THE TEXAS RICE 6ok.' ' 3 



as healthy a country as there is in the United States. The air 

 is dry, pure and bracing, and very healing to the lungs. 



There is considerable country in Texas classed as the "dry 

 country." While this is true, there are tens of thousands of peo- 

 ple in the United States who are looking for a dry country, and 

 would extend their lives many years by moving to that portion of 

 Texas. This so-called "dry country" is not only a good place 

 for those who are run down in health and need a change of cli- 

 mate, but it is also entitled to the name of the Beef Belt in Tex- 

 as, for, as we have said, as good stock as can be raised in any 

 State in the Union can be produced in that section, and when we 

 consider the price of lands and the small amount of feed required 

 to carry the stock through the short, mild winters, no State in 

 the United States can compete with the "Dry Country" of Texas, 

 in producing beef, mutton, mules and horses. It would be well 

 to note the fact in passing, that we have an area IN TEXAS 

 that is larger than any two States in the Union (outside of 

 Texas), that is, within the Rain Belt, and can be depended on to 

 yield crops equal to that of any State in the United States, with 

 a greater variety of crops than are grown in any other State. 



Texas offers a good field for men who wish to engage in 

 manufacturing, working up the raw materials, such as cotton, 

 wool, hides, etc. There are ample railroad facilities and over 

 3,000,000 consumers in the State to be supplied, to say nothing of 

 the States and territories tributary to Texas. To those who un- 

 derstand the canning business canning of fruits and vegetables 

 Texas is an exceptionally good field. East Texas and portions 

 of the Texas Coast Country, as well as some counties in Central 

 Texas, can produce fruit and vegetables to supply the wants of 

 the people of Texas and several other States. There are but few 

 canneries in the State, but those that are here, we are informed, 

 are paying investments, and they are finding ready markets for 

 their products. 



Those who 'have a taste for hunting, fishing, for fish and 

 oysters, will be very hard to please if the Texas Coast Country 

 does not come up to their expectations. Texas has about five 

 hundred miles of coast country, which is from twenty to forty 

 miles in width. John Howard. 



RICE CULTURE IN THE. SOUTH. 

 By Prof. S. A. Knapp. 



We are rapidly approaching the area of a universal density 

 of population. To the people of the United States it has hith- 

 erto seemed a remote problem. The revelations of the last census 

 show that within the present century we shall be confronted with 

 the problem of a sufficient home food supply, instead of sending 

 an enormous surplus to the old world. Thus far we have paid no 



