The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-01

has never been greater demand for corn
or any OF the small grains other than wheat
in Texas. The farmer Reeds but ht4le for
ms stock as on the prairie he finds pastur-
age Tor them III the rich grasses, andfn east
ern Texas but little stock more than for
work purposes Is raised. Corn and tbe
snail grains can be raised to perfection and
more attention is being given them of late
years, as increased emmieration Is inrrpas-
ing the demand, and the custom of Eltten-
ing hogs and cattle for market is coming
into vogue. At no distant day
SUGAR
is destined to be one of the richest resources
OF the state There is section in soutl
Texas, notably Fort Bend Brazoria. Mata-
gorda and wharton counties, where there
are already quite number of fine SUGAR
farms In full operation, that is fully equal
IN extent to the sugar producing re-
gions Of Louisiana. In this belt
beside the counties above enumerated may
be named Colorado, Jackson, Harris. Cham
beers, Liberty, Jefferson, Hardin and
orange counties, and, we are inclined to
think Jasper and Newton counties also.
These are twelve counties certain. giving
the doubt against the last two named coun-
ties, containing an area of l0SOO square
mics, or O,Sl2 900 acres, Onc-half or BOG
WO acres, OF which are suited to the growth
of sugar. The plantations now being chilli
waited in the four counties before named nv
erage from POO to 800 pounds of SMEAR
per acre, and molasses in proportion. This
sugar and syrup, in quality, equals that of
Louisiana and commands as high q price.
suppose these 34Ot,OOO acres of sugar should
average, 600 pounds of sugar per acre, or
be worth $40 per acre to the planter. we
would have an income from this source of
itself princely so large, indeed, that we re-
train, from giving the figures for fear of be-
ing charged with eXaggeraton. But when
It is remembered that the sugar crop of
Texas Is now $4,000 per annum, with ONLY
"a few thousand acres in cultivation, can we
not see that this product is destined in time
as our state settles up, and we have surplus
capital to develop these sugar lands, to be
second in importance only to our great sta
pie Of cotton? OF
TOBACCO
we are prepared to say but little. As n
crop Orinoco's fragrant weed has met with
but little culture in Texas. In number of
counties experiments have been made since
the war, and they have resulted more or less
iayorably In eastern and southwestern
Texas the plant seems to do best because
the dews are heavier there. A very fine ar
| ticle OF the leaf for cigars seems to grow in
the regions We have enumerated, and in
western Texas this has also been the case
but an impression has always prevailed
that as crop ii would not nav as we'll
as the other products that engage
attention. As land for the horticuturist
no other land within the limits of our union
| can surpaSs Texas, In every portion of the
| state where settlements have been made, all
the varieties of
FRUITS
do well except the apple, and by study
care and experiment, the knack of raising
this line fruit is being acquired. All the
species of peaches of grapes, of berries. of
plums, of cherries and of pears, with necta-
| rines and apricOts, grow to perfection. This
seems to be a climate and soil peculiarly
their own, and the bulbul never sang its
sweetest notes in the native peach groves of
Persia, where more luscious fruit surrounded
| it, or appeased its hunger with a more
grateful flavor, than are those which grow
in every section of Texas. Our early and
genial springs and our mild and breeze
tempered summers, cause our fruits to
bloom, mature and ripen early, and when
the blossoms are barely ready to fall from
the trees and vines in the northern states,
we, of Texas, are luXurating on our peaches
and plums, and ncctarines and cherries, our
grapes and berries. And that is not all We
are boxing then up and shipping them
north to the great metropolitan cities
to ticket the palates of the wealthy
at fancy prices There is no necessity to
enumerate the counties or specify the sec
ton of Texas where the various fruits grow
and mature best, for there can not be said
to be difference. In south, southeastern
and Southwestern Texas they ripen some
earlier than in the other sections, but that
is the only difference. 1t is right to state,
too, that 1t is in north Texas where the
apple does best and where yet it is to
become one of the staple fruits In north
Texas, the fig, pOmegraHitc, orange and
lemon can not be raised. MS in the other
portions of the state, except in conservato-
ries When we tell you that we have plucked
ripe oranges and lemons from the frees in
the fall of the year, in the open air, and
delicious figs, equal to any that Smyrna
ever knew, in south and southeast Texas,
then you can form something like an
estimate of what Texas is rs fruit country.
THE STOCK
interest of the state is now one of its prin-
cipal sources of income-not equal to its
agricultural resources of course, but still it
is large source. This includes cattle,
sheep, and horses and goats, to a minor
degree of the latter. We will first consider
cattle. AS to the number ofhOrned cattle
i'll Texas II is not necessary TO MAKE men,
ton of any figures. Prior to the war. the
principal markets for Texas cattle, were
New Orleans, Cuba, the army stationed ON
our frontier, and the home markets. That
these were uncomfortable Compar Il with
the market advantages that have since been
developed il is useless to state. Since the
war, commencing as far back rs 1866, Il new
field for the sale of our cattle has been
found in Kansas and the cities of the west
and east To state that the
CATTLE
drive from Texas to reach these markets of
steers and stock cattle has averaged each
year. from 1860 to 1881 inclusive, 10000 head
is not to ovcrcstimate the number. This Is
grand total of 10000, netting the stock
raising the stock raisers an average of $iS,-
100000 or 100000 per annum, and with
this enormous number of cattle taken
yearly from the herds that roam our prai-
rics, keeping seal fat the year round on the
native grasses at no expense to the owner
save the annual employment of few COW
boys on each rancho to look after them and
prevent them from roaming too far from
their ranges, there Is no perceptible decrease
in the number. So rapidly do they increase
that the drain for markets and the death by
old age Is not felt What more than this
statement Oft simple fact Is necessary to
attest the importance of this resource, to at
test Its importance rs safe and rcmunera-
tive Investment for either q large or small
amount Of capitnlp Asw have before re-
marked In this paper, western Texas in for
mcr DAYS furnished the grazing lands for
the cattle herds, but of late years the west
ern part of north Texas and northwest
Tcxas--that is the Stakcd Plains and the
Pan Handle-have been resorted to by