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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
DESCRIBING SWISS CATTLE.

I have read good deal of late concerning
Swiss cattle. The strain is represented to
be a new and very desirable one. Can YOU
give me some information through The GA
ZETTE with reference TO these new Swiss
cattle2 SMALL SToCKMAN.
Weatherford, Texas.
The so-called new Swiss cattle are moth
ing new, though some one is probably at
tempting to boom them up as such. They
are very good cattle. however, and we
think it highly probable that they would do
tirst-rate in Texas. As vet they seem to be
confined for this country, mainly to Massa-
chusetts, where an association breeding
them has put out a record and herd
book The cattle are said TO be fine milk
ers and good beef producers. They are of
good size, extremely gentle and unusually
hardy.
The herd book spoken of has them down
as brown Swiss cattle How the
''brown' is made to apply we are unable
TO explain, for the cattle are not brown at
all, but mouse-colored. The nearer the
conformity to mouse-color the more likely
is it that the stock is pure. They are
back and smooth hair. Eyes, deep black :;
horns, black at point but white and smooth
back to the head: ears, large and lined with
an abundance of cream-colored hair; neck,
short and powerful; chest. broad and deep;
head, finely shaped. with black muzzle ::
tongue, very black and rough: udder. large,
well shaped and white, with milk veins
very prominent: weight of an adult COW in
good condition about 400 pounds.
We have not been able to find any data
with reference to the origin and early his
tory Of the brown Swiss cattle. AS the
name would seem to apply, they were i'm
ported to this country from Switzerland
We find them mentioned in the Switzerland
consular reports as fine stock for the dairy
and fin. haaf
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24

rural immigration. Say, for instance, a
farmer of Iowa, or Wisconsin, or Michigan
reads in some local organ that farming
don't pay in Texas and that, therefore the
Texas farmers should unite in some move
ment to force it to pay. He says, am
managing to make living where l am, and
therefore had best let well enough alone
rather than change to a region where the
living 1 would get, if 1 got it at all, must
depend upon something else other than the
direct results of my labor. So he don't
come, and thus misrepresentation cuts US
out of good citizen while. at the same
time, it cuts him out of competency.
Good farming pays in Texas, and pays
handsomely-bad farming don't pay any
where. If you are good farmer come here
and you viii get rich OFF your own exertions
if you are bad farmer ysu had as well
stay where you are, for one place will
answer your purpose as well as another.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
BERBERIs FREMONTH. ETC.

Has the barberry mentioned by Professor
Hill (Berberis fremontii), any botanical
relationship to the hollyl
Where is the American Geologist pub
lishedl B. LODGE.
Lampasas, Tex.
The barberry family of plants is in no
way related to the holly family-they are
far apart in natural characteristics. The
barberry, as you know, is Berberis, while
the holly is an Hex. There are many spe-
cies in each family or genera. The leading
species in barberries is Berberis canaden-
sis, perhaps, while that in the hollies of
this country is Hex opaca. We have very
pretty little barberry growing among the
hills and mountains throughout Texas and
most generally known by the Mexican
name of ';algireda." 1t is the Berberis tri-
foliolata of botanists. and is very closely
related to the fremontii species.
Holly and barberry have no resemblance
save in the fact that the leaves of each are
rigid and armed with sharp spines. The
leaf of the barberry is in three parts
(trifoliate), however, while that of the holly
is entire.
The American Geologist is published at
Minneapolis, MINI, by the Geological pub
fishing company. 1t is amonthly magazine
price $3.5O year.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
OUR sLOyEN FARMER.

am from Illinois, and during the few
months that l have been in Texas l have
ranged about pretty freely among Texas
farmers. 1 have met with some really good
farmers and some-well, up in my country
they would be called slovenS. Some of
them are dairymen on small scale, and the
women folks have to do all the milking !
The girls, daughters(D of the farmers, do
it. When the cows are fed it is in old half
barrels all around the lot, and the most
greedy cows get the lions share of tine
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 Brindler' But
Brindle, having concluded that weaker
COW has a grain more of salt in her'n, runs
there through the mud. And the girls must
run and splatter through the mud after her,
becoming as muddy as the cows. 1t would
be regular circus for the people up in Illi-
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 of the
state known as Egypt" What he SO
graphically describes would be no circus to
the average Illinois Egyptian. 1t would
make him feel entirely at home all the
time.
1t is highly probable that some Of US
Texans are little slovenly in some things
we do. but Won would find most of Us rather
apt scholars and entirely willing to learn.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
TROUBLE AMONG THE ROSES.

Herewith I send you some rose buds. My
bushes OF white and yellow roses are full OF
buds, but all are blighted like the Specl-
mems sent. Please give me through The
GAZETTE some remedy for this trouble
The bushes all appear healthy, and are
growing vigorously, but they develop no
perfect flowers. q. /. HUDSON.
Miueola. Tex.
The roses, which are of the large double
varieties, appear TO have attained to full
maturity. and the buds to have opened,
throwing back the caIyx in the regular way,
but the petals have not expanded. The
sutercorola wraps the flower up in dry
covering reminding one somewhat of the
wrapper around cigar, both in point of
color and general appearance. Inside OF
this wrapper he petals appear fresh and
good. but they have no fragrance. The base
of the petals at their union with the calyN
are dead and decaying, separating easily
and allowing the center TO pull out with the
stem.
\ fungus growth of some kind is working
this trouble evidently, though we are un-
able to make out exactly what it is. n
thorough spraying with the Bordeaux
mixture described above would probably
prove the best remedy that could Dc applied.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
WHAT Is LONDON PURPLE:

Your article of last week telling all about
how to poison the cotton worm was worth
a dozen prices of subscription to THE GA
zETTE to every cotton planter in Texas.
You appear to speak quite favorably of
London purple as a worm destroyer-what
is London purple7 ! have heard of it often
but do not know what manner of substance
it is. Paris green, | know, is an arsenite of
copper, and of course everybody knows
what arsenic is. L. I. f.
Waco. Tex.
London purple is an arsenite of lime pre-
pared from the waste of gas works, or
rather from the waste left in the manufact-
ure of analine dyes, which are made from
waste of the gas works. Until London
purple was made from this waste it was an
entire waste, sure enough. Being, there
fore, made of a waste carrying no other
value. London purple is a very cheap sub
stance 1t contains a smaller per cent of
arsenic than does Paris green, but many
consider it equally as good for poisoning
f,,cn f.tc
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
CHEAPER PREDICTION.

Farm and Ranch of Dallas appears to be
in line with US in our advocacy of cheaper
production for the farmer rather than re-
duced production. That paper for May Is
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
chance that the figures will run lower. The
crop OF last season reached about 5000, 900
bales; that of the present season will prob
ably go 20 1900, 600 bales. 1t is folly to try
TO govern the selling price by a 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 cultlva-
ton. by the use of labor-saving implements,
and consequently at less cost. In the mean
time it is proper to counsel them to produce
a sufficiency of such home supplies as will
save cash outlay, and even bring in some
actual cash occasionally. Farmers Will
s.catch on after awhile and the best sys-
TEN will develop Itself by slow steps, but
surely. The great attractiveneSs of cotton
IS the TACT tnat II is always SaiaDle lot CASH
down, whether the price is remunerative or
not. Other farm products require more or
less business skill to market them profta-
bly-cotton requires none. This business
tact is the one thing needful, and we should
labor to develop it. In the meantime cot
ton will remain king of cultivated crops,
bringing into the South every year $780,
O0O, 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
farmer
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
TEXAS For SEED RAISING.

In a recent address delivered before dn
assemblage of horticulturists Mr.. j. j. H.
Gregory, the noted Malblehead, Mass,
scotsman and gardener, said: Seeds
ripened in dry season are always best and
keep vitality longest" If Nh. Gregory
does not well understand this thing one
may safely take the position that no man
does, and it 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
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 a sure thing for every year. There is
big money to the producer in the seed
growing business. Why not, then, have
large seed farms in Texas like they have in
Canada and other sections where the condi
tions favoring best quality of seeds are
never so certain as they would be here?
When it was fully known that all our seeds
were produced under the most favorable
conditions that could exist Texas seeds
would attain to such reputation as would
make them universally sought; in word,
we would soon have a monopoly of Ameri-
can seed production.
To the averaae Texan devoted to cotton
and corn raising, garden seeds may appear
as 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 filed in
between our great staples, and until they
are filed by industries suitable for filling
them, we cannot become 'solid" SO far as
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
nau the Seeo-SfoWlbS puSinesS III Iie pes'
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 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 at the
South where there is no crowding 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
good deal of practical experience already
had, seems to be pretty well backing up the
argument.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
AHEN GETS THE JIM-JaMs,

You may look upon the inquiry l am
going to make as something very foolish,
nevertheless it relates to a matter in which
am specially interested just now. What
do you regard as the best means of break
ing ''broOdy" hen from persistent set
ting," In my small poultry experience of
this season | have been much annoyed by
my hens getting in the way of setting
with determination to keep at it though
the heavens fall. | take all the eggs from
the nest. but that makes no kind of differ
ence with the hen-she sets right along
all the same. destroy the nest and pile goods
boxes over the place, but she locates an
addition as near the old plat as possible
and goes on in her setting" with appar-
emily as much satisfaction as if nothing
unusual had happened. If | shut her up in
barrel and place a grindstone atop of it,
she looks up at me through the hole in the
grindstone with twinkle in her eye which
plainly tells that fsetting' in barrel suits
her just as well as setting" anywhere
else / think she invariably intends to
fight it out on that line if it takes all sum-
mer. Please answer through The GAZETTE
and much oblige.. ONE DISGUISED.
Fort Worth, Tex.
Some folks recommend tying red fan
mel rag to the tail of the hen to instil into
her such a rowing disposition as shall leave
her with no time on her hands for devoting
to long staying at one place; others recon-
mend shutting her up in barrel with two
inches of water on the bottom to make her
tired of sitting in consequence of being thus
forced. for comforts sake, to do her sitting
standing, while still others suggest that the
best means of breaking up persistent
setter is TO break her neck with the edge
of Ratchet. For our own part we stand
aloof from each and every. one of these pop
uiar recommendations by merely passing
them out at second hand to go for what
they are worth.
The only method of effectually and per-
manently breaking up persistent
setter that We could look upon
with entire favor was discovered by
Florida man some two years ago. In
swamp near by he found an alligator's nest
containing six eggs which he took home.
There was in the orange shed hen ''set-
ting on brick-bat after the manner of
our correspondents hen, so he concluded
to give her real job by placing the six eggs
under her. 1t was s'all in clover for the
hen.
Now, it so happened that the alligator
eggs were near the Matching period. Late
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
THE .ORDEArx MIXTURE.

] have read in the papers about Bordeaux
mixture, used for spraying trees and 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 NE what il IS, and how to pre-
pare it, TRINITY.
Tarrant county Tex.
To make Bordeaux mixture dissolve
twelve pounds powdered sulphate of copper
(blue-stonel in twenty gallons of water
using forty-five gallon barrel for the pur-
pose. In another vessel Stir eight pounds
of unslacked lime into twelve gallons of
water and then strain through a coarse
cloth into the copper solution. Next fill
the barrel with water and stir thoroughly.
This is the Bordeaux mixture. Ii 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 adhering
to the foregoing proportions.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
TO DESTROY ANTS.

Persons often apply to US for information
that would enable them to destroy hills of
the large singing ant common in Texas
and other Southern states. A hill or for
mentory is sometimes established in the i'm
mediate door-yard, Eand when once estab-
lished is hard to break up. A bulletin of
the Mississippi experiment station tells how
to 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. If 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 be the result.
In employing this substance as an ant
destroyer, make hole in the ant hill with
a crowbar or suitable stick, and pour in a
small quantity of the bisulphide. Fill the
top of the hole and also that leading into the
top of the formentery 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.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
SHALLOW CORN CULTURE.

The Farmer and Fruit Grower says there
are at least three good reasons for why all
after-culture of corn should be shallow.
First, if the seed bed has been properly pre-
pared it should be let alone. 1t is 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 to 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 a living;
destroy either and the other win die. Every
man knows this.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
BEErLEs-BAsKEr woRMs-KosEs.


Enclosed find specimens of an insect
taken from my wild goose plum trees.
!, They are numerous on the wild goose.
/ but 1 find them on no other species OF
plum.
The basket worm already described by
YOU is among my worms, but | find little
trouble from it. a sprinhling of the foliage
with hardwood ashes appears to make very
unpleasant conditions for the basket worm.
l am puzzled over failure of many of
my roses to fully develop their buds. The
bushes seem to be strong and healthy. l
can attribute it only to an over abundance
Of blooms, as l find nothing else so far as l
have been able to investigate Should l
get at the cause will let you know what l
have found. J. T.. MARTIN.
Fort Worth, Tex.
The insects sent are small beetles of the
sladybi family. Length, about che
eighth of an inch; width, about one-tenth
of an inch; shape, somewhat like a grain of
coffee; color, 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. Its scientific name is
Hippodamia convergens. Glasses with our
most useful insects, as it feeds entirely
upon other insects, and never at all inter
feres with vegetation. A close examination
of your wild goose plum trees would DE apt
to reveal the fact that there were plant lice
upon it. and that the ladybirds were there
engaged in the business Of devouring them
1t is an insect that should ever be encour-
aged by the horticulturist.
Your ashes remedy for the basket worm
is evidently good one, especially while the
worms are yet young anu 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 rich 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 high authority on roses.
Your remedy, then, is clearly mapped
out-add a wheelbarrow load of well-decom-
posed stable manure to each bush, working
it down among the roots without breaking
them.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24

Suppose then, that you settle down III
Texas and lay pattern for US 10 follow,
by doing things little better than we are
doing them. You might, by pursuing such
a course, accomplish great good both to
Yourself and your henighted neighbors.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

This department is devoted to answering
such questions as may ne asked by our sub
scribers, which may DE of general information.
Inquiries OF personal character that require an
swer by mail should always have stamp in
closed. Please give full name and postofflce
address in addition to any such signature as
Subscriber, or A. q. D, not for publication.
if against the will CT the writer. but TO admit of
direct communication should such thing be
deemed necessary. Address directed at head
OF this page.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24

THAT TRADE AGAINST COTTON.
It makes US sick-this TRADE against cot
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
j. p. STEELE, EDITOR.


p Worth Tex
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-19

made entirely clear to the lowliest and
most uneducated man in the audience.
Everywhere the Governor has gone,
he has been enthusiastically received
and there has been no lack Of escorts
and body guards, while in many in
stances Major McKinley has ridden
in hack almost alone Cover
nor Campbell is one OF the people and
one whom any man can admire
and feel friendly and warm
toward, while Mckinley is popular in
his immediate district and IS looked
upon as sort OF a transparent hero by
many Ohio Republicans who do not
know him.
There is one thing in the Democrats
favor which very few have recognized
as an advantage, and that is CampbelPs
name. 1t makes that good old rollick-
ing lively tune, The CampbellS Are
Coming" so appropriate in the
campaign, and whenever and
wherever 1t is played ii is
full Of meaning. "Star SpanGled
Banner and the other old patriotic airs
are all very good in their way, but they
are not impressed with the personality
Of any particular person. Whenever
Marching Through Georgia" was
played, the mind of the hearer turned
naturally 10 General Sherman; just so
when The CamelS are Coming" Is
played in Ohio this fall-every one
thinks Of Campbell. No matter now
lively the music may be at Mckinley
meeting, it makes the audience think
of the music, but not OF Mckinley.