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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17

made to work for the reason that badly
drained land is unfit for potatoes, do what
you may with it A level surface may be
depended upon for holding needed moisture.
There should be no ridging up at the pre-
paration for the crop, and likewise no go
ing down between the rows in culture.
The surface should be left entirely level at
the planting, and held entirely level
throughout the season. Again, it is asked
why should you ridge land for either the
Irish or the sweet potato cropl If you can
give no valid reason for the ridging, then
why do you ridge!
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
YELLOW AND WHITE CORN.

Some months ago correspondent wrote
US for information relative to the different
feeding value, etc, Of any existed), be-
tween yellow and white corn. We gave him
everything we had on the subject. and now
comes the Kentucky Homestead supple
menting our remarks by stating that there
are differences between yellow and white
corn, Independent Of the color. The former
contains more starch and viii make more
whisky, and is preferred for animal food
when fattening is the object in view. The
latter has more gluten and oil, and is almost
universally preferred for bread. As feed
for horses, when nerve and bone nutriment
are more desired than fat, white corn has
the preference. White corn is considered
as coming nearer to oats than yellow corn,
and Is therefore better food for king
animals. So far as the results of analysis
are known, white corn has about per cent
more Of the muscle-forming elements than
yellow corn, but the relative value of the
two varieties in this respect has not been
very accurately determined.
Our well-informed contemporary goes on
to state that the corn plant is one of the
most widely distributed, but every section
has type best suited TO its soil and lati-.
tude, therefore the interchange of seed,
Northern or Southern grown. is not a safe
Dzaosice il tAa distance to the North or
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
LooK Our ZOE swINpIEs.

a few weeks ago we received very nice
typewriter letter from party in Chicago
stating that the writer took a deep interest
in the progress of Texas and would, there
fore, be happy to do something that would
help the Texas people along The letter
was intended for publication in THE GA
zETTE, and kindly proposed sending two
settings of eggs to any lady reader of the
paper, free of charge upon application, the
eggs to represent any of the fancy breeds
of fowls that might be preferred. All the
good lady had to do was to send for cata-
logue from which to make her choice, and
on the day when her next letter was re-
ceived indicating what she wanted the eggs
would be forwarded. A printed slip, also
for publication, was inclosed stating that
none save breeds entirely standard were
kept by the house, and that when the good
lady had gone into this fancy poultry bust
ness the firm would recommend her to
their Texas patrons and thus secure to her
4 ready sale for all resultant stock at 81
dozen for eggs and 50 each for fowls.
Feeling sure that the parties did not take
having lady write for catalogue, init
mating that she had seen their announce
ment in our paper. The catalogue came
promptly, mere slip of paper containing a
list of very good fowls. AT the bottom was
a note stating that it would cost 81 to ex-
press the two settings of eggs, and that,
since express companies would not take
eggs without prepayment, it was necessary
for the lady to send 81 to the firm to prepay
expressage. Nothing whatever was to be
charged for the eggs, their packing or ship
ment-it was all for the good of Texas.
That was all we wanted. OF course the
81 never went to the very generous people
if it had gone that would have been the last
of it. So look out for such swindles. 1t is
highly probable that circulars of similar
import are sent out to the name of every
Texas farmer that the scoundrels can get
hold Of
The same ilk of sharpers seem to be now
attempting to work Florida, judging from
the following appearing in late issue of
the Florida Farmer and Fruit Grower:
Now comes Georgia Factor" in an art
less letter, and says she will tell any one
how to make ''lots Of money, even if you
only work evenings" by silverplating old
ware. In return she only asks the reader
to send her some article of curiosity, as she
is anxious to make a collection of curios
from every township in the United States,
though she admits that this may seem to be
"a girlish within" Georgia Factor'' is
hereby informed that she is entirely too
philanthropic for the sordid ATTITUDES of
Florida, and that an immature, 50-cent ALI
gator or a conch shell is considered wholly
inadequate compensation for the imparting
of the art of silverplating.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
A VINEGAR FACTORY.

Please give me your ideas as to the prob
able cost and maintenance for one season
of q vinegar and pickle works on a moder-
ate scale. Our farmers must do something
to save themselves from the ruin threaten
ing II cotton continues in the lead, and TO
the exclusion of all other products. My
idea in asking the question is this: If the
necessary machinery, and necessary skilled
labor for the first year don't cost too much,
let the farmers and merchants of our town
and vicinity form a stock company-mer-
chants subscribing and paving in enough
cash to run the plant one year, exclusive of
cost of materials to be worked, and farmers
taking stock and paving it out in vegetables
at reasonable market value. This done
through the first season, or for two sea-
mons, would, it seems to me, bring
the concern out of debt and
leave it in paying condition ever after
wards. 4 solid and paying concern of this
kind, would, think, make our farmers in
dependent and enable them to get along in
a first-class style. Please give US your
opinion through The GAZETTE. We shall
await it with no small degree of anxiety, as
we always find your opinions based on re-
liable data ]. G. JONES.
Troupe, Tex.
You would want your plant to be a can
ming factory as well as a pickle factory,
prepared to put up the various fruits and
vegetables grown in your region, such as
are usually sold in cans as canned goods.
The canning addition would. not largely
swell the cost of the plant. About $1,000
would fit out plant of moderate capacity,
exclusive of cost of buildings. No special
form of buildings is needed, hence one can
usually drop upon buildings that would an
swer every purpose, and yet not cost very
large sum of money.
Much cheaper plants might be put into
operation, but we take it that you
would want one costing not less than $1,000
OF course this would be comparatively
small plant, for there are plants costing
$4,000 exclusive Of buildings.
As to the cost of skilled labor we could
not speak so positively. Imported skilled
labor would come comparatively high, of
course, but you would not need great deal
of it, as your own citizens would soon learn
to do the work as well as anybody. There
is nothing very complicated about the bust
ness, hence it is one that may be soon
learned by handy persons.
The cost of running such a plant you will
have to learn from some plant now in opera
ton. A few years ago we could have told
you all about it, but things have so changed
of late that we would not now feel safe in
on an offer of figures.
We feel quite sure that your proposed |
plant would pay you well, and be of great
advantage to your locality, under good |
Of course.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
THOSE BASKET WORMS.

We are glad to find that the people of
Fort Worth have pretty generally acted
upon our appeal for a destruction of the
basket worm on our street and yard trees.
The baskets" are now becoming COM
paratively scarce, though there are still a
few citizens who appear to have paid-no a +
tention to what we have been saying in
these columns relative to the pest and what
it will do for them if left TO take its natural
course. They are probably among the few
citizens who do not take and read the home
papers.
It would be well for other citizens to urge
these neighbors into destruction of the
baskets" now hanging upon their trees.
Such a course would be a move in self-de-
fence, for those "bask cts, " if left to hatch
out the eggs they now contain, will again
seed the neighborhood in the course of
this coming summer. A regular war on the
pest all along the line will stamp it out and
save our trees, but so long as there are
places left infested by it that long will we
have it to fight from year to year.
There is another way that we find it neg
lecleG more or less. On some places you
viii find but a dozen or so of the "baskets''
hanging here or there on the trees. The
numbers are so small as to attract no par
ticular attention, but if not taken Off and
burned they will stock the trees heavily for
the next years campaign. Each tree shout
be carefully examined and each basket"
taken down and burned, even though there
be but one or two. They can be easily
seen now, before the leaves are out, but
when the leaves get out they will be hidden
from view, and very soon after this there
will be no need of seeing them, for the
young wor ms viii be Matched and at their
destructive work Cor 1892 Each egg-bear-
ing basket" will give US at least 500 new
worms to work on our trees through the
coming summer.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17

authority, tells US to let the young chicks
out Of the coop in pleasant weather so soon
as they are able to walk well, but keep
them cooped Of mornings, if the run is at
all damp, especially if it is a grass run. If
this rule is followed, the chicks will thrive
much more rapidly than otherwise. He
never lets his young chicks run in the morn
ing unless the dew is OF the grass. Young
chicks that are subject to weakness in tina
legs, which people sometimes call ''strad-
dies" do not get the trouble from beng
closely cooped. 1t is simply a weakness
supposed to come Of forced growth either
in or out of the egg. They will usually
come of it if proper treatment be resorted
to, and that treatment consists in giving
them very small proportion of fine bons
-four in their feed.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
FRENCH POrATo CrLTURE

We are an earnest advocate of the So
called trench system" in potato culture
for both Irish and sweet potatoes. This
system consists in simply opening deep
trench or furrow and planting the Irish
potatoes in it, or setting the sweet potatoes
over it, and leaving the surface of the patch
entirely level alter the planting; that is,
making no ridges. The trench or frrow
must be worked well do wn and filed with
good friable soil to afford the tubers plenty
of room to grow below the common surface.
Last year we wrote several articles for this
department of The GAZETTE urging our
Texas potato raisers to adopt the trench
system. And those articles were based
upon no mere theory, for we have ourself
been testing it through many years with
the most happy results. We started it on
foot in Alabama and Florida, where it is
now being pracuced quite generally, and to
entire satisfaction.
Mr. T. B. Terry, one of our country's
leading Irish potato growers, now writes of
this system that it has no equal, and comes
nearer securing a perfect exemption from
the effects of drouth than anything else,
unless it should be perfect system of irri-
cation. On a field cultivated level, and the
surface all mellow, the rain goes right down
where it falls, wetting all the soil and car
rying what fertility it has in it right to the
growing roots that extend all through be-
tween the rows. Where the land has been
ridged much of the falling water runs of
along the depressions between the ridges.
carrying all surface fertility of the soil
with it. The ground of the ridges has two
than level land could possibly have. and
hence dries out, becomes hard, and thus
cuts. short the yield. VIII you old style
potato raisers please ask yourselves why
you make ridges for your potatoes2 Your
grandfat hers may have planted potatoes on
that plan, but this is certainly no reason
why you should do the same thing, pro-
vided reason tells you that there is better
way. Your grandfathers rode over the
country in stage coaches drawn by horses
at the rate of thirty miles a day, but now
you go over the country by steam at the
rate of forty or fifty miles an hour.
There is such q thing as modern pro-
gress, and it is being made in agriculture
as well as in other things. Why did your
ride in those old slow coaches2
Because they knew Of nothing better. Why
did they plant their potatoes in ridges2 Be
cause they knew of no better way. You
have learned better way of getting over
the country, and you have adopted it. To
say that you would not adopt better way
Of planting potatoes than your grandfathers
knew Of, simply for the reason that it was
the way of your grandfathers, seems ex-
eeedingly strange under the circumstances.
a level surface. continu IS Mr. Terry, is
always best for potatoes. Some one might
contend that ridges would be best for land !
not well drained This notion could not be
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
CAUL1FLowEE CULTURE.

Please give me through The GAZETTE
some plain directions for cultfvating the
| caulifower. was going into it on small
scale this year exactly on the plan of rails
ing cabbages, but have been told that the
two crops are not cultivated precisely alike,
so have concluded to apply to you for infor-
nation. You've TRUCK FARMER.
Dallas County, Tex.
1t is not at all likely that we could do
much with the cauIifower in North Texas
without irrigation. It wants much moist
ure, and if possible, a very humid atmos-
phere, The Florida Farmer and Fruit
Grower says Erfurt, in the interior of Ger
many produces perhaps the finest caulifow-
ers of the European continent. They are
grown between open bitches, or small
canals on Glands" so narrow as to admit of
water being thrown by hand from each
marginal ditch to the middle of each LAND. +"
In watering, a scoop attached to a some
what elastic handle, is used, thus drench-
ing the whole crop.
The culture is often impracticable at only
a short distance from favorable location.
While the northern shore of Long Island is
par excellence, the caulifower garden of
the United States, the southern shore Is
comparatively unfit for its growth.
Owing to the heat and dryness prevailing
during the season of ripening, the seed Of
caulifiower is rarely grown in this country,
but is imported from Europe.
1t is necessary, even in a greater degree
than with the common cabbage to secure
seed of good strain. Though all the other
elements of success may be present, with
seed of poor quality failure is certain. In
stead of the beautiful, snow-white ''curd,'
more like flower in its delicate beauty
than an edible vegetable. the green leaves
push their way through the loose, deformed
head, or the plant grows up into a stalk
without heading, being perfectly unmar-
ketable and only fit for cattle feed.
As in the case of cabbage, crop of cauli-
flower may be grown for winter and one
for heading in spring, and, as with cabbage,
success with the winter crop is most uncer-
tain. Different varieties are adapted to
each season. While resistance to the effects
Of the cold is the chief requisite of the first,
ability to Withstand the heat is a necessity
of the spring crop. The "Algiers,'' the va
riety grown so extensively in the French
African colony for the winter supply of Eu-
rope (whence its name), is good sort for
the winter crop. 1t makes an enormous
plant and forms large, massive, fine white
head The seed is sown, ike that of cab
bages, from May TO September, but owing
to the greater susceptibility of caulifower
to heat it is even more difficult to grow the
plants. Another drawback in this latitude
is the liability to have the crop killed out
by freezing about the time it commences to
An amount Of cold several degrees
above that injurious to cabbage will kill
caulifower plants outright -
The distance apart for the Algiers> aid
other bulky varieties is two by four feet.
This variety is recommended to Southern
growers for marketing in early spring, the |
seeds being sown in Septemberl for the |
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
CooPING YOUNG CHICKs.

I am young housekeeper and am trying
to raise a few chickens. Have never had
any experience with poultry before. One
OF my hens has already Matched and my
neighbors differ so much in their advice as
to how the young chicks should be managed
that have concluded to ask The GAZETTE
to set me on the right track. Some say the
young chicks must be kept closely confined
in coop till they are week or so old,
while Others say they must not be confined
at all, for if confined they will take the
''straddles' and never be a6e to walk.
How IS it2 YoUEG HoUsEKEEPER.
Fort Worth. Tex.
Mr.. F. A. Mortimer, the great poultry
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
ANOTHER TEXAS FREAK.

I send you by to-day's mail limb Of ce-
dar: the tree from which I cut the limb
grows near here. II is evidently what you
call a freak, and is something entirely new
to me. The tree has weeping or dropping
habit very much after the style of the com
mon weeping willow, as you will see by the
specimen sent. We want you to tell US
through The GAZETTE something about It.
Should it prove easy Of propagation think
Z could be made highly interesting as an
ornamental tree.
The tree from which this limb was taken
is over twenty years old It was found in
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17

overflow from our streams does not at all
hurt the wild sunfower, and therefore it is
not likely that the cultivated varieties
would be injured by short inundation. If
such is the case then we might make the
cultivated sunfower a safe crop for lands
along our streams that are considered IN
safe for ordinary crops on account Of occa-
sional foundation. The seed could be
worked, no doubt, IN any of our ordinary
cotton seed oil mills.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
OUR CORRESPONDENTS,

This department is devoted to answering
such questions as may be asked by our sub
scribers which may be OF general Information.
Inquiries of personal character that require
closed. Please give full name and postof1ce
address in addition to any such signature as
Subscriber or "a. G. d. not for publication
of direct communication should such thing
be deemed necessary. Address as direct ed at
head of this page
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
ENeLIsH FoR ENeLIsH.

l would Ike to call your attention to thu
fact that Our government is now running
wild IN favor of an introduction OF terms
that US common people cannot understand,
and never will understand. Is it with a
view to hiding something from uS2 We
are English as to descent, and therefore an
English speaking people. Hence, why not
address US English in Englishl For ex-
ample, have Just received a public docu-
ment purporting to be from the director Of
the United states mint, wherein he refers
to all silver amounts in "kilos" Now,
how am to know what "kilo" isl Moth
ing like "kilo'' was ever taught in the Eng
lish common school which I attended. If
had an Appleton's cyclopedia 1 might find
what the word means, but am not able to
own one, and few of US common farmers
are, therefore the report must remain a
complete blank to us. H. is entirely safe to
say not one person in a thousand among our
people knows what a ''kilo'' is. If the
American English speaking) people pay
for such documents it is my opinion tina.
they ought TO be printed in the English Ian
guage. What do you think of it,
TRINITY.
Tarrmt County, Tex.
We are entirely with you in that thing.
It seems to US that nothing was ever more
silly than publishing documents for tie
masses in a language thar the masses can
not understand. It may be regarded as
having 'learned'' ring about it, but of
what value is the "learned" ring to the
masses if the masses can learn nothing
from it, But everything is going in that
road nowadays. Feet and yards and
pounds and ounces have about disappeared
from our official publications. Would that
we had some representative in congress
whose craw held sand enough to lead him
into putting firm foot down upon that
dude kind of performance He would ind
the masses with him every time
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
AGRICULTU DEPARTMENT.
j. P. STEELE, ED1roE.

PUBLISHERS
to- Prot
The Helena independent., 1892-03-11
THE ARID LANDS.
A Remonstrance Against Ceding Them t
the States.

A Remonstrance Against Ceding Them to
the States.
WASHINGTON, March Ex-senator Teller
introduced remonstrance from Sterliue
Col, signed by the citizens of tho eastern
part of the state protesting against the
passage of any law ceding arid lands to
states and territories. The remonstrances
set forth that the passage of such q law at
the present time would be disastrous to
many large districts in tho SO called arid re-
eion, ms it would stop immigration there
unto and completely cut off the last chance
home seekers for years to come.
IT further says that much of the land
claimed as arid is not arid, but is we'll
adapted to general agriculture. although
large sections of the region are almost be-
you'd the possibility of irrigation and,
though partially arid, can be utilized for
numerous homes.
1t states that the problem of reclamation
should be settled before the lands q @ with
drawn. If they are ceded title should pass
or settlement be forbidden until the states
and territories shall have adopted proper
and effectual measures for their reclamn-
ton.
The Helena independent., 1892-03-11
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

Two young daughters Of John Seafeldt
were burned to death at Marysylle, Wash.
Ohio capitalists have consummnted me-
gotiations for piping natural gas into Salt
Lake City.
Heirs of six Italians slain by the New Or
loans mob have begun suits for damages
aggregating $4,000.
The Bell telephone directors have voted
to issue 81, 100000 III stock one share at par
to each holder of six shares.
John L. Winslow, who helped introduce
the manufacture of Bessemer steel in this
county. died Thursday at Troy. N. Y.
A letter from juneau, Alaska, SAWS that
Tascott, tho alleged murderer of Million
afro Smell, is now in the Yukon river couu-
try.
The New Jersey senate and the Phila-
delphin Methodist conference have re-
solved for closing the Worlds fair on Sun
day.
The Texas republican state convention
endorsed the present administration and
elected strong Harrison delegation to
Minneapolis.
A Washington special says Congressman
Harter has addressed on open letter to Som
ator Hill demanding his position Oh the
silver question.
Prince John Xobiesk, grandson of king
of Poland, is under arrest at Mount Kirko
N. Y. He was in possession OF stolen
horse and wagon.
John Bright, of Ozark. No., sent his wife
to u spring for water. then followed her,
shot her through the head and fled. When
tho neighbors catch him Judge Lynch will
ofiioixte.
United States District Attorney Milchrist,
of Chicago, is busy investigating the
methods Of tho biscuit trust. having in view
M action similar to that taken with re.
gard to the whisky and cordsge trusts.