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NORTHERN TEXAS. 1] 7
territories, before some Notary Public, Commissioner of Deeds for this State,
or before some Judge or Clerk of a court of record having a seal. 3rd. -When
acknowledged or proven without the United States, before some public min-
ister, charge d'safaires, consul or consular agent of the United States, or
Notary Public, and in all cases the certificate of such acknowledgment or
proof, shall be attested under the official seal of the officer taking the same.
NORTHERN TEXAS.
1Y GEORGE A. CUTLER, OF GRAYSON.
In writing of Northern Texas, we only include the three or four tiers of
counties extending from Red river southward, embracing that section of
country known as the "black lands " of Texas. This region of country,
embracing, perhaps, one-fourth of the agricultural portion of the State, is
the garden, not only of Texa:s, but of the great West. The soil consists
principally of two kinds, the black waxy and the black sandy. It is of a
rich alluvial character, fertile in the extreme, and varies from three to ten
feet in depth. As a home for the small stock raiser, planter or small farmer,
it would be difficult to find a more pleasant or profitable one than that
offered by this section of Texas. The climate is delightful and genial; ex-
cessive heat and cold are almost unknown. The cool, balmy breezes almost
continually blowing from the Gulf in the summer, so temper the atmos-
phere as to make it pleasant, while the nights are much cooler than we find
them in a more northern latitude. In the winter season the sharp, cut-
ting " Norther " whici we get occasionally from the north, serves to purify
the air and adds much to the health with which Northern Texas is so pre-
eminently blessed. It is doubtful, in fact, whether any portion of this con-
tinent can equal this section in point of health--certainly none can surpass
it. The farmer can raise his crops here with less than one-half the laborhe
would bestow on the same in the Eastern, or perhaps in the Middle States.
The yield of corn is not so great as in Missouri or Kansas, forty bushels
being a good average; but in many other productions, all the cereals, veg-
etables, etc., Texas will exceed either of the above named States.
For orchards, vineyards and small fruit culture, the black sandy lands of
Northern Texas have no superior. The apple, pear, peach, plum, cherry, fig,
apricot, etc., all produce exceedingly well, while for grape culttra it can
scarcely be equaled by any other section. Indeed, it seems to be the natural
home of the grape, not only in Northern Texas but the whole State. Im-
mense quantities of the mustang and post oak,-a native grape as large as
the Concord are found in all parts of the State, and wine making, from these
grapes, is getting to be quite an item of trade.
The general character of the country, like almost all of the great South-
west, is gently rolling prairie, the soil is dark, loamy, very deep and under-
laid, generally, with a sub-soil of clay or magnesian limestone.
PRODUCTIONS.
Corn, wheat, oats, Irish and sweet potatoes, all kinds of garden vegetables.
fruits, cotton, tobacco, sorghum cane, castor bean, broom corn and, in fact,
any production that can be raised in any portion of the country (except some
of the tropical fruits) can be raised in abundance in this section.
The cotton lands of Northern Texas will produce a bale to the acre with
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