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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
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makers,And let em tell the farmers what to plant. • •••••• But by the grace of Yankee Doodle, We will tell the whole caboodle Were going to plant exactly what we please. —Will P. Lockhari. REMOVE the cotton from the Texas crops and thereis left a vast and various assortment of lesser cropsh whose total value is about equal to that of thecotton itself. In other words, leaving cotton and livestock out of account, there is raised annually between £00and 300 million dollars worth of farm produce. This totalis sufficiently imposing to create some interest in its con-stituent parts. Here and there in south Texas a banana tree flourishesexcept when it is shivering in the grip of an unusually coldnorther. The fig, the orange, the lemon, and the grape-fruit maintain themselves along the coast, and while dam-aged by the severer northers, nevertheless, with propermanagement and freeze-resistant varieties, promise to be-come very profitable crops. In the Panhandle the staple 150
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