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

Several months ago there appeared in
the Agricultural Department of TEE Ga
ZETTE an article from some Fort Worth
gentleman stating that you were of in your
superstition that there We're no native cur
rants in Texas. You replied still main
tanning your position, and giving it rs your
opinion that the plant referred to was the
Mexican .salgIreda,n sometimes going by
the name OF currant III our state. The
gentleman had stated that wild cur
rants grew in Palo Pinto county.
had been hoping to hear further
from your correspondent, but since moth
ing further has appeared, l conclude that
he must have accepted your theory of the
''algireda" being the ''currant" he was re-
ferring to. We have in this county a.
other shrub, besides the algirada, that cur
people call currant, but 1t is not the cur
rant grown at the North. II may have
been this that your correspondent was
holding in mind. II you desire 1t l VIII
send you a specimen. READE2
Palo Pinto County, Tex.
We think our correspondent has weak
ened on the currant question. Soon after
the article to which you refer had Appeared
in The GAZETTE he wrote US private letteI
which he requested US not to publish In
that letter he gave his location as in Oue Of
the suburbs to Fort Worth, reached by
street car line. a few days later we toos
the car and went out to see his native
Texas currants, but could not find him or
his place-no one in the suburbs Appeared
to know anything about him, so Of course
we had all our trouble for our pains OF
course we could not do otherwise, under
the circumstances, than draw our own con
illusions. We had already asked him 10
send us specimen of his ''currant" in CT
der that we might identify it, but he de-
clined to do so.
While we are entirely satisfied in or
own mind that there are no native currants
in Texas, we would be glad to see speci-
men of the Palo Pinto growth known oy
that name, and not the "algirida" If it IS
really currant we will promptly LET yot
know of the fact through The GAzETTE-it
not we will tell you what it is. A nera
twig would probably enable US to identifyit-
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-03
DEEP BREAKING FOR CROPS.

As 1 see in your paper considerable argu-
ment in favor of shallow preparation Tor
| crops by some old fogy who signs his article
IAN Old Texan" I hope you will permit
me to say a few words over my own sigma
ture. | am not ashamed to father every
thing l say in this case.
never farmed in Georgia or Alabama, as
your correspondent claims to have done,
but have been following the plow in
Texas for more than twenty years,
and in this time have farmed right
along by the side of some of the
Swimmers" even Georgia land ''skim-
merS." In this twenty years Of experience
l have become fully satisfied that the deeper
one can break his land the better it is for
him; in other words. the better are his
chances of success. I farmed in Bosque
county just eighteen years, where I
always made it my rule to break
my lands as deep as my team could
pull the plow, and never in those eighteen
years did l make a single failure. Have
been out here two years, where 1 have paid
particular attention to blowing in this part
Of Texas, and that attention has fully con-
WINGED me that the man who breaks his
land deep, and thoroughly pulverizes it, is
the man who meets with the best success.
wish to state in regard to Mr. Fosters
theory relative to the cause of drouth in
West Texas that he is as far from the right
track as is your Mr.. Land Skinner. He
says the drouth is due to lack of timber to
keep the ground cool, and that the hot
winds we have drive the rain clouds past
US and on northward. Now if Mr.. Foster
will come out here this summer he will see
that this is one OF the coolest regions to be
found in the state. We have a cool breeze
here all the time. hence the lack of GOODNESS
cannot, as Mr.. Foster has it, be the cause
of drouths.
While 1 have no disposition to buck
against any weather witch carrying the no
toriety of Mr.. Foster, 1 must be permitted
to assert that, in my opinion, 1 could better
predict the weather for West Texas than
MIR. Foster has been doing of late. I would
say, ''Dry and windy this week, :" and Dry
and windy next week, y and would add that
a sandstone might be expected occasionally
from the west; also few ''northers about
the change of the moon" My predictions
would hit it every time, which is entirely
more than can be said for the predictions
of Mr.. Foster w. w. VINIsoN.
Howard County, Tex.
We know you are correct so far as re-
lates to deep preparation for crops, and we
have very good reasons for believing that
you are right relative to your weather pre-
dictions.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-03

its home it will remain from year to year
until completely starved out for want of its
natural food It has certainly secured a
good footing in Fort Worth, and unless
prompt action is taken to cut it short Fort
Worth will soon have but very few trees.
And with all that has been said of it
of late our people appear to be taking
no particular interest in the matter.
Within the past week or so we have
called the attention of citizens to half a
dozen or so of baskets hanging on low trees
in their yards, and have told them exactly
what would happen this coming summer il
the insects were not taken down and
burned. The parties talked about the mat
ter and said what we proposed ought to be
done, and yet those baskets, each of which
could be reached from the ground, still
hang upon their trees. Some persons have
said they had seen something hanging on
their trees, but thought they were merely
'crumpled-up leaves.' And the crumpled-
up leaves still hang there. Well, we have
performed our part.
Coming to the matter of remedies for this
detestable insect-pest, Professor Riley says +:
effective preventive work can be done
during the winter time, or when the trees
are bare. The bags which contain the
alternating eggs. and which are very easily
detected, may then be gathered or pruned
and burned. This work may be so easily
done that there is no excuse for the increase
of the species.
If Fort Worth wants to keep her shade
trees. she must act on those insects and do
it now. We are no alar1nist-we are simply
stating what we know to be a plain fact,
based upon what is known to have happened
in other places. OF course, we are not pre-
tending to advance the idea that the basket
worms, if left to have it all their own way,
viii destroy all our shade trees in the sum
mer of 1892, but undoubtedly they will
destroy many of them and seriously dam
age many more; and this is not the worst
Of it-for every basket full of eggs allowed
TO hang on the trees and hatch this spring
there will be at least 500 insects on the
trees next fall Those 500 insects viii
give US q corresponding increase for 1898,
and thus it will be kept up until no trees
are left We now have it within our power
to nip the pest in the bud, as it were. Why
not DO it,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-03

have talked to not a few citizens about'i #.
but they do not appear TO be al ali
interested. I fear that they think that
your warnings are reflection on their good
sense, for none evince a disposition
TO remove the worms. II is ever thus with
home things. If soma count from France
had visited Fort Worth and had told the
people that there was a pest in their shade
trees likely to destroy them, there would
have been a rafting of dry bones until
every basket had been destroyed. lam
after them with a sharp stick tipped with .
bunch Of rags saturated with coal oil and
set on fire, but cannot get others to follow
my example. The baskets still hang.
Fort Worth, Tex. a CITIZEN.
The article heading this page of the paper
contains about everything we have to say
in the case. If some French count could
lead our citizens into destruction of the
basket-worm on our shade and Ornamental
trees, it is a pity that he could not be in
duced to cone.
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THE GAZETTE: FT WORTH, TEXAS, THURSDAY MARCH g.

heard Of its disposition to "kerspatn into
peoples eyes and put them out
When disturbed Spectrum bivittatum
throws off fluid in self-defeuse. about as
tomato worm does. It has decidedly
disagreeable odor but not more SO than
that cast OF by the ordinary black squash
bug. From this fact has probably sprung
the nonsense about putting out peoples
eyes. We think this popularity is strictly
confined to Spectrum bivittatum. as we
have seen nothing of the kind with Spec
trum femoratum. It amounts to Just moth
ing at all. No doubt this eye-exterrai-
mating idea originated among the negroes
in the days of slavery, and we well
know it has. no more foundation in fact
than had the ghost stories that our old
negro s'Inammas" were wont 10 tell US
Southern children forty years ago. Slavery
is now gone The white children Of the
South no longer have negro 'mammas" to
look after them under the guidance of
mother. This being the case, it is time for
US to drop those old negro-superstition
notions and take hold of things as they
really are. Those old 'mammas' were
good old creatures. as a rule. We could
trust them, for they would have died
in defense of their little charge at
any time, but they were excessively igno-
rant, of course. Why, the ghost stories that
they used to tell US little white-headed
chaps fairly made our hair raise, and made
US afraid to 90 to sleep ut night unless the
old mammal was right there to defend US
in case of a ghostal attack. But the old
''mammas" are now no more, and so let US
old folks be manly enough to allow their
old superstitions go with them. Let US not
be bull-headed enough to tell the rising
generation that we know a certain thing
is so, when really we know moth
ing about it beyond what the old
black mamma" bless her old soul), told
US about it. Among the things for US to
give in on, like little men. is this devils
riding horse" notion. All the leading au-
thorities have shown US that there is no
such thing in Texas, or anywhere else, as
an insect that ''kerspats" into peoples eyes
and puts them out, or at all Injuries them.
Indeed science (truth) has shown US that
there is no ''kerspatting' at all on the pro
gramme of any insect. Let US submit.
Why not, when there is no chance of dodg-
ing the plain truth, in any case? And thus
forever ends the "devi's riding horse"
controversy in the Agricultural Depart
ment of THE GAZETTE, so long as we remain
agricultural editor of the paper
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-03
YEp. r. 81 STILL ON.

So many conflicting accounts and de-
scriptions of an insect called the DEVILS rid
ing horse have appeared in THE GAZETTE
thai / have concluded your correspondents
have been seeing different insects known in
different sections of the South by that same
common name. Now, when boy was
taught TO fear the DEVILS riding horse on
account of its reputed dangerous sting or
was not hedevil's riding horse that you
have described as Mantis carolina of Lin
ne9us.
This devils riding horse of my youth was
an insect known TO entoIaologists as Spec
trum femorstum of Say. It has small
cylindrical body three or four inches in
length, slender and near all the way OF the
same size. Has long, slender legs. and in
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-03

character of it, the woman must be suit
ably clad, discard corsets and petticoats and
adopt the union suits. thick or light, as
needed. Eschew all fiimsy Yankee calicos,
and make your short -dFess-skirts of blue
denim. stout linen or flannel No woman
who wears a sunbonnet can succeed farm
ing. She will never see enough or hear
enough to keep even with nature Long
wristed gloves may protect your hands
while dropping seeds, picking beans, setting
ont young plants, and So on. but sitting
under the shed tieing up vegetables, pack
ing fruit. ETC., you will no more need gloves
than you would need them in doing fancy
embroidery work on the shaded side of the
front gallery.
Trust to yourself Look after every
thing, and do with your own hands what
you are able TO do. Be right there when
your fruits and vegetables are packed for
market If you have much 10 pack, and
you do as have recommended, the Fort
Worth GAZETTE viii soon get an advertise
ment something like this: Wanted, five
ladies with good taste and Judgment 10 pack
fruits and vegetables on the farm,
to whom viii pay Sl.50 per day."
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-03
WHAT INSECT Is IL?

I am only a little girl with every
thing to learn as yet 1 take nUch
interest in plants, insects, and
everything 1 see. To-day I send you four
cocoons which ! find hanging on our rose
bushes. A lady next door says they are
silk worms We have many more of them
on our roses, and if they are really silk
worms please tell me through the Agricul-
tural Department of THE GAZETTE, which
1 read all through every Sunday
morning, how to manage them
TO make silk. 1 have a taste
for something of that kind, and am not at
all afraid of harmless worms. Pa says Il
they are sure enough silk worms, and you
will tell me how to manage them, he willlet
me have the attic room TO raise them N
this summer We have three mulberry
trees on our place, and this would give me
lots of leaves for my pets. 1 don't find any Of
the cocoons on the mulberry trees, but rose
bushes where I find them are near the null
berries. and suppose the worms wanted 10
build their cocoous nearer the ground
They would have been lonesome away up in
a big tree. Please answer through the GA
ZETTE. DoLLIE N.
Fort Worth, Texas.
Please read our first article on t16 agri-
cultural page of this date and them burn all
the ''cocoous" of this character that you
can find. They are ''baskets" of the nOtO-
rious basket worm, now here to destroy
our shRpbbery aud yard trees.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-03
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
answer by mail should always have stamp in
closed. Please give fun name and Postotfice
address in addition TO any such signature as
subscriber or "A. G. ID" not for publication
IL against the viii OF the writer, but 10 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, 1892-03-03
We BASKETS srILLHANG.

Two articles on the so-called basksS
worm appeared in The GAZETTE of last
Sunday. Since that time have been looking
over the town and the great number of
baskets" that I have found hanging on
almost every tree has surprised me- 1
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-03
PUTTING OUT ROSES

I have this week put out my roses
purchased from the greenhouse of a Z Fort
Worth nurseryman. A friend says I have
put them out too soon, as he had seen an
article in The GAZETTE recommending that
they be put out much later. think the ar
ticle was written by Mr.. Martin. 1 put
them out on the recommendation of Gov
ernor Hogg, and therefore can scarcely
think that 1 have made a mistake. Please
give me your opinion through the paper.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-03
TO LEAD A.HoG.

While you seem to be apt in giving infor-
nation, viii bet you peck of pecans that
you cannot give me q method by which I
can successfully lead hog with rope. OF
course you will understand that this has no
reference to being led by Hogg.
READER.
Fort Worth, Tex.
We take the bet. In the first place get a
hog of your own-should you undertake to
lead some other mans hog you might get
into trouble over it. Having made sure of
this very important matter afix rope
around the neck of the hog SO that it will
not slip off, and then on the rope, about
four feet away from the nose of the hog,
tie an ear of corn. Thus equipped start in
the direction that you desire to lead the
hog, and keep the ear of corn beyond the
reach of the animal.
You can leave the peck of pecans at The
GAZETTE Office with Instructions for the
boys to crack them. It might be best, how
ever, for you to send them, for should you
deliver them in person some of the boys
there might begin the cracking on your
head FOR having written US such postal
card note as the above.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-03
Fort Worth. Tex.

The article referred to as written by Mr..
Martin, was by a grower of roses, and a
gentleman who has made special study of
the rose and its needs. We did not know
that Governor Hogg had been interesting
himself in rose culture. All we could do in
the premises would be to refer you to the
recommendation of Mr. Martin.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-03
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
j. P. STEELE, EDITOR.

un1ns
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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-03-22

ular ore shipments at once. In OF the dis
trlcts through which road would pass there are
mines with thousands of tons Of ore on the dump
They have been stacked up there for years, and
VIII forever remain there as evidence OF man g
stupidity unless railroads penetrate that country or
they treated by some OF the new systems of ore
reduction now being so successfully used IN vari-
parts of the West.
The following Official letters were placed on file
yesterday:
UTAH-The west drift from the shaft station $40
level, was extended 20 feet; total length OF 2S0
feet, continuing in porpbyry formation showing
some water.
WARD COMBINATION SHAFT The southwest
drift from the shaft. 1900 level is out 1888 feet
face in a mixture OF porphyry, clay and low-grade
quartz.
OccIDENTAL-The Wine from west crosscut in
the south drift $50 level is down % feet in fair
grade Have started crosscut from the 400
level to meet the Wine coming down from the $50
level The south drift $50 level Is out q feet;
face shows small seams of high-grade ore. Have
started crosscut from the north drift $50 level
a point $50 feet from the station Ii Is now in l
feet in low-grsde ore. Have done work on
Sutro tunnel drift this week. The men have been
engaged In cutting cut station for a blower.
Coz. NEW IoRK-The raise from crosscut l $50
level is up distance Of So feet: top in quartz
showing lunches of fair
SILVER HuL-1he south drift from the Justice
shaft 400 level is $50 feet; In gypsum and
porphVrY
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we were n;ctifed that the bridge three miles
below there, six ;ailes ABOVE here, hate,
had been carried away"
Z" How did you find out?" Kate was her.
self again.
LAS to that" replied Tom. 'reports are
somewhat vague. But all accounts agree It
was woman. And she did wonderful
was a marvellous feat everybody says So.
81 tell you, Kate, that was something
worth while. Very different from your
lawn-tennis practice. Why. Kate, | doubt
If you could do SO much as walk 70 town
and back. My goodness, Kate, what nave
you been doing TO your feet?
For Mrs. Middleton had unconsciously
pushed the wounded foot into sight, and the
load of bandages was enough to strike ter
Tor to the beholder
II took little walk to-day. But don't
let us talk about that, Tom. I'm sorry L
seemed queer and cold when you came in.
l wasn't feeling well, and you looked SO
strangely. 1t made me shiver.
1t was useless to try to put Tom off in this
way. BE was already on his knees beside
her In spite of her protest; he disclosed
little foot purple with bruises and with an
ugly gaping cut on one side.
- l had on my slippers" confessed the
culprit, and there wasn't time &c change
theni."
"A little walk" persisted Tom. My
gracious. Kate, you are not TO be trusted
alone any more than two-ye r-old babe"
"If | hadn't taken my little walk. you
ycu-y0u m.ghtu't have had the chanceP
cried poor Kate. cOrnered at last.
My sonl!' cried Tom, light dawning
upon him; " it was yOu."
think he kissed the little foot / am
afraid he did great many foolish things,
and humbed himself most lamGntably 10
show bis love fer his brave young wife, his
pride in her and his contriti0n.
The station master and Jack Spencer
kept their secret we'll Tom Middleton's
wife sometimes wears a very pretty brace
let. When people question her about it she
replies that 1t is a prize Tom once awarded
her for a race she ran.-BoSton Globe.
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She's Affer Oresfa Orenn.

Oresta Orena. well-knOwn capitalist,
was arrested yesterday on a warrant sworn
out by Carrie Lusk, charging him with
failure TO provide for his Legitimate son.
The woman recently sued Orena for wrong
ing her under a promise Of marriage, but
compromised the case for S1100. She then
began another sun, which was transferred
to the Superior Court Of Santa Barbara
County, where it was dismissed. The child
is years old and the mother insists upon
OTeua supporting him.
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MY SWEETHEART.

No violet puppies have so deep hue
AS have her angelpainted eyes OF blue.
A wiid-rose pluE. 4 -a-ShelPs dainty grace,
Were borrowed TO bewItch her bonly race
Her lips were made for kisses-ao;hing more;
It tell her this forever, Ger and DER.
Forever aud day I'll love her, too,
Because her heart is mine-her heart so true.
She loves and lives. and lives and loves Tor me.
And fer her sake III all t9inps lovely be
For her my love, my angel, treasure pearl,
Marie my own. my darling baby eiri,
Margaret Andrews Oldham IN M2rch century
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HOPS.
ChicaPO Markets.

CHICAGO. March 2l.-wheat opened Csc lower
account OF warmer weather over the wheatbeit.
Heavy receipts reported at Minneapolis and
Duluth. on account of weaker Contnent tai cables
broke lie more on reports OF financial troubles at
Antwerp. Paris and Oporto. fine weather abroad
and heavy short selling by Pardrdge. The decline
was checked by reported cold wave in the North
west and buying by Partridge. but closed easy at
l "a lower than saturday. Receipts. 90 600 BUSH
els: shipments, 1900 bushels. Rye, Sic. Barley
nominal at SIC.
CHICAGO. March 2l.-Wheat-Cash. S23sc. Corn
37l4c. Pork = SO IS. Lard-$6 12I.. Ribs
S. A2ll. Mhisky-Sl
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Shining Notes.

Steamers to sail tO-dTy are the oregon for Port
land, the Arcata for Coos Bay, the Empire for
NanaimO, the North Fork for Humboldt Bay ana
the Gypsy for the Salinas RIVER The Umatilia rais
due from Victor la and Puget Sound, the Columbia
from Portland aud the Willamette valley from
Naquina Bay.
1he Norwegian bark Mynr, 1850 tons loads Lum-
Der at Port bakeley for Santos Brazil, at 65s
prior TO arrival.
The Combermere taxes for Cork 57,236 ctls
Wheat val ned at &g7 30l.
FIeghts are lower than ever before. The British
iron ship FaSc%daie. 1879 tons is chartered for
" heat TO the United Kingdom. Hayre or Antwerp,
Is I'd.