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New Farm and Orchard
Products are Propagated
by Coleman Orchardist

Next to Santa Rosa, the home town
of Burbank in California, no other
town in the U. S. is more noted than
Coleman for new products cent out
over the world, of both orchard and
farm. The Halbert pecan is a great
favorite and is being extensively
propagated by planting both nuts and
trees and top-working native trees
over Texas and other States. The
nuts have been shipped to South
America to be planted. The Lilly Pe-
can is a favorite with some growers.
This variety was first introduced un-
der the name of Alexander and after-
wards changed to the shorter name
of Lilly.

The Halbert Hybred Corn, a drouth
resisting variety, is being grown with
great satisfaction over Texas and
other states.

The Halbert Honey Watermelon is
a universal favorite on the continent
of America and seed have been sent
direct from Coleman to three of the
continents: France in Europe; Cape
Colony, in Africa, and New South
Wales, in Australia. The Rubber Rind
Watermelon is not such a favorite
but it is grown for shipping and haul-
ing over rough roads to market.

The Halbert Perfection Watermelon
is the latest new variety and is hav-
ing a wonderful sale. To date approx-
imately $3,000 worth of seed have
been sold of this variety and sent by
mail, express and freight all over the
U. S. and money came direct to Cole-
man to be spent among us and about
$500 more yet to be sold, all from a
25 acre patch of the Perfections.

All the above new varieties of farm
and orchard products were originated
and introduced by the best known far-
mer in Texas, our fellow citizen H. A.
Halbert, on his small farm and pecan
orchard two miles east of Coleman, on
Hord’s Creek.

Mr. Halbert is still busy at originat-
ing new varieties. His next introduc-
tion will be his Long-Green-Rind
Honey Melon with a hard unbreakable
rind which he will name “Longfellow.”
Then he will breed the sweet, tender
flesh of his Honey Melon inside of a
White Pie-Melon and call it “Melon-
Pie.” He further contemplates cross-
ing two fine varieties of pecans and
breed a still better variety than is yet
known.

If the U. S. patent laws protected a
farmer in what he originates as it
does an inventor, Mr. Halbert would
today be a near millionaire from small
royalties on the seed sold from the
products he has originated. As it is
he is making a good living and can
have the satisfaction that he is doing
some good to his fellowman by giving
them some improved food products.

Mr. Halbert’s seed trade has so in-
creased since he started about 20
yea^s ago with a few pounds of Hal-
bert Honey seed and a five-acre patch,
until it takes over 100 acres and many
thousand pounds of seed to supply the
demand made upon him for his pure
seed.