Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-14
THE GAZETTE: FORT TEXAS SUNDAY. DECEMBER

from 1t in crops and it wants no "rest. -
In that case allowing it to lie in idleness
for time to grow up ID aud seed itself
| TO noxious weeds would be simply the
| noxious seeding az inst you. If your
| crops removed are too much exhaustins
your mineral elements Of plant. food on
! must return them by some outside means.
| Your "rest" aud consequent weed
growths can do nothing whatever for
| you In that direction. Leaving the poX-
| ious seeding out of consideration, you
may claim tor your weeds that they are
advantageous in converting portion OF
your elements already in The soil into an
| element Of different character, thus fill
| lug awaut. You can reasonably claim
nothing more. The weeds are convert
ing your mineral elements into humus ut
the expense OF the soil so far as relates
TO those mineral elements. This is
correct showing up of the whole matter,
and you can make nothing else out Of It.
Now, let us look upon this thing for q
moment from another standpoint. We
will presume that you eau raise upon
your land crop OF something that will.
net you 500 to the acre. You then allow
the land to lie Idle for recuperetion. US
you call it, through time enough to have
Melted you, under advantageous cultivs-
ton, 500 more. Every item OF humus
that your land could possibly have gath
cred from IFS weed growth in the course
Of that crest" might have been placed
upon each acre by you from some outside
source at cost of S. to the acre. Those
outside materials would have con-
tanned Rll the mineral elements
that your weeds could have con-
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weeds got i. from your own soil,
while the matter obtained by you from
some outside source got it somewhere
else. In the application of such vege-
table matter as your weeds would have
afforded, you also added to your mineral
elements of plant food, while had you
depended upon your growth of weeds in
''rest' OF your lands, you would have
gained nothing whatever in the way Of
mineral elements. In II word, the whois
long and the " holo short of the matter,
when you leave your land IDLE for rscup-
GRAFTON, amounts to just about this:
Surprising the yield of your land to be
500 net to the acre for single crop.
you pay, by allowing it to pass one crop
for recuperation, more than S95 for
what you might give it at an outlay of
only SO. How is this when We come to
take the matter home in business kind
of consideration.
Farming in Texas, while now as pro-
fitsble as farming in any other section of
the country, generally speaking, might
be made the most profitable business
known TO the world; but in order to get
1t up that way Texas farmers must run
on full time. This they cannot we'll do
withuot irrigation, and that's why we
advocate irrigation for Texas. A (
knowledge of the extent to which correct ,
irrigation can be iuaugurated in our
state is, as yet, in its Infancy. but al /
ready our able scientists have demon
strated that at least three fourths of the |
system. If placed under the system.
as shown that it could be, our
possible productiveness would increase
fully two hundred fold above what it is
at present. This may sound as bug
bear to those men among US who are
worrying themselves to death about what
they term our already over productive
ness. There is no such thing as over
Where there is some-
thing to consume you will always find
somebody ready to consume 1t. The
only trouble at present lies in uncer-
talnty of something to consume. Give
the world to understand that Texas
can produce two hundred fold in an agri-
cultural way above what she is now
producing and two hundred fold
Of consumers will hurry here
to fatten up on those products. Never
fear. A general move all along the line
will invariably bring on general move
all along the other line. The world works
for equillbriums. II i'll one section of
the world there is more to ent than the
ienizens of that section stand in need of
lew deniZsns will be promptly added to
make use OF It. Wh're the beechnn,s
grow in greatest profuslon, there are to
De found the myria6s upon myriads of
Wild pigeons, though not another wild
pigeon may be seen In the beechless re-
lions round about over an extent meas
ring thousands of miles.