The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-03
RICE IN COLORADO COUNTY
PROOF THAT 100 BUSHELS no rHh
ACRE HAS BEEN RAISED.
The Quality Was Pronounced by an
Expert 10 Bc the
Hest.

Columbus. Texas, September 2.--The news
that 100 bushels of rice had been raised to an
acre OF land in Colorado county causes con-
sternption with the editor of daily paper
AZ beaumont. He says that the artistic gen
itleuan who Is furnishing The Houston PoSt
RICO stories from Columbus is gifted with
nerve rather than imagination. The idea OF
stating that rice 10 the vicinity OF Eagle Lake
or any other place will average loo bushels
l,o an acre he follows with an exclamation
pctnt He says a Louisiana real estate agent
would hardly have the audacity TO father
such statement and that this artist has
missed his calling and should have heen a
war correspondent at Shanghai for yellow
Journal or statistican for the republican Ma
tiopal executive committee.
His incredulity is innocent in his ignorance
and his satire has no sting. for the facts
stated are patent. The Columbus correspond
ent tenders his thanks to the Beaumont edi-
tor for the prominence he has gwen tue fame
OF Colorado county as the most fruitful rice
producing section. His kinu efforts VIII pro-
duce more beneficial results here than II
real estate Qssociauon could secure
In the communication the editor noticed IN
I he Post mention was made OF but one ned
where 100 bushels were raised on an acre OF
ground. There are two fields In the county
where that number of bushels are raised To
an acre The following was furnished for
publication at the request OF this correspond
emit:
Mr.. O. A. zumwalt, Columbus, Texas,
Lake Side, TcXas, September dear Sir;
AT your request | make statement rela-
tive to some rico raised on Captain Dunno
wants plantation last season. | harvested
and threshcd on ten acres of land 35.45S
pounds OF rice. from the best imported Hon
durns seed. A portion OF the above mentioned
ten acres yielded more than 100 bushels per
acre, estimating bushel at 4Oh9 pounds
| attribute this immense yield to the fact
that three bushels per acre were seeded with
q drill thus giving perfect stand and tue
water was kept to good depth upon Il I'M
romittinsly. This patch of rice was such a
thing OF beauty that hundreds made their
vsitatiors TO il and this. as an object lesson
has caused 1000 acres in this section TO be
now IN rice. The S5,i59 pounds were loaded
and weighed under my supervision and ship
ped to the Reymershoffer rice mill at Calves
ton. Mr. Gustave jain OF New York pro-
nounced this rice to be The best as to quality
h, had ever seen west oLthe, Mississippi river
About three or four acres of the above ten
acres was comparatively poqr rice, thus max
ng' eight acres Of t1ns I1ee average at least
100 bushels per acre.
H. d. Carnegie. Manager
The owner of the other field mentioned, Mr..
]. A. Harbert Is at his plantation and could
Henry Thomas of Affair gives this CORE
spOndent authority to quote him rs stating
that he had seen Captain Dunovant'8 crop
which raised 100 bushels to the acre and feels
fully warranted in asserting that consdera-
Bile proportion Of Mr.. Harbert's crop would
yield more bushels to the acre than ono
hundred Every experienced rice man who
has seen the two crops conours with HIM IN
this opinion.
THE better the land, the better the rice Is
an axiom here. The editor az the Beaumont
Journal rs respectfully invited to visit this
Golconda OF rice in Colorado county.