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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-28
ARSENICAL POISONS.

Already we have published through these
columns good deal with reference to ar
senical poisons employed as insecticides,
but still people write US for further infor-
nation on the subject. We now have on
file nine letters asking US to give particu-
lars, etc, through ''Our Corresp ondence'
column this week. As the subscribers are
constantly pouring in we take it for granted
that these writers are new readers OF The
GAZETTE, and hence have not seen our
former articles. For the information of all
such we make up the following from bull
letin of the Iowa agricultural experiment
station, issued on the authority of that emf
nent entomologist, Professor c. P. Gillette !;
j. The Oldest leaves of a tree or plant are
most susceptible to injury from arsenical
applications They often turn yellow and
drop without showing the usual burnt or
spotted appearance One would naturally
suppose that the youngest and most tender
leaves would be the leaves most easily
damaged, but experience has shown that
this is not the case.
q Heavy dews increase the injury done
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-28

at least 100 per cent profit on the invest
ment necessary to secure it.
We are at loss to know how the people
Of Texas, who say that irrigation is not at
all necessary, will take this most reliable
statement, in face of the fact that the
annual rainfall in most parts of our state is
far below that of New England. Along the
Fort Worth-Waco artesian area there are
millions of gallons of water running to
waste daily from artesian wells, but nobody
appears to thing of making any use of it for
watering crops. Up in New England, how
ever, they are driving down their gas pipes,
and pumping up water by steam power, and
becoming perfectly iubilant over the re-
suits. But never mind, boys-youn find a
use for this wasting of water before many
years have rolled around. This is new
country, you know, and as a rule people
come to new country to merely live, rather
than with view to getting rich. It they
have any dreams Of sudden riches those
dreams point to some kind of land specula-
ton. The great day of such speculations is
getting along well toward the afternoon,
and tomorrow morning. new pro-
gramme will be on the blackboard, showing
how the people may become rich of Texas
resources rather than off speculation in
Texas real estate. There will be nothing to
risk in the work of that tomorrow. Sue
cess, under correct management, will be q
thing as sure as the rising of the sun.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-28
ARSENIC FOR COTTON WORMS.

Let us again assure the readers that there
is no more danger attending the employ
ment of white arsenic as an insecticide for
destroying the cotton worm than there is in
employing London purple or Paris green.
If you should go to San Marcos, Hayes
county, Tex, where we were stationed
some months by the United States govern
ment, as an entomologist, in 1850, they
would tell you funny story about planter
with arsenic in his boots. He was man
of solid sense, and when he had made a
careful study of the newly-proposed arsenic
remedy he concluded to apply it at once, as
the worms were fairly getting away with
his cotton So he made his solution of ar
senic on the plan given by US in these col
umns some weeks ago, and got all ready for
a move on the enemy. But an unforeseen
obstacle suddenly doomed up. His plantation
hands were all negroes, and as they
knew the remedy to be applied was
arsenic, not mothers son Of them would
have anything to do with it. After treat
ing them to round of words more en-
phatic than elegant, he hauled off his boots,
placed half pint of the poisonous solution
into each, and then drew them on again.
This to some extent restored confidence
among the employees and the work of poi
soning the worms went on. The planter
wore his boots with the poison in them
throughout the entire day, and no iniuri-
Gus effects whatever resulted.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-28


growth to local conditions. Mr.. Kieffer
was one of the commonest and humblest of
men. He planted seeds of the old sand
pear "merely to be doing, !" as we say, with
out any expectations of such results as
followed But for this mere accident, as it
were, his name would never have teen
heard beyond the circle OF his immediate
neighbors, but now it is household word
throughout the length and breadth of the
land, and thousands upon thousands have
been blessed by his little and aimless ex-
pertinent.
The well-hown LeConte pear is another
chance Seeding Of the old Chinese sand
pear, though its exact origin cannot be so
correctly arrived at as can that Of the
Kieffer
Many have represented that these two
celebrated pears are crosses on some popu-
lar variety, as the Bartlett, for instance,
but this is not at all probable, as the sand
pear does not flower exactly with any Of
the regular named varieties. 1t is more
reasonable to regard the new pears as
simply the result of an effort of nature to
adapt her growths to local conditions.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-28
ON WESTERN TEXAS.

What do you think of the western belt of
Texas for stock-raising and general farm
ing, beginning, say, at San Angelo and
ranging northward2 Is the country too
dry for good success in the lines named9
Much cheap land might still be had over
there, but of course one don't want land
upon which nothing could be raised.
Temple, Tex. w. A. CLARK.
Northward from San Angelo, Tom Green
county, would carry us over the very best
portion of the Panhandle, and hence what
is supposed to be the finest stock-raising
country in the world. 1t is, furthermore,
fine wheat and other small grain country,
but for general farming, for crops to run
the season through, the rainfall is under
stood to be little too light for best results.
Irrigation is now claiming much attention
in the Panhandle, and once the thing gets
fairly ON foot, those regions of Northwest
ern Texas will have it all their own way.
Irrigation will maze them the finest fruit
and general farming regions on the face of
the globe. We could not think for mo-
ment that man was risking anything in
buying the still comparatively cheap lands
of Northwestern Texas.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-28
THE WILD GOOSE PLUM.

Last week we mentioned having seen a
considerable representation of the Mariana
plum on the Fort Worth market. This
week the wild goose plum has put in a
prominent appearance. The plums are of
excellent quality and the market is well
supplied with them, though on account of
their attractiveness and excellence they are
not running off as ''cheap as dirt" the
wholesale selling price being two dollars a
bushel. After careful examination of
hundreds of specimens we have not seen a
curculio in a single plum. The growers re-
port the crop as fair, so, you see, we have
another plum that is success in Northern
Texas, and it does seem to US that with his
wild goose plums at two dollars bushel,
and with other products in about the same
proportion, an Industrious horticult-
urist ought to be able to make living here,
AT least
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-28
SEEDLINGS MUsrsAvE Us.

From time to time we have assured the
people of Texas that fruits to become an en-
tire SUCCESS in our state must be Texan in
character, and that fruits of this character
must come to US through seedlings. We
must plant seeds and select the best results
until we have found exactly what we want.
It may take good while for US to entirely
fill the bill, and it may not-the very first
effort might do it. Professor Thomas New
han, the very leader among American hor-
ticulturists, contributes to the Gardeners
Chronicle history of the Kieffer pear,
which clearly illustrates what may be done
by propagating seedlings. There was (and
still isl in this country an al
most worthless variety of the
pear known as the Chinese sand
pear 1t is very hardy and a most prolific
bearer, but its fruit is the poorest excuse
for pear that could be imagined. Peter
Kiefer, living in the neighborhood Of Phil
adelphia, had one of the trees on his place.
From this, for his own amusement, he
raised numerous seedlings. Finally one OF
the seedlings showed considerable varia-
ton from the general appearance Of the
sands, and Mr.. Kieffer gave it special at
tention. When it fruited Mr. Kieffer
found himself in possession of the now cele-
brated Kieffer pear. We now copy from
Professor Meehan.
Mr.. Kieffer grated and sold few here
and there for s. each; but though he dis
tributed among his few horticultural
fyr,it that would x,ol-<, ..
most cold-souled epicure leap with joy, no
effort was made by any one to place it
properly on the market. AT length the
great centennial exposition came. Mr.
Kieffer had some on exhibition; these ex-
celled in size, beauty, favor-everyth thing,
indeed, for which any pear could possibly
be esteemed.
The writer, who was secretary to the
Jury, can truly say that he remembers
eating no pear like them. They had medal
and strong report in their favor, and Mr..
William Parry, q well known introducer Of
new fruits, made an arrangement with Mr..
Kieffer for gratis. In this way the variety
got regularly into commerce. 1t may be
said that gardening is no longer an art here,
as il was in Mr. Kieffer's day. A fruit has
to be s'hardy," and '.6rst-class." just
as nature gives it to you. You plant the
tree, but to a very great extent it must for
ever after be able to take care of itself.
Philadelphia is being fast covered with
buildings over its vast area of 130 square
miles. The original Kiefer pear tree is still
standing in Mr.. Kieferss grounds, but it
viii probably not be many years before the
march of improvement will bid it BECOME
But the Kieher pear will not 60 with that
original tree-the world has it to stay as its
own, and it will stay through all time to
come.
This shows how nature may adapt 4
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-28
POTATOES AND BLsCkBERR1Es

A marked article in the Cisco Roundup
says Capt. Willard Robson of Eastland
county has four acres in blackberries which
net their owner 500 to the acre as berry
crop, while between the rows are raised
heavy crop of the finest Irish potatoes. The
potatoes and the berries together give Mr..
Robson clear profit of $500 an acre. If
this was something outside of Texas we'd
take it ''with a pinch of snuff" as they
say but no one has right to be surprised
at anything one hears with reference to
Texas productiyeness. But this idea of
growing Irish potatoes between ones black
berry rows is something new to us-we
would have supposed the blackberries were
covering the ground too completely for
Irish potatoes to have much of a showing
between the rows.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-28
IRRIeATIoN IN NEW ENGLAND.


The editor Of the Massachusetts Plough
man says Mr.. A. P. Topley of that Sec
ton of country has been irrigating his
market garden, and particularly his early
cabbages, and finds it to pay handsomely.
The water employed is pumped up don't
say what FROM by steam power. The
writer adds that ''there can be no question
of the fact that there are many garden
crops and fruits that will pay for irriga-
ton, in seasons when we have not rain
enough; and the fact that we had enough
rain last year and the year before, through
most of the growing season, should not
make US blind to the fact that in most sea-
sons we have periods Of drouth in which
irrigation would be very profitable. Tho
experience of gardeners who have tried wa
tering crops in dry seasons, proves beyond
doubt that the profit made by watering
them will sometimes pay for the whole out
lay for watering machinery in a single
season.
The article goes on to show that irriga-
ton is rapidly on the gain in the New Eng
land states, and that it is paying big re-
turns in every case where correctly ap-
piled. The conditions up there are not
overly favorable as rule, for the streams
run in narrow and deep valleys, and hence
their waters cannot well be fitted to the
cultivatable lands. But Yankee ingenuity
is at work, and already considerable tracts
Of land are being irrigated by s'drove
lie v1,Av all az
from fifty to 800 feet, and supply q stream
Of five or ten, often twenty, gallons per
minute continuously from q two-inch pipe.
The cost Of driving such well viii vary
with circumstances from $50 to $500, and
the cost Of pumping apparatus win vary
from $500 to 5000 or more, according to the
amount Of work to be done, and the other
circumstances Of the case. And even this
character Of irrigation IS believed to pay
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-28
j. p. STEELE, EDITOR.

to plants by arsenical poisons. This proba-
/ bly, comes Of the fact that dews tend to dis
solve the poisons and carry them to the
pores of the leaves, whereas, in dry state
the poisons would remain inactive on the
surface
3. Leaves remaining perfectly dry after
the poison has been applied can scarcely be
injured even though the poisons have been
spread upon them in large quantities. On
this account it is probably best to apply
poisons in the first part of the day so that
there viii be speedy drying of the plants
after the application.
4 Applications made in the heat of the
day and in the bright sunlight do not injure
foliage more than when applied in the cool
of the day.
5. A shower Of rain following the applica-
ton of arsenical poisons to plants washes a
portion of the poisons from the foliage, but
does not increase the injury, as in the case
Of a heavy dew. This refers alike to pois-
ons applied in either the dry or liquid form.
8. Leaves suffering from a fungous dis
ease are more susceptible to injury than are
healthy leaves.
2. Repeated and thorough tests have
shown that London purple is, of all poisons,
the most injurious to foliage, and white
arsenic, prepared on Professor Stelle's
plan, the least injurious. Paris green may
be- regarded as ranking between the two
poiSonS named.
8. 1t has been ascertained by the Iowa ex-
pertinent station that white arsenic in so
luton, on Professor Stelle's plan, may be
improved as to its foliage-injuring qualities
by adding little lime. This converts it
into something like the Bordeaux mixture.
9. White arsenic solution, as recommended
by Professor STEELE for the cotton worm,
may be kept as saturated solution through
an indefinite period of time, but as di-
luted solution made ready for application
to the plants it should be applied at once,
as holding it over in this condition renders
it more injurious to foliage.
TO- Lime added to London purple or Paris
green in water greatly lessons the injury
that these poisons would otherwise do to
foliage,
II. The arsenites cannot by any ordinary
method be successfully mixed in a kerosene
emulsion.
10. The arsenites in strong soapy mix
lures do considerable more harm to foliage
than when applied in water only.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-28

advantage in its capabilities of supplying
one with his spring green's. Did you never
eat bacon and poke greens9 They are not TO
be sneezed at, especially in section Of
country where the commonest kind of tur-
nip greens are selling at 10 cents quart,
dropped loosely into the measure. You'd
get no spring greens out of your Russian
mulberry hedge, neither would YOU get any
moro of a fence than you would get out of
your poke greens patch. Then why not
stick to the greens?
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-28
Nota Bene's article giving rise to flour

Nota Bene's article giving rise to -four
barrel gardening, we have gone little be-
yond what our correspondent was requir-
ing of US. The printers have already
'istuck it into type" and that's what they
live by. The type must stand, and to
afford good reason for its standing we
must tell another, but true story, entirely
out of the line of barrel gardening.
The reader has already taken in how
Nota Bene's housekeepers made nice
things for the house out of old -four bar
rels. Our folks had been reading that
pleasant story, and so one evening when
we took the minister home with us for tea,
astonished by the appearance of something
we had never seen there before. 1t was
-four barrel chair that our folks had made
after Nota Bene's directions. At sight of
it we felt hot flush run up our spine, for
it did not exactly fill our idea of the orna-
mental: and there was no improvement in
the state of our feelings when pretty soon we
saw the preacher rest his gaze upon the
singular piece of furniture with an unmis-
table expression of displeasure.
From that moment on the minister
seemed i'll at ease, and finally, after slanc-
ing out of the window. he said to US in a
half whisper, and with an inclination of
the head in the direction of the barrel chair:
Brother STEELE, 1 see some ladies COM
ing, and it has just occurred to me that you
might feel embarrassed when you noticed
that your servant had left chair in the
parlor which evidently belongs TO the sick
room"
Good reader, that chair went out, and
these eyes of ours never beheld it after
wards
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-28
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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-28

to information given by Mr.. Maxim this ma
chine, when properly inclined and pushed
forward by the screw at the rate of thirty
miles an hour, will maintain itself in the
air; if the forward speed is increased to
thirty-five miles an hour, it begins to as
cend; at ninety miles its rising power is
quite strong.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-28
TIL. Walk of some Rich Men.

Russell Sage and David Dudley Field are
two careful walkers. Mr.. Field, a big.
handsome type OF manhood, does not let
his years interfere with his walk. He steps
firmly and deliberately. Mr.. Sage is q lit
tie careless. He knows where he puts his
feet, but he is hard on shoe leather.
William Waldorf Astor, the heir to the
Astor millions, walks in an exceedingly
graceful way. The late John Jabob Aston
was great walker and took delight in
walking from his down town office to his
up town mansion. His movements were
more rapid than those of William Waldorf,
who steps out in slow and elegant man
ner.
Cornelius Vanderbilt rarely shows off his
walk at the hotel, but he often keeps step
on the street with Chauncey NJ. Depew.
The two great men, while on the street,
walk with swinging movement that be-
tokens excellent physical condition.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-02
Clippings.

The steamer La Bretagne, which ar
rived at New York recently from
Havre, reported that Joseph Pegs, aged
40 years, Storage passenger and ma
tive of Switzerland, while conversing
with his family, consisting of a wife
and FIVE children, suddenly dragged his
five-year-old son. Pierre, from his
mothers arms and threw him into the
sea- The child was lost and Pegs, who
was apparently insane, was seized by
the officers of the ship and put in irons.
1t is somewhat strange, but money is
always further from our reach when 1t
is close.
Bowdoin college is to send an expedi-
ton of students and teachers to Labra-
dor. under the direction of Prof. Leslie
A. Lee, who a few years ago conducted
similar expedition to the straits of
Magellan The object is the collection
of birds. fish and lichens found only in
high ATTITUDES, and the specimens are
to be added to the Cleveland cabinet in
the college.
Thirty million dollars is involved in
lawsuit in Philadelphia over hat trim
mings. When one talks about big law
suits this easily goes to the head.
It has been discovered that a Ken
lucky clergyman has three living wives