Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-29
,uI,G TEXAS.

Prom Ella. farming don't pay, ana 1t
the 7.'5. ,,r5aole that for very many
Is - The complaint is well founded.
ref!-''a 80. has caught it TO greater or
h'''. i.r,a, but when all the facts reia-
,'-t ,'-...-r in Texas are clearly under
i.'' ,...ro. vel help jumping to the
$50 that If farming don't pay here
CT -. must attach TO something else
.a- .aan the natural capaOi-lIleS Oh 'He
state, ,,,,,ar contributed to
go. Ranch By Nh Matt Stevens Of
.-' Kaufman county, which, in our
o... r..s..5 a. very fair showing OF what
o!.'.'. ...,.a. .rlning in Texas, and what
c., f.re bv not few of our farmers.
..- ,r..sed to Gull from that paper
.5., leading points for the considera-
- , farmers living in other regions
... farming cannot be made 10 pay, sure
e1y--A -..oo.,o,,+ Tho os-
- ., often made that the life OF the
-,...f,a life Of thanHess drudgery- He
80, f.r.ria- comparatively easy life,
...,..5 FL Texas. Manin MS profligcacy
r.-..... Jon the correctness OF this posi-
49, .5., llr. Stevens. but it is correct,
,.-.-.ge..ss. Consider, for instance, the
..., rar.. wheat. oats and barley crops.
~ ,... ar r.a,.e in three months working
,.r.. and q good working man can make
.-a crop than he alone can gather; but
Usually 4 family has as many as two boys,
,,.,, ,s-f these he can gather his whole crop
,r;.,..., hiring help to harvest it. He has
4. his minds eye such man who has this
,....,.... IL. tu.rty acres to cotton, ten acres
..-,,a.G five acres to oats, and will east
,,~.,,gr.I j, al. within his own household.
r,.. naa l.... undoubtedly make farming
pg
r..t he supposed that this man had
rented tia, mlrh land 20 a good tenant. In
routing I'd, land he had it furnished with
-ara ...5 and all ;he implements neces-
,....'1 work It. and with seed. At harvest
..m. be gels twenty-five and half bales of
cotton and sell, il all on an average of S3S a
n. amounting to $50, of which the
r.a,rr, shar, is $i9,.50. On ten acres of
c.r.. he .-lt-..s 80 bushels, which, at A.
c...sa bush.L Is S225, the renters share
would Dee Sil25o. Dat crop, 80 bushels at
Sr.a,-. So: renters share, $3.50. The
landlord thus furnishes forty-fve acres Of
ln5 auu four acres Of lot (house and garden
y.r this latter part free of rent-and he
C.'s $40 80 and the renter gets an equal
amount Of money for his labor alone.
Vow. this l., but a fair representation of
br'.s!Ies Of the ques ion as between land
l.rl.,l tenant. but the tenant can still
live something more on his side. He can
r.seuu his two-acre garden plot at odd
rr.- AND hence costing him nothing, all
t.. GARDEN stuff his family needs. He can
l-.p COWS TO supply him with milk and
bitter He ran keep two or three hogs
CUE . brood SOW, from which he can sell
se,tr4 pigs. When winter comes he can
-.a other hogs and salt down 600 pounds
OF aur hame-ua lie pork that has cost him
tu. little 30 RAJ e Then, again, the lady of
~ ..l-r can raise considerable poultry
:ra,r table, and eggs without number for
irr...iralg Use. Nor is this all, for in our
having season the renter and his two boys
cu. wn"k out at hay-making, and earn, say,
S0~.,aauj al AL interfering with the reg
r.rrgn for the crop will then be laid by
: raa nag time will be over before his
harvest is ready.
~ here we have the tenant at the iend of
'.y.r with SIO) in money, and with
about enough homemade pork to carry him
Through. and with provender enough, if he
las 'rt.i TO save it, to feed his stock well
+ ,ae coming of grass next spring-the
landlord furnishes the feed for the three
laet'a. store expense of this family,
confines Air Stevens, viii not exceed SIPS
ir'ar wa..n year. Now, what did this
Nan .ad his Two boys make per day for
arr4.'aa. services while at LAHORE We
a- SUPPOSE That they worked five months.
-.r q. nths a, twenty-siN working days to
,."~Hth would be 100 days. Divide this
10 ...' amounts already given and you will
80 'aa. "a" tGroe tQEether-one man and
"' "}s-lHade 500 day. And you can
'-'e TIL, III extreme calculation, for
"..t 'ae same force 4 very much larger
+. sea'" shan named may be successfully
...~.e. and managed in Texas. The
"..'rr las known from sixty-tive to
''''... -al' acres to be fairly well managed
"... - greater force, but of course the
..t --- 10 get up and get while they
'.." iii d. but such a thing is by no means
. "ai. .>>.oi.ity. \ little additional help
--' d" ID, ied at the harvest, provided a
-.-r proportion Of the land was to cotton,
b.. fla. would be all.
-a.nh OF such results to the tenant for
''' Months of labor! Cannot you plainly
-. 20. + il were possible for this farmer
..'-.y all of his time during the whole
.-. .g a crop, with like results, farming
..' ae a perfect bonanza? but even as it
p. .-a renter here working, as he does
VA l.5 days only, and making clear
avg IN money of from $3.50 to $500, can
,- 4aord to rest the balance of the year,
''''aea he has 10 aspirations to anything
e. .a- really good living.
''., Is row indulge in a glance at what
lie .a;o.ord Is making. BY little figuring
WILL see, says Mr.. Stevens, that his
." mas been rented at Sll.5l a year on
,'4 acre, And what was his land worth
-,. h' rented it? Considering it our best
sd i'r aHcS it was probably worth from
' 50 an acre, depending upon conve-
~-.'J - market Tins II ciaar.1I- anpaors