1913•Unpublished venueOpen access

Cereal experiments in the Texas Panhandle

John F. Ross, A. H. Leidigh

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THE TEXAS PANHANDLE.invest heavily ; others come with only meager equipment and financial resources.None of them have knowledge of the crop varieties or cropping methods most likely to be successful under the rigorous conditions prevailing on the high, dry plains.But few are helped and many are injured by the partial data and misinformation so commonly sent out to inquirers by land-selling agencies.Few settlers can afford to lose their crops during the first year or two in a new country, and none of them are equipped to discover proper crops and methods by experiment.This is, however, the proper service of the Federal Department of Agriculture and the State experiment stations.

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THE TEXAS PANHANDLE.invest heavily ; others come with only meager equipment and financial resources.None of them have knowledge of the crop varieties or cropping methods most likely to be successful under the rigorous conditions prevailing on the high, dry plains.But few are helped and many are injured by the partial data and misinformation so commonly sent out to inquirers by land-selling agencies.Few settlers can afford to lose their crops during the first year or two in a new country, and none of them are equipped to discover proper crops and methods by experiment.This is, however, the proper service of the Federal Department of Agriculture and the State experiment stations.

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THE TEXAS PANHANDLE.invest heavily ; others come with only meager equipment and financial resources.None of them have knowledge of the crop varieties or cropping methods most likely to be successful under the rigorous conditions prevailing on the high, dry plains.But few are helped and many are injured by the partial data and misinformation so commonly sent out to inquirers by land-selling agencies.Few settlers can afford to lose their crops during the first year or two in a new country, and none of them are equipped to discover proper crops and methods by experiment.This is, however, the proper service of the Federal Department of Agriculture and the State experiment stations.

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