Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, April 28, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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Commercial £i>emtartes^, association
list of ten counties showing the highest end lowest
average aeiieeced valuation per head of horses and mules.
Lowest Valuation.
Tyler............$87.10
Fort Bend........$87.08
Hookwall.........$79.64
Delta............$73.94
Deaf Smith.......$73,54
Hill.............$66.85
Jefferson,.......$68.65
Willi emson.......$£0.34
Bills............$67,41
Armstrong........$66.23
Hidalgo.........$18.46
Oldham..........$19.39
Menard..........$19.79
Duval...........$19.90
Cameron........ .$20.00
Crockett........$20,68
Starr...........$30.84
............$21.76
Lubbock........ .$21.85
Zupata..........$22,76
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Limestone............§22.60
Rockwall.............$19.63
McLennan.............$19.39
Moore......... $18.45
2avalla...........,. .$17.00
Live Oak........ .$16.81
barker...........
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Cass...........$5.58
Marion.........$5.81
Panola.........$5.87
Shelby.........$5.99
Morris.........$6.29
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average assessed valuation per head of hogs.
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Lowest Valuation.
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Hogs, per head. The information in this Live Stock Tax Map is based up-
on the values determined by the Tax Assessor on January 1st, 1910.
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STAPLE CROPS IN THE COAST
COUNTRY.
Southwestern farmer’s constant
contention, for half a dozen years
past, that the final development of
the Texas coast country would rest
chiefly upon the production of staple
! Crops—cotton, corn, forage crops,
hogs, poultry, cattle and creamery
products—with the subtropical fruits
(.oranges, figs, grapefruit, etc.) form-
ing the golden apex of the pyramid,
finds each year stronger support not
only in the visible development of the
region, but in the published reports
-thereof, in the papers of Texas and
the country generally.
Writing on this subject the Galves-
ton News in a late number says:
* “Diversification of farming in the
Texas coast country is one of the
noiablo effects ot the settlement of
that country by men from many dif-
ferent sections of the country. A
great deal of experimental agricul-
ture is being tried on a small scale all
along the coast lands from Galveston
to Brownsville. These experiments
are showing the extent to which it
will be advisable to go in any particu-
lar line.
“The corn crop has been proven to
be One Oi ihe most profitable in tne
coast country. Northern men insisted
upon making corn grow and the re-
sult of their efforts is to be seen in
the production of crops that measure
as high as 100 bushels to the acre..
The avearge corn crop on the boat
lands of the midcoast country is as
large as that of Iowa. It is now a
proven fact that cotton will grow to
the greatest perfection in the coast
iauds of Texas. The crop in the best
of the coast lands is equal to the best
crop that can be produced in the
famed cotton lands of Texas. Rice
was the great farm crop of the coastal
plains country when farming took its
first impetus there a few years ago.
But the rice crop must be rotated. It
Is not possible to grow good rico ench
successive year on the same land. So
the proposition was before the rice
farmer that he must either let his rice
■ land lie idle a part of the time or de*
vaU if try onmfl Athor Ay AT% /In yin or the
resting period from rice. This led tp
-4he cotton and corn proposition. .
' “The result of this rotation of crops
is that the coast country of Texas is
rapidly becoming ‘a corn and, cotton
as well as a rice field. The irrigation
plants that were necessary for rice
growing are useful for the diversifica-
tion proposition and the truck and
citrus fruit industry that is being de-
veloped along with the other things
that are staple.
“Less than 20 per cent, of the coast-
al plains country is ui.der cultivation
as yet and a smaller percentage even
than that of the timber country of
the coast is under che plow. But the
demonstration that is being made on
a larger scale each year is showing
the superlative character of the Tex-
as coast country, with the result that
the rnidcoast section at least is sure to
become an intensely farmed region
within a very few years. The diver-
sification that is being followed by
farmers of that section is placing the
country in the best possible liglic be-
fore homeseekers, and the breaking
up of a large holdings is a guaranty
that the farmer is going to have all
that country for his own, to the good
of the state and the cities contiguous
to that region.
“With corn, cotton and rice for
staples, and citrus fruits, figs, grapes,
vegetables and truck as side lines for
ai! the people of the const farms a.nri.
as the principal business of many of
them, the Texas coast country is be-
coming a mighty pleasing agricultural
proposition.”
The sudden transition from cattle
grazing to intensified truck farming
and orange growing has inevitably
resulted in a swift upward rush of
coast country land values. But these
values as applied to the coast country
as a whole cannot be sustained by the
growing of winter vegetables and of
sub tropical frnitB upon only n small
percentage of the whole area. The
rest of the country must be brought
under cultivation, and made to pro-
duce the homely, profitable staples
that feed tho people. When that is
done—and it is being done far more
rapidly than most South Texas people
are aware—land values in the coast
country will rest upon a stable foun-
dation, and will advance steadily as
fast and as far as proven earning
power warrant s.—Southwestern
iToymoy
Georgetown has voted bonds to
the amount of $45,000 for water
works. .
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AGRICULTURE AS A BUSINESS.
The campaign for the introduction
of better, more modern, more profita-
ble farming methods in Texas, and for
the adoption of diversified farming in
place of one-crop farming, goes for-
ward steadily. During the pa3t two
years this campaign has enlisted ail
the leading city daily papers of Texas.
Hardly an issue of any of these papers
now fails to carry at least one article
preaching this doctrine.
The San Antonio Express, under the
above heading, recently published as
a leading editorial this following gra-
phic outline of changed and still
changing conditions upon the farms
and ranches of Texas:
“In Texas tne progressive and
prosperous farmer is now being en-
vied by the residents of the city, for
his independence, his life in the open
and the opportunities for happiness.
The farm lias ceased to produce a
bare existence for the family. High
prices have brought greater prosperity
to the man who tills tho soil. The
diet is no longer corubread apd sor-
ghum molasses with bacon as a luxury.
The general tendency to raise poultry
snd fine cattle, as well as fruit and
garden truck, has mado the farmers
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The figures first given show the average ’
assessed valuation of Horses and Mules,
the second figure shows the average as-
sessed valuation of Cattle, and the third
figure shows the average assessed valu-
ation of Hogs. Values shown per head
for each county.
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country
Instead of the ox-cart, the poor mule
or inferior horse there are few farm-
ers who have not a span of animals
any city man might be proud to use.
“Nor is the farmer ignorant. Rural
high schools, better roads and other
transportation facilities have brought
good schools in close touch with his
children A way from the social temp-
tations of tiie city, the places where
so many boys idle away ,their time,
the farmer boy devotes more time te
his cducuiion, and his surroundings
naturally cause him to think more.
The result is that the average educa-
tion in the country districts is higher
than in the city.
“The farmer is a reader of the
new papers and tho best of literature.
He is acquainted with the trend of
politics and knows as well what to
wear as his city cousin. He is doing
his own thinking. Frequent visits to
lor.-rcr rtIHfia Iron-.. Iiji^ aViisswA t
the times. Rural free dellvny, rural
telephones and other modern advan-
tages enable him to keep in close touch
with the market and he Is able to sell
his products when they are in the
greatest demand and It is possible to
get for them the very best price. He
has learned to respect his own calling,
to elevate it, and the result is that he
has forced everyone else to respect It.
The boys are no longer ashamed to
work in the fields or ashamed to
acknowledge they are farmers.
“In business matters the farmer is
receiving the greatest coiionlci otiuu.
Uncle Sam has just completed an
inspection of our wearing apparel
and be is well pleaned with our per»
sonal appearance. We wear more
clothes and better clothea than we
did ten years ago when Uncle Sam
last reviewed us on dress parade.
Last year we bought 322,763,000
square yards of all woolen cloth
Banks and other business enterprises
realize his business is on a sure footing
and this has made his credit so good
that it is no longer necessary to sacri-
fice his crop.
“Modern agricultural implements
and labor-saving devices enable the
farmer to cultivate a larger tract more
decade ago. Our clothes are finer,
our people wiser and the country
more prosperous than at any time
in our history.
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No farmer gets rich by the quan*
tity of production. It is the price
economically and to realize greater *or bis products and economy
profile. Diversification is adding to
his income, and Instead of receiving
money only in the fall he has some-
thing to sail almost every day in the
year. This has done awAy with the
pernicious credit system, which made
even the better class of farmers de-
pendents of the merchants who ad-
vanced the supplies for the year.
“In no section of the United States
have conditions improved more than
in Texas. The work of the farmer is
bringing millions of doliaro to the
state annually., Better houses are be-
ing built and the bank accounts are
steadily growing, and, the farmer is
taking front ran,k among the business
men of the ^•^.♦'—Southwestern
Farmer.
and business judgement displayed
in* management that makes the
farmer wealthy. We cannot pass a
law that will increase the price of
production or reduce the cost of
plowing the land and marketing the
crop. We must depend upon fac-
tories and railroads for marketing
our products and upon improved
mechanical appliances and the bus-
iness ability of the farmer to reduce
the cost of production and to more
intelligently market his products.
We need more builders and fewer
law givers in Texas.
*
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“It is too far frbm the farm to the
table," said Col B. F. Yoakum and
the railroad builder is right. Texas
is a state of magnificent distance
but when we trace our products
from the farm to the table the
journey makes a trip from Texar-
kana to El Paso and return look like
a walk across the street. Our cot-
ton is shipped to the European fac-
tory and returned to America for
sumption completiirg^xirctrit-tif-1
10,000 miles on its useless journey
to the factory. Our iron comes from
Pittsburg, traveling half across the
continent when the hills of east
Texas are bursting with the finest
iron ore in the world. Our farmers
in many instances must travel 150
miles to a railroad while our banks
are glutted with money seeking in-
vestment. Bring the factory and
railroad to the farm and we will all
sit down at the same table and
break bread together.
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TJncle Sam has sheared his sheep
and he finds the nation’s fleece of
last year worth approximately $250,-
000,000 per annum. Uncle Sam
makes a good shepherd, his flock
having increased $93,325,000 in val-
ue during the past decade. Texas
the best COUStf® fo? ruiuina
in the United States and Uncle Sam
is increasing the number and im-
proving the quality of his Texas
flock rapidly. We have a million
head of sheep valued at $5,536,000
while our flock was valued at$3,-
982,117 ten years ago. We take
front rank in production in the sheep
industry.
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Uucle Sam has just completed his
inventory of si'k dress goods used
by the women of the nation and he
185,897,000 yards, valued at
$107,990,000 bought duriug 1909,
which is an increase of one hundred
million yards in quantity compared
with the purchases of 1899, ten
years ago. There is no escaping
Uncle Sam’s yard stick. He is not
complaining of the fine dresses worn
by the fair sex, but he wants to
koow what is going on in his do-
minion and when he makes inquiry,
Dame Fashion must stand and de-
liver the information.
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The State Board of health is wel
pleased with the resulte of “clean-
up” day and have decided to per-
petuate it by making 1911 a clean-up
year and the bulletin has something
to say about the carelessness of our
neighbors. Qu? State Board of
TTn»iUh in lininv notna warlr
for Texas and it merits the co-oper-
ation of ai l good citizena as well as
a more liberal appropriation from
the 32nd Legislature.
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Stump, D. L. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, April 28, 1911, newspaper, April 28, 1911; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth760427/m1/4/: accessed May 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Palacios Library.