The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-10-20
THE FALL PITCH.

THE FALL PITCH,
In all the hurry and push incident to
the season. with the fairs and the mark
citing Of the crop, the building Of new
houses aud the improvement Of the old
the enclosing Of new fields, and indeed,
the thousand and one thlngs tho thrifty
farmer has TO look after aud consider
we would not have them TO forget That
ii Is not too late, nor oven too wet TO
pitch the wheat crop for next season,
Notwithstanding the strikes lust SUM
mor intorlered seriously with the
prompt sale Of this crop, yet It's effect
upon general business, and thesuro pro-
gress Of the farmers toward comfort and
ease, has been most satisfactory In
deed the history Of the season amply
demonstrates that north ToXas, espe'
cAlly, cannot afford TO neglect this,
her most important and valuable crop,
Important, because Of tho steady de-
mand and good price, and valuable, be-
cause of the immense sum Of money II
brings into circulation just Mt the very
time OF all others when it is most need
od and whom there is nothing else to
sell.
A deep and careful pl?wing with n
clean harvest will always give the Tex
an wheat grower rich reward ior all
his labor and risks, Every season adds
to the grinding capacity Of our mills,
and also to their money capacity to
buy and hold the crop The gross say,
ing in Greights on grain out and -four in
constitutes in and of itself u sum quite
sufficient to enrich the larmers,did they
raise no other crop save wheat We
now have all the latest and best inn
proved implements for both planting
and harvesting, and with their intelli
gent use the value of wheat, rs q crop,
is greatly enhanced. Our farmers are
all out of debt and able TO take adyan
tage of the facilities, the use Of which
has tended very greatly to the enriching
of the wheat growers of the northwest.
Our advices from the farmers Of the
wide district Of country surrounding
and trading at Dallas, is to the effect
that the acreage during the coming
season, win be far in excess of that o.
last year, and while this is true, the
character OF the planting work is much
more thorough,
We have already had u large and i'm
portant accession to our farming popu
lation this fall, and principally from
those states accustomed to grain grow
ing. The good effects, already obvious
will be much more apparent when the
harvest comes again. Heretofore oul
preparation Of the ground has been
confined to mere surface scratching
and the grain is simply brushed in
Now it remains to be seen whether
deep blowing, even sub,soiling and
thorough narrowing, will not add al
least twenty per cent. to the general
yield.
A very intelligent Collin county
wheat grower assures us this estimate
is too low, lie says that, without some
unusual disaster, and with fair culture
forty bushels should be the average one
year with another on our black prairie
lands. If this is correct, or only in the
neighb orhood of it, when we consider
the amount of arabic land in this re,
gion of the state, there can be no limit
placed upon its agricultural possible
ties. The richest, fairest and most pros
porous country on earth must be the
wheat producing counties of Texas
Let not our farmers forget that then
operations for the next few weeks will
inevitably grade the result for all next
season.