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Title: Book of Texas
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Benedict, Harry Yandell, 1869-1937 Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948
Subjects: Texas Texas -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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Twenty-eight Halbert Pecans in Three Clusters Grown on Buds Three Years Old Grown by F. T. Ramsey and Son, Auslin FROM CORN TO CAULIFLOWERS 159 fertilizers and their prices; there is also an increasing use ofstock manures and an increasing production of such nitrogen-producing legumes as cowpeas, peanuts, soy beans, alfalfa,and bur-clover. The Industrial Congress has made cow-peas one of its prize-winning crops, the average productionper acre of the numerous contestants being 3.75, 2.84, and3.79 tons in three successive years. The record is 36.48tons of hay and peas grown on two and one-half acres byC. A. Doss of Rockdale, who made a net profit of $905 onten acres planted in cowpeas, corn, cotton, and milo maize.Peanuts also, in the contests, average nearly three tons tothe acre; Miss Emma Stokes of Henderson holds what isthought to be a worlds championship. She grew 4,256pounds of peanut hay and 232 bushels of peanuts, a total of11,294 pounds, on one acre. Moral: Do not let the groun

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