The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-15
CORPUS CBSTI IS ,.
 DELIGHTFUL TOWN The Population Is Composed
 Largely of Mexicans MANY CROPS PRODUCED Cabbage Growing Industry FIourIshes and Is Very ProfitabIe-Toma-
 toes and caulIfower Are Grown to Advantage.
 
BY FULTON s. WHITE.

corpus Cr1sti, Tex, May 14-(Special)- Before leaving here I wish to say a few words more of this village and the coun- try here, Corpus cristi Is town of per haps 0000 people, and like all the other towns along the coast so far as I have seen Is largely Mexican in population and Spanish is the language we hear on all sides. The town is situated on the west side of Corpus Cristi bay. It is known as the Bluff City, as it is situated on high blum and above the tide It is A beautiful town and the bay affords fine tarpon fishing bathing and sailing. The breezes here are delightful, the nights cool and one sleeps well. provided he is protected by a good mosquito bar but woe to him who goes to sleep unprotected. l stopped over here yesterday in order that 1 might see something of the great truck industry, which is carried on here. and of which had heard so much. Cat bage has been the main crop grown here for some years for shipment, but now a large line of crops are being grown and most Of them have proven profitable Last year there were shipped from this I place BIO cars, 4000 tons of cabbage The crop Tor this year will not be so large | money for their crop this season than last, owing to the increased industry nere. In looking over the cabbage indus try here, l cannot see that the grower has much the advantage of our Mobile ground | so far as yield, quality and profits are concerned but here the growers have | several other advantages. They SOW ear | Her. they have an unlimited acreage of l fine cabbage lands, they do not have to spend so much for fertilizer, but the l greatest advantage of all is that the grower here can sell his cabbage crop off and plant his land to cotton, make from one to one and half bales per acre, and l get this out of the way of the next cab 1 bage crop.
 Farming here can be made continuous, regular rotation of crops all the year, and what the farmer gets out of these to make crops put him just that much ahead for 1t does not in the least interfere with lis farm crops, but rather prepares the soil for big crop of cotton or corn.
 Cabbage Crop Profitable.
 The cabbage crop here has netted the 1 growers this season from s75 to $50 per i acre; now the crop Is off In many cases and crops of tomatoes, corn and cotton coming right along; so we see at a glance what great advantage these growers have by having so great an amount of l where the cost of fertilizers is small.
 Fine caulflower Is now being grown {, here and l visited one grower who had ten acres which netted him s125 per acre, and the land Is now in corn nearly ready for table use This grower said that his corn crop would net him at least $75 per acre and that 1t would come off in time for him to make a crop of sorghum hay worth at least $50 an acre, and the sor- ghum would come off in time for him to prepare the soil for next winters cabbage | or caulifiower crop. How Is this for in- | tensive farmlng-$125 for caulifiower, s75 for corn and $50 for hay--a net profit of S24O per acre? But this is not all. This same grower put in one acre of caulifiow- CT very early, gave 1t special care, and this acre netted him $350 But we do not find many such gardeners as this one l here, and he Is not cotton farmer, but a practical German gardener. brought here by wealthy American who wanted to demonstrate what could be done here under the right kind of farming, and his experience has proven a grand success. There are many other men here who make cabbage growing success, but this German Is proving many other things | as well as cabbage.
 | Here I saw one field of forty acres of toma atoes Last year six cars were ship ped from here and this was the beginning of this industry here. Beans are also be- 1 ing grown and shipped in car load lots l Lettuce, radishes beets and summer 1 squash have all proven profitable crops for shipment. Potatoes are only grown 1 here In a small way as yet, but will prove a success, as a few growers planted small 1 lots as an experiment and these are sell l ing readily here at home at 3 cents per pound.
 County Is New.
 This whole country here Is new born is yet in it's infancy, for as stated only l e few efforts-and these but recently
 have been made for the development of this country. As I stated in my last let l ter 1t is a revelation to me to come here and see just what the country Is, and