Elm Fork Echoes, Volume 26, May 1998 Page: 15
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Jerseys and Holsteins are the dairy cattle, the former
being the more numerous. The dairy herds range in size
from ten to one hundred forty-five cows. The daily milk
production per animal averaged from one and one-half to
two gallons. Milk is purchased by a number of wholesale
milk companies of Dallas, the wholesale price varying
widely.
The dairymen of the district are slowly recovering
from the evil effects of a "milk war" in which the retail
price for whole milk dropped as low as three cents a
quart. No co-operative association exists among the
dairymen, nor is there any movement toward the
establishmennt of such. Although the average dairy
produces less than one-half of its hay and a small
portion of the grain it consumes, the tendency is toward
the self-supporting dairy, inasmuch as this type can best
weather price fluctuations. Much of the adjacent river
lowlands is devoted to the raising of fodder crops.
Crops
Cotton, the outstanding crop of the area,
concentrates around Farmers Branch and on the western
uplands. The farmers of the area feel that cotton is the
only "sure" crop, there being a considerable element of
uncertainty in raising both corn and the cereals.
Progressive farmers, although practicing no definite
scheme of crop rotation, commonly alternate cotton and
corn lands. No commercial fertilizers are used, the land
being safeguarded from rapid depletion by ploughing under
cotton stalks, corn stalks and stubble. Under the
present "depression" conditions, only the cotton lands of
the two areas mentioned above have maintained
approximately their normal market values of one hundred
dollars an acre. The land along the dissected upland
slopes sells for twenty dollars an acre and that of the
flood plain for fifteen dollars. Wheat and oats are
grow most extensively along the higher terraces to the
east. The western portion of the Trinity Lowlands and
parts of the dissected slopes produce Sudan grass,
Johnson grass, sorghum, maize and other forage crops.
Crops also form the basis for the dairying industry that
utilizes the dissected slopes and portions of the
uplands.
Gravel & Sand
Pleistocene gravels and sands occur along the
valleys and lower terraces of many Texas Streams. Such
deposits in the Trinity lowlands have formed the basis
for a profitable industry.since 1912{4}. Prior to that15
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Peters Colony Historical Society of Dallas County, Texas. Elm Fork Echoes, Volume 26, May 1998, periodical, May 1998; Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth760602/m1/17/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carrollton Public Library.