San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-06-13

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imported article that is no better
and at higher price and this robs
their fellow citizens of a profit
that would be of mutual advant.
age.
Rye, barley and buck-wheat and
other cereals are not cultivated sc
much and yet we have good
samples. These miscellaneous
crops Yields about a half million.
but properly cultivated in appropri-
ate sections they would be good,
profitable and far more extensive.
The barley trade of the local and
state breweries would pay for
considerable.
The exhibits so far as cereals are
concerned show that Texas can
raise them as fine and as good
as can be produced anywhere
and the same remark applies to
grasses and other kinds of cattle
provender.
Some very fine samples OF native
tobacco are here shown that es-
tablish the fact that, properly
cultivated, fine tobacco for cigars,
pipes, cigarettes and chewing can
be raised in Texas. Even in
Boerne, as Wynne Andrews and
Gerald Griffin demonstrated,
it will grow wild, but
the wild species is far
too rank for use except for those
who can stand a "nigger chucker
cigar" The TACT is tobacco requires
careful cultivation and cutting
at the right time but it pays a
good dividend for the necessary
care and attention. This industry
is in it's infancy now but | am quite
satisfied that ere long some enter
prising man will lead the way in
cultivation, that tobacco will excel
cotton and corn in value, give rise
to factories, and Texas cigars, ciga-
rettes, and tobacco will be as popu-
Jar in the northern and eastern
states as their products are here.
Instead of mporting to our loss we
will export to our profit and gain
those riches that we now squander
in other states.
In the Attwater collection is a
rich exhibit of fibres such as flax,
hemp, jute, ramie, etc. Every year
we import millions of dollars of
manufactured fibre articles and yet
the same material can and is read
lily raised between San Antonio
and the Gulf of Mexico. Why
there are millions of pounds of
the finest fibre growing wild on
our prairies that could be utilized
in the same way and produce a
better article. With machinery
here to convert the vegetation to
fibre and the fibre into the manu-
featured Unemployment would
be given to hundreds of labOrers
and hundreds of thousands of dol
lars made and retained in the state.
In fruits the exhibit shows that
Texas stands we'll and with a little
irrigation would do far better as it
is estimated that her product
in this way is over 100000. Not
so bad but that three million
could be, should and will be thirty
million. Take into consideration
the millions of dollars worth of
fruit we import from California
Florida and other places and ii
will be readily seen that this is nc
chimerical idea. Yet Texas can
produce fruit quite as good and
quite as early as from the other
states from which fruit is import.
ed.
The National Horticultural so,
ciety has declared that southwest
Texas must be a great fruit coun.
try, its dry climate and fine light
soil being especially adapted tC
semi-tropical fruits. Among the
exhibits are shown various kinds
Of grapes, luxuriant and juicy, pos,
sessing all the attributes neces.
sary for conversion into wines
These grapes are equal to those Of
California, Spain, France or Ger
many and there is no reason why
the wine products should not be as
good. All that is needed is proper
culture and the best method o.
converting grape juice into wine
Here too are seen plums, apples
pears, oranges, lemons, dates
Strawberries, cranberries, dewber
ries, black berries, peaches, figs
pOmegranates and other fruits
that are luscious, can be RAISED
profitably and furnish work TO
several canning factories.
Garden truck makes a fair dis
play and it's crop is estimated a.
| $3,000,O0O, but to this should b,
added .over million and a hal
for Irish and sweet potatoes alon
that nrnnnrlN come in this catapn