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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-10

. people have 70 make Us happy while they
are away.
Last week you wrote OF a beautiful prim-
. rose native to Texas and Alabama only. !
| inclose flower to ask II II is what YOU re-
ferred TO. find it in two shades Of color
(clear white aud pale red) growing abun-
dainty on the prairie about Arlington
Heights. NATIVE TEXAN LADY.
Fort Worth, Tex.
Your flower IS the same rs mentioned
the E,nothera speciosa of botanists-Out tine
printers got us in little wrong relative 30
It's native habitat. On the authority of
Wood we had intended to state thai !, was
peculiar TO Texas and Arkansas. and moi,
Alabama We have no idea that specimen
Of the plant was ever seen growing wild at
any point east OF the Mississippi river. and
no botanist mentions having ever found i
anywhere save in Texas and Arkansas.
What YOU say concerning our humble
efforts 10 do justice 20 the wild flowers OF
Texas is certainly very pleasant reading for
US, although read with feelings Of regret
that We have not been able 20 do more
The fourth deserving 10 bc told IL that. di-
rection has not, As yet, been so much a.
iLHttt d.. out tiSp4dN III "l!ulIONtIN ~
too grand TO admit of any general dcSer:p-
fion that could convey 10 the stranger ar
idea OF it at Ill bordering upon the reality
II Is certainly passing strange that while
the world abroad has heard so much of the
advantages and glories of Texas her rhc-
nonenai wealth in native towering plants
has been almost wholly left out OF mention.
With Us the flowers now making our
prairies fairly 10 glitter are wild flowers. OF
course, but to tie stranger with the wild
flowers Of other regions IN mind, they
about them noue OF that coarSeneSS and ap-
parent lack of development usually peculiar
10 wildfOwerS. \ large aud we think, the
most beautiful bouquet of fowers-wild or
tarne-that we have vet seen, was this week
kindly shown Us by Mrs. NJ K. Walton of
The GAZETTE. Il was composed of rich
specimens represented in ~ least TWO dozen
species. all arranged with the best OF taste
Is 10 harmony of color. Every appearance
of the composition might have been ac-
copied as pointing 10 the handiwork of 4
trained artist, done in some millionaire's
conservatory, and Yet every flower in thai
collection mad been gathered for her by Il
friend OF Mrs. Waiton'S on the wild prai-
ries OF Texas, and i'll the immediate neigh
borhood OF Fort Worth. Truly, nature
made Texas for a wonderful country.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-10
NEW FOR SHEEP TEXAS.

Here we usually raise sheep for the sheep
alone, looking TO the wool or the carcass for
our only profits. This comes of the fact
that we have all along been looking to the
wild range for the support of our sheep.
and there is no getting around the fact that
IS Z rule our wild range affords our sheep
u very fair support. But Mr.. Galen Wilson
writes that even in the face OF all this there
is still 4 better way of managing Sheep
There is in the sheep another prominent
source of profit never much calculated
upon by the Texan, where lands are looked
upon as naturally rich enough for all prac-
teal purposes in agriculture This matter
OF rich lands may be all true enough. but
there is such thing as vastly improving
the productive qualities of the richest
lands, naturally, by what one might
call tanning them. Mr.. Wilson
says he once called upon rich
land farmer and was surprised 10 find his
crops looking much better thaa those of his
neighbors working lands OF precisely the
same natural character. Asking the farmer
for an explanation, that gentleman simply
pointed TO flock OF sheep quietly feeding
in an adjacent field.
The farm under consideration was some
what broken into ridges and knobs like
much of the lands in Texas. There were
no really poor lands on the place. though
those topping the ridges were the thinnest
Further inquiry brought out that the
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-10
j. p. STEELE, EDITOR.

Ulercial Reporter says Irish potatoes make
/ better glucose than corn. A back issue of
the Chicago Prairie Farmer says one bushel
Of Irish potatoes yields more glucose than
two bushels of corn. Scientific investiga-
tons have shown that the sweet potato is
richer in glucose-yielding elements than is
the Irish potato And this at once lifts
the curtain to plain view of how Texas
might be contributing largely to that mo
lasses sea, and doing it with great profit
TO herself. It is well established fact
that under good culture ana intelligent
management, we can easily raise 400 bush
els Of sweet potatoes to the acre. If one
bushel of sweet potatoes is worth as much
in the manufacture of glucose as two bush
els Of corn, you can see that our land cult
waited to sweet potatoes for the manufacture
of glucose would be yielding US an equiva-
lent of eight hundred bushels of corn TO the
acre. Then the culture and handling of the
crop would be no more expensive than the
cultivating and handling of an acre to corn.
Why, there is millions in it, so to speak.
This thing ought 10 be promptly looked
into by our people. There is not one argu-
ment that could be brought to bear against
It as Offering for US one of the biggest
things imaginable. The land will produce
the potatoes-no doubt of that-and the
potatoes would undoubtedly yield the glu-
cose. The hardest and most productive
potatoes we now grow would be the kinds
most needed, for these are richest in starch,
and starch alone is the clement converted
into glucose. With proper attention the
potatoes could be so kept as would run the
factory through much longer season than
a sorghum, beet or a cane sugar factoryis
ever run.
We do hope the people of Texas will take
this very important matter under consider
alton. Nothing else is needed, for there
are no tests to be made. Everything is
bound to pan out precisely as named, hence
there is nothing TO do other than working
up will TO get at it. The processes OF con-
verting the sweet potato into starch are
exactly the same as those employed in con-
Eerting the irish potato into starch. In
time of the late war starch was largely
made from sweet potatoes in both Georgia
and South Carolina, so there is no guess
work about the matter. The yield OF starch
was large. Once we have starch the glu-
cose may be regarded as made, for the pro-
cesses to follow are few and simple.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-10

farmers sheep were Systematically
pastured or the lands he cultivated. It was
the nature Of the saeep 10 rest on some
point Of high ground in the field until that
particular point had grown to be more or
less Uttered, after which their peculia-ities
of cleanliness led them to move 10 fresh
fresh spot. Thus their work was continued
until all the thinnest lands were attended
to, and from these high lands much of the
leavings Of the flock were washed by rains
to the lands on lower levels. The effects
on the lands were marked, although
naturally they appeared to have been al
that crops need require, without any addi-
ton in this way.
This farmer who, like many others, had in
closed more ground than he needed TO cult
vate continuously kept one field under
sheep treatment, devoting year to the
process. The growths on it pretty well
kept up the sheep while at the same time
the sheep contributed largely towards keep
ing up the growths. Each alternate year
the land was put 10 culture and superior
crops were the result. He told Mr.. Wilson
that his gain from this process was beyond
doubt, yet he was unprepared to give the
exact per cent OF gain. But so marked was
the gain, he said, that if his sheep yielded
no wool at all he would still keep them on
his lands; o. if they produced wool alone
and no lambs he would keep them; and he
was not at al sure but he would keep them
for the good thew done to his crops il they
gave him nothing save Just lambs enough 10
keep up the flock.
It was not contended that the sheep di-
rectly enriched the land, taking general
clements of plant food into consideration,
but they tanned il. For best results lands
must have something of that kind. For
wild growths any good land may be all
well enough, but our crops are tame
growths, and therefore, some kind of tam
ing is necessary 10 make everything con-
genial.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-10

Land plaster of commerce, sold for ens
riching .an6s. Supposed - ne highly ad-
vantageous 70 crops OF wheat ana othcp
small grains.
There is probably not much IN 1t TO the
owner Of a gypsum deposit in Texas a.
present, owing 20 the fact that land plaster
Is not much used oy southern farmers Is
yet, and 10 ship ii long distance would
TOO much cut of an ability TO compete ad-
vautsgeously with the Northern product.
We are not entirely sure Of this, however,
ana therefore the thing Is worthy Of n
vcstigation. No doubt the time VIII event.
ually come that shall iind the preparation OF
land plaster = big thing for Texas.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-10

keting of srcriucts: the systematizing Of
labor and the products Of labor so as to
make the farm, in al its departments, self
sustaining; all these will be necessary to
achieve success. The study must extend
70 how to plant, what is the food for plants
and for soil, now 10 prevent waste an the
farm and in the soil, how to bring up every
greatest possible results on I sound econ
omical basis; these are vital matters that
will demand the attention OF the farmer
who wishes 20 succeed. j is clear that re
ducing the acreage in cotton will not result
in benefit to the farmer so long as it costs;
him so much to raise it.
Raise cotton or any other marketable
crop that you would prefer to raise as your
surplus. but do 1t al the least possible cost
is the advice OF agricultural science. Don't
say You are raising il at the least possible
cost so long as others have raised i 81 :
cost still lower. That which has been done
once can be done again. Set your plans for
the cheapest possible production, and study
in way that will enable you 10 work well
up to your plans--the closer You work TO
those plans the more money you will make,
and the more you produce III that work the
better Of you will be in the end. How is
it possible for any man 10 make money OF
4 crop that costs him in production all he
gets for it No crop for which there Is d.
standing and regular demand need 10 this.
Somebody is making money OF that crop.
and il you are not doing it the fault is
simply your own. Study to find out what
that fault is. and when found. apply tue
proper remedy.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-10
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

This department is devoted 10 answering
such questions a. may be asked by our sub
scribeTS, which may be OF general Information
Inquiries oil personal character that require an
swer by mail should always have stamp in
closed. Please give full name ana poStofilce
address in addition 10 any such signature as
Subscriber, or A G. D, not for publication.
direct communication should such thing he
deemed necessary. Address directed 81 head
OF this page.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-10

ana hence bur seldom climb the trunks If
the trees.
Gathering and burning the fallen fruit Is
simple remedy entirely within tbs reach
Of all It should be kept up as long as there
is any unripe fruit to fall.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-10

JAS. +. WARREN.
Pecos City, Tex.
Gypsum IS simply sulphate OF lime
The line aud transparent varieties are
called Selenite, and the Sne but more mas
sive varieties are called alabaster When
eaicined the better grades Of gypsum be-
come what we know as plaster OF Paris, q
material largely employed in the arts, As
for making casts. etc, and also for putting
hard finish on plastered walls Gener-
ally speaking, the plaster of Paris, so
called, is imported, though is is highly
probable that our rich gypsum deposits
would enable us TO prepare as good plaster
OF Paris in Texas as is prepared anywhere
else. The most extensive use OF American
gypsum, yet made, is as a fertilizing agent
Finely ground it becomes the well known
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-10
.,.,,y not MAKE GLUCosEe

TAru ~ IL iA'N A>itAAHN N'iNA'i-
l-, .... p.,t decade the consumption Of
W ..,s.-- has attained to magnitude
-.. That is truly startling. Not
49,. a representative Of the Boston
I- Reporter called on glucose
'... ....ar that city CAIessrs. Alexan-
A. CO.. and gathered information
.-.-... 70 glucose which reads like
"..' The head Of the firm stated
......r. Years ago the demand on their
.r.-,. sytups did not extend be-
.~- barrels month, but the demand
CROWN mat 10 person outside
.,.. ...f form al idea Of it that
al. approximate 10 correctness.
ing 10 ronfcctiouers, bakers,
--..--. .--rcr-. molasses mixers, pre-
..-.- chemists. morocco leather
. l- aud others in various
.'.. 70. -.e United States, and they
..... ting thousands of tons Of
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. rliug To Air. Alexander, ap-
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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-10
USES OF GYPSCM.

Please inform ne OF what uses GYPSUM is
applied to. and also give me some idea OF
its value where found in large deposits.
JAS. +. WARRES
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-10

Every now aud then some new thing
turns up that nils one with wonder over
why it should not have heen sooner thought
OF. Among such is new French discovery
for turning the sawdust OF mills into .
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-11
VlPERS TN ENGLAND.
Th@ Only Snake Now Found In That
Country.

rhts Only Snake Now Found In That
Country.
In England the only venomc US snake
is che viper, which frequents chalky
districts, and is not to be found all over
the country. Perhaps, says the H.
Illustrated American, these vipers are
the most common and vicious Of the
smaller snakes, seldom growing longer
than two feet. They abound not only in
warm countries, where forests are thick
and men are few, but also in the coolest
regions OF Sweden. Norway, Russia and
even Siberia. where q great many exist
owing to IL stupid superstition among
the peasants that if viper is killed a.
terrible misfortune will soon befall the
rash slayer The California viper builds
itself q little mud hut, just it's OWN
length. and probably half an inch thick
err than it's own body. 1t is made OF
earth, fine gravel, and sometimes leaves
are mixed in the construction of this
curious abode. 1t is lined with a soft,
silky substance, finer than cotton and
silkier than down At each end there
are two little doors, and whe n monsieur
Ia maitre is half way in one shuts, and
when all the way in the other closes,
leaving the master of the house as iso-
lated and exclusive as Robinson Crusoe
on his desert island. One Of these
''viper shells,'' brought from California
lately, was so thoroughly sun-ba]ked
and hardened chat though more than
two feet long it could be dropped on the
floor without breaking.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-11
TIE MOCkiNG-BIRD.
About the Only Singer That America
Now Eas.

About che Only Singer That America
Now Has.
America is without a single singing
bird, if we except the moaking: bird Of
the south, and he is but an i,nitator, as
his name implies. without an original
note. Yet he can initiate TO perfection
any bird that sings. l have an idea on
this subject, says a ST. Louis man in the
Globe Democrat, which would, in my
Judgment, people the woods of the south
with the sweetest singers in the world.
I would have several hundred Texas
hooking birds captured while young and
taken to Germanyt There let them be
intr,sted for year or SO to the peasants
of the Hartz mountains, district, where
the nightingale, the golden thrush, the
linnet, the bullfnch and dozens Of
other sweet warblers fly wild. 1t would
not be long before the. Texas mocker
would be singing all their songs sweet
~. Then bring them back to the
United States, turn them loose in their
native woods and let them teach their
fellows the songs they had learned
abroad. This is every bit as good an
idea as that of sending, at the govern
ment expense, a corps Of colored cooks
to the countries of Europe to show the
people how to make cornbread, and
thus create an additional market for
our American corn.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-11
ROTATION OF THE GLOBE.
The Simple Means by Which 1t May he
Illustrated.

The Simple Means by Which 1t May he
Illustrated.
When next you chance to eat an egg,
says the Brooklyn Eagle, you can easily
make an experiment, which is not only
productive of much amusement, but
also illustrates in manner so clear and
simple that even child can compre-
bend it, the double movement of the
earth, which revolves simultaneously
around the sun on it's own axis.
Moisten slightly with water the rim
of your plate and in the center paint
with the yolk of the egg (you see that
you have not far to go for coloring ma
teriaD sun with golden rays. Then
all that you have to do is to place the
empty half shell of your egg on the
rim Of the plate, and keeping this latter
duly sloped and shifting it gradually
around so that the shell may always
have an inch or two of descending plane
before it, you will see the eggshell be-
gin to revolve rapidly on its own axis, at
the.same time travelling round the plate.
The slight cohesion caused by the
water which moistens the plate coun-
teracts the centrifugal force and so pre-
vents the eggsheu falling off the edge
IT the plat
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-11
Crooks Council of War.

A writer in the Century, giving an
extended account of Gen. Crooks war
are against the Indians in California
and Arizona, thus briefly describes the
eneral's unique method of holding
council of war: He never asked anyone
for an opinion, never gave one of his
own, but taking his rifle in hand,
strolled a short distance away from the
camp, sat down under a rock, crossed
one knee over the other, clasped his
arms about his shins, and occasionally
rubbed the tip of his nose with the back
of his right hand. This last was the in
falible sign by which the troops after
ward learned to know that one of
Crooks councils of war was in progress.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-11
SHOT ~ a HAlLsToNE.
Tho Elements Come to the Aid Of an Ex-
hausted Fisherman.

Tho Elements Come to the Aid of an Ex-l
hausted Fisherman.
| Col. j. Nj. Davis lately returned FROM
an extended southern trip. While atI
Las Vegas. N. M, he went on fshing1
| frolic with Gen. Miles. He entertained
his friends by relating his experience.
Conservative men pronounced his mar
rative a trifle uafounded, but the colonel
swears that every word is true, says the
| Chicago Herald.
"Talk about trout!'' he screamed.
''You never flshed unless you have
dropped your line in the cold, swift
Gallinas river, about five miles north
Of the Las Vegas hot springs. Gen.;
Miles and I took out seventy-eight|
speckled Sbeauties in one afternoon
bhere. I got one fellow that weighed
hhirty-seven pounds, but it took me
four hours to land him. Gen. Miles had.
gone sback to the springs for his
| luncheon and was about to follow,
when l thought rowboat had got on
! nv hook In a moment knew that 1t:
was a monster fish. I'd made books on
the fact that it was devil fish, but,
never dreamed 1t was g. trout. gave
It all my line, and the smoke was just.
pouring from my reel Presently the
fish stopped and began to cake il the
line This performance lasted nearly
four hours. l had a very small pole
and line and could take no chances.
Once 7 got the fish out Of the water Tor
@ second. He frightened me. I'm not
naturally a coward, but l had notion
Of running when T. saw that immense
thing on my hook. was well-nigh ex-
hausted and was about to throw in my
line when terrible hailstorm came up.
Just as a. fearful blast came down I
;erked the trout out Of the water few
inches and huge hailstone struck him
between his eyes. He wiggled his tail
for second as if in deep thought, then
burned over on his back stunned"
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-11
UNDER FIRE.
An Experience Which Determines Mans
COURAGE.


Courage.
Although experience in war may not
improve the strategy of the great mas
ters OF war, it is of infinite use to ali
ranks. In the first place, it enables a
man to gauge his own nerve, and to
have it appraised by others. Being shot
at, even when the fire is not very hot,
Is an experience which no officer can
have too early in his career. 1t is a
curious sensation when you first rea-
lie that some Que or more OF the en-
envy has singled you especially as a
target; to say the least, it is extremely
Irritating. There are many men who
cannot keep their heads in any mo-
ment of great danger to themselves
Those men are useless as officers i'll
the field. They should stay at home.
I have known one Or two men, says a
writer in the interior, who actually
went off their heads from the excite
ment Of mind caused by a heavy fire,
aud whom it would have been folly
ever to allow again under fire. But OF
this I am quite certain, that the cour~
age Of a man who is brave by nature
seasons under fire. At the end of the
siege of sebastopol { had many friends
so long accustomed to be shot at daily
that a heavy fire meant very little in
deed to them, although possibly some
of them may at first have bobbed their
heads very freely to the ping Of the
passing bullet. Experience Of danger
accustoms the brave man to danger,
and enables him to think and act sen
sibly and usefully, and come to sound
decisions when exposed to that danger.
The art of being able to do SO, like
that OF SWIMMING: and skating once
acquired, never forsalkes the healthy
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-07-11
sThe Wrong Instruments.

A vocalist of some New York renown
was to sing at concert in western
city not long ago. One of the best of
the metropolitan string quartettes had
q number or two on the programme
also. A week before the concert the
the singer wrote to one Of the quar-
tette, begging that it would play an ac-
compartment to his songs. Incidental
y he asked: "What instruments are in
cluded in your string quartette?" This
was the answer: ':Dear Sir-Our string
4usrtette consists of trombone, French
horn, accordion and cymbals. It will
be impossible for us to accompany you
as you request, as the instruments are
scarcely fitted for that line Of work. y