Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1871-06-24

tho soil of Sac suligrenl helis an,
| meadows Woull enlars iroulh ant
reiain m0is.lro ss they never eat
while hillside and rocky ridge an,
exposed 10 sreeP on sind anl glars
~ sun,
Ia this new, heaaie0ns, sunny
land, Whens lhe ae5l 0f nlel Is 81
much less Than with -, YOU arc eN-
posel 10 lhe misralc,llalioR made
by nay ancestors two 10 four gener-
ali0ns hafk, when, seeing ssyen'
eiglShs q New England covered
hy stately. luNuFiant trees, they
said, "lhcre will always be tin Der
enough, Let ~ cut and slash, and
sleat all tho land NO can; others
will save wood enongh though We
destroy all We havci" bat their
ehill-vn have lived 10 deplorc their
error, Hiny,dve Years ago, great
pines were rit from hills now inelu.
del Ia tlr, cl.y nr darlington, Yer.
mont, Aa-gci INTO boards, and these
RATED down lake Champlain and
the Sorel To ,hc 81, l.awrcnr-, aud
"a shipped 60 tGFoic, not paying
fty cents per day for tho labor,
calling the worth Or the timber
nothing. barely thirty years lator,
when Vermont began 10 construct
her railroads. shu had u lraw tic
bridge timber from Canada, hay!ng
for IL many times what her own
disparagcd pines brought Wien
they were so rcoklcssly swept taway.
Tho world is full Of experiences ~
instructive rs this.
IL is not too soon 10 begin %
plant forests in the more naked AMI
arid portions of Texas; il is high
time that you were regarding good
timber rs property, and saving it
with Scrupulous care and foresight.
Extensive sections of your State
will need il before they can grow it,
aside from those localities which
need it already; and your Society
can do her no better service than
10 impress on all owners of the soil,
in village or rural district,
the duty and profit of an annual
and persistent planting OF choice
and scrviceablc trees.
But-nOt to trcspass 20 far on |
your patiGnco--lct me close with u
few mayims, applicable TO cnltiva, !
ton in every cIimo and under Al. |
whether among pop
nlations dense Us that of China or |
sparse rs that of British America.
|. only goo3 .fdrmjng pays. He |
who sows Or plants without reason
able assurances of good crops an
nually, might botter earn wages Of
some capable neighbor than work
for so poor i paymastcr as he is
certain to prove himself.
2. Tile egoo9 Jaymcr is proceed such
by the Stedely appreciation Of his
'rOpS. Any ore may reap an ample
harvest from Il t"rtiIB virgin soil:
.hc good farmer alone grows good
crops ut first, and better and better
md better altcrward.
3. 1t is easier to maintdin tile
productive capacity Of a tarM than to
'e$tore it. TO exhaust its focundity,
md then attempt its restoration by
buying costly commercial fertilizers
) wastetul and irrational.
4. IHe goOd farmer sells n!Gialy
'uch products as are least exhaustive.
Necessity may constrain MIN, for
,hb first year or Two, to sell Grain,
IL even Hay. but he will soon send
'f his surplus mainly in the form
If Cotton, or Meat, or Butter and
Jhccse, Or something else that re-
.utns to the soil liearly all that is
aiken from it. A bank account
laily drawn upon, while nothing is
to its credit, mist soon
"No finds" So with
arm similarly treated,
5. Rotation is ct ieAst HtgatiU6
Fertilization. 1t may not positively
,nrich farm; it VII! at least re-
ard and postpone It's irtrdyersh-
nent. He who grows wheat after
wheat, corn after corii, for twenty
rears, will need to bmigrato before
hat term is fulfilled. The same
arm cannot support (nor endurc)
lin longer than that. All our
wheat growing sections Of fifty
years ago are wheat growing no
onger; while England grows lar
,cr crops thereof on the very folds
hat fed the armies of Saxon Harold
md William the Conqueror. Rota-
ion has preserved these, as the
ack of it ruined those.
G. Wisdom is nerer dear, prorided
he article be genuine. / have known
armers who tbiled constantly from
iaybreall to dark, yet died poor,
because through ignorance they !
wrought to disadvantage. If every ,
farmer would devote two hours of
each day to reading and reflection, |
there would be fewer failures in |
farming than there are.
Z. The best inrestment a fdrnsr /
,aH make for his children is that |
chich Surrounds their youth 'cith the |
rational delights Of a bedUteOaS, at !
,rcctige home. The dwelling may |
be small and rude, yet few flowers
will embellish, as choice fruit trees
will enrich and gladden. it; while |
grass and shade are within the
reach of the humblest. Hardly
any labor done on farm is so pro-
ftablc as that which makes the
Tifc and children proud Of their
home.
S. 4 COED practical education, IN
cledin7 q good trade, Is a bctteT outfit
for yoaH than a grand estate nth
the drrsrbGck Of on chpty mind
Ma..r parents have slaved and
pinclicd to leave their children rich,
when half the sum thus lavished
would have profted them far more
had II been devoted 10 th ecultiva-
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