davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19
Seed Barley Wanted.

was much interested in your article of last
week on barley culture for Texas. In my
opinion it suggests a new industry that will
prove of much value to us. The great brewery
now building at Fort Worth would doubtless
take all the barley we could raise for miles and
miles around If can give them as good
quality of barley the imported article they
would, suppose, be glad TO have 1t. giving US
an advantage over distant growers by adding to
the price paid at least g portion of what they
would be forced to pay out as freights on the
article from lar away.
think every farmer in Northern Texas, and
especially in those regions tributary to Fort
Worth, ought to promptly risk small acreage
to barley. That 1t will succeed well does not
seem to admit OF doubt, but even supposing it
should not turn out well as grain crop. there
would still be no risk on the part of the farmer.
for barley makes in every way as good stock
food as either rye or oats.
for one will at once put in small barley
crop if can get the seed. and it is highly prob
able that many others will do likewise on the
same condition. Can You tell us through the
GAZETTE where supply OF gooi seed barley
could be had? TARRANr TEXAN.
Tarraut County, Texas.
You get US on the seed barley question
in about tire same way that they have
been getting us with reference TO alfalfa
seed-we don't know who has any for
sale. It is possible that some OF our
gram dealers might set you on the right
track, and doubtless any brewer could
do it. The people building the new
brewery at Fort Worth would possibly
take an interest in the matter, hence 1t
might be well to consult them. You
ought to have the best seed going, of
course, and therefore il would doubtless
be best to apply for your information to
some one entirely well posted on the sub
ject of varieties, qualities and 40 on.
We have strong faith in barley culture
for Northern Texas, and therefore
earnestly hope that thorough tests will
be made all over the region. Small
tests have already been made at several
points, as you saw in our article referred
to, and they have shown up as mag
nificeut success. This fact, with the ex-
isting certainty of finding home market
for the product, ought to be stimulous
enough to lead many into barley cul-
ture, even on q goodly sized scale. As
stated in our former article, there is
much more money to the farmer IN grow
ing barley than there is in growing
wheat.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19
Intensive Farming.

Mr.. Henry c.. Wallace writes for the
Prairie Farmer an article on intensive
farming in the prairies, much of which,
though Northern state Ia held in view,
tacks on rather well to prairie farming
IN Texas. He says the prairie farmer, If
he desires rapid success, must draw in
his boundaries and bring all his farm
lands into use. In other words, he must
practice intensive farming, not of
course as it Is practiced in ths trucking
regions, but all the same intensive. He
may not think it best to buy commercial
fertilizers and fiddle around with garden
truck and small fruits, but he must
make the farm produce as much of
everything as he needs himself, and as
much more to sell as possible. On many
prairie farms there is strip of low land
allowed to run to weeds and rank grass
for the reason taat 1t Is not considered
well adapted to general crops. This
land might as we'll be paying So or $40
an acre. It Is the very best hay,laud We
have. There Is always to be found some
species OF grass that would do well on 1t.
1t should be cleared out and put to come
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19
THE GAZETTE: FORT WORTH. TEXAS SUNDAY OCTOBER 10.

of agriculture end the allied sciences will
be best able to direct the farm enter
prise 10 successful result. In
short, the educated farmer, pro-
vided his education has been of
the practical, thorough kind adapted
70 his calling, will be best prepared to
conduct all the operations OF the farm in
an understanding and practical manner
to successful issue. Agriculture, -
says recent writer, 'presents many
problems often more difficult than those
of the other sciences, by reason of the
completely of the conditions, demanding
q wide knowledge and great clearness
of judgment on the part of those
no would investigate them. For
this reason it presents q field of study
eminently worthy of the attention of
scientific men. With the science of
agriculture fully developed, and with
farmers possessed of degree of scien-
tiic knowledge sufficient TO enable them
to apply the results of Investigations to
the practical work of their profession the
art OF the husbandman will be raised 10
much higher position than il occupies at
present.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19
IT. p. STEELE, EDITOR.

groves that within few years would be
in profitable bearing, becoming more
profitable in each succeeding year
through a dozen generations. We feel
fully satisfied that, could our foregoing
suggestions with reference to the pecan
be generally carried out, the next decade
would mud Texas lands, as whole,
valued at millions of dollars above the
valuation that will be placed upon them
IL our bottom lands are left to remain as
at present.
1t may be added that the best time in
the season for planting pecans is imme-
diately after the nuts have fallen from
the trees. Where this is not convenient
we would recommend placing the nuts in
sacks at once and burying them in the
ground, TO remain till needed, the object
being to prevent drying out. Nuts en-
tirely dry will usually germinate, and we
would plant IN that condition il we could
not get them fresh from the trees, though
in our opinion the yonng trees from dried
nuts do not start of SO vigorously as in
case where the nuts have not been per-
mitted to get dry.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19
A Goat Roost.

"The goat is great'' with the average
Floridian, for no matter how poor the
soil and how nom nutritious the vegeta-
ton, that region of country too poor to
Sustain goats has not yet been found.
This il why the goat so abounds in
Florida. And the Floridians seem to be
bringing science into association with
their goat crop-they make what they
call "a goat roost' for the aceommo-
dalton of the sagacious and shifty little
quadruped. A correspondent of the
Florida Farmer and Fruit-Grower tells
how it Is made. A rough shed is erected
aud under this is arranged a series OF
perches a good deal on the plan of
perches in poultry roost, only all the
perches, instead of being round poles are
boards eight or ten inches wide. They
are placed about three feet above the
ground, and far enough from each other
to permit the easy passage of goat be-
tween. The goats mount these perches
and lie down > resting on, TO them,
howery beds OF ease, as it were. No
other:arrangement could be made that
would seem to give them so much whole
sale satisfaction. It is said, unreason-
able as II may appear TO the wellin-
informed, that they will even turn away
from mans finely painted and highly
polished front gallery in disgust, when
they lind his yard gate accidentally open,
and at once repair to the goat roost for
nights lodging.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19
opportunity of looking after the effects
where others have tried it.
The Mexican pepper.

was lately on tour OF Southwestern Texas.
where saw the hills completely Redeemed with
5 small species of red pepper. growing wild,
that the people there called the Mexican pepper.
Carolina (my native state) called bird-eye pep
per. On test, found it extremely hot Do
you think the same pepper could be made to
grow al Fort Worth? Y. y. q.
Fort Worth. Texas
The pepper to which you refer is not
the bird-eye pepper, but different spe-
cies. It's botanical name is Capsioum
frutescens. The berry OF the bird-eye
pepper is perfectly round and about the
size of q bucksbot, while that of the
Mexican pepper, though the same size,
is oval in shape. 1t is frst-ciass pep
per for culinary use, and is extensively
employed by the Mexican in their various
cookeries.
The Mexican pepper, which gESHA
throughout Mexico, as well as ia6dth-
western Texas, is perennial; hat is,
it lives through the winter al small
shrub. 1t would, no doubt, sta9lntSS
climate of Fort Worth, a conclusion to
which we arrive from having grown it
successfully on line of latitude consid-
erably above ours. Ten years ago, while
in Mexico, We hired the boys to gather
for US five pounds of these peppers for
distribution IN the gulf states east of the
Mississippi river. They we're scattered
broadcast among the people and now
almost everybody in that region has
Mexican pepper IN his garden. None
had ever been seen there prior 10 our in
PRODUCTION of the seed from Mexico.
The Mexican pepper may be in Fort
Worth already for ought we know,
though we have not seen u plant of ii as
yet. If not here it ought to be brought
and tested. for the person having tassss
for red peppers will find it as goggA
thing in that line as he wants. ie.
soils upon which it grows wild in SeWb&
western Texas and Mexico are of Fst
cisely the same general character as tfs
soils here. Nothing save climate could
possibly be against it in our region, and
as already stated, we have grown it in
regions colder than this.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19
A Little Problem.

farmer who says it IS utterly impos-
sible for him to lift the mortgage off his
farm has $50 sheep, and he has lifted
them every one, one at time, clear off
the ground and can do it any time
within the irving of the sun and the
going down thereof. There's nothing
strange about this; you say. Yes there
is. The sheep can lift the mortgage If
properly cared for and the farmer can
lift the sheep. but can't lift the mort
gage. Well, how is this, anyhow
Farm and Ranch.
1t may be possible that the ease with
which the gentleman is able to lift his
sheep has something TO do with his ina
bility to lift the mortgage.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19
Using Manure.

II you talk to Texan about applying
manures to his land he almost invariably
laughs ct you, holding oHt the idea that
Texas lands are rich enough to need
nothing of that kind. We are not en-
tirely sure that he fully means what he
says, in every case, but somehow or
other Texas people seem unwilling to
publicly acknowledge that their lands
might be made any better than they now
are. This is wrong. No lands can be
naturally so good that liberal applica-
ton of stable manure would not improve
them in some way, aud it affords us
pleasure to state that certain discoveries
Worth establishes it as a
fact that we are not harbor.
ing this opinion all alone. There are
several large stockyards about the SUI
burbs of our city, and if you make an
outside circuit around them you will
every now and then strike a we'll beaten
wagon road leading out into the country
that is thiokly strewn with yard manure,
evidently the fallings from overloaded
wagons engaged in a transportation of
the material. We have never been able
TO catch any of them at it, though the
evidence they have left Is entirely con-
elusive.
This "discovery of ours is one of the
most hopeful signs we have seen lately.
It shows that our agriculture whatever
its branch) is in intelligent hands. Nov
ing the manure from our stockyards TO
the country lie certainly move In the
right direction. 1t will pay every time
The lands of Texas need manures as
badly as do the poor piney woods lands
of the gulf coast east of the Mississippi
river. OF course they are highly pro-
ductive without it-moreso than are the
pinelands with it-but they need it all
the same TO make them still more pro-
duotive. and to prevent forever any kind
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19

notice in your agricultural departments Of
THE GAZETTE some inquiries from corresp pond
ents relative to the raising of alfalfa in Texas,
etc, and prep ose upon this to give you some
directions founded on my own experience
In the first place, you must selec. rich and
level piece of land clear of stumps, or brush or
rocks. Break the land deeply and get it cor
rectly ready for crop of small grain. Next,
mix about twenty pounds OF alfalfa seed with
from three pecks to bushel of rye, barley or
wheat and sow the mixture the usual plan
for small grain. the same as if the alfalfa seed
was not in it. The alfalfa seed must be evenly
mixed ali through the grain. This quantity is
for one acre. Sow on the freshly plowed land
and cross-plow it in. and afterwards a har
row or brus1 to level the surface. Sow in Feb
ruary or March.
The alfalfa will not prevent you from raising
full crop of the gram sown, and the grain will
be OF advantage to the alfalfa, protecting it from
effects of sunshine until we'll rooted. The sec
ond year after sowing, if the season be season.
able, you will be able to cut your alfalfa four
times. getting one ton of hay to the acre at each
cutting-four tons per annum.
live in the Rio Grarde valley, ten miles be-
grapes and other species of fruits. We find a
ready market for our alfalfa hay at from $40 to
sl2 per ton.
Alfalfa certainly makes the finest hay known
for horses. cattle and hogs, and when once well
set in the ground it is there to stay for genera
tioDs. No weed or grass can crowd it out. All
nay when the7lants are in bloom. cure 1t, bale
it and send it to market. @. c. MCGINNIs.
.YSleta, Ell Paso County. Tex.
There is nothing left us other than to
thank our correspondent for the inter-
esting information given. In portion
of his letter, evidently not intended for
publication, he states that there is plenty
of alfalfa seed kept on sale by Texas
dealers, and that, could our readers
hear of it, they would probably be able
TO procure supply at the rate of about
S15 per 100 pounds.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19
Alfalfa Seed.

I saw IN the weekly GAZETTE of few days ago
article on alfalfa culture, also an inquiry as
to where seed could be had. Do you think much
seed could be sold to the Texas farmers? If so,
in about what quantity? would like the names
of men who have been growing alfalfa in this
state. If could believe that much seed could
be sold-enough to pay for the transaction-I
would try to find the seed, of good quality and
in quantities sufficient to meet the demands. at
fair prices. Any information you can give me
the subjec. wo Id be thankfully received.
Kalleen, Tex. E. w. HAYERTY.
We have no encouragement to offer
you in the direction suggested. That
our people would like to buy alfalfa seed
we take 1t for granted from the fac: that
within the last two weeks we have re-
ceived about fifty letters inquiriug where
alfalfa seed could he had. In the same
time we have received about a dozen let
tiers from parties in Texas offering to sell
as alfalfa seed, hut since we want no
alfalfa SEED ourself, and since the parties
do not state that they have any seed to
sell TO others, we, or course, can make
nothing out of their letters. The indica-
tions would seem to put it that Texas is
full of alfalfa seed, and they also make
out q pretty strong case to the effect that
there is no profit in selling it at the rul-
ing prices-not enough to justify the
last was otherwise it Is but reasonable to
suppose that the persons wishing alfalfa
seed would soou learn where to get it
through the advertising columns of this
newspaper.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19
Weevils in Corn.

have often heard It said that leaves of the
chinaberry tree packed through the corn crib
with the corn would keep it entirely clear of
weevils. Do you regard it as a remedy to be re-
lied upon? II not. what can you recommend
that would protect the corn from weevils.
c. o. n.
Houston, Tex.
We think cabbage leaves packed with
the corn would be fully as effectual
against the corn weevil as china tree
leaves, and if these are not convenient
we are sure cockleburs or corn blades
would dc fully as well as either. You
will have your own opinion as TO how
much good cockleburs or corn blades
would do, and that opinion OF yours NAV
be accepted as exactly cur opinion with
reference to the china tree leaves. The
weevils would never know that the leaves
were there. and hence would go on with
their work all the same as II they were
not there. The whole thing Is simply
unadulterated nonsense.
We know of no remedy against the
corn weevil. There ere intelligent per-
sons who maintain that salt scattered
freely through the corn where put I'D ia
the husk acts as q fair preventive to
weevil depredations. We shall not say
either yea or nay to this, fog we have
never tried it. nor have We had any good
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19
Nonsensical Notions.

The Massachusetts Ploughman says
"scientst' or fruit grower "discovers
that certain decoctions made from
tomato or tobacco leaves are very often
sive by their smell or otherwise to such
insects as the curoulio, the ant, mite,
eto. and that an application of the said
decoctious will drive the insects away
possibly kill them. No doubt the smell
is disagreeable, and 30 may be the taste,
as few insects show any such liking for
tomatoes or tobacco as human being do,
but the decoctions that can be made IN
this way will not go far to clear an or
chard or garden of plant or tree YER
MINI Had our contemporary have
been Southern publication leaves of
the China tree would have been added to
the list. OF course this would have
necessitated the changing of one of his
best points; that relating to the taste
human beings have for the plants that
insects can't stomach, for man. as yet,
doet not seem to have worked up in him
self any particular hankering after the
China tree in either leaves or fruit,
though we are expecting every day to
hear that he has done 1t. When 1t is dis
covered that therel s q thing nothing will
eat man usually falls to work cultivating
q taste and adopting his system to con-
ditions that will enable him to eat it
himself.
But, as the Ploughman intimates,
these wonderful discoveries so often pop
ping to the surface relative to insect
remedies or preventIves existing in our
vegetable growths, almost invariably
pan out as nonsensical. Science has
carefully worked everything we have in
that line, and had any such properties
have existed in any of them those proper
ties would have been found out long ago.
Pvrethrum offers the only perfect vege-
table iusecticide known TO science, and
that calls for special preparation into
what we call buhasch or Persian insect
powder. Other plants might give us
something that would prove annoying to
certain species of insects, but a mere an
noyance is not worth much to horticult-
ure. Insects, like people, soor get used
to thing they don't like at first, and so
manage to get along where it is, we'll
enough to stay. The only thing worth
the trouble OF application against insects
must be something that will kill the in
sects outright.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19
An Art and a Science.

Mr.. d. Reynolds says agriculture is
not only an art, but science as well.
The practice Of the art requires expert
ence and skill, while an understanding
of the science requires knowledge of
several associate sciences. OF course,
this does not mean q technical scientific
knowledge, but plain knowledge of the
why's and whsrefores associated with
agriculture. There is no other art that
does not require experience and skill for
means. and no other science that does
not require knowledge of its principles
In order to be understood. The art and
science of agriculture are not different
from other arts and sciences in requiring
experience, skill and knowledge for their
successful practice. The farmer who is
most skillful in the practice of his art
will carry on all the operations of
the farm In the most workman
like manner and bring forth the
beat results sttainable by sklllful Guilt
walton and good management. He who
most thoroughly understands the science
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19
Handling Seed Cotton.

The Georgia Southern Cultivator says
cotton should be picked as rapidly as
possible after opening, and packed
tightly in q close room or house. The
open rail pen admits of too much light and
evaporation. which evaporation COM
mences on the day the cotton bolf opens
Cotton should remain packed securely
for cousidera Die time; the longer the
better the oil in the seed distributes itself
through the lint, thereby increasing the
sample weights and turnout of the lint.
The gain and profits upon this method is
sufficient, if properly managed, to pay
TO the picking. There is more profit on
the first cotton or first few bales of each
crop gathered, because the picking oc-
ours before there is so much evapora-
ton. Cotton picked after October sell
dom pays any profit. 1t seems that
after frost there is an increased amount
of evaporation, and the oil which the lint
contains, as well as the seed, soon dis
appears.
When cotton is ginned Immediately
after picking the ginner is placed IN an
embarrassing condition; bad turnout is
the certain result. Cotton picked early
has plenty of oil in both seed and lint to
pack down we'll in room, the closer and
darker the better.
A scaffold should be provided at the
cotton house for spreading wet cotton,
for it should not be packed down wet; If
so packed coloring is sure to be the re-
suit. Cotton remaining unpicked in the
fields until late should be sprInkled very
lightly With water before packing down
in cotton house before ginning, and this
method places the seed cotton in case for
oil in the seed to distribute itself through
the lint, making better sample, better
turnout and less breaking of the roll in
ginning than would happen without the
sprinkling. Tramp down heavily in the
cotton house, and don t be in too big
hurry to run your crop through the gin.
1t gains in weight while lying closely
packed in the tight cotton house.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19

OF exhaustion of the soil II is highly
possible that the mineral clements of
plant food IN our soil will never fall
short. As crops use them the disinte-
grating rocks run In a new supply, but
humus, which comes from decomposed
vegetable matter, soon runs low, and it
is an element of as much importance TO
crops as Is any other. The manure of
our stockyards is the very thing needed
for supplying humus.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

This department is devoted to answering such
questions may be asked By our subscribers,
which may be of general information. Inquiries
Of personal character that require answer by.
mail should always have stamps inclosed. Please
give full name and postofice address, in addi-
tion to any such signature as Subscriber" or
"a. G. D.. not for publication, but TO enable
US to communicate promptly with the inquirer.
Parties desiring answers by mail must inclose
lamp for return postage.