The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-05-16
TRAVIS COUNTY PRODUCTS.
The Trials of the Agricultural Ed
itor With Early Vegetables.

At this season of the year the agricult-
ural editor has about as much as he can
stand under, or rather, to put it more IN
accordance with the facts, about as much
as he car encompass. He is expected to
eat the first vegetables of every kind that
is raised in the surrounding country. At
least, they are sent to the office and laid
on his desk, and he feels called upon to
eat them in order to get them out of the
way. Strawberries, sweet potatoes, Irish
potatoes, cabbsges, pumpkins, squash and
tomatoes, are in turn offered up at the
shrine of his dOmesticate appetite, until
he begins to look upon himself as kind
of vegetable canning factory. Howev T,
he hes much to be thankful for. Figs do
not grow on thistles, nor do dogs and to-
matoes grow on vines, Therefore, the
life of the agricultural editor IS not near
so rocky as it might have been. just at
present the agricultural editor is getting
himself in trim for the watermelon and
green corn season. He has already writ
ten several hundred notices, so that when
the serson fairly opens he will not have to
stop every time wagon load of water
melons or "a bushel of
oorn is emptied on his
desk to write something like this:
esquire Blowhard, who lives out on Bull
creek near the falls of Bsllederie, was in
town yesterday and he laid on our desk a
| sample of his watermelon crop. The
vegetable was twenty-five feet long and
ten feet in circumference. 1t touk two
men to sever it from the vine, and the
watermelon and the squire were about all
that two horses could waddle with to town.
The squire informed US that his water
melon vines have encroached considera-
bly, upon Beilederie Falls and have alb
sorbed most all of the water in Bull creek.
1t is feared that this will materially in
terfere with the picnic season,
as it is very inconvenient for
Bellederie Falls to flourish without any
water. Should the BIackstonian society
determine to give their annual picnic this
year at Bellederie Feils, they will probably
arrange with the Squire 70 cut one of his
moderate size melons, just about mile
above the falls so that the fair guests of
the Blackstonians may see Belle
derie Falls in all her pristine glory
as she was. The Squire informs
US that his melons are rather small this
year-not near SO large as last seasons
crop, probably due, he thinks to the fact
that the water ran short in Bull creek Jhis
year. Squire Blowhard is one of the
most successful planters in all that Bull
creek country, and we are satisfied if there
we're more like him, watermelons would be
cheaper. Success to him. Call again,
SQUIRE
Thus it was that the agricultural editor
of The STATESMAN had his mind upon the
watermelon season when he walked into
the office yesterday and found crop of
oats on his desk. He draws
the line on oats, however, and although
making his usual practical test, will
state upon the authority of gentleman in
the Office that they are very fine oats. They
are volunteer oats, grown on lot in this
city and are three feet four inches long.
Their heads are ten inches long-consid
erably longer than that of the average
genus homo. The gentleman who brought
u e oats to this Office does not want his
name divulged, probably because they are
wild" oats, but if any one desires any in
formation about the matter, he, she or
they can apply to the agricultural editor,
who has sowed lot of them in the days
that are no more.