Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-16
BARLEY Culture in Texas.

Mr.. William L. Pierce, postmaster al
Gainesville, Tex, kindly sends THE GA
ZETTE a letter to himself written 10y MT.
George W. wadswortb, an extensive
grain and malt material dealer in Boston,
Mass. with reference to samples of Texas
grown barley lately received by him. In
his accompanying note Mr.. Pierce says;
"You II see in the letter that special
credit is given to Reeves county, though
In fact the counties of Childress, Hards-
man and Wlbarger had equally as fine
samples at the Bos on exhibit. with
such a product as sent to Boston you Will
not lorg have to work up reputation
for your new brewery. l doubt If any
country can produce such fine barley as
can Texas, judging from this showing
and particularly those regions OF our
state tributary to Fort Worth. l nope,
and feel sure, that our farmers Will soon
SEE il TO their advantage 10 90 largely
iuto barley culture. You have permits
sion 10 use the letter iuclosed, in any way
that in your Judgment will do the most
good
In postscript MIR. Pierce adds that
the writer Of the letter gave a sample OF
the Texas barley TO q Mr. Burkhardt,
the largest brewer in Boston, and that
Mr.. Burkhgrdt said it was as fine sam
pie as he had ever seen, either from cam
nda or California, the two grains that
have long carried the reputation of being
the best known. Following is the letter:
EosroN, Sept. 9, 1880.
W. L. Pierce. Esq.
TEAR sIR-I have terted samrle OF Reeves
county 1exas, Ia ley a d there ult ma shown
g p r cent. II II Sproutin to p rice ION. II Is
UNI, dsom grain and ! can see no
r,a Why m m de fsom such barley should
not De equal n 've-y r spe to tina m lde from
Canada am. Sh nuld y of your Hienis be
able to make uu so mucm as a car oai OF su
bar ey would. were they to ship it to me, have
il matt and the malt worked into beer. VINE
rot at al rs,ioninR It's merits, TINS would OF
Sc, he true test of its worth one that
would lace it entirely beyond the psles or
dot bit. l may add that the sh .pment oil a SIN
gle carload woull not be iikeiy TO pay prom.
totle hippers, Y t it might ray right no a. y
in the end. If III brewer h, r. find t = Texas
bari Y would onswer their purpose as well as
C. ia barley there is every reason for sup
10 ing that a large and prof table trade could be
worked up for Il, xas. l have made a specially
of riley and malt Tor my years and am ready
to u.s. my expe r.er &C to the est pos ible advan
iage for VI ur , ends AMI your safe should be
flu w Gco W. MADswoRTH.
IT will be seen by reference TO the
map of Texas that the counties sending
the specimens OF barley so favorably re-
ceived are widely separated. Reeves
county Is near the western border of
Texas-the stranger will find it by trac-
ing the Texas and Pacific railroad TO
Pecos river. The counties of Wilbarger,
Hardeman and Childress may be found
by following up the Fort Worth and
Denver CITY railroad to about the begin
ming of the Panhandle proper. This
great distance apart of the Localities Is
interesting as establishing the strong
probability that all Northern Texas Is
well adapted to the growth OF barley.
We consider It more than merely proba- !
BILE that all regions CT Texas capable of
producing wheat successfully would also |
produce barley. This rule. as is well |
known, would take in very large pro-
portion of our srate.
Every section of country capable of
producing wheat is not also capable OF
successfully producing barley. 1t re-
quires peculiar atmospheric conditions
for the crop. Exactly what those condi-
tions are we are unprepared to set forth
at present, but quite likely dry atInos-
phere at certain seasons of the year has
great deal to do with 1t A compare
lively humidless atmosphere Is one of
Ganada's peculierities, and we know
that the same is n popularity of Califor-
mia; and since these two sections are now
edged, of all North America, the most
reasonable hypothesis would point to the
humidless atmosphere as the prime factor
in the case Texas has an atmosphere
exactly similar, and hence there would
seem TO be nothing against the establish
ment of bel eff that Texas, If fairly put
to the test would prove as great bar
ley country as the greatest.
There Is much more profit in barley
than there is in wheat, hence IL behooves
our farmers TO hustle themselves IN the
rectiou OF finding out what they can
make the crop do Tor them. As esti-
mated in the letter, Boston would prob
ably take large share OF our proiuct,
but really there would not often come up
a necessity for going so far in search of
Il market All the non-barley producing
states are full of breweries, more or less
and al are forced 10 send away for their
raw material. The day would not come,
even though we should make barley our
leading staple, when we would be unable
10 find ready sale for every buShel Of our
product. The United States is RAPIDLY
becoming a nation of beer drinkers, and
it takes barley 10 make beer, and bar
ley. as al eady iptimated, is not q crop
of general range-it is confined 10 re-
gions with certain peculiarities.
In the state OF IeNAs tnere VIII soon be
many brewerIes, all of which will he de-
pending upon some distant region for
their raw materials, unless We get to
producing them at home. If we can
produce those materials at home Cor even
one of thsm), how much better it would !
be for our breweries rs well as for our
Belv-1 The indications are that we can
90 il II we will. Let us at once proceed
TO try the thug on all over Northern
Texas.
Hop Culture for Texas.
While talking on the subject OF beer