Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-11
WICHITA WHEAT.
WHAT DCUGHERTY OF THE
WICHITA FALLS HERALD SAYS.
''Wichita is All RiSht''-The Banner ASri
cultural County-Her Crops
This Year.

/ TIE GAZETTE reporter met f. T Dough-
/ erty of the Wichita Herald at the Ellis last
! night. and ventmed TO ask him, How Is
/ Wichita"
He replied. Wichita is all> right. She
| still carries her head proudly is the county
| that has won more banners, medals, etc,
! for agricultural products than any other in
| all Texas, and she Is conscious of the fact
| that she is more Justly entitled TO the dis
| tinctiou of being the banner county of the
! state this year than ever before. -
! What are her total winnings"
/ well. in the first place. she entered the
/ lists three years ago At the Dallas fair with
| MUM for this cereal over sixty other couu-
/ ties composing her district. y year later
| she shicd her castor into the arena again at
! Dallas and walked off with the banner for
/ the best wheat county in the state. She
| bobbcd up serenelY at your own Spring
! Palace and captured the handsome gold
! medal awarded for the best display of all
the products of the earth. From the Spring
Palace She Went 10 the international fair at
san Antonio and was given the $1,000 pre-
MUM. the largest ever won BY any county
in the world, for the best display of all pro-
ducts. Later. but the same year. she re-
appeared mt the State fair at Dallas and
pocketed the $500 prize, the largest cash
premium paid by the State fair association
that year. What do you think of that for
| I record"
The scribe admitted that it was good and
asked after the wheat crop.
Mr.. Dougherty said The wheat crop
was never better in Wichita county. There
are thousa nds and thousands Of acres of H.
1t is not only very thick on the ground but
the heads are long and well filed, and the
average will doubtless he greater than it
was two Years ago
"What was the average them"
''Twenty-four and a quarter bushels per
acre for the county,
''How did you obtain the exact figureso''
''Nly paper sent a reliable man ON horse
back to every farmer in the county, from
whom he got the drill and thresher meas
urements. The former gave the number of
acres sown and the latter the number of
bushels garnered. The latter divided by
the former gave twenty-four and quarter
bushels exactly as the average"
Are your other crops as good Us yeur
wheat
Eyes, they never looked better. and are
as fine as in any country on earth. Cotton
corn, oats, millet and sorghum are all in ex-
cellent condition and promise IL magnificent
yield
Are you not gong TO have picnic or
barbecue or something of the kind soon?''
Yes, sir On the 3rd ana 4th of July we
are going to hold high carnival with
Harvest Jubilee In this we will be
joined by our enterprising neighoors. Hen
rietta and Iowa Park. whose interests in
the great wheat belt are co-equal with our
own. We will secure low rates over all the
railroads if possible and expect no less than
10000 visitors. The first day there will be
numerous excursions over the Wichita
Valley road, and many persons viii be
driven in carriages to view the splendid
wheat and other crops. There will be
grand ball at night. The second day will
be devoted to speeches from prominent
Texans. races mammoth barbecue. horse
and cattle shows, match games Of baseball,
probably balloon ascension, with fireworks
AT night. Governor Hogg, Roger O. Mills,
Mr.. CulberSon, Barney Gibbs and our own
congressman, j. W Bailey of Gainesville
have been invited and are expected. a
large delegation will be present from the
line of the Denver road and there will be
people there from all parts of Texas It is
going to be the biggest thing of the kind
ever seen in the Panhandle. 1t viii be a
representative showing of the greatest sec
ton of the greatest state in the Union