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THE TEXAS ALMANAC-1929. 93
factors of Texas into bankruptcy and
so disorganized the market that peanut
growing was greatly discouraged. Pre-
ceding this, however, came the realization
that pork production from peanuts had
not developed everything that had been
promised. The comeback of the peanut
growing industry of recent years has been
based on a better understanding of bal-
anced rations for swine feeding, and on
the strengthened demand of this product
for oils and in the manufacture of confec-
tions.
Peanut acreage, production and value in
Texas:Year- Acreage
1928 ....... .120 000
1927 .......... 117.000
1926 ......... . 71 000
1925 ........ .. 71 000
1924 ... ....... 75 000
1923 ..........122.000
1922 ......... 172 000
1921 ...........195.000
1920 ...........174,000Production
(Lbs )
78 000 000
70,200.000
45 440 000
3 8)) 000
313.7"0.010
75.640.000
96 320 000
123 825,000
125,280,000Value.
$3 900 000
2 4-7 000
2,045.000
1,219 000
1.519 000
4.841,000
3 8-1. 0100
4.210 000
7,517,000PECANS.-Texas is the premier pecan
producing State of the country. From the
pine woods of East Texas to the Pecos
River and the foot of the great plains the
great native pecan gro-es are found along
living streams throughout South, South-
western, Central. Middle Western and
North Central Texas. Some pecans are
found in the alluvial valleys of the pine
country and they are being set out along
the streams of the plains country. The
pecan, by legislative enactment, is the
adopted State tree of Texas. The greatest
groves are found along the upper and mid-
dle courses of the Nueces, Frio, Guada-
lupe. San Marcos, Colorado, Brazos and
Trinity Rivers, and along such tributaries
as the Llano, Pedernales, San Saba, Con-
chos and P'ecan Bayou. Though the pe-
can grows profusely along streams over
a great area, it may be said that San Saba
County at the junction of the San Saba
and Colorado Rivers is at the heart of the
pecan belt. Although the pecan has not
been developed extensively it contributes
substantially each year. to the wealth of
Texas. Aside from the estimated com-
mercial crop there is a large home con-
sumption A number of pecan orchards
are now being cultivated, in Smith, Tar-
rant, San Saba, McCulloch, Tom Green
and other counties. In many instances
native groves have been topped In this
manner the native varieties have been
greatly improved. A large part of the
Texas commercial crop goes to the
shellers thence to manufacturers of con-
fectionery. The last census of agricul-
ture shows 1,337,033 trees of bearing and
1.054,610 trees of non-bearing age in
Texas, but pecan specialists in Texas are
in agreement that this figure is much too
low.
Pecan production and value in Texas:
Production
Year- (cars). Value.
1928 .... .. .............450 $2.040 000
1927 ............................190 1 140,000
1926 .................... ....... 30 1,750 000
1925 ...........................1iO 750 000
1924 ............................175 1 040 000
1923 ........................... 32 1 8o 0n0o
1922 .......................... 25 200 000
1921 .............................275 1,179 000
1920 ........................... 75 375.000
1919 ......................... 500 1,850,000POTATOES.-The potato is grown for
home use throughout North Central, East-
ern and Southern Texas, but the principal
commercial production is found in four
areas: (1) in Bexar County; (2) in the
counties of Wharton, Colorado, Fort Bend
and Harris; (3) in the Lower Rio Grande
Valley, principally in Cameron, but to less
extent in Hidalgo County; and (4) in
many communities throughout East and
Northeast Texas, principally the counties
of Bowie, Camp, Cass, Fannin. Henderson,
Hopkins, Lamar. Morris, Wood, Red River
and Upshur, which normally ship from
eight to fifty cars each annually. The
oldest potato growing section is that in
Wharton, Colorado and adjacent counties
of which Eagle Lake is the principal ship-
ping point In recent years there has
been a rapid development of the crop in
the Rio Grande Valley. The Eagle Lake
section will normally ship a thousand cars
annually, and in recent years the Lower
Rio Grande Valley has been shipping 1,000
to 1,500 cars annually. Brownsville and
San Benito are the principal shipping
points in the Rio Grande Valley.
Potato acreage, production and value in
Texas:Year- Acreage.
1928 ....... .39,000
1927 ... ........ 35000
1926 ........ ..30 000
1925 ......... ..25000
1922 ........ ..39 000
1921 ...........37.000
1920 .............36,000
1991 ............52,000Prod'n (Bu.).
2.601.000
2310.000
2,100 000
1 378 000
1.675.000
1.925.000
2.418 000
2 072.000
1 872.000
3,796,000Value.
$2 691.000
3,812 000
4.210.000
3.307 000
2.848.000
3,080 000
3.869,000
3,937.000
4.118.000
7,972,000POTATOES, SWEET.-The sweet potato
has the distinction of being the leading
vegetable crop in Texas, on basis of aver-
age annual value. Only the leading crops.
cotton, grain sorghums, corn, wheat and
oats, are of greater economic importance.
It is primarily a sandy land crop, hence
the bulk of production comes from East
Texas However, there is a widely scat-
tered cultivation of the sweet potato in
the sandy land regions of Central West
and South Texas. Most of the crop is
grown for home consumption and local
market demand, but there is a very large
movement to outside markets, especially
during good crop years. Texas is one of
the leading sweet potato producing States.
This product is a perishable product
though proper storage will preserve it,
and there has been much experimentation
with storage houses throughout the prin-
cipal producing regions. A large num-
ber of these were built about ten years
ago. These enterprises proved only part-
ly successful. The last census, 1925,
showed that sweet potatoes were grown
on 27,350, or 5.9 per cent of the whole
number of Texas farms. The leading
counties were Anderson. Angelina. Bas-
trop, Bexar, Bowie, Brazoria, Callahan,
Camp, Cass. Chambers. Cherokee, Dallas,
Eastland, El Paso. Fort Bend. Galveston,
Grayson, Gregg, Hardin. Harris. Harrison,
Henderson. Hopkins, Houston, Jasper, Jef-
ferson, Johnson, Lamar, Limestone, Mata-
gorda, Medina, Montgomery. Morris, New-
ton, Orange, Panola, Parker, Polk, Rains,
Red River, Rusk. San Augustine, Shelby,
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