The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-11-20

farmers TO abandon altogether the cultiya-
| lion of cotton and sweet potatoes, aPples
and other vegetables and fruits known 10
die on "dead spot" land and suggests tnaI
crops should be cultivated such as CORP,
| oats and wheat which is not a1ecteu ny .ne
fiIngns. He saws: 1--WE have as yet no pos
;t;ys remedy for dead land, neither DO L
think there ever will be any found. l nave
been trying for twenty years with an OF my
| wits and / think am as far from IL touay
| as when first landed in Texas. r.
81 have read in the Home and Farm alter
the well known John Q. Edgar OF DuVhl,
Tex., and Jeff Welborn of New Boston, anu
many others and am still IN the uarA anu
so are they. ...;o, 81 orors
will give partial relief in dry season ior
one wear, but as soon as second crop ~
mt In on this land it begins to die ana VIII VIII
get worse each year afterwards until all VIII
die before the bolls are grown, 80.
Mr.. Muncy's experience and NINE 40 noe
coincide. TO begin with, l never s1EEo
rotation of crops credit for being IN lnfaln1
HE specific, but merely related the result OF
an experiment which had the effect OF pre-
venting cotton from dying, on what MT
Nuncy somewhat unfairly terms "deao
Iand.H in '89. But as nave
raised another crop this year OF nearly
three fourths Of a bale 10 the acre on inc
same land and without single dead PAN,
while unrelated land adjoining showed the
usual amount of damage, | think am Jus,
titled in believing that my remedy Is Sooo
| for more than one year.
am satisfied that cotton will rot and the
decay of other plants on certain Spots IN
our fields is due to fungus, and that the
longer any of these susceptible crops are
raised on the same piece OF land inc
greater the chance for the spread of that
fungus. am,
NV theory was that the fungus will be
starved ont bv q change of crop for num-
her of wears. 1t is still only theory, and
given as such, but this years experience
carries it another step in the direction OF
certain fact. e.,.
do not think that badly affected held
that has been in cotton for fifteen or twenty
wears can be permanently cleansed of the
plague by change of crops for one or Two
wears. but do believe that the mischief
can be greatly lessened by q systematic and
heightened course of rotation.
do not despair of solution of the mys-
terry surrounding the disease. The science
of agriculture is but in its infancy, though
its practice is as ancient as the history OF
mankind.
TEXAS REFRIGERATED NEAT.
Last week saw the Inauguration of a new
enterprise in Fort Worth of great interest
TO the farmer ana SUOChIldU. L his was JuC
starting of the Dahlman Dressed Beef COM
pany to fill their contract with a London
company. That contract calls for $40 tons
of dressed beef delivered in New Orleans
every too weeks. This will require the
Strengthening of 200 beeves daily. If cattle
men will do their duty and support the
promoters of the scheme there is a great
future still left for the cattle industry in
Texas. The freights, feed bills, commits
siona and shrinking incident to the ship
ment of live sto * to northern markets
have so reduced the net proceeds of cattle
sales as to often bring the shipper out a
heavy loser. With home market all these
leakages are reduced to minimum.
1t should be remembered that the enter
prise is but in the infant, or experimental
stage, and that its promoters have TO COM
pete with the old and established and
wealthy corporations in Kansas City and
Chicago, which will as usual try to squeeze
the life out of the new conner. Cattlemen
therefore should not expect the Fort
Worth company to pay Chicago prices
at the start, as low prices must
have been made in order to secure the con-
tract. Bye and bye, when the English
beef eater has learned the superiority of
our Texas feed cattle, and we have lines of
steamers running from three or four deep
water ports, then we may expect to receive
top pr ces.
In the meantime, let us support this and
all other such progressive enterprises, as
sured that the full benefit will soon come.