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96 THE TEXAS ALMANAC-192.
STRATVBERRIES. - See "Blackberries
and Strawberries"
TOMATOES.-The principal t o m a t o
growing section of Texas is that lying be-
tween Jacksonville in Cherokee County
and Tyler in Smith County. This is one of
the unique industries of Texas. It was
started and has been developed largely as
a community enterprise in the effort of
these farmers to get away from the one
crop (cotton) system. Though there have
been bad years, the industry has been
uniformly successful and has maintained
itself for more than a quarter of a cen-
tury. It is one of the most highly local-
ized agricultural industries in Texas. This
crop comes on the market customarily inr
May and June and goes primarily to
Northern markets as an early intermedi-
ary product. It is grown almost entirely
as table stock, little effort haxlng been as
yet made to grow manufacturers' stock of
tomatoes in this territory. There is also
a very appreciable production of tomatoes
in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and other
sections of South Texas This product
comes on the market ahead of the East
Texas crop and should be classed as very
early table stock. Tomatoes are gown
throughout Texas in home gardens.
T(,mato acreage, production and value
in Texas:
Production
Year- Acreage. (crates). Value.
1928 .... ........18 190 1 874.000 $3.748 000
1027 .. ..... 16 880 1.604.000 2 823.000
1926 ..... ......13,300 1.277.000 3.620,000
1925 ............ 10.780 884 000 2.316,000
1924 ............. 9.40 868,000 1,979,000
1923 ....... ... 6 000 574,000 1,401,000
1922 ...........12,500 960.400 1.893,000
1921 .. ........ 8,730 1,032000 2,082,000
1920 . ......... 6,000 551.620 1.445,000
TOBACCO.-Some excellent grades of
cigar tobacco have been produced in
Texas, notably near Nacogdoches, Willis,
Tyler, Lufkin and Huntsville. There is
some tobacco grown in East Texas for
home consumption and home manufacture
of cigars Under pressure of good market
demand a tobacco industry probably
would develop in this territory.
VELVET BEANS.-This plant is grown
largely as a rotational crop in East Texas
and is ranged usually by cattle or hogs.
The Texas acreage is given at about 50,-
000 annually and is gradually increasing
with increased diversification of agricul-
ture. A bush velvet bean has been intro-
duced and is largely replacing the vine
velvet bean planted formerly.
WATERMELONS.-This is one of the
most widely grown of Texas crop). Prob-
ably only cotton and corn are produced in
more widely separated sections of the
State. Most of the soils of the State are
well adapted to melon production, though
the commercial industry thrives usually in
the sandy and light loam regions. Parker
County, just west of Fort Worth, is the
leading melon producing county of the
State and it is frequently the leading
melon producing county of the entire
United States, and Weatherford, the coun-
ty seat, Is the chief Texas melon shipping
point. Melons are grown for market,
however, in something like a third of the
counties of Texas, Including especially the
counties in the sandy lands of East Texas,
the counties of the sandy and light loam
sections of North Cential and Middle
West Texas and many sections of South
and South Central Texas. Texas melons
go to the large consuming centers of theState and to the North. There is very lit-
tle production under Irrigation since this
plant stands up well under comparatively
dry weather, in fact, producing best with-
out too much moisturee. Watermelons were
produced on a commercial scale on 21,178
Texas farms according to the census of
1925 for the crop of 1924. Leading melon
producing counties include Atascosa, Aus-
tin, Eastrop, Bexar, Cherokee, Denton,
Frio, Guadalupe, Henderson, Hood, Hop-
kins, Jim Wells, Parker, Rains, San
Pati icio, Smith, Tarrant, Wilson, VWise and
Wood
Watermelon acreage, production and
value in Texas: Production
Year- Acreage. (cars). Value.
1928 .... ........ . 30.250 7,562 $1,407,000
1927 .......... ... 29.660 8.156 1,346,000
1926 .............. 34,9000 6,980 1,540.000
1925 ............32 020 3,636 1,330,000
1921. ....... 30 800 6.930 1.040.000
1923 .. , 24,920 9.153 2.161 000
1922 .... 25,.50 8 542 1,076,000
1921 .........28.600 7,808 1.312,000
1920 .... .. 21,250 7,735 1,856.000
VHEAT.- Th s is one of the outstand-
ing Texas crops both in the matter of
present production and value and also in
the matter of prospect of future expan-
sion The present annual acreage of
about 1,800,000 is only a small portion of
the area that is immediately available for
cultivation of wheat in Northwest Texas.
The wheat growing industry in Texas
has undergone rapid develol;nent in the
last fifteen years. It was not many years
since that most of the wheat crop of
Texas was gown in North Central Texas.
It was grown largely in comparatively
small fields and harvested by the old
methods of cutting and binding, shocking
or stacking in the field and later thresh-
ing At present most of the wheat of
Texas is grown on the high plains of the
Panhandle and upper south plains. The
industry has developed into a large scale
farming process The land is usually cul-
tivated by modern power methods, and
the crop usually harvested by the har-
vester-thresher Even in North Central
Texas, where there is yet much wheat
grown, the large scale methods are being
introduced. The crop of 1928 saw many
"combines" operating as far east as Fort
Worth and Dallas. Texas wheat grown
on the high plains is usually hard wheat
and that grown on the lower plains of
North Central Texas is a soft wheat.
Texas mills take most of the wheat grown
In the State, but there is a considerable
movement both to mills in the East and
North and for export through the Gulf
ports.
Heat acreage, production and value in
Texas:
Year- Acreace. Prod'n (Bu.). Value.
1928 .... 2 016 000 22,176.000 $24,392 000
1927 .. ....1,850.000 17,945,000 21,713,000
1926 ....1.802,000 32,796,000 39,355,000
1925 . . 810,000 6.22 000 10,156,000
1924 . .. 1,396.000 25,826,000 32.575.000
1923 ....... 10 9.000 16,370.000 16.861,000
1922 .. . 1249 000 9,92 000 10 991.000
1921 ... .2 81,000 20.810 000 20 810,000
1920 ..... 1,583.0(00 20,579.000 35,396,000
1919 . .. 2 04 000 3:13,75 000 67.484,000
Wheat acreage, production and value in
United States
Year- Acreage. Prod'n (lB ). Value.
1928 . ...57 724 000 902 749 000 $877 193,000
1927 .... 58,784 000 878,.74.000 979 813,500
1926 .....56,.137.000 831.040.000 9935,954,000
1925 .....52,255,000 676,429.000 594,289.000
1924 .....52,535,000 864,428,000 779,548,000
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