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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-07
j. p. STEELE, EDITOR.

money and ply his vocation promptly de-
cides that this is no place for him, SO he
renews his ticket and goes on. The boot
black. who has been Gloating over the
adhesive appearance of the soil, stops
OF.
1t is scarcely necessary for us to argue
before an intelligent people the import
ance of having those rich but now IN
occupied surroundings of our cities
promptly settled up and made tributary
to us. Every unit of population added
TO those surroundings is just that much
added TO the city. While the city has
its corporate limits, it does not stop on
those lines-all its suburban people are
people of its own, just as much as they
would be if living directly under the
municipal rule. settlement of the
surroundings is worth more as an adver-
Using card for the place than
anything else that could be re-
sorted tot attracts permanent
and useful population. But it is folly to
wait for those surroundings to settle up
of themselves-they III not do it In that
way within the next quarter century.
As they now appear they stand as their
own advertisement against settlement.
The man who works the soil, if worth
and our word for it he is not going to
risk his all on simply what some printed
circular says or what some land dealer
says-he must have the full evidence of
what a region can do before his very
eyes. and the pumpkin shown him must
not be q specimen p!ucked from the
vine, either. pumpkin is q pump
kin the world over. He must see the
advertising pumpkin with one end of the
vine attached 10 it and the other end on
its own roots in the soil.
We have no suggestions to make as to
the best methods for setting up our sur
roundiugs. The best way to settle them.
in our opinion, is to settle them. OF
course it will call for little hustllug on
the part of the city, but nothing like 80
much as it called for to settle thecity it.
self. The city people can well afford to
extend the necessary hustling. WhileS
such a thing would be too much out of
the regular line OF usage for recommend
alton ut our hands, we could not feel
ourself shooting wide of the mark were
we TO suggest that any of our prosperous
young cities, with unoccupied surround
iHgs, could well afford to buy up the
lands and give them TO actual settlers
who would improve them TO certain
stipulated extent.
1t would not cost so much to settle up
our surroundings as one might suppose.
fair start at the thins is oil that is neces-
sary, for our lands, supposiug the young
city to be in Texas, are everything that
coull be asked. 'There are no flies on
orr Texas lards,'' as the boys say. The
only existing need is to start the ball
fairly rolling With some kind of good
boost-it will then roll of itself-but that
boost. regardless of the shape it comes
in, must come directly from the city peo-
ple
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-07
Az chin. Berr,a, ,.o,.ooou,e

Are berries Of the common China tree eonsid-
cred poisonous to stock? I am a new citizen
from the North, where the China tree does not
grow, and this is my first season in Texas Some
of nv neighbors say the berries are poisonous
and should be kept away from stock, while 9TH
ers say they are not poisonous. but, on The
other hand, are good and wholesome stock
food Will you please settle the question
through THE GAZETTE q. W. AkLER.
McLennan county, Tex.
Berries of the China tree (Melia axe
darsch) are not generally looked upon
as injurious to stock. Horses, cattle
and even poultry eat them with. appar-
ent relish, and no bad results seem to
follow. Some persons claim that they are
really of advantage to horses. having the
effect of making their 'ooats'' appear
smooth and glossy. Hogs often partske
of them freely, but We desire TO state
here that they will not always do for
hogs, under all conditions and circum-
stances. A few years ago there was in
our house yard a large China tree that
had covered the ground with fallen fruit.
picket got OF the fence and three
healthy shoats about three months old
came in and went for feast of the ber-
ries. We saw them at it, but gave the
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-07
Alfalfa in Colorado.

The editor OF the Field and Farm.
Denver, says the alfalfa-seed crop has
of late years become one of the leading
products OF his state. The Colorado
people are completely stuck Oh alfalfa as
Il most noble crop, and the deep interest
taken in it leads them TO every year
learn something new and valuable,
especially with reference to saving the
crop. He has just interviewed a promi-
nent alfalfa seed grower of Boulder
county, who says ii is now plain that
outdoor stacking offers the best method
of sowing seed. He cuts the alfalfa
with a mower. The machine used cuts
back and forth on one side. The ends or
headlands of course cut first to make a
place 10 turn on, and with fork he
moves four swaths out to the fence, so
the horses will not trample the seed out
in turning. Mows in the morning when
there is some dampness, or on n damp,
cloudy day, 30 the seed Will she'll as little
as possible. The alfalfa 10 left fiat until
he ls ready TO stack, it matters little
whether it is three days or three weeks.
Rain does no harm when it Is In this
shape. But it should not be allowed to
get wet in the wlnrow, as after-turnings
loF lue puIpOse VI uIyiuS ou WUulu
waste much seed. a cloudy day is best
for stacking.
In gathering the cut alfalfa less seed
is shelled out by letting the rake always
go the same way the mower went. 1t is
better also to rake before the alfalfa gets
very dry.
Old rails or poles are laid down as a
foundation for the stack. Two tiers
are put down crossing each other. The
stack is built upon these to convenient
height, and then simply rounded off with
alfalfa. The topis next covered with
layer of wheat straw smoothed down
nicely. Nothing more is necessary.
Some prefer to hull out the seed
directly from the field without stacking,
but he prefers to stack and thus avoid
danger from protracted rains. He has
seem many a field of alfalfa in Colorado
that was left in the winrow waiting for
the huller, which on account of excessive
rainy weather didn't get around at all.
The alfalfa laid all winter and was a
dead loss.
There is much money in the alfalfa
seed industry, he says. If this be cor
rect (and it can not be doubted), then
Texas 10 losing much money by keeping
out OF the business. There would be no
kind OF good sense in any attempt at
arguing that Colorado is q better alfalfa
state than Texas.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-07
On Field Pens.

Please give me the name of the pea that here
with enclose also tell something OF its value as
a crop for feeding purposes and for home use,
What variety OF pea DO you consider best for
field growth? Z. D. STRANG.
Fisher, Texas.
The peas sent are little above med
ium in size, plump in shape and OF q
very light cream color, with a small,
brownish eye. They are of the variety
known in most regions as the "field
crowder,' aud, while probably not the
very best stock pea, no other field pea
Equals it for table use. Boiled with
bacon the ordinary field peas turn the
whole mess blackish color, but this
crowder does not do that. Its tendency
to darken the bacon, in cooking, Is no
greater than is that OF the navy bean.
For general stock purposes most pea
growers favor q brownish 8 eckled vari-
ETY., called the "whippoorwill. - 1t is
rampant grower, a long viner and
most prolific bearer.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-07
An Independent People.

This Northw estern Financier boasts
over the great success of farming in the
San Luis valley, Colorado, this year. 1t
is simply marvellous, aud in the greatest
contrast 10 the general failure in Western
Kansas, says the writer. The cause of
this great success need be no secret; our
contemporary furnishes key to it by
stating that ''the abundance of water in
the San Luis valley makes the farmers of
that region Independent so far as the
summer rainfall is concerned. 1t will
always be so with them, for there is wa
ter enough 10 irrigate the whole valley. -
So, you see, il was irrigation that made
for the San Luis valley its grand agri-
cultural success this year, and the same
thing can be depended upon for a SIM
liar success In all years to follow. With
q complete system of irrigation there
can be no such thing as crop failure, or
even as short crops, in any of the states
west of the Mississippi river. 1t costs
something to get ready for irrigation, of
course, but not near so much as it event.
ually costs TO have frequent short crops,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-07

Texas produces tons upon tons of corn
husks or "shucks, as we Southerners
commonly call them, that she finds NO
particular use for. At the North they
are valuable as stock feed, but here
our stock, having SO much of better food
accessible throughout the winter season,
do not stick much on shucks as an article
of diet. About the only use for shucks
we find at present lies in turning them
over as q marketable article to the
female man, and he, though selling i'm
mense quantities of ''hot females
wrapped in shucks, don t make much of
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-07
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

This department is devoted to answering such
questions as may be asked by our subscribers,
wnich may be of general information. Inquiries
of personal character that require answer by
mail should always have stamps inciosed. Please
ton 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 iIclose
lamp for return postage
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-07
Is Alfalfa n Peste

Several letters propounding this in
week. The writers are referred to q
letter on the same subject from Mr.. c.
S. Robinson of Caddo, Stephens
county, Tex, printed in these columns
last week and accompanied By our reply.
Alfalfa is no more pest than is either
corn, cotton or field peas.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-07
ANICEXMA PRESENT.

What more useful or apploP,o.
Christmas present than nice lish' .as
ming sewing machine. GAZETTE 20
scribers can get just such o. llnsee ll,sss
only SEQ hAss HhqsasS not Sd mel
can get It's f59oiffhe at the price w. Snf. Il
by subscribing to either the Daily
day or Weekly GAZETTE for one zee, the
Sample machine can be seen o.
GAzRTTE counting room.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-07
Culture of the Bene.

In your mention OF SO many good and new
things that might be probably cultivated in
Texas, why not bring up the bene plant and
give us something with reference t. it, its man
agement and its uses? l have it growing in my
garden here and it does sple mildly. Might we
not make something out OF the crop by growing
it for the manufacture OF bene oil. A LADY.
Nueces County. Tex.
The bene is an annual plant supposed
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-07

The Importance OF purifying the o .s.,,,
cannoesbe overestimated, for VII
pure blo6dyou cannatenjoy 2oo1 nsA, and
P. P. P. tTsteklyssAsh, Poke Roo. a
Potassium) is af&cuIous blood purt I'm,
performing NOR III six m nniI.d
than all the ACKNOWLEDGMENT so-o' al,
blood purifierspur together. FOR -
by l.. NJ. WH3fsitt.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-07
Irrigation on the staked Plains.

Have you ever been on the Llano Esta-
cado or Steked plains of Texas? asks
Field and Farm. Here, continues our
contemporary, irrigation is necessary
for farming, and in the absence of this
on large scale the principal occupation
is stock raising. Water may be bad by
shallow artesian wells at many points,
and from this source several tracts OF
land have already been put under irri-
cation, and are now being cultivated to
fruits with satisfactory results. Within
the present year some 90, 900 acres were
provided with an abundant artificial
water supply. On the lands under irri-
cation the trees and vines are in most
tiourishng condition, and four crops of
alfalfa are harvested yearly.
A region of country too dry to grow
anything without irrigation Is u fine re-
eon in which to get irrigation under
way, yet it is not always the only region
needing artificial water supply to crops.
ANY region where drouth cuts off crops
at all ought to be under a system of irri-
cation. Why not? No half-crop farm
ing pays the farmer. The more rainfall
in the course of this season the less
trouble will it be to irrigate, for while
irrigation can take q rest. But the main
thing is to have it ready SO that water
may be artificially given SO Gifted as
needed.
The most productive countries in the
world are those whose people know of a
certainty that there will not be rainfall
sufficient to enable them to make crops.
There is not even so much. as uncertainty
for them to depend upon, 30 they go to
work and arrange an artificial water sup
ply which places them within the pales
of absolute certainty, and great and
never failing produotivsness is the re-
suit. If 1t pays ralnless country TO ir-
rigate, where is the good reason for sup
posing that 1t would not pay a country of
uncertain rains equally rs well? The
rains that may come cost nothing. They in
volve no kind of outlay. If rainless
Peru is the most productive country on
the Western Hemisphere, all through
irrigation, as is claimed, where then is
the argument against our ability to
make Texas her rival by the same
means? The soils of Texas are entirely
better than the soils of Peru, her eli
mate is equally as good for most of the
leading crops, and her facilities for irri-
CATION are not at all inferior. Put all
this and all that together and then ask
yourself what ais Texas as compared to
paru
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-07
Alfalfa in Ohio.

Mr.. J. Z. Wing of Ohio writes that he
is growing alfalfa quite successfully in
that state. His four-year-old alfalfa
grew constantly through the great drouth
of last summer, while the timothy and
red clover adjoining waxed brown and
dry. 1t went to seed and matured a
heavy crop of nice, plump seed. Since
the fall rains set in it has grown up RANK
and luXuriant once more. Every sue
ceeding year for several, at least, will
find more alfalfa sown on his farm he
says.
HIS alfalfa sown last spring made q
light crop of hay, which was cut the LIST
of July. This was more than had been
expected of it. a most severe drouth
followed. and the young alfalfa plants
had not had time to reach down very
deep with roots; so during this drouth
they grew but little, though keeping
green and holding their own. When the
rains came they came in floods, very
thoroughly soaking the soil, and the
young alfalfa promptly revived. growing
with u rankness and vigor far exceeding
that Of any other hay crop known to the
region.
In starting alfalfa, says Mr.. Wing. IL
the soil Is very Door, help the young
plants with some good fertiliZsr-barn
manure cannot be beaten-and be not
discouraged if tht first year or two brings
only moderate success. But when the
roots have gotten down a few feet and
the foliage shades the ground, and the
life-giving water gets in its work, bring
ing treasures of plant food invisible to
the naked eye, then the alfalfa will take
on an almost tropical luXuriance of
growth, and will need to be cut every
month of the summer, affording not less
than four big crops to the season.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-07
A Scrap. Book Suggestion.

We often receive letters from patrons
asking that we send them certain back
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-07

matter no particular thought at the
time. Two hours later we happened to
pass that way when, 10 our great sur
prise, we saw those three shoats lying
under the tree stone dead. an exam.
NATION showed the stomachs were filed
with China berries ground up, seed and
all. The shoats must have all died at
the same time. and within an hour or so
after beginning to feed upon tbs berries.
This Is the only case We know of wherein
China berries have been Injurious to
stock; but there could be no mistake
about this particular case. The shosts
were entirely healthy when they got into
the yard, and there was no hog cholera
or other hog disease IN that region of
country at the time. There were five
shoats IN the lltter-ths two that did not
find their way into the yard remained
entirely healthy.
Jerusalem Oak.
There is growing in great abundance
about Fort Worth. particularly on the
lands east OF the city and just be-
yond the Trinity river, 4 plant variou sly
known as Jerusalem oak, wo rmseed and goat
mint. believe the seed OF this plant is extern
sively used in medicine; therefore, if 1t com
mands good price, would not there be m oney
in gathering the seed mere? There are acr es OF
it growing as wild weed il the region named.
Fort Worth, Tex. L.
The plant referred to is the Chenopo-
dunn anthelmlnticum of botanists. We
have ourself observed its great abund-
ance in the locality pointed out by our
correspondent. II grows there like
patch of alfalfa under irrigation.
Some three decades ago 'wormseed'
held quite q prominence in medicine as
an anthelmitio, but we think il is not
much in use now, particularly by the
profession. In those earlier days every
country store kept "wormseed oii'' for
sale, and don I the people of to-day, who
were children then, we'll remember it
with a shudder? A few drops of 'worm-
aeed oil' on q lump Of sugar of morn
ing before breakfast-oh! get out! Then
the next morning had to follow the castor
oil. There were no capsules for walling
in the nauceous taste of medicines iii
those days. Fortunate children Of more
modern times!
We don't think much money could
now be realized from gathering worm
seed.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-07

Scientists have decided that the earli-
est land to show itself above water when
the Western hemisphere was evolved was
Mount Marcy in the Andiroudack noun
tains. The theory was first sprung by
Richard Dale owen, and later Endorsed
by Agassiz. Careful investigations have
recently been made with view to set
thing the point, and the work is said to
have shown conelusively that Owen and
Agassiz were correct.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-20
II CiNDER PATH.

George ID. Normac a y IL anybody
thinks he has seen his best days he Is still
ready To run any man in America a ~
hour race for ) ,0D a side.
&. q. Wells, OF Amherst, who won the
mile run at the Intercollegiate games last
spring i'm the fast time of 4 minutes - 4-5
seconds, Is a natural BORN runner.
All foot races except time handicaps)
shall he started by report of ~pistol-thc
pistol Ia he fired SO hat its fash il visible
10 the time keeper. A miss-iire shall he
no start. The can be no recall afts the
pistol is fired. Handicaps are started by
the word ''go." Any competitor starting
before the signal is set back one yard.
For a second oifcnsc Two yards, and for
the third shall be disqualified. A COM
pctitor is held 10 have started when any
portion of his body touches the ground In
front Of his mark. In all races on n
straight track, each competitor shall
keep his own position on the course from
start 10 finish In all races on other than
"A straight track a competitor may change
toward the inside whenever he is two
steps ahead Of the man whose path he
grpSSps.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-20
ON THE RACE TRACK.

ID. Waldo has signed Jockey Ray at a
salary OF 5000.
Eiectioneer in a ~long-bodied horse, and
mis- light tail Is in sharp contrast with his
great quarters.
G. II. Nelson says lac will match Nelson
against Axtell. STEAMBOAT or Palo Alto
for 5000 n side and trot the race this
season.
n. l.. < Il. ID. Street OF Highland Farm,
Dubuque. have been offered and refused
$1,000 for n weaving colt by Nutwood,
2;ls@4, out of Sohoxso, 2:l7L.
There are 200 horses now in training AT
the Nashville track. III Rio Rcy il not
inactive, but his 2-ycar-old brother, Rcy
del Rey, Ia Keeling of the half mile in :55
n :5G.
One of the Scoggan Brothers admits
that Proctor Knott had something the
matter with one % his ~forelcgs. but does
not think il will amount to anything. The
horse IL not in racine form, and ID il I'M
certain where he will first start.
Speculation as To the chances of the
fBooklyn and Suburban candidates be-
comes more varied with the advent Of
spring. About every other horseman met
has his favorite for one or both of the
handicaps that can only lose by failing TO
face the flag.
The high prices paid at Senator STAN
ford's sale In New York have demon.
strated that there is n craze just now for
thoroughbred blood IN The trotter. A few
years $1,000 or $4,000 for an untricd
trotter would have caused horsemcn To
marvel greatly, but now little is thought
IF IL.
Alcryon won 5000 in races during
1889; Aubinc, $500; Belle Hamlin, $500;
Gean Smith. Sl2.oU0 Harry Wilkes. $1,000;
Hendry, sl2.GDo; Jack, Si3,50o; j. X. Shedd,
$3.50; Nelson, $1,000: Prince Regent,
aIn na "a l.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-20
The Harlan DIniculty,

LOUISVILLE. April ls.-Nothing further
has been heard to-day from state troops
in Harlan county. Several men who have
come TO Pinevillc from that county say
there has been no fight. Onc nan who
was a prisoner in the hands of federal
officers for violation of revenue laws, says
he was with the sheriff's posse that went
out with IL soldiers To arrest Howard and
there was certainly no bloodshed.
Adjutant General Hill has n dispatch
from Armorcr Thompson at Pinevillc. in
which is expressed great doubt of the re-
ported battle between state troops and
outlaws. Will Howard, il is said, has
Garther, To whom this was reported. will
kill Jennings IL the rescue is attempted.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-20
A New Injunction Granted.

NEW YORK, April 19.-Justice Barrett of
the supreme court to-day granted "a new
injunction to take the place Of the one
vacated yesterday by the general term re-
straininR the contamination of the rcor-
ganixation scheme Of the Houston &
Texas Central Railroad company. The
injunction is issued upon amended pa
pers In tho suit of Gernsheim & Co., who
claim that Calls p. Huntington and 9TH
crs are scheminR to get the control of the
road into the hands Of the Southern Pa
ciflc syndicate by assessing the old s73
per share with the alternative of letting
the Southern Pacific have the new issue.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-20
ON THE DIAMOND.

Jack Glasscock will captain the New
Works.
Ed Hanlon predicts that the Pitts
burg National League club will collapse
before the season Is over.
The New York National League club
has given notice that il will press no
moro suits against the Players league
men.
In one respect, and only one. has the
brotherhood much percentage over the
league. The one is fielding talent. The
brotherhood has slightly the best Of il i'm
that regard.
Manager Sam Morton of the Minncap-
oils club will take a team on a Pacific
coast tour next winter. III his own club
wins the Western association penuant its
members will form the team; IL not he
will have a picked lot Of players.
The following is an absolutely correc,
list of the salaries paid last season Ia
seven members of the Browns who left
that organi,at on and joined the brother.
hood: Comiskey. 5000; O'Ncill, $1,000
Boyle, $3.50; Milligan. 5000; Latham,
$500; King, $1,000; Robinson, S2,Oo.
Pitcher Ed Morris appeared in a new
role last week when he applied Tor a liquor
license. II was rather rough when the
Pittsburg judge asked him IL he ever had
any business. n when Morris said, 81
am n professional b~all-player.' Tor the
judge TO reply, II don't count that. Did
you ever work
just one member of the brotherhood
had the nerve to stand up and tell Ward
that the leaders had zone too far when
they broke away from the old league.
Dick Buckley, the Pittsburp hoy, now
with New York, told Ward Ia his face in
Chicago that he knew the file of the men