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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-14

che holidays. Thus an income can be
kept up nins months in the year, and II
the duck and geese feathers are carefully
gathered and sold and every possible ad-
vantage taken, there is money and
good living IN poultry farmiu9. It Is
pleasant and independent work, but II is
necessary to take In all the branches.
No farmer expects success for q single
crop. He plants vegetables, grains.
fruits; has his cows, hogs and hens.
Then, why should a dependence be put
entirely on broilers or eggs? Give the
business fair and square chance before
you condemn il.
Then, the poultry business, like many
other branches OF business producing
something for sale to the masses, Is Que
upon which an advantageous reputation
may be built up. The poulterier who Is
known TO always have fresh eggs OF the
best quality Is the poulterier from whom
the people are always ready to buy their
supplies. II his eggs invariably pan out
In every respect exactly rs represented il
don I take long for q good name to be
built up in his favor, but IL, on the other
hand. he drives matters as the Montana
Farming and Stock Journal says an old
Michigan man drove them he can soon set
MS megs Tor change to some other bust
ness Ii seems, according to our con-
temporary, that certain grocer in Bay
City tested the eggs offered him by ex-
tending to each u severe shaking process.
Under this plan he secured III the shak-
ing up a rattle within about half the hen
fruit that an old farmer had offered him
The farmer contended that the eggs
were fresh and good, but he unhesitat-
ingly pronounced them bad. and ordered
them taken away before any of them ex-
p!oded in his shop.
A few days later and the same old far
mer brought in new supply, and every
egg In the lot went smoothly through the
test without tile. The grocer took
the lot willingly, but while there was
no rattle about the eggs there was
something akin TO that kind of thing
about the grocer q few hours later when
a lady customer ssnt back purchase
with the blunt Information that she
wanted raw eggs-not boiled ones. And
the eyes of that grocer have no: been
blessed with the outline of that honest
old granger sincu--ths presumption is
that be has retired from tho poultry bus
iness.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-14
Alfalfa for Poultry.

No greater problem presents itself to
the average poultry breeder, says the
New Mexico Stock Grower, than what
and how to feed with view to securing
the best results from his fowls. Volumes
have been written on the subject, all of
more or less merit, though it must be
admitted that "less'' is q good way in
the majority. In the alfalfa growing
regions the question is one of easy settle
ment, however, no system of feeding
will produce better results than an I'M
limited supply of alfalfa. It is the
nearest approach to a perfect food that
we have, aud with little dry grain
(wheat or barley morning and night,
will make hens lay, If there Is any lay in
them. OF course the best results are
obtained where the fowls are allowed to
run on the alfalfa patch and pick what
they want; but when this is not practi-
cable it can be cut and given to them,
when they will work on 1t indus
triously. IL green alfalfa cannot be
had. buy some No. / alfalfa hay, run il
through feed-cutter, soak it twelve or
twenty-four hours, and mix II in a little
bran and middlings. If cut fine enough,
saw one-fourth to one-half inch, the
fowls may be given all they will eat up
clean, but if cut in too long lengths.
there is danger of it causing what some
poultry people call "hard-crop. ''Alfalfa
Ia also valuable as a feed for ducks. If
the ducks can run on the patch they will
help themselves, but when this favor
cannot be accorded them they will do
well on alfalfa cut up and prepared as
for chickens.
We have lately seen something in Fort
Worth that carries US far towards q full
Endorsement of the foregoing. In a
yard was fine growth Of alfalfa that
had sprung I'D volunteer from where
alfalfa hay had been fed 70 stock, and
there was, IN the ssme yard, flock of
chickens having regular picnic (no
pun) picking off and devouring the
leaves
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-14

taught is this: Every region of uncer-
tam rainfall ought TO arrange for irri9a-
ton, in case of need, every acre OF land
that can be brought under the system.
But it costs something to arrange o COM
plete system of irrigation. True; but
wouldn't heavy and regular crops pay
as well in Kansas or Texas, or in
any other section OF irregular rainfall as
they pay in California, or Mexico, or
Peru or Chill or along the Mediteraueanr
where crops cannot be at all expected
without irrigetion3 The heavy crops are
what we are after, and irrigation secures
them in any case. If the needed rainfall
comes We save the cost o. artificial wa
ter application-if 1t happens not to come
We have it within our power to save the
crop and make it everything that q crop
IN its line could possibly be.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-14
After the Yulsures.

We have already had something to say
in these columns about certain schoo
OF agricultural writers who see only tbs
bad side OF everything. They appear &c
think that unless they can write up the
shortcomings of somebody, or specially
point ont the defects OF some locality
they have nothing worth writing about.
Like the vultures OF the air that we call
by another common name in America
they are always on the aler. for "some-
thin. dead.' Live meat is entirely out
OF their line, so they quietly sail over
everything lively without deigning SO
much as q passing notice, and devote
the whole OF their energies to q search
after meat of the other kind.
Now, il these members of the Cathar-
tide family in agricultural literature
would take all sides along with them as
they go, no reasonable man could find
ought to say against their performance.
we are entirely willing for the whole
truth TO be told, but this way they have
of seeing and ventilatihg only the bad
side, leaving the impression that no
other side exists, cannot do otherwise
than make one tired. And even did they
do only this +, wouldn't be near SO bad
as it is, but unfortunately they do not
always hold up on tins sure enough dead
carcashes they are able to spy out with
all their peculiar alsrtness-if it hap
pens to be bad year for finds in their
line, they often fall to work and create
them to order, out of nothing, in vol
istic purposes.
county, Texas, is out with sharp stick
after some of these vulturine literary
birds, through the latest issue of the
Chicago Prairie Farmer. He says he
has taken the Prairie Farmer one year
and likes It very we'll, yet he must con-
TESS that some of its Southern correspond
ents surprise him with their settings
forth of the modes of farming in the
South. such as blowing exclusively with
cows and four hundred pound ponies,
single. and with their assertions that
double teams are entirely absent. 81
have been raised in the South,n he
says, land am fifty-two years old. have
been IN I'VE Southern states, and yet l
have never witnessed any such sights.
II there is really any such blowing going
on In the South It must be in the isolated
exception-l know ii Is not the rule as
these correspondents would have IL ap-
pear. 1t is true that we may not have
the amount of fine stock here that we
should have. and might have, neither
may our people be interested in fine
stock as they ought to be, but this inter-
est is growing rapidly, and our Spanish
stock is giving place to English Shires,
Ciydesdales, Hambletonians, Percher-
ons. Cleveland bays and other fine
breeds.
1.-THE single team idea il incorrect;
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-14
Thu Pnultrr Rusiness.

There is money in it, says the Indiana
Farmer, but entirely correct manage
ment Is necessary to get the money out.
Not few people who jump into the poul-
try business meet with failure, and there
are good many reasons for the way it,
turns out with them. The chiefest
among these reasons, however, may be
traced to a nom business principle. Peo-
Pile do not go about it in the right way.
For instance they depend upon special
branches. They ask too much. II
man wants to make good living he
must continue all the branohes-he must
sell eggs when prices are high and set
them when quotations drop. This gives
him a profit right along. In fall and
early winter, when eggs bring % cents
dozen and cost on an average of IL cents
q dozen, there 10 money IN them. In the
latter part of winter and early
spring, when prices fall, broil-
ers can be raised. Later on
in spring chicks can be hatched and
raised for the next fall roasters. And
ducks, geese and turkeys can be hatched
In their season and be marketed before
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-14
Their Big sweet Potato.

The Pioneer of Sparks. Ca, says:
Rev. W. Bryant's big sweet potato takes
the ribbon! It was presented tbs editor
Wednesday morning; he had it weighed
and 1t tipped the beam at eight pounds;
we verify believe it would have filled q
half peck measure.-l Atlanta Journal.
The foregoing ls interesting to Texans
only In its showing Of how small are the
sweet potatoes they raise over In Georgia?
With us an eight-pound potato would at
tract no attention whatever, unless it
should be that the grower might see fit
to Gull 1t from the main heap and throw
il aside to go into the seed bank. We
have had IN THE GAZETTE Office this sea-
con single sweet potatoes weighing four
teen pounds, and they were regarded as
something so very common that COM
paretively few visitors considered it
worth while to ask what they weighed.
But then, this is Texas and that Is Geor-
gla.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-14
The Road Question.

The practical farmer SAYS there is
more in the road question than not few
persons might suppose at first thought.
Good roads save horsefesh and We
hicles, bad roads wear out both. Good
roads are the exception in this country
and bad roads the rule. IL the winter
and early spring portions of our country
are almost inaccessible, owing to the
soft, muddy and dangerous condition of
the roads. According to the recent ex-
animation of the matter il was estimated
that load which two horses could draw
in wagon on good pike would require
more than the strength of twenty horses
to draw on rough, muddy road of q
character too common in our country.
The wear and tear on horses and vehicles
will thus DO seen to be great On poor
roads.
The question comes to every farmer,
and in fact to every one who lives in the
rural district. Good roads should be the
ambition by all means, and there is no
better way of securing them than
through having the matter up for dis.
cussion at every farmers meeting.
Enough money and labor are annually
spent on the highways OF most OF our
states to produce good roads, but the re-
suit does not yet show that good judgment
has been exercised in expending the time,
labor and money. This then seems to be
the important question for farmers to
settle. Another question to decide be-
fore spring is whether certain road beds
should be surface drained or under
drained with tile. Some roads can be
greatly improved by shortening them or
cutting off curves and windiugs. A grea:
deal Of unnecessary wear to horses and
vehicles would be saved by attending to
the roads in time.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-14

This aim is chiefly reached BY using q
horse cultivator or small pillow between
the rows. II IL also necessary to do
some work between the plants with hoes !,
going over the field two or three times,
cutting away weeds and grass that can
not be reached BIZ the pinw or cultivator
and drawing a little mellow earth to the
plants. As the plants advance in growth
and establish themselves they should be
gradually reduced to one in the hill,
though two to the hill are quite COM
monty left. One good, vigorous plant,
however, will produce better beans than
two and as large a quantity. When the
plant has attained to two feet in height
II is entirely capable of taking care OF
itself.
1.-THE harvesting begins as soon as the
beans are showing ripenrss by Il turn
ing brown of some of the pods. You
must not wait for the whole bunch to
turn brown, as the beans of the ripensd
pods promptly pop out, and would be
lost in the field. When you see one or
two Drowned pods you cut of the entire
spike or bunch. Each plant has O num-
Der OF these, and IS they do not all
ripsn at the same time, the harvest
must continue from the time when the
first brown pods appear, on till frost
puts an end to the crop. The cut spikes
are thrown into wagon or SLED and
hauled away to the popping yard. The
field must be gone over as often as
necessity calls for-no spikes must be
cut unless they show some ripening pods.
1.-The popping yard ls made on piece
of land near the bean field. aud sloping
10 the south, if possible. Roll the
ground down hard and make a fence
around the yard by placing boards up
against rails land on forked sticks or
posts. The boards should lean outward
from the yard. This is to prevent beans
from flying beyond the limits of the yard
when they pop out from the hulls. With
out this fencing precaution many beans
would fly away into the grass and be
lost.
1.-THE spikes should be occasionally
turned over on the yard to expose their
under sides TO the effects of the sun.
Great care should be taken to prevent
the beans from getting wet from showers
of rain. Dirty beans command COM
paratively low price on the market. and
sprouted beans are worth nothing Il. all.
When RAIN is coming on make the spikes
into hsap and cover them by some
means. After the beans are popped out
by the sun rake of the spikes and
clean up the beans by running through
an ordinary wheat fan. Sack and store
away in dry place until you are ready
TO send the crop TO. market.
CATER the beans begin 10 ripen the
field should be gone over once or twice
week till frost. In hot, dry weather
they ripen more rapidly tnan in cool, wet
weather. Children can perform the
work OF gathering castor beans, and
large family of children could not be
more profitably employed than in taking
care of a crop OF this kind
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-14

. In my last number OF the Southern Horticul-
! tural Journal is an article pecan culture cop
/ led from the Fort Worth GAZETTE, which con-
slider the very best thing on the subject that
! have yet seen. By this mail l send you sam.
pie of pecans that will fill my idea OF good
nut. i have them larger than the samples sent.
but do not consider the kernels SO good as these
In the samples. Next year, il can think OF it.
will send you q sample of the best pecan
known. / wish you would urge it upon all
Texans interested in pecan culture that they
| prepare an exhibit for the mex. meeting of our
state Horticultural society. Two years ago l
took the first premium on pecans at BRENNAN. |
would much like TO at our societys next
year meeting pecan EXHIBITS from all parts OF
the country. L. E. RIsIEN.
San Saba, Tex.
The nuts sent are something really
grand in the way of pecans. They are
the largest peoans we have yet seen
each sample of the half dozen received
turned the scales at not far short of
one ounce. They also well I'LL our idea
of a really COOL nut. II there is any
fault whatever to work up against them
it lies in the fact that the shells are just
a little too thick foe entire conformity to
the popular standard. They are not
what could he termed ''thick shelled
pecans, 30 yet. at the same time, they are
not acceptable as 'paper shells.' The
most popular pecan on the market now
a-dsys has shell so thin that you can
take two nuts in the hand and crush
them one against the other by grip
that calls for no particular effort. The
samples sent might be crushed in this
way, but not easily.
Mr.. Risien 8 suggestion with reference
to working up full pecan exhibit is GER
tainly a good one. Texas is the natural
home of the pecan. She produces all the
grades aud varieties known, but as yet
her people scarcely know which of these
varieties would take best on the general
market. A full exhibition and a general
comparison of notes might be of great
value to US US settling the question with
reference to what character of pecans We
ought to grow. The sooner this thing can
be attended to the better, for the begin
ming of pecan culture is something that
we ought not to make any mistake in.
1t Is very unlike the culture of sweet po-
tatoes or something of thar kind wherein
IL we make q mistake this year We can
correct it in the next. When we start q
pecan grove we have started something
TO stay as started, and the man who !
started it, il he has made a mistake will
never live to see the mistake fully
corrected, so far as results are
concerned. The new and better
grove put in to take the place OF the one
discarded will hold its profits in reserve
for the next generation.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-14
A Book on Hon Culture.

short time ago your agricultural depart
ment gave US an article on hop culture for
Texas Can you favor me with the name of
some good and practical work on hop culture?
Palestine, Tex. c. r. CocKLr.
We have had four additional letters on
the same subject and so take this method
of making sweeping reply TO all con-
cerued.
So far as we know there is no book
treating specially on hop culture. In the
United States patent office, report for
1857. there is quite lengthy paper on
the subject-about the best thing OF the
kind in the English language, perhaps.
Wilson'S Rural Cyclopedia, published
later, has quite an exhaustive paper on
the same subject; also Phillips History
of Cultivated Vegetables. The only work
in our library touching directly on hop
culture for the Southern states is Re-
sources of Southern Fields and Forests by
DR.. E. P. Porcher, published by Walker,
Evans s. Cogswell, Charleston, 8. c.,
in 1869. This work is possibly still in
print.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-14
rna puarf Linn Bean-

or late have seen good deal in the papers
about q dwarf lima or butter bean that calls for
no sticking. Can you give rs particulars with
reference TO It through your excellent a2ricul-
tural department of the Fort Worth GAZETTE?
REGULAR READER-
Blanco county, Texas.
We have raised it and must say that
we like it reasonably we'll, though it
does not bear near 80 many beans as do
the old-fashioned vining varieties.
Seedsmen claim for it that it fiourisbes
and thrives in the hottest and dryest
climates, and even thut it succeeds well
in CALIFORNIA without irrigation, where
IL is grown by the train-load. They say
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-14
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

This department is devoted to answering such
questions as may be asked by cur subscribers,
wnich may be of general information. Inquiries
of personal character that require answer BIZ
mai! should always have stamps inclosed. Please
give full name and postottics address, in addi-
ton to any such signature US '.Subscriber.' or
"A. G. D.. - not for publication, bu. to enable
US to communicate promptly with the inquirer.
Parties desiring answers by mail must inclose
stamp for return postage.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-14
soions and Cuttings.

Do you consider it the bstter plan to take n,
cuttings scions in the fall. to be used nav.
spring. burying them in the ground till you A.,
ready to use them? - n. L. Baggos
Bandera County, Tex.
Not exactly this fall. but we'd taxa
of and bury them in the course Of tia
winter, to guard against their becou,n,
lively and sappy in some warm spell tbs,
might happen to come gu. About nil
winter Is probably the best time for p1,-
ting them underground
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-14

IL is native OF South lAmerlca, bu., r,
course, this Is neither here nor thor.
with US. It would probably succsed q,
we'll with rs in Texas as in any o,bs,
portion OF the world. For all turtbs,
particulars sse the seed catalogues.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-14
j. p. STEELE, EDITOR.

communication intended
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-01
He Saw the Justice


A certain young Chicago lawyer
it is just as we'll not to give his name
says the Chicago Tribune, was
trying a case in a Justice court few
years ago. He was deeply interested
In the case and most anxious to win
it, 50 he put in good deal of time
looking up decisions bearing on the
point, and when he made his speech
cited case after case. lie made the
strongest speech he knew how to
make, and the Justice listened to it
all intently.
When the young lawyer finished,
the Justice leaned back in his chair
and appeared to be considering the
matter.
1--WE ought to win this" said the
lawyer to his client, "but Pm little
afraid
"You needn't be-" replied the
client calmly. "You needn't have
worked so hard, either. saw him
this morning. He wanted fifty, but
finally took wenty-tive.n
The Justice, by the way, is not on
the Bench now.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-01
Hateful Blood Relations.

Hateful kindred are those sprung from the
parent stem-malaria. They are chills and
fever, bilious remittent fever, dumb ague
and ague cake. These foes to bodily peace
are all blood relations, as there is no doubt
that these endemic complaints are produced
by contamination of the blood by the mas
mata existent in both air and water in malG-
rious regions. HOstetter's Stomach Bittcrs
expels from the blood the virus with which
miasma infects, but 1t does more than this,
il neutraizCs the atmospheric and aqueous
poison and its germs before they have perma
neutly fruCtitied in the systCm, and thus
etfectuslly protects against It the fierce in
roads OF this diabOlic brotherhood of diseases.
Thus it IS not only remedy, put also pre-
veptive. prompt in relieving. lasting in effect,
perfectly effclPnt. Nervousness, hiiousucss,
d, speps and kidney trouble also suCcumb
to il. l-Ol-bt.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-01

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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-02-01
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