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Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13

In the glad springtime the conductor of
the electric car merrily sings his trolley Ia.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13

Strength and health so together with
the excentlon OF butter.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13

Garfield Tea is Guaranteed. II not salts
factory return package and get money back Cures
sick headA .he.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13

The phreuologisis do no; always give their
knowledge free.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13

Syrup"

Those who have not
n Throat used BosChce's Ger
- man Syrup for some
a'N s severe and chronic
Speciality. trouble OF the Throat
and Lungs can hard
" appreciate what a truly wonder
ful medicine /, Is. The delicious
sensations Of healing, easing. clear
Ing. stTength-gathcring and recover
ing are unknown joys. For Ger
man Syrup We do not ask easy cases.
Sugar aud water may smooth a
throat orstopa tickling--foT a while.
This is as far as the ordinary cough
medicine goes. Boschee's German
Syrup Is a discovery. a great Throat
and Lung Speciality. Where for
years there have been sensitiycncss.
pain. coughing. splitting, hcmou-
hage, voice failure, weakness, slip
ping down hill. where doctors and
medicine aud advice have been swat
lowed aud followed 10 the gulf Of
despair. where there Is the sickcning
conviction that all is over and the
end IS inevitable. there we place
German Syrup. II cures. You are
a live man yet If you take it. y
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13
Molman,s Lirer paa..

Hoisnan'r Liver Paas cure NaL4hiA
hclnAns liver IA cure RfLLiOusNEss.
Hoinan's LAYER Pads clirC INnlGEsTIoE.
Pamphlet free with full Instructions and commendR-
uons, HOLMAN LfyER PAD o. r. o. Box 2lI2, n. Y.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13

The barney stone is merely sham rock
after all.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13

Gnbert's Dress Innings, Best In the World.
Every Intelligent Lady and Dressmaker knows IL
Genuine goods have name on seiFAge.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13

The man who loafs on the corner never
deals on the square
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13

The heart OF city lie probably where its
beats come from.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13

read what Mr.. Bell saia about making $50 per month
taiso sent 10 the standard silver Ware Co.. Essex ST.
10 ton. Mass. hmd recclscd fnc OF samples
orders tho ART day that paid tiO profit; made
tso the rrst week al the end OF month had ails
clear prBnt Any get circulars and agency by
writing the aboyc Grtn. hope Others may profit BY
mg C1pcF1onuc. Goars TfVly W. r, WILLIAMS.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13

This IS the season when millinea and mil,
lion aire almost rhyme.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13

man who is poor liar finds 1t convent
ent TO stick TO the truth.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13

A sealed proposal IS one that has been rat.
fled with kiss.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13
sTAIE oI On. 60 81 Iolnpo.

lUc4s CotCgF,
Frank ). Cheney makes cath that be Il
she teaiuF partner 81 lAr afm Of J. Che.
ney a CO., doing business Ia the city oi
Toledo, coaniy aud state aforesaid And that
said arm sill pay the sun Of OSE Hun
DRIED DOLLARS Tor each and every case
81 CHtarfh that eannol tr cured by the use
Of hAlL'a CATAhEH CrhE
FRANK ]. CHENEY.
Sworn % before mc aud subscribed In nv
pTstcaee. This Duh day u December, A. d.,
ihsG.
a. ". GLEASON,
KEAL Notary Public
Halls CatGuh curu Is taken internally
and hrt, directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces 81 tho tytiesn. send for testlmo.
malls free ~ j. CHENEY s. Co,
Toledo, Ohio.
EN- Sold ~ Druggists, TIC
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13

Il you want TO sink money get into the
swim
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13

Luck IS good thing 70 depend upon q
you have no desire TO succeed.
Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-06-13

THE people," we're told,
" are mostly ignorant when it
to medical science. "
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07
INSECTS OK wATERMELONs.

Please tell US through The GAZETTE how
to keep bugs off our watermelon vines.
They are small yellow bugs and one can't
get rid of them. Dry ashes have been used
but all to no purpose. SUBSCRIBER.
Terrell, Tex.
We cannot imagine what manner of in
sect you are having to contend against. If
you had sent us specimens we might have
talked to you more intelligently. If the in
sects are eating the leaves of your plants
Paris green would probably be your best
remedy. Mix half pound of Paris green
in forty gallons of water and sprinkle It
over the plants, keeping it well stirred dur
ing the application. But if they are pierre
ing the vines and leafstalks, and sucking
the sap from your plants the kerosene
emulsion described week or so ago would
be your best remedy. 1t should DE made a
little weaker than there recommended. A
few plants might be protected by a sprink
ling of pyrethrum or PerSion insect pow
ders 10 be had at the drug store. 1t should
be mixed with about three parts of -four to
one part of the insect powders.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07
CUITURE OF THE PECAN

VIII you kindly give me all the informa-
ton YOU can with regard to pecan culture,
character of soil best suited, the best
methods, etc; also what portions of this
state are best adapted to a grove of this
kind? Do YOU know of any books that have
been written on the subject? And can you
give me the address of anyone who has the
paper-shell variety of nuts for sale! Would
appreciate any information you might give
me through the columns of The GAZETTE.
Fort Worth, Tex. GEORGIAN.
If you have a file of The GAZETTE to
which you can refer you will find, by be-
ginning about six months back, several
rather exhaustive articles on the subject of
pecan culture. We cannot now give exact
dates of issues in which the articles APP
peared
The best soil for the pecan is the alluvial
along our rivers and creeks. If these soils
are exposed to occasional overflow it will be
all the better for the pecan. Such soils are
entirely well adapted to pecan groves any
where in the state outside of the long-leaf
pine belt along the Eastern border The
pecan succeeds very well in this pine belt,
but appears to do better further west.
The best method of starting grove is to
plant nuts where the trees are to stand, as
transplanted trees are understood to not do
so well as the others.
We know of no one at present who has
the paper-shen nuts for sale. As yet there
is no book on pecan culture, but we under
stand that the United States department at
D. c., will ere long issue
bulletin largely devoted to the subject.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07
GREAT GRAIN REGION.

l take the liberty of inclosing you two
heads of wheat from my farm, which are
a fair average Of my entire crop, some
heads being longer and some shorter. Ny
farm is seven miles southwest of Newlin
on the south side of Red river. The wheat
will be ready for harvest by first of next
week This is certainly 4 great grain re-
gion. Oats is looking as well as it would
seem that oats could look. We have had
fine rains in our immedi ate neighborhood.
VIII send YOU a small box of wheat after
the threshing.
| take THE GAZETTE and consider it q
most excellent paper. Shall continue to
take 1t so long as l am financially able to
do so. c. NJ ORGAN.
Newlin, Tex, May 81. {.
The conditions under which you propose
to continue taking The GAZETTE leads US
to count safely on You as a life subscriber,
provided you keep on raising plenty of such
wheat as the sample sent. The heads are of
some bearded variety more than six inches
long; and as full of big, plump grains as
IAN egg is full of meat" Never before
did We see a finer sample of wheat. Truly
we have some splendid wheat regions in
Texas, with lots of men VINO well know how
10 raise the crops. Our only trouble with re-
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07
COTTON CULTURE IN TEXAS.

The author of prize essay on cotton cult
ure, appearing in Texas Farm and Ranch,
says blowing in culture of the crop should
be shallow and further from the plants at
each going over. The dirt may be thrown
towards the plants to cover up small weeds
and grass if the plants are strong enough
TO bear it. In this thing of blowing de-
ponds much so far as relates to an advance
or retarding Of the crops. The writer con-
siders it very injurious to cotton to stir the
ground while it is wet and heavy-better
wait until it is in good working condition.
BY thus waiting you will be able to accom-
plish four times as much, and invariably
with better results. In his opinion farmers
would do better to abandon a part of the
cotton crop rather than plow all in wet
weather. 1t spoils the cotton and seriously
INJURIES the land.
His experience favors frequent blowing
in time of drouth. If the top soil becomes
dusty and dry, keep plowing-you are
forming L mulch for the land and crop. 1t
may be hot and dry on top, but beneath you
will find moisture. The essentials for good
crop are thorough preparation of the soil
before planting, and to be kept in this condi-
ton by constant and well applied cultiva-
ton
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07
STILL ANOTHER GRASS.

| send You for name Il grass that has
sprung an on my grounds near the resi-
den,e. Only Il few stalks have appeared,
and 1t IS SO unlike anything l have before
seen that curiosity prompts me 10 learn
what it is It grows as single stalks to the
height of about eighteen inches, each stalk
bearing a single head about the size and
shape of an ordinary pecan. Please name
it for me through The GAZETTE.
Dallas, Tex. Mas. a. {. O.
II is stranger within your gates sure
enough, but we can probably put YOU in
way OF explaining how it got there You
possibly own 4 canary bird. Now, when
those grass heads get ripe if you take tho
pans 10 rub them out YOU viii secure a
yield of the regular canary seed of com
merce. Ii is canary seed grass, and the
stalks in YOUR yard are from seeds mat acci-
IDENTIFY fell from Your bird cage Botanical
name of the grass is PhaIaris canariensis.
The seed Of it sold for feeding canary
birds is raised in foreign countries,
but we don't know where. In this
find by our correspondent lies an idea
that may be turned To good account:
Why not raise our own canary seed
in Texas y very small patch would Weld
seed enough for several birds The yield,
under favorable conditions is said TO be
from thirty TO forty bushels of cleaned seed
10 no oo,.a
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07
IRR1GAr1NG BY HORSE POWER.

Mai. Sidney Herbert, agricultural editor
OF the Atlanta (Ga.j Journal, says irriga-
ton IS by no means confined to California
and other regions of scant rainfall. In all
parts OF the country farmers and fruit
growers are waking up to the importance
OF having some kind of good system of
irrigation on their farms and in their Or
chards What system to use depends much
upon the surrounding. Some farmers can
irrigate their crops with but little expense,
owing TO nearness Of water and the clay
of the land, while others find it rather
expensive job. \ writer in the Leesburg
(tla.) Commercial says there is about
three miles southwest Of Sanford, in
that state, gentleman successfully irri-
eating twenty acres by horse power. The
water is lifted with machine worked
by two horses. The machine came from
New York. There is lake near by, and
from this a ditch has been dug to the
machine down on a level with the lake, and
pipe sucks up the water from the ditch
and discharges it where needed.
The entire cost of this machine was only
$500, and the Commercial is informed that
its value is shown in the fact that while
other grounds are suffering from drouth
the growths of these twenty acres are rich
in their luXuriant greenness. In his COM
ments, Maj. Herbert says, ''of the fact that
irrigation viii always increase the crop and
make vegetables well nigh certainty every
year, there can be no question -
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07
WILL TEXAS SOIL vE.. OFT

According TO the American Agricult-
| urist, one foot in depth of fairly good
agricultural soil contains 1000 pounds of
900 pounds of nitrogen and lime, magnesia,
soda, chlorine, sulphur. and silica to afford
food for all the crops which these three
elements can feed per acre After farmers,
by careful and skillful cultivation, have ex-
hausted all this great store of plant food in
the uppermost foot of this soil, which will
require several centuries, will the soil be
exhausted asks the writer. Not at all, is
his answer. As the land is gradually
changed into vegetable growth, and the
surface is removed as farm crops, as II gradu-
ally deepens, the subsoil which contains the
very same elements becomes fitted for
plant food. And thus the imperishable
nature of matter applies to the soil, which
can never be exhausted during all the ages
which are to come. All that mankind has
to do is to use the arts, under the instruc-
ton of science, to develop this latent fertil-
ity of the soil, and to go on feeding the hui
man race until the end, if an end ever shall
come, when the earth will no longer exist
as a fit habitation for mankind.
Then there is another matter to take into
consideration with special reference to our
Texas soils. As rule they are not what
could be termed drift formations, like the
great drift formations further East, for
instance. They are made up from decom-
position of our own underlying rocks.
These rocks finely broken are thiclzly mixed
with our soils, and the same decomposition
that made the soils in the first place is con-
stantly going on. It is almost if not quite
rapid enough TO restore annually to the
soils all the elements annually taken off by
our crops. hence Texas soils can never wear
out. They may be more or less exhausted
of such elements as are not directly applied
by the decomposing rocks, hence an addi-
ton of certain manureal elements may
vastly improve them, but such very i'm
portant elements as phosphoric acid, pot
ash and lime are here to stay.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07
TEXAS GROWN SEEDS.

During the late war we had only Texas
grown garden seeds, and they were as good
as seeds could possibly have been grown in
any other section of country. Before the
war most Northern people settled among us
saved their own garden seeds. When the
war broke out native Texans found them
selves reduced TO the necessity OF following
the example of these adopted citizens.
was then boy IN my teens, and the only
male member of the family left at home
The seed-saving devolved upon me, under
the direction OF my mother. Seeds were
saved of everything we grew. and if by any
chance we failed on some particular species
some neighbor had succeeded with it. while
we had probably succeeded with something
the neighbor had failed in. As 4 result we
looked about for these successes aud fail
ureS with view to an exchange of seeds.
By this means all our crops We're kept up.
II | remember correctly our seeds gave bet
ter results then than do the commercial
seeds now. We all had an abundance OF
them--turnips. radishes, beans, peas. mus
taTd, cabbage, lettuce, sweet and Irish po-
tatoes, onions. shallots, beets spinach,
asparagus, ochre, sweet corn. sGuashes,
pumpkins, water and musk melons, etc,
all from Texas grown seeds.
From all of this l well know that Texas
grown garden seeds are trst-class, and that
therefore, as you intimate in 4 late article,
Texas might become very great seed sup
plying state. | would suggest that some of
our Pecos county farmers Try seed farms on
their irrigated lands. arranging in advance
for Il sale of their product to the great seed
houses of the country. c. 7. HOGAN.
Ennis, Tex.
We are entirely satisfied that Texas could
soon build up for herself a fine reputa-
ton as seed producing section. OF course
irrigation would make the seed producing
business most profitable, as it would admit
of a regular succession of crops throughout
the season, still there are many species and
varieties that might be successfully pro-
duced without irrigation. The greatest
thing for seeds, according to Mr.. James ].
H. Gregory, the scotsman. is to have dry
atmosphere at time of ripening and harvest.
That we would have.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07
4 BEAUTIFUL CHRysALIS.

! send you by mail to-day a curiosity in
the way OF a chrySaliS-the most beautiful
thing Of the kind | ever before saw 1t
seems so very strange 10 HE that worm
can DO such exquisite work and trim il
with gold. Can You tell ME what it IS,
Bowie, Tex. Mus :. !. WRIGHT.
The chrySalis referred % encloSes the
larva of a pretty little insect known 10 ento-
moIogists as the Archippus butterfly Said
chrysalis is not far from the size of 4
medium sized pecan and not far from the
same shape, with the exception that one
end is considerably larger than the other;
color, a greeniSh tint marked with numer-
Gus black dots and with a conspicuous band
of gold running around the point Of largest
circumference, near the upper end When
found it was attached to some plant bv 4
small short thread extending from the
center OF the largest end causing 1t 10 hang
smallest end downward. The larva, or
caterpillar, before going into the chrYSaliS
state, fed upon a wide range of vegetation.
indeed did not appear at all particular as to
what it fed upon. If it was in great num-
bers ii would be classed among our injuri-
Gus insects, but on account of lis compare
tive rareness it is not so classed.
of course in this case the worm had
nothing to do in that work of beautiful con-
struction and decoration. for it is q chrysa-
Hs-not a cocoon. But the work is wonder
full nevertheless, yet that hand which
plants our prairies with millions upon mill
ions of magnificent flowers never 10 be
seen by mortal eye is capable of doing Won
derful things For whom are made all
these most splendid decorations since man
is never TO see them2 No atheist can offer Il
reasonable answer to this question.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07
THAT ROSE TROUBLE.

If Mr.. J. C. Martin viii pick his rose buds
that are affected, and will examine them,
he will find hundreds of what l call rose
mites, resembling chicken mites, on their in
teriorS. I have great many roses which
have been ruined by this pest. AT first
was of his opinion relative to over produc-
ton of buds. until l had discovered the
mites. think I was the first to discover
the trouble. The mites can be found all
through the buds. Can some one give US
remedy with which to destroy this pest
Bolton, Miss. j. B. HARDGRAvE
We think DR.. Hardgrave has mixed Mr.
Martins case with that OF another party
who sent US roses fully developed but not
opened out. The interior showed decay.
and we pronounced upon it as the worl. of
fungus. In the case of Mr.. Martins
roses, as we understood it, the buds mot
fowersl appeared. but failed to mature.
Our attention to the ':mites'' mentioned
by DR.. Hardgrave has been called by others,
and after thorough examination we have
decided that the '.mites'' have nothing
whatever to do with tho trousie. They are
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07
MORE FINE WHEAT.

an regular reader of TIE GAZETTE
and being therefore advised of tine interest
you are taking in Texas agriculture 1 have
concluded to send you Il sample OF my
wheat. 1t was sown on grass sod, plowed
under and then narrowed with the old
fashioned tooth harrow. The field IS in
section 500. adjoining the town Of Childress.
Childress, Ten. j. II. CHRIsTLEN.
No wheat could be finer. Please see
what we have said in another place with
reference to Il sample of wheat sent by Mr..
Organ of Newlin. The TWO samples are
much alike and therefore what we said 10
Mr.. Organ is applicable in both cases.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07
j. p. STEELE, EDITOR.

-O-Ac'
! from frost to frost. These we cannot have
without an artificial water supply. With
out that artificial water supply our seasons
for most profitable agriculture, or horticult-
ure, II you please, are practically as short
as are the seasons in Canada-they do not
extend over so much as three months OF
time, when in fact they ought to extend over
more than nine months. Now. suppose the
Arlington Heights people should put, let US
say 1000 acres, CT this land under correct
system of irrigation, and should give it out
IN small tracts TO tenants or purchasers,
supplying portion of the water by artesian
wells and portion by tank collection as
their artificial lake shows them that they
could do. Cannot you see at glance what
an industrial population this arrangement
would speedily bring to the locality A
thousand acres of land let out in five-acre
tracts. would nicely sustain a cultivating
population of at least 1000 persons. To this
population could be safely added at least
1000 more persons as mechanics, with 9TH
ers engaged in handling the heavy products
of that 1000 acres, for cultivators must have
appliances, and products made must be
cared for. There would be machine shops,
canning factories and preserving factories,
evaporating factories. and dozens of other
small plants that would come as the direct
result Of this heavy production.
II the lands We're sold out to the occu-
pants there would come into the syndicate
the usual profits to be expected on the sale
of lands, and since a water supply
would have 10 be guaranteed the water
plant would run on and bring in a good
per cent of profit to its owners for time
out of date in the future
What we have said of Arlington Heights
applies with equal force to all the additions
lying around Fort Worth. Every one of
them might, by correct systems of irriga-
ton, be made center of such a producing
population as would carry the prosperity of
dream of any person now interested in the
place.
There is certainly nothing to risk in in
vestments OF this character All needed
is to show by practical demonstration what
a correct system OF irrigation is capable of
doing under correct management. This
practical demonstration might be made on
4 small scale to begin with, and no doubt
there are wells or other means of water
supply where it might be made now An
acre, or even a half acre, might answer
every purpose. Let the people see a half
acre of land fourishing under a luxuriant
growth of crops on through July, August
and September and all doubts would be
speedily cast TO rhe winds. Doubts
arising from want of practical demonstra-
ton are al we have in the way If we
can dispel those doubts we ought TO do it
without delSy. Give the people something
to talk about that is reasonably founded
upon brighter future People will talk
anyway, and unless you can get move
on them to talk in the right direction very
many will be found talking entirely wrong
But telling them what might be done don't
nave much intiuence-you must show them
what can be done. Seeing is believing"
vol know
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-07
APEANT FOR NAME.

Enclosed is flower which our class has
been attempting TO classify and name. We
have referred 10 several text books, but
have failed to obtain its botanical name
1t grows on shrub about twelve feet high
and its inflorescence is racine We
thought it belonged eithento the Bgnonia
or the F'igwart family. but could not trace
it further We would like to know its
name, and if you will be so kind as 10 give
US the desired information through THE
GAZETTE you will oblige me and the class.
FANNIE B. WILLIS.
Central High School, Waco, Tex.
Your plant is evidently a Pentstemon,
but we are unable to make out the species.
None of our botanical writers have men
toned Pentstemon growing as a shrub
twelve feet high, therefore we conclude
that you must have an unnamed species.
Your text books give the Pentstemon as an
herbaceous perennial, yet there are shrubs
belonging to the same genus, and your class
must be studying one of them.