Identifier: bookoftexa00bene (find matches)
Title: Book of Texas
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Benedict, Harry Yandell, 1869-1937 Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948
Subjects: Texas Texas -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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Courtesy of Farm and Ranch Six Tons of Alfalfa Per Acre on an Irrigated Farm in the Panhandle Sudan Grass, State Experiment Station, Spur Hauling Sugar Cane to Market, Lower Rio Grande Valley Loading Potatoes in Field Near Houston FROM CORN TO CAULIFLOWERS 151 crops of the Northern States nourish only a little incom-moded by a too ardent summer sun. Between these ex-tremes a thousand different fruits, vegetables, and field cropsgrow with astonishing but somewhat variable success. Texascrop averages give one but a poor idea of the enormouscrops that are raised in the most favorable seasons. Thestories so often told of men buying land at prices that as-tonished the old settlers and then making enough to pay forthe land out of the first crop are mostly true. Unfortu-nately, many of the stories about failures are also true.Something depends on the climate, but a great deal dependson the farmer. The good farmer combined with the goodseason makes one kind of a story, the poor farmer and the

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