64 THE TEXAS RICE BOOK. 



There was, per capita, in Texas in 1870 25 bushels of corn. 



There was, per capita, in Texas in 1900 32 2-3 bushels of 

 corn. 



There was, per capita, in Texas in 1870 2 1-3 pecks of wheat. 



There was, per capita, in Texas in 1900 5 bushels of wheat. 



There was, per capita, in Texas in 1870 3 7-10 pecks of oats. 



There was, per capita, in Texas in 1900 6 3-14 bushels of 

 oats. 



There was, per capita, in Texas in 1870 214 pounds of lint 

 cotton. 



There was, per capita, in Texas in 1900 500 pounds of lint 

 cotton. 



Cotton seed which had no market value in 1870, equivalent to 

 20 per cent, or 100 pounds more. 



Assessed wealth, per capita, in 1870, $208.25. 



Assessed wealth, per capita, in 1900, $310.94. 



To these should be added the annual products of horses, 

 mules, sheep, cattle and other domestic animals, as to which no 

 reliable data are available. 



If we estimate the annual beef product of the State by the 

 number of cattle other than milch cows and oxen, it will be seen 

 that it is about equal to that of all the Atlantic and Gulf States, 

 with Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia added. 

 The number of cattle other, than oxen and milch cows, as shown 

 by the census reports for 1890, for Maine, New Hampshire, Ver- 

 mont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, 

 New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, 

 North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mis- 

 sissippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky, was 7,- 

 048,606. The number assessed for taxation that year in Texas, 

 including milch cows and oxen, was 7,378,203. If we add to this 

 10 per cent as the number which the Tax Assessor failed to reach, 

 and deduct the proportion for milch cows and oxen, as shown by 

 the census, it can be readily seen that the beef product of Texas 

 is equivalent to that of these twenty-three States combined. 



The increase in cotton production during this decade has 

 been 104 per cent, corn 44 per cent, wheat 274 per cent, oats 58 

 percent, taxable values 16.83 P er cent > an d railway mileage 16=23 

 per cent; whereas, in the two previous decades the increased 

 ratios were the reverse. 



Progress in agriculture, during this generation, at least, can 

 not be arrested by exhaustion of the area of soil. 



There are twenty-five counties of the State, extending from 

 Travis to Grayson, intersected by the Houston and Texas Central 

 and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railways, with an aggre- 

 gated area of 22,626 square miles, or 14,480,640 acres, about one- 

 twelfth of the State's area, capable of producing as^ much cotton, 

 corn, wheat and oats as is now produced in the entire State. As 

 far back as 1894 one of them produced 120,470 bales of cotton. 

 2,311,626 bushels of corn, 582,271 bushels of oats, 69,398 bushels 



