Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-07
ABOUT TEXAS.
ce Kansas CITY Times

Correspondence Kansas City Times.l
The visitor to Texas is astonished
when he finds many of the chief articles
in the sustenance of life lacking their
places upon the table-articles which
should be more plentiful here than in
any other region of the country ON the
globe. And just here is where the quiet,
sedate, formal Major D, of Kansas
City, met with the most bitter disap-
pOintment in his southern trip. The
Major is exceedingly fond of milk. In
fact, milk was his first diet, and being
constant and infiexible in all his move
ments and designs, he has not in ma
turer years forgotten his first love, but
clings to that love, rather, with all the
tenacity and perseverance of age and
youth.
Immediately upon entering Texas
soil, at our first dinner, the Major
looked a~nxiously about the table for
some evidence of the presence of his love.
His reconnoitre was a painful one.
There was no milk o any evidence of
its presence to be found.
"Waiter, bring me a glass Of milk"
owe have none, sir.n
"What!"
In blank horror the waiter wilted be-
fore the thunder tones Of that exclama-
ton.
"Whatw again roared the Major.
"Can it be possible that you have no
milk?"
~ assure you not a drop, sir"
"Then I'll find some in another
house." So saying, he grasped his hat
and hurried out of the room.
Before we had finished our dinner,
however, Major D. returned, almost
outlof breath, a twinkle in hiseyeand ioy
beaming out boldly all over his broad
face.
Eureka! Eurekaw and he placed
on the table by his plate a pint of milk
ish white liquid. a good eye at once
saw that it was hot pure milk-that
thin, white substance. Major D.
thought he had the genuine article.
The liquid was drank, however, and
then the Major discovered that. 1t was
an inferior quality Of condensed milk.
"Isitpossible, " he afterward remarked
to a Texan, "is it possible that with
thousands Of cattle grazing upon your
hills you have no milk; that with the
most magnificent grass country in the
world, and your prairies everywhere
covered with good cows, that you make
butter?n
Yet such is the fact. Nearly every
pound of butter consumed in Texas is
imported, and all the milk there comes
in the form of a condensed article from
the Northern States. With all the IA
for products of the soil necessary
for hay raising, yet Texas buys nine
tenths of her bacons, hams and lard
from her Northern sister States. With
a soil unsurpassed for corn, oats and
the greater part of those products
are imported. The chief staple of Texas
soil is cotton, and to that product
devote their attention to the
of everything else. Time
and immigration, however, will produce
a great change in that respect as well as
Keen, energetic farmers viii
discover that all the necessities of life
can be produced on their plantations
without neglecting their great staple
1t will be a glorious day for Texas
when such q state of affairs is inaugu-
rated. For even as it is now the exports
Of the State for the year 1870 exceeded
its imports in the sum of twenty million
sold.
What, then, may we expectlof Texas
when the soil is made TO produce every
thing of which it is capable? The bal
ance Of trade in its favor will assume
huge proportions, and its people will en-
.oy an era Of prosperity and plenty be-
yond the most sanguine anticipation of
It's most hopeful and ~far-seeing inhabi-
ants.