The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-08-31
Where are Thew Going 1?

According to the Southern Cultiya-
tor, large meeting of negroes was re-
Gently held in Chattanooga, to discuss
scheme for a wholesale exodus OF
that race from the South to the West.
The plan is being engineered by prom
inent colored men and the headquar-
tiers is said to be in Atlanta. The mat.
ter is being done quietly. One of the
leaders of this proposed emigration
scheme told a representative of one OF
the Chattanooga papers that they
were in earnest. Already" he said,
$1,000 negroes have gone out of the
country, and the aggregate will be
swelled in short while until
the number remaining will be
small. The idea does not take in any
special place, but the scheme is to
have the negroes scattered out all over
the West on little farms of 40 acres.
One hundred thousand negroas will
leave the South in the next few
months. At the meeting here 275 men
paid down So each, as the first INSTALL
ment to purchase transportation"
To what point in the direction of the
setting sun will they shape their mi
grating course? Every one who knows
the noble, loveable qualities of teh
average black man OF today, in this
southland, must wish him a happy
and permanent home in the West, or
somewhere else. There will be no OBJ
stacles thrown in the way of his
emigration, but like the homing pigeon
he is sure to return home.
How and When to Kill Trees.
We sometimes need to kill trees and
the operation is sometimes made more
difficult than making them live and
grow. But it is just as easy to kill
treesas to catch flies, if we but coll
slider how they grow and what is nee
essary to their existence. We know
that a tree can't live without roots,
and that roots can't live without
leaves. The roots may be compared
to the masticatory organs of the ami
NAL and the leaves to the respiratory
and digestive organs. The roots hunt
for and absorb in liquid form the
plant food In the soil, hence the neces.
sity for rain to make said food avail
able for plant use. This LIQUID food is
forced up the roots through the
woody fiber of the tree to it's furthest
branch aud leaf. In the leaves, by
the action OF sunlight, this liquid food
refined A portion of it goes to
make more leaves and new
branches and the remainder
descends towards the roots by
way of the channel between the wood
and the bark, developing both on it's
downward journey. This is shown by
the coucentric rings OF the tree, the
last formed being on the outside.
1t therefore follows that if the con-
nection between roots and leaves is
severed there can be no return of sap
to the roots, and they will be enfeebled
and exhausted by their effort to sup
ply the tree with support. If the tree
is girdled, that is, has the bark re-
moved completely from the trunk, so
that the downward flow of sap is
checked, the tree will make an ap.
parently healthy growth during the
growing season, but the following year
VIII be as dead us door nail. This
operation should be performed early
in the year, before the newly formed
sap has time to reach and invigol ate
the roots. If girdling is delayed till
late in the year, enough sap
will have reached the roots
to start a new growth for next season.
which means the delay of a year in
the death of the tree. AS soon as the
leaves begin to fall it is too late to kill,
as the upward circulation of the tree
has nearly ceased and the roots have
laid up good supply of vigor for the
return OF spring. Where sprouts and
shrubs grow they should be cut down
as fast as they appear or their roots
will develop in proportion to their
gro With above ground. Deprived con-
in uously of leaves the most persistent
living plant must perish.