El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-27
THE CROPS OF TEXAS.
They Are Nearly All The Finest
Ever Grown In The State.
Dallas News,

| Dallas News
| While nearly every part of Texas
has been visited by some sort of pest,
the crop is in splendid shape as whole.
from but few localities and they are
often found in the midst of the best
crops that have ever been grown.
Texas with an ordinary frost, will make
the largest crop in the history of the
| state. This will not be done on in
creased acreage either, for there has
been3but very little more cotton plant
ed sthis year than there was last
year.
The past season has been one OF rains
from planting time to picking time. 1t
has made an enormous plant in most
sections of the state and it is doubtful
if there Is field of dwarfed cotton In
the cotton belt.
Cotton will keep on producing I'M
til frost and as the plant Is large and
thrifty the yield per acre promises to
exceed that of last year. Basing an
opinion on the general condition of the
plant at thiss time an estimate of g.
500, 900 bales for the state seems en-
tirely conservative and with a late
frost the crop will undoubtedly make
more. Picking is more general in the
south part of the state than it is fur
Their north, but it has commenced in
isolated sections all over Texas.
Texas has made the biggest corn
crop in the history of the state. 1t
had fine growing weather from the
time it was planted and it has reached
maturity with scarcely q drawback.
The yield will be at least Is per cent
in excess of that of last year and per-
haps when Smelling time comes it will
be found that the condition of the grain
is such that the yield will be even
more than % per cent increase.
The crop will begin to move in October,
If not before that time.
The wheat crop WAS fine where it
was not caught by the rains at harvest
time. There was not only an increas-
ed acreage, but the yield per acre was
larger by far than it was a year ago
when in many sections it was q failure.
Oats were caught in the rains at har-
vest time and most OF them were ruined
for market by being stained. The mar
ketable oats crop of the state is very
small compared to the yield. But it
will have its place on the farms where
it can be fed and save the farmer
paving out good money for feed.
The Texas farmer appears to be
more Independent than he ever was
before. There has been great diver
sity OF crops this year and the pin
extensive. They have asked for less
credit until they can market their
cotton. They have vegetables-anda
hne crop it has been
too-and they have fruit, mel
ons, sorghum, rice, tobacco,
sugar cane, and grass crops that are
the best ever grown in the state. One
correspondent says that the farmers
will not have to buy any
maQt
have used the surplus of their
farm for fattening hogs. Just how ex-
tensive this has been is not known be-
cause 1t is point upon which they
were not asked to report and where
they did so it was voluntary.
COAST DISTRICT.
Worms and other insect pests have
done more damage in the coast dis
trict than any other portion of the
state. There is prospect according
that the yield will be cut short about ]
OF per cent as compared with last
year, and there will be an increase if
the pests disappear.
Corn will be the best crop that has
been made in years.
The fruit and vegetable crops of the
coast country have been very large
ana very hne this year aud there will
be an increase in tn csc lines next year.
There has been a great deal of diver
sity this year and it has been found to
be good for the farmers.
EAST TEXAS.
The reports from east Texas are
very favorable for the cotton crop.
There is now in prospect an increase
In the yield of at least Is per cent.
Taken altogether the reports are the
best average of any section of the
state.