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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-07-01
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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16

have a small patch of Paspalum plstycauli,
locally known in different regions as carpet
grass and Louisiana grass. 1t Is succeeding
niagnifcently on the ordinary sandy lands to be
met with in Ellis county. A friend at Ander-
son, Tex. sent me the seed two wears ago. |
divided the seed with reighbor, and though
mine did not succeed SO well as his, wouldn't
at all consider offer OF $50 for my start, pro-
vided I could get no seed 20 make new
start with. /. has shown itself to be the best
all the-year grass l have yet seen. PropagateS
Itself, and is easily DESTROYED IN case the tan9
should he wanted for some other crop Several
times l nave tried to get more seed with view
to extending nv acreage, but so lar have met
with failure in that direction. ANY reader
having friends living in Liberty MONTGOMERY
counties, where the grass grows to considerable
extent, nigh: get start through them !: also
grows rather plentifully about Leon springs, N
Bazaar county, Tex. Ore pint of seed would
rod or more OF ground.
l send you by mail a sample OF the grass, and
trust you will try il and report success later:
The test will show whether or not il can stand
the winter in the latitude OF Fort Worth:
Ennis, Tex. c. I. HOGAN.
The sample came to hand in good con-
dltion aud was promptly given place in
which to grow. There can be no doubt
relative TO its standing the winters at
Fort Worth, as it tiourishes all over the
Eastern gulf states as far north rs Ten
nessee. While not so nutritious grass
rs some species we have in Texas. it may
CeIldluIy Dc ClbseSu Us u itL!lJ -OOb
grass. Can stand more Grouth and
more hard usage generally than any
other grass we know of-the more stock
eat it down and tramp over it the bet
ter it appears TO spread. 1t has taken
possession of all the old roads aud most
of the abandoned old fields in the coast
country of Alabama, and though not
growing so tail there rs it would grow
OF better lands, it affords very fine stock
rickiug through winter and summer.
Is not what could be termed winter
grass, Us sharp frost cute it down, but
within IL week after the killing it is up
again from the root high enough for
stock to get at it. The sod formed by it
is so compact that Bermuda grass is soon
forced to succumb where it gets fair
setting. On account of compai alive low
growth it is not regarded as suitable
for hay grass.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16
Hop Culture for Texas.

Our recent article on this subject seems
to have attracted no small degree of at
tention IN various quarters. The Balti-
more Manufacturers Record sides with
US, anu states that through the past
eight years it has urged Southern culti-
vators to pay ct least some attention to
the hop crop. The crop would undoubt-
edly do well in Texas. It has been quite
generally growu-not cultivated-for
domestic use in yeast making and for
a pain alleviator, and there are few old
fashioned homes in the Southern country
places anywhere that do not have nea.
them one or two roots that send up vines
and bear n crop annually. Inquiries
made in many localities have failed to
find a single instance in which the fruit
has been injured by mildew or in
sects two serious troubles that frequently
destroys the crops of the Northern hop
districts. 1t has also been shown that
Southern hops mature much earlier than
at the North, and in Texas they could be
sun and air cured, thus saving the cost
OF the dry houses, and the expense of
the processes employed elsewhere. Then,
because of the cotton presses on almost
every plantation, there would be no need
of purchasing other baleing machines.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16

1t gets ahoRt in the country that there
is Il great deal of improvement on the
list for certain cities this winter, and
that prospects for work in various lines
are better than ever before. The city
papers tell the tale "a true one, proba-
bly,, and q person reading them might
reasonably jump to the conclusion that
q man in the city, just at this particular
time, would find himself running stiff
race TO keep out of the way of anv kind
of work that any person might be able TO
do. AS result the country boy wakes
gloomy. He is not making much ofany-
thing in the country at this season of the
year, while, were he in town, he might
be rpkiug in his hundreds without half
trying. In not few cases, says the
Northwestern Agriculturist, il tells on
him till he resolves TO quit country life
and go TO the city. He goes. lie offers
himself at the first business house he
comes across, and, to his surprise, is
promptly snubbed. He tries something
else-same result. He tries everything
same result. Everything is fail.
The papers had not thought of
telling him that, while there was
plenty of business in promise for the city
this winter, there were also plenty of
city people trained in all the lines, wait
ing for an opportunity to do it. There
are always more people out of work, and
anxious for something to do in the city,
than there is (or ought to be) in the
country, and since they were raised in
the city, and therefore know all about
city ways, and are able to give city ref
ereuces (Which last the country boy is
seldom able to do), the strange country
i !,
ton with them.
1t don I take him overly long TO find
ali this out for himself If he happens to
be n sensible boy. He stays few days
getting decidedly more discouraged the
longer he stays, and finally, if he has
not fallen into the hands of city sharpers
who have involved him in some kind of
trouble, he turns back TO his old home
in the country wiser if not better
youngster than he was on the day that
saw him quitting the farm.
We had q little peculiar experience
with one of these aspiring country
youths less than many moons ago. He
came to Fort Worth and hunted US up.
His father, he said, took THE GAZETTE,
and they all read the agricultural de-
partment the first thing. Our name, as
appearing at the head of that depart
ment, had grown familiar TO them, and
since they knew no person in the city, it
was unanimously agreed, when he had
decided 10 become great merchant,
that il would be best, on reaching town.
to hunt usu up and get us to put him on
the track of soma large and responsible
wholesale dry goods store. He had set
his head on figuring as salesman in a
house of this character. So fur he was
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16

well pleased with the town he told us and
now the only thing troubling himwas how
he should manage to find some trusty per-
son who could be hired at reasonable
figures to ride back the horse which had
brought him from his fathers farm some
seventy miles in the country. He was,
probable about twenty-one years of age,
and had the appearance OF being
very good kind OF youngster SO far as
he knew how to be.
We frankly told him that in our opin-
Ion he was on a ''wild goose chase, -
but he didn't at ell seem to think that
way about it, so we showed him the
Martini Brown Co. esta blishment. He
had heard of that house, and hence
when we pointed out to him others of
our wholesale dry goods houses, with
few wholesale grocery houses thrown in,
he didn't appear to be much interested.
He left us with thanks for what he
called our kindness, and we saw no more
of him until three days larer. on that
day we were out along the public road
some miles from the city, where we met
moving slowly countryward au eppar-
emily wsyworn traveller. As he ap-
preached We recognized him as our young
rural friend and confident aspirant to
He was taking his fathers horse home
himself, and his fathers horse was TAX
ing him home-to stay we were forced to
conclude, judging from how he looked
and what he said. The city didn't need
him for anything, he told us, though he
had tried to find an opening IN almost
every branch of business represented in
Fort Worth. All parties to whom he
had applied treated him kindly, but not
one had an opening that they seemed to
think him qualified 10 fill. He could
have found WORK as n common laborer,
but he had plenty of that at home. lie
reckoued the country still had some use
for him, and so he was on his way back
to turn over a new leaf and make him
self more useful to the country than he
had ever done before. There was girl
in the country who didn't want him to
come to town nohow, and be guessed
she d be glad enough of his failure; and
now, when he came to think of how very
sad she looked when he rode away, he
couldn't say that he was overly sorry
himself. 'Good-byel Call on US if
ever you come out our way!' and he
was gone.
And thus it usually turns out, with the
exception that it don't always terminate
SO fortunately as in the case of our
young ruralist, and with n display of
so much good, hard, common sense.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16
Irrigat,nE From aDeep Valley.

Not long ago we stated in these
columns that in all proba pility the wa
tiers of the Trinity might be raised By
steam power and probably employed in
irrigating adjacent high levels. We now
see by the Colorado Farmer that exactly
that kind of thing is being done in Coll
orado to entire satisfaction. There is in
that state small stream called Cherry
creek, which has cut for itself a mar
row valley more than 100 feet below the
common level. Its banks are a gravel
formation of such character that were q
dam thrown across it to check the on
ward flow, all the water of the creek
would at once pass away through the
earth. But the people have taken it in
hands, dug down to the bed rock, built
low dam and, to prevent the
escape OF water above the dam,
have run line of oemented walls on
each side Of the stream for distance Of
900 feet above the dam. Steam pumps,
capable of lifting Is, 900 900 gallons of
water daily to the levels above, have
been put In at the dam and set at work,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16
Irrigation for Strawberries.


While strawberries may do reasonably
well in some localities without irrigation,
It is now pretty well understood that a
regular wafer supply Is absolutely neces-
sary for getting out of the crop all there
Is in il. Even in regions where irrigation
is not considered at all necessary Tor
most ordinary crops. they are arranging
for artiGciaHy watering the strawberry
patch. Mr.. D. L. Weir, the noted hor-
ticulturist, writes that lie has been test
ing the matter thoroughly in Illinois
His water supply lad 70 be pumped from
well ll3 feet deep. 1t was thrown Into
large tanks, where it was allowed TO be-
come of The warmth of the air before
using II was conveyed by pipes to the
strawb berry beds, and was applied both
hv running il etween the rows ana by
sho,,eriug overhead. The results were
much the best where the water was al
lowed 20 Gow between the rows, though
Il was what might be termed excellent in
either case. lie got very much larger
Weld ana much longer season of fruit
than he could have hoped for without irri-
CATION. Ia one season when there seemed
t. ho as much rain ns strawberries
needed, be Gld not irrigate ali his field.
The portion irrigated gave him by far
the heaviest yield, though all were on
land exactly alike, ana in all respects,
outside OF the Artificial watering, were
treated in precisely the same way.
Mir. Wirr now lives in California.
There, he says, strawb berries are irrigated
bv flowing the water in burrows between
the rows, the plants growing on slight
ridges, and the secret Of their wonderful
and lOuu-coutinued healthy productive
ness there IS that their foliage is seldom
wet except by dews, and these are gen.
orally disslpHted in the morning before
the sun gets strong, therefore, their
foliage IS, It's rule, very healthy. In
fact, the tender, European wSeT-
ries, that are generally worthless East,
from foliage disease, do finely there. He
Is satisfied, that Strawberries ought TO
be irrigated anywhere, and he thinks by
far the best method Of applying the wafer
IS TO run it through the furrowa. Under
T. good system Of irrigation the dryer the
country lall other things being equal,
the better for the strawberry. 1t seems
TO lie plant peculiarly adapted TO re-
gIOus with but little rainfall. Give the
roots moisture and it has all it needs in
that line. Heavy summer rams on the
plants do by far more harm than good.
All OF which may be accepted as valu-
able hint for Texas. Ii does not call
for a very large quantity OF water to IL
rigate quite q patch OF straw berries.
About many of our Rrteslan wells there
is water enough permitted TO run TO
waste TO amply irrgate half acre or
acre patch 10 the crop.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16

freeze. If gathered early, the potatoes,
beng still sappy from a growing condi-
ton. are not apt 10 keep so well as If
left TO further ripeness.
Last week, while out in the country,
We saw man unbauking his potatoes
and spreading them out in the sun. on
asking him after the why's and where
fores he told us he had discovered that
they were sweating in the bauk, and he
feared they would all rot unless taken
out and dried. Folly! All potatoes
sweat in the bank. Let them sweat. 1t
is a part of the regular programme.
They are never at their sweetest and
best until they have gone through u
sweat
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16
Not After BAD Farming

Many who attempt to write for the
press appear 10 think that their efforts
should be directed towards the finding
fault with something or the abuse OF
somebody. Large numbers of favors re-
cetved 10y us are OF this character. No
such thing goes down with rs. All such
letters usually 60 TO the waste basket.
IN some cases where the letters contain
matter of general interest they are used
with the Objectionable portions cut out,
but il we happen t. be a little crowded
with our work the whole compoOdle
stands rrst-clns5 chance OF going by
the board.
We well know that there are not few
so-cnlled agricultural publications which
publish everything OF this kind, but our
department Of the Fort Worth GAZETTE
Is not f'that kind of eat. We are
DESTROYS OF telling our readers lots of
good things nhout improved agriculture
IN all its branches. and Of helping them
along all We possibly cun, but bad agri-
culture, II seems to Us. IS common
enough TO get along without the need of
any boosting in the papers.
II your ueIghbor Is not doing rs well ms
you can DO tell us what you can do and
leave your neighhnr out OF the question
DOM nttempt TO inlet upou Us a long
ricmarole about the bad things that
your ueighnor is dong. If what YOU
can do is really something above the
average. wen gladly spread an account
of it before the public, leaving your
np1EbSor TO make his own comparisons.
This is the only way Of renching him.
lie has his own opinions, the which he is
entitled TO have, and if It so happens
that they are opinions not well founded,
tile poorest way for changing them that
could possibly be adopted is to publicly
pitch into him about them. Such n
course discusts nm ut once, and after
that little thing has happened all your
future efforts are mere ''dddling to the
wind - so far as any eject in his par
ticular case IS concerned.
With 81 view 10 putting the reader on q
plain trail of what we are meaning,
we II proceed to offer Il genuine sample
Of the kind Of agricultural literature
that in our opinion could be OF no adj
vantage to the cause, and, therefore, is
not in demand Mt the Office OF the agrf-
cultural editor Of the Fort Worth GA
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Rars Astronomical Phenomenon Electric
Lighting and Pla'inGm-RsIn From the
North Fxplainsd-Mys erious
Lines on Mars.
We have a deeply interesting astrono-

We have deeply interesting astrono-
micaI phenomenon on the bills for this
coming-in- week. On Monday evening
18th, the moon will be in the very un-
usual position of q conjunction with two
important planets at the same time
Jupiter and Mars. The planets will be
not much moro than one degree apart,
and at any point in the neighhorhood of
some thousand miles east of Fort Worth,
say at Atlanta, Ga. they will set not far
from one hour after the sun, with the
moon appearing Immediately beneath
them and about equi- distant from each.
As viewed from Fort Worth the moon
Will appear little east of the planets at
the time Of setting. Should we happen
to have clear weather our admirers OF
astronomical phenomena will be favored
with q very pretty sight, and one tl4.
like of which they are not often afforded
the opportunity OF seeing. OF course
they will know that the planet on the
west side is Jupiter while that to the east
is Mars. There is nothing else in the way
of astronomical phenomena for this week
that could be regarded US worthy of spe-
cial mention.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16

1t seems TO me that the present is good time
for suggesting to farmers that much may be
gained so far as relates to future crops through
a careful selection of seed especially in the
case of cotton and corn At one cotton gin
visited BY me in my rounds over this region of
country Learned that certain farmer had OBJ
tanned 500 pound bale of cotton from 1900
pounds of cotton in the seed, after paving the
gin toll Others fell short of a bale from 1000
pounds of seed cotton. l investigated and
learned that the farmer specially pointed out
had through some years carefully improved
his cotton by going over his fields and making
selection of the best specimens met with for
seed. He made choice of the finest and longest
lint with the smallest seed. His cotton has of
late sprung into such notoriety that there is
constant run on him for cotton seed to ba used
IN planting by his neighbOrs.
Ones corn may be greatly improved on the
same pian-Go over the field before gathering
and select for seed the best specimens in all de-
sirable respects. c. 7. HOGAN.
Ennis, Tex.
Our correspondent is undoubtedly cor
rect with reference to this matter. About
all the fine varieties in farm products
that we have are a result of careful Sc
lection. Every farmer ought to select
the best of everything he grows in saving
his seed. We may buy improved varie-
ties that have been reached by selection
in other sections of the country, yet we
may have local conditions that would
go far towards insulting them for best
results in our own section. Improve
ment obtained by selection in the region
where the crops are to be grown is al
ways the most reliable. for then we know
il ls an improvement entirely adapted TO
our own local requirements.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16

and the work OF extensive irrigation is
going on in apple-pie order. All parties
concerned are pleased and profted by
the arrangement.
Thousands upon thousands of acres of
the finest lands known TO Texas might be
irrigated from the Trinity and the Brazos
without tina necessity of lifting the water
anything like as much Is 100 feet, and
then there would exist no need what ever
of constructing cemeuted walls TO pre-
vent loss from underhow.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

This department is devoted to answering such
questions as may be asked by subscribers,
which may be of general information. Inquiries
of personal character that require answer by
mail should always nave stamps inclosed Please
give full name and postotice address, in addi-
ton to any such signature as 'Subscriber,' or
"A. G. D." not tor publication, but to enable
US to communicate promptly with the inquirer.
Parties desiring answers by mail must lnclose
lamp Tor return pos tage.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16
On Making sauer Kraut.

Directions for putting up cabbage as
sauer kraut on plans adopted by certain
Texans, have already appeared in these
columns. No doubt the plans worked
very we'll, but il seems that while sauer
kraut goes off as about the same thing in
the end, regardless of methods employed
il the making, the fgct still remains that
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16

been successfully mined by the Russians
since 1875.
Some scientists have been experiment
ing on the range OF human hearing, Win
what they seem &c consider nieTe'u-s
results. In their experiments theE i'lL'
thai the ticking Of a watch WIS dls'.ne'!
audible ct distance @. tea ieeI 1l
lire at right angles 10 the htad' WI
moving the watch - deg. tn front oil 'A'
line, the tick could be heard fourteen
feet AWAY; at an angle of 40 deg, olF
six feet; and at - deg, only three ''.'.
Placed - deg. back Of the line, wv
watch could not be heard N"goA- -
feet. The total range OF Aeai.u- va,
about % deg, the direction ~ create
acuteness being - deE. i'm front Oh NV
imaginary line through the ears
scending from the Horizontal Tue
ing distance increased from ten lve- ~
maximum of twelve feet ~ 80 leg, o..
then deer ased unit. reduced ID .a,y
feet at 80 deg. GA carrying I"' '.,n.
inward, the sound decreased -'ra1','
till an angle OF % deg. y COMA O7 '-'''
only three feet away.
The planet Mas seems 20 -7 m
puzzling astromer- OF the present ,-r.
account of remarkable cNA-- WIN
stantly taking place on his sIII"'' ,'.-.,si
their powerful telescopes IN'' ..,,rg
what appeared to be uarr1" ssA' -@. .5,.
about over the planet. Later u o ere
ooysrad that some Of these -sA' NJ
crossed by straight lines, ;1a' 'ls.. ..grql
osophy made out must 10 ,',orrog.
bridges CONSTRUCTED on an ,Tsirg,.
scale by great and highly ci'!.--s- -.,n5,sr.r
The land is also seen 70 be Lar Lave
lined off and these last the! az.
thonrht must be great canals l"I 10th
,reme r.pnIarlty OF the iIn7s' u, ~ ,-ob.
cases, would appear to de=''.! -,inr.s.
ability of their being natural ,rs1c. tie
one school Of astronomers a.. AL but
idea that these lines are Ao' ', vay
on,ioaI iIIusiou. resulting III 'y- ,, III.
from the refractiou Of lsnI, ~ ~ mem
h t,Gm 'n npa canal schools coma q lines Inc.
with the damaging fact taA. . Nv 1Isnsu,
appear to the Observer o. o''. 80 u cas /,
and that did the Illusions a..F5- N az :
nass ,bev wound certainly a2f7a' .,,,I..
o,ber And thus the m7s'erE made
Ca, , ~ are now benz 4. - IN.
m IN ,s'e.cnnes and with th7 iinIlsn n.,rle.
s,rumeuts that are il prOce' ,,'r. soo1 ts
ton the mystery VII
solved.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16
Pronunciation of a Name.

Several patrons here have been in dispute
over the correct pronunciation of the name OF
the agricultural editor Of The Fort Worth GA
gErrB. Some say it is Steele and others Stellee,
the accent being on the last syllable, while still
others have it Sicily accented the first syilA-
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-16

bic. Viii you please Sc. US right in your ques-
ton and answer column. PATRON.
Dallas, Tex.
1t is pronounced Stell, the last 'e' in
the name as spelled being silent, as in
house. Rhymes with Tell.