Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-24

Some months ago The GAZETTE began
advocating the proposition that farmers
i'll Texas raise their own hogs and cure
their own bacon. The idea took with the
state press and the proposition is now be-
ing advocated all over Texas. Those
farmers who have hogs will not sell them
but are going to feed them this winter
and make their own bacon. The day is
fast approaching when the Texas smoke
house will be moved from Kansas City
and Chicago to this state. The following
excerpts from Texas papers is an indica-
hOn Of how the proposition of THE GA
ZETTE has been received:
Hogs and a bad fence are an unfortu-
nate combination. But no hogs and a
bacon account is worse Of two evils
choose the least = Cisco ROund-Up.
An immense corn crop is about ma
tured in Texas this season. A great
many farmers say they are sure OF corn
enough to last them two years, and
others are complaining about having no
place to Put their corn. Now suppose
every one of these farmers had a surplus
Sof hogs to which they might feed this
OveTplus of corn. Their pork or bacon
would command a fair price and meet
with much reader sale than the corn.
Every farmer ought at least TO have hogs
enough to make all the meat and lard he
needs - Alvord Budget.
The Fort Worth GAZETTE has hewed
out the corner stone Of prosperity for the
farmers of Texas in the sentence: ''Save
your own bacon.' We are taxed by the
tariff, by the state, by the county, by
our vices, by our laziuess, but the sum
total of all these, multiplied by the
double distilled essence of the internal
revenue system, does not equal the tax
imposed on our people by the smoke
houses of Kansas and slaughter houses of
Chicago. 'Save your bacon. II Waco
Day.
If the money paid out for bacon by
Tarrant county each year was kept at
home III the pockets of our farmers where
it belongs, it would not make any differ
ence to TarTant county whether there
was Sl4 or S24 ''per capita of money in
circulation. Raise the hogs and the
money is on hand to pay for them -
Fort Worth GAZETTE.
Go on with that good talk "chile -
Ye are handling the key that will unlock
the door Of prosperity in Texas. There
is always plenty of money in circulation
"per capita where the "per capita'
fellows have something that money can
Post.
If the farmers of Texas would show a
small degree of foresight akin to that
possessed by Joseph of old, this year s
corn crop would be stored away for fu-
ture years OF need. There never was,
perhaps, such crop grown in this county
before. The weakest point in our farm
ers is their utter lack of economy. 1t
matters not how large the crOO is in any
given year, it hardly lasts through that
year, because it is either sold for a song
or wasted. This is one reason why times
are so hard. The surplus is wasted, and
it is the same old story over again, so
that when drOuth comes our corn as well
as bacon, must be imported from Kansas
and Missouri. What surplus corn there
is ought to be fed to hogs, so that the
smokehouse will be at home instead of
Kansas. BY doing this the farmer viii
get better prices for his corn and get his
meat at prices reasonable and fair,s44s
( Royce Alta.