The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-09-29

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convert unbelievers into the true
faith. He says: Don't adopt and
cling to the old fogy, widowed idea
that fine fowls are unhealthy and diff
ficult to rear. This matter has been
tested thoroughly and impartially,
and the very opposite found to be the
case. No good reason can be assigned
why thoroughbreds are more subject
to disease than common stockton the
contrary, there are many things to
prove they are less liable to contract
the numerous ills which poultry is
heir to.
The fact that all good breeders mate
only their strongest and best speci-
not fail to impart health
and vigor to the offspring.
The barn yard stock intermingle from
year to year; the largest and best de-
veloped are usually killed when young
for table use, or rushed off to market,
and only those kept for breeding
which would fail to command good
prices. 1t is the reverse with fine
poultry, for only the very best speci-
mems are kept for breeding, while the
inferior birds are "culled" and sold in
the markets or consumed at home.
You are decidedly wrong when } ou
assert that the pure breeds require
more time and care than the devil
may-care dunghill. If one possesses
a fine horse, fine cow, dog or fowl, it
is but natural that some pride is en-
Unused by such possession, and the
wants of the creature are more closely
looked after, as consequence; and
this only argues more strongly in
favor of pure breeds; for their beauty
and elegance, to say nothing of their
superior qualities, forces Que to favor
them more than their inferior barn
yard scrubs.
ROOT PRUNING.
AS the season approaches for plant
ing of fruit trees it may not be amiss
to draw attention to Mr.. Stringfellow's
method of loot pruning before plant
ing. From the beginning of time even
until about year ago fruit tree plant
ers were under the belief that the
more roots young tree had at the
time of planting the better it's chance
of life and rapid growth. But many
cherished beliefs have to give way be-
fore the irresistible logic of facts; and
it may be that the rootless tree will
take the place of its time honored an
cestor.
Mr.. Stringfellow has made himself
a 70
and owns q large and profitable orch
ard of LIE Comics in Galveston county.
In the course of his experiments he
struck the idea that the roots which
supplied life to the young tree in the
nursery row were of no use to it, but a
positive injury. when the tree was
transplanted.
To test the value of his theory he
took number of trees as nearly iden-
tical in character as possible, these
were divided into two lots, and plant
ed under identical conditions, with
the exception of their roots. The one
lot were left with their full compli-
ment of root, as they had grown, and
the other had the roots removed till
only short stubs about an inch long
remained. 1t was found that the
pruned trees made much better
growth than the others and that the
former stood finer in the ground.
An examination proved that the
pruned trees had made most roots and
that they had gone downwards and
anchored the tree, while the few new
roots made by the other lot were near
the surface.
Mary tried this new plan, and re-
ports are made in every instance IA
vorable. Mr.. Hale, one of the largest
peach growers in the country, reports
that he planted 100000 peach trees in
Georgia and did not lose q single tree.
1t would certainly be we'll to give
the new plan trial.
FLOWERS.
By little management we can
have a succession of many popular
flowers all the winter which usually
bloom only during the summer. Ed
gar Sanders, the floral editor of the
Prairie Farmer, gives some useful
hints on the subject and says if you
desire flowers all winter ON geraniums,
heliotropes, fuchsins, and similar
plants, as ordinarily do duty out doors
in the flower garden in summer, don't
depend upon the same plants for win
ter you do for SUMMER. The best way
is to select young plants for the pur-
pose, and keep them in pots all the
summer. Say, if you now select nice,
thrifty young plants in three inch
pots, re-pot them into four or five inch
pots and they will be just the thing
for winter. AS flowers are no object
on these in the summer, keep them
picked off and encourage the plant to
make nice, stocky, compact plants.
To aid this give every p ant an abun-
dance of room 40 that they have light
and air all around them. Such plants
plunged to half their depth in the oil
will want but little attention, save an
occasional watering and pinching of
shoots where there is uneven growth,
plants grown in this way will be
ready to flower freshly by fall and
continue all winter, while those lifted
up out of the garden will take half
the winter to recover themselves.
Nothing contributes more towards a sound di-
gestiOn than the use Of the genuine Angostura
Bitters, of DR.. J. G. Siegert & Sons. Ask your
druggist.