The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, August 31, 1923 Page: 1 of 8
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TO OUR COUNTY. OUR WHOLE COUNTY AND EVERY SECTION OF OUR COUNTY
TO OUR PRIDE IN ITS PAST AND OUR HOPE FX)R ITS FUTURE. ADD VIGOROUS WORK IN THE LIVING PRESENT
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"THERE IS NOTHING TOO GOOD TOR Ol’R FRIENDS”
BAY CITY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, U Gl ST St, 1928.
VOLUME LXXV11I—NUMBER 32.
FIVE ( ENTS THE (Ol’Y
RICE GROWERS HAVE FINE
In The Kingdom of Cotton
PROSPECFS FOR GOOD YEAR
to
l uilh of ('oininrrclBl and
Attesting to the recognized stand-
This
Texan cotton
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MIRRET KEEN
received a wire from New York sev-
J
to
Ohio^bis is the variety which does well
An-
froin I
Fort
There is some trouble in keep-'
S,. in
A. A. 0., N. M
vere cold weather,
train
175.000 and 225,000
NOTICE TO 00R SUBSCRIBERS
between
severe
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Big
follows:
than
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VARIETIES OF FIGS TO
GROW ON TEXAS FARMS
BY
Field
some
liar to the caprifig or male fig.
weath-
grown
Houston
the
ANOTHER COMMUNITY
MEETING FRIDAY NIGHT
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FIRST RICE OF SEASON WINS
fM) PREMIUM AT EL CAMPO
for* d
years.
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VIATOR
Editor
Is
Mr.
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They entertained hun- being done on the roads of Precinct
!e from surrounding jNo. 1 of Wharton County,
from San An-
Beaumont,
MATAGORDA COUNTY
TO ASK FOR STATE VID
grown it, as it yields wells, makes
greenish-white, small to medium- ,
sized fruit of exceptional quality. It
is a frist-class fruit to be eaten fresh.
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by Mr. Leonard F. Frisbie, to the ■
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class, taking “Stewardship,” was re-.
captured last night by the Stone
group, with an attendance outnum-
bering President Bill Ingram’s side,
four to one.
The members of the B. Y. P. U.
take this opportunity to thank their
friends for giving their subscriptions
to the Baptist Standard through the
B Y. P, U. and thus enabling them]
to receive the banner.
A B. Y. P. U. Worker. I
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Commissioners Court and County En-
gineer (ppcar Before Highway
Commission.
upproxi-
Pritehard
ED AN 421MMMMMM)
TO ASSOCIATION
had been oversubscribed and that the
quotas (if the several New York
I Judge Davis of this county had in-
tended to accompany the party to
Austin, but some matters that com-
pelled his Immediate attention arose
here just as he was ready to depart,
and he did not go until the following
day.—Wharton Spectator.
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sion, stationed at San Antonio, and
The Houston train arrived at 3:45 the Houston Shriners took part in
riday afternoon and the celebration. the parade. latter speeches wore
A parade was head- made by Governor Neff and General
ed by a band from the Second Divi- Jacob F. Wolters.
There will be another mass meet-
ing of the citizens of Bay City and
Matagorda County Friday night on
the court house lawn. Messrs. Roy
Miller, president of the Intracoastal
Canal Association^ and U T. Wil-
liams, personal representative of
George W. Goethals, engineer tor the
mission, will be present and will
make talks on the canal proposition.
The music for the occasion will be
furnished by the Melody Six. Seats
will be provided. Delegates will be
here from every section of the coun-
ty and a large attendance Is antici-
pated.
HARDIER TYPES OF FRUIT FOR
N 0 R T II E R N AND WESTERN
COUNTIES AND ASIATIC VARIE-
TIES FOR A POSSIBLE DRIED
FIG INDUSTRY IN SAN ANTONIO
REGION — SOME FIGS NOW
GROWING AT 7000 FEET ALTI-
TUDE.
THE SITUATION.
| There is little new in the cotton situation, though at this writing (Fri-
day, Aug 24.) the market is displaying surprising strength, coming so soon
| after heavy rains in Texas and Oklahoma
We are very much afraid the heavy movement
will break the market or at least, hold it where it is unless heavy buying
s to take care
bids fair
i
Friday, August 24, the Bay City
Gun Club had a very interesting
shoot, with both rifle and shotgun.
I Mr. Adolph Toepperweln’s pistol and
rifle shooting was especially good.
There was a large crowd out. Some
of the best scores in target shooting
a
com- Pageant, Speeches and Bnrbwne Mark
inoth “Birthdays*’ Special Train
Brings Houstonians.
Rice growers in Texas and other
Southern states are looking forward
FOR TEX IS ( OTTON 1,1 “ profitable season as a result of
a i ‘
Financial 500,000 bags expressed in
World Again Expressed in Strength n<1 “'ding to I . F.
of Co-operative Marketing.
fruit is
quality.
Prof. T. T. Potts, formerly of Texas
Agricultural and Mechanical College
and now of the Texas agricultural
experiment station, has made a clas-
sification of figs for Texas which has
been helpful. He says that outside
of the present preserving fig belt, in
which the Magnolia is the principal
commercial fig grown, the chief con-
sideration is to select a variety of
figs which is known to possess hard-
iness so as to withstand severe win-
ters. With this should be' combined
size and flavor, as far as possible.
He lists for hardiness, rather than
quality, the following fig varieties
which may be grown in Northeast,
North and" Central Texas and per-
il haps in other parts of Texas; Brown
Turkey, which is generally consider-
ed to be quite cold-resistant; Celeste,
White lechia, Brown Marseilles and
Brown Marseilles and Isernon. Mr.
Potts found that the Brown Turkey,
Celeste and Brown Marseilles have
passed through near-zero tempera-
tures without fatal injury, and he
recommends them for North Texas
above all other varieties known
present.
Central Texas Varieties.
For Central Texas, based upon ob-
servations made at College Station
and Bryan, the following varieties
can be recommended; Adriatic, Adam,
Angelique, Turkey, Black Ischia,
Brown Marseilles, Brunswick, Early
Violet, New French and White Ischia
Many of these are small in size of
fruit, but all are well suited to be
grown in home gardens and make
excellent preserves and jams. They
are not all suited to commercial pre-
serving, because the trade has been
educated to a large fig, such as the
Magnolia.', which really is rather
coarse in fiber.
The waiter has seen Brown Tur-
key vr. ng in North Texas with
succt-^M vherever it had some pro-
tection against the direct cold of the
north wind This is a large fig
which tur. i brown in the sun. In
tbe sha<k- Its color remains a sort of
rich golden hue. The skin is smooth
and quite tough. When fresh this
fruit ships well, and its eating qual-
ity is good It also preserves excel-
lently The tree grows to a large
size, is resistant to considerable cold
and its yield is prolific; neither does'
Shot. Broke.
Walter Scott 50
Eddie Anderson 50
Stanley Gillett 60
Ack Barnett 50
Adolph Toepperwein 50
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In 1920 there were more
20,000 Indian children of school age
who were not in school because of
lack of facilities. All tbe Indians
are not Osages, wealthy In oil lands.
Others live on poorer reservations
whose homes are hovels, tents,
shacks, tepees and houses with dirt
floors.
but also can be preserv-1 .... ■ ■ ■■
CENTENNIAL OF COLUMBUS
IS ROYALLY OBSERVED
flowers of the Smyrna, after which tonio, ,
it will fruit abundantly year after Worth and Dallas,
year. There is some trouble in keep-' George E. Kepple, recorder of Ara-
ing the blastophagi alive during se- bia Temple, A. A. O., N. M. S., in
but the results charge of the arrangements for the
obtained by Ed. 1). Pauly of San An- special train and the
tonio, a fig enthusiast, who has car- Shriners, took an active part in
ried on experiments for several celebration,
years, show that with care and at- r~'
tention a commercial dried fig Indus- Friday afternoon and the celebration! the
try undoubtedly would have a future started at once,
in the San Antonio territory.
Thousands of fig trees grow in
back yards there, many being Smyr-'
nas. hut for generations they had (
been considered sterile because the]
little insect was lacking which was
needed to carry on fertilization. With
its introduction a commercial dried
fig industry seems feasible.
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NAMES DELEGATES TO
CONSERVATION MEET
Austin, Texas, Aug. 25?—Eleven d'el-:
egates were named by Governor Neff
to attend the meeting of the Texas ,
Conservation Association, which is to
be held at San Antonio, August 27-28. [
The delegates are:
Judge M. S. Munson, Angleton; ,T. ,
L .Mtmms. Freeport, Stuart L. Wil-
liams, Ballinger; Colonel William G. ’
Sterett, Dallas; Colonel W. T. El-'
dridge. Sugar Land ;Fred Pabst, Gal-]
veston; Ward Templeton, Navasota;'
Judge F, C. Weinert, Seguin; John'
M. Lawrence. Bryan; E. J. Harwood,'
Corpus Christi; E. N. Gustafson,
Bay City.
score of years,
cent under the
The total Texas acre-
18 approximately 119,-
..gainst a planting of
In 1903, according to
H. 8COFFELMAYER.
of the Semi- Weekly
Farm-News.
What varieties of figs to raise in
various parts of Texas, in the home
garden or on the farm, should be of
interest to Texas farmers. After in-
vestigating the fig industry in vari-
ous parts of Texas for some time the
writer has assembled some helpful
data as to what varieties are suit-
able for different areas. While the
fig possesses great adaptability, it
also has distinct limitations. Some
varieties were found growing at an
elevation of 7000 feet above Bisbee,
Ariz., yielding fruit every year in a
region of semi-arid climate. Other
varieties are adapted to culture at
nearly sea level and In moist cli-
mates. while still others do fairly;
well in North Texas. Still others are j
grown every year in parts of Penn-:
sylvania. New York, Delaware, C ’
and the District of Columbia.
The United States department
agriculture some years ago c.......
.....I a pageant depicting events’ll. Brown of Gulf and G. B. Culver
on in Texas history of the last 100 years, of .Matagorda, composed a party of
the in which Columbus and citizens who' Matagorda County men who passed
in | same as is done in California, where, went forth from Columbus have through Wharton Monday on their
p. has a large industry of something like played an active part. | way to Austin to appear before the
growing I 000,000 pounds of dried figs a year A special train from Houston ar-; highway commission of the state to
gardens HlaR been developed from a very small rived during the afternoon with hun-’ appeal for some state aid for the
This i beginning. | dreds of visitors, headed by the Ara- ! roads of that county. Messrs. Brown
However, the Smyrna fig requires bia Temple Shrine Band, and their land Gustafsen were accompanied by
iu c-ni cAitruuiii* ww«« ...tv I the an insect known as the arrival was the signal for the begin-'their wives.
Central Texas growing in back yards i blastophagi. which was Introduced ning of the festivities. | Mr Culver is the president of the
and family gardens The size of theiil!to ttlis country from Asia Minor, The people of Columbus had been Culver Shell Company, and while in
‘ ' small, but of excellent! some years ago and which is pecu- preparing for two months for the the city booked an order for some
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Hwdnir rlctno nn tlio rnarlu nf Praninrl
have been forced on
of cotton, and tills year it expects to | rice growers because they have suf-
losses iu the last few
Many rice growers have for-
saken planting this year entirely.
The small crop points to a small
surplus left over from this year’s
crop. These conditions . make the
millers expect the most prosperous
years in the history of the rice grow-
ing Industry in this state and the
two neighboring states closely allied
to it. Louisiana and Arkansaw, Mr.
Pritchard predicts.
o-
GUN CLUB HAS
INTERESTING SHOOT
soon to come in Texas
j «... urviiK (lie marxei or at least Hold it where it is unless heavy buying
by speculators absorbs the big volume of hedges that will have to take care
of the surplus cotton above actual spinners' requirements which bids fair
?'.ill.>en2l‘eh gl,ec“1,1‘tor8 ‘“ke the long side at this
.. , so severely until
the demand arrives, which may be delayed until after more in known of the
It Is, therefore. Imperative that the producers sell not over ONE BALE
in every FOUR OR FIVE ginned until the market is ready for the balanced
if you cannot get your cotton carried locally SHIP IT TO YOUR NEAREST
worm. UOTTON FAUTOR (ND DRHV NOT OVER $75 PER BALE ON StME.
Ihls will leave it amply margined so that you will not be shaken out by any
severe dip which often comes this early In the season. There Is ample
money to carry cotton and that at very low rates with the minimum of carry-
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specifications
between the Houston section to tile Sabine River
the is the smallest in a
conserva-1 It is about 50
five margin as security for the loan. Usual acreage.
The Texas company is one of the I age this year
largest of its kind, having a mem- 000 acres, as
bership of 27,000 cotton planters in 1 -b!»,000 acres
a'l sections of the state Lawt year'Mr. Pritchard
the association handled 77,000 bales j Reductions
Toepperwein and Scott
Crowd.
which there will lie a
New Orleans, at-
froni tlie three
Houston Chronicle.
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tlon undertakes to market a certain Bill (BOP IS SHORT
amount of its product each month. (IJHMMMM) Bushels
“This year’s loan is the largest I ----—
cotton credit ever organized under Pritchard Says Texas, Louisiana and
local financial leadership, and was Irkansas tcrcagc Cut,
arranged by Mr. Simpson along sim-
ilar lines to the credit extended the
association last year, which was also
arranged by him.
“Negotiations for the loan has been
in progress for several weeks be-
tween Co). Sloan Simpson of Dallas,
Texas, trustee and treasurer of the
association and the local bankers.
Colonel Simpson returned home sev-
eral days ago and the final details
were concluded by wire.
“The loan is to be secured by ware-
house receipts on cotton stored In the 1 acreage millers expect
Houston Compress Company. in price for this year's cl
Houston, Texas, the largest independ- ard says Some of I lie finer grades
ent warehouse in the state and con- of rice will have an Increase of about
nectid in any way with Hie associa-1 75c id bag. Each standard bag of
El Campo, Texas, Aug 28. -The
fiyst rice of the season to be de-
livered here was brought in Friday
of last week W. A. Sears won a
premium of about |80 with a load of
thirteen sacks of Honduras. II.
G»edke was just forty minutes later
with a load of 15 sacks of Early Pro-
lific. Mr. .Gasdkes rice wa. a sec-
ond crop, the flnt having been de-
stroyed by ball.
make
bales.
“Smaller associations operated on
somewhat similar lines have been or-
ganized in the Carolinas Louisiana.
Mississippi and other Southern
States.”
The prospect of small production,
ing of the Texas Farm Bureau Cot- In bushels approximately 6.000.000,
ton Association in the business and has had a
financial world, for the furtherance prices and advances of as much as
of the co-operative marketing of the 75 cents a bag have resulted.
crop this year, is the means additional profita to the grow-
announcement that New York bank- era of Texas, Louisiana and Arkan-
ing institutions have loaned the as- sas. as well as to the smaller rice
soeiation an initial credit of 120,000,- growing territory of other sections
000, with series of other loans if of the country.
money is needed | The acreage In Texas this year is
According to Mr. Sloan Simpson, estimated at 149,000 acres, comparing
trustee and treasurer of the Texas with 289,000 acres in 1903. and be-
Farm Bureau Cotton Association, he tween Houston and the Sabine River
the reduction this year
eral days ago saying “that the loan mately 50 per cent,
says.
Rice growers in the South have
banks would have to lie cut down in suffered several bad years from a fi-
order to allow banks iu Cleveland,' nanclal standpoint, but the present
Chicago. Boston. Pliiladelplii 1 and season, according to Mr. Pritchard,
other cities to take an Interest in the promises to be profitable to al!
matter grOWSN,
“We will also call upon Texas Mr. Pritchard attended a recent
banks for between |5,000,000 and $10,- meeting of members of the Rice
000,000 more, making a total of lie- Growers Association, when a project
tween $25,000,000 and $30,000,000 to was launched to organise a rice ex-
handle the 1923 receipts of the asso- port corporation under the provisions
elation,” he said Receipts of the as- of the Webb-Pomerene law The
soeiation will probably exceed 200,000 plan Ik to establish a central dlstrl-
bales, Mr. Simpson announced butlon agency for the marketing of
Several weeks ago Mr. Simpson lice, and obviates the necessity for
visited New York and other Eastern each milling company maintaining
cities in connection with the financing agents In foreign countries Such a
of the 1923 cotton crop to be handled plan would result in higher prices
by Hie Texas Farm Bureau Cotton and eliminate “cut-throat competl-
Association Mr. Simpson returned lion,” he said In connection with
several days ago, liut refused to state the formation of tile proposed cor-
the result of his visit pending offi- potation, a meeting of Texas millers
rial announcement from New York, will lie held in the Chamber of Com-
The dispatches announcing this tre-lmerce rooms probably Thursday eve-
tmndous loan to the association said: | ning of tills week.
“A group of New York
headed by the Seaboard
Bank, and Goldman, Sadies n Co..jOrleans; R.
completed arrangements for a large'the Hibernia
loan to the Texas Farm Bureau Cot-1 ami Mr.
ton Association for the purpose
the fruit sour badly, according
Mr. Potts.
Other Fig Varieties.
The Brown Marseilles makes a
smaller tree than Brown Turkey, but
is a high yielder. The fruit is small
to medium-sized, reddish-brown in to lie about ten to
color, very sweet, and preserves ex- •*— —'— **— —
eellently. It frequently dries on the
tree ilrv hot nlimatnii. and nan tin 1
Speakers on that
bunkers,| occasion will include F. E. Gunter
National of the Cannl Commercial Bank. New
“ Co.,|Orleans; R. M Hecht, president of
Hank, also in that city,
Spencer, a prominent New
.... of Orleans attorney. Similar meetinga
assisting in the orderly marketing of] will be held in Uuilshina and Arkan-
tlie cotton Crt>p m tbOl state. ■ follow!
“Tlie initial credit is understood to j general meeting in
lie for $20,000,000, with a series of 11 tided by millers
others If they are needed.
ng
tn
of it tided by millers
Under the states
terms of the agreement the associa-1
reduction of 150,000 acres, or L-
‘ i production,
according to P. F. Pritchard, head
of the Pritchard Milling Company of
Houston, and former president of the
Rice .Millers Association.
uihuII
approximately
tendency to stiffen rice
> one. I
time.when they realize that the farmers will punish them
tree in dry. hot climates, and can be1 size of the crop?
gathered for home use in that way.' It is, therefor
It withstands severe cold quite as
well as Brown Turkey and also re-
sists the nematode, or root
well.
The White Ischia deserves better
acquaintance on the part of the gen-
eral Texas public, say men who have Ing and selling ciuirgt^J
IT IS SQI (REI.Y I P TO THE PRODUCER WHETHER HE KEEPS THE
FOR HIS COTTON BY SELLING IT SPARINGLY. OR
WHETHER HE GLUTS IT BY FORI ING THE WORED TO TAKE TEN
This variety has a long ripening sea-: BALES TO WHERE THERE IS ACTUAL SPINNING DEMAND FOR ONLY
snn. tho fruit dnos nnt amir hndlv | 0 j,’»
The recent rains may increase the Texas crop 5 to 10 per cent, but even
the tree
It is ;
crop while the farmer owns any part of It is to keep It off the market. If
| the producer forces the world to take hfs crop in three months, as he tried
to do last year, there is no power on earth to keep it from declining. No
set of cotton speculators will be hammered by the producer with actual spot
offerings two or three months in advance of the proper time to stage a
i. p<.i^.i, uv iimvw. ii iiiv. vivp <r. vmy s»,vvv,vw naira.
Our candid opinion of the situation is that we may see a crop between
10,500.000 and 11,000,000 bales—a famine supply at best, but as we are a
creditor nation we must keep this cotton until it is wanted.
We shall ultimately see 30c cotton and probably very much higher—then
why sacrifice a single bale at less if we can possibly get it financed?
,<i.Sci uvaic I. io .. u. There are a very great many short-sighted bankers and merchants who
Hig white* Decolor ""and of *goodU"qu*ab I woultl force the product rs to sell the market down to 15c so long as they
I . ' '‘trtit ’• hut oiizikv <1 zxu E»-1«i zlzwiij Minimum fz» thn zm.iiruiriii loo
spirit of even neighborly interests and properly belongs to the class of our
i citizens called “three-ball men.”
Are you a three-ball banker or merchant or are you a constructive citi-
zen with the interests of the toilers in your cotton fields, as well as your
OWN INTEREST at heart? No community can be prosperous if the
farmer is not prosperous. There never was a time so ripe for general and
successful co-operation us at present in keeping tills famine crop off the
market until the market is ready for it. Don’t Hell a bale you can possibly
hold at less than 30c. NUF SEI).
then we will have less than 11,000,000 bales, which is a famine supply
No matter how much we may know now or how well we may guess the
I final outturn in price, the all-important thing to get better prices for this
fruit preserves well and the tree is'
very resistant to severe cold
er. This variety should be
more extensively in North Texas as (
a garden variety I lwo “r luree Iiiuuuis in nuvance O1 tne proper t
Place for Dried Figs. I l,u!1 canlP«iKn. n° matter if the crop is only 9,000,000 bales.
For Southwest Texas the Adriatic
seems to be well adapted, because
I in California and the similarity of
of j the two climates warrants trying it
It is a drying
“get theirs,” but such destructive policy does violence to the co-operative
fl* — ■
in all parts of the United States I >ty. It preserves
south of the latitude of Philadelphia. I ®aten f*’e8h-
Another drying fig of importance1
for the Southwestern counties of
Texas is the Mission, which is very
popular in California. Up to 1850 it
was the only variety grown there, till
the introduction of the Smyrna. The
fruit is dark purple, of fair quality,)
dries well, but also can be preserv-'
ed. It is the best of the varieties of
figs to be shipped fresh to market, (
as it carries well.
The Smyrna fig seems to have
distinct future in Texas as a
mercial dried fig around San «u-
tonio and from there southwestward!
to Del Rio and along the Rio Grande
isouthward to Brownsville, from' Columbus. Texas. Aug 25.—The' Judge W E. McNabb of Bay City,
South-p'lere northward to Victoria and centennial of the founding of this city ■ Commissioners J. H. Pyle of Bay
thence westward to gan Antonio. I was observed yesterday with a pro- City, E. C. Baker of Matagorda.
I There seems to be no very good rea- gram of speeches, a parade, a barbe- County Engineer E. N. Gustafson, H.
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son. the fruit does not sour badly
and the tree is quite resistant to
cold. It is grown extensively in'
parts of Georgia.
Brunswick is of large size medium
vigor and rather open growth. The
- ---------- ------- ---> estimated ’ “at on a larger, scale. 1
that figs of some kind can be grown j
parts of the United States Hy. It preserves well, or can
—1.1—. ‘tree grows large
This article will deal only with what j’n ^well-drained
concerns Texas and neighboring! ',”“I
states, based on such facts as are
obtainable at present from many
sources, including the state depart-
ment of agriculture and the Texas
Agricultural and Mechanical College.
.Magnolia Leading Fig.
The Magnolia fig is the leading
commercial variety grown in Texas
at present. It forms the nucleus of
a rapidly growing fig-preserving in-
dustry in Brazoria. Galveston, Harris
and Matagorda Counties, where com-
mercial preserving plants are In op-
eration. Adjoining counties also pro-
duce this variety in considerable ,
quantities and it is found in many: southward to Brownsville, from; Columbus, Texas. Aug
farm and home gardens in South-1tliere northward to Victoria and centennial of the founding of thia city ( ommissionerh J. H.
east and East Texas and over a large l^ience westward to San Antonio. ’ was observed yesterday with a pro- City, E.
_ a , 'r'liZ'Vrx L’ci/imc F/i 1iz» «>zx n-ZX/k/1 V'Zin_ <vv«zx.».. ci vxzxnziVt na •* •> I •»$-»«
part of the state of Louisiana. .... • , ,
In Southern Louisiana, around: s“ns why tins variety could not be cue and
Alexandria, and along the Gulf Coast raise<i commercially in orchards
of Missislppi and Alabama the Ce-!
leste, a small blue fig, grows ’ 1 "" -
great abundance. The writer
seen many of this variety ;
in small orchards and in u—
with yearly fairly heavy crops,
variety also grows to a great extent
in East Texas, extending well into
The size of thel,I!to this country from . .
but of excellent!some years ago and which is pecu- preparing for
liar to the caprifig or male fig. The celebration of tlie hundredth
Smyrna fig is a female and the pol- of the town.
len of the male or caprifig is carried dreds of people
by the little black blastophagi to the. towns and counties.
Galveston,
Houston. Texas, Aug. 28. Rice
growers of Texas, Louisiana and Ar-
kansas have reduced their acreage
tills year to such an extent that ftiey
will have approximately 6,000,000
bushels less for the market than they
offoled last year, according to P. F.
Pritchard, president of the Pritchard
Milling Company of Houston and
former president of the Rice Millers’
Associatioh.
In consequence of the reduction In
t a much higher
-------- .. ..... ....-------- in price for tills year’s crop, Mr. I’rltch-
Houston, Texas, the largest independ- ard says ”
ent warehouse in tne state anu con-1 or r
nectid in any way with the associa-1 75c al bag. Each standard
tlon. The cotton so stored is to be] rice contains four bushels,
graded according to specifications j The acreage In tlie East Texas and
mutually agreed upon
association and local hankers,
latter being assured of a
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, August 31, 1923, newspaper, August 31, 1923; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1346447/m1/1/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.