Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1872-09-21
GROSS rxrrNSEs.

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1ncidentals ioV'
Total:profrt first 2oo
1t is estimated that at the end of
five years tho count would stand
thus:
EALuE OF PROPERTY ON HAND.
5000 acres Of land at s25 per acro......s .5,oOo
1000 cows at $50 per head, improved breed oo'ooo
| 1000 stock cattleat $40 per head. improved oo
breed, io'ap
900 stock hogs at So per bead...-........ h,OOs
Turning implements, wagons, work oxen &c 2,ooV
Total value OF property.
Add to this amount four years profits ofan
average Of $4,000 per
Making total ........".,..."s32Zooo
These "sum totals" loom up pro-
digiously, and, by some, will bo
counted as fallacious. Noverthe-
less, ] give them, holding myself
open to conviction whenever truth
sets them aside. l will further add
that should any capitalist "bank"
upon my estimates, and not succeed
in making more than fifty per cent.
upon an Investment of S34, 200, Gas
above) he would not, l am satisfi-
ed, handle me very roughly, nor
abandon tho business for moro
lucrative one. In tho foregoing
calculations, the labor is employed
upon the wageS basis but instead
CT wages, an interest in the profits
might prove the better plan of tho
two. This is a matter that could
be determined after experiment.
1t is thought by some that intel
ligent, Industrious negro families
would, in the long run, prove the
most advantageous to an undertake
ing of this kind, as they would be
to the manners and customs Of the
country born; and if properly en-
couraged and treated, with church
and school facilities for themselves
and families at hand, more content
ed than white families, whether
natire or foreign. Then, on the
orher hand, by others, that Scotch,
English or Swiss families would be
moro reliable and trustworthy, as
we'll as moro skillful and | am in
clinod to the same belief. There
would be this advantage in the lat
ter class oflabor: Families brought
up to the dairy business in their
own country, could be procured,
consequently moro serviceable at
the outset OF the undertaking,
while they would prove a very dc.
s;rable and valuable acquisition to
the population of the locality in
which they settled. | might add
in connection with the labor feature
of tho dairy business in Texas that
the success of tho enterprise almost
entirely hinges upon securing in
telligent, faithful help to carry it
forward. With this, there would
be no such thing as fail.
1t would be advisable to select
the first five hundred cows from
small stock raisers and farmers,
and buy, us far as practicable, do.
mcsticated animals possessing good
milking qualities and for the pur,,
pose of raising up superior breed
of mixers, secure n cross with the
Ayrshire or Jersey stock. In this
way, at the end ofthe third year,
the dairy could be increased from
these improved breeds, SO that at
the end of five years, q dairy OF
one thousand mixers would be the
result.
The three thousand acres thus
set apart for dairy purposes,should
bo put under fencc rs soon as prac-
ticable and before such fence went
to decay, a serviceable hedge could
be secured, which could be easily
done by planting the Bois dare or
Usage Orange.
In order to obtain an uninter-
ruptcd flow of milk during ten
months in the year, fields ofthe In
dian corn, sown broadcast, should
be ready to cut by the first OF July,
as the native grasses in Texas fire.
qucntly fail in the months of July,
August and September-that is,
when closely fed down. This plan
of sowing corn broadcast for the
purpose of supplying milch cows
with abundance of succulcnt food
at a time when the grasses are
short and parched with drouth, has
proved, for many years, q COM
plete success in the dairy sections
of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York
and New England ; while for win.
ter pastures, rye or barley could
be sown in the fall, and if not fed
too closely and long, produce
harvest of from fifteen TO twenty
five bushels to the acre.
The dairies in the Eastern States
arc, from long experience, supplied
with cows possessing superior milk
ing qualities T; hence, majority of
them realize from $50 to $50 in
come from each COW; but the Tex
as cattle having been reared simply
for beef and hides, it would not be
safe to calculate on an income OF
over $50 per head, taking a dairy
Of, say five hundred COWS, selected
with special reference TO their
milking qualities. But experience
will undoubtedly demonstrate the
fact that the native breed of Tcxas
cows will prove good mixers, and
with care in selecting, kind and
gentle handling, and abundance of
nutritious, sncculent food, arrive
at high standard of excellent for
dairy purposes while n judicious
system of crossing with the Ayr
shire and Jersey breeds, could but
prove advantageous in producing
moro docile and gentle animal,
with all the fine points as mixers.
Other hints might be thrown
out and suggestions made, bat the
foregoing must suffice for the COM
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