Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-15
THE SPANISH CHUFA.

I receive letters from subscribers of your
valuable paper every week asking If have
chufas for sale, price, etc. My success IN
the culture of Spanish chufas, and their
great value as the cheapest fowl and hay
feed known, really costing the farmer moth
ing to raise, and saving SO much corn, meat
and lard, has become so well and widely
known that the demand on me for seed
from five or six states is becoming oppres-
sive, and especially from Texas. In order
to save me of much writing, and for the
special benefit of the readers of your paper,
and farmers of Texas generally, will you
please, in your own way, announce through
the columns of your very valuable. and in
teresting and widely-circulated paper that
from the first of December until planting
time, will have on hand well dried for sale
and shipment, Spanish chufas (forty-four
pounds to the busheD, at 81 per bushel,
wholesale, and IS per bushel at retail
price fixed by Georgia state agricultural
commission.
Chufas are tedious to gather, will heat
and spoil in bulk, while green, but when
well dried they are nice and sweet and
healthy for people to eat They are the finest
hog feed in the world, and will keep in bulk
for years. One bushel well dried will plant
six to eight acres, three and one-half to
one hoeing is sufficient. l would not farm
and pretend to raise hogs without chufas.
Planted in this section from the LIST of
March to the 1st of June.
I would be pleased to have a copy of your
paper for examination. Think l would like
it. Any statements from this letter to your
readers, so as to give them information
from you to me. j. n. OLIPHANT.
Over in Georgia.
We are very sorry that our patrons should
he,
trouble, and for the life of US we can not see
what brought it about, since we have no
recollection of ever mentioning him as
chufa raiser indeed we don't think we
ever heard of him as such prior to receiy-
ing his letter as given above. We thank
him very much for his ''taffy'' about THE
GAZETTE, and fully believe that THE GA
zETTE merits every word of it, yet we are
little puzzled as to how he found it all out,
since he is not even a patron of the paper,
as is evidenced by the fact that he wants
us to send him specimen copy dead
head"
Well send the paper as he desires, and
hope he may like it as well as he thinks he
will. But Wen be prompted to the sending
by something more than has yet appeared
we desire to give him little fatherly ad-
vice; and it may not be out of place for US
to state that we'd like to have that advice
extend to many others who send US letters
very similar to, his. We get dozens Of
letters about like his almost every week. 1t
costs little something to publish news
paper, and now for the advice, Mr.. Oil
phant, and all others in the same kind of
boat that you appear to be rowing: If you
would devote to some honest calling half
the energy you display in an attempt to
dead-beat newspapers out Of a little free ad
vertising, you would make at it money
enough to pay for such advertisements as
would sell all your Spanish chufas, or al
most any other good thing that you might
have for sale. We earnestly advise you to
try it.