Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-13

Journal, published at Denison, says:
"Our climate Is not well adapted to
grape growing. The annual and diurnal
extremes of heat and cold, dryness and
moisture, are too great
The man who has been much about
over Texas will find the foregoing strIk-
ing him with something akin to surprise ..
OF course there may be some species Of
grapes for which Texas would not be
we'll adapted, but evidently the asser-
ton as quoted, is entirely too broad. Mr..
kirkpatrick ought to visit the tiourishing
German settlement of New Braunfels on
the International and Great Northern
railroad, between Austin and San N
tonic. Before those Germans settled
there the people of that region thought
of grape culture in Texas about as Mr..
Kirkpatrick now seems to hin of it,
but those Germans have given quite a
different c~oloring to the matter. The
climate at New Braunsfels is subject to
as great extremes as at Denison or any
other point in the state, and yet it would
be difficult to find iner and more pro-
ductive VINEYARDS anywhere than the
Germans AVE there.
o HAsTY.
Col Daniel bennett, agricultural edi-
tor of the New Orleans Picayune, says
new fruits like the Keiffer or the Le-
Conte pear, or like the Kelsey plum or
the Japan persimmon, are often con-
demned by one writer while another
praises them ~eXtravagantly. The one
who praises the fruit, he says, provided
he is not merely trying TO boom it up as a
dealer in it as nursery stock is more apt
TO be right than the crusty critic, for
this reasons: When one has produced a
fine pear he shows the possibilities of the
fruit grown in good soil properly fertil-
lied and cultivated. The crusty critic
may start with just as good a pear tree,
plant 1t in bad soil, neglect it, let the
cattle browse and scratch their heads
against it, and this. with a bad season,
may bring a sorubty, worthless pear.
The fruit tree, not the man or bad man
agement, is usually blamed for bad
fruit. This is probably the key to the
diversity of opinions about the qualities
and merits of the Keiffer pears and other
fruits.
TEXAS PORK POSSIBILITIES.
Dick Naylor, q Texas agricultural
man, who never lets slip fair
opportunity for making himself heard in
the interest of his state, says this section
is slowly but surely coming to the front
as q veritable hog county. To some this
may be news, but it is undoubtedly true,
all the same. Very many farmers are
finding out that the one-crop way of
farming is not the best. They cannon de-
pend upon Iow-priced cotton to supply
their tables with food aud pay for the
scores Of other necessary things they
need. They are finding that sending
abroad for bacon not only keeps them
poor, but that they can raise a much
better quality of bacon right at home
than the merchant can supply them
with, and at far less cost. They not only
make sweeter hams and shoulders, but
better side meat, and lard tina is far
superior to the drought on' article.
And then the luxuries of good, home
made sausages, souse and ''fat bread -
which abound at hog-killing timel It
makes one smack his mouth to think
about them.
Little as one hear about it, Texas Is
peculiarly well adapted to hog raising.
The climate is so mild, even in winter,
that hogs can range in the woods or on
the prairies, n ind much to feed upon.
The forests abound in outs OF several
kinds, and usually q fine crop Of acorns.
These help largely. With good wild