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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-07-08
ZELMA u THORP'S
DOUBLE UNITED
COMBINATION&SPECIALTY co.
viii exhibit their grand aggregation OF talei
IN

VIII exhibit their grand aggregation OF talent
in
Grangeville, about July II or IA
This grand Circus consists Of IS wagons Of
fine circus property. drawn by horses each.
Our Circus tent is a 100 foot round top, and
has a capacity to seat 2 500 persons.
Our specialties include:
The world-famous acrobat,
ANTONIO Won GORE.
The only dancing rival of Cyrene,
The great NJ Ollie SELARO.
KING HARDY & REYNOLDS triple-act trape-
fists.
MONS and NJ DIE CALANDRO, The wonder
ful wirewalkers.
MDLLE ALBANI. The Queen OF the Air.
ALBRUTUs & BARTRAM.
Twenty eight Jugglers, horizontal bar per
formers, tumblers, leapers, acrobats and eve
rything appertaining to a No. l First-Class
Circus.
pendent says is finer than Sells Bros. or any
band wagon travelling. In fact, this is the on
circus coming west this season.
Our advertising wagon will reach Grange
willie about July Z when Camas Prairie will be
covered with plenty of special pictorial circu,
paper, announcing dates of performance ant
details, etc.
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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-07-08
NOTICE FOR COM. TIMBER CULTURE

NOTICE FOR COM. TIMBER CULTURE
IN PROOF.
Thomas F. Nelson, T. c. No. 1884,
LAND OFFICE AT LEWISTON, IDAHO,
June H. 1892.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make final proof in support of his claim,
and that said proof will be made before the
Clerk OF the District Court, at Mt. Idaho, Idaho,
on Jdly %, 1892, viz:
THOMAS Il. NELSON
for the S El4 NEA, N1SSEL and NELSW
= Sec 81, 7 - N, X E. NJ.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon, and cultivation
of said land, viz:
Joseph Ingram, Lee Rhoads, Riley Rice and
Boon Khoads, all of Cottonwood Idaho
~ c. NJ. DAY. Register.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-07-08
NOTICE FOR PRE-EMpTIoN PROOF.

NOTICE FOR PRE-EMPTIoN PROOF.
George Rice, Pre-. D. s. No. 1914
LAND OFFICE AT LEWISTON, IDAHo.J
May 81. 1892.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make final proof IN support of his claim,
aud that said proof will be made before the
Clerk of The district Court AZ Mt. Idaho Idaho.
on July ID, 1892, viz:
GEORGE RICE,
for the n a S E "a s W 4SEl4SE ~ wv u
Sec II, Twp 30 N. r L, Il NJ
HI names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
Of said land, viz
james II. Rice. Lynn Smith. Edward King
and Thelbert Wall, all of Mt. Idaho Idaho.
$50 c. VI DAY Register.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-07-08

NOTICE FOR COM. TIMBER CULTURE.
Junia W Allen I. C. No 65S
LAND OFFICE AT LEWISTON IDAHo,I
May 81, 1892.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make final proof in support of his claim,
and that said proof win be made before the
Clerk of the District Court at Mt Idaho, Idaho.
on July r. 1892. viz:
JUNIA w. ALLEN,
for the Lots |. 2, and y 4 Sec 7, Twp 30
n, 10 L, NJ.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
Of said land, viz:
John c. Doss Harmon Won Bargen, Henry
Meyers and William Stevens, all of Grange.
vile, Idaho.
$50 c. NJ. DAY, Register.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-07-08
No "A

160 ACRES.-Deeded Land, three miles west
OF Grangeville. all under good fence with cross
fences, there being fully three miles of fence
on place. School house on corner Of land.
House, barn, shed. granary, etc. Orchard OF
100 bearing trees, consisting of apples. pears.
plums and prunes wind break of forest trees.
All of land except 30 acres has been in cultivs-
ton. The greater part of farm is seeded to
timothy; one of the best timothy ranches on
the Prairie. Coed water on every 40 acres.
PRICE, 5000, portion ON time.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-27

place" midway between Weatherford and
Fort We-siI, and will there submit to the
action Of the deadly fangsr if you will
risk the forty-two feet, and Gin the interest
OF scieuce) you two win wait after the per-
Torrance. TO see which dies first. And /
would suggest that you bring along jug of
good snake-bIte medicine-for the specta-
tors
I have promised my wife that I would not
sign my name to this, as she dislikes news
paper notoriety, though I had all along
secretly intended to sign her own name to
1t. believe had best not. SUAKEs.
Weatherford, Tex.
The proposition certainly looks like q
very fair one, but our suspicious are
aroused. Many people think both the fangs
and the claws are deadly, and we are afraid
you belong to that class individually. It
may be that you know TOO much about the
centipede g leave it safe fer one to risk too
nGen in such performance as proposed.
Who knows that you may not have per-
suaded the good lady into this thing,
and that you are striking after shortcut
way, not mentioned in the law books, for
getting a divorced as nobody wants a
divorce at our house, we think it would be
more to our taste for some other fellow to
take our place in the test, while we furnish
the jug of snakebite medicine-for the spec
tatorS
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-27
ArrER rae PRA1RIE DOGS.

Can you tell me through THE GAZETTE or
any way TO get hog cholera into the prairie
dogs2 If so, please let US know about it
through your paper, but please hold back
my name, signing S. Y. WELLS.
Merkel, Tex.
The United States department of agri-
culture is now innoculating hogs as au ex-
pertinent for keeping OF hog cholera, and
it is claimed by some that the
performance = imparts more hog chol-
era than it prevents. If this claim be
well founded, then you might have your
prairie dogs fixed up by employing the said
hog cholera commission to come over your
way and attend to them. If you would get
your prairie dogs all out and coop them
ready for the performance. we suppose the
commission would not charge much to come
over and iunoculate every one of them for
you. We know of no other way that we
would be willing to recommend.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-27
NO HARD TIMES IN nIs,N.

You have analyized my peat lands in the
| past, and therefore know what they con-
| tain. My land under such working as ]
| give it, makes fifty bushels of corn to the
acre without fertilizers, but l use lots of
elbow grease. l nhave been in the field
sixty-one years, and therefore begin to feel
| that l know something about how to make
corn. But wish to do something better
than usual this year, wish to get at least
| 100 bushels of corn to the acre. Heretofore
my crop has given me but one ear to the
stalk-I want more. My rows have been
four feet apart with two stalks in the hill
| three feet apart in the row. Last year 1
tried one field with two stalks in the hill
| and the hills only two feet apart IN the
row. 1t was still only one ear to the .staIk.
Please suggest some fertilizer for my
land that would increase the frultage. Do
you thing liberal application of acid phos-
plate would be advantageous Or, IL this
would not be BEST mention the fertilizer
that you think would be best tell me how
much of 1t to apply, and will at once wade
in. l am for big crop, as already stated
Do you think two stalks to the foot too
close under heavy fertilizing2 The land
does not need water, and it contains an
abundance of vegetable matter.
have been reading your valuable agri-
cultural writings, Professor STEELE, since
you first came to the lower South twenty
as long as can raise dollar to pay for the
paper. You are an agricultural editor after
my own heart. And l reckon the reading
has not hurt me any, for have corn of the
crop of 1890 enough to last me one week
longer, after which l shall begin feeding on
last years crop. lizard times'' is the cry
of all my neighbors here, but-well, no
matter about me. have bought but one
barrel of meat land meat of no other kind)
since 1873. In fact, 1 have bought nothing
that could be raised on Southern farm.
If you print this letter please correct
mistakes and excuse bad writing, as L am
nothing but poor old farmer Will re-
port on my corn crop in August and at
gathering time. S. B. WHATLEY.
Whatley, Clark County, Ala, March q,
1892.
For pushing lands good enough to pro-
duce fifty bushels of corn to the acre land
most of our Texas lands are good enough
for that under liberal application of
"elbow grease'D we would recommend
something about like the well-known Fur
man formula fertilizer, say 100 pounds
cotton seed meal, 100 pounds of acid
phosphate and fifty pounds kainit. Mix
well together and apply at the rate
of 500 pounds to the acre. In the case of
fairly good lands we would not apply in the
hill or planting furrow, as is absolutely
necessary in the case of extremely poor
lands, but would make our first application
at the first blowing. Bar of, scatter $50
pounds of the fertilizer to the acre in the
burrows on either side of the row, covering
it up by return Of the soil At the time
of '4aying by'' we would strew the other
$50 pounds on either side of the rows and
cover BY slight killing from the middles.
We say fslight hilling'' for the reason that
we are not in favor of much killing at the
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-27
FINE wArERNELoN.

notice that several varieties of water
melon are mentioned in The GAZETTE As
being OF superior quality have tried va
rious kinds, but the best and most delicious
melon have ever known is the Bradford.
have grown it for twenty years, and you
couldn't give me any other kind. But the
Bradford will not bear shipping so well as
the Georgia ''rattlesnake Melon" as the
rlnd Is very thin, but it grows about the
same in size as the ''rattlesnake, and like
1t IS longish melon In every other re-
spect save shipping qualities, il is the best
melon I have seen. E. j. LAKE.
Lindale. Tex.
Our correspondent is entirely correct as
to the deliciousness of the Bradford melon,
as we can testify from having raised it
often. In the gulf states east of the Mis-
sissippi it is mosu commonly called the
Crawford melon, though we have heard it
called the Bradford there by a few persons.
Does not grow so large as the s'rattlesnake,,
grows under favorable conditions, and IS
not quite the same shape, as the ''rattle-
snake" is q long melon, while the Brad
ford is more inclined to longish-oval Flesh
of the Bradford very light red, but little
darker than pink, is mellow and melting,
with no hard center, and has most delic-
ious flavor peculiar to its variety, rind thin
and very brittle, can never be used as a
shipping melon, but for home use or local
trade nothing, in our opinion, could equal
it. Is said to have originated in the state
of Durango, Mexico, and on this account is
sometimes called the Durango melon.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-27
ROSES aNn ERnIrs

You will remember that few weeks ago
l made few suggestions in regard to early
\ planting of roses and other flowers. then
! SAID freeze in March mad never failed in
the ten years that 1 had lived in Fort Worth.
| We have had our annual March cold snap
| Now for practical results, as we have the
matter before US. The tender plants have
| frozen, as have young shoots of the roses.
l shall now put out my roses and other
| flowers, as the danger period has passed.
l also stated that the fruit grower would
lose much of his crop. This is surely so.
Late or July and August peaches are nearly
| all killed, as are Kelsey plums, some april
cots and pears. Early peaches, such as
Alexander, Governor Garland and Hale's
Early are not hurt. The Russian apricot is
all right, and now in full bloom. The
ounce is all right, although many of the
presents 4 puzzle 4 portion of a tree
have in my yard was partly in bloom and
all full bloom is dead, but the buds that
were unopened were not hurt and are now
opening very nicely. This is also the case
with Chinese cling peach have. As
result early peaches are about the only
fruit that we viii have worthy of mention.
Fort Worth, Tex. j. G. MARTIN.
That we are still to have some fruit,
after all, is certainly very gratifying news,
for the general superstition has it that all
was killed hereabouts. And this will be
good season for studying our fruits as to
hardness. The ordeal was most severe
one, and species or varieties that passed
through it with any fruit at all would GER
sainly do to trust. Such an ordeal seldom
occurs in North Texas. We may have
weather as cold at the same season of the
year, but in this instance vegetation was
being rapidly pushed by previous warm
weather, when the freeze came on, and the
freeze had been preceded by rain, which
left everything as unfavorable for the fruit
as it could possibly have been left. Would
like to hear from other sections as to what
species or varieties got through, if any.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-27
DON'T FEED HOGS TOO LONG.

1t is now settled fact that corn is not a
profitable hog feed save for week or so at
the finishing up for market, and even then
it might be dispensed with. Hogs are grass
or vegetable-eating animals, and viii not do
their best without food of this cha racter
You must make your hog with something
of a vegetable character, and then if you
want to put lots of fat on him, you may
contribute to that attainment by stuffng
him for time with grain. But the ex-
cessively fat hog is rapidly becoming a
thing of the past-the market don't want
him; and when there gets to be an ample
supply of real hogs mot mere hog-skins
stuffed with lard), the market will no
hanger take him.
In paper to the Indiana Farmer, Mr.. H.
F. McMahan says the corn-feeders have
supposed that they could get ten pounds of
pork on a bushel of corn, but it is now
known that they can get from thirteen to
fifteen pounds Of pork from other feeds
costing far less than bushel of corn, even
as corn sells in the so-called corn states.
Think for moment, he adds, what diff
ference this must make in the totals.
But, continues Mr.. McMahan, you must
feed your pigs-not hogs. The time TO
make profitable weight is while the hog is
yet pig. At an experiment made by the
Minnesota station it was shown that the
first 200 pounds was attained by the time
the pigs were eight months old, and were
produced at an expense of S1.S3 per hun
dred. The next hundred pounds costs
s.. and forty-seven days. feeding with ex-
cessively fat hogs showed a, gain Of two
pounds each at cost of nearly 8 per
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-27
TnE CASTOR o11 REAN aGA1x.

Last week we published in these columns
an article with reference to the castor oil
bean and its culture, based on paper by
Mr. R. w. Rindel, president of the Wealth
erford castor oil mill company. A CORE
spondent of THE GAZETTE has since inter-
viewed Mr.. Rindel and obtained from him
some additional facts which we now proceed
to give in substance:
In about the year 1854 Mr.. Rindel first
began studying the castor oil bean as a crop
for Texas, and also the possibility of estab-
fishing castor oil manufacturing industry
in our state. He had been engaged in the
drug business since 1870. Noticing the
great variation, at times, between the price
charged for castor oil and that paid for the
beans; or, in other words, that from Is to
1615 cents per pound was asked for the oil
through several years, while 81. 10 TO 81. 75
per bushel was all that the beans COM
manded, he came to the conclusion that the
manufacturers must be in combination. and
that the business must be a profitable one
These circumstances led him TO investigate
the industry with view of informing him
self relative to the profits of the crop to the
farmer and also the profits secured by the
manufacturer.
In the course of his Investigations of the
castor oil plant he found that it bore~seed
continuously, from the first fruiting until
cut OF by frost, and it occurred to him that
since the seasons were from four to eight
weeks longer in Texas than in the states
where ali the castor beans were being
raised-Kansas, Missouri and Illinois,
there ought to be correspondingly heavier
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-27

"laying by Of corn-bring up Just din
enough to cover the fertilizer nicely.
We think this course viii boom your
crops ahead to splendid results, and it viii
be the best application that could be made
to lands of the character that we know
yours to be. Two stalks in the Hill, thres
feet apart, would probably be near enough,
orone stalk in the hill eighteen inches
apart.
Would that the South had many more
such poor farmers'' Cas he puts it), like
Mr.. Whatley.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-27
WINTER AND SPRING WHEAT

1t is my understanding that wheat sown
in fall, (or, more properly speaking, sown
before the ground is frozen, or the season
for fall sowing closed), is called winter
wheat" and that wheat sown after the
opening of the ground in spring, is called
''spring wheat" L am, however, advised
that this is not the case, but that wheat
sown in spring is called "winter wheat"
while that sown in fall is called
"spring wheat" This, OF course,
does not refer in any way to
market names. Your advice on the sub
iect at an early date will very much oblige,
D. A. BARTON.
Fort Worth, Tex.
Your understanding is correct, IN
doubtedly. We sow winter wheat to grow
through the winter, and spring wheat to
grow in the spring. Professor J. B.
Killebrew says in his excellent work on
wheat, written while commissioner OF
agriculture for Tennessee, page 161: Sin
Tennessee spring wheats are almost IN
known, only one county in the state con-
sidering il of sufficient Importance to re-
port At the time for sewing spring wheat
our farmers are busily engaged in prepar-
ing their ground for the summer crop. On
the other hand, the winter wheat is put in
at a comparatively leisure time" And
again, page 1874: ga large portion Of
wheat is grown only during the warm
months, such as spring wheat"
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-27
DER WAR ON COTTON CULTURE


In our honest opinion there never was
anything more foolish than this constant
TRADE against cotton culture, being waged
by the people of the cotton states It is
simply 4 thing that exists everywhere
against the leading crop. At the North
where corn is the leading crop they are
fighting corn culture, and attempting to
discourage it in every way possible. In the
heretofore hog states they are fighting the
hog industry. In the old wheat states they
are fighting wheat In Kentucky, North
Carolina and Virginia they are lighting to-
bacco. In Florida they are fighting oranges.
And so il goes, and so it ever will 60. Some
man fails to make money out of the leading
crop of region, and thersupon sets up q
showl against that crop; others Of his ilk
catch the echo and respond. and thus the
refrain takes the semblance of being gen
eral. Those fellows who have made the
crop pay laugh in their sleeves and say
nothing, for the very good reason that they
have nothing 10 say, and as a consequence
we have but One side OF the case presented
for our consideration.
Of course something may happen that
win render any general crop improbable,
but is q mere happen TO be accepted as in
6icative of what must follow ever after
wardsl IF mans mule gets sick and dies
this year is that any good reason for having
nothing to do with mules in any year to fol-
low A sensible man will conclude that
the death of the mule was something hap
pening beyond his power 70 prevent, and so
viii 60 on with his mules-he may call it an
inexplcable dispensation of Providence,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-27
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.

This department is devoted to answering
such questions as may be asked NJ 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 full name and posto1iee
address in addition 70 any such signature as
Subscriber or a. G. D. not for publication
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, 1892-03-27
THE UMBRELLA CHINA TREE.

s'The umbrella China tree is well known
to have originated in Texas as a freak from
the old China tree, or pride Of India (N1elia
Azedarach). How or where in Texas it
originated is a lost ball, 'abut that it did
mitted.''
The above quotation is clipped from The
GAZETTE of February 25. I have often
heard my father, who came to Texas near
fifty years ago, state that the first umbrella
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-27

pound An men who have made careful
estimates say the cost of pork production
increases rapidly with the age and weight
of the. hog.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-27
Cathaline, Tex.

The artichokes came to hand promptly,
and are all right-thanks. You misunder-
stand US if you think we might not care to
bother with anything so good and Of so
much Importance to Texas as the Jerusa-
lem artichoke. They have been correctly
planted by US, and will possibly seed large
field some day.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-27
THE JERUsALEM ARrICHoKE,

I send you by mail some Jerusalem
artichokes. They were raised here in
Hemphill county by Pollard & Wood near
the town of Canadian on Canadian river.
The tubers sent are small. They remained
in the ground through the winter and
suppose hogs. had full sweep at them all
winter got one peck to plant this spring.
Mr.. Pollard sent me word that they were
hard TO find and dig, else he would have
supplied me with large quantity.
l was raised in North Carolina, and
know all about the Jerusalem artichoke.
We thought there that we could not at all
get along without the artichoke. I send
the white variety, and need not tell you
how to plant them, as you evidently know
All about them. If you do not care to
bother with them you can do as you please
as to who you give them to.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-27
AGRICULTU DEPARTMENT.
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The Irish standard., 1892-02-13


sance from France. The arrest 81 the
Rev William jackson, . clergyman offs
the Established Church, ID 1874, and his
trial, a year later, disclosed to the people
the intentions Of the French Govern
ment toward Ireland. In the Summer
OF 1895, Wolfe Tone landed on American
soil, sought the Flench Ambassador,
Citizen Adet, and never rested until be
secured letter to the French Govern
ment recommending his memorial on
Irish affairs. In May, 1896, Lord Ed
ward Fitzgerald and Arthur OConnor
were appointed agents of the society, to
negotiate treaty between the French
Government aud the Irish Republic.
Tone had arrived in France in February
1896, and had, amid discouragements of.
every kind, finally prevailed upon the
French Government to invade Ireland.