The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-01-09

no personal or SectiOnal feelings oc ul-
lowed to enter In the consideration OF
the bill. Let no partisan bias or pollt-
lcal chicanery govern them, but look
ing to the interests Of our whole peo-
pie, north, west, south and east, let
them decide intelligently and with
thought only of the general welfare.
Before discussing the question more
In detail, we would mention that We
cannot understand the supineness and
want of energy manifested by our ag-
ricultural press In discussing subjects
of great interest to our farming popu-
lation. Having undeniably large cir
culations their columns are filed, week
after week, with purely local matter.
The discussion of experimental meth
ods of growing larger crops, the de-
scription Of this or that mammoth
beet or turnip, is all very well in its
way, but 1t Is dull routine reading after
all, and reading we soon tire of. No
capacity Is shown by the grasping OF
subjects OF great national Importance
and the discussion of them in their
columns as looking to the enhance
ment of the prosperity Of their readers
the farmers of our country. This
could be done entirely irrespective OF
any political bearing on the subject
discussed. The farmers Of our country
are, as. a body, large hearted, large
| headed men, men of more than aver
age intellect. While we grant
that 4 things appertaining to the
farm may be OF interest, we at the
same time take the ground that our
farmers, AS o class, are not worthily
represented by our purely agricultural
associates. The farmers are denied
that representation In the councils Of
our nation that both their numbers
aud their brains entitle them to. This
In q great measure is owing to the
lukewarmness of their representative
press. We grant that many of their
Journals are well and ably edited, but
1t Is In q local, not a national, manner.
1t may interest few Of their readers
to be told that such q man raised so
Why, fifty years since the late Com
mOdOre Stevens, of HOboken, raised
the largest crop of corn to the acre we
ever heard of. What does it prove?
Simply that our improvements agri-
culturally have alone been made in
labOr-saving machinery and in the
manufacture of manures.
We beg them to cease the discussion
of such questions in SO earnest a man
ner, and take hold of measures such as
the Texas and Pacific railway, the
James river and Kanawha canals, and
those kindred to it. We ask them to
discuss them in largeness of heart as
BELTS the theme. Let them inform
their readers as to the thousands of
acres of tillable and millions of acres
of grazing land to be brought under
the plow, and to be bought for song,
along the route of the Texas and Pacific
railway. Let them place in a proper
light before their readers the difference
between the sterile earth and bleak
airs of New England when compared
with the rich black loan of the soil
and the delicious atmosphere of the
Lone Star state. Let them compare
the products Of the frozen, frigid north,
where q meagre soil, only after hard
and weary toll, grudgingly yields its
fruits, to the broad savannahs of Texas,
where grow spontaneously the pro-
ducts of the tropics in an almost tenn
perate CLINE; where the orange, the
grape. the fig, cotton, corn and sugar
may be had for little labor where
the maximum of production Is gotten
with u minimum of work where
'tickle the earth with hoe and she
laughs with harvest.n Treat the
subject rs it deserves, and i'm all its
bearings both as to its farming lands
aud its influence upon our farming
people of different states.
Let them again place before the
farmers of the great west, the farmers
of The states of Ohio, of Illinois and
Illinois and Indiana, the great demand
to be supplied by them alone, for their
vast productions of corn, of pork, of
bacon and of beef, when the country
we write of fills up with an enterpris-
ing and thriving people. Let them
not forget to state that our southern
farmers were ever their best customers
for the products named. They need
fear no lessening of the demand. Let
them tell their readers, that where it
is cheaper to buy than to grow, pro-
ducers must step in to meet those
wants. When cotton, rice and sugar
are the best paying crops, they will be
raised to the exclusion of all others,
and the supplies needed of pork, of
beef and of grain must of necessity be
purchased elsewhere. Let them say to
the stock raisers of Kentucky, Of Ten
nessee and of Missouri, here you must
expect to find your largest customers
for your horses and your mules. The
mustang of the plains will not work,
and could not if he would. Willing
as he may be for u days canter, he yet
cannot stand the severe labor of collar
and Of traces. Horses in many cases,
hut mules in more, must be imported
to do the work. Let them tell their
readers of the unlimited capacity of
the state about to be bound in the iron
embrace Of the Texas and Pacific rail-
way. Let them tell of the 152, ,002, $50
acres which comprise the state. OF the
paucity Of the population, it being 60l,-
$50 in 1860, and an average only Of SO
to the square mile. Let them tell of
the gloriaus future which is not far off.
l. Then we will ask them to turn again
eastward and say To the spinners of
Massachusetts, Of Rhode Island, and
Of Connecticut, from here must come
your supply of wool for cardiDg and
for cloth. AS a sheep grazing country
Australia--continen though it may
be- cannot surpass in capacity the Gu
pabIlities of the state. From 350,000.
hChu III 1cVO W u iniIiiob ia low WuO
can measure its future flocks in 1880
by numerals? Let them go to
the cities even, aud tell the ship
owners ~ to the possibilities of Gal
weston and Indian0la, when the Texas
and Pacific railway Is completed. A
crop Of 400, 600 bales of cotton fourteen
years since indicates possible crop
almost fabulous In quantity In the fu-
ture.-- This crop must lie marketed,
and from where so rapidly and SO
cheaply as from the sea a-ports? With
the Texas and Pacific railway tapping
the whole breadth of the state, with
branches like veins extending on
either side, forming a gangiion of iron
nerves tending to and bringing all
products to a common center, and that
center the sea-boarj, who can predict
the future? Estimates predicted upon
! the past would be wholly futile, and
only mislead. Let these agricultural
journals indulge in prediction even
Munchausen-like,a and such prediction
would fall far short of reality. %
I Let them tell their readers of only
thirty years since how beggarly three
cars of freight day were landed at