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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
THE HUMP REVIVED.
A Correspondent Says 1t Is Stand
ing in the Way of Improvement.
LONG LEASES HURTING THE POINT.
The Change in the System Of Selling
Realty Beneficial TO Buyers.
THE NEWS AND GOSSIP OF THE CiTl

In reply to an article in this column,
under the caption. Business Shut Out" in
Fridays issue, "a Daily Reader" says:
"Your statements are usually correct, but
not quite so In regard to property owners.
Improvements at the Point are delayed by
long leases. Property near the court house,
on Wvlie. Fifth avenue, High, Tunnel and
other streets, Is DELAYED by the city fathers.
Tney will not Sav if the Hump will be cut
of or not. Therefore property owners
cannot get the grade on these streets to
build"
Another correspondent. Progress"
writes from McKeeSport: "Your statement
the other dav that property in Mckeesport
commands about as high price as II does in
PIJJsburC. barring I few of the principal
Streets was NOT much out of the way. ms
city is building mp very fast. Outsiders are
hocklng,in To share our prosperity. This en-
larges the demand for property and su1ens
prices. Building sites are going of very fast.
A number of handsome Improvements are In
progress and many more are under consldera-
non. We expect quite boom here the coming
summer. The eeht-Eour agitation is the only
thing that stands III the way, and think 1t will
be settled without strike"
4 Change for the Better.
The old method of handling real estate has
given place TO one based modern business
agents instead Of owners, and instead of spend
ing DAYS and perhaps weeks locking up such
property as lie wants, he has only TO make his
wishes known TO a broler, and in twinkling
he is handed large list to select from. This
saves him money, time and trouble, for house
hunting must be ciasSed with the vexations of
life. He is more likely TO secure bargain too,
for the broker, anxious to make a sale, will put
the price down to the lowest notch. The
change has been beneficial 10 all interested in
real estate. bu5 principally to the working
peupe. il is easier 10 buy and pay ior home
under the new system than it was under the
old
There is another phase of the question that
deserves notice since II confirms the statement
that the new way is an improvement on the
Old. Ten years ago. more or less. agents had to
sell houses on almost cash terms. Now they
are offering the same descriptions OF property
on terms that amount 10 about the same as
moderate rents. Then il was next to impossl-
bic for any one, unless he prepared To put
up the cash. to become a proprietor; now il IS
comparatively easy for any industrious. frugal
man TO buy home and pay for it practically
on his own terms
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17

The total sales of stocks at New York yester-
dav were 2lS,O9l shares including Atchison.
1885; L1ckawanna. 25, 740: Louisville and Nash
Vile. 7,450: Missouri Pacific, 500; Northern
Pacific 3,035; Northern Pacific preferred, 900,
Richmond and West Point. S, 2S5; ST. Paul,
81. Si5; Union Pacific, 6, $50.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17

DON'T strain your eyes trying to see, but
get your sight tested aud your eyes fitted
with spectacles and see e'sy, at August
Loch's. 145 Federal street. Fitting done by
Prof Dodge. TuFsu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
AT THE STOCK YARDS.
Light Run Of Cattle at herr's Island
and East Liberty
AND MARKETS A SHADE STRONGER.
Prime Beeves and Smooth, Light Butcher
Stock Are Scarce.
SWINE HIGHER AND SHEEP STRONG
At Herr's Island.

OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH. !
MONDAY. March 16.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
The Building Record.

The following permits for the erection of new
buildings were taken out yesterday:
James and Jane Allen, two brick two-story
and basement dwellings, l2118x34 feet, on Ochil
alley. Thirteenth ward. Cost, SISO0,
Casper Gfroerer, frame tWo-story and attic
dwelling, igx32 feet, on Boquet street, Four
TeenJh ward. Cost $500
Mrs. Annie HeIbing, frame addition mansard
story dwelling, l5x32 feet, ON Stanton avenue,
Eighth ward. Cost Si00
John Todd. frame two-story dwelling 16x32
feet, on Sylvan avenue, Twenty-tnlrd ward.
Cost, $3.50.
Z. Davis, brick three-story dwelling, l6x4O
feet, on Washington street. Seventh ward. Cost,
SI,775
Miss Jennie Walker frame one-story store,
14X25 feet. on South Twenty-hfth street, Twen-
Ty-tiitn ward Cost, S2U0.
Christian katZ. frame two-story dwelling and
store, 24X32 1eet, on Nespucius street. Twenty
third ward. Cost, 81 200
II. A. Mitchell, frame two-story stable 25x
50 feet. on Penn avenue, Twentieth ward.
Cost. $40.
SIlbersIein & Mitchell, frame addition one
1wenty-trSJ ward. Cost Sl5O
Mrs. L. Conway and Miss S. Kearns brick
two-sJory stable, 2SX36 feeT, on Spring aliey
Tenth ward. Cost, 81, ,4Ou
q. : Rogers, frame One-story wagon shed l2
Il3 feet, On rear Wabash avenue, Thirty-sixth
ward. Cost, so.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
Movements in Realty.

W. A. Heron d Sons sold mn O'Hara street
East End, new brick house of eight rooms
and modern improvements for S5 6U0 cash
J. 4. Glass closed the sale of three houses in
tie Twentieth ward and one house in the Four
teenth ward and 80 lots in the Twenty-third
ward, for SIS, ,0GO
{. Beringer & Son sold for Phillip Schaner-
hammer TO J. II. Cohen, a brick dwelling OH
Roberts street, for s., I75 cash: also for George
Schmidt to ;. Birlei. small brick dwelling on
Devillers street. for 81, 200.
W. 4. HamHett & Co. sold a house and lot on
Biddle street, Williamsburg for S.. so.
Black Il Baird sold TO Patrick Moran the
southern oue-halt of lots Nos % and % in the
JOhu A. Roll plan at Linden Station, Baltimore
and ONO Railroad, Fourteenth ward tor S675
A. Z. Byers & Co. sold for {. l. Mohngy TO L.
A. Hamilton a twO-Story frame house of SIX
rooms and hall. with lot 226xI25 feet 10 an
Rlley. on McNaUgher avenue, Twelfth ward
Allegheny. ior Sl,6y0 cash.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
HOME CURE FOR MEN.

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or are weak and nervous from any cause. send
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nonsense. No stomach drugging- Certain
cure for all Weaknesses Of men, Address
Albion Pharmacy Co., Box ie4, Albion Mich.
i73l-42sTTs
NDTEC, BIN-sIxfDE PILLS are safe,
LADLLO superior 70 pennyroya. or
tansy: particulars. &c. CLARKE & CO. Box ia
Pniia., fern. ss2D-5o-TaR
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-18
TO GET RID OF HEN MITES.

VIII you favor your readers with some
reliable plan OF getting rid Of chicken mites
where they have secured pretty fair es-
Enlistment on ones PREMISES A. T..
Lockney, Tex.
Buy a cheap grade of carbolic acid aud
dilute it at the rate OF one pint OF acid to
five gallons of water. Sprinkle this well
about your hen roost and over all other
places where the mites have appeared, after
having raked up and burned all loose trash
about the premises. Use it freely about
the nesting places of your fowls. This will
promptly put an end to the mites, while it
will work no kind of harm to anything else.
We have often seen it used as above.
Carbolic acid is very cheap substance /;
if you buy it in bulk. furnishing your own
jug, the cost to you ought not to be much
above % cents gallon. If you go to drug
store and buy it i'll bottles as put up foy
home use, it will come rather high.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-18
COAL ASHES IN GAEpEN1NG

Do you look upon stone coal ashes as
worth anything for fertilizing purposes' |
have nice kitchen garden spot, and would
like to give it every possible advantage.
Could apply any quantity of coal ashes,
but several neighbors have told me that
coal ashes would add nothing to the fertil-
ity of my soil-other neighbors appear to
differ with these in that matter. Please
settle the point for me through the ever
welcome Fort Worth GAZETTE.
Waco, Tex. AMATEUR.
As fertilizer coal ashes is worth very
little, but there are cases in which it might
prove of much value as q mechanical agent.
If the soil of your garden is stiff clay,
coal ashes will tend to render it friable,
and will therefore pay well for the applica-
ton, provided you can get it without m
curing much expense. We would always
apply coal ashes to stiff soil, where the
cost of procuring and applying was not
great. Plenty of coal ashes in i stiff soil
gives to that soil a kind OF volcanic soil
condition.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-18
ON BLACK SHEEP.

Is there such thing as a breed of black
sheerl 1t is no uncommon thing for black
sheep to appear in a white flock, but, as
yet, | have heard of no explanation as to
how it happens. A neighbor of mine says
he once saw large flock of sheep, all
black, but I have asked several well-ln-
formed sheep raisers about the matter and
they have all told NE that there is no regu-
lar race of black sheep. Please answer
through THE GAZETTE. B. c. GAINES.
McLennan county, Tex.
There is no regular breed of black sheep
the black sheep seems to be freak Of ma
ture not easily explainable. 1t is like the
red ear of corn In the cornfield where only
white corn was planted.
A breed of black sheep would be some
thing much in demand, and, according to a
late issue of the North British Agricultu-
rist, there is a large 1ockmaster in Austria
liza who is endeayoring to establish black
breed. He works by breeding black to
black, to be followed by careful selection.
The result of this breeding is largely white,
though he thinks he is gaining somewhat on
the color. The Asriculturist says:
Cases often occur where both sire and
dam are black and the lambs white As
something does not come from nothing,
black blood must be difused throughout
most tiocks. Where wool is to be dyed
deep color, it is claimed that the ''baSic pig
ment" of black wool being already pro-
vided, it absorbs less dye and makes more
enduring color. However this may be,
there is serious objection to black sheep,
because their coats absorb more rays OF the
sun than the white, the heat thus affecting
them more readily and more seriously.
Still, for all this an established black breed
would find extensive sale through the nov
city of the thing. if nothing else.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-18
LOCO WEED POISONING.

I would be indebted to you for remedy
through The GAZETTE for loco poison. A
valuable mare OF mine has been poisoned
by loco weed, and I am extremely anxious
to get the poison out of her system if pos
sible. E. a. B.
Midland, Tex
Loco poison seems to be, as yet, a trouble
without any known antidote. For some
time scientific men have been investigating
the matter, and new men are constantly
coming into the field, bu. up to this time
little more appears to be known than was
known at the beginning of the work. If
anything of importance grows out OF these
investigations we'll promptly lay the facts
before our readers, but at present we have
nothing reliable to recommend.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-18

trees in healthful condition and to make the
most out of all its strength. Intelligent
pruning must be the result OF careful On
servation. Some branches of tree never
bear well. although theJ grow large and
bushy. If they refuse to bear for several
seasons in succession it may be profitable
to remove the limb that is absorbing 50
much energy of the tree without return II
anything for it. Inside of the top s,l,.
branches and twigs should be pruned away,
for the health of the largely depends upon
the freedom of these branches. Where
small branches become numerous SO as 70
form great heads they should Dc welded
out.
A great deal is said about the proper sea-
son for pruning, but really the season cuts
no particular figure in the case. MIR. Cham
bers says if any season is TO be preferred
over other seaso 5 that season is probably
summer. In s. INNER one can see which
branches are fruiting and which are not,
and so has fair showing for cutting away
the barren branches. The work Of weed
ing out the small and Improbable branches
the tree can be pruned so that every branch
will bear its quota of fruit; but Of course
this work should not be carried to such ar
extent as to wound the tree. Loss of sap
must be taken into consideration, and il
may be better to repeat the operation every
summer than to cut away too many limbs
at once.
Many branches start into growth which
should be rubbed off with the hand or
pinched OF while young and tender. This
will save pruning with 4 knife later on.
When tree is once thoroughly pruued the
knife will be needed very little thereafter,
except to cut of dead limbs. BY little
close watching one may make this summer
rubbing OFF of the young sprouts pretty
effectually take the place of pruning, once
the tree has been correctly pruned. Ii IL
lures the tree less than pruning; indeed, il
may be said to iniure the tree not a. all.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-18
ON PRUNING FRUIT TREES.

would be very much obliged to you for
an article on the subject of pruning fruit
trees. Comparatively few people in this
country appear to well understand when
to prune, why to prune and how to prune.
Doubtless such an article would be of great
interest to hosts Of your readers. take
THE GAZETTE and consider it the best paper
for the farmer that have ever read, and
especially for the Texas farmer.
Parker county, Tex. RURALIsT.
Mr.. .. W. Chambers, the well-known au-
thority in matters pertaining to the orchard,
says we must understand what we are to
prune for before we begin the work. We
prune with many objects in view: To in
crease the growth of fruits, to increase the
size and flavor, to get symmetry in tine trees,
to rid the trees of dead branches, or those
affected by disease. frequently it is neces-
sary to prune for several of these objects
at the same time, but we ought to know
that we are doing so while the operation is
going on. This thing OF cutting and slash
ing among the trees without knowing why,
and hence in conformity to no particular
rule, is radically wrong. About one-half Of
our primers conclude that the orchard needs
pruning, so they go out and prune it, but
for the life of them they couldn't tell why
it needed pruning or what they pruned it
for.
When the young fruit trees are planted
they need little pruning for several seasons,
says Sir. Chambers. Occasionally the d lad
wood needs cutting of, or some branch is
going to interfere with the general shape
of the tree. At this early age it is simply
necessary to pruns for the purpose of shap-
ing and training the tree. After this the
tree is liable to grow so rapidly that all Of
its strength goes to form wood and leaves.
This growth may be checked somewhat by
pruning of great deal Of the superHuous
woody part, and forcing the sap into the
formation of flowers and fruits. Many
young trees exhibit this tendency to go all
to wood. but to certain extent this is de-
sirable, for the tree must obtain proper.
ton, or it will never be q large bearer. In
the early age Of trees life the main object
is to get healthy proportion between the
branches and the trunk, and to form good
foundation for the fruits to grow on.
After the tree has come into bearing the
question Of pruning becomes more compli-
Gated. One must now prime to keep tbs
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-18
ON PECAN PLANTING, ETC,

Almost every day we are asked for arti-
cles on pecan planting and culture. Already
the entire subject has been handled through
various articles appearing in these columns,
but unfortunately our friends DO not appear
to have kept regular files of The paper. The
same thing over and over is apt 10 become
somewhat monotonous, eventually, still we
brief.
The best time for planting necans is so
soon as they have d:onpei fran the trees
entirely ripe, that is, befara the nuts have
entirely dried out. 81 not ready to plant at
this time we would recommend that the
nuts be wrapped in cloth or tied up in a
sack and buried in the ground where they
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-18
DRINK FOR COWS.

More or less has been said in these col
umns with reference to the need of good and
pure water for horses, which was certainly
all well enough, but as yet the COW has been
left out in that kind Of consideration. And
when we have reflected moment we must
see that personally we are more concerned
in what the cow drinks than we are in what
the horse drinks.
There could be no more serious subject
for the cow-owner to take into consideration
just at this season of the year, says the
American Dairyman, than that OF providing
the cow and particularly the milk-giying
cow, with an abundant supply Of pure
water. Remember that COWS in milk, when
fed on ordinary rations-that is, such food
as is not abnormally succulent-will each
drink from one hundred to one hundred and
thirty pounds of water per diem, and this
amount of water is too much for her to take
at one time. In other words, she should be
allowed to procure water easily and of the
very best quality whenever she wants it.
1t is useless to attempt to depend upon cis-
terms If there are many cows, for they
have contrary way of drinking most
just when the water is scarccst.
That is dry weather makes them
thirsty when the cisterns are lowest The
only safe dependence is on streams and
springs that never go dry and deep
wells that do not feel the surface drouth.
The water should be distributed over the
fields if the cows are at pasture, so that
they are not required to walk too far in dry
weather, for COWS will deny themselves.
water, and thus cause the milk to shrink,
rather than take long walk to procure it
OF course we cannot always have springs
and fine wells at every point in Texas
where they might be desirable, yet there is
no rubbing it out that many Of our milk
giving cows are forced TO drink worse wa
ter than actual necessity calls for, GO far
as relates to the owner.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-18
POPULAR SCIENCE.
MEMORY AN INDEX TO NEARING
OLD AGE.
"Old Gentieman'-When to Rsst-Thas
Wonderful Telephone-Ihe sun Never
Sets on the United States.
How We Think

DR.. B. W. Richardson contributes a pa
per 70 the Asclepiad, in which he says
memory is one of the best tests By which 10
decide that we are entering upon that pc
riod Of life known as odd age" When a
person begins to find the recollection OF
current and recent work failing, and when
he finds the recollection of events Of the
early part of his life acutely perceptible,
and by kind of spontaneity recurrent, the
evidence is certain that the mind of thai
person is aging. The fact is still further
emphasized il, with the rememb erance OF
past days, there is q sympathetic response
calling forth sentimental feeling either OF
pleasure orof pain. There probably is =
physiological reason for these phenomera.
In early life certain centers Of the orai3
are 6uee With Impressions knd iHsaaa
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-18
TO TELL THE AGE OF A SHEEP.

Can you tell me through The GAZETTE
some reliable method for arriving at tina
age of a sheep? l understand how to tell
the age of o horse by the teeth. but don't
know how to SO well get at the age of a
sheep. Am intending to make q break into
scale. and since l will have to buy my stock
l would like to know how to be on guard
against purchasing animals too oldy for
profit. SMALL FARMER.
Dallas county, Tex. {
Mr. E. II. Prouty of Dallas has pub
lished some rules for getting at the age of
4 sheep. He says:
Catch 4 lamb, look into its mouth and you
will find eight small, even white teeth on
the lower jaw. OF course no sheep has up
per teeth in front. When the lamb becomes
Il yearling the two front teeth, right in the
center, are pushed out by the sheep teeth,
which are much larger and very aSily dis
tinguished; when the animal is two years
old two more sheep teeth appear, making
four large teeth in the center; when three
years old two more come, making six;
when four years old the last two remaining
lamb teeth disappear ard are replaced by
large ones, and the animal then has full
mouth.
Mr.. Prouty says there are no reliaole
rules for arriving at the age Of a sheep
when 1t has passed four years, but of course
you do not wish to buy sheep to start with
that are more than four years old. And
even the four-year-old sheep will require
more than ordinary scrutiny to determine
its age, for the sheep at six years old will
have the same full mouth. But you can
tell the four-year-old from the older animal
by the bright and new appearance of the
two last sheep teeth received.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-18
THE GRAPE UNDER IRRIGATION.

Like SO many others, come to you for
advice. Partly from i love of seeing things
grow, and partly with view to learning
what attention to plants may be made to do,
|. about the lst of June, last, turned my in
terest to three grape vines that had been
planted the preceding fall. No. l ! cult
waited and watered amply; No. 9 l watered
only occasionally, when it really seemed to
need water, while No. 3 was left entirely to
itself, as is too often done by our people
with their grapes. All were on soil pre-
clsely alike.
of twelve feet. No. 2 a growth of little
less than three feet, while No. 3 made a
growth Of less than one foot. You may re-
gard this rs an eXtrely small experiment,
but ] think it rather clearly demonstrates
the difererence in effect between water or
no water, artifcially given 10 the grape
vine.
And now comes in the place for asking
the advice that mainly prompted me in
writing you. a friend says must cut my
pretty vine down to the ground this fall,
else l will have no fruit next season. Is
that 500 An answer to this question
through THE GAZETTE may help others as
well as myself.
Please do not print my name in full. My
young son expects to locate on section OF
land, and for his benefit | am saving all the
Sunday GAzETTEs. 1 look upon your page
as most interesting feature of the paper,
and hope you may long continue in your no.
bic work, for you are certainly doing good
to the many. Mrs. G..
Clarendon, Tex.
Vineyardists usually trim down their
vines to favor the formation Of ''fruiting
wood,'' as they call it, but in case of a SIN
gle vine or SO we would trellis it up and let
it go. You will get fruit anyway if you
continue to give plenty of water. Thanks
for your kindly expressed opinion of our
humble efforts
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-18
CUR 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
swer by mail should always have stamp in
address in addition to any such signature as
Subscriber, or "A. G. Z" not for publication.
If against the will Of the writer, but to admit o.
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, 1891-10-18

their top budsl sticking out. Rake every
thing level and give water occasionally af-
forwards.
If you follow these directions closely al
most every cutting will grow and make a
nice vine ready for setting in tine vineyard
the next spring.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-18
10y many labo-ers and make the South

richer. -"
While the olive is coast and compare
lively low-land tree, the land for it would
olive would not succeed on swampy land.
If the land will grow the peach tree 1t can
be safely trusted for the olive