The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-07-21
sound Business Policy.

There Is no business man of Waco,
In any line or in any circumstances oil
life, but can see and estimate for him
self the vast advantage of the wheat
crop OF this season to the general bus
mess of the place perhaps IT would be
a4.ss.rota- to san1he- 0rain -cron-
because cats have entered very largely |
into the sum OF the business of the
city since the active business season
opened This being the case, all should
work together to encourage orr
farmers in the new departure 10 the
end that the policy of dividing our
crops with wheat and oats may be
made a permanent one. There is no
line of business here which has not
felt advantageously the vast value, OF
the great crop now being marketed
here. II certainly seems good policy
TO attempt by every fair means to liz
il, and render il permanent. With
crop average OF ten bushels to the
acre, there is very handsome profit In
wheat culture, but there Is wealth aud
sure comfort In twcnty-iive-tbe aver
age this season. This cereal is a sure
crop here at all times. The wind
storms and wet weather in harvest,
which sometimes overtake us, consti-
tute the only drawbacks. The crop
is always made before the drouth can
possibly affect it injuriously. These
facts commend both wheat and oats
powerfully to our farmers and nc
good farmer ought ever to enter into
the years calculation without putting
aside one-half of his tillable land fol
wheat and oats.
Besides this direct advantage, Their,
are other powerful considerations
other advantages to be weighed an,
looked at. One OF the principal thing
to be consider, is: the more neari.
we make any country self-sustaiuing
independent in all respects of outsld
people, the better 1t is for us. A few
years since, every pound of whea
. flour consumed in all this countr,
was imported from Missouri and Kan
sas. Not only this, but even our corn
$ oats and other feed products were i'm
ported aud paid for solely out of tn
proceeds of the sale of our cotto
crops. Thus did the whole stat
hang upon the one single crop, cot
y ton, and that crop subject to NOR
I contingencies than any other in q
the list. let cotton fail, and GU
. rations were short. Now were cotto
% TO fail absolutely, we would nc
only live without going in debt, br
a. there would still remain to us yer
: fair seasons work with a fair prot
/. sure to result from it. This seems {
us 10 be sufficient argument to estal
lish the wisdom of the policy ,
wheat and oat culture in this regio
!. of Texas, but there is still another.
ie These crops are Drought into ma
ket just in the nick of time, just at
time when there is the lea ST doing,tt
least money in circulation and whe
: things are stagnant for want ,
impulse. They quicken and revi,
trade and enterprise of all kinds. n
business, whatever, but starts aires
under The powerful impulse injecte
by the sale and handling of the'
d crops. They keep men stirring, the
broaden the field of enterprise, a
II men are not, and cannot be, cotton e!
perts. Our grain, and especially OF
wheat crops, furnish profitable en-
e ployinent to many men aud niue
s. capital, aside from those and that Al
employed in its growth, simply.
But we are short in one importai
', particular, and that is, not a sing
!. pound of wheat ought ever TO |
shipped out to st. Louis, Kansas Cit
or elsewhere; every ounce OF it ougl
l. TO be reduced to flour by mills owne
z and operated here. We ought new,
: to pay freight both ways on the prim
necessities of life We pay on whe,
to the St Louis mills, pay the cost {
U grinding and all the intermediat
= charges-and the tolls are heavy i
: that direction. Let us stop all thii
Let us go in for saving the pennies {
. wheat culture in this way, and yer
soon we will have built an n husines
from it, which will not only enric
Waco enormously, but which will rel
!. der this whole graln-growing sectio
tributary TO her, rich beyond all pre-
yious calculation. Think of il littl,