The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-02-17
PREPARED FOR THE HERALD
During the Week

.ooh The elements have been decidedly
AGAINST us most of The time. A three or four
davis norther has prevailed which, suosided
on Monday and gave place to strong south
winds and warmer temperature, which IN
turn gave way TO another mortimer L uesdSy'
Our farmers have nearly completed the re-
sowing of their oat crop, and now await the
ground getting dry enough 10 start 'neil
blows in preparing for corn and COTTON. 10
sum up, another week has been virtually
lost. We are one full month behind,
but still we say the situation
ia not as yet at all serious
This ,an and will be made up. There is
,,len,v of time to make full crop. Northern
farmars do not have more than three months
to do ali their field work. They have not run
a fur.ow yet. u,
Snesking of northern farmers, we had q
delegation of twenty of them from Indiana
in town on Sunday and Monday. Ihey
came up from Galveston. They spoke III
unstlnted praise of Texas, her soil and CHI
mate, saying we did not seem to fully realize
what u magnificent country we lived in;
thatin ten years, they predicted, We would
have more people tnan we wanted. MT.
Williams said he was struck with one thing
in Texas. the ground was already cleared.
Here all that was necessary to DO was to
sharpen the pillow, grease the harness, hitch
I'm the horse, and go to work. But In lndi-
ana II required years of hard work to cut
away the trees and dig up the stumps. They,
one and all, expressed establishment at our
wonderful country, and predicted Tor IL
destiny greater than the most exlravagant
dreams OF her citizens.
Thus it is. everyone who comes here say
the same thing of Texas-tha IL IS the most
favored land on earth. We ought to and
are satisfied with it.
AS another Norther is now blowing with
the mercury away below the freezing point
of SO degrees sleet on the gro und, the sur
face water covered with ice, the outlook IS
blue enough for much work being done this
week. Farmers may put IN day or Two
towards the close, but 1t is doubtful.
sTo GARDENS.
few have been syaded. The majority
have pot been touched. Up to the present
Aday and hour any work upon them would
have been thrown away. This cannot be
elped Here it is, the middle OF February,
hen many things ought to be up and
rowing, with scarcely seed pla0ted. Bul
then spring does open it will come With a
ush. "Be Ye also ready" Let us be pre-
ared to take advantage Of the first opportu-
Lity to plant everything. We can SOW All
4 ut once this time.
The idea OF doing without vegetables In
this hot country is not to be thought of
Without them there would be an epidemic
of scuryy. They are as necessary as watel
and far more than meat. L. is ordained thai
man must eat both. The tables provided
with the greatest amount and variety of veg
tables raise the most manly and Symmetrical
sons and beautiful daughters. They quicken
the blood. purify the system, and iresheI
the complexion They digest They feed
the brain BEEF. is dull, heavy and coarse
as pork is. Fish is said to be fine biain food
The resson il, they are in constant cru
chile Of water from tho moment spawned
till taken from tho river. And they are
never so sweet "a when cooked upon th'
bank, thrown alive into the frying-pan-
1t is useless for us TO name the articles 10
plant which IT is high time were in thu
ground. They embrace about the Who'll
catalogue AS TO frost chances, consult u
Tics, your pet ground hog, OF some oihe
philosopher We have been upset AM
laughed st so much We have quit maxim!
figures as TO the depth of to.mouow's SNOW
Not Enough Room for stock Ranches
Cattle raising for the market will never be
Abandoned IN TevsH " will ALWAYS be prot
- table, for the winters are short, grass
abundant noArly the whole year around, ant
therefore Il must continue as good payini
business. But the days OF cattle ranching-
ranches covering the area of from one to iiy
counties-sre numbered, as are those c
smaller dimensions. Here, for instance, is a
item from the Dodge City (Kansss) Glob'
referring 20 n rancho Ia Pau Handle, Texas
"Immeiiately at Tascoss are David I
Reals md Mr.. .Liileheld, the latter unde
charge of Charles McCarty, the former M
w. Q. Moore, who il certainly one OF th
hes. cattle meu in Texas. The rancho is Q
the Canadiau river. 10 Potter cou nty. and
one of the best rsnges in the state, having q
abundance of water and good grass, and nea
seventy miles long by thirty wide,And Stoke
70 It's full extent"
aSeventy miles long by thirty wideF' An
this il 10 the heart Vt ono Of the richest 20
ricultural districts unoccupie1 and unalie
by farmers ia America. j. if 10 nnc
ground Piyen up 20 stock, o. p4a be IN
few years hence. With immigrants comm
mt The rate Of one hundred thousand Pc
annum, and nearly all wanting land TO cult
vate Ia cotton and corn, csttle must CIV
way 70 tuem. Hneu tho tnuts VI teh INV
kings reach two and three dollsrs Fer OCT
they will LET thcrI 90. All cur eastern ~
middle counties te1e.-in early dsys, given q
20 grazing, bu, QImmigrAtion poured In Ii
rsnchnce moved west. II a few short veal
there viii be no ideal @west' b 90 TO. The
will be states and cities out there hike The
are here, and 20 ro5T for ranch, nor =
InSi5n which requires seventy miles long
third wide" Nature has not That niue
land 10 spare Tor the bruts creaiion.
Observation-Disclosures F&mers Cotne
- Along
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- ,n-roI--arts az lrfiving per week
- Thyv A. ctliDg ~ raj, By wsgt
|rud b. 90 riere is tDf le room Tor nj
hons % "a uli-n O. nor people tbsn We no
4 rDrnl,er. rsras g sfnrY he 70 support
letst half 1oi lla sn-fE present pOrnl
f,- II the L 1itr STAT II VOID not
vel. aowever. 81 rive - lrrv JUS yet
1'he fi-ss ms cant >. -I- tDe tisss "a
AZ ca i1 D. =. - -. p Ircustrir " fsrn
e.. rren ru-t-i a go, useo % TIE pi-'
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