The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-01-13

The FIELD, GARDEN AND STABLs'
woes of e,Heeh-Fnrnqera hy.inG zap
Jsastine Tbeir sEitns-NaylishS ~
the '.Cotter's gntnrdoy Fsshs
-SeveE p0uItry Hules-
Receipts.
pREpAssD FOR TINE HzRAbD.]
Drripg Che weok.

Not a lick has yet been struck upon the
crop of 1881. The week ohding to-day mas
been lost. Nota dozen hours have passed
Without the mercury in tho thermometer
being below the freezing point, good many
DAYS at and below 20 degrees, and Monday
morning ct daylight actuhily at zero. With
the atmosphere rs cold So an Ordinary Iowa
winter. the g7ound frozen several inches
deep and covered With snow and ice, work
upon this farm in Texas was rendered impes-
sibls. 20 far as breaking land was concerned.
A little WAS done here and there picking Stray
fields of cotton still standing, and little corn
gathered. For tao rest, the farmers have
hauled wood and sit around comfortable
arss. read their papers and, we hope, many
yood,bools. II has been sp excellent winter
Far reading and improving the mind. AS
hafore re,asrked in these columns, frost Is a
Ane fertilizer. 1t loCsehs the GROUND, lets in
,be atmospheric End leaves il az soft and mol
low as If 1t had received a thorough plowinS.
II is a well +. coived fact that tho Seasons that
follow cold winters arN inYacias!y hae Lor
crops.
the future is the heavy rainfall during
the winter months. Rains and Hnows have rap
;dlv and almost regularly followed
each other, with the exception of Novem-
sber. since the beginning Of last fsll. The
earth,s surface is saturated to great depth
and with ali the water it will hold. II is q
rich store from which crops will draw sab.
stance until at least the end Of spring, and
will only require the addition of few timely
summer showers. So we have these gound-
worl. TO predict bountiful crops the coming
seas,n. 1t ia necessary, however. to seizs the
arst fair weather to turn the plows loose. Its
a piv all arabic lands were not broken W
lsst fall. There was no chance to do that,
Winter oats have been badly damaged by
frosta and much totally destroyed. The bulk
ofthe crop is yet to SOW.
Hardly any progress has been made, that
ia ha,dly any, in picking tho remainder OF
the cotton crop. There is Sn indefinite and
and rndefnable amount still in the ZELDA.
AID siace orr last rOport, not exceeding two
knnered bales have been brought to tho Dallas
ukrke. There is like per cent of the crop.
TO BE- brought forward and sold.
wo.thirds ofthe corn crop stands where
! A Xnatured lsst summer. This is By 70
mss chesrful picture oar farmors are
mi 4dy far behind, tins RAPIDLY slipping by,
the day in sight which Vi!l require ex-
We work upon tho mex "ops.
here is but one solution to tho problem,
KEY to tho situation: More labor. We
have il from some aUuClG or Other. We
no! sufficient by NJ least one third to
,obetly caltivste the lands under fence,
dthers are scarcely twenty ger cent. Of
owlcle susceptible of being brought un-
~ profitable cultivation.
There ara no preseat signs of the winter
breaking. Il is sEill bitter cold al north OF
us, the therr.ometer Indicating from 10 to 40
degrees below zero, and snow from few
inchel 10 eight feet deep. Let US be content:
The philosopher Gays, "What il, ia right"
There is Divine hand in all things, whether
the north Winds rudsst blsst, the south winds
terrific hurricane, tina wsst winds fsrcest
rain, or the east winds ssvorest drouth. AL!
are lcr oar good, for our happiness. "These
thing. we may nSt know nov, but they will
be revealed TO you hereafter"