San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-29
LAMAR COUNTY EXHIBIT.
In COMPETITION FOR TEXAS
FARM AND RANCH PREMIUM.
BY MISS F. A. MARTINI

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tastefully arranged in a room almost
| square-perhaps 1sx2O. Over the entrance
was the exhibitors name and county in
| fora design. wv. W.. Stell'' was of i'm
! mortels: the rest, Lamar County" Yves
composed of more sombre hued grasses in
| termingled with red clover blossoms. Be-
meath this was border formed of stamped
bunting. The stars and stripes also
| formed fringe TO the entire stall, which,
| in turn, was furnished by a wreath of
German millet heads. At both sides of
the entrance were placed ornamental
| Shrubbery, such as the laurel, English
yew tree, cypress, oleander, cedar, arbor-
vitea and magnolia, show
eye eye for the s artistic A and Beautiful p as we'll
| as the substantial and comfortable side Of
| life. The entire arrangement of the eX-
hibit also confirmed this, to perfect which
he called into requiSition the service of
| Mr.. VIM. Syrreds, a skilled florist of
| Paris.
The wall to the right was taken up with
| the more necessary and substantial
products. After the shrubs, nine varieties
\ OF the staple product of the south, cotton
| was prominent. Great fluffy balls, white
| as snow, made OF cotton, fresh from the
pod (or bold, of this heretofore ruling
king that has monopolized the attention
| of the farmer 10 the exclusion of other
| staple products, for home consumption,
formed a border, outlining the exhibit,
| that reached from floor to ceiling. But the
| farmer is advancing every year as is evil
| denced by this exhibit. He is becoming
| more and more independent. Instead Of
patronizing Kansas City and Chicago
granarieS, st. Louis and Chicago
pork packerieS and New Orleans sugar
gar houses, he is raising his own grain
| and meat, and making his own molasses;
n nd hn annr, DO Il &c
After giant stalk of cotton filled with
heecy puff like balls and green balls, and
neat to attract attention, we pass by
bundles of oats wheat, rye, barley. sorg
hum and sugar cane TO the beef hide,
| tackled broad side against the wall. This
yearling, mad been slaughtered for fam
| lily use and such delicious steaks as it
furnished! Your pick of the whole beef
for a juicy steak 10 be well seasoned with
the numerous home grown herbs on hand,
| and such good tender roasts, with Irish or
sweet potatoes, just as you liked. Then
after You had selected the joint for spiced
| beef and reserved what was desired for
corned beef there was enough left of this
self same corn fed animal to let
the neighbors have quarter or
so 10 be returned when they killed
near the hide: and TO accompany the beef,
We find on the shelf, dried corn, tomatoes,
okra, peas, lima and butter beans, and
bage, onions, parsnips, carrots, sage and
other herbs, for winter soups. On the
same wall, striking the medium between
the growing of cotton and providing for
the inner man, we find ample provision
had been made to give the lesser animals
change of diet. We saw German and
seven top millet, corn fodder, pea fodder,
Tor hay dried clover and alfalfa, John
son grass, that makes the best hay in
the world, but is harder to eXterminate
than it is to lift the farm mortgage, was
shown feet inches in height, varle-
ties OF artichokes. good winter menu,
this, but that is not all, there were
things good for both man and beast |
First, under this head, dozen or more
varieties of corn, different varieties |
each OF red, white and yellow, |
each had its particular name:
we. however,, shall call it all |
Indian corn, milo maize and Kaffir corn,
turnips, rutabagas, red top, globe and |
others; upwards of dozen varieties of |
pumpkins, black and white Russian oats. |
bar ey, rye, potatoes and beetS weighing |
from TO II pounds each. 1t was on this |
counter we saw the much talked of cas-
Sava, peculiar kind of sweet potato in
digenouS to Africa and warm climates
generally. In the West Indies it is the
mandioc. The natives CRATE it and use it
for bread. Tapioca is made from the
cassava. One thing in its favor, it does
not require planting every season, but If
left in the ground continues to grow from
year 10 year. Jno. Jackson, of Dallas,
who recently went to Sineola, Mexico,
says one acre of caSsavas is sufficient to
feed 900 men per year. 1t is more delicate
in flavor than the ordinary potato
and is said to be good milk |
producing food for cows. Here
Too, we saw another curious production of
the vegetable kingdom, the kohl rabi, a
cross between the turnip and cabbage, or
rather and more accurately, the collard.
and is the portion most esteemed for
table use, while the globuar stalk,
whence the leaves emenate is not unlike
the turpip in flavor and shape, but is not
so highly priced as an article OF diet for
man. On this shelf or counter, DR.. Stell
informed US, there were 70 varieties of
fresh vegetables. In addition to those al
ready enumerated, we saw great big Chi
nese and California radishes each weigh
ing from TO IL pounds; water melons,
sweet corn, that one can have the season
round by judicious planting, okra, horse
radiSh, cucumbers, lettuce, tomatoes, egg
plants, varieties of winter and summer
squa hes OF many shapes, sizes and colors;
potato pumpkins, cashaws, then six vari-
cites OF the common pumpkin, one special
ly deserving of mention was a mammoth
96 pound Ryan. There we're butter beans,
lima beans, snap beans, wax beans, pole
beans and bunch beans but mournfully
we add no navy beans. There, disclosed |
to our view, was our old friend, our faith
er's pride, the yellow yam. As our eye
rested upon these fine specimens we stood
as one entranced. We thought of the old
red, worn out clay soil of Mississippi, and !
come to Texas" Her soil is her
every thing and productive of all that is |
good. Then there was the purple looking