San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-26
PRODUCE THE PUMPKIN.


will be found wanting in that which
of all other things she should take
special pride in exhibiting-vegeta-
BILE products. Almost as soon as the
last fair closed the LIGHT suggested
that special premiums be offered for
vegetable exhibits for next year, that
is this fair. 1t was suggested that
good money be offered for ten or
twenty bushel lots, so as to stimulate
the raising of vegetables with special
reference to such premium. The Pc
cuniary failure of last fair owing to
wet weather, and other causes, pre-
vented the suggestion being adopted
although its wisdom was conceded.
This fair will soon open and the en-
tries so far as heard from do not evil
dence any general intention on the
part of Southwest and Central Texas
to make such a vegetable, grain and
fruit exhibit as Will properly present
the productions of our state and show
its adaptability for fruit and vegeta-
bles as well as.grain and cotton.
Southwest, Texas bears the palm for
vegetable. productions of all kinds.
Her melons are the equal of any
grown in any climate, Oh any soil.
Her pears, peaches and figs are most
luscious and challenge comparison
with the rival products of any other
state. Her native plums are equal to
the cultivated varieties grown else
where and no California grapes can
compare with the Mission grapes of
the Rio Grande in flavor or in rich
ness. Onions. turnips, peas. beans,
cabbage, parsnips, carrots, beets, caul-
flower, egg plant, asparagus, lettuce,
radishes, Okra, sweet
corn, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes,
squash, tomatoes, etc., etc., all grow
in the greatest profusion and attain
great size. Notwithstanding this fact,
the products of other states, the fruits
Of California and the vegetables of the
north country will be found in richer
profusion at the San Antonio Fair
than our own products. 1t is true the
season is against us, but not wholly
so, and there could be arranged for
the inspection of visitors next month
q very fine array of vegeta-
bles did our market gardeners
take the interest in this exhibit that
its Importance demands and justIfies.
Even now it is not too late for some
thing more than has yet been attempt
ed to be undertaken and successfully
accomplished. TWAS matter of gen.
eral comment last fall that our fruit
and vegetable exhibit was an utter
failure, and strangers continually
you raise no vegetables in
Texas? If this Interna-
al Fair and Exposition is to be an ex-
hibit of the natural and cultivated
products of this section, then it Is wo-
fully misleading. Strangers get a very
idea of our possibilities, and
of the natural adaptedness of our soil
under our genial climate to produce
nearly everything in the way of veg
etable and fruit that can be grown OH
the American continent. 1t would be
greatly to our advantage to place our
selves rightly before the great world
of home seekers by putting our actual
products on exhibit at our annual fair.
While it is wise and necessary to
show our cereals and our cotton, our
flocks and herds, our woods and our
minerals and our oils, it is equally
necessary that we show the quality of
our vegetable and fruit products and
that in the growth of
these this favored land tears no rival.
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