Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-12-15
Fort Worth Texas.

engine or dynamo into the earth has
been found very destructive 10 gas
pipes aud all other Iron buried IN the
earth This In called cicctrolysis The
current OF electricity OyaporateB--ns
we mny term lt--thc Iron and carries II
on In a ynpOrlged form. when cur
rent IN passed through water oxygen
10 carried from the atmosphere TO and
deposited on the positive plate. TINT IL
the plate through which the current
enters the water, and aa the current
passes through the watcr Il gathers n.y.
drogen which II deposits on the mega
tive plate. that IL, the plate through
which the current leaves the winter,
This In called elecirolyalH, and ~ very
nearly the ramc an osmOsis, the df-
ference being that the latter IL used
to carry tho medicine Into tho human
System.
Fcrtlllznrs-- ton OF commercial
fertilizer IN equal 10 eight tons OF barn
yard fertilizer for one season, hut there
IL Il vast difference IN after yeara. Tho
harryart fertilizer continues In after
years to benefit the soil, not by fur
nlshing plant food, as the old theory
has II. but by giving tho soil n tex
ture that enables 1t to hold tho noces-
sary amount OF moisture. while tho
commercial fertilizer kills the sell AZ
tor tho first year by packing 1t and
leaving II in the condition OF burned
clay or brick. 4 ton OF iron fertilizer
10 equal totem tons OF the commcrrisl
or eighty tons Of bnrnynrd fcrtillger
particularly, because the iron fcrtiiiz-
er hna q continuous good eject on
tho soil, regulating for years the eicc-
trio currents and tho moisture. In 1894
about eighty million dollars were In
vested In factories for producing COM
mcrciai fertilizer, producing about two
million tons annually. at n value close
10 one hundred million dollars. and en-
ploying twenty thousand men.
Insect blrds-f'rom some cause not
certainly Understood the birds that
principally use insects for their food
are remarkably scarce In New Eng
land. and therefore II IN predicted that
crops Will suffer the coming year more
than usual from tho crop destroying
insects. Whether these birds ara also
absent from the other paris OF the
United states has not bean ascertain
ed. Farmers will do well 10 investi-
gate In this respect and manage their
crops TO suit the conditions. The
drouth OF the past crop season prob
ably had something to do IN driving
out the birds. Cold winters and other
ununl departures In the weather Cause
migrntions OF birds or destroy their
food 50 Az 10 cause thom to change
iurhntltn III NfhFtU VI t'tIt W Htu tuN
insect birds are driven uiit they return
10 slowly that the inaect becomes very
destructive before the birds can re-
duce their number 10 safe limits. Tho
Usefulness OF birds and the cnNics tlias
bring grent destruction Of crops by the
increase OF inseota. worms. etc. are not
as well Understood by farmers ns they
should be.
In my bulletin writings use great
central valleys 10 mem all tho country
lying between the crosts OF the Rocky
and Allegheny mountains or that part
OF tho United States drained by the
MissisaIppi river and TIA tributaries,
East gulf states border on the gulf
OF Mexico, east az tho Atlssisslppfs
mouth. including the Western slupe Of
Florida; West CUR Includes Texas aud
Nsstcin Louisiana, South Ai'fifif al
tho coast south Of Wnshin4tan city;|
upper lakes include tho Yieiniti-a Of
Lake superior. Michigan aud Huroni
lower lakes, Eric ana ontario; rppcr
Misaiesippi. above ST. Paul: appet' MID
souri,. above Omaha; Pacific alone. all
west OF the Rocky rouriniu crest;
North Pacific coast. north of caiifcr-'
mia: Ohio valley Includes Oils. 1'cnnes-
see, Kentucky. Indiana. Wess y,fginIh
aud that part nf Pennsylvania lyiHy |
wesf OF the Allegheny ridRc. I5arfif-
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