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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-01-11

cap, P. Won Boeckmanp, scratch; All
Jacks, % yards; Chss. Cavanaugh. 35
yards. Won Boeck mann won ia 35
seconds, Jacks second. Second bicy-
Gle race, hall mile handicap. Won
Boeckmann, scratch; Jacks. rs Yards:
Cavanaugh, 1876 yards. Jacks won in
log, Vol B0eckmaun second.
President Brush managed the RACES
admirably and showed himself To be
as thorough sport as he is business
man. Mr.. John Goiorth acted As start
or and Messrs. sam DeCordova and
I'm, Hughes, judges and timers. Not
an accident occurred to mar the davis
sport and so enthusiastic were the
spectators that it was difficult attlmes
TO Keep the track clear 10 give room
to the horses. However, there will
oe no more races until the grounds
are improved and a railing bailt
around tue track, a. the Irving club
diebwith the meeting Yesterday and
today the charter o! it's Successor, the
Nustin Fair assoc ation, eill be- filed
and the new association willtakr i'm,
mediate steps TO give Austin a tair as.
ISOLATION OF which the Capital CAy
will be proud,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-01-11
Things Worth Remembering.

When you feel kind OF goneness
about the stomach it is sign that
your food does not sit we'll and that
you are about to have fit OF indiges-
lion.
When You beginto feel nervous and
are unable to cit 'still comfortably:
when your clothes suddenly seem to
lose their fit and be ONE too tight in
places, tbb fit Of indigestion is sorely
upon you.
When this fit OF indigestion is re-
peated from day TO day it finally re-
solves itself into dyspepsia.
Remember that three to ten of
Brandreth's Pills will cure he worst
case of indigestion or dyspepsia, or
both, and that n regular course of
them, say two every night for a week
or ten days, will act as preventive of
either complaint.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-01-11
How to Tackle the Farmers Foes.

Farmers, somewhat isolated and out
of touch with the activities of the
towns and cities, need to be on guard
against the plans of able bunco steer
ers, lightning rod agents and tele
graph men, and worst of all the poll
tician, who is scheming the livelong
day how he can transfer the contents
of the tax payers pockets to his own,
saws a writer in an eastern paper.
The Jay Goulds, who leave $40, OOO,O GOO
behind them, and have been paying
taxes on half million, illustrates how
easily personal property may evade
taxation and leave the realty to Shout
der the burden, for it can not be bid
den, though covered with mortgages.
MANY are the wies of the devil, and
we can not be delivered from them
all, but probably the greatest evil,
one always present, is the man whose
sole occupation is preparing for
caucuses, running town meetings, and
who is seldom without a bill against
the treasury. He is invaluable when
the chair seaters and standing loafers
have a little game thai will reduce the
sheckels in the pockets OF the rural
citizens. The bunco steerer is not so
systematic in his operations and is
little more useful in choosing his vic
tins, but they both bear close watch
ing.
Give to the young a good, thorough
business education, teach them TO
sharpen their wits and rub off the rust
by contact with business men and the
methods employed in conducting, the
various enterprises of the day. Meet
organization by organization; do not
endeavor to silence cannon with pop.
guns, but give the individual and
banded feecers to understand that the
wool is on our backs to stay.-South-
ern Mercury.
The above advice is good, but does
not go far enough, Perhaps the worst
en- envy the Texas farmer has had re-
Gently is the demagogue who starts an
alleged agricultural paper and fills 1t
up with taffy for played out politicians
and frauds of all sorts. These men
never we're farmers, know nothing
about farming and cannot tell cotton
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-01-11
The Horse That Paws.

Horse breeding has not gone to the
dogs in this country, nor will it ever
go there, says the Breeders Gazette.
What is wanted is a little more brains
in the business-a little clearer knowl-
edge of what is wanted and how to
produce it. There are several things
that in this connection may be profit
ably taken into account. AS to the
present and probable near future of
the demand the rapid increase in the
luxurious style of living that is now
prevailing calls for an enormously in.
creased supply of carriage horses, well
bred, shapely and thoroughly trained.
Ihe extension of trade and commerce
calls for large, heavy animal that
can draw heavy loads a short distance
and at rate of speed that is con-
sistent with safety in the crowded
streets of our cities, and such
horses, weighing 1000 to 1900
pounds, are in demand at
prices that would astound a great
many farmers.
The roadsters, too, are in mind. This
10 ~ SlhO"N, IOUuSJ CtJltlldl II1dG is cap
able of speeding for hours at a gate of
not less than s or 10 miles an hour, and
covering a few hours at even quicker
pace. This is horse of luxury and
is an animal of high breeding and
thorough training to fit it for uoe in
all circumstances. Hor, eback riding
is also steadily growing in popularity
as fashionable alnusem Mt aud
recreation, and here is a field for in.
telligent breeding, as well as training,
that can very properly go hand in
hand with the ordinary work of the
farm. In short, the growing demands
OF commerce, of business, of pleasure
and Of fashion in the matter of horses
will furnish to farmers pretty sure
market for such as can be brought up
to the standard required by these de-
mands.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-01-11
,Artichokes for Hogs.

The following letter shows up the
good qualities of artichokes, but farm
ers should be careful about planting
them in fields, and especially allowing
hogs to gather them there, as they are
easily scattered over the field and be-
come quite troublesome. An enclosure
set apart for artichokes, sandy soil pre-
ferred, ought to prove paying invest
ment for any Texas farmer:
How many of our farmers have tried
feeding artichokes to hogs? | have
grown and fed them three years and
consider them the cheapest and best
roots we can grow. l cultivate the
White Jerusalem variety. They grow
very large tubers and need not be
slowed away for winter, but just re-
NAMED in the ground as they grew and
used as needed, and no amount OF
freezing in the ground will injure
them. In taste aud color they resem-
BILE the heart OF cabbage. Five or six
bushels will plant an acre and one
acre in good soil will yield from
800 to- 1000 bushels, and this will fatten
from 40 to 80 hogs with only a little
corn to finish. This may be planted
either i'm spring or fall. About Nov.1
before the ground freezes, is a very
good time to plant, as they start to
grow very early in the spring. The
tubers are cut in small pieces, planted
and cultivated like potatoes. In the
fall, when the stalk begins to dry, you
can turn your hogs in TO gather the
crop. 1 keep one lot over winter to
tnrn my hogs in for spring market.
The lot fed out in the fall has enough
tubers left in the ground for the sum
mers crop without any more planting
or cultivating They are also excel
lent food for COWS, increasing the flow
Of milf in yintar ELI HEATON
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-01-11

1t is one of the chief difficulties of
farming on a small acreage that the
necessary work to be done in blowing,
cultivating and marketing crops re-
quires a full team part of the time,
while there is not sufficient work to
keen it employed all the time. Idle
horses soon eat more than their labor
during small part of the year is
worth. Yet the small farmer who re-
lies upon hiring team work done IS
always handicapped by finding it i'm
possible to hire teams when he most
needs them. The only other recourse
is to change the methods of farming.
Put on more labor and capital per
acre. and thus grow crops which will
keep the teams busy most of the year
hauling them to market.
If there are days when no marketing
is to be done the teams can be EN-
ployed just as pr, fitably in drawing
manure. In most cases this on a small
farm will make it necessary to buy
most if not all the feed that the teams
eat. This is what market gardeners
invariably do, They cannot afford to
grow hay or grain on land that will
produce five and perhaps ten times as
valuable a crop in something else
Buving all their feed they know inst
what it costs them, and are less likely
to lose nv keeping teams idle. The
chief difficulty with many farmers in
making their farming pay is not rec
ognizipg that the feed which they
grow and feed is worth its market
value, and that whatever eats such
feed must return at least what it has
cost and can be sold for Unless this
is attended to the losses from nom
paying stock will eat up profits that
can be made otherwise. American
CultiyatOr.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-01-11
To Exp Il Worms,

The following is given as a good
remedy for getting of worms in
horses: First give mess of sweets,
say a bran mash (small one), with one
half to small tea cup of brownsugar;
in 80 minutes follow with roll Of COP.
peras Tablespoon well rounded), finely
pulverized and put with equal amount
of flour and water Let stand until
the dough has begun to hard n grease
the ball or roll, pull the colts tongue
out, put the roll as far down the throat
as you can reach, let the tongue fly
back and the roll is swallowed. (Some
feed copperas in the feed, but find it
too hard on the teeth.) Follow the
copperas in five hours with hot bran
III ash. This treatment followed twice
week for two or three weeks and the
worms are gone.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-01-11
SECRETARY TESTERS REPORT.
Review of the Ctton Movement Throughout
the South

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. Cotton
crop movement from Sep. 1 to Jan.
inclusive. Secretary Hester's weekly
New Orleans cotton exchange state
ment issued some time before the close
of business today, shows an excess in
the movement of cotton into sight of
1886 bales, or nearly 20 per cent over
the seven days ending Jan. 5, 1898, and
a deficit of 2,9OS or 20 per cent under
the same seven days of 1892 For the
first five days of January, up to today
inclusive, the movement has been Sc
$40 ahead of the same five days in
January last year and 1865 ahead of
the same time year before last. This
brings the excess in the movement for
1877 days of the season from Sep. to
Jan. 8 inclusive, to 695, 507 bales over
the same 127 days last season and re-
duces the deficiency compared with
the same 1877 days of 1899, l, 024, 1853.
Total brought into sight during the
past seven days has been 220,448
against 176, 283 last year, and 2S3, 1906
year before, while the aggregates for
the first DAYS of January are 166, 908
against l10,670 and 165, 523. Total
marketed from September l to date is
5. $50. $40 against 4,9O1, 1853 and G,6l1, 800
for last year and year before.
From this time on last year the
amount of cotton brought into sight
was /, 1893. 232 bales, and year before
last, 2,423, 770. In other words, after
this date last year, 26 85-l00 per cent
OF the crop was marketed, and after
this date season before last rs 83-l0O.
The movement since September
shows receipts at all United States
ports of Abs, 1884 agaidst 3,658,4l7 last
year and 4, 1923, I'll yeor before; over
land across the Mississippi, Ohio and
Potomac rivers to Northern mills aud
Canada, 537, 1856 against 565, 1876 and
819 032; interior stocks in excess of
those held at close of commercial year
1888, 643 against 347,615, and 566,054;
Southern mill takings 344 957 against
329. 966 and 302, S12.
Foreign exports for the week have
been 1925 against 1923 last year,
making total thus far for the season
2,S74, 966 against 2,389,470 last year, or
an increase of 4S5,396 Northern mill
taklngs during the past seven days
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-01-11
Farming at the Sta tons,

In bulletin % of the New Jersey
station regarding the 17.year locusts,
it says that these insects appear very
often in different parts of this country,
while Others extend over large areas,
because there are great number of
broodS in existence-22 broods in all
Some of the broods are confined to
small sections of country, while Others
extend over larger areas. There is no
sufficient remedy yet to prevent them
from destroying the fruit trees by
puncturing the twigs Each brood
has to be studied by itself and an ac-
count of it kept, so that in the spring
when they are to appear the trees can
be thoroughly pruned and the twigs
in which the eggs are rep0sing should
be burned. The sparrows are great
enemies of the locusts, and where
they are very numerous the locusts do
comparatively little injury to the
tree.
At the station at Raleigh, N. c.,
they have been testing various articles
of animal food. Among those that
have not been in general use is sun
flower seed. They found bushel of
mammoth Russian sunflower seed to
weigh 26.7 pounds and yield 5 ga
pounds of oil, and bushel of the
Black Giant seed weighed 80 pounds
and yielded G 2-3 pounds of oil. The
hulls and the oil cake show more
value as a cattle food than do those of
the cotton seed, and in Russia. where
this plant is largely grown for the oil,
large quantities of the cake are ex-
ported to England and to Germany for
feeding purposes.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-01-11
Apples Good for sedentary Folks.

The remedial use of apples is thus
enlarged upon by the North American
Practitioner: Chemically the apple is
composed of vegetable fibre, aibumen,
sugar, gum, chlorophyl, malic acid,
lime and much water. Furthermore,
the German analysts say that the APP.
pie contains a larger per centage of
phosphorus than any othsr fruit or
vegetable. The phosphorus is ad-
mirabl y adapted for renewing the es-
sential nervous matter-lecithin- of
the brain and spinal cord.
1t is, perhaps, for the same reason,
rudely understood, that old Scandina-
Wan traditions represent the apple as
the food of the gods, who, when they
ielt themselves to be growing feeble
and infirm, resorted to this fruit, re-
newing their powers of mind and body.
Also the acids of the apple are of siagu-
lar use for men Of sedentary habits,
whose livers are sluggish in actioL,
those acids serving to eliminate from
the body noxious matters, which, if
retained, would make the brain heavy
and dull, or bring aboIt jaundice or
skin eruptions and other allied
troubles.
Some such experiences must have
led to the custom of taking apple
sauce with roast pork, rich goose and
other like dishes. The malic acid of
ripe apples, either raw or cooked, will
neutralize any excess of chalky mat
ter engendered by eating too much
meat. 1t is also the fact that such
ripe fruits as the apple, the pear and
the plum, when taken ripe and with
out sugar, diminish acidity in the
stomach rather than provoke it. Their
vegetable sauces and juices are con-
verted into alkaline carbonates, which
tend to counterfeit acidity.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-01-11
This coughlin Trial.

CHICAGO, Jan. 9.-Mrs. Susie Hor-
ton, new witness for the state, occu-
pied the attention of the spectators at
the Coughlin trial today, She said
that Andrew Foy had been at her
home on the afternoon of May 10, and
on that evening, which is the time the
prosecution has for painting of the
tloor in the Carlson cottage, she saw
Goughlin and Foy near tine cottage.
During severe cross examination
Mrs Horton became angry at Judge
Wing, counsel for the defense, and
administered telling tongue-lashing
to the attorney. II would tell Won a
great deal more than have if want
ed to; she said, Il want you to under
stand that
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-01-11
Four Big suceAsse.

Having the needed merit to more
than make good all the ad vertising
claimed for them, the following four
remedies have reached phenomenal
sale. DR.. Kings New Discovery for
consumption, coughs ana cold, each
bottle guaranteed, Electric Bitters,
the great remedy for liver, stomach
and kidneys, Bucklen's Arnical Saive,
the best in the world. and DR.. Kings
New Life Pills, which are perfect
pill. All these remedies are guaran.
teed to do just what Ia claimed for
them, and the dealer whose name is
attached herewith will be glad to tell
you more of them. Sold ut John H.
Chiles d Co.'s drug store;
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-01-11
COTTON CIRCULAR.
HcElroy Co. on the Condition Of the
Market.

Market.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan McElroy
d Co say:
Futures-phe natural tendency TO
realize profits showed itself in Liver
pool this morning in decline of Ga
bpC as soon as the supply from this
quarter WIS exhausted there was some
recovery and prices steady at partially
1-G4 unler last righr. Longs were in
clined 10 feel sOmewh vt uneasy. in the
face of the decline ia Liverpool, Dat
the opening depression, which was at
a loss OF points below the last figure
during yesterday on the curb, and on
ly to points higher than Saturdays
closing, proved to be short lived aud
prices were advanced TO within a few
points of the highest of vest erday. The
estimate for receipts at New Orleans
however, 10000 bales against 1900 last
year, caused further realizing and soft
ness, which was greatly added to by
the pu blication of Texas movemeut to
Dec. 81. These figures show that the
Texas crop of 40S,0 600 had come into
sight by New Year against 1922, 600 at
the same date last year, a difference of
only "a, 600 bales
According to Mr.. Hester, who com
piled these figures, the total Texas
crop last season was 2, 1881 600 bales,
and II the movement from now on
should be the came as then which no
body that we have yet heard OF really
expects) the crop indicated would nat
urally be not far below 2. 100, 600 bales.
Such an outcome, however, is not
thought OF even by the most ardent
bears One calculation which We
have heard spoken of, and which
seems reasonable one is that an es
innate of 40 per cent less ia the state
than a year ago on the total crop
would be in the neighborhood of
$4,000 bales.
A characteristic telegram was re
celVed here from d Galveston firm re-
terrlng to the report mentioned above.
The message read: Texas figures
nightly interesting, proving rapidity
with which crop was marketed"
There is no doubt that the Texas
crop has been marketed more rapidly
than ever known before. largely ow-
ing to the railroad rate war which pre-
vailed for so long, but Hester's figures
will set at rest all talk of Texas yield
of less than l $50 600 Our market
finally closed l2 to 10 points over than
yesterdays rise and only above Satur-
days closing
Spot sales in Liverpool were "A 600
bales, but the demand here was
lighter, sales aggregatlug only 1000
bales Prices were easier, but were
not quoted lower. Nearly all the
southern markets, however show
pretty good sales at higher rices.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-01-11
Scours in Calves.

AT the dairy convention of North
Dakota, Ex-Governor Hoard of Wis
consin was asked how scours could be
prevented, aud he replied; "By pre-.
venting indigestion. 1t is the rarest
thing in the world to see a calf that
runs with its mother have scours.
And why2 1t draws its sustenance
from twelve TO twenty times day.
and never gets the scouts or gets big
bellied and enlarged and never gets a
sour stomach. 1t gets its milk sweet
and warm. Pursue the same course
with the calf. Give him his feed
naturally, at least four times day, in
small quantities and warm; watch MIN,
have care for him, take pains and he
wont have the scours; but if ne does
give him little extra of rennet. That
Is the best thing | know of for scours,
but always remember that an ounce of
preventative is worth ten pounds of
cure. Watch him just as you would
watch a baby. No mother gives a
baby cold milk and 'scur milk, and
give it then only twice day, and
then expect to raise q healthy baby"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-01-11
Too Easily Discouraged

The New Mexico Stock Grower says:
There are quite number of reported
trades of sheep for cattle, by sheepmen
who have become dissatisfied with the
industry since the recent slump in
wool values. 1t is possible that these
same men will find, when too late. that
there is a vast difference between the
management of cattle and sheep, and
that he had better have stuck to the
vocation that has filled his purse.
Selling sheep when low and buying
cattle when high is not likely to prove
a paying investment uuiess the pur-
chaser is thoroughly conversant with
the business and is surrounded by
fav Jrable circumstances.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-01-11
OPIUM sMUeGLERs.
Arrests at San Francisco Of Members of a
Powerful Gang.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9.--Recent ex-
posure of smuggling at Portland,
which dragged into the mire some of
the United States treasury's most
prominent officials on the coast, bids
fair to be equalled by an exposure of
smuggling operations at this port.
Three men were arrested last night.
Doe is Frederick Miller, young law
student, another is Geo. N. J. Wick
man, wholesale candy manufacturer
here, and the third is named Lewis
Greenwald. Warrants are out for the
arrest of 10 or IL others.
Prominent customs officers here are
said to be implicated in the confession
made by the prisoners. The men in
jail, it is said, have revealed the meth
ods of q powerful ring, controlling
three sailing vessels and doing whole.
sale business in smuggling opium, and
Chinese have been regularly smuggled
from Puget Sound points and trans
ferred to the smugglers' small craft
outside the golden Gate.