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mill'ing center. What 1 itt1e feed grain production there was until late in the period was fed out as a supplement to livestock grazing, then exported as beef on the hoof. Live cattle were shipped by rail to the major meat packing market centers of the midwest and to Fort Worth, Texas, The cotton crop was ginned locally, the principal agri-business of the time, but the fiber was exported for processing into yarns and cloth in centers of the textile industry elsewhere, and cotton seed was crushed locally and fed to cattle. The fact that agri-businesses did not quickly spring up locally is accounted for' primarily by the fact that these industries had already been well-established in other parts of the country. The aoproaching evolution - brin~ing the mill to the ral'l material - was yet to occur. One very interesting exception was the Postex Mill for the manufacture and national distribution of finished sheets and pillow- cases, This plant was built in Garza County as a part of the enterprising Mr. Post's model conmunity development in Post, the county seat. The plant still employs 400 persons and is now a part of Burlington Industries, a large textile firm. In 1912, it was unique in the West Texas economy. As everywhere throughout mid-America during the early 1900s, there were of course thriving new businesses for the provision of implements to a rapidly expanding farming - as distinct from ranching - economy. Planters, hay mowers, hay rakes, cultivators, combines. Dickers. manure snrparlers - all horse-drawn - and then . . - -. - - - tractors, the first real big-ticket item for the implement dealer, I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I - Arthur D Little.lnc I I IV-10