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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24
CULTURE OF THE CHrFA.

VIII you be kind enough 10 give me, Z
reader of The GAZETTE, all the information
you have with reference 10 culture, etc.
of the Spanish chufa! What kind of soil
is best adapted to the CROP How is it
planted, and at what time Of the year,
How much seed IS necessary to plant an
acre? Where could the seed be obtained
and at what price? ANY information on
this subject would be thankfully received
by the undersigned.
| find 4 communication from Mr.. ]. y.
Oliphant in The GAZETTE of the 10th of
September which, think. strikes the key
note TO nearly. if not all, the hardShfps
complained of by the farmer. The trouble
lies at his own door more than in any legis-
lation either state or national.
Mount Selman. Tex c. A NEWTON.
Only few weeks have elapsed since we
had in these columns an exhaustive article
on the chufa and its culture Please look
back over your files for it, as it contains
full answers to all your questions save
those as to where seed chufas could be had,
and at what price. We don't know of any
one having chufas for sale just now. and
have no idea of what the selling price
would no
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24
CHAMPAGNE CIDER.

A friend has shown me 4 copy Of the
Fort Worth GAZETTE in which you offer ~
tell 4 correspondent how to convert ordu-
AIRY cider into champagne cider. | have on
hand 4 goodly quantity of fine cider which
! would like TO put into that shape. Please
give me full directions and the first dozen
bottles put up Will come by express, pre-
paid, to the editorial sanctum Of The Ga
ZETTE. c. F. MOORE
Kansas City, Mo.
The first requisite is nice clean Darrell
Into this place
Good clear cider Slightly sour So gallons
Alcohol t95l gallons
Strained honey. .................lO pounds
Stir well and keep tightly bunged, allow
ing it to remain in cool cellar or other
place thirty days; then add
Shllllleu lh!Ih. ..........l quar-
Old rich cheese in small bits 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 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 may
be accepted as entirely reliable.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24
PLANT PITS FOR WINTER.

Some months ago you incidentally stated
in THE GAZETTE that people of the gulf
coast east of the Mississippi river kept
their tender Towering plants through win
ter by placing them in pits. Do you think
plants could be kept the same way here,
and if so, how are the pits made?
Fort Worth, Tex. AMATEUR.
Doubtless tender plants could be kept in
pits as well here as at either Mobile orPen-
sacola, for the temperature of winter sell
dom, if ever, gets lower here than it some
times gets there. But "fiower-pits," as
they are called, would be more expensive to
make here than there, as a rule, on account
of rock near the surface. In the coast
country no rock is encountered in digging
flower pits-only loan with just clay
enough in it to prevent the sides from cav
ing must be removed. Then their natural
drainage over there is usually better than
here, particularly in our prairie lands,
which is another advantage in their favor.
Still we might have fower-pitS, should we
desire to do soon our sandy lands there
would be nothing whatever against them.
The size of the pit must be governed by
the number of plants we desire to keep
over. Dig it down to the depth of four or
five feet. Along the bottom arrange benches
a few inches above the ground TO set the
flower pots or boxes upon. Make frame
large enough to go all around the pit At the
top and stretch common brown domestic
upon it. This can be hung upon hinges at
one side if thought necessary.
When the weather is above frost temper
ature lift one side of the frame to let in air
and warmth; when below the freezing
point let the frame down SO that the entire
top of the pit will be covered. No other
covering will be necessary where the out
side temperature does not fall below ten
degrees above zero. In the event of j
lower fall it might be well to spread some
kind of extra covering over the frame.
y pit for our rocky and clayey regions
should be dug on the edge of an abrupt
slope to admit of easy drainage. 1t might
be necessary to cut down and put in a
drainage pipe and then refill the cut to the
common level. OF course it would not do
for water to rise in the pit sufficiently nigh
to come in contact with the plants.
Tender plants kept i'll u pit made as
directed seem to keep through winter better
than plants kept in 4 regular greenhouse.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24
SMALLER FARMING.

1t now seems to be a notion quite
generally prevailing among the we'll
informed agriculturists that, as rule,
American farmers are attempting to farm
on too large a 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 mquiring into the rela-
tive prosperity of the forty acre farmer and
the l00-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
acre! and which gets the most satisfaction
out of the business of agriculture, One
grand reason for why farming don't
pay better, as whole, than it
has been paying lies in the fact
that many of our farmers are too
grasping as regards land. They are trying
TO work too much land, and, as conse-
quence, are working no land well.
We must have 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 perisha-
bic produce for a rise when we are offered
fair price for it. Rats and mice can soon
counter-b balance 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 a
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, 1891-09-24
IER,G:TIoN NF..ORlDA.

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,
near St. Augustine) through the aid of
irrigation from ar artesian well. TIE latest
issue Of the Florida Agricultural, DeLand,
has 4 paper from Mr. Hastings in which
that gentleslan gives US an inkling of how
he IS getting along up to the present time.
And before giving the substance of what
Mr. Hastings says, allow US TO state that
he is not Il land speculator. He has not one
acre of land for sale and therefore the set
tlement of people in his ncighborhood. or
not, cuts no kind of figure in his finances
His statements are offered in response to
special demands made upon him by people
interested in his enterprise, and w.o are
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24
A BEAUTIFUL YARD FENCE"

l saw in New York publication devoted
to Horticulture and gardening an article
from Texas lady telling how to make
beautiful and cheap fence, but neither her
name or address was given, therefore | do
not know from what part of the state she
was writing. She recommended setting
Macartneytrose cuttings along a wire fence
to trail over the wires, which would make
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 well in this part of Texas, and
where one could procure cuttings.
Mrs. J. 7. GEORGE.
layton, Kent County, Tex.
The Mccartney rose is the Rosa brac-
teata of botanists. 1t is a coarse and rank
growing evergreen briar, with glossy-green
leaves and large single flowers of q clear
white color The flowers appear early in
spring and last but 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 introduc-
ton from China. Both briars are armed
with numerous and prominent curved
prickles.
Some twenty years ago our Southern
nurserymen worked up quite boom on
these roses as hedge plants, beginning with
the Cherokee and ending with the Macart-
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: ~ they quickly died out
on thin soils; (2) they died out here and
there on good soils, leaving breaks in the
hedges, and (3) they evinced disposition
to start up from the extended roots on good
soil and to spread over all creation. Miles
of hedge was set in the Alabama pine coast
region, but now, if you follow those hedge
lines you will not find half a dozen rose
bushes to the mile. On the black prairies
of Alabama Qands similar in character to
our black-ws1ey praiIies), many Cherokee
md Macartney MdIes were set. A few
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24
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, OO0, 600. 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 pock-
cts of their owners, in spite Of the showers
OF sticks, hard clods and old beef-bones that
are hurled them in season and out of season.
It has been said that the dog will lick the
hand that beats them; it may be true, but
the dog is not alone in that kind of thing.
The hen may not lick the hand Of the
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24
SCIENTIFIC FARMING.

Even here in progressive Texas you will
find men ready to tell you that scientific
agriculture is humbug, and that the least
a farmer can have to do with it the better it
is for him. At the time of this writing a
week has not passed since farmer of more
than ordinary intelligence expressed that
very idea to US. He said the agricultural
page OF THE GAZETTE pleased him on &C
count of the fact that everything in it was
plain and practical, but this scientific farm
ing business. as taught by the agricultural
colleges and their Institutes was, to the
farming class, not worth its weight in gold
coin by at least 100 cents on the dollar
OF course we didn't argue the point with
him, for the reason that he had struck US
il a way which took all the wind out of our
sails, still we could not help moralizing over
the notion many people entertain with
reference to scientific agriculture. While
we have nothing 20 say relative to the
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24
CIDER WITH DRIED APPLES.

Everything appearing in the agricultural
department of THE GAZETTE is read by me
with much interest, although | am not a
practical farmer. | find it decidedly good
reading and full of valuable information
useful to everybody. This week | was
specially interested in your directions for
making cider without apples. Immense
quantities of that kind of cider is sold i'll
Texas. OF course it could be made here
as well as anywhere else, as your recipes
show, and yet most il not all, of it comes
to us from some distant state, at heavy
transit cost. Pursuing such a course is
about on par with the actions of the IA
nous 'eThompson's colt" which is said to
have always swan the river TO the opposite
side when he wanted drink of water.
But this is an inquiry letter, as usual, and
so to business: A friend present when the
agricultural department of Tue GAZETTE
was read and discussed this week, said the
best cider he had ever used in his life was
made with dried apples. He had no infor-
nation as TO how it was made, and So |
write to ask if you can tell US anything
about it, and how TO make it. Z. s. ORD.
Dallas, Tex.
Cider made with dried apples is no I'M
usual thing for some regions Of the country,
and where known it is regarded as 4 very
good and wholesome drink To make it get
barrel from which good sugar-house syrup
has been sold, and place into it three gallons
of the very best syrup to be had, adding
five gallons of water boiling hot. Stir well
together by rolling or shaking. Lei stand
one hour, then add twelve ounces of tartaric
acid and roll or shake again. Have eight
pounds of good dried apples Ordinary sun
dried Will answer as well as evaporated),
and pour over them three gallons of boiling
water in a suitable vessel. Let stand three
hours, then add to the contents of the
barrel, with thirty gallons of pure cold
water. Put the barrel away in some
suitable place where the temperature
will range at from 60 to 30 degrees, Fahren-
heit. Leave with bung out two or three
days, OR until the cider is pleasantly acid,
then add one ounce oil OF wiutergreen, half
ounce oil of sassafras and half a pint of 95
per cent alcohol. Mix the oils with the al
cohol before pouring into the barrel. Roll
the barrel to insure thorough mixture, then
bung up and keep in cool place,
This makes a wholesome beverage If.
eventually, the cider becomes too sour to
drink it can be exposed to a warmer tenn
perature, where it will soon be converted
into an excellent vinegar
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24
HOW TO PLANT PECANs.

The agricultural editor of our Missouri
Republic refers me to you as peculiarly
qualified person to direct me to the proper
channel for securing success in the planting
of soft-shell pecans for a pecan grove Upon
this l make free to ask you for information
as to when co plant, how to plant and of
whom can procure good, sound soft-shell
pecans for seed, and at what price. Will
remit cash to said dealer for seed without
delay. F. w. IMsIEPEN.
Bolton, Montgomery county, Kan.
After long investigation we have settled
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24
POPULAR SCIENCE.
NO MORE HOT WEATHER FOR
US INDOORS.
Denver is at It-Hosts of Things Kept
Cooi-The Ice Factories will Cote
frissrated Ancestors-Mont
Blanc Observatory.

From time to time various patents have
been taken out by parties looking to the
working of central refrigerating plants
from which the residents Of city might
be supplied with any degree OF cold or cool
ness that they desired, it being sent 10
them through street mains on the same
plan as now prevailing for sending gas o.
water. At last the thing has been made
browning success, and now, according to
the Scientific American, Denver, Col, has
central refrigerating plant in full blast,
and giving entire satisfaction.
About thirty of the different patented IL
ventions are employed The plant Of the
company occupies room forty by $50 feet
i'll size, and its cost all complete was $50
OO0-we are writing on the authority OF the
Scientific American throughout. Over two
miles of street mains have been laid, up
to this time, and the mains are being rap
idly extended. The applications for service
are far beyond the company's ability t.
furnish j supply. Everything would seem
to indicate that the day is not far distant
that shall find the system as common in al
important cities as now is our gas service,
our water service, our telephone. service
and our electric light and electric motor
service. -.
The central refrigerating plant supplies
its patrons, from its mains, with any degree
of low temperature desired, from that Of
pleasant GOODNESS in the rooms of the resi-
dence to cold sufficient for the manufacture
of ice. About one hundred and fifty service
connections can be made to the mill, de-
pending upon the degrees of GOODNESS de-
manded. Service indicators are placed
along the sidewalks, similar to those en-
ployed by gas ana water companies. The
cost to patrons is comparatively low,
thing which must rapidly run the arrange
ment into general use.
The Scientific American tells al about
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

This department is devoted TO answering
such questions US 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
address in addition to any such signature as
Subscriber or A g. ID, not for publication.
if against the will Of the writer, but 10 admit OF
direct communication should such = thing be
deemed necessary. Address as directed al head
of this page.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24

was drawn out. y move of two inches
closed all egress for the rats, of course. As
the holes came out they were plugged and
the rats were in forit He carried the box
out into the open field, called his dogs,
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 oc-
cupy this apparently favorable denning
Mace