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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-11-14
course.

The, age is prolific of marvels, in
deed, and it may be said that electric
ity is the chief agent in producing
them. Man has laid his hands on the
subtle, strange and awful force,
dragged it from its hiding places, and
made it his slave TO do his work-not,
indeed, without some grave misgiv-
ings that it may, in the end, become
his master; and the world is looking,
with feeling akin to exhiliaration, to
see what is TO come of it.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-11-14
A Cross-Examiner Answered.

A story is being told at the expense
of one of the leaders of the parlia-
mentary bar. He was engaged iunn
Irish railway bill before n committee
of the house of commons, and min.
licking the pronunciation of an Irish
witness whom he rose to cross-ex-
anime, he asked il Waterford was
spelled with two Us in the witnesses
part of the country. "No,' said the
witness; "but ! spell manners with
two MS" This concluded the cross
examinntion'-Pall Mall Gazette.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-11-14

THE change lately introduced in the
courts OF New York, by which all
divorce cases are to be tried in open
court and not in private rooms before
referees. is having an evident bene-
fetal effect on society there. There is
no question that the number of fradu-
lent divorces will be greatly lsssened.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-11-14
Two Old Sta mps.

Tho National museum ut Washing
ton. through the liberality Of John A.
Brill of Philadelphia. has come into
possession of two stamps issued under
the act of 1866. which led to the Ameri.
can revolution. They were required to
be placed on all documents. Mr. Brill
was offered large sum for them. but
preferred to place them where they
legitimately belonged.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-11-14
Why It Hasn't Increased.

The town Vt Giroy. CAL. which Is In
the heart Of rich country. has added
only iwelve to it's population In ten
years. This il because the land Is held
by largo owners in ranches OF many
thousand acres. and small farmers can
NOT yet fvolhold.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-11-14

The law to prevent the carrying of
lottery advertisements and letters for
lottery companies N the mails has had
a good educational effect upon the
people. aside from the material
suppression OF the lotteries themselves.
AS rule the better public sentiment
will be with the laws of the country in
ali real reform.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-11-14
MICH

MARRIED school mistresses In Gin.
cinnati. whose term OF Office is uncer-
tain after the present year, may be
consoled by the fact that time was
when professors and teachers OF the
other sex were served with letters of
dismissal if they ventured to enter the
holy bonds of matrimony.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-11-14

New York t1ty is to have a public
bath established on the principle of
the ancient Roman baths Of Caracnlla.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-17

Herewith send you an article entitled His
tory of Agriculture in the Southern States. >
You may consider it rather long to appear in =
single issue, but it is so divided of that you
may, if you like, let it appear, saw IN two-col /
umn installments until the whole has been pub
lished. l consider it new theme FOR news
paper, and hatter myself that the readers OF
your agricultural department will be pleased
with it, particularly the tables of statistics. II,
however, it should so happen that you could
not publish il please return the manuscript.
Denison, Tex. ffs
After thanking you for the interest in
our efforts made manifest by the large
paper you have prepared for our use +,
please allow US to say with much regret
that its great length throws it entirely
outside of our plans. 1t will afford US
much pleasure to hear from our friends,
and to publish every good thing they
may be pleased to send us, but those
good things must invariably be short.
We regard variety as the spice of life,
and IN order that variety may prevail
with each weekly appearance of our ag-
ricultursl department we must exercise
brevity. People are not willing to read
long agricultural articles nowadays,
and if they were it is not our disposition
to ask it of them. So don t send US
long articles-cut it short in every case.
Then, again, history would not
take well in the agricultural department
of q newspa per, especially if long drawn
out. The book writers have attended to
all that, and we can t get the consent of
our mind to interfere with the books.
The manuscript sent is held subject to
your order, accompanied by stamps to
pay return postage.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-17
Teosinlte VIII Not Do.

Oflate some of the North Texas papers
have been highly recommending teosinite
(Rena luxurium) as forage plant for
this section of the state. Mr.. George
II. Hogan of Ennis, Tex, a man who
always knows what he is talking about,
tells the Stockman and Farmer that it
will not do ut all. He says no forage
plant can be safely recommended for q
region where it will not SOW itself. This
kind of job teosiuite will not do above
80 deg. north latitude. 1t is very suscep-
tIble to.even a slight frost. Why should
men throw away the chance to raise
peas, sorghum, milo maize alfalfa field
corn, or dozen other old and well-tried
forage plants, in order to experiment
with some humbug with high sounding
title? This thing of running after
strange gods is very expensive to the
runner, sometimes. 1t is well enough
to experiment with new things where
there is a reasonable chance for success,
but where there is not, as Mr.. Hogan
has clearly set forth to be the fact IN
this case, such experimentation would
be simply fragrant folly.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-17

not being farmer Is generally restricted
us to space about his premises, so that
economy of barn and stable room is not
only an object but necessity. While in
this regard you will have to utilize TO the
best advantage the buildings at hand I,
aim TO make the stable apartment COM
Portable and healthy. You will find that
q handwriting box, with which you can
cut up all your hay and straw, as it is
fed, will make ton of fodder last a
great deal longer, and serve the wants
of your COW better than il fed loose.
Take hay in its common condition, for
instance; COW will eat of it gingerly !,
and practically dry off in milk on the
diet. Take the same hay and run it
through q cutting-machine, mix guam
tity of il up with a small portion of
moistened meal, and the animal will eat
1t with aVidity, at the same time in
creasing her milk secretion. There IS a
great deal of nutriment in the hay, and
the only trouble lies in getting the raw
material into the cows stomach, where
it can be digested. The treatment sug-
gested will do this, and at the same time
add something of a relatively greater
value to keep the system properly braced
up. Chopprng hay and straw is great
thing, whore economy of feed is de-
sired.
Too many persons depend largely on
wheat bran as a cow food. 1t may do
reasonably well in connection with cut
hay, but fed alone it is about the poorest
food that could be giy>1. The cow must
have coarse food--it is necessary for her
natural distention.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-17

An article headed as above, and
credited to the St. Louis Globe DEM
oorat, is now being extensively copied
into the papers, which says: "When a
morse stops and proposes to turn around
don't resist the turn, but give him a
quiet, horizontal pull in the direction he
wants to turn, so as to carry him farther
around than he intended TO GO, and, il
possible, keep him going around half q
dozen times. In most cases this will up
set all his calculations and he will go
quietly on without much ado.
This may read all nice enough to the
dude who has never driven a horse, but
the practical man well knows that in
very many cases the advice given, if
strictly carried out, while it might upset
the plan of the horse, it would, at the
same time, be very apt to upset the
buggy also. "When a horse stops and
proposes to turn round' he doesn t in
variably lay his plans for turning round
in large circle. Verify, some of our
agricultural editing is wonderful to con-
template! We clip the extract from the
Texas Farmer of Dallas, where it ap-
peared without comment.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-17
On Marking Cotton.

The Alliance Journal, published at
Montgomery, in the cotton belt of Ala
bama, says in that state. and it is sup
posed to ne about the same in
all the cotton states, bad mark
ing of cotton by the farmers in
shipping is the source of much
annoyance and delay in the handling of
it. Often it is impossible to make out
the marks, and in many instances they
do not get their own cotton, due largely
to their own carelessness. Every farmer
should have stencil with the initial let
ters of his name cut out of piece of tin
and mark his cotton with it; also put the
number upon the bale, beginning with
one, and have all of it placed upon
the railroad receipt. The advantage
of putting the number upon the
bale and upon the railroad receipt Is =,
should the railroad lose the bale the
farmer can at once know the particular
bale lost and put in a claim for that par
tioular bale; whereas, if the numbers
are not placed upon the bales, and one
should be lost, he would have to put all
of his railroad receipts in with the claim.
Another advantage of the numbers upon
the bale: 1t enables the farmer to keep
track of his cotton, and if there is any
mistake made in weighing he can moro
easily detect it and locate the bale upon
which it is made. Cotton should be
marked upon both heads of the bale, as
it facilitates the truckers and checkers in
handling it. If these suggestions are OBJ
served there will not be any complain of
lost cotton.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-17

in diameter, not above three inches. and
it has small pipe or nozzle about the
size of goose quill leading out from one
side of it. You work it with one hand by
repeatedly opening and closing the fin
gers upon It, and while in operation it
finely, and with considerable force sends
out a discharge of the dry powder from
the pipe. Procure the powder and an
atomizer, and with the latter blow the
former into the ears of your cattle.
Every tick getting grain of the powder
by coming into contact with 1t is
promptly killed, after which it lets go its
hold and falls off. Two-bits' worth OF
the powder Will be ample for treating
500 cattle.
Ticks on the udder or other parts of
the animal may be removed by an appll-
cation of kerosene.
Buhasch is the powdered flowers OF
the pyrethrum plants. 1t is no more in
furious to man or cattle than would be
ground coffee.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-17
Care of Milk Vessels,

The Prairie Farmer says the best and
most thorough way to purify milk vessels
is to plunge them several times in ket-
tie or tank of water, which, through the
process, is kept at a boiling temperature.
We should always bear in mind that the
fungi and bacteria inhabiting milk YES
sells are of microscopic character, and
seams which appear clean TO the naked
eye may in reality DE teeming with one
of the most minute aud destructive forms
of animal life.
In an article on the same subject COL
man IS Rural World advises never to scald
milk utensils before washing, as scald-
Ing will make the Gaseous matter adhere
in an insoluble form that can be removed
only by scraping and securing. First
rinse the article in cold water thoroughly;
then wash in tepid water that the hand
can be kept in, using a little alkali,
and when well washed and rinsed, scald
with clean boiling water aad set aside so
that it will dram dry-don' wipe it, as
the article is likely to be cleaner than
the cloth. II il is a matter of necessity
TO wipe some articles. use a perfectly
clean cloth that nothing else has been
wiped with.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-17

II it is not intruding upon your time Will you
please tell me something of the little excres
cences upon the twig send in box by this same
mail? The jessamine. from which 1 take the
twig seems perfectly healthy, and the specimen
sent is the only twig affected. Do you think 1t
will iniure the plant if more comes? The in
sects, or whatever they are, appeared on this
twig ali in Que night-there were no indications
ing led me to think it might possibly be the
eggs OF some insect Mrs. L. Z. WAGNER.
Baird, Callahan county, Tex.
The twig has glued upon it two rows
of chestnut olored eggs, each fiat, per-
feetly oval in outline and about one
eighth of an inch in length, But for the
color thew would remind one somewhat
of little cautilope seeds. The two rows
occupy the same side of the twig, and
extend along it about three inches.
They strangely lap on each other at the
edges of contact, and the eggs compos-
ing them are arranged TO break joints on
the principle of putting down bricks IN
pavement.
You need give yourself no uneasiness
so far as regards any i'll that might be-
fall your shrubbery from what you have
discovered The beautiful specimen sent
US is katydid g nest, and If you had not
disturbed it few weeks later you would
have found a family of katydids among
your shrubs making lively the evening
twilight hours by arguing the old, old
question as to what Katy did and what
Katy didn t.
The katydId is not classed as an injuri-
Gus insect never appears in numbers
sufficiently large to do any particular
harm TO vegetation. The scientific name
of the species under consideration is
Phylloptera obiongifolia.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-17
The Family Cow.

Thousands of persons in Texas who are
not farmers or ranchmen IN any sense of
the word, keep cow or two for family
use. 1t is good thing TO do, but there
are often serious mistakes made in this
kind of COW keeping business. Mr..
George E. Newell, whose name is ia
miiar to the readers of agricultural lit
erature, writing for the Prairie Farmer,
says very many of such COW keepers re-
gard the COW as they might their dog or
cat-simply an animal requiring food,
drink and possibly shelter, nothing more.
OF course the COW requires all these, but
if the owners were to reflect a little they
might easily come to the conclusion that
in the manner of offering these things,
and in their quality is gagged the cows
income TO the family. True, the owner
of such cow may have little time to
spare that he could devote to giving her
his attention. He may be a person
forced TO labor for his daily bread, and
hence have to be up and off before day
light IN the morning, so the COW has to
wait patiently for any attention she is to
receiye. The wife looks after her,
eventually, but it may be she has to
stand around and "moo'' long time
before sue is lol out u Craze lOT uer
morning meal. AS q rule her habits are
very irregular, and just as such is the
case are her profits to her owner cut
down.
Mr.. Newell, by way of Offering a few
hints TO such COW owners, says in the
first place is wanted a good cow-you
want as good a COW in the way of breed
as does your farmer neighbor. True,
you may not have a need TO advertise on
pedigree, nevertheless you want q good
COW. If you can keep up but one COW
and need no more your family being
smalD it would probably be best for you
to get jersey.
A good COW is capable of yielding
large flow of milk-just what your off,
spring need to blossom roses on their
cheeks and make their limbs plump and
hard.
Yes. family COW is great institution
nay, a blessing, when rightly man
aged. First in the managing part
comes feed, representation being the
first law of nature. 1t is almost unnec-
essary to say "feed we'll, because that
has been the war cry so long that it rings
in the ears Of the most obtuse dairyman.
Feed economi ally; that Is, give your
cow heroic quantity of such food as
will generate the most milk. Use good,
foods, and fight shy of
most of the so-called new discoveries In
the way of cow rations. Feed on nothing
save what you know to be all right, and
do it with liberal hand.
The laborer who owns only one COW,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-17
Print Works In Flames.

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Aug. ia fire
started in the Dunnell print works at
Paw tuckett at I o'clock this morning
and is now raging. Three explosions
have occurred. at s:25 1t looked as
though the fire would be the most de-
structiye IN many years. The plant is
one of the largest in the state.
UNDER CONTRoL-Loss $500, 900.
Later-The fire is now under control.
Loss roughly estimated at from $50 900
to 5000 900; fully insured. All the old
works, covering about three acres, were
burned. The new buildings, covering an
acre, were saved, but in damaged con-
dition. The print works and dyeing de-
partment are all destroyed. All the ma
chinery and 500 brass rolls, engraved.
were lost.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-17
Ticks and Texas Fever.

Enclosed please find bottle containing ticks
OF spiders-we are at a loss TO give them a name
Whatever they are they were taken out of tn G
ear of cow which exhibited every symptom of
Texas fever, but which speedily recovered after
the insects had been removed. We wish to learn
what the insects are and whether or not they
have anything to do with causing Texas cattle
fever. We would also ask what, If anything,
can be put into the ear of the COW that will kill
the insects without injuring the animal? We
have talked the matter over among ourselves,
and knowing that THE GAZETTE has at all times
ChampioDed our stock interests, we have con-
cluded to place the matter in your hands. Please
publish results of your Investigations in Weekly
GAZETTE, there are hosts of persons inter-
ested in the same matter. j. @. HARMA,
President Nolan and Fisher Livestock Ass ocia-
ton, Sweetwater, Tex.
The insects sent represent the ordinary
cattle tick common in about every sec
ton of the American continent. For long
time has prevailed to q greater or less err
extent, in this state the notion that it
might in some way be associated with
Texas cattle fever, but the most anthem
tic scientific Investigations have led to
the decision that it has nothing what
ever to do with the malady. OF course
such a case as mentioned by Mr.. Harma
would look rather suspicious, but then,
all cattle affected by Texas fever do not
die; and Furthermore, the symptoms,
though talIyIng closely with those of the
fever, might not have pointed to a genu-
inc case. So early as 1868 specimens of
this same tick werc sent to Professor C.
V. Riley, now United States entomolo-
gist, for his Identification, and for his
opinion as to whether or not it caused
Texas cattle fever. In his reply, pub
lished In the American Entomologist for
September, of that year, he stated that
the ticks could not possibly have any
thing to do with the fever.
The latest Investigations have shaped
theory to the effect that Texas fever is
due to q microbe working in the blood
and tissues of the animal, and the thing
seems to be shaping towards the conclu-
sion that bad water taken by the cattle is
the primary cause of infection. or course
the disease readily communicates from
one animal to another, but the belief
that it starts from bad water in the first
instance is rapidly gaining ground. Bad
water is supposed to be the natural home
of these microbes, yet, when taken into
the animal economy, they speedily adapt
themselves to the peculiar conditions
fouLd there.
The ticks are bad enough, of them
selves, but simple means of removing
them from the ears without injuring the
animal lies within the easy reach of all.
There is a powder, harmless to man and
all the bruts creation, but death 10 in-
scots, which may be had at the drug
stores under the name of Persian insect
powders, or buhasch. There IS also for
sale, usually, small instrument of the
bellows kind called an atomizer. 1t is.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-17

Mr.. Dick Ma lor of Scottsyille, Tex. &,
seems to have at sometime given 1t to the
public that music in the air would pre-
vent kicking COW from exhibiting her
peculiarities while the milking process
was under way. And thereupon Puella,
Jr. lady correspondent OF the Mar
shall Gazette, undertakes to show up
how Dick makes the thing work, as fol-
lows:
emusic hath charms to soothe the saw
age breast 1t also has the power to
soothe a restless COW. Mr.. Dick Naylor
read in some agricultural paper some
time ago, that kicking COW could be
easily MIXED if the mixer would sing to
her, in a low sweet tone, while the lac
teal fluid was being extracted. The
other morning, while he was milking old
Muley, the mild eyed old bovine sud-
denly, and without previous notice,
kicked the milk cup out of his hand and
deluged him in quart or more of milk.
The sudden and unexpected incident ex-
asperated Mr.. Naylor no little; and his
first impulse was to chastise Mrs.
Muley with the calf rope; but he
suddenly bethought of the vocal
music remedy he bad read about, So,
gently approaching the old COW, he
opened up his calIiope with "Tbe Lone
Starry Hours Muley elevated her
ears attentively and allowed the milking
process to 20 on without further molesta-
ton. After finishing the two stanzas of
"Lone Starry Hours the musical
mixer turned on that sweet, plaintive
air, "When Twilight Dews are Falling
Fast The COW evidently enjoyed this
song also, and indeed, who would not
enjoy the soft strains of such a pretty
song floating out upon the mild air at 5
o'clock in the morning? She stood like a
statue, her head poised in the most at
tentive attitude. But this song, like the
first, being short and sweet, came to an
end before the milking did. In fact
old Muley seemed to be trying to see how
much milk she could give. She prob
ably felt penitent for her misbehavior
and was endeavoring to make amends
for her rudedess. Presently the melodl-
GUS mixers voice found vent for the
dulcet strains of the "Girl Left Behind
Me.' BY this time old Muley was in an
ecstacy of delight, ana her body swayed
gently from side to side; but she made
no sign of kicking, while the milk pail
made O better showing for Muley than
ever before.
Imagine half dozen men, with voices
like fling a saw, performing this must
cal feat at as many COW lots of a thick
settlement, every morning lust as the
first "streak % day. is beginning to
outline itself in the distant east!
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-17

Professor J. W. Robertson, dairy COM
missioner at Ottawa, Canada, under
takes to answer this question by stating
that cream itself Is only that part of the
milk into which the globules OF fat have
been gathered in large plumbers. Cream
has no regular or constant per cent. of
fat; the range is from 8 per cent. to rs
per cent. In 100 pounds of cream there
may be only eight pounds of butter, or
there may be seventy-five pounds, &C.
cording to its quality of richness The
globules of fat have no skin, or organic
covering, distinct in constitution from
their own substance. Like drops of
quicksilver that have separated from
each other, they have no pellicle But
sometimes the serum of the milk be-
comes SO viscous that a quantity of il
will adhere TO the surface of the globules,
and like coating OF gum, will prevent
their movement upwards, when the milk
is set, or their movement inward, when
the milk is treated in a centrifugal
machine. Cream is simply the fat of me
milk, no matter how it may appear or
how 1t may act in our treatment of it.
Professor Robertson goes on to state
that il quart of warm water be stirred
into every pailfnl of milk when it reaches
the dairy room, the separat ng of the
cream will be facilitated. The water
may be of temperature anywhere be-
tween $50 degrees and $50 degrees Fab