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The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28
THE BORDEAUX MINTTRE.

have read in the papers about Bordeaux
mixture. used for spraying trees ana vines
TO prevent leaf blight and grape rot. Il
appears TO be the chief standby at present
for all manner of fungus plant diseases.
Can you tell me what il i. dud-how 10 pre-
pare it. TRINITY.
Tarrant county. Tex
To make Bordeaux mixture dissolve
twelve pounds powdered sulphste Of copper
(blue-stone) in twenty gallons Of water
using Il fortEtive gallon barrel for the pul'-
pose. In another vessel stir eight pounds
of unslacked lime into twelve gallons of
water and then strain through coarse
cloth into the copper solution. Next fill
the barrel with water and stir thoroughly.
This is the Bordeaux mixture. l, Is applied
by spraying finely over the trees, vines or
plants TO be treated
If YOU should not need so much Bordeaux
mixture as our formula gives you can re-
duce the quantity at pleasure by adheriug
10 the foregoing proportions
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28
SHALLOW CORN CULTURE.

The Farmer and Fruit-Grower says there
are at least three good reasons for why al
after-culture of corn should be shallow
First, if the seed bed has been properly pre-
pared it should be let alone. 1t is a useless
draft on the teams. Second, by deep cult
ure you loosen up the seed bed, and in case
of drouth it prevents the moisture from
rising. Common sense teaches that the
moisture could not so readily rise where the
soil is loose. and it has 10 climb from one
grain to another, each grain of earth draw
ing from the one below it. Third and worst
of all, is the breaking of the roots of corn. 1t
is through these roots that the stalk re-
ceives its food. The stalk and root are de-
pendent one upon the other for living
destroy either and the other will die. Every
man knows this.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28
TROUBLE AMONG THE ROSES.

Herewith | send YOU some rose buds My
bushes of white and yellow roses are full OF
buds, but all are bighted like the spec!-
mems sent. Please give me through TIE
GAZETTE some remedy for this trouble
The bushes all appear healthy, and re
growing vigorously, but they develop 10
perfect flowers. G.. l. HUDSON.
Mineola, Ten.
The roses, which are of the large double
varieties, appear to have attained 10 fUl.
maturity, ami the buds 10 have opened.
throwing back the caIyy in the regular wa,,
but the petals have not expanded. Tho
sutercorolla wraps the flower up in dr.,
covering reminding one somewhat of the
wrapper around cigar. both in point Of
color and general appearance. Inside VI
this wrapper the petals appear fresh and
good, but they have no fragrance. The base
of the petals al their union with the calyN
are dead and dccaying, separating easily
and allowing the center TO pull out with the
stem.
y fungus growth OF some kind is working
this trouble evidently though We are TN
able to make out exactly what it is. \
thorough spraying with the BordrauN
mixture described above would probably
prove the best remedy that could be applied.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28

the next evening the gentleman heard {
fearful cracking and cackling coming
from the hen in the orange shed, and Sug-
costing the discovery of snake Aiming
himself with the garden rake, he hasteurd
TO the rescue but it proved 10 be no SNAKE
Three of the Young alligators We're our,
crawling about the nest and apparently
specializing on how far Z might De 70 rje
edge of the swamp. He removed the hatch,
leaving the three unmatched eggs sill. uI-
der the hen. just II daylight next morning
he was astoHiShcd 20 see the hen come from
the orange shed with Il racket that iairlc
reused the neighborhood and make directly
for the nearest woods. Going 10 the shed
he found three new allicators in The nest
Two Years have since elapsed. ami though
that hen has taken high rank Is the best
LAYER on the place she has never Up 20 this
day, evinced the slightest disposition %
set The gentleman thinks she must
have concluded that her prolonged imprrl-
dence had brought on an attack OF the jim
jams, and that, therefore, l. was time .
begin permanent reform. The method ;
probably entirely open 10 all who may de-
sire to employ tiff the gentleman eyer
took out letters patent on his discovery We
are not aware Of the fact.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28
TEXAS FOR SEED RAISING.

| In recent address delivered before an
| aSsemblage of horticulturists Mr.. j. j. II.
| Gregory, the noted Alarblehcad, Mass,
| scotsman and gardener, said: Seeds
ripened in a dry season are always best and
keep vitality longest" If Mr.. Gregory
does not well understand this thing one
| may safely take the position that no man
does. and il strikes US that there is. in this
statement of his. something for Texans to
ponder over. We can grow most seeds
here fully as successfully as they could be
grown anywhere else, and the season Of
their ripening would almost invariably be Il
dry season. This last, then. means that
our seeds would always class entirely up to
seeds of the very best quality, retaining
their vitality longer than the seeds of most
other sections. The seeds of other sections
may be all right in this particular and then.
again. they may not-juSt as it happens as
to seasons of ripening. With Texas that
peculiar condition so advantageous would
be sure thing for every year There is
big money 10 the producer i'll the seed
growing business. Why not. then. have
large seed farms in Texas like they have in
Canada and other sections where the condi-
tons favoring best quality of seeds are
never so certain as they would be here
When il was fully known that all our seeds
We're produced under the most favorable
conditions that could exist Texas seeds
would attain TO such 4 reputation as would
make them universally sought; in word
we would soon have a monopoly of Ameri-
can seed production.
To the AVERAGE Texan devoted TO cotton
and corn raising, garden seeds may appear
as a rather small business, though really it is
not. But even supposing that it was, we
have plenty of room for hosts of small
things. There are chinks to be filled in
between our great staples. and until they
are filed by industries suitable for filling
them, we cannot become solid" SO far is
relates to permanent prosperity.
Persons will be found ready to assure US
that Northern grown seeds are invariably
better than seeds grown at the South
though for the life Of them they can't tell
why. The impression has grown out of the
fact that the North has pretty generally
had the seed-growing business in the past
and that. therefore, all advertising has been
of Northern seeds. 1t is now well-known
fact, however that Northern crops are
more or less stunted or dwarfed by nature
to bring them TO maturity within a space
of time naturally too short for them. and
that, from this account, the seeds from
them are those Of crops less perfect than
would be the same crops grown II the
South where there is no crowdng on the
season. If, as the well-informed are claim
ing, seeds should be from the most perfect
crops possible, we have the argument all on
the side of Southern grown seeds, and q
good deal Of practical experience, already
had. seems TO be pretty well backing up the
argument.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28
BEETLES BASKET wORMS-RoSES.

Enclosed find specimens of an insect
! taken from my wild goose plum trees.
They are numerous ON the wild goose.
i but [ find them on no other species OF
| plum.
! The basket worm already described by
| you is among my worms. but I find little
! trouble from it. a splinkiing of the foliage
| with hardwood ashes appears TO make very
| unpleasant conditions for the basket worm
am puzzled over faiilre OF many of
| my roses 10 fully develop their buds The
| pushes seem TO De strong ana healthy |
| can attribute il only to an over abundance
| OF blooms, as ! find nothing else so far is |
| have been able 10 investigate. Should
get AT the cause Will let You know what |
have found J. C. MARTIN.
Fort Worth. Ten
The insects sent are small beetles Of the
''ladybird" family. Length, about one
eighth of an inch; width about oue-tenth
Of an inch; shape, somewhat like grain Of
coffee; color, 4 dirty, orange red, marked
with many black dots over the back
This species is peculiarly Southern,
though it is occasionally met with as far
north as Illinois. It's scientific name IS
Hippodamia couyergens. Classes with our
most useful insects. as it feeds entirely
upon other insects, ami never at all inter
feres with vegetation. \ close examination
Of your wild goose plum trees would DE apt
to reveal the fact that there We're plant lice
upon il. and that the ladybirds were there
engaged in the business of devouring them.
II is an insect that shOud ever be encOur-
aged by the horticulturist
Your ashes remedy for the basket worm
is evidently good one. especially while the
worms are vet young and walking over the
smooth surface of the leaves. The ashes
should be sprinkled over the plants while
the dew is on. 1t is probable that Stacked
lime or almost any other fine. powdery sub
stance would be more or less effectual 1t
would damage the ability of the insect to
maintain its hold on the leaf
Your notion relative to the trouble with
your roses is no doubt correct-thev are
overbearing themselves. In other words,
they are putting forth more buds than their
available plant food will enable them TO sus-
tain. For best development the rose needs
extremely ricn soil. The late Col. c. c.
Langdon, of the celebrated LangdOn nurs-
cries, Mobile, Ala, used TO say: always
give your roses all the manure you can
possibly get and then add one more wheel
barrow load to each hill Col Langdon
was Il high authority on roses.
Your remedy, then, is clearly mapped
out-add Il wheebarrow load of well-decom-
posed stable manure to each bush, working
it down among the roots without breaking
them.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28

lessening of cost there. The items of gain
/ in these respects may be comparatively
| small, but if there happens TO be good
| mano of them they may be made 10 foot up
| 10 considerable Al the end
There never was anything more simple
| than this. We VIII suppose that you are
proposing TO raise 4 crop of cotton. You
will say one go pound bale of cotton at
cents pound would bring me in $40. Now
let me see if / can make any profits on it at
figures so low-the lowest figures at which
there is any kind Of probability of its ever
selling. You then take into account every
item Of cost necessary to the production of
bale Of cotton and getting it
ready for market, not forgetting
TO consider any possible natural
adyerses that might ordinarily present
themselves. If the figures show that you
can make nothing on the cotton. YOU work
over the items again to see If some reduc-
ton in cost cannot be made If you find
this not possible You drop the cotton and
figure on some other character of crop.
When You have decided on the crop that
- Y
You and work up TO them to the letter, and
as = consequence YOU cannot nelp making
money.
The other farmer-the one who cannot
make farming pay-concudes to raise Il
crop of cotton, and pitches in without
having made any previous estimate of
costs. He plows and plants, and hires
extra hands TO chop out" The worms
come and he then makes his arrangements
for poisoning them, if he concludes to inter-
fere with them at all. When picking
time" comes on he hires Tom. Dick and
Harry to pick cotton at SO much per hun
bred with no previous knowledge of what
outlay per bale this service is going TO in
volve He gins. bales and hauls TO market
on the same blind and reckless plan, and
ten chances 10 one. unless cotton happens to
rule high he winds up by coming out at the
little end Of the horn, and then wastes
month or so among his friends, in town or
somewhere else, cursing rings and monop-
olics
This whole thing IS nothing more nor less
than 4 simple matter of business. You en-
gage TO raise 4 crop Of cotton expecting to
realize so much per pound for it. The thing
is exactly on par with putting in bid on
building bridge or any other character of
structure. The contractor figures all the
costs before putting in his bids. What
would you think of the contractor who
would bind himself to build the bridge
without having first figured on what the
performance would cost him,
Farming pays if YOU make it pay, but if
sou run it blindly and entirely by chance
you viii be apt to find it about as uncertain
as would be any other line Of business
driven on the same plan.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28
OUR SIOyEN FARMER.

l am from Illinois. and during the few
months that ! have been in Texas | have
ranged about pretty freely among Texas
farmers. | have met with some really good
farmers and some well, up in M country
they would be called stevens. Some of
them are dairymen on small scale and the
women folks have to do all the milking !.
The girls, daughterstJ of the farmers. do
ii. When the cows are fed II is IN old half
barrels all around the Tot, and the most
greedy COWS get the lions share of the
feed, while the slow eaters and poor fighters
never get enough. As result these last
don't give much milk. and the farmer sells
them the first opportunity simply because
his other cows have eaten too much of the
food.
These girls who do the milking have a
hard time OF it. 5000 Brindiel'' But
Brindle, having concluded that a weaker
COW has a grain more of salt in her'n, runs
there through the mud. And the girls must
run and splatteT through the mud after her,
becoming as muddy as the cows. 1t would
be regular circus for the people up in Hi
nois. would that milking performance No
wonder the young folks become disguised
with the farm. Sucker.
Denison, Tex.
Our correspondent does not say what
portion of Illinois he is from, but we'd be
willing TO wager all our loose change that
he is not from that southern portion ofthe
state known as Egypt" What he so
graphically describes would be no circus to
the average Illinois Egyptian. 1t would
make lin feel entirely at houie all the
time.
1t is highly probable that some Of US
Texans are little slovenly in some things
we do but vol, would find most of Us rather
apt scholars and entirely willing to learn.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28
CHEAPER PRODUCTION.

Farm and Ranch Of Dallas appears TO DE
in line with us in our advocacy of cheaper
production for the farmer rather than re
duced production. That paper for May -
intimates that the only hope for the cotton
planter lies in cheaper production. There
is little foundation upon which TO build
hopes that the next crop will command
higher figures than did the laSt-there is 4
chance that the figures will run lower. The
crop of last season reached about 5000 600
bales; that OF the present season will prob
ably go 20 10000 bales. 1t is folly to try
10 govern the selling price by d reduction Of
the crop. The best that can be done is TO
urge farmers TO raise their cotton crops on
fewer acres, by > better system of cultiva-
ton, by the use of labor-saving implements,
and consequently at less cost In the mean-
time il is proper to counsel them TO produce
4 sTfticiency of such home supplies as will
save cash outlay, and even bring in some
actual cash occasionally. Farmers will
catch on after awhile and the best SIS
TEN will develop itself by slow steps, but
surely. The great attractiveness of cotton
is the fact that it is always salable for cash
down. whether the price is remunerative or
not. Other farm products require more or
less business skill TO market them prOfita-
bly-cotton requires none. This business
tact is the one thing needful, and we should
labor TO develop il. In the meantime cot
ton Will remain king of cultivated crops.
bringing into the South every year $3.50
000, 900 in hard cash for the lint alone. To
reduce the cost of production is the prob
lem that should engage the attention of the
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28
TO DESTROY ANTS.

Persons often apply 10 Us for information
that would enable them to destroy hills of
the large singing ant common in Texas
and other Southern states \ hill or for
mentory is sometimes established in the i'm
mediate door-yard, and when once estab-
ished is hard TO break up. A bulletin of
the Mississippi experiment station tells how
10 get rid of them by using bysulphide of
carbon, to be had at the drug store. This
is volatile liquid the fumes OF which are
very destructive to animal life. 1t is fur
thermore an explosive substance. and for
this reason should be handled with great
caution. Ii kept away from fire, however
it may be used with entire safety, but a
spark Of fire would set it off. and an explo-
sion would De the result
In employing this substance as an ant
destroyer, make hole in the ant hill with
4 crowbar or suitable stick, and pour in a
small quantity of the bisulphide. Fill the
topof the hole and also that leading into the
top of the formentory with earth. pressing
it tightly. The fumes of the bisulphide
thus confined will soon penetrate to the in
terror occupied by the ants and promptly
destroy all Of them.
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

This department is devoted 10 answering
such questions IS may be asked By our sub
scrbers. which may be OF general information
Inquiries OF personal character that require an
swer by mail should always have stamp in
closed Please give full name and poStoffice
address in addition TO any such signature as
Subscriber. or - \. G.. d. not for publication,
il against the Will Of the writer. but admit Of
direct communication should such thing be
deemed necessary. Address a. directed a head
OF This maze
The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-28

Suppose then, that you settle down in
Texas and lay pattern for us to follow,
By doing things little better than we are
doing them. You might. by pursuing such
4 course. accomplish great good both to
yourself and your benghted ueighborS
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1891-07-26

Ia nacionalidad, 6 Ia indiferencia
de los gobernos que expresan, de-
ben expressr, la suma de las volun-
tades provinciales, nos indican que
ha llegado ell momento de recla-
mar por medios energicos 10 que
es propio de nuestra region, que
40 debe ser sacrificada por Ia mals
voluntad de los que representan 4
las demss, entonces no dudamos
en- afirmar que los pueblos que no
tienen valor para spelar al dltimo
recurso, recordaudo que no por ser
nscionales han abdicado su dere.
cho & la vida local, deben desa-
parecer del concerto general poll
tico, para no ser una mancha en-
5re los que tomando parte en- 81
conocen sus derechos, y smandolos
saben llegar al sacrificio personal
para conservarlos a Ia co.eotivi-
dad"
Suprimimos los concentrates.
Estos. -. hSgalos Ia conciencis
p1blica.
Pero preguntemos:
lPor este camino, sehores au-
tonomistas, creeis lIegar q 10 me.
ia de vuestros deseos y q la con
cordia social de6nitivs en- esta
querida tierra9
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1891-07-26
EN- LUQUILLo.

La Colonia francesa de Luqui
llo, compuests de los empleados
del Ferrocarril, celebr6 el IA de
este mes, con un bsnquete, fuego.
artifciales y un bale, ell aniver
sario de Ia toma de Ia BistilIs
Diehos senores, con Ia galanteria
que les caracteriza, invitaron 4 las
autoridades del pueblo y otras
personals distinguidas de 10 locA.
lidad.
Durante Ia fiesta rein6 Ia m.
yor alegris, ptonunciando, al
terminar el banquete, enthusiastic
brindis los seiiores Alcalde, Js-
fe de Sscci6u y hermsno, W.
ve. por Ia union y ammonia entire
Francia = E'psfis.
L, fiesta termin6 & las 4 de Ia
msnana con sentimiento de todos.
Tanto el sef1or Jefe de Saccion
como sus demas companeros. sc
distipguieron por sus atencionea
? obsequios q los invitados.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1891-07-26
Fiestas de Santiago.

Aver, q las IL del dis. CON una
orquessa y cohetes, sc inaugura-
ron en- Ia plaza de Alfonso XII
los festejos que el Centro G.llego
celebra en- honor del inclito Ap6s.
tol Santiago.
Anoche, en- honor del mismo,
quem&ronse en- 10 propia plaz.,
favorecida por numerosa concu.
rrencis, muchos y vistosos fuegos
artiiciales.
Hoy, dia del SAnto, bien de
maaanita, ha recorrido las GALES
el Orfeon del, Centro G,llego
cantando hermosos coros y disps'
rando cohetes voladores.
Va dtbe haber salido q Iul
un perio dico, dnica edici6n, pu-
blicado por Ia iniciativa del Sr
Alvarez Perez, dedicado tambiet
por el Centro Gallego al Apostle
Santiago y adornado con una her
mosa portadA alegorica iitogrAfia
da, hecha, como todo 10 demA'
del mismo, en- esta Casa.
Tnd ase Galicia Puerto -Ric,
~ contiene multitud de trab,jo o
en- prosa y verso.
He aqui una de las poesias de
GaIici0 Puerto Rico:
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1891-07-26
ATENTIDO CONTRA Mr. CiRNOT.

El siguiente despacho telegra-
dco via New York, que de Las
Novedades recortsmos, refiere el
atentado, frustrado por fortuna,
de que ACADIA de ser obJet'J ell Pre-
,idente de la Repdblica frances,
Mr.. Carnot.
Dice as{ ell telegrama:
f" Paris, Julio 13.-La noticfa de
que I'm individuo habia disparado
un tiro de revolver al Presidente
de la repdblica Mr.. Oarnot y que le
habin herido, ha causado la mas
viva sensacion en- toda la capital.
De las investigaciones hechas hs
resultado que si bien el tiro le foe
disparado no le cause lesion algu-
ma.
El Presidente asistia esta tsrde
a la Inauguration Official de Ia Ave
nida de la Rep1blica, ancha via
alberta desde la plaza de la Rep1-
ca hasta la puerta de Romainville,
habiendO sido aclamado con eptu-
siasmo en- todo el tray ecto que re-
corri0. De repente, un individno con
tOdas las apariencias de loco. sci an
20 & traves de la multitud, torx6 la
linea de soldados que formaban la
carrera, y 30 adelant0 hacia al Ca
rruaje del Presidente, disparan dole
un tirO de revolver y gritan do /;
F." Yo hare YER que todaVia quedan
Bastillas por destruir.o
Mr.. Oarnot no fue herid0 y con-
servo la mayor sangre tria. La po.
liCia detuvo inmediatamente al
agresor, y SOLO 4 meECed de gran
dea esfueEzos pudo Nbraglo del fu-|
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1891-07-26
POr la Salud del Sr Pe1la

Nuestro distinguido amigo el
Jsfe local del Partido en- Lu-
quillo, nos ha remitido ls 81
guiente carta, que CON gusto in.
sertamos. teniendo Ia eatisfscci6n
de PARTICIPATE que Ia salud del
Jefe INFERNO del PArtido, seg1n
puede deducir del suelto ante
rior, IA entrado en IN periodo de
notable meioris, 10 cuAl mucho
celebramos.
Sr. Director del BoLETIN MER-
oANTIL.
Muy sehor nuestro y amigo Y
correljgionario distipguidoi Viva
mente interesad dos los imcondioiona-
les de este pueblo por la salud del
que es en- la aetuslidad Duestro
digno Jefe INFERNO, senior don Joa-
qufn Peha, h8gOme inferprete de
todos ellos, al enviarle por eonduc-
to de esa Direction el stimonio
de nuestra condolenoia, por la en-
fermedad que le aqueja, hacienda
votos al Selor por su pronto Y
complete restablecimiento. Agra
deci6odole el sfryicio, SO repite
de Y. sffmo s. s. = amigo,
G B. NJ.
X GAS AS,