Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-17
NEWS FOR CHICAGO.
Extraordinary Productions Of the State
Shown Up for the Benefit! Of the
Chicsgo Tribune.
Chicago Sends Her Drummera to Texas ~
the Dozsn and thon Turns Around
and ISLANDERS the State.

PRcos, Tx, Feb. %, lsss
To the K iitor OF the Gazette.
AS the Chicago Tribune has seen proper
to SANDER Texas in the most Willful and
malicious manner, 1 ask space in your
paper to controvert many Of the state
ments, and IS l have lived IN the state
thirty-tour years and travelled over 1t 8
number Of times know whereof l speak
The Tribune Gays Texas is not able to feed
herself and imports her supplies from
other states. This remark WIS called
forth by an article published in the Dallas
News, in which the News said that
Western Texas was an Grid desert, at for
nothing but cattle. Let us see il the
paper spoke truly. I will first take up
the productions of Texas and see how
they compare with Illinois.
Texas raised, the talIest cotton sits K
that was ever raised in America, it being
nineteen feet high. This was on exhibit
ton at Galveston.
Colonel Quarles, who owned farm on
Oyster creek, in Southern Texas, told me
mat In the year of 1853 he raised 1000
pounds OF seed cotton per acre on the
naive soil-no fertilizer
know of one farm in Hill COUNTY,
Texas, that raised $4,000 bushels
of corn In one season-ehough
to fatten 5000 hogs. knew 3 relter tie
same season who planted corn Oh ssixsg
acre field that had lain idle tEs pregi DDS
season. He dragged q pole cover tie
weeds to bresk them down, ruh q furY6S
with bull-toDgue plow gspd coveted
corn with same; when 1t came up, ae7un
around 1t with the same plow. It was
never thinned, and he gathered from this
planting sixty Eve bushels per acre. This
field had been in cultivation twenty years
without f5rlilizing. Corn that season sold
for 10 cents per bushel, delivered in the
crib. The average crop of the county was
seventy-1ve bushels per acre. Hill coun-
ty slone that year raised corn enough to
fatten every hog in the stste Of Illinois.
knew another man in the same county
who raised seventy-two bushels Of oats
per acre on 100 acres Of land. The next
year he sowed 200 acres, raising evenly
i've bushels per acre. The next year he
sowed 300 acres, raising nine7y-two
bushels per acre. This l believe to be
the largest yield in three consecutive
yesrs ever made in America.
In Johnson county knew Of one mans
raising l25 bushels to the acre of oats.
Captain JJohn Sqyres on his fsrm two
miles from Weatnerford raised on fifty
acres fifty two bushels of wheat per acre.
Parker county has raised wheat witk
eleven grains to the mesh. / refer you to
Colon.l Tom Lewis OF Weatherford for
toe truth Of this statement.
Isaiah Hudson of Mustang creek, Tar
rant county, raised thirty-hve bushels OF
wheat to the acre without running fur
row or sowing q grain, it being solun-
teer crop. In the spring of 1856. when
the wheat crop of North Texas was in full
hesd, there came sleet and freeze on
April ii and killed il dead. Many farmers
plowed under their stubble and planted
in corn. Those who did not raised some
Of them twenty bushels Of wheat to the
acre, the wheat sprouting from the roots
and making second crop.
Ell Mitchell, near Fort Worth, raised
on one pumpkin vine 500 pumpkins. Ask
Captain Paddock, Peter Smith, Bony
Tucker and DR.. Burts about this.
A ms near Lancaster, D3llas county,
raised from one acre, &C Elug thrt e crops
of oats, the first year seventy bushels &c
the acre; the second year seventy-two
and the third sevenly-hve.
In this way could go on with many
more statements Of the Extraordinary pro