The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-04-25
Texas Letter.
BRAzos BoTroMs, TEXAS,

Will write you few lines. am as you
see in the Brazos river country and am
in good health and spirits. I get the
GRANGE ADVANCE regularly every
week and it is a welcome visitor. I
often think of remarks / have some-
times heard in regard to local papers.
have heard men say: 0, these local
papers must be supported, suppose,
but for news give ME the Chicago
Tribune, or the New York Tribune, or
some paper of that grade. Now l look
at the matter in different light than
did some time ago. find that the
ADVANCE is more eagerly read than al
most any other paper get hold Of now
a.days. Perhaps it is because l am a
long distance from home, and the paper
always brings news from home, but of
one thing am certain and that is, l
am always glad when the mail comes
and brings the ADVANCE, and would
not willingly DO without it.
By the way, I noticed few weeks
since an article entitled "Grasshoppers,
can they be destroyed" &C., I can give
you little information in regard to the
matter. Since that article was written,
Johnson's Cotton Worm Destroyer has
been tried in Colorado county, for the
destruction Of the hoppers and it proves
a success. They have put in an ap-
pearance here in force this year, and
Judge johnson tried the experiment
and demonstrated the fact that it will
kill them as we'll as the cotton worm,
and calculated that it will save the crop
this year.
You over estimated the cost of the
machine little. It costs mounted on
two wheels as you saw them here, $40;
or the tank, suitable for using on a COM
mon wagon, can be furnished for sixty
five dollars, and ar eccentric or crank
can easily be fastened to one of the
spokes in the wagon for working the
pump. One package of the destroying
compound will kill the worms or hop
pers on twenty acres of ground and
costs one dollar.
The suggestions in the article afore.
said were good and perhaps after you
Minnesotians are tired of trying prayer,
smoke, fire, &C., they will try the cotton
worm DESTROYER, as it costs but one dol
lar to try it and 1--WE 'uns'' have certain
~ established the fact that it will kill
the hoppers.
A word or two about this man j. w
johnson. He knows nothing whatever
about my writing this to you, nor did
he ever expect or intend to sell pack
age Of the compound in the northern
States. He is thoroughly educated
and practical man, as you know, and
has put several useful .inventions
through the patent Office, and originally
experimental with the compound with
the design of getting up something to
save his own crops on his large planta-
ton in Colorado Co. He not only has
done that but since that time some hum
dreds of planters have had reason to
bless the day that first made them &C.
quainted with Johnson's Cotton Worm
Destroyer.
1 see by the papers that two or three
parties from Prescott, Wisconsin, have
been down in the northern part of this
State the past winter and have gone
back home disguised, declaring they do
not like Texas. Well I don't know as
am surprised at all, Texas is a large
State to look over in few days and of
course all men cannot be suited, and
that poor man should come here with.
out cent and get rich directly is hard.
~ to be expected. I will 90 further
and say that a man without means has
no business here. He is a great deal
better off up there, especially if he has
a family. l am we'll aware taat this
version of the matter does not CORES
pond with those models CT truth and
veracity known as Emigration Docu-
ments," but as I am not paid for lying
1 am not going to lie for the sake of
getting some poor devil to put his foot
into it and then having him curse me
ever afterwards. -@.....3 .s
What we most need in this country is
men of brains and can;tol To-: