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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-02

cTATE OF WISCONSIN-CorNTY COURT FOR
- JEFFERSON CoUNTY-In Probate.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the matter of the estate of Michael ]. Moran.
late of the city of Watertown, in the county of
Jefferson and state of Wisconsin,, deceased.
letters of administration on the said estate,
having been issued, and the 9th day of January
next being the time by the order of said court
limited for the creditors of said deceased to pre-
sent their claims for examination and allow
ance.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
judge of said court, will, on the first Tuesday,
being the 9Th day of January, A. D.. 1891. at the
office OF the County Judge, in the city of Jeffer-
son, in said county. receive, examine and adjust
al! claims and demands Of all persons against
said deceased.
Dated at jefferson. WIS.,. this 18th day of June,
A. D., 1890.
HENRY COLONIUS,
37w5 County Judge.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-02
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

P1DS will be received for the construction of a
- Jail and sherif's residence for Dodge coun-
ty. Wis. to be erected in the CITY of Juneau. in
said county. until 2 O'Clock P. NJ. July &, 1890.
Bids will be received for either the whole Job or
any branch thereof. Each bid to be entitled to
consideration must pc accompanied with q GER.
titled check payable to the treasurer of Dodge
county, or a bond in the petal sum of al least rs
per cent. of the amount of bid. conditioned in
either case that the bidder will execute q con-
tract with sufficient bond provided said contract
is awarded to him. The Board of Supervisors of
said county reserve the right to reject any or all
bids. Plans and specifications will be on file at
the county clerks Office in the city OF juneau.
Wis, and at the Office of n. c.. Koch & Co., ar
chitects. New insurance building, Milwaukee,
Wis . on and after June 10, 1890.
Dated at the city of juneau. this 4th day of
June, 1890.
JOHN SOLON,
36w4 Chairman O! Building Committee.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07
THE WEEKLY FORT WORTH AUGUST

wheaton flour, merely broken, as nom
my - Ground wholesomely course what
palatable bread it makes; properly man
ipulated what delightful fakes. ct
with all this how many an unreasonable
American citizen prefers to irritate MS
interior with indIgestlble oat meal, pro-
fesses liking for tasteless rice and In the
place of the corn bread that made his
pioneer ancestors robust and vigorous
chooses to consume the sticky and dainty
but less nourishing wheaton loaves.
Americans, it ia true, are favored
above all other people of earth In having
a great variety OF food TO choose from,
and therefore they cannot be expected to
favor an inferior article, even from pa
triotic motives, nor confiue themselves to
single product, however excellent.
From a HYGIENE standpoint, however, il
for no other, it would be we'll for them
to become acquainted with all the culin-
sry disabilities or Indian corn. No other
food product with which we are blessed
carries within it greater wbolesomenese /,
and, under proper manipulation, greater
deliciousness. For once, says the Jour-
nal, is making wise choice the South
erner who fluids in the products OF Indian
corn his leading articles of food.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07
The Fig In northnrn Texas.

Ihave noticed in the Agricultural department
of THE GAZETTE statement to the effect that
the fl can be ma e SUI cess in Northern IeAas'
There IS no possible good reason Tor douoting
this. especially so far as relates to the tm2etsu
and therefore more protected portions OF the
upper regions of the state. Here in sherman
many families have fair sized fig trees, ana
some of the trees are now loaded with the det-
cious fruit, which seems to be hrst-c!asS IN
every respect. Having partaken OF the hgs l
am qualified to know whereof speak, and with with
''this light before me' declare emphatlcaIly
that Northern Texas can grow figs. L. G. H.
Sherman, Tex.
You are entirely correct in your deolar-
alton. Since writing the note to which
you refer we ourself have had the pleas
ure of eating figs grown IN Northern
Texas. They were of the Celestial varie-
ty, and were in every way as fine as any
we have yet seen that were produced on
the immediate gulf coast.
1t is not an unusual thing for people
to build conclusions upon what they see
or what they dom see. The plan is de-
cidedly an unsafe one. Figs are not
much grown here, and therefore the i'm
preston takes shape that they cannot be
grown here. They are not grown for the
simple reason that our people have not
yet got at it.
Yes, Northern Texas can grow figs Il
she wants to; indeed, any fruit she can
| not grow, under proper management.
outside of the tropical and teuderest sub
tropical kinds, need not be regarded al
at oil worth worrying over.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07
Ar.esinn Water in Irrigation.

In your agricultural department for last week
you speak in glowing terms OF what may De
tesian we'll water. If all the artesian water ex-
hibits the same character as does ours at Fort
Worth, am not entirely sure that you are not
making a mistake. l have tried watering my
plants with it, AMI find that il inciines to not
agree with them in some way. After thorough
sp Ilnkling with it the leaves appear TO cure and
not do as well as when sprinkled with river or
rain water a LADY
Fort Worth, Tex.
Our artesan water is to some extent
.mIneralized, - Us biologists term it,
but not in any degree sufficiently high to
set against it for use in irrigation.
Thrown directly upon the plants, fresh
from the we'll, the mineral elements in 1t
might be slightly detrimental, but al
lowed TO run in open trenches between
the beds, and from these trenches to
soak into the soil without coming IN con-
tact with the plants (the regular way OF
irrigating), there is nothing whatever
| against it; indeed, scientists have de-
cided that the mineral matters in the
water would actually tend to an i'm
movement of the soil. Water direct
| from the wells might not work advan-
tageously for surface irrigation, as on
meadow, for instance, but where irri-
| CATION OF this character was desirable the
water could be run from the wells into
ntanks" (open ponds, aud left there a
| few days exposed to the air and sunshine
before turning upon the grass. This ex-
posure would cause 1t to undergo such a
| chemical change as would render it as
| harmless to vegetation as rainwater.
| Large truck farms and orange groves
| in Florida are now being irrigated from
artesian wells. The water of these wells
is more highly mineralized than is that of
ours, containing elements more injurious
to plant life than is carried by the Fort
| Worth Waco artesian water, yet no kind
of trouble is experienced. The water is
allowed to flow in trenches between the
rows or beds, and from these to soak of
| under the beds without ever getting
atop of them. 1t proves everything ad-
vantageous that could be reasonably
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07
China Berry VS.. Corn weevl1s.

enclose you a clipping from q newspaper,
all about how to keep weeVlls out OF corn-what
do you thin Of It'll READING FARMER.
Tarrant County, Tex.
The clipping says the writer was told
by a friend that china berries, together
with the leaves, lntermixed with corn
while putting it in the crib, would pro-
tect the corn from weevils. He tried
the experiment aud found it effective.
He tried it only one time, and then going
into other business had no opportunity of
putting it to further test.
We think the gentleman ought TO have
made further test before parading his
supposed to-be good thing through q
newspaper. That particular season
may not have been q good weevil year at
his corn crib-things might have shown
I'D quite differently to the next expert
ment.
1t is Just such publications as the one
under consideration that makes agri-
cultural literature unpopular with the
masses. a man jumps to conclusion
and rushes it into print as fact. A
practical man puts it to the test-it fails
aud then he expresses himself IN strong
language on the humbuggery Of "book
farming.
That chinaberry remedy is an old
soldier. Long 1t has been popping VI
before the public every now and then
always coming out on what somebody
told somebody else, etc. We have
known people to put 1t to a thorough
test, and invariably with the same result
as they would have obtained by storing
away pair Of old boots in the corn pile
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07
Howto Salt Butter.

A correspondent asks the Western Ru-
raj, Chicago, how much salt should be
used in butter to be in strict accordance
with correct principles. The editor,
who is first-class authority in such mat
tiers, replies: "Just as much as your
customers want. But that is not the an
swer that our correspondent will expect,
yet it is the correct answer, provided you
have regular customers. Sailing depends
upon taste. Butter makers use from
Just a trifie to an ounce per pound. There
is not much preventative effect from salt
in butter. 1t is more matter of
flavor. The salt that goes into butter
should be of the very highest quality.
No doubt one of the causes of inferior
butter is the character of the salt used g.
Hundreds go to the country store and
buy q bag of salt. Salt is salt to them !;
however impure it may be, it goes into
the butter. The butter may be so bad to
begin with that nothing can hurt it
much, but such salt will certainly not
improve It. Good butter salt should be
fine and dry, with crystals of uniform
size, SO that they will dissolve quickly
and evenly. The imported salts enjoy a
high reputation for the dairy, because
they are of the character described.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07
Fowls and Fruit.

That well informed aud deep thinking
horticulturist, DIR. A. NJ. Ragland of
Pilot Point, Tex. secretary of the Pilot
Point horticultural society says, through
the latest issue of the Horticultural of
his city, that one of the most serious
troubles confronting the Texas fruit
grower lies in the ravages of Injurious
insects. Something mus be done TO
nknock out'' this trouble, he suggests.
Our feathered friends, the birds, have
been wont to do much work for us IN
keeping these insect foes under subjec-
ton, but thoughtless boys and wicked
men have rutnlessly driven from our
gardens and orchards INTO distant woods,
or worse still, killed outright, those
friends that once filed the morning air
with their delightful minstrelsy and their
craws with our insect enemies. They
call such wickedness sport-what mis-
homer!
Now, we have left US two ways of
successfully coping with those insect
nests of the garden and orchard. First,
we must make friends with the birds and
protect them, allowing them in pay for.
the services they ender us the compare
lively small pittance they may demand
in the way of fruits consumed. The
laborer is worthy of his hire, certainly,
is the Doctors correct idea in the prem
ises. Second, we must use the sprayer,
throwing over our trees such insecticides
(poisons) as Paris green and London
purple.
The doctor says he must confess to
| something of squeamishness relative to
| the use of strong poisons on fruits. He
| would rather not do it If it can be
| avoided, and a protection of the birds in
| full is at present thing more easily
talked of than accomplished. But
| In the mean time there Is another
method CHASING closely with the bird
proposition that the doctor would sug-
gest and recommend: Conioin poultry
raising with fruit-gro wing. Suppose,
for instance, you wish to put four acres
! in plums, apricots and peaches, then To-
cate q poultryhouse somewhere near the
center of the plat, fitting 1t up real neal
and tidy, and say to the good woman
"Let's raise 800 chickens for market
this year. III furnish feed, IL you Il
tend to them, and you can have oil the
money for pins and shoe strings
Don't you reckon she would sGy, "Al
right, John; fix up the house and coop
and I'll try my hand.h And withou
her knowing 1t, she would play RICH
into your own hand and you would yer.
soon be shipping aprlcots, plums. etc.
right into the heart of Yankeedom ant
getting their money, too.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07
Corn as Human Food.

Time was when people coming from
other sections of the United States
evinced, in not few cases disposition
to sheer little at the extent TO which
corn bread was being used in many por-
tions of Texas, but of late marked
change seems to be coming over the
spirit of their dream with our exclu-
sively wheat bread eating cousins. Not
a few prominent Northern papers are
now beginning to admit that the Southern
people were right in their their choice
of corn as food, and even more-they
are urging 1t upon their own constituency
that they make more general use OF
corn bread than they have heretofore
been doing. A late issue of the Indian
apolis, (Ind. journal, says Indian corn
is America g own grain, and therefore,
without taking into consideration its
great merits, we ought TO feel proud OF
1t. Near every other country has Its
special food product the merits OF which
are Haunted until it becomes inseparably
associated with the deuiZens OF that coun-
try; Ireland has has given Its popular
specific name to the Irish potato, al
though that tuber is of American origin
Scotland does not boast of its oat crop,
| but Scotch oat cake are the people e
pride; Germans dote on their rye bread
Entire races in tropical Asia subsist on
rice and are happy. Americans, alone,
with one of the most wonderful grains
grown on the earth, exclusively theiI
own, fail to give it proper honor. They
are willing to admit that 1t is q great
| product; they look approvingly at tht
vast corn fields of the broad American
prairies, and, as q matter of business
and speculation, are interested in th'
| crop statistics; they are even beginning
to recognize the aesthetic beauty OF th'
| plant; but when it comes to a question
| of food, majority of the people in th'
so-called corn regions prefer something
| else. With the numberlsss preparation
OF corn, what q food variety it yields US
White as snow. yellow rs gold. fine q
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07
AFTER LEYEE CUTTERS.
Indictments Against Those Who Cut the Doggy
Bayou Leves In Arkansas.

Indictments Against Those Who Cut the Doggy
Bayou Levee In Arkansas.
ARKANSAS CITY, ARK, Aug. LIT
has been known for some time that the
grand jury Of this county was investi-
eating the case of the men who cut the
Doggy bayou levee fifteen miles above
here on the 5th of April. Yesterday
morning there was considerable sensa-
ton when that body brought into court
and fled twenty-four true bills. War
rants were at once issued, and while
none of them have been returned 1t is
understood these indictments are against
leyee cutters. 1t will be remembered
the work was done IN broad daylight by
citizens of Red Fork county, who be-
lieved that the levee across Doggy bayou
damned the water upon them and the:o-
by augmented the damages of the fool .
1t will be insisted by the defendants that
Boggy bayou is q natural outlet, and
under the laws OF the state it is no Of
Tense to cut a levee ACROSS natural
outlet. They will be vigorously prose-
cuted. The offense is felony under the
laws Of the state, punishable by long
term in the penitentiary.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07
The Lucky Winners.

At the last drawing of The Louisiana State
Lottery there were two citizens of Galveston
who we e fortunate enough each to win very
handsome slices of one OF the capital prizes,
their tickets being fractional parts OF ticket
No go 2O7 which won SlGO, 600, the two winners
securing as their share OF this amount $3.50
each One was Oscar William Ekelund, a
csbinetmaker, who resides at No. l59 Twenty
seventh street, between Market and Postoffice,
the other George Weiss, deliverer for Fox 8
bakery. Mr.. Ekeiund being former citizen OF
New Orleans grew up under the influence OF The
Louisiana State Lottery and for four or hve
years he invested regularly in the drawings
there and during the past eight years IN Cal
weston he has daliied with the tickle goddess
regularly once a month, winning during that
time sufficient approximations 10 whet his ap-
petite. He believed in the old maxim about q
faint hear" etc. and continued until finally
rewarded and though he is now more than COM
pensated for all his investment he says he in
tends to continue it as the most profitable he
has ever engaged in.
Mr. George Weiss, the winner of the other
$780, was a winner against his faith. He says
he never had faith in lotteries of any kind, and
that the ticket he bought and won for him $500
was forced upon him. Thus, while some men
are born lucky, others have luck thrust upon
them he bought the ticket the day before the
drawing and the next day found that he had
won s2in0 his surprise can better be imagined
than described. 1t was the third ticket he had
ever purchased, but be says that in the future ii
any month passes without his buying a ticket it
viii be because he has not got the dollar to buy
it with-lG Galveston (Tex.) News, July 9.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07

more surprising than that rioe, another
food substance, should be converted into
buttons and other useful articles, as Is
now a well known fact. Doubtless We
have the milk to spare; or, IL We have
not we can soon work the supply up TO
any demand entirely profitable TO the
dairymau. But is It not Just possible
that this suggestion of the Times. II well
founded, may not work against US In the
direction OF soon retiring rice buttons
from general circulation by Leading peo-
pie into eating them for the rice OF wnlcn
they are composed? Who knows! IL
strikes us that rice buttons would %
found as fair an article OF diet, IN every
respect, as celluloid.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07

good deal of experience within the past
nifty years, to say nothing of the fact
that we have large library that can be
referred to in the interest OF inquiring
friends. Under these circumstances it
always affords US pleasure to hear from
patrons of THE GAZETTE and to sum up
for them, as far as possible, such infor-
nation as they may feel themselves IN
need Of. And furthermore, We are not
drawing the lines overly close relative to
the themes suited for this oolumn--sl-
most anything proper TO appear In
newspaper comes in our line here.
But with reference TO your "star OF
Bethlehem, - now quite extensively
talked of, we believe, 1t rather pains us
TO be forced into dispelliug the poetical
aud pleasing Illusion. The star of Beth
lehem-part of 1t Is all nonsense. Your
beautiful star is simply the planet Ju-
piter, always as much with us as at the
present time. True, as in the case OF all
the other planets, there are times when
he appears with greater conspicuity than
at others, and the present happens to be
one of those times. His present rare
brIlliancy was what attracted attention
and stimulated some fellow into invent
ing the star of Bethlehem foolishness,
including the 100 years story.
We now have in the evening an I'M
usually fine display of planets. If you
trace the heavens directly westward
from Jupiter, soon after he has arisen,
YOU will come to beautiful reddish star
almost due south, and in the midst of a
cluster of smaller stars known TO astron-
omers as "the Scorpion. This is the
planet Mars. At the same time about
setting in the west will appear the planet
Venus, now our evening star. Not far
above Venus is the planet Saturn, but at
present so inconspicuous as not to be SO
easily pointed out. The other bright
stars in sight are all fixed stars. We
may take 1t upon ourself to tell the young
folks something concerning these in the
near future.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07

Your article on poisoning the cotton worm IS
certainly very interesting reading for the Texas
cotton planter. Cannot you supplement IL win IN
an article setting forth how we may COOK l'S
goose for the boil worm, which, OF the two,
consider the worst pest! O. b u.
Dallas county, Tex.
A means of effectually destroying the
boil worm has not been discovered as yet.
Placing lights IN the field to burn the fly
or moth producing it, which is Knight
fiying,' has been much recommended,
though really we cannot say that it does
any great amount of good. The
notion prevailing that the fly de-
posits her eggs in the night strictly,
is mistake. Some of the eggs
may be deposited in the night, but most
of them, as we have discovered, are de-
posited between shutdown and dark of an
evening or between dark and sunrise of a
morning. The fly does most of its NOV
ing IN these times, remaining inactive
through the remainder of the night. On
this account there are no good grounds
for hoping to accomplish much with fires
in the field.
Some persons plant corn about or
through the cotton field to attract tho
moth from the cotton. This might do
some good provided the boil worm was
only single brooded, or provided the corn
would remain in the roasting ear the
season through, all of which being other
wise we take it that the corn does more
harm than good. The brood of worms
bred and transformed in the corn patch
will start new brood to work on the
| cotton later when the corn has passed
| into q condition not suited to the wants
of the insect. We must confess that we
| know of no effectual means by which
| cotton NAV be protected from boil worms.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07
New Use for Milk.

The New York Times tells US that
chemistry has lately discovered a method
of converting milk into celluloid SO fine
and hard as to be, in almost every re-
speet, the entire equal of ivory. Made
into billiard balls, knife handles, door
knobs aud such useful matters, it has
met with general satisfaction. The en-
tire milk product, curd, whey and all (,
Is evaporated and hardened into this
new substance; 1t Is awakening de-
cidedly new interest in milk. The Times
adds that "a food substance entirely in
destructlble by decomposition, possessing
highly nutritious properties, is thus in
troduced, and one may have the salts
faction of filling his home with orna-
mental work, that when the fashion
changes may be ground up and eaten In
various acceptable forms, as soups,
cakes, tarts, biscuits and other prepara-
tions which the cooks brain alone j:
capable of inTenting.'
This discovery is q very important one,
no doubt. There is nothing at all un-
reasonable about 1.-THE conversion Of
mix into artificial ivory 10 q thing NJ