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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-07-05

What college crew would attempt to
win boat race with half of their oars
men rowing in one direction and the
other half in the other direction? And
yet we expect to secure commerce by
putting bounties ON chipping to encour-
age trade while we have taxes and du-
ties on imports and shipping to restrict
trade. Verify some of our statesmen are
pulling at their boot straps and wonder
ing Why they don't lift themselves.
Not long ago a friend asked the
Rev. DIR. Wild, once mentioned as a
possible successor to Mr.. Beecher.
why he went to Toronto. at might
say, " he replied, that it was call
from God, but the real fact is I am
paid s., 900 a year more than 1 was
getting. New York Tribune.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-07-05

What the Democrats need in this
county now, is organization.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31
FAvoRs IRRIGArIoN.

Professor J. P. STEELE, the able agricultu-
raj editor of the Fort Worth GAZETTE. is a
firm believer in the value of irrigation for
Southern farmers, especially Tor truck
farming. He has published several
lengthy but very timely and valuable ar
ticles on the subject. The Cultivator has
long been an earnest advocate of terracing,
ditching and irrigation, with proper irriga-
ton of the soil fer successful farming
Southern CultiTator, Atlanta, Ga.
We must come to it In times when the
farmer could get along after way on
half crop, irrigation did not loom up as an
absolute necessity, but those times have
now gone TO the past. The farmer, as well
as the man in any other line of business,
must get out OF that business all there is in
it to make him irst-class success, and it
is utterly impossible for him TO get the full
est returns in his farm operations every
time, unless he is able TO control the water
supply Of crops. There must be no short
age from drouths in these modern days Of
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31
BEST PICTURE OF TEXAS.

The editor of the Gainesville Post says
| the very best advertisement for Texas, to
show at the Columbian exposition, or any,
where else, for that matter, would be true
picture, mot Imaginary of Texas husband
men curing their own pork, grinding their
own grain and cane, tanning their own cow
hides and making the cotton crop-only
secondary but an important consideration
their surplus. The ground work of such q
picture Ito be entirely true), can be created,
our contemporary thinks, alone by individ-
ual effort on the part of Texans tilling
Texas soils. No meetings or conventions
could bring it about, and no looking afar off
for the things that rest in their own indi-
vidual hanus can contribute anything tc-
wards it.
We fully endorse this, though we would
suggest slight amendment That amend
ment would leave cotton entirely out of the
programme, filing its place with ''any sur
plus crop that, under existing local circum-
stances, pays the husbandman the best re-
turns. If cotton be that crop, then let it
be cotton; if wheat be that crop, then let 1t
be wheat; if barley be that crop, then Let
it be barley; if hogs be that crop, then let
it be hogs; if cattle be that crop, then let it
be cattle; if sheep be that crop, then let it
be sheep; if horses be that crop, then let it
be horses, and so on through any length of
list that might be proposed. The surplus
crop must be LEFT wholly with the indi-
vidual, and when the individual settles down
to it as the best paying surplus that he could
possibly produce, we shall step into an era
of prosperity for Texas not now so much
as dreamed Of by the philosophy of such
inls-slingers as are now exhausting their
minute energies in opposition to any partic-
ular crop thaat our people are attempting to
raise.
The first great principle in farming is for
the farmer to feed himself. The next is to
make money. If he is to make money it
would be simply business and good sense
for him to set his plans for making it out,of
the product calculated to yield him the most
of it.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31

should be deeply broken and thoroughly
pulverized in either case. Sowing in fall
gives US a good winter pasture, and the
pasturing appears to work no damage TO
/ the grain yield. The quantity of seed sown
to the acre must be governed largely by the
character of the land. On good, rich land
from two to two and a half bushels TO the
acre is enough, but on thin lands more seed
VIII be required. The stand will depend
mainly on the quantity of seed sown, as
barley does not tiller to such an extent as
does wheat. This estimate is for broad
casting. Sown with drill so much seed
would not be necessary.
Great care should be exercised in the Sc
lection Of seed barley, else one may not get
a safe article. If it has dark reddish
color it is apt to be more or less damaged
GooS seed should be of pale hue, lively
and uniform.
Barley is both potash and phosphate
plant, according to Professor Killebrew,
therefore our prairie lands of Texas are
well adapted to its growth. It is crop
that yields largely to the acre. In his
ACPCAb III LOU elo COMMISSIONER VI ds5El-
culture Mr.. L. L. Foster puts down the
average yield of barley per acre in Texas as
almost double that of wheat, and consider
ably above the average yield for the entire
United States.
The United States department of agri-
culture reports the six-rowed barley as the
only variety grown in Texas, as yet. The
average yield is commonly put at about
forty bushels to the acre-entirely above
the average Of the other barley growing
states thrown together
These facts ought to carry something of
interest for parties who, making a run over
Texas out of the barley season. and not sec
ing the crop, conclude that Texans know
nothing of barley, and therefore ought to
have instructions relative to growing ii.
Already Texas ranks as q barley state to
some extent, and in point of yield stands
entirely ahead of all averages. outside of
her boundaries. Some Texans may not
know how to grow barley, but once give
them to understand that there is money in
the crop and most of them will soon learn
the art. The Texan who knows how to
grow wheat in Texas viii not find himself
much off 50 far as relates to growing barley
in Texas
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31
THE FARM GARDEN.

Farm and Ranch, that best of strictly
agricultural publications produced in Texas,
seems to be entirely with US in what we
have from time to time been saying with
reference to the Importance of a good
| kitchen garden on the farm. An editorial
in a late issue of that paper says ga good
! garden is half living" though the quota
ton could not, in all probability, be traced
to its real author, even by the librarian of
congress. But, regardless Of who the au-
thor m light be, the truth contained in the
saying could hardly escape recognition by
any good farmer or farmers wife. A good
garden is to the family living what a good
wife is to the farmer. 1t is the ''better
half" There can be no good living with
out good vegetable garden, and there
can be no good farming without a good
wife; for if farmer has a bad wife he
viii degenerate into a scrub, and if he has
no wife he was a scrub to begin with. a
good garden is more than half living. In
the city of New York there are more than
forty thousand people who eat only vegeta-
bic food, and they enjoy health and long
life far beyond the average, and are lacking
in no mental or physical equipment for the
duties of life
Fresh vegetables are not only necessities
of life, but Injuries also, and in both these
characters the cheapest the earth affords.
The poor in cities suffer for need of them,
but that Texas farmer who does not have
them upon his table every day in the year
is inexcusable. There is not day in all
the year when, with US, it is not thing
comparatively easy to have an abundance
Of vegetables 'fresh from the vine, - as we
say. Possibly the farmer might not be able
to have all the tender growths of summer
through all Of our so-called winter months,
but there are many vegetables that we can
grow all through winter, and with proper
preparation and care during the dryest
summer. The progressive Texas gardener
Of the present day is no respecter Of times
and seasons. All times, all seasons and
all sorts of weather are his. With 4 few
boards and well he can bid defiance to
drouth. and with few cold frames, with
movable covers of oiled muslin or glass, he
is Independent of the rudest blasts of
boreas. "And yet how many farmers,
even of those who are considered most ex-
pert in their nigh calling, have fresh vege-
tables all the year round9 Don't all an
swer at once. And don't say that it can't be
done, or that it is impracticabIe. The writer
of this paragraph knows better than that"
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31

progress-so long as there is, farming viii
remain business at which comparatively
few people can get rich. The Spectator or
other business man who encounters heavy
losses from time to time is very apt TO wind
up as failure. These losses TO the farmer
from periods of drouth are in the same
boat with losses to the Spectator Really,
when you come to think Of it. farming must
be the best business in the world, much as
is said to the contrary, for no other branch
of business could meet with such losses as
the farmer is ever and anon having thrust
upon him by drouths and yet continue to
live
OF course it is not possible for every man
to irrigate, owing to existing conditions
that may prevent it, but it would be posi-
bic for many to irrIgate who are not now
doing it. An such men will get at it, sooner
or later, and then we shall have q new or
der of things. There viii be built upon US
another class of ''bloated bond-holders,"
and the irrigating farmer viii be the fell
lows holding the bonds.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31
WHAT BIRD Is Ir9

On the Corts ranch, four miles north of
Palo Pinto, where am filling the Office of
superintendent, l captured large bird, ap-
parently OF a'domestic character, after hav-
ing broken its wing with Winchester It
is as white as the driven snow, with the
exception OF some very fine light-red specks
on the back or top of the head. Beak
black, aheGt five inches in length and an
inch and half in width. Has dark eyes, a
long and graceful neck, but no conspicuous
plumage. VIII measure about five feet
from tip of heak to end of tail, and about
eight and a half feet from tip to tip Of
wings. Legs short and black, with large,
webbed feet. The broken bone of its wing
is about the size of a mans first finger.
When fired upon it uttered an indescriba-
Die scream, and after second shot. settled
to the ground. where it made no ATTEMPT to
either free or defend itself 1t is still in
my possession, alive and apparently quite
at home- VIII you please name it through
The GAZETTE, and much oblige a sub
scriber2 H Fl. PoRTER.
Corts Ranch, Tex.
Your prisoner is evidently a swan of the
species known TO ornithologists as Cygnus
buccinator. Its common name is the ''trum-
peter swan" A very nice bird and easily
domesticated.
There is another species Of swan coca
sionally met with in this country on its mi
grations between the South and the North
called the ''whistling swan" and known to
science as Cygnus Americans, but your
excellent description makes Us quite certain
that you have the s'trumpeter.D
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31
THE SEED CORN QUESTION.

lam very thankful to you for information
given through the Agricultural Department
of THE GAZETTE on various subjects. Your
advice and writings have sound, Practical
ring about them Your plan OF locating an
orchard on a northward exposure, to pre-
vent premature growth, and hence killing
Of the blooms by late spring frosts, is a
novel one to NE, but seems entirely reason
able
VIII you permit me to ask you q question
or two for my own information and, no
doubt, Of interest to othersl Is it well to
plant, here, corn grown in either Kansas or
Missouri last seasonl Some people say
such seed corn has q marked advantage
over Texas grown corn, the first season
anyway, as it natures in a'shortar time. Is
white corn as valuable for stock feed as
yellow corn2 The distillers of whisky
claim that they can make a greater
per cent of whisky out of yellow corn than
out Of white corn. but since whisky IS
merely ] stimulant, is this any proof that
yellow corn would produce more pork or
beef than white corn
l am rom Denmark and have been in
this country only ten years Have never
had an hour OF English schooling. hence
ny letter may have serious faults IN gram
mar, CT Otherwise, still, if you consider it
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31
Fort Worth, Tex.
IT GAVE HIN TIE IIN=JAms.

Seeing in TIE GAZETTE SO much about
something called 1.-THE devils riding horse
leads me TO think of putting in my testi-
mony relative 20 the matter. have been
raised in Texas, and am now twenty-siX
years old. When was yet quite a small
boy l was told by my mother that the
devils riding horse was dangerous, and
that 1t would spit in my eyes and put them
out if it got fair chance. OF course this
instilled in me great fear of the devils
riding horse.
The first representative of the creature [
ever saw was in Grayson county, Texas,
and the sight of it caused me TO run two
miles on straight stretch, and lose my hat
in the run. 1 was herding sheep near
Whitesboro, whereI came across one of the
creatures. 1t at once caused my hair to
stand on end. Yes, was scared for GER
tain, having heard SO much about the dan
gerouS chaEacter of the insect. Of course
fully believed it TO be entirely as bad as
represented. I left the herd Of sheep on
the range and got up and got there, Eli,
and don't you forget it.
But since that eventful time 1 have cult
waited a more intimate acquaintance with
the devils riding horse / have handled
them and even dissected them, commencing
at the head and finally quartering them
out, and in all this venturesome operation,
supposed to be, l have found no lot of stun
about them looking like it might put out
anyone's eyes. have found them all very
nice in the course of my investigations,
with the exception of few bad teeth. I
would not stand bail for them against
catching alligatorS or other land fish, but l
don't think they are near as bad as repre-
scented, so far as relates to the eyes of men
and dogs.
1 furthermore consider them very useful
to farmers, for last fall found them busily
engaged in, to me, the pleasing occupation
Of eating cotton worms from my cotton
plants, and while they were at it, and was
looking on with chuckle, saw not one
attempting to scatter from the muzzlen at
my eyes. Upon this must conclude that
the much said against the devils riding
horse, by the hosts who know more than
they do know is all bosh. For several years
l have been making myself quite familiar
with the little ''heast," and in not one in
stance have I seen any splitting or ''ker-
spatting' from it, or anything else that l
could have objected to.
If | am to be witness in this case, IN
derstand that am biased 20 the side of the
defendant, and should be called upon as a
juror, don't forget it that 1 have formed
and expressed an opinion. In other Words
l am for the devils riding horse, and haze
decide to locate on my premises. If your
in spring than you can ac-
please consign a few carloads
of them to me. 1t STEED.S
Myrtle Springs, Texas.
Thus it begins to appear that thereafe
two sides even to this DEVILS riding horse
question,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31


never known It to spit in any persons
eyes, or evince any disposition to 10 so.
Possibly the devils riding horse'' that
has been so much abused By your cores
pondents is something elsa something
similar TO the Spanish broncho In that
event it might be classed as dangerous at
certain times, and under certain circum-
stances. Surely the 'sdeFil's riding horse''
of your correspondents cannot be the harm
less little insect we have here in Burleson
county going by that name. 1t must be
something capable of enduring an
immense amount of hard riding-if not it
VIII certainly go into history Us one OF the
extinct species, Judging from the way it
has been ridden by your correspondents
within the past few months. II II lives
through the ordeal and comes out minus
even so much as ''sit FAST on its back, I
would suggest that it be at once adopted
BY the state of Texas for the use of Texas
negro-riders and that class of white people
among US who cannot ride common horse
without hurting his back.
FARMERS DAUGHTER.
Clay Station, Tex.
1t is to be hoped that they viii ride the
creature to extinction before that carload
or two of him promised US in the spring get
to our pastures; that is, if he is anything
like SO bad as many OF our correspondents
are making him out to be.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31

| OF general interest, hope you will give It
| your attention. MARTYR LoDAL-
Gordon, Palo Pinto County, Tex
It is now the opinion of our leading au-
thorities that Southern grown seed corn,
well kept, is best for general crop in the
South. There was time when quite the
reverse was the prevailing opinion, but
tests made by several of our experiment
stations have pretty well upset the old
theory. OF course Northern corn might
mature earlier than Southern corn, but
since we here have all the season needed
for maturing, with much to spare early
maturing is Of no particular Importance
with US. The fact is, Northern corn
has been dwarfed into maturing
earlier, on account of shortness of
season at the North, therefore it
is never at its best, naturally. It is a law
of nature to adapt everything to natural
local conditions; this being the case, it is
but reasonable to suppose that no small de-
gree of the energies Of any crep grown from
Northern seed would be expended in bring
ing aboutfhat adaptation. The nearer we
can get crop to being naturally at home
where grown, the better will be the results.
This Northern seed theory once prevailed
with reference to Irish potatoes, but now
no truck farmer of the great truck-farming
regions east of the Mississippi river viii
think of planting Northern grown seed
potatoes if he can get Southern grown seed.
It is the same in the case of fruit-trees;
Northern grown trees are not werth the
planting, while Southern grown trees. en-
tirely acclimated, are all right.
Agricultural scientists are of the opinion
that yellow corn will feed further than
white corn. OF the two varieties yellow
corn is considerably the heaviest yet from
some cause or other it is not near so much
raised in the middle tier of corn states as is
white corn. In the northern tier of
corn states it is extensively raised
because of the fact that it is usually
earlier than white corn, thus calling
for shorter season to reach maturity. We
think white corn yields more to the acre
than yellow corn, generally speaking, and
this, we suppose, is why white corn is
most generally raised.
You have no cause for explanation with
reference to your Ietters-Dot few who
have passed all the days of their youth in
English schools do not write near so well. |
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31
ARTICHOKEs FOR SEED.

l have read number of articles in The
GAZETTE about the Jerusalem artichOke as
a feed for hogs and other stock. The repre-
sent2tions are so fattering that they have
given me the artichoke fever, and am now
very anxious to learn where can get the
tilbers TO use as seed in starting an arti-
choke field We Panhandle settlers are
sadly In need Of some kind of good hog
pasture II you can give ne the desired
information l viii accept it as q high favor.
Amarillo, Tex GEORGE T. Parker.
AT least 500 letters similar to the above
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

This department is devoted to answering
such questions as may De asked by our sub
scribers, which may be OF general information
Inquiries Of personal character that require an
swer by mail should always have stamp in
closed. Please give full name and postofice
address in addition to any such signature as
Subscriber, or "A G. D." not for publication,
If against the will OF the writer, but to admit of
direct communication should such q thing be
deemed necessary. Address as directed at head
OF this page,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31
a couNrRY aIRL nEFEsns.

lam country girl, farmers daughter,
and regular reader of TIE GAZETTE, and
would like 20 say 2 few words in defence
OF that harmless insect called ''the devils
riding horse" IhaTe been familiar with it
ali my life, and consider it not only entirely
harmless. but at the same time, a very use
ful little creature. l see it On the rose
bushes and on the flower beds, AID never
think Of harTnins it / end it engaged in
devouring all the insects it can find on the
rose bushes and fewer beds, and therefore
know that it IS doing me service Have
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31
OSHKOSH TO FORT WORTH.

For the past three months I have re-
ceived the Fort Worth WEEKLY GAZETTE,
and have been much interested in the in
formation relative to Texas products and
Texas capabilities offered through the agri-
cultural department of the paper. But,
while much may be gained in this way, an
outsider, especially in the far North, as is
my case, would like to have more accurate
information as to the climate, rainfall, ETC.,
of Tarrant county. find no statistics
given either in The GAZETTE or in govern
ment reports, SO I address you now with
regard to the voluntary weather service.
In the state normal school Of
this city there is a voluntary station
and during the summer vacation, and at
other times in the absence of the regular
observer, l take observations and receive
the government reports. So far as | am
able to learn there is no voluntary station
IN Iarrant county, and i am certain that
there is none at Fort Worth. / would sug-
gest the establishment of such a station in
your city. Here follows along set of closely
type written instructions as to how we
might manage to secure such station, how
it would have to be managed, etc.-AG.
Ed Possibly the question discussed here
may have been considered by yourself at
some previous time and rejected.
It's the desire of the government that at
least one station be established in leach
county, and I believe, as | said before, that
there is none in Tarrant
ALBERT S. ALBER.
Oshkosh, Wis, State Normal School.
We accept the foregoing as veritable
compliment to Fort Worth, coming, as it
does, from Oshkosh. Everybody reading
Peck's Sun, published at Milwaukee has
heard of Oshkosh through funny punches
ut the short ribs of rival town. OF course
the Sun was not attempting to advertise
Oshkosh, but Oshkosh has grown famous
all the same-such is the way newspapers
do it. Notoriety is big card, nowadays,
you know, hence our keen appre-
citation of the compliments. But our
well meaning Oshkosh correspondent
is just little OF in his ideas of the position
occupied by probably Texas in general, and
certainly by Tarrant county in particular
relative to the lines of civilization, and to
get him right in the matter we take the
liberty of mailing to his address some
copies of the Daily GAZETTE containing the
diurnai reports of our very efficient United
States signal officer at Fort Worth
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31
MEAT MANUFACTURING.

This is about as good term for it as
could be employed, for that leader among
our agricultural publications, the Southern
Cultivator, Atlanta, Ga, styles meat a
manufactured product, for the making of
which large amount of raw material is re-
quirsA The manufacture of meat is a