Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-12-12
TEXAS JAVELINS.
Ihe Fence Cutters Os the Lone Star
state Nhe Claim That They Rave
Rights.

The Fence Cutters OS the Lone Star
Sti,1c Hhe Claim That They Have
Rights.
From the Chicago Tiib;ne
one OF the principal members OF the "Jave-
hhs, an organization that has recently made
It's appearance in southwest Texas has re-
veaied some OF the motives actuating the fence
cutting in struggle that is shaking Texas to
the center Said he: 1--WE are like minnows in
a pool of hungry trout. Some big stock man
bays all the land around on all sides. his cattle
Craze on our lands aud ours on his When he
makes his rounding our cattle are driven off to
some distant point on his large ranch with his
Our calves are separated from their mothers.
and in the confusion are branded with his brand,
anu are driven off with his cattle
But if the land was not enclosed wouldn't
this same thing happen:'
NO, not to the same extent it does now
Nnen the range was free everybody's cattle ran
at large and no one thought of rounding up
ana driving off every COW in sight"
Don't you think If a man owns land lie has 4
right to fence il he wants to:'
NO. sir, no man has a right to fence Won up
or enclose the grass and water. He didn't plant
the grass or have anything to do with making
il grow. Neither did he create the snrint.s ar
rivers. God made them free. and before these
land sharks and cattle kings put :cnces around
them they were free. The grass is lust as good
and will iatten his cattle just as fast without
fence around it as within"
But what is the use of owning land if van
can't DO as you please with it,
~ gu can do as you please with it, If YOU
want 10 cultivate it put up your fence plough
up your land. and plant it. We won't bother
you. what You work for ard plant is yours. bat
grass is free, ana no man has right to claim
what does not belong to him.
Haven't the pasture men offered to do almost
anything you ask"
Yes. they offer us everything. but what we
want and are going to have is free range We
are determined to have our rights and if il
causes bloodshed we can't help it. We must and
Will have free range. There are not enough
men IN the regular army OF the United States to
guard the lines Of Wire pasture fences in Texas"
Georgia Melon s:cry.
From the Atlanta Constitution
That's right nice chcck?"
1t was hale contented man. with a BIZ.
strong frame and a frank smile that rendered
the check. The check itself was for SO. signed
by ". Allen Burree & Co., the great Phiadel-
phia seedsnen, ana payable to j. q. Miller.
You are Mr.. Miller!'
yes, and that check is the sign Of victory
for Dehalb county on watermelons over the
world. Burpee 4 Co. offered five prizes for the
largest melons grown from their seed There
were entries from all sections, running into the
thousands l took the first prize, the third
prize and the fifth prize, making SO in ALL"
= 'What did your prize melons weight"
The biggest weighed III pounds The third
prizer weighed 81, and the fifth prizer S9pound3
planted only twenty hills of melons | sold
$50 worth from twenty hills beside what ate
made three crops in the one season by cutting
the vines and the roots so as to make them re-
VI hp hir6
forty-six FOUNDER | can beat the world on
melons on my Dekalb land got 800 in
Guiding my go in prizes on my twenty hills
MIR. Miller is the champion farmer of DeKalb
He has taken prize after prize at the Dekab
Farmers Club meetings He said:
Il raised fifty and a half bushels of wheat on
one acre of ground. On fraction less than
two acres got eighty bushels of wheat. I then
put the same ground in corn peas and potatoes
got cighty-one bushels OF corn thirty-fiye
bushels OF peas, and twenty-five bushels OF po-
tatOes. That was pretty good for less than two
acres in one seasOnSe21 bushels Of good food
or over 10 bushels an acre. On one acre and a
half this year | got 5000 pounds of seed cotton.
that gave Inc nearly l 200 pounds of lint cotton
There is no better land on earth than our land
in middle Georgia"
When and What will be the End,
From the New England Farmer.
good many persons are wondering what
will be the end OF the present excitement in the
prices Of Jersey CATTLE for to claim that there is
no excitement among buyers when they are
anxious to pay two or three thousand dollars
for single animal, would be claiming what no
one believes. An observant reader in New York
state, who was present at recent auction sale
Of Jerseys in New York city. writes us That
unless the price of that kind of stock keeps up
a number of years. somebody will get struck
saw yearling heifer. Jennie P0gis. sold for
So 900, and Daisy POgs for S24O0 have not
the courage to try my luck in Jerseys at these
prices, though if they would keep up for the
next ten years it would do to buy few
calves at moderate price, such as were sold at
from s16O to $40. looking to be worth about
$50, though hardly that" But If $1,000
seems a high price to pay for single ami
mai, what shall we say of the statement
which is just published on good authority
that one OF the farmers who is anxious to secure
some good Jersey cows has recently visited Mr.
Fullers herd in Hamilton, Ontario. and offered
$50. coo for Mary Ann of st. Lamberts? And what
shall we say of the refusal of such an offer? That
two unwise men metz The same mail that brings
the news of this great offer and refusal also
brings the sad story of the death by milk fever
of one OF the noted butter cows, Vallhalla $780,
a COW that had made thrty-fve pounds of butter
in fourteen DAYS, and was expected to beat her
own record next summer Mr.. Faree, the
owner, in reporting his loss to the Breeders
Gazette. says: 'lnlS seems 10 be the fate earlier
or later of great mixers and butter makers"
Men who have S20, coo to offer or refuse for q
single animal, and who can afford to take all
the risks of carrying such property, may per-
haps well spend their money in that way 1t
will benefit somebody probably. But farmers
who don't MAKE their money easily, OF who have
to borrow funds for such speculatlons. had bet
ter stand back keep cool. and look on. The
public good calls for no sacrifice from such men,
Quail Never Plentier, and Never 40 Shy.
Connecticut lem.
Sportsinen say it is simply marvellous the way
quail elude them tails fall The birds never have
been plentier for years; there are thousands of
them. and yet it is almost impossible to get
fair shot. Upon being scared up their first rise
is a very short one, and Immediately upon strk-
Ing the ground they scatter and run. Nor do
they whistle to call themselves together after
ward, as has been prominent trait with them,
nor do they huddle together nights after being