The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-04-23
LIVE AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.

Halletsvile Herald: Cotton can no longer
be classed as Texas only staple crop Corn
is as much king Gcw Us is cotton. This year
VIII see Texas leading the Union In corn
shipments.
San Antonio Light; The sugar supply of
Texas 10 not MP to the limit by any means.
x It pays 70 grow sugar at Ill it ought to
ran out well in the coast regons of Texas,
whero moisture is abundant.
Waco Telephone; The smile of the Texas
farmer broalen5 as he looks al the crops
which short time ugo were periehing for
water Now the vogctatlun actually seems to
rejoice IN the moisture that has fallen aad in
the Promise Of more to come.
Navas1to Patriot: Now is the time to d.
yersfy your crop-plant few more rows of
peas, potatoes and sorghum which will cut
Oft from the size OF the cotton crop and give
you surplus OF things TO bring to town. even
II you get very little for them.
Caldwell News Chronicle: Cotton is the
only cash crop hasn', heen sung to us now
IN quite awhile. The Intelligent farmer is be-
ginning To realize that meat is a cash crop;
molasses is u cash crop; corn aud corn meal
are cash crops. And there are whole lot of
other cash crops besides the slave breeder.
cctton.
penison Herald man living within half
a mile of the corporate limits of Denison
rasies over 5000 worth Of lettuce on a hctbed
2iSS6 feet. lie sells lettuce all the year round.
Every sprlg of lettuce that is used in Denisou
II iSht be raised here, and the supply had the
year round, and, indeed, Denison lettuce
might be shipped North in the winter season
People looking ont for something for printable
Investment might investigate this with prht.
Beaumont journal: II is no trick at all to
raise 500 pounds OF tobacco on an acre OF
tie cut-over lands OF East Texas, aud Il is
just ais easy TO sell IL at so cents per pound.
This would give gross value TO the product
OF each acre OF $3.50, and after deducting sou
per acre for cultivation the planter Will have
SloG net. SiX-eent cotton can't touch tobacco
growing, nevertheless cotton land Is saleaole
at $50 per acre, while tobacco land may be
bought at from 50 10 IS per acre
Angelina County Press u.ufkin) The oul-
Jure Of tobacco is receiving more attention
each year from the farmers OF Eastern Texas
II Is becoming recognized that the soil and
cliIA2te of this part Of the state are such
that a superior grade OF tobacco for c!gar pur-
nosCs can be raised. The trouble now aud
heretofore experienced by those who have
grown tobacco has been IN finding n market
as no means have been at hand by which the
crop could be collected and marketed in any
great quantity, no one grower raising suth-
ciort TO warrant any great expenditure Of
lime and money in seeking market This
ing OF warehouses where growers can store
treir crops and thus collect together a supply
sufficiently Large TO warrant purchasers TO
come from a distance for the purpose OF buy
ng Ii Is proven by abundant testimony that
Tho profit made from tobacco culture based on
OF that made from cotton But the greatest
advantage to be gained by farmers In this
Fart OF the State 10 raising tobacco Is that 10
20 make the same amount OF money as they
can from cotton requires considerably less
md and this is big item when the land has
10 be cleared OF a heavy growth oil timber.