Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-06
SOCIETY BURSTING ITS COCOON.



the word" Captain Tyler, same state,
fsttened herd Of beef cattle entirely on
it, TWO tons each, snd sold at corn-fed
prices In Chicago, making 100 per cent.
on his Investment. He sold fat hogs
from his alfalfa meadows at 9 cents gross
in Denver. In California largs herds OF
cattle and carloads of hogs go directly to
market from the alfalfa. Wycoff says
'For mich cows 1t is superior 10
all other hay; it excites the secretione. f"
| TIE state board Il agriculture
OF California gives the experience of their
dsirymen: "That cows token from the
nstive grasses and pastured upon it will
increase in product of milk, butter and
cheese from sixty to seventy per cant;
and that sheep growers state that their
Jocks grszed upon it are entirely free
from the skin diseases so prevalent in
California Mr.. Daniel Bachelor, Utica,
N. Y, very high authority, says: but,
at the head Of ell leguminous plants
stands alfalfa or lulcerne, which is
destined, believe, to greater
success in this country than
red clover, especially in the hot
dry soils of the west snd southwest.
Notwithstanding the large amount Of
forage 1t produces, the lucerne does not
exhaust the soil but improves II, for the
| legumiDos % draw almost their entire
| nutrition from the atmosphere, ard lu-
cerne produces ten times more roots than
any other clover. Vast masses OF these
roots decay in the soil every season,
| thereby enrichiDg the land. The plant,
| too, is SO dense that 1t shades the soil.
That lucerne will flourish in this region
! Central New Yerk) is proved by the
fact that Messrs. Walcott and Campbell
have grown it for many seasons and pre-
fer it to any other forage plant" Profess
sor Arnold, in American Dairying, says !:
SIN respect to valuable properties,
Iucerne is far ahead Of corn, being rich
In sIbumipoids."
Now let us look to the psychologist snd
i agricultural chemist. Leguminous plants
are beans, pess, lentils, etc , all kinds Of
pulse. The heterogeneous substance, legu-
nine, found in these is vegetable csseine,
ike slbumep and ahIine. II is abundant
in milk. Caseine is ten equivalents of
proteine and one Of sulphur. In the
words Of Liebig. the greatest agricultural
chemist living or dead, "proteine is the
commencement aud stsrtiBg point OF sill
the tissues" Messrs. Wolf 6 KNOB give
the relative values of alfalfa and red
clover, (cut when in blossom), as fol-
lowsi
Observation-Disclosures IA; sugar,
starch, ETC., % 8; fat, as.
Rcd Clover-Atbuminoids, 1874; starch,
sugar, etc, % 9; fat, SO.
Mr.. K. A. Willard, in Dairy Husbandry
makes 90 2 pounds of lucerue hay equal to
100 pounds Of best English hay; while,
he says 1t takes 1913 pounds of red
clover hay to equal 90 2 pounds Of lucerne
hay.
Will it kill stockp Yes. So will red
and white clover and abundant grasses,
If there ia bsd management when
they are first turned on them;
sensele's management "In Kern county,
gslifornis, one farmer keeps twenty head
Of sheep per acre the year round. An
other near San Jose astures six cows on
three and one-half acres. In San Bernar-
dino valley eight cuttings are made annu-
ally. Another farmer in the same county
grszes 1900 sheep upon his alfalfa, giving
them only one acre per day, and when
they are upon the twentieth acre the
hurdles are returned to the first acre,
where he finds the new growth eight to
sCh iuSuC5
Will it spread! Yes, about like red
clover.
Is 1t hard to get rid of when once we'll
rootedf II thick and two years or more
growth it Is tough blowing and no mis-
take. But Il any one will tell me what
more profitable crop he can put on the
ground he is blowing up shall be ever
lastingly obliged, and will see thsr the In
formation is not hidden under q busheI,
IL THE GAZETTE will publish it. I don't
expect to be startled by that sort Of in
formation.
In conclusion: The writer has no "pe-
cunisry advantages" at stsks-no Texas
lands for sale, nor alfalfa seed on the
market. The writer is not personally &C
quainted with any person who has alfalfa
seed to sell. They Can be bought in
Colorado and California, at about the
quotation for red clover seed, sixty
pounds TO the bushel. j. D. BURcH.
Aurora. Tex, March %, 1888.
We want your bpsfress during April.
Can we have ii2
FORT WORTH. GROCER Co.