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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-26
THE EyER-PREsENT HOG.

Go where You may, and you find the hog
well represented. il he does not live, move
and have his being there, he is yet there in
the flesh, all the same. The Iowa State
Register says of him that che has rooted his
way all over the commercial world; he has
alarmed the French, who have lied about
his health, and he even astonished the great
German empire by poking himself within
its boundaries through every loop-hole left
open, despite the war that had been waged
against him. He feeds the corn-grower of
our own Northern states, without regard to
race, color or previous condition, and he
feeds the negro cotton and tobacco growers
of the South likewise, the overseer and the
proprietor of the plantation. He diets our
mechanic, also our merchant, and also our
merchant-marine-w there is of it-and
all other marines, for that matter. In a
word, he is power in the land, and don't
you forget it. He takes his exodus from
the corn belt of the United States, where
he eats up products that the farmers can
not SELL and then those farmers show their
appreciation of his kindness by sending him
off on an excursion, all at their own ex-
pense, in the form of picked pork, bacon.
dry salt sides, hams, shoulders and picked
pigs feet. 1t is not thought safe to put
sausage into the enumeration, for the rea-
son that sausage is not always-well, never
mind about the sausage, anyway"
This is all pleasant reading enough and
very clear in all its points save that one in
which reference is made to the corn belt.
The corn belt here meant is evidently that
portion of the United States in which little
else than corn ean be raised. 1t it meant
such portions Of the country as could raise
corn successfully the corn belt would be in
deed large belt 1t would take in all of
Texas, for we can beat the Northern states
head-over-heels raising corn if we desire 10
do $50. We don't devote our energies to
corn exclusively, however, for the reason
that there are other far more profitable
crops we can raise, the which cost US no
more than TO raise corn. And we can cause
the hog, and more CT him, to take his exo-
dus' from Texas, without doing any large
amount of business in over-production,
than can any other so-called corn belt on
Uncle Sans farm.
Heretofore it has been thought that corn
and the hog were things inseparable. This
impression grew out of the fact that cold
weather was Indispensable in the work of
PORK packing. Transportation: facilities
were then not at all like they are now. The
only way of getting the hog to the packing
centers was to drive him on foot. As
consequence it became necessary to raise
the hog in the region dramatically adapted to
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-26
WINDMILL IRRIGATION

I am satisfied that the Fort Worth GA
zETTE is doing a grand work for Texas in its
persistent advocacy of irrigation You are
evidently correct in your position when
YOU advance the idea that without irriga-
ton Texas is fully as good, in an agricul-
tural way, as any other state of the Union
not reSorting to artificial water supply for
crops, but that with irrigation she would
be far better than any other state even
though that other state should be under
the system.
l am thinking of doing little in the way
of irrigation next year myself, by lifting
water from fine well on my place with a
windmill. Do you think a good windmill
would lift water enough from well thirty
eight feet deep TO thoroughly irrigate six
acres2 PROGRESS.
Eastland county, Tex.
Your well and windmill arrangement
would scarcely irrigate that much land to
perfection, we think. 1t might do your
crops much good, but it takes pretty large
quantity of water to thoroughly irrigate six
acres of land. For our own part we have
no great amount of faith in wind mill irri-
CATION save on small scale.
The best windmill irrigation arrange
ment that we ever saw we met with at San
Marcos, Tex, eleven years aso-had seen
nothing like it before and have seen moth
ing like it since. There was a vegetable
garden of about three acres under the sys-
TEN. The land sloped gently but regularly
from back towards the San Marcos river.
Along this highest side of the garden ran
trough made by mailing together two six
inch boards in the shape Of V. One end
of the trough was on the ground, while the
other end was elevated sufficiently to admit
of an easy flow of water its entire length
1t was supported along on posts so set as to
give it the desired dip. Eight feet apart
along the trough were nailed on the sloping
sides Gnside) pair of small cleats to hold
little triangular gate slipped between
them for the purpose of stopping the
onward flow of the water as desired There
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-26
n SUCCESS WITH NAVY BEANS.

a letter lately appeared in THE GAZETTE
mentioning a failure with navy beans at tho
hands of the writer. l have long raised the
navy bean in Texas. and have never vet
met with failure. Please permit me to give
your readers my plan of managing the crop.
l break my land early in spring and plant
when plant corn, cultivating about the
same as 1 cultivate corn until it is time for
the beans to be 'slaid by"
l am also cultivating the Henderson bush
lima bean, and finding it a splendid success.
1t will stand dry and hot weather better
than any other bean / know Of Last year
we had three months drouth. but this
bush lima remained green and in bloom all
through it. J. II. ETTER-
Willow Point, Tex.
This Notwithstanding quality in the Hen
derson bush lima is something new to us,
and certainly something which gives it adj
vantages over the ordinary vining varieties,
which fail to do well in very dry time
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-26
PEARS AND IRRIGATION.

/ ship you to-day by Pacific express one
half dozen lie Conte pears that grew in nv
yard among Bermuda grass, or sward grass
as you name it. The LIE Conte and Duchess
pears have grown almost to perfection in
my yard. l have about thirty trees of the
lie Conte that l hope will bear next year
l am constant reader of your articles in
The GAZETTE, especially those on irriga-
ton. Have been experimenting for the
past two years in small way by irrigating
my yard and garden. The results have
been highly satisfactory. L have a very
fine well, from which l elevate water to
tank twelve feet above ground. From this
tank pipes lead to all parts of my yard and
garden, as well as into my house and stable.
As result am now eating my third crop
of Snap-beanS, and have my fourth crop
planted. Can fully agree with you as to
tine increase of vegetation by irrigation. l
spend all of my leisure time at work in my
yard and garden, as much for exercise and
health as for the profit of the thing, which
last is very gratifying. ]. NJ. BUCHANAN.
Whites bOro, Tex.
The pears we're as fine specimens of
the LIE Conte, apparently, as ever grew
anywhere. In our opinion the world has
no better fruit belt, once it is developed in
accordance with Texas requirements, than
lies all along the southern side of Red
river.
MIR. Buchanan's statements relative to
his irrigation experiments, while in strict
accord with all experiences that we have
heard of in the same direction, are espe-
cially interesting. Three crops of snap
beans already, with the fourth crop started,
while not man living in Texas and oper-
3tlDU the old n1an IF-JthOnt ri ioia oil
water supply, has had more than one, and
that one nothing to boast of. 1t does seem
that, in the face of such facts, our people
ought to soon get their eyes opened to the
importance of irrigation.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-26
CURE FOE SNAKE BITES. ETC.

Seeing in the papers that people are dying
from snake bite about San Antonio leads
me to feel it my duty to give to the public,
through THE GAZETTE, what know 20 be a
sure remedy for the bite of all poisonous
reptiles. Make a solution by adding to
the wound Immediately after. the bite, and
no harm will result. The same solution is
also good for the sting of ants, or sting or
bite of other insects. d. S. CoRLEYE.
Cherokee, Tex.
Hartshorn is pretty generally regarded
as good remedy for the sting of an insect
We can not exactly see how the bluestone
could add to its efficiency, and we think
we'd be rather afraid to risk our correspon-
dents remedy on the bite of venomous
snake, provided we could find anything else
m riSl-
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-26

packing him. and since corn was the only
hog food crop that could be raised, then
hogs and corn became inseparable in the
minds of the people.
Modern science has entirely cast that
notion to the winds, however. Railroads
now take herd of hogs further in one day
than they could have been taken in one
| month thirty years ago. And modern sci
ence has not stopped at this accomplish
ment. 1t is now as easy matter to pack
| pork at Fort Worth, Tex, as it is to pack
it at either Chicago, Ill, or Cincinnati,
Ohio. And the thing does not stop even at
this; the season of the year cuts no kind of
| figure in the case. Midsummer is as good
| time for packing as is any other season
At any time when the hog is made ready
| the pachery is ready to convert it into the
usual hog articles of commerce.
Experience has clearly shown that corn
is by no means the best food for the hog. A
little corn fed at the time of finishing it up
| for the packery may be all well enough, but
there are many other crops easily raised in
Texas, but which cannot be raised at all in
| the Northern ''corn belt that will develop
| the hog far better than corn. Sweet pota-
| toes NAV be mentioned as one of these,
though there are others of equal i'm
portance. Under correct management we
can raise 400 bushels of sweet pota-
| toes to the acre in Texas, and
at less cost than would be in
volved in producing an acre of corn. 1t has
been well settled that two bushelyof sweet
| potatoes will go fully as far as hog feed,
in every respect, as would one bushel of
| corn. The average yield of corn in the So
called corn belt is about seventeen bushels
to the acre. Put our average yield of
sweet potatoes, say at 200 bushels to the
acre, and then figure on where lies the adj
vantage so far as relates to pork produc-
ton. Two hundred bushels of sweet pota-
toes would equal 100 bushels of corn. Thus,
as you see, we have pork-producing crop
fully the equivalent of 100 bushels of corn
to the acre, on an average, against the
average of seventeen bushels of corn to the
acre in the corn belt"
1t scarcely needs a prophet to tell even
the duilest among us what all this must
speedily lead to- The corn belt" may re-
main in the far Northern states, if they
prefer to call it by that name, but the hog
belt must move away from the corn belt"
Here there is nothing whatever against hog
production. Our climate is exactly suited
TO the animals needs. There are no cold
winters to drag it through by resort to
heavy feelings. Nature here supplies the
needed heat to keep it going through the
winter months-there that heat must be
kept up by stuffing it with corn. If a
sharply limned outlook of the times means
anything, one cannot do otherwise than ar
rive at the conclusion that when another
decade of years have rolled past all the
pork of commerce will be going north in
stead of coming south as at present. The
people of the ''corn belt such of them as
do not pull up stakes and follow the hog,
will be eating Texas pork and devoting
their best energies to the production of
whisky and glucose molasses.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-26

were two OF these little gates. Just above
each gate-place was cut in the trough, and
on the side next to the garden, shallow
notch OF sufficient size TO discharge all the
water flowing into the trough.
On the bank of the oSan Marcos WAS 4
windmill which lifted water from tho
stream and sent it in a ripe to be discharged
into the highest end of the trough. And
now for how the system was made to work.
There were two of the little triangular
blocks or gates. These were showed dowa
between the two sets of cleats nearest 10
the most elevated end of the trough, fitting
water-tight. The water was turned on,
and running down TO the nearest gate 10
filled the trough TO the notch and flowed
out, thence making its way sioag Smah
bitches arranged for it between plant beds.
When eight feet of garden had thus been
sufficiently watered the uppermoss gate
ives transferred 10 the clests next below
the second gate, AZ set At the be-
ginning, and the water flowed ont al tho
second notch TO water another eight fses
OF garden truck On this routine the work
was kept up constantly until the entire gar
den had been gone over. By this time the
eight feet of truck first ~atered was need
ing water again, so the gates were moved
TO the highest end of the trough, and tia
going over followed up as IN the first inA
stance.
This was not what could ba called per-
feet irrigation, but it certainly worked
great good to the crops, and made u com-
paratively small water supply DO more than
could have been done with it by any other
arrangement that we know Of
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-26
EVEN IN HUMID LOUISIANA.

Las, week we published some points
mace By Mr. !. Y. Gilmore in paper read
before tile Audubon agricultural society of
Louisiana. setting forth the existing need
@ genera irrigation, even in that state of
Unusually heavy rainfall We now have
before Us paper on the same subject, read
before tte same society June II, by Mr. Gus
Nata-. This would seem TO indicate
'ha' 4 telling interest with reference to the
!H'oriaage OF IL CATION is springing up
&M'rg The Louisiauians Without an
e''ated interest in this direction, two pa
per- would scarcely have been read spe-
Cay a'vo'aI TO this particular subject.
--rl, both papers almost say as much by
As..-- "i tile idea that the people of
louisiana are beginning TO very well I'M
le->-.aH '.e need Of artificial water supply
"'''.> Eco cuable their own. or any other
SA.e, 3 NAT matter 20 do It's best in an
1.''-'. Ira. way, and thus be enabled to
-1-.' ''p pace with the progress of the
"-'> They realize that irrigation must
f'VA ,a REGARDED IS IN indispensable agent
j. d. farming operations ranking high on
''- N...o- sGccrss-a thing of equally as
--.-- .'. NF,4u,e is IS the plant food in the
~. - .1uE DIS there was no irrigation in
ms 'o.a'r. al were on an equality as
farmers without ii, % course. but now,
Nee has come, and is being established
"S.-.. A -..uy localities, those localities
-, resort, sto it, 50 far as they can, must
.1F@.' a.. 10 The rear Both papers make
LIS 1o.s-t strong Ind clear.
"s's--!on What a theme for the
SS's-''.~i What source of wealth to the
S'"-tiar.s''t. Tie memory of man fails to
'S,-.@ ; GINNING" says Mr.. Soniat.
'-'-at4 arrcsian wells are known to
1'v been used for irrigating purposes
-- 7.9'a 'iau 5000 years, and the
I'VE y las furnished water for nourish-
:. ~..> oy irrigation, and qualifying
.' sustain millions OF human beings
ages reaching back into the misty
.Ar Beyond the historical period.
Algeria. Mexico and South Amer
'T.'-'le millions oC acres by means of
wed N1'c'S; even here, in some of
''S-ern states and territories rivers
49, u. CANNED, pipes laid in all direc-
,,s.-. '-9 water IS supplied by companies at
r. .'-'-'3 prices; the possibility of reclaim
n. '-.'.. 2-.d and waste lands is becoming
s.. --- more apparent, for artesian wells
--,,y oeconing more potent factors in
Ara science: the deserts are about
,,, S,'''a'n and lnor fruit-the golden age is
,-s... ''l.''S argument then tends to the
So Mon ~ immirration is slowly but
,o,.' )" .":ing Westward, and that it will
sfs ,..'-s 10 do 50 10 rhe serious injury of all
nos, l,3'onS IN this country so long as
10 O.ier regions neglect to show them
h, si4a' IN every respect to the irrigat-
u,r,. ,s-'aS IN the f:r West 1t is a heavy
,., r-'4'!on Of farmers that makes a country
aeatG prosperous. it is the superior
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-26
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

This department is devoted to answering
such Questions as may be asked by our sub
scriberS, which may be OF general information.
Inquiries of personal character that require an
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direct communication should such thing be
deemed necessary. Address as directed at head
of this page.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-26
on PEEL1NG PEAR TREES.

In Mr.. William Campbell's orchard there
is one row of trees loaded down with young
pears, but all the other trees are barren of
fruit. Mr.. Campbell and other growers
who have witnessed the sight attribute it
to the fact that something like year ago
cows broke into his orchard, and, attracted
by the tempting appearance of the trees,
ate the bark OF one entire row before being
driven out. The bark was completely
stripped all the way around Oh
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-26

taken from its native deposit it must be
the most remarkable deposit of gypsum
known. But for your statement we would
think you had bought it at some drug store
or paint shop. for it presents every appear
ance Of being calcined plaster of paris finely
pulverized and all ready for use, and it
acts exactly like the calcined article under
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-26
MOON PHILOSOPHY.

1t is pretty generally understood that the
moon has more or less influence on crops
well as on many other things. There are
some people who do not believe in those
moon signs. but for mys elf am not one of
them Since your association with The GA
zxITE have been reading your agricultural
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-26

Inclosed please find specimen of very
peculiar chalk; or, at least, I take it to be
chalk. find It in my cellar some four or
five feet below the surface. in veins from
two to four inches thick. Be good enough
to give US through your valuable depart
ment of The GAZETTE some information as
to what it is. G. W. REID.
Erath county, Tex
1t is gypsum Or plaster Of pari. (sulphate
Of imel and Il the ssnnlesasnt Is lust As
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-11-25

@iralula free grrss.
b. d O. DIRECTORS
Declare Ticenty Per Cent. Dicide"d OF
All Common Stock--Tico Inipor'dht
Resolutions.

BALTIMORE, Mp, Nov. 1.-THE regular
mon bly, meeting of the Board of Directors
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
plny took place to day. The Board unani-
mously adopted the following resolutions;
"Rcsoiced, That dividend of twenty per
cent be declared upon the common stock
of this company for the period ending Sep
TENDER 80, 1891, payable on and after the
3lst day of December, 1891, in the common
stock of the company, at the Office OF the
treasurer, to the stockholders OF record at
p. m on the 30th day of November, 1891.
"ResoIred. That an issue of the common
stock of the par value Of s5,O946O0 be and
the same is hereby authorized aud Ike Pres
| ident aud Finance Committee are hereby en-
powered to sell this is.ue in whole or in pant
at such times As may be b. them deemed
expedent'
There was no division of opinion what
ever between the President or any of the
members of the finance committee rs 10 the
action taken by the committee in recon-
menaing tue dividend and an issue OF adj
ditional stock
The President submitted the sixty fifth
annual report of the committee for the year
ending September 80, 1891. 1t is shown
t Al he total gross earnings and income OF
the company for the fiscal year were s25,
zoo 073 m dcductin0 from which the oper
ating expenses amounting TO Sl7 PCS, 81,
leaves as available income IS, 52l, 2724l.
After applying this income to the inter
ests on bonded Indebtedness and rentals,
taxes and other charges, dividends on the
first and second preferred stock and pay
ments made to retire bonded Indebtedness
in car trusts and sinking funds,a balance
remains of 81, 800, 6l6.76.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-11-25
March :, 1889.

WE HAVE just received new and elegant
w assortment of Combs and Hair Brushes,
also Tooth and Nail Brushes.
AISQUlTH & co.
nUR OWN PALM SOAP-made from pure
" Palm oil and Soda Ten gross just re-
ceved and for sale at 8 cents per cake Also
large lot of all of the most popular fancy soaps.
AISQUlTH & co.
lust RECEIVED large lot of Boston
q Coach Oil for oilin. BUggies, Carriages &c
Also 'Favorite' Sewing Machine OIL and Con-
tinental Ointment for man or beast.
AlSQUlTH co.
4 LARGE STOCK Of Arnold's Chemical
y Writing Fluid and StaifoFd's Commercial
Inks. an sizes. for sale at AISQUITH IL CO.'S
WE have Just received in stock Pure Black
w and Red Pepper. Sage and Sweet Mar
joram. all freshly ground. Also pure granula-
tea Saltpetre and Coriander Seed for seasoning
sausage and curing pork. AISQUITH u co.
N REAMS of Writing Paper all sizes and
~ sorts Also 20.O)O Envelopes just put on
sale in our Book aud Stationery Department.
Nov. p. 1891 AISOUlTH Il co.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1891-11-25

Mr. Polk, president ofthe National Farm
ers' Alliance, says chat in tho event of ex
President Cleyeland's nomination he shall
deem it his solemn duty to take the stump
against him in North Carolina He would
not be able to carry the State, and it is pos
sible he would not be successful in more
than three States of the South" The Ga
-ette, as is well-known does not think Mr..
Cleveland would be the strongest man the
Democrats could nominate; but it is just
such talk As that of Mr. Folks hat will in
duce many delegates 10 the national Demo-
cratic convention to vote for him No mat
ter who may be the Democratic nominee,
every State in the South will vote for him,
aud should do so, and the white man of the
South who would fail 10 80 yCte, IN the face
Of the danger of the Force bill, would PROVE
himself to be preordained and predesti-
mated simplet0n. The Farmers Alliance,
for their own good, should get rid of Mr.
Polk as soon as possible. He hurts them
every time he opens his mouth.-Alerand,id
Gd-ette