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Until recently the opinion seemed to be prevalent among Northern
farmers that the only crop grown profitably in Texas was cotton, but of
late this impression has gradually been disappearing, and the immigra-
tion into Texas the last few years has been more general. The idea that
a Texas farmer must needs grow cotton has deterred numbers of Northern
farmers from emigrating to that State, as they were naturally loath to
embark in the production of an article in the growth of which they had
had no experience.
When one considers that the State of Texas contains an area of
250,004 square miles of land, and 2,510 square miles of water surface,
composed of lakes and bays, al area equal to about 8.7 per cent of the
entire area of all States and Territories of the United States combined, it
will not seem surprising that in this vast area almost every product
native to this country can be successfully raised.
Statistics compiled by the Government clearly demonstrate the
capabilities of the soil of Texas.
The State justly lays claim to a greater variety and richness of soil
than any State in the Union, black waxy, black sandy, black pebbly,
hog wallow, gray sandy, red sandy and sandy loam, and alluvial soils,
each being found in the State.
The careful reader of the following pages will notice the remarkably
favorable showing the corn, wheat and oat crops make in the list of
products raised in each of the counties described herein.
If comparisons were drawn it would be found that the corn crop
alone would almost equal, and in some instances, exceed, the cotton crop
for the county, to say nothing of wheat, oats, hay, sweet and Irish
potatoes, peas, beans, garden truck and fruits, each of which has no
inconsiderable acreage in each county. From this it will be seen that the
farmer from any portion of this country can find a congenial home in this
great State, where he can produce that to which he has been accustomed,
or if he chooses, any other of the products of the State.
Nothing is intended here to belittle cotton as a product, for it can
not be denied that it forms one of the principal agricultural interests of
the State, the idea being only to dissipate the impression among
'outsiders" of the singleness of the crop of the State of Texas.97
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