. Book of Texas . s valuebut surer yield. It will certainly be a sweet by-and-bywhen Texas increases her present paltry production ofsugar and syrup until it provides all the lick and sweet-ening that is good for Texas stomachs and leaves enoughsorghum and cane stalks for the children to chew. The use of fertilizers has been almost unknown in Texas,and the fertile soils, almost but not quite inexhaustible,are, in very old fields, beginning to show signs of fertilizers are coming more and more intouse, another sign that the primitive agriculture of frontierdays is giving wa
. Book of Texas . s valuebut surer yield. It will certainly be a sweet by-and-bywhen Texas increases her present paltry production ofsugar and syrup until it provides all the lick and sweet-ening that is good for Texas stomachs and leaves enoughsorghum and cane stalks for the children to chew. The use of fertilizers has been almost unknown in Texas,and the fertile soils, almost but not quite inexhaustible,are, in very old fields, beginning to show signs of fertilizers are coming more and more intouse, another sign that the primitive agriculture of frontierdays is giving way to that which knows about the chemistryof soils, nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and all the other para-phernalia of the book farmer. Would you make the old farm fatterStuff it with organic matter. It makes no difference when the hard-headed conserva-tive objects to new things in farming; he cant keep botanyand chemistry out of Texas, in fact, he cant keep them outof himself. So now there is a law governing commercial. Photograph by Wheehis, San Benito Cabbage in the Rio Grande Valley in March
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