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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-04
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Mr.. W. s. sherwood of Austin VT"
ing for Farm and Ranch, says he Is o.,
cidedly of the opinion that very nSl'
Texas farmers undertake 100 much =
their agriculture. It causes them 10
more work than they get pay fol-
ten acres skilfully managed viii pr'a-'.
more than twenty worked IN g carer
manner. you readily see the labor
expense of blowing ten acres is sS''s'
besides the future extra work to 'ui.
vste and harvest the crop. To illns'''s
the difference between doing "g u.
well or doing it in
old haphazard way, he states q -
ticular case. He himself put four ~ =,
to cotton. He spared no pains AZ
putting in, and in the subsequent ~
ture. The result was something ~ NJ
four bales of cotton. In sight " III
farm there was a field with I'd
naturally as good, and the owner ri
twenty acres Of 1t in cotton. DE
from the twenty acres less thsn IN
bales OF cotton. In the one case -.
four acres had to be plowed, hsrro"
chopped ont. cultivated and piokeu'
the otter case sill that had to be exisDa
over twenty acres. Comment Is
necessary
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-04
On Planting a Pecan Grove.

Having read in a late issue of THE GAZETTE
your article on Pecan culture in Texas, write to
ask further information relative to what dis
lance apart the tree should be planted. I pro-
pose planting nuts for pecan grove next fall.
Chillicothe, Tex. = G. E. JONES.
The usual distance for the Southern
States east of Texas is thirty feet, but in
Texas, where the tree more @inolines to
spread. forty feet is near enough. The
best Texas authorities are pretty well
agreed on this. OF course, so far apart
will, at first thought, appear a good deal
like waste of land, but it must be remem-
bered that the pecan is something put
there to stay, and that in thirty years it
will need all the space recommended.
Some pecan growers plant twenty feet
apart, intending to cut out each alter
nate tree when they are largeoenough to
crowd each other. While this may work
well enough, it presents no advantage
that we can see. The trees will need to
come out before they have attained to
really profitable bearing, and we think
their roots in the soil will have done
more harm to the trees that are to re-
main than will have been gained by their
product. AS timber crop they will
probably be worth something, but If
timber should be our object 1t would be
better to plant some more rapidly grow
ing tree in their places.
1t would be many years before pecan
trees forty feet apart would uuch inter-
fere with the land occupied, hence it
could be used right along for other pur-
poses, the same as il the trees were not
thsre. The pecan tree is not bad tree
to interfere with surface culture, as its
roots incline to run deep.
There appears 60 be a greater diversity
Of opinion concerning how the pecan
should be planted, than there is relative
to the distance apart. We think there
should not be. The pecan in its present
condition Is simply a natural growth,
therefore, the best thing to do In plant
ing it is to pattern after nature as closely
as possible. That would lead ms to plant
the nuts st the season when they fall
from the trees, and to make the soil re-
oeiying them as much like the best natu-
raj pecan soil as practicable. If an illu-
vial soil along some stream is the
site of the proposed pecan grove there
is little else to do other than put
in the nuts; but If, on the other hand, it
is q hard clayey OF waxy soil, then. we
think, a considerable hole should be dug
ont for each hill, and fill with mold
soil rich 10 decomposed vegetable mat
ter. Nothing like giving the young trse
a good send-of at the very start. 1t is
naturally a tap-root tree, and 1t cannot
make frst-clEss growth until it gets q
taD-root wen down. In its infan CT /, so to
speak, il = weak and 5inablert to do much
in the way of sending down tsp-root
through hard ground, but II favored in
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-04

flower pots or box with good garden
soil, having in it fair proportion of de-
composed vegetable matter, and SOW the
crumbled mass in it, covering, say one
fourth of an inch deep. Press the soil
lightly over the seeds. Keep the soil
regularly moist, but not extremely wet.
Everything eIse>is precisely the same as
producing delicate Towering plants from
seed. When large enough to handle the
plants can be put out where they are to
grow.
None of the plants will be apt to bear
fruit precisely like the parent. Many
will be inferior, few as good, perhaps,
a very few better, and once in while a
veritable prodigy results. 1t calls for q
good deal of patience. There is much of
chance in the transaction. The first eff
fort may develop grand variety, and
then, again, there may be hundreds of
failures before a single notable success
il rpanhad ~
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-04

John Charles Fremont, Nominated to That
Rank by the President
Maj. Zen. Fremont is now in his sew
enty- eighth year, and resides on Staten
Island. The lovely driveway which ex-
tends from New Brighton around the
shore Is lined by stately old mansions
with Corinthian pillars, as well as with
more modern Queen Anne and gothic
cottages. In one of the latter is the
present home of John c.. Fremont, the
daring and half-forgotten presidential
candidate, with whose name the
country once rang from end to
end. Old he is, but feeble not at
all. He carries his years with
3 step as springy and a form as straight
as they were when he carved pathway
over the Rocky mountains to the the new
FL Dorado, nearly fifty years ago. His
snowy white hair and whiskers are as
neatly kept as we're his blond locks in
the days when he stole the heart of
pretty Jesse Benton IN spite of her
fathers protests.
nah, Ca, January 81, 1873. was ap-
pointed a professor of mathematics in
1889, and lieutenant in the Topographic
cal corps. His journey across the Rocky
mountains in 1913, his candidacy for the
presidency in 1856, and service in Mis-
souri, and Western Virginia in the civil
war, are so many chapters in American
history. He resigned his commission in
1862. President Hayes appointed FIRE.
mont governor of Arizona in 1877.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-04

Mrs. Ella Dietz CIymer, President of
Sorosis, New York City.
The movement toward q federation Of
the women s clubs, set on foot by sorosis
when she celebrated her twenty-first
birthday last spring, eliminated in a
convention at Scottish Rite hall. New
York city, on Wednesday, at which
sixty-four clubs were represented.
These clubs contain a large member
ship, and are found in widely sepa-
rated sections. The convention, which
was composed of about one
hundred women, who opened by Ella
Dietz Clymer, president of Sorosis and
chairman of an advisory committee, ap-
pointed last year at q meeting at the
Madison Square theater of delegates of
the women's clubs who helped Sorosis
celebrate her coming of age. Mrs
Clymer was born in England and came
TO this country when child. She is q
sister OF Linda Dietz, the actress, and
was herself an actress for time aud q
member OF Daley's company. Mrs.
Clymer is now widow and famous for
her beauty, taste in dress and sweetness
of'voiee@ She was one 81 the founders of
Sorosis.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-04

Following is the April crop report made up
from kilograms received from the Texas and Pa
cifc agents:
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-04
cnlIfornia Fruit Growing.

The Texan who can already see in
Texas the great fruit state thst she seems
sure to become, will find an interest in
the history of the fruit industry of CALI
forni a. A book entitled California
Fruits and How to Grow Them, - by Ed
ward F. Wickson says the first estab-
lishei variety of fruit IN California
appeared about the year 1916,
but fruit growing did not
amount to anything worthy of the
name until the gold digging craze was
over and people had 10 turn their atten-
tion to something else to make u living.
The nrst regular impetus was given TO
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-04

fruit culture in 1869, because then 10 10
first fresh fruits were sent east over wv
newly opened overland line. That Sc,
son g shipments;amounted to thirty-tnl'''
tons altogether of pears, apples, gfsp ray
and plums. In 1SSS,the shipments reac4 N
the enormous amounts Of 90, ~,
pounds of green fruits, l9,I0s,lin -,
pounds of dried fruits, 16. 1884 $40 pouH. !,
of raisins, and SO, 2S1 $40 POUNDS =
canned fruits.
The special interest to us in the to or,
going lies in its showing of how rapils
the fruit-growing industry may spl 81,
into prominence in a region favorSD'
for its prosecution.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-04
CROP REPORT.
While the Outlook for Wheat is Not so Good
as Last Year, the Loss is More than
Offset by Cotton and Corn.

Following is the April crop report made up
from kilograms received from the Texas and Pa
cifc agents:
RIO GRAEDE DIVISION.
wheat-The acreage sown to wheat this season
was about FIVE per cent. increase over last sea-
SON, but dry weather and the fly so damaged the
crop that ten per cent. OF the acreage was
plowed up and planted in corn and cotton. The
present condition of the wheat crop is not en-
couraging.
Oats-The increase in acreage of oats on this
division was confined to the section adjacent to
Colorado and SWeetwater, but the number of
acres plowed up along the division on account Of
damage, and planted in corn and cotton Offset
the increase, while some agents report present
condition of the oat crop ''good, - the general
outlook is unfavorable.
Corn-The acreage in corn this season will
probably exceed that of lasts.season by 10 per
cent.
Cotton-The acreage injection. will exceed that
OF last season by about 90 per cent.
EASTERN DIVISION.
Wheat-Agents between Mesquite and Fort
Worth are the only ones that report any wheat
sown this season. The crop suffered damage
of so per cent. and is in poor condition.
Oats-The acreage in oats on this division is
shout the same as last season. The crop has
been damaged, 20, per cent, and its general
Gosn-Agents report 20 per cent. increase in
CottonS1he increase in the cotton acreage is
20 per cent.
TRANsCoNTINANTAL DIVISION.
Wheat-No wheat sown this season east of
Paris. Bonham and stations west of Fort Worth
report about the same acreage as last season
with damage of 20 per cent. by fly and cold.
At Paris and Bouham the crop is in fair condi-
ton; at Bells in good conditions, but west and
south of the latter point the outlook is bad.
Oats-The acreage in oats slightly in
creased, but the crop has been damaged about
30 per cent. and cannot be said to be in more
than good condition.
Corn-The increase in acreage of corn is about
20 per cent.
cotton-Reports indicate an increase of Is per
cent. in cotton acreage.
NEW ORLEANS DIVISION.
Wheat-None grown.
Oats-None grown.
Corn-The acreage in corn will be about same
as last season.
COtton-The acreage in cotton along this
division as far east as Grossetete will not differ
much from last season.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-04

we shall now proceed to give it to the
public for the first time.
Put together one pound of common
white arsenic, one pound of oaustic soda
concentrated lye) and five gallons of
water. This is the proportion; of course
the quantity may be enlarged or reduced
on the same ratio. Place in an iron pot
or kettle and boil over slow fire until
the arsenic is all dissolved. This makes
a perfect solution of arsenic something
on the plan of Fowler's solution. 1t may
be kept for any length of time desired,
and is the same saturated solution of
arsenic that we shall probably recon-
mend later on as an inseoticide for the
cotton worm, but in different degree of
dilution.
When ready to make the application
for borers dilute the solution by adding
one pint to ten gallons of wafer. Dig
around your fruit trees down to the main
roots, starting out from the base, and
with an ordinary sprinkling pot drench
the bark thoroughly with the diluted So
luton from the roots to three or four feet
up on the trunk. When the application
has dried we repeat the drenching to the
third time, to make sure that every Grew
ice IN the bark has been reached, and in
the case of stone fruits we also apply the
solution to the main forks. If there are
any loose scales of bark on the tree we
scrape them off before making the appli-
cation. A comparatively dry time is
best, as then the solution will be more
readily taken into the spongy bark.
There is no danger of injuring the tree.
The application should be made very
early in spring to head off borers from
a por ri hTrf
will be deposited on to the 1st of June, in
Northern Texas, the application would
still be in order. 1t should be made an
nuaIIy.
Ana now for an explanation of how the
thing works: We usually say the borer
outs its way through the bark, but this
does not tell the whole story-it simply
eats its way as it goes. That portion of
the tree cut away is the food of the in
sect. The chips we see at the hole of
bOrer have passed through its body.
Nothing further is necessary, as the
reader will readily see that when the
young borer undertakes to eats its way
through the poisoned bark it gets the ar
senic, and that promptly puts an end to
its boring abilities.
Neither Paris green nor London pur-
pie (the common insecticides) would an
swer the purpose so well as the arsenic,
tor they, as applied, are not solutions but
merely suspensions in water. A sus-
pended poison would be left on the sur
face of the bark to be washed off by the
first heavy rain. But the arsenic, being
in perfect solution, must go wherever
goes the water carrying it.
We are proud of this discovery, and
feel sure that the orchardist reader who
makes use of it will always say he got far
more of value from what we have just
written than the cost of a dozen yearly
to the Fort Worth GAZETTE.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-04

to the multitude who are submitting to
cancer treatment who wonld be cured by
thorough course of La-cn- pi-s. A de-
tailed case of supposed cancer given up
by experienced physicians to die, cured
by La-ou-pi-a, will be sent free on ap-
plication. Address, Columbus, Ohio.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-05-29
FER The st. Paul, Minneapolis & Man
't6oG' itoba Railway and Branches be-
ioSOs came the
Great Northern Railway Line,

With =, 800 miles of steel track it runs through
81 counties In Minnesota, North Dakota,
South Dakota and Montana, reaching all
principal points from st. Paul. Miuneapo'
lis, West Superior and Duluth.
1t furnishes through close conn ito the
best and cheapest route TO all points in
Idaho, Utah, California, Oregon, WASH
ington, British Columbia. Alaska, the
Canadian Northwest and Manitoba.
1t is the only American line west of Chicago
having a track laid with 70 pound steel
rail and owning its entire magnificent
equipment of elegant Dining and sleeping
cars. Handsome Day Coaches and Free
Colonist Sleerers. 49,.
1t is tho only line runnidf through the great
Milk River Reservation, with solid traine
without change to Chinook. Benton
Great Falls, H elena and Butte.
It reaches more points in Minnesota
and the Dakotas than any other line.
1t is the short line between Sank Centre and
Minneapolis and st. aui, connecting
with trains to the east.
1t reaches Duluth and West Superior with
its own trains.
1t reaches leadidgSoulh Dakota points Sioux
City Iowa. and connect with trains for
the South west.
For rates, tickets, maps and guides, apply to
10 f. l. WHITNEY, Gent Pass and Ticket
Agent, GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY &.
st. Paul, MINI.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-05-29
DEMAND ITS REPEAL.
Wisconsin Catholics I'm Session
at Milwaukee DenOunce
the Bennett Law,
And Deny the Right Of the
State to Interfere with
Parochial Schools.
Presbyterian General Assembly Winds
Up It's Business and Adjcurns
Sine Die.

MILWAUKEE, May 2s.-The convention
of German Catholic societies did not
come to order until about II O'clock,
when speeches were made by William
Casper, of Milwaukee; and j. Spann-
mann, of Chicago, and others.
Bishop Flasch referred to the Bennett
law in his address and upheld the right
of the church to go into politics when its
interests were attacked.
He was followed by Bishop KatZer. of
Green Bay, who took off his coat as if to
emphasize his earnestness, and proceeded
to attack the Bennett law in the bitter
est manner.
Rev. Zeininger, the administrator of
the Milwaukee diocese then spoke
briefly and at the close of his address
the committee on credentials reported
and the convention adjourned until 1 80.
The work of the convention and
speeches were all conducted in the Ger
man language.
At the afternoon session officers were
elected and committees appointed.
Resolutions were read and referred
providing for the establishment of CEN
trail committee with headquarters in
Milwaukee, authorized TO act in cases of
emergency; providing for the establish
ment Of high school in Milwaukee. to
be supported by the societies and in
which children of members shall be in
structed free of charge.
Resolutions were adopted on the Ben
nett law, upholding the rights of parents
to select the schools for their children.
They favor compulsory school laws, I'M
der certain restrictions: admit the neces-
sity of public schools and the right to
support them by general taxation. They
make no claim upon the public school
fund for the maintenance of parochial or
private schools, but reserve for them
selves the right to guard against the mis-
use or the squandering of school funds.
After denying the right of the state to
interfere with parochial schools as an
infringement of their civil and religious
right, they demand the absolute repeal
of the Bennett law.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-05-29
Presidential Nominations.

WASHINGTON, May 2S.-The president
has made the following nominations:
3. II. Sullivan, of South Dakota, to be
surveyor general of South Dakota; It.
P. Cheney, of New Hampshire, to be
pension agent at Concord, y. H.: Anton
Mehrlich, Of Colorado, to be register of
the Land Office at Central City, Colo;
William R. Hoyt, Of Wisconsin, to be a
commissioner in and for the District of
Alaska.
TO be receivers of public moneys: T.
D. Meads, of Michigan, at Marquette,
Mich: G. F. Au3ustin, of Wisconsin, at
Gr2nasha, Wis.
George G. Ginty, Of Wisconsin. to be
marshal Of the United States for the
Western district of Wisconsin.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-05-29
BLECTROCUTION LEGAL,
The United states supreme
Court Seals EAeMnier's
Fate.
Electricity as a Method Of Elk
ecution Not ConSid-
cred Cruel.

WASHINGTON, May 24.-The supreme
court of the United States denied the
application for writ of error in the
case Of William KeInmler, under SEN
tence OF death by electricity in New
York. Chief Justice Fuller delivered
tho decision. -.---..-.---sz-
By this decision the last hope of life
afforded Kelnrnler is banished, and he
will accordingly be executed in conform
ity with the new law governing execu'
tions in New York state. The decision
was ON an application for writ of error
made by Roger M. Sherman, of New
York, counsel for Kemmler, argued last
Tuesday. The court was unanimous in
denying The application. Chief Justice
Fuller read the decision in full. He re.
viewed the case and severally went over
the points made by KeGlEllcr's. counsel
and ended by stating shat the court had
no hesitation IN saying that they could
not, OIL the record as r1e2ented, reverse
the decision Of the New York court OF
appeals.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-05-29
ASK AID OF CONGRESS.

Grant Monument Committee Want Ma
tional Help in Erecting the Monu-
ment.
WASHINGTON. May 2s.-Mr, Flower,
of New York, introduced in the house a
joint resolution making an appropria-
don in aid of the erection of national
monument or memorial to Gen. Grant
at Riverside park in New York City.
The resolution appropriates $3.50, 900 to
be disbursed by the secretary Of thu
treasury and paid over to the Grant
Monument association to provide for the
successful completion of the erection OF
the monument provided. however, that
the secretary of the treasury shall, be-
fore paying over this money, have salts
factory evidence that there shall have
been contributed and in the hands Of the
monument association not less than
$250,O00 to aid in the erection of the
monument,
A preamble to the resolution cites the
object of the monument association, and
states that it is highly proper that con-
gress should fifty recognize the great
and valued services rendered by Gen.
Grant by cooperating towards securing
the successful completion of the struct-
ure to be created over his remains at
Riverside park, in New York city.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-05-29
PASSED By A PARTY VOTE.
Tariff I'LL Adopted in the House by a
yufa OF lG2 fo 49,

Tariff I'LL Adopted in the House by a
Vote OF 1G2 to 142.
WASHINGTON, Nay 22.-The tariff bill
passed the house at 5:15 p. N. Yeas
1872, nays 142 Mr.. Coleman, of Louis
lana, (Rep.) voted against the bill.
CARTIsLE's AMENDMENT DEFEATED.
The last amendment having been
passed and the en9rosslnent and third
reading Of the bill having been ordered
Nlr. Carlisle offered the following amend,
ment:
Resolved, That the pending bill be re-
committed TO the committee on way
and means With instructions to report
the same back to the house at the ear
liest possible dag. so amended by subEtti-
tute or otherwise as to reduce the reve,
nUes Of the government by reducing TIE
burdens of taxation on the people, in
stead Of reducing the duties by imposing
prohibitory rates of taxation upon i'm
ported goods.
The resolution was defeated-yeas no.
NAYS 1914