Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-05
PLANT WHEAT.
Tho Meet Pre- Il :Gbls Crsp Tina. Can bs
Planted lE North and N9r:h.
Tssl TeXas.
Tsxas Buyir Flour AbYoad-Fort worth az
NaTkst-Ber Biills and
Eievatcrs.

which were not useful. Later on it WAS
found to be great grazing country, snd
when thousands Of cattle roamed over
the plains AID grew !at upon the native
grasses it was thought that 1t was being
utilized to the highest degree Of which 1t
WAS capable, and thst it would thereafter
be the pasture land CT the state. Alter c
while the stockraisers and settlers be-
gan to plant different srticles; first sor-
ghum cane, then corn and cotton and
oats. Crops OF these were raised with
more or less success, and finally wheat
was sowsd. II proved q good
crop, and aga!n snd sgain it
was tried IL small quantities,
its suGcess varying as the seasons proved
favorable CT otherwise. In 1887 much
larger qlaatitv Of wheat was sOwa than
ever before. Especially YVES tits the fact
in Northwest Texas. The season was
fair, and behold the result. Crops yielded
from eighteen to thirty five bushels to
the acre. tire grain being large, round
snd solid, free. from extrsneous sub
sisncas and CT clsss that produces the
finest OF -four. The agricultural reports
STOW that the best wheat counties in
OHIO and Nsw York yield an average OF
eighteen to twenty-five bushels to the
acre in good seasons. There land is
worth $50 to 500 an acre; here from
So to $50. If it. psys to rsise twenty
two bushels to the sore there, surely 1t
will pay here, where with coed season
the yield may go TO thirty five bushels.
But this is not sill. There is another
consideration that must enter largely into
the question OF wheat production, or the
production Of anything else designed for
sale. 1t is the question OF market. Cat
tie can be raised more chesply il Texas
tran in the states named, bat they must
be taken elsewhere to fad market.
True in the case cattle, cut not true 10
the case of wheat, Ter the fact fs that
Fort Worth i5 to-day the best wheat mar
ket in America. Neither Chicago nor
New York, nor any other market IN all
the country is paying as much for wheat
rs is being paid here in Fer! Worth, right
or the border OF the greatest T7hest coun.
try on the continent. The TACT ie, the
mills here sre not only buying
all the Wleas Inst comes il
from Texas farms, but they are
sctuslly shipping it from Kansas std other
places, cpe tirUl having already bought
$4,000 bushels outside the s.ste. TIE
elevators in Fort Worth have capacity
Of 500, 600 bushels, and the four mills will
consume IN the Courss CT a year :. 000,0 1000
bushels OF grain. Unless much more
wheat is 4sised in Texas in gears to come
thsn has bsen heretofore, these mills will
send north for g great deal OF this grain
The mills st Dallas, Corsicans, Waco,
Sherman, Gainesville, Denton and other
points throughout Texis Will be obliged
10 do the same thing, il they run full
time. Indeed many of them have already
either received CT CONTACTED for lArge
shipments from other points. And yet
this is rot nearly the whole story. Al
though the capacity Of the mills row
running IN TeXss is rot nearly supplied
by tie whest raised in the state,
the mills lack very much more
OF supplying the Texas demand for
-four The output of the mills in this
state, ss THE GAZETTE is informed by the
biggest mill owner in the state, is not
equs! to half, perhaps not more thsn
third, of the demand. Ii other words,
Texas, with her cheap lands and unequal
ed whest producing soil, instead CT rais-
ing whest to send into the markets Of the
world, Is buying more than two-thirds CT
Texas come TO et&ud Still, so far SIS
tvsIy farmer ia the state rfay treble aSs
crop Of wheat and still fad good home
market for every grsia he raises. Ans
wnesa the rapid growth CT the state isl
taken Snto consideration Il is very p!sit !
thst tha producing cap&ypty will 9s9e
many yesrs TO grow before it equal thS4
consumption. The MILF, iIao, Bia in I
cre&se es rapidly rs need be, ssd there
will be no lack OF them IS long as there is
anything to grind.
Some CT the northwestern states can
produce wheat fo- 40 cents bushel. !
Inst cannot be dons il Texas, because OF
the uncertainty OF the Seasons; but wheat
can be grown here OF . prcfiI for Go cents
bushel, and S IS long So the home supply
is'lsss than the home demand there is no
SSnger thasthe price will ever fill below
'shat fl sure.> Il, ss is the general opinion,
the settling Of the wertera country shall
make the sessonsimofe regular, then the
time may soon cone when whest can be
produced at the loWerrsta in Texas, en-
40 ing the farmers Of this stale TO go out
into the markets Of the county snd COM
pete for supremacy. But st the present
time there is no need cf-tEkipg these
things into consideration, for the lsrmer
Of Texas fnds al ne can 90, and more,
TO supply the state with bread.
The Texas wheat grower this year has
realized 80 cen!s>to 81 bushel for his
grain, q price which makes II pay him
more for his labor and for the rent CT his
ground thsn could have been resliz9d
from any other crop he nigh. have
planted. Put the average yield at 20
bushels, snd the price ct 90 cents, snd he
realized SIS ar acre. Suppose instead Ct
wheat he had planted cotton. It must
hsve been II le crop to have yielded heif
q bale, for which he would recsive $40.
To raise wheat he must have piowed the
ground once, drilled his graia, cus and
threshed it. For cotton the ground must
be plcwsj, the seed drilled, !
the plant worked over three
times with plow and hos,
the product is picked, ginned and baled. |
OllY 81 difference in the receipts aud
miny times thst difference in the cost OF
raising aud PREPARING fer market.
The best quality Of seed wheas n the
market Yesterday wss raised ID Northwest
TsxIs and WAS sstang st 81 20. The
fafRers who hrous 1t. it IN hai received |
from.5 TO Sl45 tofata. y,
Thstima il, no " eornias on Hseu wheat
for next yearfs cpp nusss5e sown. TaEi
GAZETTE hopes that the aesssge
10 N nth and .csNortAwest Fexxs |
may lie greatly. increbsac,.{ tcf
i. f3miy .helisvss thas in 'no-otle crop |
eaostbs farmer .get. fa4arge aIeturn fcE
hisIsbor and ouseY:, Ii further believes |
that N3rthNest TsIas is destined TO be- |
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