ADDRESS TO THE FAKMERS OF TEXAS. 9 



whereof the culture in this State is rapidly extending. I under- 

 stand that it is considered the siirest and most profitable grain-crop 

 grown in Louisiana, while it requires no costly machinery to fit it 

 for sale. The grower takes it in its rough state to the mill, where 

 he receives 100 povxnds of the cleaned or hulled grain for each IGO 

 pounds in the hull, called " paddy." A poor man can do better 

 at growing Rice than Cotton. 



I doubt that one-eighth of the area of Louisiana is to-day under 

 tillage, while she grows little or no other than wild grasses of 

 slight value. She has some millions of acres of thin, poor, sandy 

 soil in her northern and eastern sections, usually covered with Pine, 

 some of it of good size and quality, the rest small and worthless. 

 Leaving this to grow timber, the residue is exceedingly fertile ; yet 

 less than half of it is arable without the aid of steam. By-and-by, 

 bayous will be dredged, dykes or levees constructed, large inclosures 

 pumped dry, then plowed and tilled by gigantic steam-engines; and 

 then Louisiana' will rapidly take rank among the most productive 

 and populous of the States composing our Union. 



SUGGESTIONS TO FARMERS. 



ADDRESS BY HORACE GREELEY, OP NEW YORK, AT THE STATE AGRICUL- 

 TURAL FAIR. 



Houston, Texas, May 23, 1871. — The civilization of our race is 

 evinced and measured by the gi-owth and progress of its Agriculture. 

 The thorough savage is never a cultivator. What the earth spon- 

 taneously produces, he appropriates without gratitude and consumes 

 without forecast. He revels in abundance one week, to be pinched 

 by hunger the next. Only his want of an ax or his ignorance of 

 its use precludes his felling, and thus destroying, the tree which, 

 for generations, has fed his tribe with its nourishing, palatable fruit. 

 He delights in gorging himself on the flesh of animals, but never 

 feeds nor shelters them. Thus devouring and devastating, never 

 tilling nor producing, he requires square miles to subsist scantily, 

 precariously, his tribe, where his civilized successor will feed and 

 clothe more persons generously on so many acres. After poets and 

 dreamers have done their best to glorify him with 



" The light that never was on sea or land," 



