The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-07-21

and half pounds of milk. The milk
given during the last seven days of
the test weighed 100 pounds and 7
ounces, and produced q pounds and
IL ounces; or one pound Of butter
from less than seven pounds of milk.
This is wonderful performance and
will do much to confirm the reputa.
ton of the Jersey as the best butter
machine yet invented.
FARM EXHIBITS AT STATE FAIR.
The new managers of the Texas
State Fair show greater apprecia-
ton of agricultural exhibits than did
their predecessors. They offer in
premiums the sum of $1,000 for COL
lective farm exhibits ranging from
1925 the highest to $75 the lowest.
These exhibits may be composed of
everything or anything grown or
manufactured on the farm. AS hint
to intending exhibitors tho secretary,
G. A. Cour, has prepared q list of arti-
Giles that should, or may be found
on most we'll ordered farms
and will furnish it on application.
Those who had the fortune to see DR..
Stalls exhibit at the fair two years
ago, which Won the Texas Farm and
Ranch premium, will know the capa-
bilities of farm in the hands of q
farmer worthy of that title.
A mere enumeration IF products
which can be successfully and profita-
bly, grown in this favored section
would fill column, and it Is to DO
hoped that several of our spirited and
patriotic farmers will see that our dis
trio is represented in the next compe-
tition. Any one wanting further in.
formation should apply at once to the
secretary.
THE STEEL-RIBBED HORSE.
II seemed a few years since that
nothing was of much less interest to
the farmer than the bicycle, but the
time has come when it must be fig
ured on as of very considerable in
terest to the farmers as other people.
Not only, says the National Stock"
man and Farmer, is the little ma
chine finding it's way into every vii
lage and hamlet in the land, and the
vehicle of tens of thousand of people
who never owned vehicles before, but it
really promises to in some degree affect
the income of the farmer of the future.
Anyone who is about the cities these
days and notices the wonderful
growth of the use of the bicycle in
centers of population, must be impress
ed with the fact that it is likely to
interfere in few years with the sale
of saddle horses for city use. A great
many people who could by special
strain barely afford to keep horses in
the cities are now allowing their sta
bles to stand empty, and are using
the innocent little wheel instead.
This does not mean that horse breed.
ing is to be rendered Improbable but
it certainly does mean that in one di-
rection at least the sale of horses is
liable to meet with very material cur
tailment.
FARMERS FRIENDS.
The National Union Cordage COM
pany, says the Rural New Yorker, is
the alias under which the National
COrdage Trust masquerades, and its
disguise has been so effective that ii
has taken in even some of the leaders
of the Farmers Alliance. True, these
are the organizations business or pur.
chasing agents in the various states
and there is strong evidence that they
have been willingly deceived "for a
consideration The trust has for
some time been posing as the farm,
er's FRIEND" while charging him ex
tortionate prices for binder Irvine and
other supplies. The Alliance agents
act as middlemen in the employment
of tie trust at an annual salary Of
from $1,000 to $4,000 apiece in addition
to commissions on the amounts they
can induce the farmers to purchase
Some of the honestest or most sensa
tive of them have lately severed the
disgraceful connection, but most o.
the members of the National
Business Agents association are
still surreptitiously drawing money
from the corruption fund" of one Of
the most pernicious trusts in the
country, while the Alliance, their o.
tensible employer, is laundering
everywhere against the greed extor.
ton and atrocity of trusts in general
The gullibility of farmers has be.
come almost prOverbial but they are
generally swindled by petty rascals
belonging to other classes here, how
ever, they are duped by their own
agents and monstrous monopoly.
THE ONE HORSE FARMER.
The New York Herald, though
metropolitan journal and not gener-
ally recognized as an agricultural
authority, sometimes treats of things
buccolic and hits the mark; as in its
description of the one horse farmer,
The picture will be recognized in the
sunny south as we'll as in the frigid
north. We are told that the one
horse farmer has lifelong ambition
to gain a reputation for wearing a
dirty shirt.
He will alarm the neighborhood
by getting up two hours be-
fore day, and sit around and
not go to work till after sun up.
He will ride around week looking
for So hog.
He will complain of hard times and
then tear his pants climbing fence
where gate ought to be.
He will pay So for new bride and
let the calf chew it to pieces before
Sunday.
He will get all the neighbors to help
in getting cow out of bog, then let
her diefor want of att ention.
Stock will get in and destroy his