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STAPLE PRODUCTS OF TEXA4. '2 7
acres in wheat last year for the whole State. We have taken some pains to
ascertain the increase of our wheat lands, and the best judges estimate the
increase at over twenty-five per cent. But assuming it to be twenty-five per
cent. we have this year about 225,000 acres in wheat in the whole State.
SUGAR COUNTIES OR THOSE CULTIVATING OVER 100 ACRES EACH IN
SUGAR, AS GIVEN IN THE CENSUS FOR LAST YEAR.
ACRES. ACRES. ACRES.
Bell - - - 252 Denton - - 130 Liberty 105
Brazoria - 7187 DeWitt - - 119 Limestone - 214
Burleson - - 177 Fannin - - 175 McLennan - 214
Burnet - - 160 Fort Bend 690 Matagorda - 1160
Caldwell - - 351 Gonzales 1 5 T.7 . rro - 27
Cherokee - - 150 Bill - - - 1 Washington - 417
Cooke - - 136 Jasper- - - 161
Dallas - - 354 Johnson 162 Total - - 13047
Besides these twenty-two counties, there are thirty-three others that culti-
vate si"ne Sugar, brit less than one hundred acre, each. We presume nearly
all of the more interior counties cultivate the Sorgho or Chinese Sugar for
home consumption, while Brazoria, Matagorda and Fort Bend are the chief
counties that cultivate the common Sugar cane for market. It is not probable
that there has been an increase of over ten or fifteen per cent in our Sugar
lands this year. Our census returns, last year, did not show the amount of
Sugar raised, or of any other of our staple products. All the other counties
besides those above enumerated, cultivated about three thousand acres in Su-
gar, making in the whole State about sixteen thousand acres in Sugar.
ConN.--Every county in Texas, from the sea-board to the mountains, and
from Red River to the Rio Grande, according to the census returns, produces
more or less of Corn, and the soil and climate of the whole State are admira-
bly adapted to this great staple, upon which the people of Texas are more
dependent than upon any other product. There are thirty-eight counties that
cultivated, last year, from ten to thirty thousand acres each in Corn-fifty-four
counties that cultivated from one to ten thousand acres each, while the rest
cultivated less than one thousand acres ehch. The total amount of land in
Corn in the whole State was, last year, a little over one million of acres, and
this year, the amount has probably increased to near a million and a quarter
acres.
TOTAL AMOUNT OF OUR STAPLE PRODUCTS.
The total amount of all the above four great staples of the State may be
had approximately by assuming the average crop per acre of each. We sup-
pose twenty bushels per acre is a low estimate for the average crop of Corn.
The Wheat crop, we have been assured, will average about twelve bushels per
acre in all the counties West of the Trinity, and near twenty bushels in the
counties East of that river. Perhaps, therefore, fifteen bushels may be assumed
as the general average crop for the whole State. We have no satisfactory data
to furnish an estimate for Sugar, as we have no statistics of the production of
the Sorgho in the interior, raised solely for domestic consumption. A hogs-
head to the acre, besides the usual proportion of Molasses, is about the aver-
age crop from the Sugar cane.
In ordinary good seasons the average Cotton crop per acre is usually esti-
mated at one bale, of 500 lbs., but we presume the crop of this State oftener
falls below than exceeds this yield. The number of bales for the past year
was probably somewhat smaller than the number of acres cultivated, but as
we have no reliable data for ascertaining the amount sent by way of Red
River to New Orleans, so this matter is left too much to conjecture. The
amount sent by Red River, is however generally believed to be more than-
is shipped from our Gulf ports, and as these shipments for the year just ended
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The Galveston News. The Texas Almanac, for 1860, with Statistics, Historical and Biographical Sketches, &c., Relating to Texas., book, 1860~; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123766/m1/219/: accessed June 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.