The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, December 6, 1907 Page: 3 of 12
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THE HEREFORD BRAND
A REMOVAL SALE
OWING to the fact that we are going to have to remove our goods from
present warehouses in the near future, we are going to make ROCK
BOTTOM Prices to the trade for the next ninety days on following articles:
Farm Trucks, Wagons, Anchor Buggies, Surries and Hacks, Windmills
and Windmill Fittings, about three cars of Baker Perfect Barb Wire, in
galvanized and black, several thousand pounds of smooth American Wire,
a large line of Kingman Gang Disc Plows, Disc Harrows, Sulky Plows,
Riding Attachments, Sod Breakers, Mold Board Plows. A large line of
nice Heating Stoves—all sizes, Cook Stoves and Ranges of the best make.
Special bargains on all Leather Goods, Harness and Saddles, Lap Robes,
Horse Blankets, Washing Machines, in fact everything in our stock will
be sold at the greatest bargains ever known in the city of Hereford. If it
is bargains you are hunting, come in and let us figure with you.
Yours very truly,
No Trouble to Show
Qoods
Hereford Hardware Co.
Buy your hardware
from L's
A PANHANDLE STORY.
Farmer John and his Experience as
Told by the Parson of the
Plains.
Written especially for the Brand.
"Am I a home builder and can I
make agriculture more honored?"
"These are the questions that ran
through John's mind as he read
Commons, on Races and Immigrants
in America," and realizing for the
first time that in all Europe, Asia
and Africa there was but one race in
the seventeenth and eighteenth cen-
turies that had the preliminary train-
ing necessary to plunge into the wild
forests and establish homes and agri-
culture.
"It was the English race that es-
tablished itself in America, not be-
cause it was the first to come not
because of its armies and navies,
but because of its agriculture.
Every farm carved out of the wild-
erness became a permanent foothold,
and soon again sent out a continuous
colony of sons and daughters to oc-
cupy the fertile land."
While fired with this inspiration
John received a copy of the Here-
ford Brand and saw therein a great
opportunity, in a new country, to
realize his cherished desires to make
a home, attractive, beautiful, profit-
able and influential. Thoroughly
imbibed with this idea, and realizing
that time was money, he boarded
the west bound train and arrived on
the fertile plains of Texas. He pur-
chased a piece of virgin soil for
$15.00 per acre, paying one third
down, and the balance on long time
at low rate of interest.
On January 10, 1908 he returned
with a willing help-mate and began
the building of a home. He became
a life subscriber to the Hereford
Brand, took farm journals and
periodicals, studied scientific soil
culture and landscape gardening and
tilled the land to make it yield its
best. He adorned the yard by
planting three rows of trees on each
side, mainly black locust, walnut,
elm, maple and white ash. The
front yard was adorned with roses
and flower beds, the back yard with
trees, not in rows, but here and
there, as in the forest.
In well arranged plots he planted
strawberries, blackberries, dew ber-
ries, goose berries, an apple orchard
of Missouri Pipin, Jonathan, Limber-
twig, Ben Davis, Wine Sap, Yellow
Transparent and Red June. Pears,
Kiefer and Dwarf Duchess. Plums,
Burbank, Golden, Pool's Pride and
others. Peaches, Mamie Russ, El-
berta, Summer Snow, Old Mixen
Cling and Indian. Cherries, one
hundred trees of fine varieties and a
vineyard of the finest selection, all of
which bore fruit in its season, fifty
and a hundred fold. A grove of for-
est trees, cotton wood, black locust
and walnut, was planted for beauty,
protection and profit, and one half
acre in garden. He built an earth-
en tank 200 feet long, 20 feet wide,
and four feet deep, and the wind mill
kept it full^of pure water. On the
banks he sowed blue grass seed, as
he had among the trees in the yard,
and on this lake he placed a flock of
ducks.
He fenced a hog pasture adjoin-
ing, and sowed it in alfalfa, and
planted a row of trees all around it.
When the ground was getting dry
and the alfalfa grazed short he re-
plenished the moisture by irrigating
from this tank. He fenced the tank
so the hogs could not destroy the
bank, and planted trees around it
just four feet from the waters edge
He erected a commodious barn and
back of it a machinery hall, where,
when not in use, he stored all man-
ner of farm implements, to be shel-
tered from the summer's sun and the
winter's storm.
He sowed forty acres of alfalfa,
onri it iritn tvn farms fnr
convenience Ten acres of bromus
grass added to the hay crop and
furnished winter and spring grazing.
Each fall he sowed acres of selected
seed, each summer reaped a bounti-
ful harvest. Hogs, sheep, poultry,
Jersey cows, and well bred colts
added yearly to his bank account.
Isthis attractive? Ask the passer
by as he views the thrifty scene.
Ask John, as on the 15th day of
June 1913, he drives into the barn-
yard, teeming with flocks and broods,
owing "No man anything, save to
love one another." the evening
breeze laden with the fragrance of
new mown hay, his farm waving
with golden grain, the pekins glid-
ing swiftly on the lake, the apple
boughs laden with choicest fruit, the
cherries upturning purple cheeks to
the setting sun, the gentle zephyrs
frolicking with the leafy twig, the
. dove cooing in the grove and the
mocking bird warbling its sweetest
melody to make pleasant the evening
! hour. The moon crossing the milky
way and sending forth its silvery
beams declaring that darkness shall
| not hide this beautiful spot. On the
threshold he imprints a kiss upon the
■ cheek of the woman he loves and
lifts the "Cherub Child" from her
arms, seats himself in the easy chair,
hums lullabies to the cooing infant
and sings "Home Sweet Home."
Gentle reader, young farmers,
and the rising generation, this is no
idle dream nor fairy fancy, but John
is a real man, (any man), who real-
izes the foundation upon which this
Republic is built, and wants to be a
corner stone upon which it must for-
ever stand, and all this and more
too, within the alloted time, can be
accomplished on the fertile plains,
in the Panhandle of Texas.
Parson.
Second Hand Sax.
The Hereford Nursery wants to
buy all the second hand sacks you
hav nn knnH ¿i\1l
Public Improvements.
The city and the county have been
doing some very substantial improve-
ments on the roads and streets, and
more work is under contract to be
done. The rity thru its council has
had more than $2500.00 worth of
improvements put on the main streets
of the town in the last three months,
the recent work, being the grading
and macadizing the cross streets and
having put in along the main street
eight enforced concrete culverts and
bringing the cross streets and main
streets up to the same grade. The
city is having graded the two streets
leading to the court house square
from main street, where the county
will take up the work and put in
substantial grading and culverts on
three sid^s of the square. The
nn thp r;i'<t nf th* rnurt hnn«?<®
will be graded so that the water will
not collect near the jail as it has
i been doing. This grade will also
relieve several of the residences in
that neighborhood from the water
overflow.
A Big Radish.
G. M. Suggs brought to the Brand
! office Tuesday morning, the largest
radish yet shown in Hereford. It
measured 17 inches long and 17 in-
ches in circumference. He says
j that his wife raised the vegetable
I and is entirely responsible for the
j wonderful size.
Notice to Tax Payers.
I will commence r^Uecting city
taxes October 1st. See me at C. E.
Edward's real estate office.
33-tf Henry Hubbert,
City Marshall and Collector.
M. M. Major
C. M ricOhee
Major & McGhee
Photographers
We are increasing our facilities for
handling all kinds of work.
Views made and finished prompt-
ly. Reasonable prices, Satisfac-
tion always.
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Elliot, A. C. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, December 6, 1907, newspaper, December 6, 1907; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth142540/m1/3/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.