. Review of reviews and world's work. were 3,400 acres under cultivation,and this season the acreage is to be increasedto 5,000. There are several mills and one largerefinery, which not only grind and refine theproduct of this plantation, but of smaller ones,containing a total of 4,000 acres, adjacent there-to. The Sugarland plant, according to the state-ment of its owner. Col. Edward Cunningham,represents an outlay of |2,500,000, and in anaverage year pays 8 per cent, on $3,500,000. Nineteen hundred and five was a banner yearfor rice-growers, and Texas led all rice-producingStates. Probably t
. Review of reviews and world's work. were 3,400 acres under cultivation,and this season the acreage is to be increasedto 5,000. There are several mills and one largerefinery, which not only grind and refine theproduct of this plantation, but of smaller ones,containing a total of 4,000 acres, adjacent there-to. The Sugarland plant, according to the state-ment of its owner. Col. Edward Cunningham,represents an outlay of |2,500,000, and in anaverage year pays 8 per cent, on $3,500,000. Nineteen hundred and five was a banner yearfor rice-growers, and Texas led all rice-producingStates. Probably the greatest success, acreageconsidered, was scored by S. Saibarra, a*formermember of the Japanese Parliament, who hastaken out his first naturalization papers, and nowowns a plantation at Webster, in Brazoria seed imported from Japan, he produced30 sacks, or about 80 bushels, to the acre on200 acres, valued at $25 each, and cleared #15,-000. R. Onishi, formeily a newspaper editorof Tokio, also had phenomenal success on an. PARTIAL VIEW OK A COTTON VAUD, GONZALES. THE GROWTH OF SOUTHWEST TEXAS. 209 adjoining plantation. TheJapanese colony in the ricecountry is rapidly increas-ing. The ills that harass thewliite man there seem tohave little effect on the Ori-ental, and the belief is be-coming general in southernTexas that eventually thewhite planter will gracefullyretire to the uplands, givingway to the -Yellow Peril. It has recently been dem-onstrated that tliere is noth-ing in the line of peaches,apricots, oranges, bananas,grapes, plums, etc., whichwill not grow in great abun-dance in this section, buttheir culture on an extensivescale IS only in its such a brief magazine ar-ticle it is impossible to dealwith all phases of the rancliing, agricultural, orhorticultural situation in Southwest Texas, sovast is the countrj- and so varied its soils andresources. The foregoing facts and the manner in whichthe longhorn steer is giving way to the Here-ford and tii
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