The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-07-25
RICE GROWING IN TEXAS.
Belief That it VIII Lead to Other
Industries.

Yes" said immigration Agent How
ard of the Southern Pacific to a Post
reporter, those samples of rice you
are looking at are from Crowley, La
There is, as you see, rice and rice
good, better and best, all grades and
kinds from the rice in the rough to the
smooth or fancy grades. Here is a
sample of low-grade or red rice The
red rice, like the red man, is below par.
1t is thorn in the way of the rice
grower as the red man used TO be in the
early days with the new settlers. How
ever, it makes good feed for stock, and
when crushed and mixed with rice
straw-the straw should be cut with
a straw cutter and the crushed or
ground rice and rice bran mixed with
it-makes good feed for mich cows.
am no prophet, but l think l can see
in this rice straw, rice bran and low
grade rice, and the Jersey and other
good COWS, cheese and butter factories
looming up in the near future in South
west Louisiana and the coast country
of Texas.
There is evidence on all sides that
We can grow good stock in this part OF
Texas and in Louisiana. This being a
fact, the feed question is the next thing
to settle, and the rice straw, bran, ETC.,
solves it. Then comes the making of
butter and cheese. We have evidence
that good butter can be made in this
country. The cheese has not been test
ed in this section that ! know of, but
l have seen and eaten good cheese
made in Northwest Texas, in Clay
county, and feel quite sure the same
can be done down this way.
Yes, trainloads of cheese and but
ter, hutterine. etc, are shipped into
Texas from Illinois and other States
each year Why not keep this money at
home and help develop our own coun-
try? Cheese and butter factories can
be made successful in this climate, as
ice can be manufactured On large or
small scale. Hence you see we can
have any temperature desired at any
season of the year. Convenient to San
Antonio they have some fine registered |
dairy stock. and as good butter as is |
made in the United States is now made !
in Bexar county. This is encouraging, |
as what they are doing in that county |
can be done elsewhere.
so, you see," continued Mr. How /
ard, this rice industry, or rice culture, |
means much for the people of Texas
and Louisiana. Rice for market at |
home and abroad; butter and cheese |
for home markets. Beef, mutton and |
pork can also be had by feeding the in |
ferior or lowgrade rice and bran.
Then, again, rice straw makes an |
excellent quality of coarse paper, and |
a move is on foot now TO erect a pa
per mill at Crowley. La In fact, am
told it is certainty.
That sample marked Polish is |
shipped to the old country by the ton.
1t is used for making griddle or batter
cakes, thus taking the place of buck
wheat -four. II is very nutritious and /
heaIthful food.
TO sum it all up, we have in the /
riee-with the aid of nature-food for /
man and beast 1t also makes fine food /
for chickens. There is nothing much 1
better TO make hens lay than rice, so /
am told. All this. too, in addition to /
the straw and paper. The straw, when /
properly cared for. makes as good /
roughneSs for horses and mules as oat +
straw. Great is rice and it is going TO /
help develop and settle the waste places i
in Texas-the vacant lands that are 2 /
burden to the owners who are land 4
poor. II will do more than this; it viii 1
help many a good man and his family /
to secure home. as well as assist in !
the upbuilding OF Houston and other (.
towns in the Texas coast country, and, 1
OF course. help increase the present /
earnings Of the railroads. 1t requires /
no prophetic eye or mind TO see that 1
the growing of rice means much for the /
people and the State. OF course, great /
deal depends on those who own the I'm
improved lands in Texas II they de-
mand fancy prices and Unreasonable 1
terms-terms that men OF moderate
means cannot aceept-the work of set
Element and development will go ON
elsewhere. and Texas viii be the /
loser Houston Post