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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-08-17
BY sutton & Co,
Real Estate Agents aud AucIionser'.
1914 Main street


1914 Main street
TRUSTEES SALE OF A FRANZ
i STORE KNOWN As No. 3i0s Ltoi ~
STREET.-By virtue Of 8 certain ieci 81 t4.'
10 tue undersigned trustee, dated August d.
1887, and OF record IN tho Clerks once ~ -
Richmond Chancery Court, Deei-BQOk ~ %
page 30. default having posu made "a 'e 2 az
msnt OF the deDt secured thereby. ani boing o.
quirod so 20 DO by the beneficiary therein, '.'l
proceed 20 sell al public auction. LloA i-'
promises, on
THURSDAY. AUGUST p, isS.
a. o'clock P. ". the PROPERLY loca'ei =
above. The building Il good frame store Sid
dwelling above. aud contains four o. lFs fvsi-'
besides the stOre-roOm.
Toe LOT froots 80 feet on Lester stree az
runs back between parallel lines aioai y. ie--
TEXAS: Cash as 70 expenses 81 sale all ~
OF a note Of $40: the oalsnce upon 8lcL tens
ss will 10 announced Al tho hour y sac.
c. II. SUTTON, Trustee.
SUTTON & Co, Auctioneess aso
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Dyspepsia

Makes many lives miserable. and often leads TO
self destruction. Distress after eating, sick head
ache, heartburn, sour stomach, mental depres-
sion, ETC., arc caused by this very common and
increasing disease. Hoods Sarsapsrilla tones tho
stomach, creates an appetite, promotes healthy
digestion, relieves sick headache, clears the
mind, and cures the most obstinate cases Of dys-
pepsia. Read the following:
Il have been troubled With dyspepsia. had
but little appetite, ana what did eat distressed
me- or did me little good. In an hour after eating
would experience faintness or tired. sllgons
feeling, as though I had not eaten anything.
Hoods Sarsaparills did me AMI uenss amount
OF good. II gave mo an apo. y and my food
rslished and satisfied the craving mad previously
experienced. Itrelleyed mo Of that faint. tired,
sll-gone feeling. Ihave felt so much better since
took Hoods ssrsaparilla, that 1 am happy to
recommend IL" G. A. PAGE, WATERFOWL, Mass.
n. B. Be sure 10 got only
Hoods SarSaparilIa
eoldby all druggists. 81, six for Is. Prepared only
BY c. l. HOOD & CO., Apotheearies, Lowell. Mass
100 Doses Ono Dollar
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TOMORROW txONDAY)
ct 1850 A. n. my regular saiss occur.
General assortment OF hoUsEhoLD HuRNI-
nAffREssss, LoUNeEa TABLES,
COOKING ana HBAfIN0-STOV9S
/ ANATkun pRINTlN0-fRe In coed erdsr ;
4 Y. q ~. ~ y9 81 e-P sS1JS TYP
number pi MIscILLANx0t5s ART1cLnS
sas saHsSSizSSsIN 4 z1 q A.sss.s.a
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By George w. MAYO, Auctionssr,
Ono. u Laughton, Jr., sslssmanJ
No "a Ninth strset.
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ToMORROW iMONDAY,

FURNITURE, STOVES, PRINTING.
I PRESS. TYPE, MISCELLANEOUS
ARTICLES. AT AUCTION,
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The Misses Powers gave most charming
pin-party on their cottage porch one after
noon for the enjoyment of some delicious
melons.
Saturday evening another largo gerIaan
will be the ball room attraction, ahu ~ "a.
Monday our bellies. beaux, and beagg. .so
will pose in tableaux for the benefit OF Wy Iuo
Association for the Preservation OF VIZ
einia Antiquities. ,ha
On Saturday large party will 90 u 'N'
Rockbridge Baths for the day.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Among the Richmonders whose rss' ~
arrival are among the pleasant tni inas1,;lv,
note are Mre. Frank Stegar ana Mayo'
Mrs. Cannon Fleming. Miss yu,Ns sal. and
Mr.. ]. Spotswood Crenshsw. ..,sd 10
Sunday Ia eonspicuously rememp,eaan and
be tho holy Sabbath day" ne, se,,vices
always are there weli-attendea
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-04
Firm,nr tn. Sol, for Wheat.

A correspondent of the Indiana Far
noticed that where the land has been
somewhat trodden after seeding they
have the best yield. Let the observent
farmer notice where the horses turned at
the corners and where by any other
means the ground gets a little more trod-
den than in the center of the field and
there surely will be found the heaviest
yield and the finest wheat.
One of the most successful Indiana
wheat growers noticing this fact turned
all his cattle into his field 90 soon as his
land was seeded. OF course he made
choice of dry time-lt would not have
done to turn his stock on with the land
soft aud muddy. The animals tramp
ling round in search of pasture pressed
the ground so firm and to such good eff
feet that the crops were double of what
he had previously been able to RAISE. He
kept this up for fifteen years, retiring
worth $4,000
heavy roller does good service in
compacting the seed bed but experience
gives the palm to the tramping of ami
mails. However apart from the service
performed by animals We must do our
part with the pillow aud harrow in pre-
pairing the seed bed. We must not de-
ceive ourselves by thinking the seed bed
il perfect when only the surface is
smooth. There must have been deep
work and thorough pulverization. After
this compacting the surface is in order,
bringing the soil particles into close con-
tact, allowing the plant roots freedom to
raise the necessary moisture for their
support from below by capillary action.
Each particle of SOIL must be distinct,
although solidly compaored on the sUr-
face. But all that compacting must be
performed In a dry time or not at all.
TT mping clay land when wet would
convert the surface into a cement, which
would not be putting 1t into an overly
good condition for the growth of wheat.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-04

There seems TO be a strange disposition
on the part of the American people to
introduce into this country something
that will eventually prove injurious. 1t
Is sometimes done with a pretext, the in
PRODUCERS, Ignorant of the true character
of what they are tamperiug with, have
brought their novelty expecting great
good to result from it. In other cases it
seems TO have been brought for no other
reason than that il was not here already.
The English sparrow, now giving the
farm people so much trouble in some sec
tons of the country, may be classed with
the first named character of introduction
the impression had shape that it would
be highly useful as an insect devourer.
The English rabbit, since brought over,
and now promising to be the noblest Ro-
man among all our pests, was turned
loose npon US IN accordance TO the second
plan. And now comes the Nebraska
Farmer talking about new pest that
will be very apt/to give US full measure
of trouble before we are through with it.
Medford, Conn.,, scientist, says the
Farmer, brought over from Europe two
or three years ago species of moth I'M
known to this country, called the
see if Its caterpillars would not make
silk. and he either turned them loose or
let them get away through his careless
ness. Last year they had increased and
multiplied TO such an extent in Medford
that they began to show the people there
what they were good for. They attacked
the shade trees promiscuously, eating off
the leaves as they went. They destroy
pretty much everything green that comes
in their way. This year they have
spread far beyond their original pasture
grounds and are hustling things lively in
adjoining townships. In Europe other
insects keep them down, but the genius
who imported them has failed to bring
the other insects along. They discount
the Colorado beetle in voraciouaness and
the authorities of Connecticut are
spRring neither trouble nor expense TO
exterminate them. But the results are
by no means satisfactory and the proba-
bilities are that they will spread in their
depredations as did the sparrows.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-04
Sowing BERMUDA Grass Seed.

At what season OF the year is Bermuda grass
seed sownf How much seed is sown to the acref
Cashier First National Bank, Meridian, Ter.
There is really no such thing as sowing
Bermuda grass seed in this country. The
true Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon)
does not seed sufficiently in North Amer
lea to enable any person to put home
grown Bermuda grass seed upon the
market, and as yet no one seems to have
been able to find out where it does seed.
The country of Its nativity is in doubt.
From the common name one might think
It native of Bermuda, but that name
was affixed to it like many other names
with no meaning at all. Some years ago
we spent several months in the island of
Bermuda. Before landing there we had
expected to find the entire face of the
island carpeted with Bermuda grass, but
IN the course of all our stay ana eli our
rambliDgs about over the island we saw
not one spear of Cynodon dactylon.
For long time it was supposed that
Bermuda grass matured no seed what
ever in this country, but about fifteen
years ago we found this TO be mistake.
On piece of low, damp land in the
coast regions of Alabama, thicklv set
with Bermuda grass, we found q very
rev perfect Bermuda grass seeds, and
raised plants from them. The quantity
of seed was SO small that an acre to
grass on the same locality would not
have yielded tablespoonful. The
botanists gave us credit for be-
ing the first person 10 raise
Bermuda grass from seed in
the United States, and We think it highly
probable that none has been 30 raised in
this country since.
A patch of Bermuda grass is well cal
oulated to mislsad one so Ear as relates
seeding. 1t sends up seed stalks and
looks as il 1t might be well loaded with a
crop or seeds, but if you examine the
seed pods carefully you will find not
seed in any of them-all have blasted.
The only condition under which a very
few seeds may mature exists in a growth
OF the grass on very wet land. Not q
seed ever natures on the uplands. It
does not appear to be the climate that
blasts the seeds, but q deficiency in
moisture.
We know that Bermuda grass seed is
often advertised for sale. but Il il not
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-04

our opinion that the man who buys it Will
ever get the genuine Cynodon Daotylon-
We have, at as many times, made three
tests of these advertised Bermuda grass
seeds, and in each case we got an eutire-
ly different grass. We don't say that
there might no. be genuine Bermuda
grass seed offered for sale, for the grass
must seed in some country, but for our
own part we haye never yet been able TO
come across any.
The only method of starting Bermuda
grass, that we know anything about,
consists in planting the roots These
can usually be obtained in any quantities
desired from regions where that grass is
we'll established. Prepare the land well
and drop fragments OF the roots about
three feet apart, working them slightly
into the soil. They will start up and
soon cover the ground. Any time from
December to March will do for putting
in the roots. The roots should be han
died without exposure to sewers freezing
while out of the ground.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-04
Advantages of a Country Boy.


Mr.. Edward Eggleston, the famous
writer of rural literature, tells the
American Agriculturist that he has al
ways found it an advantage that par t
of his boyhood was fpent on farm, or
rather on several farms. There are SO
many little domestic arts that a farmer
boy learns and TO which the town bred
lad is a stranger. One day, when there
happened TO be nobody else left on the
place who could milk the COW, and the
prospect was that his grandchildren
would not have cup of milk for their
supper, he was glad to show the skill in
that line he had acquired on an Indiana
farm. His neighbor, Mrs. Murphy.
passing by, exclaimed: "Och, now.
Mr.. Eggleston, and it ism t livery jintle-
man from the city that could lind hand
and milk COW that way!'
Mr.. Eggleston refers to two great
poets, Wadsworth and Southey, who
once went on an excursion with their
publisher, MIR. Cave. All three of them
tried in vain to pull the collar off of their
horses, but 1t seemed 10 them impossible
to get it off without taking the horses
head along with it. They finally coil
cluded that the Lorse's head had swelled
after the collar was put on. But a milk
maid came up and turned the collar
around, and so pulled IL off, TO the sur
prise OF the great men, who had not
thought of that plan.
There is no kind of reason, continues
Mr.. Eggleston, why farm life should not
be favorable to education. That which
makes an educated mGu Is the habit of
thinking about what he sees, hears or
reads. Reading alone will not do it
There were many men working in the
stone quarry with Hugh Miller; but
Hugh was the only one of them who
thought about anything beyond his
wages and his dinner. He studied 10
find out about the fossil animals which
he saw in the rocks under his hand. By
the time he had worked in the quarry
sixteen years, he had become a great
geologlst, and the world delighted to
read the books which he wrote.
There was once living in Pennsylvania,
before the revolution, n Quaker farmer
by the name of John Bartram. One day
in blowing he plucked a violet and pulled
il apart. 'Here, he said, care the
various parts of this flower, the names of
which l do not know. nor their uses. 1t
seems q shame that have walked over
violets and other flowers all my life with
out knowing anything about them
He then made up his mind that he would
study botany. But as all the books on
botany at chat time were in Latin, he
had to begin by studying Lain grammar.
Nevertheless, he became very famous
potanlst before he died ana he remained
TO his death very good farmer, and did
much to improve the methods of farming
in his time. So, you see, there is moth
ing in the way Of great learning and
fame for the farm boy if he will only set
himself earnestly Nj The task of acquiring
them
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-04
Irrigation from Ar,esian Wells.

have read with much interest your views on
irrigation from artesian wells, as expressed
through the Fort Worth GAZETTE. I have ad-
vanced the same views to both state and United
States engineers, and also to biologists. All
entirely agree with you: So now the practical
terprise, Bosque, Hood and Somervell coun-
ties furnish the greatest abundance of water
all this my only hope OF seeing that water put
to practical use in agriculture lies in
some movement by the state. The thing would
be worth millions to us. Texas has all the
money, all the labor and all the scientific talent
needed to put into practice 8 thorough system
of irrigation from artesian wells. Give US one
correctly irrigated farm of, say fifty acres, and
the work will ct once go bravely on. Tnous-
ands of farms will Immediately follow as the
enterprises Of private capital. would be
subject. T. F. LocKETT,
President Board of Trade, Morgan, Tex.
A state movement, as suggested :,
would doubtless soon make the more
general all along the line, but the case is
so very plain, and there are so many
people on the outlook for openings to
profitably invest capital in Texas, that
we cannot help feeling that we shall
soon see the thing under wav at some
point in our great artesan area as q pri-
vate enterprise. A safer investment
could not be made, in our opinion, and
IL made on the western border of the
Fort Worth Waco artesian area it would
not be an overly expensive one. So soon
as the irrigation system was regularly
established the lands under 1t would at
once become the most valuable and most
profitable agricultural lands in Texas.
They would be lands carrying heavy
crops of one kind or another the year
round without a break.
With irrigation well established in her
great artesIan areas Texas could find
herself, thing she Is not doing at pres
ent by any means. Think of the i'm
mense quantities of Irish potatoes, all
the way from California, that we are
now using in almost every part OF the
state. And the potato is only one OF a
host of horticultural products from that
distant state now on our markets.
Those products were all raised by irriga-
tion-they could not have been raised by
any other means. With irrigation they
might have been raised here just as well
as on the Pacific slope-lndeed, con!sI-
ering our superior soils, we are inclined
TO the opinion that they might have been
better raised here.
Some of our people are disposed to ex-
press the opinion that Texas does not
stand particularly i'll need of irrigation,
having natural rainfall enough 20 make
out on, etc. The California products
now on our markets ought to be accepted
as knocking that argument as high as a
kite. II we have rainfall enough, why
don I We raise those things for ourselves
rather than pay freight on them from a
region so distant as California? Callfor-
MIA could not have them ready for mar
ket at this season of the year without an
artificial water supply, and that is JUST
exactly what s the matter with US.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-04
Identifying Plants.

I am DESTROYS of knowing the correct name Of
a few indigenous weeds, and if you will have
the kindness to identity them and give me their
botanical names will collect and send you
few by express. They are plants have seen all
my lite, but, yet, no one has been able to
SUPPLY me with their names. II you want COM
pensation let me know the amount. 1 will have
every specimen carefully numbered so as to
obviate the need of returning them.
P. TURNER
Abilene. Tex.
We are afraid, Doctor, that you are
blazing out a somewhat rough road for
US to travel, nevertheless wen do the
best we can for you. The roughness of
the proposed road consists in the fact
that Texas botany is comparatively little
understood. There has never, rs yet,
been any thorough study of the vegetable
world IN this section of the country, end
as a consequence, the literature to which
one can refer IN his analysis of plants is
indeed extremely meager. Doubtless
there are still very many plants in Texas
that have never received name and de-
scription at the hands Of any scientist.
While on this subject we may add, not
for the instruction of DR.. Turner, that
persons sending us plants for identifica-
tion should not neglect to send us all
parts of the plant. II we name a plant
uOL so seuI IL Sllnply coHts Oh our nap
pening to be familiar with it, for we
could not have fully analysed it without
stalk, leaf, flower and fruit. Where q
plant Is not in flower and fruit at the
same time specimen flower should be
gathered, pressed and kept until another
can be gathered n fruit. 1t is also
necessary that the sender should
write US full particulars rela-
tive to where the plant grows;
whether on upland or on lowland,
whether on cultivated or on wild land,
whether in prairie or in woods; also gen.
eral height of growth, and whether it is
evergreen or declduOus. All this may
look like good deal of trouble, but it
might save US far more trouble than we
ask at the hands of the sender; and even
then, without full carrying out of the
programme laid down, our trouble might
amount to just nothing at all. 1t is the
only way existing for getting at the cor
rect name of q strange plant.
OF course, there is no compensation
expected in return for anything we can
do, as agricultural editor, for the patrons
OF the Fort Worth GAZETTE.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-04

organization equal to that now found
in Louisiana. Some time since they
made an appeal to congress for an ex-
perimental station, TO be devoted TO the
study of the sugar question in all its
phases. 1t is said that in Texas alone
may be found an area suitable for either
cane or beet, sufficient to supply an
amount of sugar five times greater than
that consumed in the United States. At
present six plantations exist there, which
use crops of cane from $500 acres. The
total sugar during the past campaign
was. we are informed, over 10 200 200
pounds. The Louisiana experimental
station has rendered excellent service,
but soils and climate of that state differ
considerably from those of Texas; hence
the reason that another station is
needed -
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-04

growing surplus of fine cabbage and
krautiug enough for family use, which
he keeps from the fall of making to the
next June. He takes off the large outer
leaves of the cabbage and cuts the heads
up fine with kraut cutter. He puts
about twenty pounds of the cut cabbage
into a barrel, throws in with il about one
pound Of salt. then beats the whole
down with maui or pestel until 1t Is a
musby mass. Atop of this he puts
twenty pounds more of cut cabbage and
another pound of salt ami beats as be-
fore, and so on till the barrel is full.
Having filed the barrel Mr.. Hogan
spreads nicely over the kraut some four
or five layers of cabbage leaves, uncut,
weighing the whole down with large.
clean rock. After cold weather comes
on the kraut is ready for use. II is
taken from the barrel as needed and the
rock replaced to keep everything below
the brine. On finishing the kraut
the barrel should be set away in a mod
erately cool place-not kept in the
kitchen to be Influenced by the heat of
the cook stove.
1t is not to be presumed that every
man in Texas who might happen t. have
a surpluse of fall cabbag would also
have kraut cutter, SO MIR. Hogan sug-
gests plan that would enable him TO go
along with his krauting operations with
out it. 1t is the common Illinois plan
Gu The cabbage into quarters, take out
the heart-stalk, and place the quarters
into barrel, filling it one-third full;
then with a clean, sharp spade come.
down upon the cabbage until it Is chop
ped fine. Remove, fill up again and re-
new the chopping process until enough
cabbage is cut TO fill the barrel. All
other operations are the same as in the
first case.
Always tie a cloth over the top of the
barrel after filling and weighing, to
keep out knats aud dies.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-04
j. P. STEELE, EDITOR.

on the next turnip patch with excel
lent success. An important discovery
was thus made.
There Is not much that could be said
with reference to the best varieties of
the turnip to cultivate. The Sweeds or
ruta bagas are pretty much all alike.
In the way of common turnips some OF
the fiat varieties, as the fiat Dutch, are
considered best for the fall crop, while
for winter use some of the globe sorts
should be put in. The globes grow al
most entirely under the ground, and are,
therefore, less liable to injury by frost
than the fats, which sit pretty much on
the surface,
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-04
Krau,ing Cabbage in Texas.

We were of the opinion that sour kraut
could not be made and kept over in
Texas on account OF the warmness of our
winters. In our own experience with
kraut made in state further north we
considered it necessary for the kraut to
freeze solid in The barrel, after making,
10 insure perfect keeping. But Mr.. c.
II. Hogan of Ellis, Texas, says this
freezing is not at all necessary, and that
therefore sour kraut can be made and
kept as well in Texas as in any other
state For several years he has been