The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-05-23

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,pent his latter days ard died In Philsdel.
phis, the possibility Of utterly extermipat-
ing weeds and keeping farms and gardens
In perfect producing srder without
any manner Of labor. Crops
ware TO spring up, furnish all
enough for supplies, scatter their eeeds
and move on as the seasons come and go,
without rotation and without labor on the
mart OF man or beast. EVERYBODY and bis
wife we're to eat and be filled, and
the twelve baskets of fragments
would ever remain on the ground
to furnish seed for harvest
that would return each succeeding year, OF
its own spontaneity, yielding an ever In
cressipg per centsge, compromising its in
terest. spreading over all the earth, diversi-
fed and ample of variety. Labor" ne
said. "is a condition caused by ain
and by removing sin labor VIII
~ no longer necessary" Chmauc
addresses were also to end, because when
mans penal surroundings were not needed
owing OF his purity, summer would remain
and the Junes with the roses would de-
part no more. II does not belong to
fhis argument, and nevertheless 1t may
be stated that this good old man
was a hard worker. The purpose here Is to
allrde to this dream Ia connection with the
fact that crops are created every day with
ont the uss OF agricultural implements.
The excellent old African named NED,
who laid aside tie shovel and the
hoe when his head became bare and
his gums vacant, had no less use
Tor the implements plaintively referred to
in once popular melody than has GER
tain class OF men who toll not, neither do
they pillow, and yet they raise more corn,
wheat, oats, barley, cotton and tobacco
than twenty million farmers can, though
ne latter be supplied with
ali the wonderful inventions modern genius
has given to tiliers ofthe soil. And not 10
be tedious We hasten to explsin that
the husbandmen OF the nineteenth
century who produce these vast crops are
The city exchanges, and the fields on which
men reaps who never SOW are the bulletins
Of boards OF trade. All the pals"
of butter ever moulded and stamped by
frugal wives, end all The eggs, industrious
hens of America or psuper hens OF Europe
ever cackled over will not equal the dozens
of eggs and pounds of butter sold on
change at New York. The petroleum
fields of the United States and Tartsry
combined will never yield, though the wells
richly flow I'LL crack Of doom, the barrel oil
oil sold at the petroleum exchanges OF New
York: oil that needed no wells TO yield 1t;
oil that will not grease the paper
Il IL numbered on; 30 many million
barrels arithmetic will not compute
Il. PAUL may plant and AroLLos may
water, but the drought comes and parches
the crops until withered and perished, the
winds scatter the. hopes OF the farmer
Hail comes heavily falling, and beats down
the fruit; the tempest lodges the bladed corn
and the boar frost takes away in
night the hope OF the farmer. The actual
crop may be 100000 tales, or 10000
balss, 1t Is all the same to the Cot
Tan exchange at New York, for IN
any case those horny handed gransers Will
ali 80 COO, 600 bales created by this new
mstbod Of agriculture, upon which pictures
& the patron saints Of crops and hocks
nmils, though the saints them
Delvss beyond the clouds may
v,eo. At Chicago to-day hog, tina.
1ovsr did and never will chew corn will be
-. ready packed, in sides, shoulders
-. ribs and lard, and when mets PORK
80 ele Per barrel, the bulls will below
- the bears will growl and get the
~ suhetsntial element OF that PORK
q ~ nsurs the chalk boy marks upon the
'1nrn-hoard. The Chicago exchange is
w1~ra efoat deal 10 say Just now about
r17rno oheps." Mott people understand
~ sSop 10 mean an establish
tcoksrsge, whore options are
uoaoly sor speculative purposes,
ferohsnes' exchanges ere for
surs b previous contract for
4 ln1urs n1ods. There 10 dif-
|nani1ooe. 10 Il easy to see
-, mn1 rsmain In the heart
,oon1f Nhals buying 30 600
~ pcsk - - dslivsrsd In Au-
a = ~ dIseenibls that
- - - hastle pot pork
- ~ - any contract
- 1890 ~ d business
= ~ He q 6btans op-
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