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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-05-09
Trophies of Imperial Butchering

Trophies of Imperial Butchering.
A collection of the seventy-four
pairs of antlers belonging to the
German Emperor has been placed
in the arsenal at Berlin, These tro-
phies were gained by the Emperor
during a few days this year and
last in the woods of Buckeberg and
other places. The hunt on the 9Th
and 9th of last January at Buckle
berg was very successful. The
strength, endurance and accuracy
of aim of the Emperor, which en-
abled him to kill so many stays in
a comparatively short time, have
been described as admirable by a
Berlin correspondent. The antlers
from those of eight to one of six
teen points are displaye on
tablets covered with green cloth,
and are pleasing sight to sports
men.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-05-09
CITY ADVERTISING.
TOFFICIAL.1
Notice to Taxpayers,
OFFICE OF CITY COLLECTOR, |
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, ;
May 1st, 1894.

The undersigned hereby gives notice
that the City Ad Valorem and Poll Taxes
for the municipal year 1893, ending May
31st, 1894, are now due and payable at this
office, before the 31st day Of Ju Iy, 1894
after which time 1 will add, besides costs,
ten per cent penalty on amount of taxes
due.
The office of the Collector will be open
from o'clock a. m to p. m, daily, ex-
cept Sunday, from the 1st day of May to
the 31st day of July, 1894.
EDw. RIsCHE,
516Ot City Collector.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-05-09

O furred or coated to2gue-it proves that
you're bilious In that case you should carry
in your vest-pocket small sealed vial Of these
Pellets. They are emit bilious granules
which act in a prompt and natural way
without gripping. So beneficial and lasting
Is their effec5 tna5 tbs makers can afford
to guarantee that they will give you salts
faction, OF they'll return your money.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-05-09
A SURE CURE FOR PILES.

Itching Piles are known by moisture
like persDiration, causing intense itching
when warm. This form as well as Blind,
Bleeding or Protruding. yield at once to
DIR. Bosanko's Pile Remedy, which acts
directly on parts effected, absorbs tumors,
cure 50 cts. Druggists or mail. Circu
lars free DR.. Bosanko, Philadelphia, Pa
Sold by E. Reuss, City Drugstore, No. LOG
Commerce st. d&w1y
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Al m Dinne1

At O Dinner
- when you
have eaten
heartily, you
should take
DIR. Pierce's
Pleasant Pei
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-05-09

7TE7EFIFV It
tETyyi sS5T5 let's. Your liver needs the
MH1'll VI gentle stimulating, as well
w. as inyigorating, effect OF
VM SSssSlsSS these tiny, sugar coated
x14I hFN Pellets
1SSE IF You feel drowsy, dull, Ian.
: NaSS guild, inexpressibly tired or debili.
tTIflNN tated; il you've no appetite and
= frequent headaches or dizziness
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THE MONDAY AIR cHURN

Makes the finest grade of butter in
from three quarters to two minutes time.
You ought to have one. Office, corner
Water and North streets. 22s 3m
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HOME FOR A POOR MAN

FOn easy terms: House, 3O6 Com
argo street, containing z rooms,
and other conveniences; small
cash payment, balance monthly.
4l3tf OTTO p. KROEGER.
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-05-09
THE SAN ANTONIO BROKERAGE

Company is now open for business
at 4O5, north side Main plaza. Bro
kers in stocks, cotton, grain, pro.
visions, ETC., etc. Private wires to
New York, Chicago, st. Louis and
New Orleans. All orders promptly
executed. Your business solicited
4 Ii I'm JONES & JONES, Man ayers
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SIEGE AGAINST HIGH PRICES

Coxey's army could not long
stand the siege Joske Bros. have
inaugurated against high prices in
clothing and mems furnishings
5 s 1t
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-05-09

There's no case of Catarrh so hopeless
that DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy cannot
cure. The makers will pay $500 reward
for any incurable case.
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SAM; Electric Supply Co

pa +. Houston street,
Are now prepared to do all kinds of
electric wiring, instation of all kinds Of
electric plants, well blasting. etc.
n. B. SwEITZER, JR, Civil Engineer.
ii. HANDCHY, Electrician.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-09
Dehorning Young Calves.

A stick of caustic potash is the best APP
paratus with which to dehorn calves,
says the Rural Home. The job can be
done in a minute, causing only slight
wound to the skin, and scent stick will
dehorn dozen calves. Moreover, this
caustic can be procured at almost any
country drug store.
dairymen that so simple quick and mex
sure; nevertheless, it is fact. l did
not believe SO, but as it did not cost much
to try it, pat it to a test, and, to my
surprise, with entire success. | have
learned that the calf must not be more
than a month old to insure the proven ton
ofsan horn growth. 1t should be done
when the calf is from two 10 four days
old-the earlier the better. The embryo
horn appears then like a little fleshy
wart about as large as a split pea.
| take the calf5 head between the legs,
moisten the spot by applying to it finger
slightly dipped in water. and then rub
well the little eXcrescence and the skin
close around its base, touching a spot not
larger than l0-cent piece with the stick
OF potash for a few seconds, holding the
calf's head still against my thigh. mean
while, by Cr2sping it's nose with the other
hand, the job is done for all time. This
method has never failed, nor have had
to repeat the application a second time
am much pleased with the results when
l see, as ! constantly do, three or four
hornless 2-year-olds drinking peaceably
from the same water tub.
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Laving out Fielda and Pnntnran.

A farm divided into large fields, es-
pecially into long ones, can be cultivated
to best advantage with least loss of time
in turning at ends with plows and ma
chimes, says an exchange. In the ideal
farm division fences will be almost On
tlrely dispensed with, facilitating cultiva-
ton, saving for tillage the land occupied
by fences also, saving the great expense
OF building and repairing fences. The
time has hardly arrived in this country
for the general adoption of the practice
Of soiling stock. When it shall become
necessary to economic in the use of land
when population shall begin to crowd
upon tho means of subsistence. pasturing
arabic lands will gradually cease.
so long as pasturing is continued, every
pasture should be pro vided with an album
dance Of pure, sweet, running water. A
Towing stream is considered very desira-
bic in a pasture, but a creek often renders
q good deal of land unfit for cultivation
1t generally pursues a tOrtuous course
and has more or less wet, marshy margin,
and is not an economical method of water
ing stock A well with a windmill and
pump has recommendations, though
where water can be brought from a spring
and flow into penstock the best condi-
tons are Afforded In either pump or pen
stock the overflow should be conducted
away by an underdrain. No good farmer
Will suffer his stock to depend upon
slough or swamp water. or to drink at
filthy, stagnant pools. Such water must
necessarily affect the health of stock and
the wholesomeness Of their products.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-09

Questions and communications relative
TO agricultural and horticultural subjects,
If addressed to Agri. Editor, Drawer N,
Nlilledgeville, Ca, will receive immediate
attention.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-09
Crop Cultivation.

The problem in the cultivation of crops
is, how can the best results be obtained,
says r. II. Glen in Tennessee Farmer. 1t
is not wise or safe to grope in the dark,
nor is it necessary to do so in general crop
cultivation. The experience of bright,
progressive, successful men has shown
what can be done in growing fruits, vege-
tables and farm crops II must be born
in mind that different situations and con-
ditions require different methods in cul-
tivation. We may not be able to follow
natures wonderful transformation in the
silent and secret workings which are con-
stantly taking place in her grand alembic
but we may become familiar with well
settled principles in practical agriculture
and discover what is required to
lands more fruitful, and at the
same time obtain products of
superior excellence. Every plant is but
an aggregation of cells; the cell is the
workshop of the plant wherein the
materials that enter into its organization
are elaborated and prepared TO aid the
increase of its substance. Wonderful
operations! Says Prof. Nichols: THE
most tiny leaf or blade of grass has a
power in chemical decomposition greater
by far than that possessed by Liebig,
Boussnigault or any other eXperimenter
The separation in silence in the quiet of
the meadows by organisms so frail that
we can crush them between the thumb
and finger of a compound SO fixed as car
bonic acid, is one of those marvels of
nature which puzzles and confounds the
philosopher and leads him to bow in
humility before God Of nature whose
power so infinitely surpasses that Of
man"
The farmers, vegetable and fruit grow
ers have been immeasurably assisted in
their work in late years by the untiring
and searching investigations of scientific
men.
The oldest settled portions Of the United
States and all Of agricultural Europe (in
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-09

taking as eager an interest in agri-
culture as we do at this day, often re-
ferred TO the land resting, and being i'm
proved by the rest. Aud this is true, for
the soil is made up of earthly particles
that are slowly soluble, and, as time
passes, the water and the air together
cause these to decay, and let loose the
fertility they have held locked up But
this is not civilized way to manage the
land, and neither is it the most profitable.
Ii is an aboriginal method, and not a sci
entitc one. The exhaustion Of the land
Is more economically prevented by the
action of vegetable growth upon it. This
may be weeds only, but this is natures
course, which she enforces when man
neglects his duty ana leaves it to slow re-
cOyery; the better way is to cultivate and
sow it, and make it produce something
profitable while il is recovering. 1t has
come to this, that if farmers cannot
grow wheat, except by bare following
then wheat growing will have to be given
up after the virgin land has been cropped
few times, for the simple reason that
the cost of maintaining fertility by this
process is greater than the crops pro-
duced will pay for.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-09

TO rear, although they are somewhat ten
der in the early part of their existence
DampneSs must be guarded against. If
found in a damp, wet location, or allowed
to remain out in a shower, it will very
likely prove fatal TO the goslings Hens
are preferable to geese for incubating pur-
poses, since the latter are very clumsy in
their movements, and very apt to step upon
and lnlure the little g0slings. For the
hrst three or four weeks l would keep
the goslings in confinement near the
house; they can be tended and looked
after much better, and they will not be
harmed by rains or dews. Feed often and
literally upon oatmeal, bran and corn
meal mOlStened; milk, chopped clover,
etc, and 90 not neglect to place bits of
tender sod in the ward with the goslings,
as the latter will delight TO pick at both
roots and blades. As soon as the perma-
uent feathers have Seenigrown, the Cos
lings may be set at liberty and allow ed TO
roam at pleasure for then rains or dews
have no effect upon them. and they have
become the most hardy of farm stock,
and the least liable to disease. From
this time on the most of the growth will
be made upon clover and grass pasturage.
Little or no grain is required until time
comes for finishing or for market.
Then corn for two or three weeks will put
these fowls in good shape, so that they
will bring good prices, a considerable por
ton of which is profit.
We have two improved breeds of geese
that are most excellent for the purposes
of the farmer. They are the Toulouse
and Embden; the former came from
France and the latter from Holland.
Individuals of these breeds attain
the noble weight of twenty pounds
apiece at maturity. AS long as a
fine gauder can be bought for
s., or good pair of geese
for IS or SO, let no one breed common,
mongrel stock. Just estimate what an
increased profit even two or three pounds
extra per head upon u flock of young
geese will give the breeder, and yet a
large, vigorous, purebred gander should
make much more than this difference,
when crossed upon ordinary mixed goose
stock.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-09
Ground Zones for Fertilizer.

The Massachusetts agricultural report
for 1892 gives I39 analysis of bones, aver
aging 4.01 per cent. of nitrogen and % "a
per cent. of phosphoric acid, says the
Rural World In estimating their value
they are classified according to the fine
ness the bone is ground. Thus in fine
ground bone the nitrogen is. valued at 10
cents pound, and the phosphorus acid IL
cents pound. In fine ground, medium
pone, the nitrogen is valued at u cents a
pound, and the phosphoric acid at SIS
cents a pound. In medium ground bone
Inc nitrogen is valued at 9.5 cents a
pound the phosphoric acid at "a cents a
pound In coarse ground bone the nitrogen
Is valued at 7.5c. pound the phosphoric
acid at &c. pound. The average analy-
SIS of these l39 samples of ground bone
would give 500 pounds of nitrogen md
zoos pounds of phosphoric acid in a ton
OF 1000 pounds of ground bone At the
prices they are valued at by the expert
nent stations: One ton of fine ground
oone is S4470; one ton of fine medium
bone is $34. 10; one ton of medium bone is
81. G3; one ton of coarse bone is S2O.02.
Now, by mixing together 505 pounds OF
n!Jrate Of soda, which contains 10 p. C. OF
nitrogen and % p. c. soda, and ,557 pounds
OF powdered phosphate of lime contain
ing 30 p. C. phosphoric acid, we have in
Jhls mixture the same nun Der of pounds
OF nitrogen and phosphoric acid there is
IN one ton Of the ground bone and 10
pounds of soda in addition, as two pounds
OF soda are equal to three pounds of
potash for agricultural purposes. BY the
use OF nitrate of soda and phosphate of
lime we have what is called a complete
manure, as it comprises nitrogen, phos-
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cultivation for centufjes) are now produc-
ing larger and better crops than as a
rule, they have yielded in the past Why
is it, Because, as Prof. Atwater aptly
expresses it, Chemistry, by discovering
and actually defining the food elements
of vegetable growth, and by revealing
their sources and realizing the means
of making them cheaply available to
the farmer, has trtumphantly overcome
one of the previously insuperable
obstacles to the development of national
wealth"
In the United States, from their early
history until comparatively recent
period, the old and wasteful methods of
former times were followed The natural
productiveness of fields declined until a
protitless minimum induced the owners
either to part with their farms and seek
fresher lands, or to change their pursuits
or adopt better methods of cultiVat ton.
The touch of science in many instances
has wrought a vast and almost mracu-
lous change. BounUifuI harvests annually
wave over hundreds of fields that were
abandoned because worn out and profit
less. This fortunate condition of things
is the result of modern research. Occa-
sionally some egotistical ignoramous is
met with who SCOTS at what
he contemptuously calls book farming,
but that class Of pitiable objects is
growing rapidly and beautifully less
every year. Science has revealed to the
world that aside from warmth and moist
ure, the essen tial factor in vegeta BILE
production is plant food. II is the knowl-
edge science imparts that enables the
Undergraduates near Paris 10 obtain
such astonishing results, and that renders
the poorer soils of Germany, Holland
and Belgium to excel in the yield of crops
the richest lands in what is called the
new west" in the United States.
1t may be set down as an axiom in agri-
culture that any soil, however fertile, is
not sufficiently so to meet the require
ments OF the gardener or intensive
farmer. His lands mus produce heavy
crops. His standards are high and he
must know the Characteristic OF The
lands and what they require to meet his
demands
1t is well to bear in mind that the soils
Of all localities become Impoverished by
constant drafts upon them. Richest soils
in the northwest adjacent to the great
lakes, produced, when first reduced to
cultivation. thirty and forty bushels of
wheat per acre. OF late years an average
of twelve bushels per acre has been the
rule except in instances where mixed
farming, proper rotations, and fertilizers
are employed, il is doubtful if the aver
age now exceeds fifteen bushels per acre.
They must be fed If they are to gain and
retain fertility. All soils must be treated
well if they are to treat well those who
till them. Fertilizers are essential to
their productiveness. Fertilizers are the
aids that judicious tillers Of the soil sum
mon 10 his aid, They put money in his
pocket, for they can be procured at
reasonable cost and when judiciously Sc
lected and properly applied, greatly in
crease the yield crops.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-09
The Corn Worm.

The boil or corn worm is very destruC-
tive to the corn crop of the western states.
A recent bulletin of the Colorado expert
ment station at Fort Collins, says
These pests are generally supposed to be
more destructive at the south than at the
north, but it would be hard to imagine
their being more numerous, or doing more
damage to the corn crop in any other sec
ton of the country, than here during the
season OF 1898. BY actual count, from
9215 to ~ per cent. of the ears had been
entered by worms They have no less
than a dozen food plants; attack corn in
the growing shoot, the tassel and the
grain in all stages. They seem to prefer
sweet corn to the field varieties.
There are normally two brOods of these
worms that feed upon corn, exceptionally
three. The eggs are deposited on the
leaves of the corn and the newly Matched
larvae begin feeding at once on the spot
of their birth eating many irregular
holes through the leaves The first brood
usually makes itSj appearance early
enough TO feed on the staminate flowers
or tassels, before the ears are formed.
This first brood did but slight damage
the past season, but the second brood was
very destructive. The eggs of the second
brood were laid upon the ends of the
husks or on the silk, the worms attack
ing the ears, often cutting several
grooves the whole length of the ear, thus
rendering it unfit for use. They do not
by any means confne themselves to a
single ear during their work of destruc-
ton, but go from one to another.
AS yet no very effective means have
been discovered by which we can combat
the bell worm; having so many food
plants it is hard to exterminate For
some sections ofthe country blowing fields
deep in December and January is recon-
mended, as by turning up the soil at that
season many of the early moths will be
killed. Hand picking may be practiced
where the area is small, as in family gar
dens, but it is a slow means of getting rid
of them and would be too expensive in
large fields. Building fires in the fields
in early spring will attract many of the
early moths and thus destroy them"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-09
Soil Exhaustion.

The richest soil in the world. II badly
used, will produce but few crops. after
which they become less and less produc-
tive, until in the end the fields are left
barren or to weeds. says Indian Agricul-
turist. This has happened in the most
fertile places, where wheat growing mas
been followed with persistency that
may well be termed heroic, the result be-
ing that any one who now desires to make
a living on one Of these ''worn-outn farms
must undertake settled course Of i'm
Drovement of the land. Fortunately, the
soil is really inexhaustible IL NAV be
misused and reduced in natural fertility
in part, but only so far as the pillow has
penetrated hitherto. Below this will be
found the virgin soil, cold and COY il NAV
be, but yet susceptible of awakening into
the warmth of vigorous life and of be-
coming as productive as the upper soil
which preceded it. IL is common be-
lief that land regains fertility by
rest, and especially If the fallows
be well stirred. This is as old
as the ancient Romans, whose writer's,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-09
phoric acid and soda, as a substitute for
potash IL would read thus
5U2 bis Is p. C. nitFogen-s03 lbs,
nitrogen.

phoric acid and soda, as substitute for
potash II would read thus:
502 bis l6 p. C. nitFogen-sO3 lbs,
nitrogen.
Nitrate IS p. C. soda 1855 lbs.
soda. 265.5 lbs potash.
1857 MS powd phos. lime. 30 D. c. phos.
acld-46I lbs. phOs. acid, and costing at
&c pound for SOP pounds of nitrate of
soda Sl255, and at SIS per ton for ,557
pounds powered phosphate of lime S1l.67.
or a total of S2422 Estimating this at
the ySiue the experiment stations put on
the tne ground bone, and adding TO the
value Of the soda as equivalent to potash,
It's value would be thus
eO3 rs. OF nitrogen, I5c D ..............s12 O4
265.5 MS. potash, 4lac n ................. II 81
407 bs- phosphoric acid, &C. Ib........... 50 50
Total value Observation-Disclosures. SIS 81
Which cost at prices named.............. q -
Adherence of .........................s52 25
ton which the farmer will save by buy
ing and mixing nitrate of soda and pow
dered phosphate Of lime instead of buying
hne ground cone.
As the powdered phosphate Of lime is
finer ground than the finest ground bone,
1t Is more available for finenesS of divi-
sion is the test of its availability: the
alkai is in much better form TO use than
sulphate or muriate of soda or potash,
which are poisons TO plants. while nj
trates, carbonates and phosphates are
plant uourishers
If IL is denied, which it cannot be truth
fully, that soda can be substituted for
potash in the growing of plants, still the
classification and valuation of ground
bones by the experiment station is not
correct; for SOP lbs of nitrate of soda and
1,531 los Of powdered phosphate of lime
will cost only S2422 as against station
valuation OF S44.14 a ton for fine ground
lone. a difference of S20.52 ton, which
the farmer pays owing to an erroneous
classification and valuation of ground
bone by the experiment stations, to whom
the former looks for information and for
whose support he is taxed.
ANDREW H. WARD.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-09

We solicit articles for this department.
The name of the writer should accompany
the letter or article, not necessarily for
publication, but as an evidence of good
faith.
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Cease.

Apparently the majority of farmers
either know little about geese, or else are
preiudiced against them. At ali events,
we seldom see a good sized flock of these
grand water fowl upon our farms nOw-a-
days Witch proper accommodations geese
can be made very profitable stock, with
little trouble or expense TO the owner,
says the Ohio Farmer. Geese are grazing
animals, as truly as horse, cattle or
sheep; and plenty of pasture is needed To
cause them to thrive well at little cost.
Indeed. an abundance Of grass is far more
necessary than pond or lake; for although
geese delight to sport in a good sized
stream of water they viii grow finely and
thrive first rate if simply water for drink
ing purposes be alone available.
The goslings are not especially difficult