Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-27

ton crop, as well as the prices, in my opin-
ion. w. w STELL.
We are not in favor of exaggeration one
way or the other If you make out that a
region of country is far better than can be
established by practical test, and people
move to it on account of your misrepresen-
tation, you are certainly doing a bad thing
for that region of country, for when those
people discover, through dear-bought expe-
Renee, that you have fooled them Iincoln)
they will go away, if they are financially
able to get away, and YOU will have a
standing advertisement against you, even
10 the extent of fooling other people into
regarding your true merits far below what
they really are, so, of course, your region
Of country will, in the end, be seriously in
iured by that exaggeration.
While freely admitting all this, as all
sensible people do, what are we to say of
the man who exaggerates in an opposite d.
rection? He may excuse himself by think
ing that he is saving those people the ex-
pense and trouble of coming on those ex-
aggerations, and then going back and ex-
doing that adverse exaggeration for
them in advance, but we couldn't
well excuse him on that plea,
owing to the fact that it is just as easy to
make a true and correct representation in
the first case and leave all exaggerations en-
tirely out. The truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth is good enough in the
case of Texas-it will prove a drawing card
every time, and those who come to Texas
under Its stimulus will stay and be salts
fed. How could they be otherH :se, when
they find everything exactly as represented
before they had made up their minds to
Gomez
This little article reprinted from Farm
and Ranch leaves one 4 little in doubt as to
VIVA. was meant BY Mr.. j. j. Dollard of
Chicota, Lamar county. If we are particu-
lar about hewing to the line so far as re-
lates to plain English, the inference would
be that Mr.. Dollard's statement was put
ting it that bale of cotton and fifty bushels
of corn had been raised on each single acre
But further reading would lead one to the
conclusion that DIR. Stell had not under
stood it that way, but had interpreted i to
mean either i bale of cotton or fifty bushels
of corn to the acre.
The doctor may be entirely correct in his
statement TO the effect that no county has
ever averaged fifty bushels of corn to the
acre. but his position would seem to be in
tended to create the impression that no
tNr h. tn fftI-
bushels of corn to the acre. Here is where
the doctor is off, and where the harm comes
in. We will venture to assert that there is
not an agricultural county in Texas that
could not be made to average fifty bushels OF
corn to the acre, and we have the very best
of reasons for making such assertion. The
doctors acres may not have averaged that
much, but would the doctor be will .ng to
assume that all the fault lay at the door of
Texas?
DR. Stell would give $1,000 to some one
who would guarantee three-fourths of fifty
bushels of corn to the acre on his farm.
This is rather vague offer, owing to the
fact that the doctor does not state how
many acres there are in his farm. That
"some one" would probably have to Guilt
vate the doctors farm himself to get that
much corn to the acre, and if the farm hap
pens to be large one, and the crop was to
be the doctors after it was made, the prob
ability exists that the doctor could well af-
ford to give that much. The offer should
appear in some better kind of shape to
amount to anything. We much doubt if
there is in all Lamar county, or any other
agricultural county in Texas, for that mat
ter. an average acre of farm land that could
not be made to produce fifty bushels of
corn, and even more. 1t wouldn't do for
the doctor to offer a premium Of $1,000
on any farm in Lamar county that could be
made to average three-fourths of fifty
bushels of corn to the acre, the owner
keeping the corn, but in Offering that
amount on his own farm he is all solid
enough, rs any one can easily see.
Now, let US suppose that we really take
MIR. j. ]. Dollard's statement as Dr. Stell
quotes it, to-wit: A bale of cotton and
fifty bushels of corn on single acre, in the
same season. That would look like pretty
big thing, wouldn't it? But since the doc
tor has his hand in at making $1,000 offers
we dare him to offer $1,000 as premium for
one bale of cotton and fifty bushels of good
merchantable corn raised in the same sea-
son on a single acre of average agricultural
land anywhere in Northern Texas. If he
is sufficiently interested in the possibilities
of Texas to make the offer all one-sided we
will find his man and the crop shall be
grown next season. If that kind of inter-
est does not prompt him, and he wants
something back to lay up for rainy day in
case the bale of cotton and the fifty bushels
of corn are not forthcoming according to
contract, W ell agree to still find his man.
We have faith enough in the agricultural
capabilities of Texas to willingly take that
much trouble upon ourself.
And now, DR.. Stell (you may be some
kind of relative of ours, for our names are
pronounced the same, though our people
have always packed an extra on the last
end of the name), we will, for your encour-
agement, tell You that one bale of cotton and
sixty bushels of corn has been repeatedly
raised on one acre in the same season on the
poor piney-woods.la land Of the gulf coast re-
gions of Alabama. If you would like proof
of this, before taking US up, we are pre-
pared to give you first-class references. The
farmers of that pine country would be glad
IN have any of our ayerara TeyaS soils to