The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-09-24
Plant wheat.

The season of the year has again
come when IL is proper for our farm
ers to study the crop problem, and as
the EXAMINER is published as much
for the farmer as for the merchant
and politician, and feeling as 1t does
a profound interest in farming mat
ters-a business upon whichis found
ed all other interests of the $ ate
we do not regard few words of
reasoning aud even of temperate
urging, entirely out of place. Next
after cotton comes wheat
in importance, as to the
profit accruing in its production
Our wheat crop is very nearly indie
pendcntofth the droughts so often and so
seriously affecting cotton and other
crops. The yield of this cereal upon
proper cultivation, Is enormous and
the profit accruing very great. 1t is
always matured before any drouth
can seriously cripple it. Its worst
enemy is perhaps the June rains
which catch it in the shock, or
the winds which sometimes pros
tratc il in the stem. But all these
drawbacks put together do not con-
stitute danger half as great as a
two months dry spell in the middle
of summer is to u growing crop oil
cotton. Our wheat production has
increased enormously within the las,
few years. The larger that grows,
the more the profit accruing TO the
producer, because, by increasing the
bulk, the better the market facilities,
the better the rate of shipment, and
the keener the competition. Our
wheat ranks up with the best varie-
ties of the wheat growing states OF
the northwest, and we're our farmers
as particular in the way of seed and
of cleaning the crop of weed and
cheat, il would grade fully abreast OF
any, and superior even to the very
best Illinois can do. This is great
truth, and ought to profoundly I'M
press our farmers. Everything in ag-
riculture and stock raising in this
state is tending to Improvement. The
best varieties only. are sought because
it is found no more expensive to
raise a full-bloodcd Durham than II
is to raise mere scrub. This holds
good in grains, in cotton and in fruit
Our wheat varieties can be kept clean
and we will raise just as much of the
pure product as though it were full
Of cookie, cheat and weed seed.
These suggestions ought to be
a.si-hS.-thss farmers. II they will
in good time and In good shape,
the merchants aud dealers will
be enabled to make combinations,
which will be very greatly to the adj
vantage of all concerned. In view OF
the prices generally obtaining the
certainty of the crop and its mex
pensiveness as compared with cotton,
IT ought to receive just as much at
tention as our great staple Our high
upland black lands are peculiarly
adapted 10 wheat growing. There is
not an acre of ground in cultivation
anywhere In central Texas but will
make twenty-five bushels to the acre,
If the ground is properly prepared
and the seed well put in. Here is
found sufficient incentive, the dear
only knows, and II ought to stimulate
our Intelligent farmers in the work of
its growth.
When central Texas plants as many
acres In wheat as she does in all other
crops put together. the day of her
true prosperity will then have fully
dawned. The certainty of this feel
ing infuses new hope into every farm
er's heart. In order to do 1t, we are
compelled to dig many deeply i'm
planted prejudice up by the roots.
But the sooner the task Is underta-
ken the sooner will we be reaping the
rich fruits OF the adoption of true
and wise business policy The Ex-
feels profound interest in
this matter and its readers aud friends
need not be surprised, II il rccurs to
his subject frequently, ere the frcsts
of winter ara down unnu ne