The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-13
AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS
EXPERIMENT STATIONS ARE LOCAL
AS TO BENEFITS.
The Cotton Growers Association Is Gain
ina RAPIDLY in Membership in All Sec
tons Of State--Some Interviews.


Hon 8. NJ. Tracy. formerly director Of
the Mississippi experimental station and at
present special field agent for the Western
Guss States In fhe United States depart.
iaent of agriculture, Is in the city. Mir.
tracy visits this section just at this time
for tue purpose OF looking after the plant
Ing Of some Egyptian cotton which Mr..
a. L. Borden of Pierce has agreed to raise
for the purposes of the general govern.
ment. In company with Mr.. Borden, Mr..
riecg will leave this morning for Pierce
and Will spend some days there before re-
turning to Houston. reporter for The
Pose called on Mr.. Tracy az the Hutchins
LouSe last night and asked for an express.
Sion from him In regard to the benefits
| accrning to the agriculture of State
through experimental stations. Mr.. Tracy
Was very brief and very much to the point
IN v lat ne had to say.
THE field work that any experimental
ssat'on can do Is necessarily quite local
IN aus character In every state soils, ell
inHte and all farming conditions vary SO
widely That no one station can determine
| the best practices for different localities.
| lAiis Is especially true in State like
Texas. where the conditions vary almost
as widely as In the extreme sections OF
the United States. While the present sta
| tio1 is doing magnificent work for the
! State, IL Is physical impossihlity for IL to
| settle The Important agricultural problems
| which must be faced by the planters of the
| coast country. the stock raisers In the Pan
handle and the fruit growers in the central
/ clsttlcts
~ have known Prof. Connell since he
/ was a student In college; In fact, he was
! my assistant for some time before coming
| to Texas. / regard him as one of the
! ahleSt men In the South. The work which
| Is Elready accomplished at College station
| has shown his grasp OF the situation, and
| the success of the cooperative work which
lac carried on last year with farmers in
ncaily every section OF the State shows
x,Fl,n MIC l,.. 4.pH
conld be made systematic and continuous
| There Is no other station whore branch sta
| tions are more needed than In Texas"
~
| Mr.. II. N. Gray, secretary of the Hous-
! ton Manufacturers association, and Mr..
Oswald Wilson, special field agent for
Texas, Louisiana. Arkansas and Oklahoma
In the statistical service of the agricul-
! tural department. returned yesterday from
a visit to New orleans. The special object
had in view by Mr. Gray IN visiting the
! Crescent City was to obtain additional data
for use In urging the necessity for add
| tlonal subeXperimental stations on the at.
! tention Of the legislature now in special
| session. Mr.. Gray, 1t will be remembered,
| Is a member of special committee ap'
pointed ut the recent meeting of the Texas
| Farmers Congress- OF which Hon. Frank
| Holland Of Dallas Is chairman, to urge
this matter on the attention of Governor
in the Crescent City Mr.. Gray visited the
sugar experimental station at Audubon
park, which embraces the grounds where
the worlds fair was held IN 1854. Inc
state of Louisiana has leased fifty acres
| of this park and erected the necessary
buildings for attendants, workshops and
other things necessary for tirst-class sta
ton. part of the equipment consists
| OF Il modern sugar mill, on small scale,
but perfect In detail There are also sugar
houses, cane sheds and every modern ap.
pliance for the treatment Of sugar The
mill cost the State $4,000 and an annual
appropriation of $1,000 Is made for main
station, the state supports three additona
suhstations which treat the various hort
cultural products OF the state.
| The main station. which Is six or sever
miles out from New Orleans, is of easy nc
cess to the sugar planters who visit the
city and is Invaluable to the sugar Indus
| try. Extensive experiments are carried OF
In the Qualification. filtration, evaporation
and cooking of sugar The thirteenth
annual report Of this station Will soon h,
ready for distribution 1t Will he of ahld
Ing Interest to sugar planters IN both Texas
and Louisiana.
Mr.. Gray also made observations con
corning the rice industry In Louisiana. He
says the Texas rice shows UP fayoraby
with the Louisiana yield. and that in many
instances 1t Is OF ranker growth, with cor
responding head development, On the New
Orleans board Of trade Mr. Gray witnessed
the sale off, %3 sacks Of Japanese rice from
$3.50 a ssck Indicating that the prize Is
keeping mp remarkably we'll Mr. Gray is
of the opinion that rice equally as fine
can he produced In this section OF. Texas
ON the homeward trip, and especially after
crossing into Texas, everywhere haryestcrs
were mt work In rice fields which a yeal
or so ago were barren lands.
~
Mr.. Oswald Wilson of the agricultural
department, as special field agent In mat
ters of statistics, is at present very active
! I'm the orglnagntiOn aft abe Texas Carton
Growers Protective association An organ
zation VIII be effected in hin county on
Saturday Strong organizations have nj
ready been effected In q number of coun
ties, and requests are coming In from
nearly every section of the Site for a
visit from the organizers. MIR. Wilson left
last night for Fort Worth and Will return
TO Houston early next week.