Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-16
NEWS FOR CHICAGO.
Extraordinary Productions Of the State
ShsWn Up fer the Benefit Of the
Chicago Tribune.
Chicago Sands Her Drummsrs to Texas BY
the Dazsn and then Turns Around
aad ISLANDERS the Safe.

malicious manner, l eSk space IN your
paper to controvert many of the state
ments, and as l have lived in the state
thirty-four years and travelled over it s
number of times know whereof speak.
The Tribune says Texas is not able to feed
herself and imports her supplies from
other states. This remark was called
forth by an article published in the Dallas
News, in which the News said that
Western Texas was an srld desert, At ior
nothing but cattle. Let US see if the
paper spoke truly. 1 will first take up
the productions of Texas and see how
they compare with Illinois.
Texas raised the tallest cotton sta k
that Was ever raised in Americs, it being
nineteen feet high. This vas on exhibi-
ton at Galveston.
Colonel Qusrles, who owned farm on
Oyster creek, in Southern Texas, told me
that in the year OF 1858 he raised 1000
pounds OF SEED cotton per acre on the
native soil-no fertilizer.
[ know of one farm in Hill county,
Texas, that raised $4,000 bushels
Of corn in one seeson-erough
to fatten 5000 hogs. knew renter the
same season who planted corn on sixty
acre field that had lain idle the previous
season. He dragged a pole over the
weeds to break them down, run furroW
with q bull-toDgue plow and covered
corn with same; when 1t came up, be run
around it with the same plow. 1t was
never Trimmed, and he gathered from this
planting sixty-flve bushels per acre. This
field had been in cultivation twenty years
without fertilizing. Corn that season sold
for 10 cents per bushel, delivered in the
crib. The average crop Of the county was
seventy five bushels per acre. Hill coun-
ty alone that year raised corn enough to
fatten every hog in the state Of Illinois.
knew another man in the same county
who raised seVeDty-two bushels Of oats
per acre ON 100 acres Of land. The next
year he so~ed 200 acres, raising seventy
five bushels per acre. The next yesr he
sowed 200 acres, raising ninezy-two
hgssheis per acre. This believe to be
the largest yield in three consecutive
yesrs ever made in America.
In Johnson county knew OF one mans
raising 125 bushels to the acre OF oats.
Captain John Sqyres on his farm two
miles from Weatherford raised on fifty
acres fifty two bushels Of wheat per acre
| Parker county has raised wheat witt
| eleven grains to the mesh. l refer you to
Colonel Tom Lewis of Westherford fol
the truth of this statement.
Isaiah Hudson of Mustang creek, Tar
rant county, raised thirty-flVe bushels o.
wheat to the acre without running FUR
row or sowing grain, it being volun'
| teer crop. In the spring Of 1856, Wher
the wheat crop OF North Texas was in full
head, there came sleet and freeze OF
April II and killed it dead. Many farmer:
ploWed under their stubble and planted
in corn. Those who did not raised sons
Of them twenty bushels Of Whest to the
acre, the wheat sprouting from the roots
and making second crop.
Eli Mitchell, near Fort Worth, raised
on one pumpkin vine 500 pumpkins. Ash
Captain Paddock, Peter Smith, Bony
Tucker and DR.. Burts about this.
A MAJ near Lancaster, Dallas county
raised from one acre, Gang three crop
of oats, the first year seventy bushels Il
the acre; the second year seventy-tWo
and the third seveniy-hve.
In this way could go on with man!
more statements of the extraordinary pro
duc'iops of your section Of the state, hu
l it. would make my letter too long.
Let US now come to the Pecos Valley
the coming 81 Dorado Ct America, and
will tell you what she CEN do. Rsmembe,
it is all By Irrigation, no farming can be
done without it. Mr.. Dan Murphy G
this county last year raised on 800 acres
sixty bushels Of oats to the acre withou
one drop of rain. Augustine Hernandez
rs Mexican on Toyah creek, raise dis swee
Il potato weighing s25 pounds. Cabbag
was raise d in this valley weighing all tn
way from ten to sixty nine pounds pc
| head. One mans crop averaged thiIt
pounds to the head. Beets, turnips an
all kinds of garden products grow in thu
same proportion.
Two men in the Pecos Vale
raised last season 27,00
pounds of Irish potatoes to the acre
some Of the potatoes weighing six pound
apiece. 1t lmSy be well for me to stat
here that the Irish potato is indigenou
to this section, having been found grow
ing wild by the earliest pioneers.
Seven tons of alfalfa per acre can b
raised here. Pumpkins and melons OF a
kinds grow to enormous proportions
The Pecos valley, II all put into cultiva
ton, would raise more than two sue
states as Illinois. Fruits grow her
equally as we'll as in California, especial
the Ell Paso grape.
Texas has rails d the fastest race hors
in the world, running mile in one mir
ute. thirty.f seconds, with sn averag
stride Of twenty-seven feet. This hors
Wss Rebel.
Texas has raised the largest grass stee
ever raised in America, weighing in Dal
las $500 pounds, never fed one grain @
corn. Williamson county can boast of
Merino buck that sheared forty-six pound
of wool at one clip-Would max
half dozen suits of cIothe
for a Chicago mani Let hill
remember that We have no 4G' below zer
climate, no mixed schools, no equality G
races, but an atmosphere SO pure, brsc
Fling and delightful that it makes a ma
| tell the truth whether he will or not. LIE
Texas merchants remember that Chicag
has hundreds of drummers seeking tn
Texas trade, but let them give thei
money to our fr1ends-St. Louis, Galve:
ton, New Orleans, and not patronizs
people ever ready to SANDER us.
Now, in conclusion, would ssy, il an
Chicsgo rooster wants to know snythin
more about Texas, let him call on ms
:. for have told only the half Of all know
JOHN J. INGE.