Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-22
A BLESSING DISGUISED.
The Cold Spell and Loss Of Stock VIII
Have 8 Good Effect.
A Revolution in Stock Raising in Texas
Bound . be Brought About

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To The Editor OF the Gazette.
FoRr WORTH, Tx, Jan. Co.'s
one reads the discouragiDg reports
from the stock regions Of this country
he is inclined to the belief that Texas
is a. universally adapted to general
farming as 20 stock-raising Not
outstanding the loss Of stock on &C
count Of severe weather theresis no
doubt to the practical thinking man
that this country will, in the end, be
greatly benefited by It. 1t will have
q decided tendency to correct the er-
rors so prominent in the stock inter
ests. II will have tendency to dis
solve those immense herds which seem
to be the boast, not only OF the owners,
but Of Texas in general. The time
Will certainly come, and ere long too,
when a man viii own only such 3
number as be will be able TO feed and
shelter as humanity and Judgment
shall direct The time will come, If it
is not already at haLd, when men viii
ZEE that 10 Is 10 their interest to have
the soil cultivated in connection with
the grazing Of their pastures. The
cattle ktngn will pass away
with the time when stock per-
ished By the Thousands for
the wan OF water. feed aud shelter, or
he will exist as the hsppy owner of a
well-appOinted ranch farm, where his
I 1900 pound three-year-olds below ana
/ plAy amid an abundance of hay and
corn, and not as al owner or renter OF
| barren. sno recovered plains strewn
I with dead and dying brutes, selling
/ his four or five-y ear-Olds when they do
l well to tip the balance at 1000 The
| future farmer" will sell at thTer for
/ S60-the present sell at four for $50
\ few days ago | heard q man declare
I that If he had the power he would
make 1t q penitentiary offense to put a
| pillow into the GOD; but every day now
demonstrates the need Of more plows
10 the sod, guided by industrious and
intelligent plo gmen and not by ind
lent aud ignorant mossOscks. Mil
( lions OF cattle and sheep lie drift
about in their bsrbed prisons, peTis b.
ing and freezing, and thousands lie dead
ON the break plains because there W r
NJ plows put into the soil Riu-
along the railroad and on every ri lie
tue gauut, skinny carcasses remind US
that we have not had the pillow put in
TO the soil Checked by the herder OF
wire in their pltiable search for prOte'
ton and food, they trample each Othel
in their madness, and every moan tell
US the pillow has not beelI put into thC
-nil. Every bleat from the helpless
II pcBs tells us We wear their wiutel
costs but have not put the pillow int
the soil Every moan and every bleat
and every dead brute upbTaids us FOL
our Incidence and inhumanity, and r.
: minds US that brutality Ia not yet ex
met In man or he would not fore
freezing and starvation upon a help
l,ss creature d. signed for Letter END
by wise creation A change Il inev.
liable. And it is pure nonsense for th'
cattleman TO try 10 keep the farmer of
he rich valleys and prairiei
nf this fair congenial domain,
They say farming does not pay AnC
cite q few isolated instances of failur,
and 1 reply: The average indOler I
careless, wasteiul, ignorant TexR
r farmer is no criterion by which to AT
rive at u conclusion Cotton, corn
= ats, wheat aud millet, II faithful,
= aud intelligent cultivated, are reason
ably ctriain Besides these, fruit
ana vegetables mostly fourth.
this IL not fact how can We expect a
Increase Of population aud wealth
Suppose a man owns "A county an
o employ ten herders, will the count
u ever grow rich through cattle-raisin
= alOue2 or course not. There will b
p no towns, no roads, no stores-fOr VIVA
E.! the need Of stores II there are 40 Gus
d TONERS? no manufactories?-for wins
the need OF forming implemen
there l. To be no cultivation OF the sol
, In II require ten acres TO q steer, an
. he SELF NJ four ears old for thirty do
lars, the yield per acre per annum wi
y he about seventy-hve cents The pr
u c, eds of an average Oat crop of ten acr'
" for one year would exceed the proceed
n ~ the grass for twelve year
- The same ia true Of mile
l. corn, cotton, wheat, pot ttoes, etc, etc
v Suppose every second year should be
Is failure, why then the yield for OF
year OF grain would Equal the yield
six years Of grazing. When we ha'
more railroads, - hen we have mo
cul ivatlon OF the soil, when the VI.
n l.ys and rich prsiries yield up the
II treasure, when there are ten thousan
r. pc pie IN county instead Of ten, the
lr we shall have u great and weal't
III state.
pr What is the need Of more people
ge Tex as II not to cultivate the sol? II
ld prairies are covered with stock, al
er there are enough stores to feed al
cl the, enough horses and railroads
carry all people, stock and meTcha
disc. III the soil is not to b cul iva
Ca, We are AT the end OF our pOpul
10 Il IA aud wealth But b. not uneas
~ ~ there is industry, Intelligence and e
~ terprise. and thls glorious. cnngeni
~ ana fertile domain will not es cape Il