The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-02-15
Large In Numbers but Not Of
krss Pure Breed.
Suffers By Comparison In Value with
thOs. Of Other States-Texas Should
Lead in Quality as Quantity-
Condition Improving.

she. Of hogs and sheep she has
some millions. The cackling, of
her hens proclainis the laying OF
something like fifty million dozen
eggs every year. By carloads she
ships turkeys to the markets of the
East.
Measured by mere numbers
Texas is easily first of the live stock
raising States. But when we make
a comparison of the values of our
cattle, horses. mules, hogs, sheep
and hens with the cattle, horses.
mules, hogs, sheep and hens Of
other States, our pride is bruised
For, though we have 9,1S8, $50
cattle, they are valued by the
U. S. Department of agriculture
at only 500, ia, 1913, while Iowas
1905. 339 cattle are valued at S1O6,-
| COS, 697. Our 1,277,76S horses
are worth but S45, 500 ,653, while
Illinois 1,232, 304 are worth SFO4,-
| 745, $40. Our 391 ,O38 mules re-
present S32, 1902 ,4s3 in wealth.
while Missouri's 243. 1866 represent
| $40, 476, 800. The average value
of the Texas mich COW is 81 1872.
while the Connecticut mich COW
is worth S41.70. Other cattle are
put at an average value of $1,000
in Texas, while such cattle are
worth S19.42 in Iowa. The aver
age Texas horse is worth $3.50,
while the average horse in Illinois
is worth S85.O4. Our mules are
rated at S6O.87 per head, while the
Florida mule is worth S12O. 81, and
the Georgia mule S117.96. The
hog in Texas is set down at 81. 6S
lper head. while the New York hog
is set down at $40. The Texas
sheep is put at 81 Os, and the Iowa
sheep at $3.50.
If our cattle were worth as much
per head as those of Iowa, our
horses as much as those of Illinois,
our mules as much as those Geor-
gia or Florida, our hogs as much
as those of New York ard our
sheep as much as those of Iowa,
they would represent a value of
SOP, 100000 more for horses, of
S21, 945,OO more for mules and
several millions more for hogs and
sheep.
To put the situation in few words
Texas live stock would be worth
about S175. 900, 900 more, without
adding to the number, if the quail
ty were as good that of such stock
in other States.
Texans are losers of S175, OOO,-
600 by not breeding better stock
and caring for them better.
We must get out of this. Our
cattle can be made to be worth as
much per head as Iowa's, our
horses as much as Illinois, our
mules as much as Georgia's, or
hogs as much as Missouri's. and
our sheep as much as Ohio's- When
we have done that, our 9,18S, $50
cattle will represent a value of
1881, 914. 900, our horses of $1O7,-
100000, our mules of S45, IA, 600
and our hogs and sheep twice as
much as they stand for now.
We can add these. millions to our
own general stock of wealth with
little effort and trihing expense II
is a simple process Breed ont
the scrub, grade up, put quality
before quantity. That is the whole
of it.
Breeders of pure bred stock have
been preaching this. doctrine for
many years. They have made
some Roadway. Preaching IS good
but example is better. The PeO-
pie want tc be shown.
Hog breeders. say, they can hard
" keep Up with the demand for
Ipure-bred boars.-HoustOn Post