Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-08
RUNNING TO HOG.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
Cisco, TEX, July 3O.-The large quantity of
surplus grain on hand and how to dispose of it
has suggested to the farmers of this county the
idea of making their own bacon, and now they
are rustling for hogs. A good hog viii outsell
COW and trades have been made where the boot
was in favor of the hog. The people of this sec
ton have been large consumers OF Northern hog
products and they propose to change the thing
Actual statistics show the shipments of North
ern packeries into this county during 1883 to
have reached the money value Of over seventy
five thousand dollars Considering the popula-
ton of the county, this is a large sum to be
yearly drawn from the pockets of the people for
an article they can so easily and cheaply raise
at home.
And what is here told of Eastland
county is true of every county in West
and Northwest Texas. If the farmers
would raise their own meat and surplus
to sell to the towns the money thus saved
and made would constitute respectable
profit in agriculture and silence much of
the complaint that now comes up from
the farm. A little less attention TO
the national banking system and
great deal more of atten-
ton to raising for themselves the
things they now buy from the North
would add largely to the comfort and
satisfaction of farmers. It is q crime
against common sense for Texas people
to buy meat from other states. The
people in the country buy bacon aud the
people in the town buy beef-and yet
Texas is q producer of meat. II the
farmer would raise hogs and if Fort
Worth would put refrigerator IN opera
ton, long step towards prosperity
would be taken. In this connection the
remarks of Col. Young, printed Thurs
day, will bear repetition, and their ap-
pleation is to town as well as country:
''Hogs thrive as well and multiply faster in
Texas than in any state 1 know of, said he,
land they can be raised at less cost. AS to cur
ing bacon in Texas it is no trouble at all. For
ten years have made all my bacon and had no
trouble in saving it. There are two processes by
which it can be cured here, and the meat viii be
Just as good as that shipped into Texas from the
North. One process is to make a quantity Of
brine, and after the meat has been cut up put it
into the brine until it becomes thoroughly i'm
pregnated. After this put the meat through the
smoking process and you viii not lose pound
OF it. This is the way all the meats shipped
into Texas are cured, but it does not make as good
sweet bacon as the old fashion sailing
down and smoking process. The latter, how
ever, is not so sure as the former-it is little
risky but not any more so in Texas than else
where You want TO know why the farmers
don't make their own bacon? Well, ha, ha!
They are too fetched lazy; that's the reason. |
They want to spend too much time in town when
they ought to be attending to business on the |
farm. tell you, young fellow, our people are |
not going to be worth a continental cuss until |
they begin to feed themselves with their own |
products. And this matchmaking business is |
one of the most important things they have got |
to learn. Texas not only should supply herself |
with meat, but should supply other states as
well -