The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-12

ers to come after the STUFF paying for It
before moving II.
I In face OF the fact that every day train
loads OF the finest budded fruit ia the
world are going out OF Texas to the North
ern and Eastern markets, there is hardly
week that some one does not say TO
me- "Nothln' but seedlin's ii do any good
In THE kentry. Plant nursery trees and
fust dry spell at comes way goes yer
trees" i have heard men fairly success
full in other linas make about such talks
as tha;-mcn who were too busy chasing
'dogieS" or bossing cotton to give to
budded fruit the attention 1t requires
And in sense they are right; people
who lack the Intelligence, the Skin or
the time to take care OF their trees, In
other words, people Who stick tree ia
tho grol ~ and leave the Lord to do the
rest, shculd grow "soedlns" by all means.
'Seedlin's" are plenty good for such peo-
pie. Al least the man who knows Moth
irg Of the efficacy Of pruning wood or
thinning fruit, who lete the sprouts grow
up around the trunks OF his trees. grows
corn among them, or makes a paeture OF
his orchard, will continue to exploit the
idea that "nothin but seedlln's II do
any good in this kentry" However, the
conviction is growing upon me that while
( anybody may have In East Texas n
family orchard Of as fine fruit as the
world can produce. growing commercial
orchard and marketing the product there
OF is a business by itself, and that the
man who gives It the attention skill and
labor requisite 10 success, Will nnd ample
occupation for all his available intell-
gence and time Passing from this branch
of my subject. will say that a decade
Will witness In East Texas IN my opln-
ion one Of the most famous fruit and
truck regions on earth.
LIVE STOCK GROWING.
When make the assertion that fol
twenty years the peopls Of Eaat and South
Texas have graded their cattle down in
stead OF UP from the beef standpoint. /
mem no disparsgement to the Jerse. COW,
the queen OF the dairy world. But every
body can not run dalries, and most people
should aim to keep more than a FAMILY
COW or two, which Is as much as to say
that when they filled the woods Of East
and South Texas with Jersey 'dogies,
they merely got too much OF q good thing.
Given the Jersey In combination with East
Texas woods pasture, about the poorest
on earth, and the unenvlable reputation
OF East Texas as a cattle country is nc-
u
ing up OF the situation on the ground, |
say deliberately, with a reputation fol
conservatism 10 sustain, Ghat when the
, people OF East TeMas make the most OF the
: possibilities within their grasp, the man
, who leaves East Texas to hunt a better
cattle country, Will leave a better cattle
country than he viii ever find. The best
people in East TeXas-people whose sue
S cess gives weight TO what they say-teI
me that they can grow In prOfusiOn and
very chesply a great variety OF the most
: valuable feed crops, while they have the
/, same chance al the cotton oil mills that
have the feeders in other portions OF
Texas Indeed, for that matter. thousands
of head Of West Texas cattle are shipped
to the oil mills OF Eastern Texas and fed
out for market, while may be witnessed
> about these mills the doubtful expedlencs
OF feeding East Texas cattle which are MOI
built right to get fat.
AS to water. there is probably no bet
p, ter watered country in the United States
S Besides the numerous lakes and running
n streams he BEST of water in the creates
a abundance may be had in wells so shall
G low as TO render very cheap the lift. A.
q to breed there is nothing in the way o
4 as we'll bred cattle in Eastern Texas a.
/ anywhere. Then II the feel. the breed
. and the water are available. good perma
nent pasture would seem to be about ~
only element lacking to render East Texa
ideal for the stock farmer and after
: years observation OF it. l am prepared
to say with the utmost enthusiasm. tina
= The question OF permanent pasture II
East Texas Is settled by Bermuda grass
! With my field of observation and expert
n ence limited hitherto to Western Texas
:. mainly where we estimate eight to hfteel
y acres 10 cow. you may appreciate VIVA
y growing wonder to me is the capaoit
. Of Bermuda grass in Eastern Texas. wher
= IL seems TO come as fast as Il goes. wit
. a COW to the acre. And | am free to sa
In that when the people Of East Texas begl
q 10 tell me that an acre we'll set to Der
a mrda grass would feed COW eight o
nine months Of the year. I did not believ
1t. ! believe II now and more. that j
a season like this she will not keep an acr
: of II short enough to afford the best graz
!. ing. Hundreds Of the best people in Eai
:, Texas have borne witness to this fact. an
with my own eyes ! have seen II. An
= while this Is enough % claim for Bermud
y grass. ! can ind you hundreds OF the mos
= practical, suecessful people 10 East TsN'
y who claIm even more for It. II Is ais
e claimed by many that II not graZed to
y closely In the late summer Gud fall
= makes good winter pasture They say tina
when a good ccatihg Is left he fr0s
h., causes Il to fall down forming thick ma
: upon the ground, and AFTER ererv rain @
" warm spell during the winter the gree
4, grass shoots M through the dry ard Al
4 fords fairly good winter grazing. Il ha
:. also been. discovered that in combinatio
with California burr clover On ne sam
:, land almost continuous pasturage IS faT
nished throughout the year, the Bermud
2 II spring. summer and fall. and tho Glove
y In winter | have In mind n nurnbsr {
: casss wherc this combination works
q its promoters.
: II seems strange. however. tnat wnil