The Gonzales inquirer. [volume] (Gonzales, Tex.) 1853-current, 1853-09-03
Dairying, Etc in Connection with Stock
Raising.

ccs Valley, contains so much practical sense
and good advice, that We cannot refrain from
publishing It entire for the pcrrsal of our far
ming friends:
stock rearing has been carried on upon
such Wholesale principles that the most prof
table part of what naturally pertains to the
business, has been overlooked We aro not at
a'l surprised that such should have been the
Gaze; hut now, that tlc country has bccoric
settled, and men are enabled To follow what
ever vocation is best suited 10 their desires,
we shall expect to see little more attention
paid To the financial department of industrial
pursuits, and to the doctrine of stay at home
and make money, n more rigid adhcrancc
belief hnS spread through Western Texas,
that the climate is too warm to mukc good but
ter, too much SO To make cheese at all. This
idea has become so prevalent, that any one ud
vancirg nm adverse opinion, IL likely To be
laughed at as whimsical aud looked upon ms
decidedly verdnnt. But having lived in n dali
ry country, n country TOO where the weather
is warmer during the butter aud cheese season
than in Texas, We arc prepare to contradict
such opinions most cmphatcally, unless they
be founded upon something more reliable than
supposition or anything wliclr We have vet
heard or seen. Experience never has, and we
believe never viii, contradict the utility of ma
king both butter and cheese to an unlimited
extent in This salubrious climate.
| In the northern States milk houses and cell
lars are TO be found wherever butter and cheese
! rs made. I'm this country one rarely ever meets
with such things; which, to q great extent, ac-
counts for the ship loads of butter and cheese
| that arc continually being sent from the older
States TO our yet new and undcvcopcd Texas,
! for which we are paying enormous prices
Persons having several hundred cows, hardly
make butter enough for their own use that OF
an inferior quality, and no cheese nj all.
! We have been making some examinations
and have come TO the conclusion, that there
are cellars in this city sufficiently cool for but.
ter making, and too cool for cheese. Any one
at all acquainted with daiying, knows that il
does not require n cool place for making cheese,
consequently, that question needs no further
comment; and instead of importing hundreds
of tons of cheese annually, We ought to be cx-
porting twice aS much.
| In crder TO show that dairying is properly
part of the stock growing business, VIC will
suppose rancho to be started, with one hun
dred COWS and calves, which, together with the
land, buildings, &c, would cost from s. 900 10
81 e,ooo--not particular as TO cost, however,
/ Now, ii is generally admitted that the milk of
one good COW (and it is unnecessary To have
any but good ones,) is sufficient for two calves.
This being the case, there would be fifty cows
/
/ The quantity of butter which each COW would
make ut one hundred pounds per year, and
put upon il the low price of twenty cents per
pound, which Is about half what good butter
usually brings in Western Texas markets il
/ would amount 10 the snng sum of $1,000
I Cheese making would be the most profitable
for il not only requires less capital to start the
business, but il would amount to more when
sold Upon this, however, wc shall make no
estimate, for those knowing anything about
the business need no calculations, and those
,niaoauainted will, il, would do well TO make
inquiries before engaging i'm it,
! Our plan would be TO yard the loo calves
and make two suclic one COW; a thing that Is
I often done IN the northern states, with tho best
of results. The cows that sucked, would rc.
turn each night 20 their calves, which would
cause the other tiitg TO come also hut little
II amy more help would hc needed n taking
care at ttc milk making butter aud cheese,
than in carrying on stock rancho without Il,
for wl,i'o the hands would bc empoycd in mil.
King Ne, thcy woa,d not bc needed to look Of,
ter thc stock,
We will now suppoSc that there is herd o
swine, say iify, upon the rancho. which Is "a,
morc than enough to- consume thc sleps, sous
MIX g., which, together with the nusaeii
graSs, ofwhich hcsS sre particularly fend, aPs
sufficient se raisv aud lat,en tia, mtitnher ox-
cnrt that oSie busted uf corn ta tls single hos,
woald bc aeceSsaty lselore killing Tie cN.
reusc of tsttening this saau herd af swine
would Uci oSeced eie1 I, was,ld l,e unne
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