The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-08


A consignment OF new Irish potatoes
was reoeivcd from Webster today and sold
for$S per bushel.--Post, April g
Shipments Of strawberries. cabbage.
beans, peas and radishcs are now being
made regularly 0orn South Texas to
Northern markets--Post, April 8.
Mr.. +. Harpster. late Of baldwin. Kan,
now living at Brookshire, says he planted
1000 Parker Earle strawberry plants on
February Is; ON April he began 10 pick
ripe berries. and after April 10 he picked
ono gallon per day.
lIuling. Texas. April i4.--Mr Moore this
week found quantity Of oats growing
on the railway dump. 1t Is pronounced
by experts TO be Norway oats. II Is OF
gigantic size and has almost reached ma
turity.--Post. April Is.
Between February 1 and April Is gar
dencrs at Corpus Christi shipped one hum
dred loads OF vegetables to Northern mar
kets.--Post April Is.
Alvin, Texas April 1.--Ten days more
will virtually wind up the strawberry bust
ness. MIR. Jack Evans has shipped from
one and one-half acres to date 256 crates
Of twcnty-four quarts each or 6li4 quarts.
His net returns have averaged about s.
per crate, or about $500. and future ship
ments will run this up to s6oo.--Gaivestcn
News. April 90.
Alvin. Texas, Apiil 25.---Mr. q. W. Dur
ant at Alvin has twelve acres OF Cape
| Jossanine bushes years old, from which
| he expects when in season to realize $1,000
| on sale OF buds. Last season these bushes
| afforded daily shipments OF three and
| four wagon loads OF buds by express to
| interior points and out Of the Statc.--Gal-
| weston News, April &c.
Twenty -onc years ago Mr.. @. A. Fos-
I'D .~f tl,tr ,is nInA n
seed in his pasture and ever since his
stock has been feeding on it, and now
| 1t is as fresh and luXuriant as ever Mr,
| Il. C. Armstrong, a gardener OF this city
| has exhibited at tho Business League
rooms white dewberry. The flavor is
very fine. He is selling the same for 81
| per crate, and says he will get seventy
| crates from three rows 125 feet long. and
that an acre will produce 500 crates Post,
May /.
| A very rich specimen of oats raised on
Chocolate bayou by William Richardson
Is on exhibition at the Business League.
| The heads are full and plump and the
| stocks are very large. and yet these oats
were cut on the 3oth OF April are the sec
| ond cutting. There is also n specimen ol
| blue grass from Alvin three feet In length
| and a sample of fax two feet long, grown
by Mr.. John Wisner Of Chocolate bayou
and pulled February Post. May A.
Canada, Texas, May 1s-The oats cror
is berg harvested and the returns are
satisfactory. Prairie hay cutting has be-
| gun. Corn Is doing excellently, but cotton
has sickly look, -Post, May Il.
The Post OF May 3 contained the account
Of snow storm In Southern ohio. and
May l6 new Texas potatoes sold in Kansa,
City at s1,25 TO sl.50 per hushel.
On May 80 watermelons were on the mar.
ket, planted January rs. Tomatoes were
worth Sc PER bushel and cantaloupes x
cents each. During June and July the
market was fairly flooded with vegetable;
and fruits of all kinds
on July 23 The Pest contained n MOTTO
of the receipt Of two onions, the larges
Of which weighed one pound and foul
ounces. They wore grown by DIR. Wis
aker at Angleton and were a sample O
800 bushels grown on two acres In youn,
orchard The crop was gold for 81 80 pc
bushel. or 5000 from two acres. hay
said nothing of cotton corn, rice, tobacco
broom com. pears. peaches. figs. black
berries, piurns, grapes, etc, which al
grow luxuriantly. With n climate tina
permits of the planting OF some crop ever
month in the year and viii mature tw
and even three crops on tho same lanc
and soil that responds generously TO In
telligent cultivation, the coast country wi
be the garden of the world AS soon o
produce is raised and shipped in trail
loads. the business can not be overdont
We are only thirtysix to forty cigh
hours from 15,00o,0Oo people, who vii
gladly buy our carly spring vegetables
which mature here long before people fur
Their North can plant thclrs man ca
make more money on Ave acres OF groun
here than on forty In any Northern State.
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