The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-29


marketable article, they are like cotton and
wool, never quite enough to satisfy the de-
mands Of tho world, and Xix, them, have the
world for market.
Can We raise anything which pays better
in proportion to the amount Of labor re-
quiredY Berries and fruit pay more to the
acre, but berries require deal more work.
and fruit Is very uncertain crop. Sweet
potatoes do not require much more trouble
than the planting and digging. Be this as it
may, 1t rs certainly a crop That will pay in
Texas and pay largely
The Profits In Wool Growing.
As a standard product wool is in demand
10 every market In ths world, and, like other
staples, it is not likely enough will ever DO
produced to make il an unstable article at
pro6lless prices. Its goods are used by ev-
erybody and at all seasons. 1t is doubtful il
q pound was ever sold without some profit.
Prices may run ever so low, but they never
have, and perhaps never will, touch the cost
Of production. The average prices Of cloth
ing wool for fifty ak years in New York, or
from 1924 to 1880. have been Gil cents per
pound for fine, 56l cents for medium, and 81
cents per pound for coarse. The few years
these prices have been below these uvera ges
have still showa handsome margins. This
refers to sheep kept for tho wool alone, of
the grade merino, or tho common native
crossed with the pure merino rams
OF course, the question Of profit and loss
10 greatly determined by climate. South of
that line of latitude wher9 grass grows the
year round and sheep need no other food
than that gro wing wild, they pay immensely
Arc nearly all profit, indeed. In Texas,
New and old Mexico Arizona Australia
South America and southern Africa are such
lands found. In Colorado Kansas and por.
tions OF the southern states east of Texas they
are partially found well adapted for wool
gpwing. But it is conceded by wool grow
efs who have made experiments more or less
in all parts of thu United States that no part
is so well adapted for the business as Texas.
Its climate more favorable, grasses and herbs
moro healthy and nutritious.
But there Is hardly u county in any portion of
our whole country where wool cannot be
grown proiitably "Distapce from market"
Gays writer upon this subject, "is of little
account, for no other agricultural product
can be SO easily and safely, and, conse
quentlg, cheaply, transported rs wool. One
ton Of worl at only 20 cents pound is worth
$500; ton of wheat ia worth but $33, and
ton Of corn only SIG, and the wool can be
handled with much less labor, and stored ut
much less expense than grain, SO that the
cost Of freight is much less in proportion 10
its value. 1t can be hept without loss from
vermin and Is not affected by tho weather
These facts are so apparent that it is readily
seen that wool can DO grown even in the
great corn-growing states with profit, In
competition with the cheap grazing lands Of
the far west, by the simple process of turn.
ing the bulky corn, which at home Is worth
but 10 cents n bushe, or less than SIS q ton,
into wool worth one hundred times rs much.
Even In the central state of Illinois q sheep
can DO fed for 60 cents through the winter,
and fed on bluegrass pasture in the summer
months for Sl.20, in all 81 so. This cost, it
must be remembered, is based on market
prices for the feed, so that the grower has
his prohtfrom that, and whatever is made
from the sheep is profit from thenf alone.
Therefore it is seen that wool ut current
prices will pay even there, without counting
the mutton, which is rot now in considera.
ton at ALL"
In Texas this business has not rs vet
scarcely passed its age Of infancy. In cross
ih6 tho uhNAiCuh viii tIt 4utTiuO HluCu
progress has been made during the past five
years, and In The next five there will doubt.
less be complete revolution. But where
We have one sheep rancho now there is room
in our state for a thousand. When the i'm.
mense profit that all make is considered, and
the certainty of the business set down as
fact Is 1t not remarkable that
more do not so into it than
are to be found at itS
Gall gold mine any other name, and there
would be no ''rush" toward 1t. The day is
at hand, However, when not only this grand
feature Of our grand country will DO deyel-
oped to Its full e,tent, but in every other.
Its growth has been fer quarter OF cen.
tury retarded and stihed by political SLAM
derers and born liars interested in
the: development of other divisions of the
Union. They are now rendered nearly
voiceless by the immense tonnage of Texas
products rolling into the markets of the
world, and Texas will rise as they rot.
The Wheat Question.
We are again indebted TO Marion Murphy
for a paper on wheat. He admits all we
have said upon the character of seed wheat
sown as a rule in North Texas, that II is de-
fective, a. the yield proves that we have not
yet struck the kind best adapted to our soil
and climate. That our crops of late years
nave been an almost habitual failure is his
toricai fact. That we can raise good wheat
mere Is also fact, for we have raised it.
SOIL and climate came from the hands of the
Creator, land are, therefore, immutable. In
oil essential elements they are now as they
were at the foundation Of the world and will
10 remain until the crack Of doom. There.
fore the question Of seed and cultivation
alone effects us.
In regard TO our little red Nav and Medit.
teranean having once proven successful, but
can no longer be made to yield remuner.
alive crops, 1t may be said there IL nothing
new about that. Imported seed often prove
satisfactory the frat year, partially so the
second, and keep degenerating until, like Col
ohei MURPHY reaper. the farmer can give
sne crop for the gathering. Twenty wears
sgo Congress went into the agricultural bust.
re 70 the extent Of importing all manner Of
y from Europe, Asia and Africa. which
distributed all over the country
ever they struck similar soil and at
b.