Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-13

range, hogs need only be given
one small feed a day. OF
course Texas can produce all
the corn she wants to raise, and it is un-
derstood that corn n pork go and in
hand. This, then, puts her on an even
footing with the pork states, so called, of
the North relative to hog food. And she
has it within the range of her %capabili-
ties to go entirely beyond this. She has
the field pea, climatically secured to the
South, which makes a fine food for hogs
and costs but little to raise. If makes
just about as good pork as can be made
with corn Next to the pea may be put
down the sweet potatoe, another good
pork maker that yields enormously, costs
blu little and is climatically secured.
Even cotton seed is now coming to the
surface as a superior food for hogs. A
Georgia farmer has discovered a process
for roasting It, by which the lint-the
hitherto fatal obstacle to cotton seed
use as hog foods burned off, the hulls
rendered brittle aud the kernel greatly
improved. He says: 81 do not at the
present time raise any corn at ALL. [
roast the cotton seed and then grind it
into meal, to be fed to everything 1
raise. 1 deem it equivalent to any food
that is ever fed to animals
With all these advantages, what is
there to prevent Texas from taking posi-
ton as a leading pork state? "Winter
climate too mild for successful pack
ing, - will most likely be the response of
many. No so. Science has taken care
of that. The climate at Chicago is now
considered too mild for the best success
in handling pork, so the same arrange
ment that makes artificial ice now holds
the Chicago ~porkhouse to q regular tenn
perature and at exactly the degree found
most advantageous. It could be made
to do precisely the same thing in Texas.
TEXAS VEGETATION IN WINTER.
Mr.. Edgar Sanders OF the Chicago
Prairie Farmer, who attended the recent
hortieulturist' meeting in Texas, re-
turning to his home about the time the
late blizzard came Town upon US, has an
article in his paper of March 90, whichs,
contains some very sensible thoughIsuyh
the popularity of our vegetation so far
as relates to { 9 effects of cold upon it.
He begins by quoting from a letter by
Mr.. T. V. Munson OF Denison as fol-
lows:
The freeze which came just as you were
departing from our state, February q,
the WORST III lis euecLS upon VeR6La-
ton of any l lave yet experienced in
Texas. 1 find a few peach and plum
buds yet sound. and other fruit less
damaged. The lowest temperature
reached here was 10 deg. above zero.
Imagine, says Mr.. Sanders, comment
ing on the above, what the effect Of
% deg. of frost would be TO fruit trees
all in blossom at once! But with them
there is a reserve force of uuexpanded
flowers hi we know but little of. Nor
again is so low q temperature likely to
occur with US so late as the middle or end
of May, when the usual towering period
has arrived, else we might as well give
up the ghost entirely, so far as fruit
growing is concerned.
It is a singular sight 20 notice
the patchwork leafng of Texas
trees IN the spring, more
particularly the blackjack q so COM
mon in some of the woods. Instead of a
sudden and uniform bursting forth, as
with us one tree would be all green while
another had patches of green and unex-
panded buds; yet others were entirely |
dormant, or at least no leaf pushed ont.
But i is part and parcel of the peculiar !
iLies OF this summer winter climate more !
noticeable this year, of course, tbs in
ordinary winters, as until the blizzard at