Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-09-27
-McMINNVILLE TENNESSEE-s SATURDAY., SEP 81 1884
Stock Raising in the South.

M ". bulleun.
We are very glad to see that South>
ern farmers are having their attention
called to the varied resources of the
favored land they live in and, among
other things, to its enormous superiori-
tY as a locality for stock-raising, There
is, perhaps, no legitimate business in
the world which yields such large re-
turns and finds so sure market as
fthat of stock-raising. AS the rerources
of the older countries have been ex-
hausted, and their demands, through
increased population have augmented,
inquiry has gradually addressed itself
to the South with its vast unoccupied
tracts and its untouched vegetable
wealth. We see here and all about us
prodigious expanses of pasture land,
heavily wooded forests, an inexhausti.
BILE supply of wholesome water, inns
measurable cane-breaks and boundless
tracts of underground. Every kind
and variety of exterior formation and
vegetable product indicate that this
section has been intended especially for
the business of stock-raising in its most
colossal and profitable form.
There are serious drawbacks to the
pursuit as regards Texas. Although
the vast prairies of the Lone Star
State abound in grasses, they are al
most destitute OF water and shelter.
You travel for hours behind the flying
! locomotive without seeing the cool
shade of tree or the refreshing CLEAN
of water. Millions of acres of these
lands are unavailable for grazing, be-
! cause in summer they are parched by
droughts, and in winter they are swept
by the fierce and blighting "Northers"
from the Rocky Mountains. Cattle
cannot live through the long hot spell
without an abundance of wholesome
water, nor can they endure the terri>
BILE colds of the winter months with
out shelter. Thus, although the eyes
of the world are turned to Texas as
the stock.growers elysium, experience
{ and fact show that the resources OF
L that State are already at their extreme
tension and that we must look else
u where for the means of supplying the
; increased demand for facilities.
. But even were the Texas prairie'
veined with water courses, they would
. still be inferior to our tremendou;
II swamps and cane-breaks as fattening
10 grounds for cattle. In these region;
the grasses are finer and more nourish
q
;, ing, the water more plentiful and the
u shelter simply complete. No summer
! drouths can wither the sources OF those
u limpid and innumerable streams; nc
= winter blasts can penetrate those cane
brakes which are as dense as the deep
=, 4 est jungle of Bengal. 1t is mere igno
IA rance to say or think that the South il
= not adapted to the propagation of stock
10 whether fine or ordinary. History
Il shows u; that all the most valuable
A. varieties of domestic animals origina,
+ ted, and have since best hourished il
. tropical ATTITUDES 1t is proposition
~ based upon reason and common sense
o. that, in district where mildness anC
~ vegetation are practically eternal, ont
u can pursue the business of stock>rais
~ ing more proftibly than in districts
VI where nature ishnkind and unfavOra'
!" BILE conditions prevail, The PROPOSE
u ton needs no Argument. Our farmer
10 have but to opel their eyes and profit
=" by the lessons tlpir lives are teaching
% every day, in or er to take advantage
80 of the apportrh mites that surround
81 them and win their way to wealth anC
~ independence.
:, All tho EOkc in One Raskat