Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-18

! from II In crops and IL wants no "rest.
| In that rase allowing 1t to lie In idleuess
| for time to grow up In aud seed itself
70 noxious weeds would be simply the
noXious seeing ag inst you. IL your
| crops removed are too much exhaustins
your mineral elements of plant-food on
| must return them 10y some outside means.
! Your "rest'' and consequent weed
Growths can do nothing whatever for
/ YOU in that direction. leaving the uox-
ious seeding out o; consideration, sou
nlny 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 NIL
ing want. You can reasonably claim
nothing more. The weeds are convert-
ing your mineral elements into humus at
the expense OF the soil 50 fur a. relates
TO those mineral elements. This Is q
correct showing up of the whole matter,
and sou can make nothing else out of 1t.
Now, let us look upon this thing for a
moment from another standpoint. We
will presume that you eau raise upon
your laud Il crop of something that vii.
net you 500 to the acre. You then allow
the laud TO lie lille for regeneration, rs
you call il, through time enough TO have
netted you. under advantageous cultiva-
ton. 500 more. Every item OF humus
thar your land could possibly have gath
cred from It's weed growth in the course
of that ''rest' might have been placed
upon each acre by you from some outside
source Ut q rost OF So to the acre. Those
outside materials would have con-
tanned all the mineral elements
that your weeds could have con-
fnI a6 yrff iii ,,rA
weeds got it from your own soil,
while the matter obtained by you from
some ou:siIe source got ii somewhere
else. In the application Of such vegr-
table matter Us your weeds would have
afforded, you also udded to your mineral
elements of plant food. while had you
depended upon your growth Of weeds in
''rpsi' of your lands. you would have
gained nothing whatever in the way of
mineral elements In word, the whole
long aud the " hole short of the matter.
when you leave your lana idle for rerup-
GRAFTON, amounts TO just about this:
Supposing the yield of your land TO be
Slu0 net TO the acre for single crop.
you pay, by allowing II to pass one crop
for recuperution, more fhan $50 for
what you might give il ut an outlay of
only So. How l. this when we come TO
take the matter home in IL business kind
of confederation.
Farming in Texas, while now rs pro-
fitable as farming in any other section of
the country, generally speaking, might
lie tnnde the most profitable business
known TO the world; but In order to get
IL up that way Texas farmers must run
OH 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 inuugurated i'll our
state is, as yet. in its infancy, hut al
ready our able scientists nave demon
strnted that ut lenst three-fourths of the
commonwealth NAV be placed under the
system. II placed under the system,
us shown that it could be, our
possible productiveness would increase
fully two hLuilrrd fold above what il is
at present. This may sound US bug
bear to those men among US who hre
worrying themselves to death about what
they term our already orer-proluctive-
ness There is no such thing rs over
productiveness. Where there is some
thing to consume you will always find
somebody ready 10 consume il. The
only trouble at present lies in uncrr-
the world to understand that Texas
eau produce two hundred fold in an agri-
cultural way above whit she is now
producing AMI two hundred fold
of consumers will hurry here
10 fatteu up OH those products. >Nrver
fear general move nj along the line
will invariably bring on general move
all along the other line. The world works
for equilIbriums. If i'll one section OF
the world there is more to eat than the
deniZens of that section stand in need of
new deniz-ns will he promptly added to
make use of 1t. VIII re the beerhnmts
grow in greatest proiuSion, there nre 10
be- found the myriais upon myriads of
wild pigeons, though not another Wild
pigeon may be seen in the brpchless re-
glons round about over au extent meas
uring thousands of miles.