The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-22
The Cry for Butter and Eggs.

Ter in all the markets of Texas. Citizens Of
cities and towns import, at rough guess,
T5 per cent of all they use during tho year
In spite of this being the finest cattle coun-
try under the sun, and we raise them for OK.
port by the hundred thousand, we go to
western markets for butter tor our tables
In the very economy Of things this is an
Srror. In dollars and cents it is a mistake
AYe are cotton run-msd people, We allow
ourselves to think of nothing else. 1t runs
In our sleeping and waking creams, rs is H.
nstrated by recent anecdote. A neghbor
Sode up to cotton rsiser's gate, who was
little deaf, and found him there; Show are
Fou this morning'" said the visitor. ''Got
ahe worms very bad" "How's your wife"
YOUR children" "Won't make bale TO three
Manner" sit was too wet in the spring. too
uiuch rain in the summer, and too much
worm for bottom, middle and top" "Will
you be at church tomorrow "Then these
cotton buyers wont give us nothing for what
Mttle We do raise" "The circuit rider
preaches tomorrow, and you had better be
there" 81 SEQ fellow down at Dallas has
been making 5000 an acre on cultivated
'Slackberries, and if things don't do better
next year I'll quit cotton and go at that"
But you can stake heavily upon his not
quitting cotton and going "at that" or any
th5ng else Now of course We do not mean
10 advise Texans to quit raising cotton. The
EuSority Of them live too remote from
E1arkets for table supplies to Justify them in
going into tho business. But we do hope
siae time is at hand when vegetable and diary
farming will pay sufficiently to divert class
0c men and women of that kind.
IL costs less in Texas to feed A
ccw and keep her in good order than any
ylace in the world. If adjacent to a good
pasture she only requires little food for six
&c eight weeks during the year. Now, a good
uHilker overly cared for ought to yield 200
pounds Of butter annually. The average
price In Dallas is % cents, which would be
J "a per cow for her butter alone. Then her
SKINNED milk is worth something, her car.
case, when dead, her hide, bones and horns
ali have their cash price, to say nothing of
her calves. While the price Of butter in BAL.
Eos runs from 10 to IS cents, ii is little trouble
20 make yearly contracts with families at %
ssents, each taking stipulated number of
tbo1nds. II would seem TO US that dairy
farm, therefore, with no more than fifty head
ought TO pay handsomely. Ii has
heau demonstrated by the expert.
oace OF forty years that there
10 no business that pays in Texas like cattle
Auge fortunes have been and are being
snade at IT In eight or ten years time and of
q start Of a few thousand dollars. The res.
son OF this is, they cost so little to raise
hen. ''
But cattle need not be more than ono di,i
sson OF a diary farm. They need moi take
sxlore than half the time. There are e9gs U
vegetables, fruit and berries, he and his wife
csa HOOK alter Just US well: And since rail
opened with all outsides states not 90 favored ed
as Texas, and forced. TO buy: nearly every.
iahing they eat, better prices and more re dv
IN srSets for all these things may with absS.
hKte certainty be calculated upon for all fu.
tnre time. Buyers are here now for every
Rsuad surplus produce we have, and il We