Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-14
A POINTER.
A Valuable New Forage Plant for Tsxss
RspsrosHe or ssintOin.
ST LOUIS, Mo-, February 9, 1885,

A Valuable New Forage Plant for 1sRss
EspsroeHe or sainfoin.
ST. LOUIS. No., February 9. 1883.
Editor Gazette
Ihsve been 30 fortunate as to form the &C.
quaintanre of John Howard, Esq. q gentleman
who has bsen in our city for some time past
doing "yeomau service' for your great com
monwealth Of Texas, whose interests he repre-.
ser t. here with marked ability and success.
II can succeed In m aking suitable arrange
ments to enable me to see the country fully as
It ought to be viewed, In order that may prop
eriy investigate rs varlt and wopo eriul pnde-
veJoped resources, more especially (thoueh by
no means exclusively) from an Agricultural
and pomoloRical standpoint l propose to vieiE
Texas myself within a short time and to pub
lish the result of nay investig lions in the shape
Of a series of CORE soondences to appear in one
or more OF the leading northern dailies. This
being the case, 1t Is but natural that shr uld
feel an interest In the growth OF your great
state and therefore, at the instance of Mr..
Howard send you The inclo.ed short article
relative to a forage plant almost unknown
hitherto in this country although long ago cul-
tivated in many parts of Europ', which is, in
mp opinion, desti. ed 10 prove eventua ly of
considerable value to Texas II It turns out to
be kuitable & Its soil and climate. a fact about
viii h there can scarcely be any doubt. I oan
add that have had opportun ties 70 know of q
fruits and, perhaps, even aDimals-among the
Iatt n Of which do not inc ude, the so called
Englisn sparrow, which do not recommend
very strongly-that could doubtless be success.
fully acclimated in Texas and would eventual
~ add largely to its general wealth. OF these
could write mo anon" as old Leather
stocking used to say. II 1t was desirable.
JOHN 2. WI1LANDY,
Former Corresponding Secretary Missouri State
Board Of Agriculture.
Editor GAZETTE; While engaged In
the perusal of one Of the St. Louis daily
papers few days since I noticed the snort
extract reprinted below from the "Mexi-
can Finsncier," newspaper published in
the EGglish language In the City Of Mex
leo, il l mistake not. In the "New Ger
man Forage Plant Asperset," mentioned
by the "Finsucier," at once recognized
an old and fEmilisr plant with which
was well acquainted during the days OF
my boyhood in Europe.
As this plant is likely to succeed even
better in Texas thsn in Northern Mexico,
where the "Finauci-r" advised it to be
tried, and as 1t produces, when properly
cured, hay superior In quality to that OF
alfalfa, and fully equal, undoubtedly, to
the hsy Of any grass now grown in the
south, 1t is not an exsggeration on my
part 70 say, that If, upon fair and care
full trial, it Is found well adapted to the
climate OF Texas, its cultivation must, In
future years, add millions OF dDllars to
the productive wealth Of the state. In
speaking Of its probable success, refer &c
the climate only, because SO far as regards
soil. there are many millions Of acres in
Texas, where know that II
will flourish as well, and proba-
bly, better, than any other forage
plant known 81 present in that section,
and from my experience with "ssperset''
Ger more properly espsrcette) can con-
ceive Of no reason why this climate Of
Texas should not suit the plant perfectly
The experiments about to be made will
"asperset" in Eevsds, as suggested in tn,
''Finsncier," are, in my opinion, going Il
simply result in time aHd abor lost, ex
cept, perhaps, In some particularly favor
ed and well sheltered localities; because
Iellhough the plant would very probably
stand It's "dry and barren SOILS" 1t Is no
likely to resist the average winter temper
ature OF the state of Nevada. The latte
impeachment Is doubtless the only caus