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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-20
THE FARMER AND HIS HENS.

The editor of the Southern Planter, Vir-
ginia, asserts that the annual value
of the poultry product of the United
States is, upon conservative cal
culation, the vast sum of $500, 000, 0OO This
is a pretty good showing for class of
creatures whose sole occupation, according
to the idea of some people, is to eat up the
food of their betters, and to scratch out all
the peas and young onions.
This vast sum of money the hens of the
United States annually pour into the peck-
cts of their owners, in spite of the showers
of sticks, hard clods and old beef-bones that
arc hurled them in season and out of season.
1t has bten said that the dog will lick the
hand that beats them; it may be true. but
the dog is not alone in that hind Of thing.
The hen may not lick the hand of the
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-20

years ago we examined some of them and
| found, instead CT continuous hedge fences,
detached briar thickets along the lines,
some of them covering near half an acre of
land, and extending about the same dis
lance in every direction from a common
center.
Some ten years ago we took possession of
place in the Alabama cotton belt, upon
which was a Mccartney rose hedge about
eight years old. 1t was a tangled mass
measuring more than thirty feet through.
That hedge was so thickly populated with
rabbits as to bring failure upon al our
efforts at truck farming until we had hired
it cleared out at a cost not any below what
would have been amply sufficient to clear
the entire farm, originally, from ordinary
woodland.
Then the hedge had no redeeming quail
ties that we were able to detect, unless it
should be that cattle or horses might not
have liked to cross it, though they could
easily have done so at many points. For the
or-back hog it was regular picnic. You
would see him enter the briars near one
end of the hedge, perhaps, and if you
made any stir about it and he heard any
thing going on outside, you wouldn't hear
anything inside for time. He'd stand in
his tunnel and listen for you. Finally when
he thought the coast must be clear, you'd
see him pop out on the truck-patch side
which he had entered.
AS to what the Mccartney rose would do
as an ornamental hedge plant depends
wholly upon the amount of attention and
work one was willing to bestow upon it.
The grub-hoe and the pruning shears would
need to be ever ready. Without liberal
use of the grub-hoe it would soon take the
grounds on our rich Texas lands, and with
out a liberal use of the pruning shears it
would soon become a mere scraggling
brush-heap. The Texas lady who wrote
that article for New York paper had evil
IDENTIFY been depending more on some Of the
old nursery catalogues for her information
than upon her own personal experience and
observation. Lots of our agricultural and
horticultural literature is made that way.
With the Mccartney rose constant vigil
ance would be the price Of an ornamental
hedge. Under the effects of such vigilance
a passable ornamental hedge might be
made OF it, but we could never recommend
it for an ornamental hedge so long as there
was any other character of ornamental
hedge plant TO be had. And should it be
adopted we would recommend that placards
be hung along the inside after the manner
Of the fresh paint1 placard of the paint
ers, but carrying ''thorns" as the legend.
Doubtless you can get the Mccartney
rose at almost any Southern nursery and
doubtless the nurseryman who has it for
sale will show it off in light differing
materially from the foregoing. But we
don't think you could do much with it from
cuttings, as it don't grow well from cut
tings under ordinary circumstances. The
nurseryman would sell you rooted plants.
1t would be apt to succeed in your religion
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-20
SMALLER FARMING.

It now seems to be a notion quite
generally prevailing among the we'll
informed agriculturists that, as Z rule,
American farmers are attempting to farm
on too large scale for their means. They
have more on their hands than they can at
tend to properly. One has only TO look
about over the country to have himself
convinced of this fact, for, says the agri-
cultural editor of the Memphis Appeal-Av-
alanche, he will find that the small farmer
everywhere is generally doing better than
the large farmer That this is true may
easily be proved by lnquiring into the rela
tive prosperity of the forty-acre farmer and
the 100-acre farmer in your neighborhood.
Which is burdened with the least debt in
proportion to the total value of his land2
Which is procuring the best profit upon his
capital and the largest money yield per
acre2 and which gets the most satisfaction
cut of the business of agriculture, One
grand reason for why farming DON
pay better, as a whole, than it
has been paying lies in the fact
that many of our farmers are too
srdSplnS as ISSdruS ldnu. IHeS are Trying
to work too much land, and, as conse-
queuce, are working no land well.
We must have a new agriculture, SO to
speak, and that new agriculture must be
on good common sense. We must learn to
work no more land than we can work to en-
tire perfection. We must Furthermore
learn to keep no more livestock than we
can keep well. The effort to maintain one
head more than this may destroy the profit
of all. We must learn not to store per;sha-
BILE produce for rise when we are offered
fair price for it. Rats and mice can soon
counter-ba!ance the gain, even if it comes,
and if the rats and mice do not, then the
interest may; and then again, the rise may
not come. Another item is that stock is
mature whenever it will sell at the top Of
the market. After that point is reached
you may easily make gain in weight at
loss of profit. "Quick sales is as good an
axiom for the farmer as for the merchant
The small farmer is more apt to make these
quick sales than is the large farmer, and
hence his comparative gain on the amount
OF money invested in operations.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-20
IRRIGATION IN FLORIDA.

Some months ago we published an article
descriptive of extensive trucking operations
that were being carried on by Mr. Thomas
W. Hastings Of Hastings Station, Fla,
tuear 81. Augustine) through the aid of
irrigation from en- artesian well TIE latest
issue of the Florida Ag. lculturis.. nrLand,
has paper from MIR. Hasting5 yaich
that gentleman gives Us an inllli how
he is getting along up TO the pr, r time
And before giving the substarrr Of what
Mr.. Hastings says, allow Us 10 state that
he is not land Spectator. II has rot one
acre Of land for sale, and tho IRE the set
Element OF people in his ne.aAhorhood. or
Let, cuts no kind of figure III his finances.
His statements are offered in response to
special demands made upon him by people
Interested in his euteyprise, and who are
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-20
CHAMPAGNE CIDER

A friend has shown me a copy Of the
Fort Worth GAZETTE in which you offer %
tell a correspondent how to convert ordin-
arv cider into champagne cider. l have On
hand goodly quantity of fine cider which
l would like 10 put into that shape. Please
give me fun directions and the first dozen
bottles put up viii come by express, pre-
paid, to the editorial ssnctum of TIE Ca
zErTE. c. +. Moore.
Kansas City, Mo.
The first requisite is nice clean Darrell
Into this place
Good clear cider Slightly sour 80 gallons
Alcohol (95l , gallons
Strained honey .-.......-...-...10 pounds
Stir well and keep tightly bunged, allow
ing it TO remain IN cool cellar or other
place thirty days; then add
Shuniheu ullh .-,---.--..-....t quArS
Old rich cheese in small bits ...I pound
Raisins well bruised ........S pounds
Let stand three or four weeks, then de
cant into champagne bottles. Wire the
cork and cover it with tinfoil. The bottles
will open with a brisk report, and the cider
will be found better and more wholesome
than most of imported champagne.
This formula is from W. c. Brunson, the
noted Chicago chemist, and therefore uay
be accepted as entirely reliable,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-20
A "sEAUTIFuL YARD FENCE,

saw in q New York publication devoted
to Horticulture and gardening an article
from Texas lady telling how to make a
beautiful and cheap fence, but neither her
name or address was given, therefore l do
not know from what part of the state she
was writing. She recommended setting
Macartpeyirose cuttings along wire fence
to trail over the wires, which would make
a lovely hedge. The rose is an evergreen,
she states. Please tell me something more
about it. Let me know if you think it
would do we'll in this part of Texas, and
where one could procure cuttings:
Mis-. J. T. GEORGE.
layton, Kent County, Tex.
The Mccartney rose is the Rosa brac-
teata of botanists. 1t is coarse and rank
growing evergreen briar, with glossy-green
leaves and large single flowers of clear
white color. The flowers appear early in
spring and last but q very short time. Ev-
identity it is an American off-shoot from the
well-known Cherokee rose Rosa levigata),
which it much resembles in most particu
lars. The Cherokee rose is an introduce
ton from China. Both briars are armed
with numerous and prominent curved
prickles
Some twenty years ago our Southern
nurserymen worked up quite a boom on
these roses as hedge plants, beginning with
the Cherokee and ending with the NIacart-
ney. Much money was invested in them
on account of extensive advertising, but
for fencing purposes they proved general
failure. There were three things in the
way Of success: d they quickly died out
on thin soils; e. they died outhere and
there on good soils, leaxinghreaks in'the
hedges, and 90 they -evinced disposition
TO start up from the extended roets on good
soil and to spread over all creation. Miles
of hedge was set in the Alabama pine coast
region, but now, II you follow those hedge
lines you will not find half dozen rose
bushes to the mile. On the black prairies
Of Alabama osnds similar in character to
our blackva1eylprahiesl,'oa many Cherokee
and Macsrtney hedges wssssa. - ssw
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-20

was drawn out. 4 move of two inches
closed ali egress for the rats of course. As
the holes came out they were plugged and
the rats were in for it. He carried the box
out into the open field, called his dog.
opened one of the holes and gave the dogs
an immense amount Of fun killing the rats
as they were shaken out. On one occasion
he got thirty grown rats at single haul.
Through this arrangement he was able TO
always keep his corn-crib entirely clear Of
rats. as the rats never failed to find and &C.
cupy this apparently favorable deunirs
Olare
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-20
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

This department is devoted to answering
such questions may be asked by our sub
scribers. which may be Of general information.
Inquiries of personal character that require an
swer by mail should always have stamp in
closed. Please give full name and postoffice
address in addition to any such signature as
Subscriber" or "A. G. D. not for publication.
il against the will of the writer but to admit Of
direct communication should such thing be
deemed necessary. Address as directed at head
of this page
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-20
HOW TO PLANT PECANS-

The agricultural editor of our Missouri
Republic refers me to you as a peculiarly
qualified person to direct me to the proper
channel for securing success in the planting
of soft-sheu pecans for pecan grove. Upon
this l make free TO ask you for information
as to when 20 plant, how to plant and of
whom can procure good, sound soft-shell
pecans for seed, and at what price. VIII
remit cash to said dealer for seed without
delay. F. w. IMsIEPES,
Bolton, Montgomery county, Kan.
After lone investigation we have settled
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-09
IN DURESs.

1t is principle of law that a person is
not bound TO redeem promise made under
conditions mich threaten life or limb. A
man who sees a pistol leveled at his head,
which he has reason TO suppose is loaded.
may promise anything to escape, but he will
not be held legally or morally to a fulfill
ment of that prom Use. A men Der of the
Assembly has compared the condition under
which he promised to vote for the Ballot
Reform Bill to that of man who is held TO
be released from promise given when he
believed his life to be in danger. MIR. Mat
lock OF Tehama says in so many words: 81
will not be bound by any pledge wrung
from me by intimidation" This pledge
breaker shows a lamentable lack of ability
to measure conditions. There is certainly
no comparison to be made between the case
of man whose life is threatened and one
who is simply asked to pledge himself if
elected to a certain Office to vote for q GER
tain measure. The electors want man in
the Legislature to do certain thing Of
the aspirants for the office it is asked if in
the event of election they will vote on this
certain measure as requested. There is
nothing like intimidation in such request.
An aspiTaDt may be elected if he refuses, or
he may be defeated if he consents AS a
matter of fact Mr.. Dibble, the leader of the
opposition to the Ballot Reform Bill, did
refuse to take the pledge to support the bill,
but was still elected. We do not see much
force in Mr.. Dibble's argument against the
bill. but we do not question his right TO vote
against it. But what shall be said of men,
Der Of the Legislature who promises to vote
tor bill to secure votes and then violates
his pledge on the ground of intimidation
Can he plunge into lower moral or in
tellectual depth than when he prOclaims
the doctrine that he may make promises to
the public to get their votes but may be ex-
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-09
INTERNATIONAL oorYRIGHr.


Senator SheTman's proposed amendment
TO the Copyright Bill provides that foreign
books might be sold in the United States on
payment of duty. The object Of the amend
ment was to place a check upon the
rapacity of the publishers trust. The
amendment was defeated, and the English
papers are sneering at a copyright law
which keeps British books out Of the
American market. The Pail Mall Gazette
says that but few British authors will
benefit by the law. Possibly the Gazette
might 90 farther and say that no author on
either side will benefit by the law. The bill
was not drawn in the interest of authors.
1t might have been named "a bin to make
books DEAR" which is certainly. not in the
interest of persons who write books. Under
the bill as passed an American publisher
can obtain from a British author an ex-
elusive right TO reprint a work published in
England. The British publisher will have
q similar right to contract with American
authors for exclusive rights in England.
The American author imagines that
royalty on his work printed in England Will
compensate him for the loss of prestige re-
sulting from a wide circle Of readers.
English authors who have seen cheap re-
prints of their work circulating in the
United States by the tens of thousand
copies will now solace themselves with the
idea that they will receive royalties on the
books sold in both countries. But the Copy
right Bill as it passed puts an end to the
cheap reprint period. Cheap reprint was
the result of competition, which is now shut
off. Whatever American house which may
secure right to reprint foreign work, will
fix its own rates. That these rates will be
all the traffic will bear is fact of which
the public may rest assured. Publishers
are no better nor worse than other business
men. If they can get large prices for works
of which they have the exclusive sale, they
viii unquestionably do so. The public have
a right TO refuse to place in their hands
the power to fix the prces of both native
and foreign books, but that right was given
up when the copyright law was enacted.
We think Sherman was right in the pre-
diction that in a few years the copyright
law would be the most unpopular law on
the statute books. 1t was, perhaps, neces-
sary that it should be tried. People would
never know exactly how it would work
until practical example was given.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-09
REAR nr1oRs rRoM LONDON.

There are evidently threatening clouds on
the London financial sky. Ever since the
Barring failure there have been signs OF dis
.ttess showing themselves from time to time
They have got a little gold in London, and
they appear 10 be carting ltrOund from place
to PLACE to strengthen weak spots. When
confidence Is partially restored in partlcu
lar place by show of gold, the gold is hur-
Tied off to some other point at which signals
of distress are flying. These tactics will
erevar their pulpOse until the gold is wanted
in two OF more places at the same time. This
condition will happen as soon as the public
mind comprehends upon what slight basis
credit rests. When, in 1872, Congress de-
teTmined to fix date for the resumption OF
specie payment the Treasury Department
began to gather in gold. In 1879, when the
date fixed for resumption came, the Treasury
held 500, 100000 in gold with which to re-
deem $685., coo coo of legal tender. The fact
that there was such stock OF gold available
for this purpose inspired unlimited conf
dence When the day came. and every holder
of a legal tender note could get the amount
of its face for it in gold, there were no notes
handed in for redemption. The Treasury
transactions were as usual, gold coming III
and going out to suit the convenience of the
people. In England the gold basis is much
narrower in proportion to the circulation.
Instead of a gold reserve of 30 per cent,
which Sherman thought necessary, there is
said TO be in the banks Of the United King
dom deposits amounting to S3,0O0,000000,
against gold reserve of about 100000 00.
Whether or not these figures are exact, it is
evident that the gold reserve is much too
small to inspire public confidence. 1t does
not follow that there will be a financial crisis.
The losses attending such crisis would be
appalling The little jar experienced some
months ago wiped Ont of existence some Of
the haudsomest private fortunes in England.
The financial edifre was steadied for
time, possibly for years to come. To people
on this side it looks as if it would be policy
for England to broaden its financial basis.
The reconciliation of silver would double
the. amount of coin available in crisis. To
many men wen versed in finance it is a
question if the gold and silver in the world
is adequate to serve as the basis of the cur
rency the world needs. But it seems pretty
clear that gold alone is not.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-09
A rRospERous 1Nsr1rur1oN.


The CALL has so frequently had occa-
sion to refer to the lack OF prosperity which
has belallen the Mercantile Library of late
years, that it feels satisfaction in being able
to congratulate the other downtown library
upon its success. The library of the Me-
chanies' Institute on Post street is really
becoming one Of the best known and most
influential institutions of the kind in the
city. Ten years ago it contained only 10000
volumes; 50, COO volrmes are now to be foun
on its shelves. The membership has more
than doubled in ten years; it now numbers
1913, as against 1857 in 1881. The library
rooms are generally full.
Two things are wanted, and badly wanted,
to make the Mechanics Library what it
should be. One is a catalogue of the books,
which will be forthcoming some day, but
ought to be complete now. The other is
more eommodious quarters. The present
room are entirely inadequate to accommo-
date visitors and to furnish students with
room to consult the books they desire to
study. There is no reason why larger
apartments should not be provided. The
Mechanics Institute is rich. Its real prop
erty is worth, at a low estimate, a million
and a half; it only owes $4,000, and its
income from library dues very nearly equals
its expenditures. 1t ought to put up fine
building with large commodious rooms for
the use of readers, and stores below, which
might convert the present annual charges
into an annual surplus. There is no good
reason why this should be delayed.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-09
PASS TIE ELL.

A great deal depends upon the vote which
will, probably, take place on the Ballot Re
form Bill to-day. With a full Assembly
the bill would pass, but the opponents Of it
have adopted the desperate tactics Of putting
it off from day to day in the hope of bring
ing it up when mnny friends of the bill are
absent The vote by which the bill was
postponed on Saturday was friendly to the
bill. ANY member Of the Assembly who
claims to be a friend of the bill aud isabsen t
when the vote is taken will be regarded as
pledge-breaher. No vote is half a vote
against the bill Members of the Lesisla-
lature should bear IN mind the fact that
there will be other Legislatures after this
one. Next year a good many of the mem =
pers of the Assembly will ask for re-elec-
ton. 4 sufficient answer to any such re-
Quest will he proof Of broken pledge. We
recognize the right of members to oppose
the Ballot Reform BIZ, but not TO secure an
election on the promise to vote for it and to
fail to keep the pledge. The bill can be
passed two years hence if it fails in this
Legislature, but what period of time will
blot out a broken pledge? The absentees on
Saturday will have serious questions to an
swer 10 their constituents if they are not in
their places when the bill comes up.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-09
HER PROPER SPHERE.
An Address to the Young Women
Christian Assnciation.

An Address to the Young WOmen's
Christian Association.
The subject of Rev. Dr. Minton's dis
course at st. Johns Presbyterian Church
last night was "The Young Women'S Chris
tian Association" it being the thirteenth
anniversary of that organization.
Ira P Rankin made a few remarks regard
ing the work and prospects Of the society,
also touching upon the subject of woman's
proper sphere in society, after which the
pastor began his sermon by stating that at
the present time the all-prevailing feelin e
is that the accomplishment of good work Is
impossible without organization. After ex-
planning that the Y. w. G. A. is an illustra-
ton of this fact, DR.. Minton continued:
THE great question in America at the
present age is the social and political
rights OF women. In ancient times her
status was low, indeed, in the social SCALE
and even the great names that history re-
cords are tainted with immortality. In China,
India and other eastern countries woman'S
position is still infinitely lower than that of
man. In fact, Asia is antiquity crystalized.
But Christianity has been the emancipation
proclamation Of womanhOOd.
in savage and barbarous countries the
sexes are most alike in their characteristics.
In civilized communities the proper differ
ences exist. know not which is the greater
aDomlnatl0n, WOmanlSn man or lnanlSil
woman. Each condition is unnatural and
deplorable, because it was intended that
true manhood should serve to educate wo-
manhood and true womanhood to educate
manhood. Whether she vote or not, how
ever the laws may 0e, she has done and is
doing more TO establish the character of man
than she has ever Imagined. She is wrong
to argue her equality with him, for he will
ingly admits her superiority. The charms
OF womaHhood will ever continue to win
their trophies and to hold their own, but any
movement that tends to make either sex less
true 10 itself is a pernicious one
Continuing, the doctor pointed out the
fallacy in the contention that woman's
proper sphere is the home and the care of
children, the fact being that many noble
and true women have mad no homes, no
children. Indeed, it was a blessing that
their unseliish aud good deeds, which would
otherwise have been lost upon a husband,
were spared to the world. The discourse
closed with review Of the constitution and
progress of the society.