The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1881-10-08
Farming In Ntst ,resns.

We give our readers the following
frank and valuable article on the great
west" taken from the Callahan Ciaren.
don;
We have heard considerable complaint
because friend George, of the Stock
jOUTHdL persists in denouncing our
country is not at all fitted for agricul-
ture, and it has been said that the press
throughout the north.wes should cry
out against him, but we have thought in
silence, that the fact Shat the journal
insisted upon certain things did not
change them particle.
II insists that this is not farming
codntry at all but is stock country
exclusively. But We say that he is en-
phatically mistaken. He bases his reas.
ons upon the fact that in riding over
the country he sees crops suffering for
rain and which will produce scarcely
nothing, all of which we readily admit,
and we can take him to Illinois, Indi-
ana, Iowa, Missouri and numerous other
states in the Union ut this time and
show him field upon field Of crops in
similar condition; but does this prove
that these are not Turning states? BY
no means. We do not believe in mis-
representing "A country in order to in.
duce immigration to it, neither do we
believe in speaking disparagingly OF it
in order to promote our self interest
There is reason in all things. We are
ready to admit that this us whole, is
not exclusively farming country, neither
is it exclusively stock country, from the
fact that sheep are fast taking the place
of cattle. There are thousands of acre IN
northwest Texas which can never be
utilized for ought but stock raising and
/ yet there are thousands of acres IN
northwest Texas which can never be
utilized for ought but stock -raising, and
yet there are thousands of acres with
soil as rich and us well adapted to the
production Of grain as can be found in
the Union, with the advantage in our
favor-the lands being cheap. There
are farmsin Callahan county which have
produced splendid crops OF wheat this
year, upon which the second creo of
millet has been cut, whers melons grow
as if by magic, where good potatoes and
other vegetables are raised and this in
one Of the seyerest droughty years.
AhN hNAfJ NAttlt NNltId are moving
out, and men who combine farm with
a flock of sheep, some milk cows, few
horses, hogs, etc, are taking their place,
and to such the country is particularly
adapted and offers an extra inducement;
nature will have her sway in spite OF all
we can do or say we might write vol
umss and we would not change the
adaptability of the land. The !cwer
valleys are better adapted to farming
than 10 grazing in places where four
years ago the mesquite grass was lux
uriant and thrifty, it has now given
away TO weeds from the f,lcf that stock
during wet weather trampit down
never to rise again, but TO be replaced
by worthless weed; Of this fact all our
stock men will testify Then why can
not these valleys be made TO produce
something to enrich the country in
stead OF lying idle. II will nolinteriero
7 with stock men in the least, As tho
Journal remarks, the farming out ON
the frontier has been done IN most
primatiyc manner. not one aero III ten
which are being farmed upon arc yet
under proper or even pastahlo cul,
tiyatlou, aud yet We can cite yun 10 plqn
4 who AHye been farming here eEf four
years who could soil their hnlaa at hand
som profits, hut they say this country Il
good enough ior them Shey have don,
well here and here thvy wall remain.