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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-21
no CoRREsPoNDENrs.

We are highly pleased to find that per-
sons are becoming so interested in this de-
partment of The GAZETTE as to send US a
liberal supply of contributions on the
various subjects handled by US, but, while
we are glad to receive such favors. we
must urge our friends not to make their
contributions too long. We have this
week received three contributions either
of which would have entirely filed page
of the paper. OF course we have not read
them as yet, and cannot now say when we
will find time to do so. Cut it short. Bet
ter for you to do it than for US to do it, for
if you do it you Will be satisfied when the
article appears, but you will not be pleased
if the close-cuttingis made by US. Tastes
differ, you know, and what we might cut
out would possibly strike you as the best
part of the article gone.
And one more word: We are always
glad to receive and notice specimens OF
anything you may have grown, but don't
send US anything more in that line without
prepayment of freight or express
age. We often receive half dozen
sweet potatoes, or dozen or so of pecans
Oh. something of that kind, with the ex-
pressage unpaid Up to this time we have
paid bills and said nothing about it, but il
is becoming too heavy on US, and hence this
kicking. We simply cannot afford it.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-21

had been picked up in the bright interval
of September less damaged than at first
supposed. But now that they are being
threshed, it turns out that the wet had so
got into the pods that the peas, particu-
larly the wrinkled kinds, divided in half
in the threshing machines, and thus the
marketable seed is again still further re-
duced in quantity.
No such troubles would ever be en-
countered in Texas, hence it is certainly
plain that Texas offers the finest openings in
the world for seed farm. California is
finding out that our seeds must :be grown
in warm climate, and is acting on her in
formation by the establishment of many
seed farms, but Texas could beat
California in that line of industry by a
large per cent.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-21
FICTITIOUS WRITERS.

l would like to write an article or two in
opposition to some positions you have taken
in the Agricultural Department of the
Fort Worth GAZETTE, but have been told
that you would publish nothing n opposi-
ton to your views. Is such the factf Please
let me know through the paper.
A REGULAR READER.
Fort Worth, Tex.
While we are willing to admit that this
correspondent is regular reader Of The
GAZETTE we must contend that he does not
read everything in the paper, else he would
not have sent Us the above on postal card
without appending his real name. See
standing note at the head Of these columns.
We have published his favor in violation Of
our rules, thing we are not at all apt to
do. There are now more than a hundred
letters on file at our ONCE which have
appended no name Of the author, and some
that have q name and no postof-
flee address. These letters, some OF them
very interesting, can never appear unless
the writers straighten up the matter by
letting Us know who they are and where
they live. It is not absolutely necessary
that the name should be printed in every
case, though we always prefer to give real
name and address, but it IS absolutely
necessary that We have the real name and
addzess on file, and we mako It a rule 70
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-21
sEEp rARMs FOR yExAs.

It is now being generally accepted as a
fact that Southern grown seeds are in
every way better for the South than are
seeds from far North. For long time our
people thought differently, but this impress
sion was made by Northern seed dealers.
1t is now beginning TO be felt that Southern
grown seeds would be better even for the
North, for large proportion Of Northern
grown seeds are more or less damaged by
the early frosts of those regions. Here
our seeds would really be spring crop,
and hence could not be damaged by frosts.
A late issue of Bells Messenger says the
Northern seed harvest of 1891 has been
very disappointing. The greatest care will
be needed by the purchaser OF seeds this
coming season to avoid buying old and
worthless rubbish, such as has always
been largely sold in previous scarce years.
The severity of the great frost of the
spring of 1891 destroyed large acreages OF
mangels, swedes and turnips put out for
seed, and seriously diminished the yield of
those roots which did not actually sue
cumb
Early in June, however, there was, not
withstanding, better prospect than could
have been reasonably expected, considering
the abnormal conditions under which the
crops had passed. But the heavy down
pour of cold rain in July and August finally
dispelled any hope of even tolerable yield,
and had it not been for the one week Of
brilliant weather in September large
breadths would never have been harvested
at all
The termination Of seed imperfectly
ripened under such unfortunate climate
influences will be very poor, and it is most
fortunate that some of the larger houses,
foreseeing the scarcity last spring, were
able to husband their resources and carry
over large quantities of more perfectly
ripened seed of the previous harvests,
which is of far higher terminating power
than any of the little saved this autumn.
The foregoing remarks apply to root crop
seeds especially, but are almost equally ap-
plicable to the English crop of other seeds.
The cabbage plants of last winter, con-
tinues Bells Messenger, were largely de-
stroyed by frost, as were carrot plants, SO
that both cabbage and seeds will be very
short.
1t was hoped that garden peas, which
had been lying on the ground for weeks,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-21
). z. STEELE, EDITOR.

dividual can be seen from the fact that in
one night single female has been known
to kill and deyour eleven Colorado potato
beetles, leaving only the w1ng-cases and
parts of the legs" Prof Comstock then
goes on to state on reliable authority that
they have often been seen devouring cot
ton worms. The only trouble about it
would seem to rest on the hypothesis that
there are not enough of them in the cotton
fields to exterminate the worms He adds:
sit is probable, however, that these in
sects are more abundant than it would
seem at first glance, and when the cotton is
well grown, will probably be found in all
parts of the field and not confined to the
bushes around its border. They should
never be thoughtlessly killed"
We could fill the paper with similar
statements all from our best authorities
men who have made scientific study of
insects the whole work of their lives. But
the foregoing is enough, so we now
close. the discussion with the latest
letter received from correspond
emit It comes from boy who is evidently
taking an intelligent view of things as they
exist, and who will probably be leader
among the people of the next generation
who do not merely guess at things.
MARsHALLvnLE, MACON Co., GA, !
FEB. 8, 1899. {
Professor J. P. STEELE.
I am a country boy, and have been
watching with decided interest the devil
riding horse controversy for some time
going through the Fort Worth GAZETTE.
| think the insects so much abused by some
of your correspondents are the most useful
insects we have, especially to the farmer.
Last year 1 saw two of them operating on a
nest of caterpillars in our apple orchard,
and they were certainly making sad havoc
for the worms And have also seen them
in the cotton field eating cotton worms by
the dozen.
And, furthermore, don't think there IS
the least danger in them, or the least harm
to be apprehended from them in any way.
1 have carried them about in my hands,
and have even allowed them to Chamber
over my face without sustaining the slight
est injury. l have further seen cats catch
and eat them as they often do grasshoppers
without any bad effects whatever.
l last summer had a pet devils riding
horse, that 1 fed regularly on flies, which
he seemed to enjoy hugely; indeed, he be-
came so familiar that he appeared to know
me when l came about, and to show from
his actions that he was expecting his feed.
JOHN c. BRYAN.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-21
sEED ARTICHoKEs.

Ihave been a reader of your very valua-
bic paper for number of years, and of late
have seen much in it relative to the Jerusa-
lem artichoke as j crop for Texas. but
none Of your people seem to know where TO
OBTAIN seed. Many Of our Northern seeds
men keep the tubers for sale. will write
to some of them to advertise their stock in
TIE GAZETTE. as am satisfied from what
I see in your paper that it would be a great
accommodation TO your patrons, and, at the
same time, good thing for Texas.
Wautoma, Wis. ). NJ. OLDs.
There is now a wonderful demand in
Texas for seed Jerusalem artichokes, hence
the house that would put the article on our
markets at reasonable figures. without de-
lay. would secure fine patronage.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-21
WANTS AFARM IN TEXAS.

am regular and much pleased reader
OF the Fort Worth GAZETTE, and am
specially struck by the way the paper
booms Texas Your paper has made me
think OF quitting Ohio and moving down to
the Lone Star state. All my life l have
worked Oh a farm, and like the farm
better than anything else. am ex-
pecting to have farm Of
my own some day, and so
write to you for some pointers as TO where
pushing young man might, in your state,
get land for farm on easy terms. / have
plenty of friends who viii follow ME
should be able to meet with success in
Texas. Please give me the price of good
farm lands around Fort Worth, and also let
me know something of the prices paid for
frst-c!ass farm labor. b. BoLANDER.
Waits, Scioto County, Ohio.
You are just little mistaken in your no
ton that THE GAZETTE blooms" Texas.
Booming" in the present acceptation of
the word, means nothing more nor less
than making advantageous things appear
big things without much regard to whether
they are really big things or otherwise. In
other words, booming is a species of ad-
vertising running more or less into ex-
aggeration. The GAZETTE does not deal in
that character of goods relative TO Texas,
but simply tells the plain facts as they
exist. If these plain facts make Texas at
tractive, then The GAZETTE has accom-
plished its object, and can feel that it has
not only wrought good work for the state
in which it is published, but also for the
people who have been attracted hither by
the facts set forth.
As to the first part of your inquiry we
would state that you could scarcely so
amiss, in Texas, for good farm lands to be
had on easy terms. Your best plan would
be TO come down, get acquainted aud see
for yourself. Once acquainted with our
people, and having their confidence, you
might make almost any arrangements de-
sired. No people on earth are more liberal
than are Texans when they have found out
that the man asking fagors Of them is the
right kind of man.
We could not give you the price of good
farm lands about Fort Worth, governing in
every case, as location cuts more or less Of
figure, always. The variation is more due
to location than to anything else, for all our
lands are good. We might give you some
idea by stating that farm lands as good as
the world ever knew, may be had in Tar
rant county at from IS to $40 per acre.
The price Of farm labor is another thing
that we cannot get at definitely. as a good
deal depends upon the man and what he is
expected to do. We may add, however,
that the prices of farm labor rule considera-
bly, higher here than they do in Ohio.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-21
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

This department is devoted 10 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 postofnee
address in addition TO any such signature as
Subscriber or "A. c. d. " not for publica lion
If against the will OF the writer but &c admit
Of direct communication should such thing
be deemed necessary. Address as directed st
head OF this page.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-21
rouAToEs ny IRRIeATIoN.

Every family having rod square Of
spare ground IN the back yard, and plenty
Of water, may raise all the tomatoes re-
CURED for family use at home. I will re-
late my experience of last summer, BY
which a dry summer gave me an ample
supply OF nice and fresh tomatoes the en-
tire season.
I had enc row on plat of ground rod
in length and half rod IN width, contain
ing six plants. The variety was, l think,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-21
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

Ihave recently seen in TIE GAZETTE two
articles on sorghum, and one OF the writers
asks If frost bitten sorghum is Injurious to
stock. For answer 70 this inquiry would
give my own experience.
Two years ago I had nice patch Of
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-21

some hints 70 our lady readers on how to
manage farm
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-21
MASr1s CAROLINA.

For some months past this department OF
TEE GAZETTE has been allowing its CORE
spondents full scope in their discussion OF
an insect they have been pleased TO call
"the devils riding horse" We have taken
no part in the discussion, merely joking
them back occasionally, and permitting
them to have their own way m the case.
Most Of our correspondents engaged in
this controversy have clearly shown that
the insect meant by them was one known
to science as Mantis carolina. Feeling that
the affair has now gone about as far as it
could go and still remain of general interest,
we have decided to this week bring the dis
cussion to a close by giving in full the nat
ural history, ETC., of Mantis carolina, ac-
companied with illustrations 10 show ex-
actly what insect we are meaning The
cuts were made expressly for TIE GA
zErrE, and are entirely correct. No CORE
spondent need write US in opposition to
what we are about to advance, for we shall
give simply the plain facts as established
by the very best science Of the country.
If you look about among your rose bushes
or shrubbery you will be apt to find some
thing you will recognize by our engraving
marked figure l. 1t is batch Of eggs OF
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-21

Mantis carolina. About the
last of April, in North Texas,
that queer batch of eggs
will hatch out a hundred or
so of minute "devil's riding
horses" They will grow
rapidly, and late in summer
will appear as in figure 2, a
being the female and b the
male. In this engraving the
insects are shown at what
might be termed an average
isize, though in the lower
A.outh one often sees them
considerably larger. They
WY more or less in shade
of'color from light green to
brownish.
While watching for its
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-21

TOBACCO ON THE BLACK LANDS.
was much interested in your articls On
tobacco culture, appearing in LAT veek5
GAZETTE, but you appear to have the ED
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-09-29
FARMERS ALARMED.
The Alliance Oficially Protests Against
State Bank Currency.

The Alliance Oficially Protests Against
State Bank Currency.
One of the interesting features of the
campaign to the unprejudiced observer
is the curious recollections aroused in
the minds of the men of mature years
by the proposition of the Democrats to
return to the use of state bank currency.
Those who remember its inconvenience
and the losses occasioned by its use be-
fore the present system Of currency
came into use are particularly alarmed
at the proposition to restore it. This is
especially true of the farmers, who are
naturally most liable to be affected by
the circulation of currency of uncertain
values. President Livingston, of the
New York Farmers Alliance, in letter
on this subject says:
Older men must look with dread upon
this midnight madness movement to re-
peal the state bank tax if they will recall
the condition of the currency prior to
the war, when the losses by counter
feits, broken banks and discounts were
appalling, and when many Of the state
banks were started with the precon-
ceived purpose Of swindling the COM
munity by irresponsible and unscrupu-
lous Wall street adventures, from
whose Offices the bills were issued, the
nominal location of the banks being
fixed at remote and obscure points, diff
cult of access, to prevent the presenta-
ton of such issues for redemption. In
states whose laws required no security
for bill holders or depositors the moneys
or customers used for speculative pur-
poses were frequently lost or stolen,
whereby whole communities were robbed
without redress. The banks issues were
by secret arrangements with exchange
Offices usually paid out to laborers and
operatives, in whose hands they fire.
quently became useless.
The whole country was deluged with
such 30 called money during flush times
in Alabama and the south and west.
This state currency, known by the at
tractive names of "Red Dog" Red
Jack" wildcat" "Hard Shell, "Safe-
ty Fund, ""Stock Secured" and other
styles as plentifully issued, the most in
discreet that ever existed, and had none
of the elements of safety, convenience,
economy and good business manage
ment. As sequence it soon brought
the country to the verge of ruin. Losses
and shaves, counterfeits and broken
banks were calamities of daily occur
renee with such a currency. To return
to it would be worse than idiotic. It
would be crime against the public. It
is difficult for those who do not remem-
Der the old system, SO fruitful in panics
and losses, to appreciate the convenience
and safety of the national bank circula-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-09-29
EOREIGN.

The Hawaiian government has adopted
Dew tariff schedule to take the place of
the tariff of 1878.
The cattle pest has spread to thirty
four farms in Meckleburg and is causing
widespread mortality.
A society is said to exist in China
whose object is the assassination of the
emperor of that country.
The Tageblatt states that the Ger
man government has decided to have q
worlds fair in Berlin in 1897.
The London Daily Telegraph states
that Alfred Rothschild will be one Of
the English delegates to the interna-
tional monetary conference.
The British consul at Mozambique has
reported to the foreign Office the drown
ing of two Englishmen and Eve Ger
mans at the mouth of the River Mona
on July Q.
The town council of Bristol, England,
has approved plan for building docks
for the transatlantic trade. The docks
will cost LOCO, 900 pounds and will be
built to accommodate the largest steam
ers.
The papal consistory will be postponed
for two months on account of the
cholera endemic. It is renorted that
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-09-29
A MASTER MIND.
SENATOR JUSTIN S. MORRILL, ON THE
TARIFF.

The Veteran Statesman Gives a Clear
Expression of Views on This Most I'm
portant Feature of the Campaign.
Hon. Justin S. Morrill,, the author of
the tariff of 1851 and perhaps the best
posted on that subject of all our United
States senator's save Aldrich, of Rhode
Island, has contributed to the Septem-
Der number of The North American Re-
view an admirable history Of the efforts
of the Democrats to gravitate toward
free trade.
For the last generation the melancholy
history of the party has been so equiv
ocal and desperate, and the platform
botchery of-its leaders so sterile of pop
ular favor, that they are now ready to
renounce all former pretensions of love
for the men of home industries, as well
as all regard for the general welfare of
our native land. They would even offer
unconditional free trade to our great
British rival rather than reciprocity to
the South American republics.
The Democratic party Of the north
purchases its alliance with the sssolid
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-09-29
"Peck's Bad Boy Did It."
Peck's Omcial Figures,

Here is Commissioner Peck's official
statement as to the effect produced by
the Mckinley law on labor in New York
state:
He finds that in the wholesale manu-
factories of this state the wages paid
for the year ending Aug. 81, 1891.
showed an increase over the wages paid
during the year ending Aug. 81, 1890, of
Sc, 377, $500.
He finds that the net increase of pro-
duction in the same time was $31 ,3l5,-
130.6S.
He finds that of sixty-seven industries
investigated n per cent. show an in
crease in wages or production, Oh both.
He finds that the number of individ-
ual increases of wages in these indus
tries reported for the year ending Aug
81, 1891, was S9,717.
He finds that the average increase in
the wages of the entire 2S5 900 employ
ees represented was $s3. II, while in fifty
one Of the trades represented the aver
age increase in wages per individual
was 1896.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-09-29
knights of Pythias.

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 2s.-The Twen-
tieth annual session of the Grand Lodge
Knights of Pythias of Minnesota, is
being held in Masonic temple. The ses-
sion of the grand lodge this year will be
attended by no public display. The
past year has been prosperous for the
order. Twenty-one new lodges have
been organized, two have been revived
and thirteen hundred new members
have been added to the rolls. The
grand chancellor, Fred E. Wheaton,
has paid an official visit to every lodge
in the state. travelling over twenty
thousand miles. Fully $50 members of
the grand lodge are here.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-09-29
An Additional Reward.

ST. PAUL, Sept. 27.-An additional re-
ward of $1,000 is offered by Governor
Merriam for the apprehension of Thomas
Dalton, alias Thomas Lewis, who is
wanted for the murder of John McCaf-
ferry at La Prairie, Mimi, Aug. 81 last.
The fugitive is noted desperate, and
McCaffery is said to be the third man he
has killed. The murder was the result
of quarrel over woman. Dalton is
described as feet II inches in height,
bullet head, bulldog face, bull neck,
dark complexion, crooked nose, trifle
pug, hazel eyes, scar on back of head
and one on upper lip, low forehead.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-09-29
Outbreaks Rewarded.

PIERRE, s. D., Sept. 26.-James Cava-
naugh, an Indian trader on the Chey-
enne river, reports runners from the
Bad Lands working among the Indians
on Cherry creek, in an attempt to work
up another such an outbreak as that of
two years ago, which ended at Wounded
Knee. Their present desire is caused by
the encouragement given them by the
government after their former break.
When it was ended, the Indians, many
of whom owned no property except the
ponies they rode, presented claims for
losses which were paid and in addition
their rations were increased, and they
consider they were rewarded rather than
punished for their devilment.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-09-29
CHOLERA ONCE MORE.

The Plague Again Breaks Out on Board q
GUARANTEED Vessel.
QUARANTINE, s. l., Sept 27.-The de-
velopment of cholera on board the steam
ship Bohemia, the last but one of the
Hamburg ships left in the lower bay,
caused stir among the health depart
ment officials. One man and four chill
dren were transferred from the vessel to
Swinburne Island during the night and
one of them, Stanislaus Michsarich,
aged 8, died in the morning. Doctors
Jenkins and Sternberg said that the five
cases aboard are certainly cholera. The
Bohemia's passengers will be taken off
the ship and placed on Hoffman Island.