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THE TEXAS ALMANAC-1929. 91
There are no reliable figures available on
production.
FLAX.-There has been some experi-
mentation with flax in Northern Texas. A
North Dakota man tried flax growing on
an extensive scale near Amarillo about
fifteen years ago and there was much in-
terest at the time, but no industry has
developed. There was also some experi-
mentation with flax in lower North Texas
below Wichita Falls. The census of 1925
reported only one flax farm in Texas.
GRAPES.-The grape growing industry
of Texas is small. There is no considerable
commercial movement, though there are a
number of small vineyards scattered
throughout the State usually varying in
size from one to ten acres. The most no-
table recent expansion of the industry has
been around Ingleside in Aransas County,
where the Carman grape is produced in
considerable quantities for market. This
grape is grown extensively along the Gulf
Coast. There are numerous vineyards
throughout the old German settlements of
South Central Texas, where they were
originally started for home wine making
purposes. There was a considerable pro-
duction of grapes at one time along the
Pecos River near Pecos and in the Rio
Grande Valley at El Paso, but these in-
dustries have declined. There are some
vineyards in Val Verde and other South-
west Texas counties, and considerable
acreage in recent years has been placed in
grapes in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
There are some vineyards along the sandy
land belt in the immediate valley of the
Red River in Grayson, Montague, Cooke,
Lamar, Red River and Bowie Counties.
Denison was the home of T. V. Munson,
who .came to Texas in 1876 and developed
most of the varieties that have proved
successful in Texas, including the Carman
mentioned above, and who is today re-
membered as one of the country's great-
est authorities on the grape. A variety of
wild grapes are found throughout East,
South and Southwest Texas and the sandy
lands of West Central Texas.
The annual commercial production of
Texas is estimated at about 1,000 tons.
HAY.-Though not a leading hay pro-
ducing State, this crop in Texas is impor-
tant, and increasing attention is being de-
voted to it. The principal crop consists of
tame varieties, though there is a very ap-
preciable production of wild hays. Alfalfa
is grown in many sections of Texas, in-
cluding the Panhandle plains and the
Trans-Pecos irrigated sections. In the
bottom lands of North Central and East
Texas and on the plains there is a scat-
tered production of timothy and clover,
the timothy acreage having shown an ap-
preciable increase during the last few
years. About 75,000 acres annually of
small grains and annual legumes are cut
for hay. Rhodes grass is grown through-
out the coastal belt. Johnson grass is one
of the principal hay crop's throughout the
black land belt and Middle Texas. Sudan
is the principal hay crop of the plains.
(See Sorghums.) There is an excellent
prairie hay grown in Fannin, Lamar and
other Northeast Texas counties. The pro-
duction of wild hays comes largely from
the coastal plains. Hays of all kinds
were reported from 159,442 farms in Texasin 1925. This was one farm in three ap-
proximately.
All tame hays--------
Year- Acreage. Prod'n (tons). Value.
1928 .........637,000 733,000 $9,675,000
1927 ........ 629.000 749,000 8.838,000
1926 ... .. 891 000 1,240.000 14,000,000
1925 ......... 804.000 653,000 12,276,000
1924 ......... 828,000 967,000 16,247,000
1923 ......... 723,000 1,183,000 18,926,000
1922 ........ 671.000 1,074,000 12,351,000
1921 ......... 639,000 887.000 8,732,000
1920 ......... 556,000 778,000 10,425,000
1919 ......... 662,000 1,258,000 22,644,000
_- All wild hays-
Year- Acreage. Prod'n (tons). Value.
1928 ....... 219,000 208,000 $2,205,000
1927 ........ 219,000 219.000 2,015,000
1926 ......... 231,000 277,000 2,770,000
1925 ......... 211,000 93,000 1,568,000
1924 ......... 215,000 215,000 3,188,000
1923 ......... 207,000 228,000 2,850,000
1922 ......... 201,000 221.000 2,219,000
1921 ......... 203,000 223,000 2,074,000
1920 ......... 194,000 213,000 3,195,000
1919. ......... 214,000 268,000 4,744,000
____ All hays
Year- Acrea e. Prod'n (tons). Value.
1928 ......... 856,000 941,000 $11,880,000
1927 ........ 848.000 968,000 10,833,000
1926 ........ 1,022.000 1,517,000 16,770.000
1925 .........1,005,000 748.000 13,844,000
1924 .........1,053.,000 1,182.000 19,365.000
1923 ......... 930,000 1,411,000 21,776.000
1922 ......... 872,000 1,295,000 14,570,000
1921 ......... 842,000 1,110,000 1,0806.000
1920 .......... 750,000 991,000 13,620.000
1919 ......... 876,000 1,526,000 27,388,000
LETTUCE.-Lettuce production on a
commercial scale has come into promi-
nence in Texas only during the last few
years. The principal movement is from
the Lower Rio Grande Valley and the
winter garden section and in the irrigated
section west of Corpus Christi. It is pro-
duced as a winter and early spring crop.
Shipment is primarily to Northern mar-
kets. There is also a crop of spring let-
tuce grown in East Texas. Lettuce for
home consumption is grown throughout
the State.
Production
Year- Acreage. (crates). Value.
1928 .............. .1,000 100,000 $102,000
1927 ................. 950 103,000 T03,500
1926 ................ 640 72,000 85,000
19253 ................. 680 68,000 52.000
1924 ................. 760 133,000 73.000
1923 .................1,140 263,000 271,000
1922 ................1,390 257,000 229,000
1921 .................1,020 228.000 169,000
1920 .................1,160 282,000 336,000
OATS.-On a basis of value this is cus-
tomarily the fourth or fifth ranking crop
in Texas, sometimes being of greater and
sometimes of less value than wheat, and
being preceded only by the values of the
cotton, corn and grain sorghum crops. The
production extends from the sandy lands
of East Texas westward, covering north
central and central sections of the State,
extending as far southward as San An-
tonio. There is some production of, oats
on the Panhandle plains, but the crop is
not as extensively grown there as on the
lower prairies of West Texas. As with
corn, oats are usually grown somewhat
as an avocation by the cotton farmer. The
last census showed oats grown on 66,035
Texas farms, an average of 21.3 acres per
farm. The commercial shipment is rela-
tively small. During big crop years as
much as half of the oats produced in Tex-
as may go to market outside of the coun-
ty in which Trown. In other years the
percentage of shipped oats may be as low
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