Excerpt from A Paper on the Resources and Capabilities of Texas The total acreage of the nine principal crops of the United States rye, buckwheat, hay, potatoes and cotton is acres. Texas could produce all these, and have. A surplus of acres for other purposes. She could not only contain all the population of the United States, but she could raise all the principal creps for home consumption and foreign ex port which they produce. This is what Texas might do. Let us see what it is that she does do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.