The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-03-06
STATE DEPARTMENT,

STATE DEPARTMENT..
The Johnson County Park and Fail
association of Cleburne; capital stock
$4,000. Incorporators M. l.. Kin.
nard, S. G. Graham, Il. A. Scurlock
and Rosa Xix.
COMPTRoLLER's DEPARTMENT.
Comptroller Mccall yesterday regis
tered $4,000 San Marcos School
House and Street Improvement
bonds.
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT..
Commissioner Foster in his report
alluding to the purchase of farm pro
ducts by Texas farmers says: The
department is entitled to the credit OF
calling attention to the enormous an
nual out lay of money by farmers for
the items of bacon and lard imported
from the Western States, which in
1887 amounted to the sum of $3.50,
9516O. and in 1888 to $2,022,745.
From the above it will be seen that
there was saving of over a half mil
lion dollars in the purchase of bacon
and lard in 1858 as compared with the
purchase OF 1887, or, in other words,
the farmers of the State raised over
IL half Il million dollars worth more
bacon and lard in 1888 than they did
in 1887. OF course the decrease in i'm
pOrtatiOn is in part due to the fact
that the drouth of 1887 rendered corn
scarce, and consequently fewer hogs
were fattened.
There was decrease in the amount
OF corn and syrup purchased by farm
erS. The decrease i'll the purchase OF
syrup amounts to nearly fifty per
cent.
OF the yield of potatoes he gives the
following:
The average yield per acre of sweet
potatoes was 1928 bushels and the
average value per acre was $40 80
With proper care they are easily pre-
served and so far the demand has ex-
ceeded production, especially so of the
pure yam. The increase in acreage
in 1888 was 1857 per cent.
The average production per acre OF
Irish potatoes was 1910 bushels anC
the average value per acre 700 W
The increase in acreage was also large
yet there are large quantities i'm
ported annually. This is due in part
to the fact that no successful method
OF preserving them in this climate has
yet been devised. The exact differ
ence between the home supply and
consumption cannot be determined
but it is undoubtedly large.
Olhay he says sorghum cane hay is
most profitable, showing the highest
average yield per acre. 1t is affected
less by drouth than any other cult
waited product, and in favorable seas
Ons two crops can easily he grown
Account was, for the first time, taken
of the acreage in cultivated hay. The
acreage indicates the extent to which
farmers are turning attention to the
various Varieties Of grasses that mus
soon become Il part OF the crop on ev
cry we'll conducted farm. The aver
aye value OF these different hay crop:
per acre WAS as follows: Sorghum
p cane cut for hay 1886, cultivated
hay $16.47, millet SI2.27, prairie ha
sell.
STATE DEPARTMENT.
The following charters were file
yesterday:
The White Sewing Machine Com
pany of Ohio capital stock VI ,2OO,OOU
fnInnQnV
Burnett an amendment increasing
the capital stock from $4,000 t.
500 600.
The Pecos Land and Water Com
pany of Loving county; capital stool
100000. Incorporators: J. }. HageI
man, Louis H. Jackson, Charles b
Eddy and w. A. Hawkins.
The Odessa Cemetery Company, o
Ector county.
CoMPTRoLLER's DEPARTMENT.
Palo Pinto county redeemed $lOO
bonds of yesterday. -,
Comptroller Mccall for the mont
of February made the following de
posts:
Interest on school bonds ......... ny
Principle school lands ............. 2Z,0O
Lease school lands ............... 4,VO
Lease University lands. ............ 40
Interest University lands.......... ~
Asylum lands. ..................... o,Oo
Contracts for furnishing the asylum
with supplies for the next quartz
have been made. The following wer
the bids for furnishing beef:
Blind Institute - Sekaatz VA, I
A. Turner $5.49, Sheehan $6.9O, Red
d Shelton "a 93. Lucksinger $3.50.