Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-05-11
Wheat.

| A few days ago we mentioned
that Mr.. ]. V. Matson, of the
Long Point neighborhood, was
raising small crop of wheat.
Mr.. M. was in town yesterday,
and informed a BANNER reporter
that he had four acres in Mica
ragua wheat that was now
ready to cut; it looks fine, is
! free from rust and will yield not
less than twenty-five bushels to
the acre. He will send some of
it to Galveston to be ground,
and the remainder will be dis
posed of for seed. For the past
year or two Nicaragua wheat
has been successfully raised by
a number OF farmers in his
neighborhood and also in the
neighborhood of Burton. 1t is
Mr.. Matson's present intention
to plant about twenty acres of
this wheat next season, and all
who have experimental with it
will plant more extensively next
year. He is familiar with the
culture of wheat, and has lately
been in North Texas-the wheat
country of the State; he says
as fine wheat can be raised here
| as there and as much of it, both
the soil and the climate being
equally well adapted to it. In
his opinion, a Touring mill at
Brennan is about the only thing
needed to stimulate farmers and
planters to make wheat a part
of their regular crop, the same
as corn and cotton. Should
this idea be carried out, 1t will
be found OF vast benefit to the
country, for two reasons 1t
will keep at home vast sum of
money that is sent away for
flour, and the surplus sold for
cash-wheat always brings cash
will bring money here at
time it is most urgently needed
and when there is nothing else
to market. Mr.. Matson also
says that oats, rye, barley and
millet can all be successfully
raised; he has variety Of oats
known as Egyptian, which, he
says, do well. The heads are
very long and the grain small
but abundant. A greater diver
sity of crops has long been a
pressing need in all the exclu-
sively cotton country. Raising
cotton and using the proceeds
to buy bread and meat and for
age for the work stock not only
impoverishes the soil, but also
the planters pockets. To use
somewhat ambiguous express
sion, the farmer who can live
at home and board at the same
place is in fair way to indie
pendence.
HAVE LEFr.-Mrs. Buckow
and Mary Buckow, the women
whose adventures in seeking
aid, subsequent arrest, trial, fine
and incarceration in our elegant
bastile, have been fullychronicled
in these columns, after four days
rest, prayer and recuperation,
on Saturday came to the sensi-
BILE conclusion that Brennan
was not in the least adapted to
their easy way of making liv-
ing off the charitably inclined.
Their visit to BIenham may be
summed up thus: hotel bill paid
about So; collected from the
charitable about s7.2s; boarded
at expense Of city four days,
lodging zero; experience gained
about soS7o.65. They bought
tickets to Richmond over the
Santa Fe and the city cart was
furnished to transport their bag
gage to the depot; it consisted
of one seven-shooter revolver,
about ~ calibre and worth
scant four bits, one trunk, two
big baskets and a pair otgrip-
sacks. They showed by their
conduct in the bastile that they
were used to such quarters and
had some little knowledge of
their legal rights. If they at
tempt to beg again they should
be shown no mercy by the Off
GERS, as it is evident that they
have adopted that means of
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