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THE TEXAS ALMANAC. 213
in Texas turning out products valued at
about $500,000 annually. A large portion
of the Texas peanuts are used as hog
feed.
Peanut raising in Texas probably has
settled down to a steady increase in pro-
duction resulting from an intelligent de-
mand. There was a boom ten or fifteen
years ago, based upon misunderstanding
of the peanut's value as hog feed. Prop-
erly proportioned with other feeds it is
valuable, but unsupplemented, it produces
a stringy pork. This discovery together
with the bad break in the peanut market
in 1919 caused a slump in the peanut
growing business, from which it has re-
covered slowly.
Texas Peanut Crop.
Production
Year- Acreage. (Lbs.). Value.
1927 .............117,000 70,200,000 $2,457,000
1926 .............. 71,000 45,440,000 2,045,000
1925 ..........,... 71,000 35,855,000 1,219,000
1924 .............. 75,000 33,750,000 1,519,000
1923 .............122,000 75,640,000 4,841,000
1922 .............172,000 96,320,000 3.853.000
1921 ............195,000 123,825,000 4,210,000
1920 .............174,000 125,280,000 7,517,000
POTATOES.
Texas produces about 2,000,000 bushels
of potatoes annually, of which about one-
third of this production comes from'four
or five counties, including Cameron,
Wharton, PBexar and Colorado. Other
counties producing on an appreciable com-
mercial scale are Fayette, Fort Bend.
Grayson, Harris, Lavaca, Smith, Titus,
Upshur, Van Zandt, Washington and
Wood. These counties are scattered over
a wide territory, but all of them lie in
Southern, Central or Eastern Texas. These
counties produce practically all of the
commercial potato crop, and more than
half of the entire crop of the State. The
Texas potato crop is inconsequential com-
pared with the crops of some other States,
but it has an advantage in being able to
get on the market early and there is rea-
son to believe that the Texas production
will increase.
Texas Potato Crop.
Year- Acreage. Prod'n (Bu.), Value.
1927 .............. 35.00 2,310,000 $3,812.000
1926 .............. 30,000 2,100,000 4,210,000
1925 .............. 25,000 1,378,000 3,307,000
1924 .............. 25,000 1,675,000 2,848,000
1923 .............. 35,000 1,925,000 3.080,000
1922 .............. 39,000 2,418,000 3,869.000
1921 .............. 37.000 2,072.000 3,937.000
1920 .............. 36,000 1,872,000 4,118,000
1919 .............. 52,000 3,796,000 7,972,000
SWEET POTATOES.
Only five crops-cotton, corn, wheat,
oats and grain sorghums-customarily
produce in greater annual value than the
sweet potato crop. Greatest production
comes from the sandy lands of Eastern
and Northeastern Texas, but there is
some production for market also in the
sandy land belts of Middle West Texas
and South Texas. Texas is one of the
leading sweet potato producing States
and during good crop years there is an
appreciable movement to markets outside
the State. The industry has been some-
what handicapped in the past by the com-
paratively highly perishable nature of
this product and there has been much ex-
perimentation in curing sweet potatoes
so they could be stored until the seasonal
"dumping" on the market was finished.In some instances these curing and stor-
age houses have been in successful oper-
ation. Undoubtedly, the sweet potato
growing business will increase greatly in
the future. It does not require irrigation
in the well watered sections of Texas and
growing cost is not as high as with some
other vegetables. Counties having the
largest acreages according to the last cen-
sus, crop of 1924, were Angelina, Bexar,
Camp, Chambers, Cherokee, Hardin, Har-
ris, Harrison, Jasper, Liberty, Newton,
Smith, Tarrant, Upshur, Van Zandt and
Wood.
Texas Sweet Potato Crop.
Year- Acreage. Prod'n (Bu.). Value.
1927 .............. 133,000 11,970,000 $8,978,000
1926 .............. 92.000 8,556.000 8,125,000
1925 .............. 84.000 6,132.000 8,707,000
1924 .............. 89,000 3,990.000 6,304,000
1923 ............. 86,000 6,880,000 7,843.000
1922 .............105,000 8,715,000 7,408.00)
1921 .............100,000 8,200,000 6,970.000-
1920 .............. 95,000 9,975,000 12,968,009
1919 .............. 95,000 10,450,000 15,675,000
SPINACH.
Spinach is the one Texas vegetable crop
that is produced almost entirely for the
general market. There is little produc-
tion for home consumption and local mar-
kets, and only a small percentage of the
Texas crop is consumed within the bounds
of the State.
There is heavy production of spinach
in the "winter garden" section of Dimmit,
La Salle and adjacent counties, in the ir-
rigated area along the Rio Grande imme-
diately above Laredo and in the lower
Rio Grande Valley. Here spinach is irri-
gated. Spinach is produced in large
quantities on dry farms throughout a
number of counties between San Antonioa
and the Gulf Coast and in Travis and
Hays Counties in Central Texas. There
has been some spinach production in
Northeast Texas, notably in Bowie Coun-
ty. Texas, Virginia and California are
the ranking spinach producing States of
the country.
Texas Spinach Crop.
Year- Acreage. Prod'n (Bu.). Value.
1926 .............. 16,770 5,115,000 $3,750,000
1925 .............. 14,100 4,639.000 2,870.000
1924 .............. 8,410 2,649.000 2,119,000
1923 .............. 9,440 2,549,000 1,274.000
1922 .............. 8,210 2,299,000 1,517.000
1921 .............. 8,320 2,105,000 1,158.000
1920 .............. 5,620 1,686,000 1,366,00?
STRAWBERRIES AND BLACKBERRIES.
Strawberries are grown on small scale
for local markets in most sections of
Texas. Probably the best developed com-
mercially producing section is around
Alvin in Brazoria and Harris Counties.
There is also appreciable commercial
production in Smith, Wood, Franklin and
other East Texas counties and there are
annual shipments from Tyler, Winnsboro
and some other points.
Blackberries.
What is probably the most highly lo-
calized and certainly one of the most in-
teresting crops in Texas is the blackberry
growing around Lindale in Smith County.
Practically all of the blackberry produc-
tion in Texas is centered in this single
community, yet there are several thou-
sand acres in vines and the production
runs annually into the hundreds of thou-
sands of crates. Several large canneries
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