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here 10 to 124 cents per pound in specie. Sheep are liable to no disease except scab, which 
is easily cured. Dogs or wolves seldom kill them, 
In speaking of the cost of pasturing stock, our Cameron correspondent says : 
A person who owns no land, and wishes to hire pasturage for cattle, can obtain it of the 
landed proprietor in this wise: Suppose a man has 100 head of cattle, his rent for land, for 
houses, pasturage, pens, &c., will be $10 a year. This rent holds good until he has 150 head, 
when another $10 will be added, as for 200, and so on, fractions of less than 50 not being 
counted. Horse pasturage the same ; sheep $l per hundred. 
7. The capabilities of Texas as a fruit-growing State have never r had a fair 
test as yet, little attention generally having been paid to the culture; but, with 
few exceptions, our correspondents report success upon the small scale upon 
which experiments have been tried, including peaches, apples, pears, plums, 
cherries, figs, grapes; small berry fruits, &e.—peaches and grapes appearing to 
have the preference in most localities. In Titus fine crops of peaches are pro- 
duced in three years from the seed. This fruit is also raised to perfection and 
in quantity in Collin, Dallas, Washington, ‘Trinity, McLennan, Hardin, Hop- 
kins, Cameron, and other counties, though the erop is frequently injured by the 
frosts in some localities. Apples have not been cultivated to: much extent, 
from the impression that they would not do well, but success is removing this 
idea, and the culture is increasing. In Grayson ‘county, last year, aa orchard 
of about six acres yielded about $800 worth of fruit, and the same in 1865, the 
first bearing year. Our Collin correspondent writes : 
I have never seén finer apples than specimens raised in this giant but the tree is subject 
to what is called root-mould, which destroys many trees. , 
From Hopkins county our reporter writes: 
The opinion that apples will not do well here is giving way before successful attempts to raise 
them. To those who succeed profits are large, as the fruit sells readily at from $3 50 to $6 
per bushel, or from 50 to 75 cents per dozen, 
Grapes are reported as peculiarly successful throughout the State, growing 
wild and abundantly in many localities ; and foreign varieties do well wherever 
vineyards have been set out. The “ Mustang” grape grows in great luxuriance, 
and is found to be one of the most prolific varieties known. It grows on the 
borders of many of the streams in great abundance, and is said to make an 
excellent wine. The woods abound with varieties of these wild grapes, and 
our Hopkins correspondent says that “no climate can be much better adapted 
to the culture, and ‘Texas must soon become a wine- -produeing country.” Our 
DeWitt reporter thinks that nature has pointed out that region as Poguliarly 
adapted to the vine, and adds : 
The Mustang grape grows everywhere with the catmaogt SS seals, and yields an 
immense crop. It makes. a good, wholesome wine, or, when distilled, the best and purest 
Cognac brandy. * * Cultivated vines, of nearly all known varieties, have been. tried, 
and all suceeed except the Scuppernong, for which the climate is too dry, and. perhaps the 
soil is too limy. * * A German on the Coletto made, from an acre anda half of Cataw- 
bas, the fourth year from planting the cuttings, about 500 gallons of excellent wine. The cul- 
culture of the vine and the care of sheep can be advantageously united, our CORY being 
_ peculiarly adapted for both occupations. 
Vineyards are being planted in Washington and neighboring counties, prom- 
ising in a few years to. be an important business in that section, The Dela- 
ware, Concord, Hartford Prolific, and. others of this class, ripen in July. In 
the northern part of the State the Catawba ripens about the Ist of August. In 
Navarro “the Mustang grape, large as the Catawba, is the most prolific. This 
grape is not subject to mould, and it is not unlikely that, at a future day, this 
will be a large wine-producing country.” There is no market for fruits gener- 
ally, though peaches. are dried with profit, commanding three dollars to five 
dollars per bushel. Apples find ready sale at. large prices. Grayson county 
raises fine pears, some of them weighing as high as 21 ounces, Pecan, hickory 
nuts, &c., yield largely in some sections. From Gillespie county alone this 
yee over 6,000 bushels of pecans have been gathered and ae and 
2,000 bushels the preceding season, worth from $2 to $3 per bushel. 
