Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-04

| away to get rid Of it. Where Johnson grass
becomes fairly located it is there to stay and
| it is selfish enough not to allow any other
| growth to stay with it. Broom sedge is
next door to worthless as grass-,Johnson
| grass is Il fairly good grass for both hay and
| pasture. With these few facts before you w
| conclude that you .gill be able TO decide for
| yourself as to which of the two is the better
| grass.
For positively identifying a grass it is
| necessary that we have the entire plant
| taken while in bloom.
WHAT HE FOUND IN THE HEDGE.
| was much pleased with yoIr suggestion
| that people from the older states might do
| u good work for Texas i'll settling here and
teaching Texans better ways by example,
while at the same time they would be doing
good work for themselves by becoming
| citizens of good country. | have been
here about two NeLlS-came from Ohio
| and while find the Texas people a good
deal behind III point of genera, Information.
l also find them apt scholars and entirely
| willing to learn, as you intimate. In many
localities YOU find people so pulled up with
Self-importance that they will not admit. a
want of knowledge though it be ever SO
plainly stamped upon them, b Ii the Texas
people appear as a rule, To be much clearer
of this Objectionable disuosition than. is
usually the case, especially in new cOuuI-
try. In my opinion you have much to cain
from an encouragement OF Northern peo-
pie TO settle among YOU. additionally to that
gain which must arise from having the
country settled up. BTCKrYE.
Fort Worth, Tex.
We can fully agree with our correspond
! ent in everything stated save that the
Texas people are "a good deal behind il
point of general information They may not
be entirely up to what would be considered
general information IN Ohio or any other
Northern state SO far as relates TO the local
affairs of those states, but when it cones to
understanding Texas local affairs we think
them entirely up TO the average of az.
other section. The fact Of our not happen
ing to know all about everything in Ohio is
no good reason for surprising that we don't
know good deal about very many things
in TeXas-even things that the Ohican just
arrived don't know us much about rs there
is 10 know. II strikes us that the average
OhiOan and the average Texan are about in
the same boat as to local information. and
that each might be the others teacher TO
about the same extent.
We have plainly seen cropping out in not
a few strangers good deal of this notion
that native Texans are comparatively igno-
rant, aud we have also noticed good deal Of
the thing that our correspondent calls
''puffed up though we shall not be per-
sonal enough to state on which side we have
seen its greatest development y little incl
dent that came to our knowledge at Fort
Worth last summer may be mentioned as
applicable in some way or other, an opening
being left for the reader to make such appli-
cation as best suits him
We have in Texas a little insect of the
yellow Jacket character that, instead of
nesting in the ground after the manner of
yellow Jackets up North, hangs its nest
among low bushes. 1t is a lively singer,
and represents species never seen North.
So much by way of Introducing the subject.
4 gentleman from one Of the Northern
states had lately located with his family in
Fort Worth. a citizen was paying him a
friendly c4ll, and the two We're walking
over the premises. the gentleman from the
North telling the citizen all about every
thing and the citizen listening attentively,
but mainly in silence There was in the front
yard m ornamental privet hedge, and as they
were passing near it the gentleman from
the North saw something among the bushes.
1t appeared TO be about the size of hat
crown, but being somewhat afflicted with
inht no ool1ld M ly
actly W hat it looked like at mere passing
glance. Net feeling willing to betray any
lack of general information he made no
reference to the discovery, but SO soon as
the citizen was gone he turned out to inves-
tigate. 1t appeared to be something the
likes of which he had never seen before, so
he parted the hedge and deliberately
plucked it and started it towards his face in
quest of better focus. Just then an i'm
preston seized upon him that his women
folks, having got fat-iron too hot, had
put it out in the hedge to cool; then he
thought it might be a small circular buz-
saw in full motion; then it dawned Upon
him that raw thunderbolt had concealed |
itself on his premises, and faally his heart
fairly sank within him as he arrived at the |
conclusion that he had found steam boiler
under the influence of ahigh gauge of steam |
and had careiessly pulled of the end OF it.
That Texan could have told him all about |
a Guinea wasps' nest in few words
THE CHINCH BUG.
Some of US farmers in this neighborhood |
are troubled with the chiuch bug W9l |
you be so kind as TO tell Us through The
GAZETTE what 70 do to rid our corn of |
them. You told US in a recent issue how
to manage the cotton worn-now please do
as much for US with reference to the chinch
bug. and much oblige regular reader.
Kemp, Tex. A. G. BuRRow.
We need not describe the chinch bug,
owing to the unfortunate fact that it is
well known To farmers in all regions UherA