Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-25
FARM DEPARTMENT.
II. l.. HUFFMAN, isdiior.
yaiue to the state OF Agricultural
Information.

Fully understanding and attending
10 all details IL what marls farming
a success. a man may not be a Solo
mon on several thousand questions.
but II he knows how and when to pre-
pare the soil varieties best to plant. the
planting season and hest mode Of Gull
tivation he need not weep over the
things he knows nothing Of.
The difference between auccess aud
fnilurp Is often a very few details, ana
such as any one could easily find out
II the opportunity was at hand. How
many farmers In Texas. who live on
the black wnxy land. say they cannot
raise fruit and more especially appieaf
Thia - all because they neglect some
detail. and the principal one Us not
planting the young trees IL the SOL
IL properly prepared, the right varieties
selected and the necessary care given,
az fine fruits Of all kinds can be grown
on the black prairie lands as one
would want.
As an evidence OF this. the principal
fruit Displays at tho state fair are
made from these black lands; and the
apmeH have taken all premiums con-
tested for.
II ls often said that hog products can
be bought cheaper than they can be
produced. This sounds strange and
yet II ia often true, Tho man who
does not know the value Of foods and
how ia feed hogs can never raise them
chenpiy. You cannot lend a pig 10 n
corn crib and convert It into fat hog.
DctnllI begin before the pig ana cheap
foods must be on hand and Kept going
plgward so az 10 do the most good.
How many farmers can tell the am
nual profits received from their cows
This Is n mist constant source OF
profit and each COW can, when selected
properly and cared for, he made TO
Yield II net profit Of 2l5. Do they yet
thiR2 Not long since u farmer OF Clay
county wrote that he had made over
&c bushels OF onta In land where cotton
had GROWN than from atihhle land adj
Joining This Us geting az sntalls, We
often praise our soil and climate and
Texas surely has both OF rare cXcel-
lencc. Our scaHpna are regular and
IN all things nature has been KIND to
Texas While all Of this w so we see
New York, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa ana
some other states getting fully double
the profit per acre ON all lands Guilt
waited unch year. Now why ~ thisf
Simply the Texas farmer Is not up on
detail work
Thr former in the states above
named has every opportunity TO inform
himRelf ON all agricultural subjects
He has the annual report of the state
board. the state agricultural society.
local societies and farm Institutes.
Texas has none of these and their np-
fencr shows up on every hand. TeNuA
produces sill 900, 600 worth Of MS icul-
turnl products annually Iowa $lt9.-
900. 900; New York SlGi 900 and M
noiR slsi .0000 O0. TeXns cultiVntcs about
double the area Of that cultivated by
any Of the above 8taten,
The above utatcg spend thousands
OF dollars annually IN collecting and
distributing Information among their
farmers, Texas spends nothing,
We are now mot with low prlcos and
general Oppression, our single crop ot
cotton $50 VOL understood nv the peo-
ple 81 ~ deplornble condition, What
thcn2 The cry goes forth diversified
fnrming whit monsters OF wisdom
the Texas farmers would be if ih0y
could now drop this single erop and
without any preparation or training
launch out into diversified ngrlculture3
Thls would mark NIL other states as
exceeding wasteful aud foolish for
they cNpend money freely TO tcnch
diversified agriculture TO their FARM
org
The farmer OF Texas moods the
spmc advantages % those Of Illinois,
Missouri or Nov York IIe needs In
formation ON detail work and that "
all One hundred farmers Institutes
In Texas each year would send our
statistics slyy-ward aud improve the
condition ~ the whole peonle and the
business Of the state. Our next legls-
lature should provide for holding
farm institutes.