The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-30


rates. But how do we know but what they
are lying about it? And we will not know
until the rust begins to ont them up, when it
will be too late. This habit of going abroad
for everything we want is a bad one, anyhow.
There are many gulls around our waters with
wings stretched and mouth open to catch
Texas gudgeons. Besides, Texas cayote
ought to be more than match for a Mis-
souri, terrapin at every meeting.
Raising Hogs what 1t Costs Texas TO
Buy Meats
1t is not extravagant to assert that Texas
is sending $4,000 per week to the Western
states for hog meat and lard. This amounts
to 100000 per month, and in one year
would foot up S2,400O00. | believe this will
not begin to cover the amount, but assum-
ing That it does, it is ample to suggest grand
pi ce of folly, committed by a people who
could easily, if they would, save every dollar
of it.
When properly cared for, the hog has as
good health, grows as large, and keeps a
greater deal fatter in Texas that he does in
the middle and northern ATTITUDES
1t is the most thrifty, the most
hardy, and the easiest raised animal
we have in our domestic calendar. As
to the propagation of its own species. ]
know of nothing, not even the rabbit, that
equals it. In the course of twelve months
an ordinary sow will litter at least ten pigs.
Assume that half are females and the second
year her progeny would give birth to fifty,
and then 90 on with your multiplication.
on these fifty for few years, and you will
have enough from the parent stock to feed y
county. There are many good breeds, but
the Berkshire seems to flourish and to grow
to as great perfection and beauty in Texas as
in his native shire in England. But Just here
we are met BY all the Pecksnitfs with
whole Gatlin battery OF objections: "On, we
haven't got the facilities; we haven't got the
corn !" Corn, thunder. When this years
crop fatty demonstrates that we can raise as
much on one acre in Texas as they average
on two in Kentucky five in Georgia, and run
ueck-and-neck with Missouri, Kansas and IL
linois. And, besides, up there they have to
begin to shove out their corn to their hogs in
September aad continue to do so until May
or for Il period of at least eight months In
the year, and for ut least five months the hog
is AS dependent upon its masters crib ms u
child upon its mother. Is this the case in
Texas -? Unless you are fattening him to KILL
| il is not necessary to feed a hog at all in
Texas for nine months in the year, and only
| lightly for the other three. He finds ample
upon the range to comfortably support him
self for the year round, in all portions Of
! Texas south of the meridian of Washington
! county, and comes as near it in North
Texas as the cow or the sheep and horse
only much more so.
The trouble is in us and not in the hog or
the climate or the productions of the state.
| We are run mad on cotton, and to great ex-
| tent so wretehedly manage our other affairs
that it takes every dollar the cotton sells for
| to buy provisions and rectify other mistakes.
Hog literature abounds in newspapers. The
subject is so learnedly and often treated of
| that the reader of it thinks this common ami
NAL is as difficult to properly raise as a girl
baby. But there is as little trouble about it
as the raising of a crop of sunfiowers or
jamestown weeds. The ctief item is to get
u stock and some land, and throw them few
ears of corn VIII n the weather is so severely
cold that the ground is frozen. OF course If
YOU wish to preserve apure breed ami have a
certainty about making at least enough meat
to do you every year, you must give them
something besides casual attention. But
never will he require a tenth of your time or
substance, as the Morgan colt or the Jersey
heifer. 1t is said that the hog has less sense
than ANYTHING of its size, but always no.
tice he keeps his hoofs in motion and con-
slant eye single to good, square meal, which
can't be said Of everything, and some people
written down as smart an rascally besides.
| nlu reply to Mrs. MOhl: The reason put
yeast only In my meal, ON the 10th. was, the