An article in the 1881 Fort Worth Democrat noted, A gentleman of experience, and one who can see as far into a mill stone as almost any of us, suggests that as winter vegetables will be scarce and difficult to obtain, now is the time to sow an abundance of turnips. To get a fall garden planted in September, water ahead of planting to cool the soil and sprout the seed. Buck Barry, an early settler, preferred September 20 for his first planting of fall turnips. James Buckner Barry, A Texas Ranger and Frontiersman, 1932