for the old wo-
man !"—Ex.
Mrs. Gerke Dead.
Mrs. H. B. Gerke died at 10 a. m.
Thursday at the home of her sister,
Mrs. J. E. Beasley, from peritonitis,
succeeding childbirth. Mrs. Gerke
was 23 years old and she leaves a
strong, 'healthy son as a heritage
for her husband. Funeral services
were held at the M ithodist church
on Friday at 2 p. m., R?v. J. A.
Whitchurst officiating. Interment
was at th: Amirillo cemetery.—
Amarillo Record.
Mr. Girke has many friends and
acquaintances in Hereford, who will
join with the Reporter in deeply
sympathizing with ULa ia his great
sorrow.
Stringfellow-Hume Hardware Co.
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The Hereford House
MORRIS & JACOBSGAARD
THE FIRST-CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE
HOTEL OF HEREFORD
LIVE AND LET LIVE RATES
CONVENIENT TO DEPOT
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Prices are Good.
A remarkably large number of
steers are being sold all over West-
ern Texas, and the fact, as one man
expressed it, "looks good" to the
cattlemen. Usually thsre is not
much doing before the spring con-
ventions, but this year is proving an
exception. We understand that
practically all the big herds between
here and the Pepo3 are already con-
tracted for, and sales are also be-
gining tc show up down on the T. &
P. In the Panhandle prices are hold-
ing up to about $24 for twos, $30 for
threes and $35 for fours. Yearlings
are also expected to bring good
prices, and we understand a local
cattleman offered $18 for the Moon
3teers of that age last week. -Clar-
endon Banner Stockman.
An humbl: boy with shining pail
went gaiiy singing down the dale, to
where the cow with brindle tail, cn
clover her p¿la4.e did regale. A
bumble b¿e did gaily sail far over
the soft and 3'aadowy va'.e, to where
tli- boy with saining pill was milking
the cow wi.li the brinile tail. The
bee lit dovn on ths cow's lef. ear,
her heels flew uo through the atmos-
phere and through the leaves of the
chestnut t^ee the toy soiir^d into
eternity. —Ex.
Just received a car of genuine big
German millet s:ed. Johnson &
Ferguson. . 2tf
"Do you know," says the wise old
merchant of long years experience in
business, "I never would consent to
have my name on a fence for adver-
tising purposes." "Why?" "Because
three fourths of the names you s?e
painted on fences and barns arc of
firms that have gone out of business.
It's a fact. The next time you drivf
into the country just take notice and
see if it is not so."- Ex.
We are just in receipt of a mixed
car of seed oats, seed corn, spring
wheat and mixed millet seed. Get
our prices. Johnson & Ferguson. 2tf
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notice and at rea*
sonable prices
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Hereford Reporter (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, February 28, 1902, newspaper, February 28, 1902; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth142285/m1/1/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.