The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-07-28
ToIue Of a Farm
a Gre In TIE Coast
Counfrp.
lRy w. b. slosson d Houston.l

(By W. b. Siosson Of HoustonO II
The subject you gave me is fruitful one
"The Value Of the Farm Acre in the Coast
Country" Diversity Ia farm crops is oprn
ing up new avenues of wealth. with cep 4
tain crops Ave acres, or even three Give
employment 80 the owner and a good man
to assist him. while the same help would |
work a Northern farm Of Zoe acres. Rut
which Yields the most In cash results Is the |
query that our newcomers would ask your |
congress to solve. know one man between |
Houston and Galveston who this year sold
over $500 OF Strawberries of one acre. about |
one-half paid out 10 expense. the balance |
profit. He has two acres OF okra, and has |
been shipping from five 10 twenty-five boxe, |
day for more than month, and the de.
mand vet holds out. He will net more than
SiC0 an acre OF this crop.
The same man has during the season
shipped dewberries. peas. string beans, eel.
cry, onions thad two acres). some reaches.
pears-ln all probability twelve or nften
| different articles shipped from his truck
farm during 1902. This on ten acres OF
| ground. more than one-half Of this In grow.
Ing orchard. The totals OF so many arti.
Giles VIII probably aggregate for the year
sllp to $500, read IN today's Post OF
| grower near Tyler who shippcd silicon
| from 500 acres Of liberia peaches, or over
500 an acre. this in 1902.
| The Texas Stock journal asks and an.
swers this question. III an acre OF land in
| Texas Will produce In year more revenue
! than nn acre in Iowa, Ohio or New York
why is land In those States worth $50 TO
| 500 an acre. while the Texas land ,np he
| bought from SO TO SIS an acre?" The an
swcr is, Proximity Ia markets This
! IeNas IS overcoming more rapidly than any
/ other state; Who ever read from the daily
| papers of Texas ten years ago of shipments
| or cars and train loads OF Strawberries
| onions, melons. radlshcs. caulinower to-
matoes, grapes. .npricots. pecans besides
the regular staples Of cotton corn. oats
sugar and hay now going north by the train
loadt Inc secretary OF agriculture said
o when me nerf IRON washington Texas has
son was right, and the yearly increase Of
shiIpl ig out Instead of IN. AS was the rule
IN the earlier days, has just been reversed.
cent Increase each year for the last dye
years. Our crops are earlier, find hare
and high market IN the North and ton
years ago. A''
Nowhere in the world except IN the
coast country of Texas has crop been
an acre raised on SIS land. Yet for tho
last three years rice has paid our growers
those prices and last year SIS an acre
extra for the straw.
The rice industry has come to STAY. and
VIII double thu price Of our lands in the
next three years. as has been done in
louisiana. From that splendid work
Rice Raising in the Coast Country of
! Texas, just issued by the Santa Fe com.
pany for free distribution this statement
is found. made by tho eminent authority
tho last ton ware ro,,istaa,ro ,, ~ ''ln
have Increased tbe area Iewoto o5u V li,s
10 such an extent that these two states
now furnish three fourths ~ all the rec
product of this country " and M n,o,ti. ~
authority also said In an address I'm Jors
ton that in nine wears the rirs indpstr,
had increased the yaiue Of Iauds nc,,
Lake Charles La. from a drog on 40
market at 81 so nm mere To S95 10 si1
an acre and advancing" Are not these
truthful statements made nv tbo hee, ,''
thority very encouraging 10 tho r,o5 Who
farms the acre or the 1000 acrcs7
| like 10 quote from the homo uews
paper, which gives the ''up o date" records
Of passing events In Che Monday morning
/ Post of this week appears this remarkabic
statement, under headlines like this ''Enst
Texas Fortunes, Tomatoes and Peach Is
| VIII Bring Big Returns n Million and a
! Half for Peaches Alone in an soooo Acre
Orchard. and 100000 Tomato Plants Pnt
out by One Firm the Coming Season q"
Under this caption Is the statement Of n
100 cnrs tomatoes and 800 cars cantcoupcS
already shipped IN 1902. And this from
me plney woods OF Enst Texas, the
, | former nome or the 'rnZor hRck hog that
| lived on mast ana could beat any quarter
morse mat dooged the pines or that section
ment as his shipment portends had been
) read to Farmers Congress even FIVE
years ago, ana me sergennt-at. arms OF
quietly requested by YOUR polite president
10 watch that lunatic NJ least until he got
on me tn@ t tn spoHnd ds,,oo,. w.
} the one acre" may he the future nutocrai
~, n's SyI.om a"" IL, NOR ".I I'm,
uIones INhIlzeu III n"l XVII year nun
tue northern 1HrWcT on MS elguty-ncFe