Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-04-12
WEATHER BULLETIN
STORM FonEoAsrs As GIVEN ny
W. r. FOSTER.
seven Local storm. Are rredie'ed
TO occur Durins the Latter Part
OF tho present Month.

~ Joseph. Mo, April ll.--hy lasi
bulletin gave forecasts Of The storm
wave TO cross the continent from the
10th TO Goth. and the next viii reach
! the Pncifo const about tho 2ist. cross
The west OF the Rockies country ~ the
close OF the ga. great central valleys
sd TO 18th, eastern states goth.
This disturbance viii bring severe
local storms. and heavy rains viii fall
IN llmitel ietalities. Generally rainfall
WIN be deficient and the drouth VIII
begin TO be elective in the Ohio. Mis-
souri and upper Mississippi valleys and
In north Atlantic ntatca
Itainfnli ia tho Southern states and
on tho Pacific slope viii be fair. Cool
weather In southeastern states and
on Pacific slope.
The warm wave win cross tho west
Of the Rockies country about the 2ist.
great central valleys 23d. eastern states
2sth. Cold wave viii cross the west Of
tho Rockies country about the eth.
great central valleys 2eth. eastern
states 2sth
Among the most common vegetables
arc peas ana beans. and their varieties
extend into the thousands. so FAR as
history can inform us they arc natives
OF the countries surrounding the Mod
itcrrnnean sea, where they have been
cultivated for thousands OF years.
nut, Notwithstanding this long OK
pcrience with those common articles OF
food. there nre many Interesting fncts
not generally understood. even by ag-
rlcuiturists.
Those plants do not require rich
soil and only limited moisture Is noe
fully adjusted, the crop often falls
FROM another cause. and that cause is
the subject Of this bulletin.
Animal life iH sustained exclusively
by nutrimont obtained from the bodies
OF other animals. or from the organic
matter Of vegetable bodies. while the
life Of green plants cannot be sustained
by organic matter.
Plant life obtains all its support
from the atmosphere and forms organ
iams which constitute the supports and
beginnings OF animal life.
There arc instances where vegetable
life depends on the close proximity OF
two very different kinds Of vegetation.
The iichena, 30 common In far northern
countries. are formed BY the fnlngllng
Of very different vegetables which do
not thrive when separate When not
growing together they are as radically
different aa grease and Icy, and when
united they become OF r oneness differ
ing az much from their component
parts aH soap does from ley and crease.
There arc also vegetables which cam
NOT NNIlNf NAAnNuA iU' AnNIhl1AlNlNh VI
life although they draw no nntriment
from the animal bodies with which they
nHHocinte. This btlnEa uB-te--thuHn
great families. the pea and tho bean.
Many farmers have noticed that peas
and beans do not yield well when
planted on new ground or on old ground
whore they have not before been grown.
The reason Tor this IL that the bac-
terra. or organic life. little insects we
might call them, are wanting
Louis Mangin. French boinnlst. anys
that n pean and beans be cultivated
In clean sand that has been heated 80
as 20 Kill the bacteria. the plants
turn yellow, fade and do not grow and
further that VI tho plants are Hhowered
by wator IN which soil from gard m
where peas rave long been produced
the plants In the sand will revive and
flourish IN n few days because the
bAcforin, very ANAL animal organism,
are thus introduced into the sand.
Here N valuable lesson to those Yho
arc growing any OF the thousand varic-
Ties Of beans or peas and many crop
failures may be avoided by studying
these very old but generally unknown
facts.
on the roots Of beautiful plants may
bo found tiny tuberH or tubercles They
are formed by the bacteria and prob
ably are what mlslend early botnniatu
to believe that roots were supplied
with small apdnRe-ille formations
which were said 10 suck up the plant
food from the soil.
These bacteria In no way Injuro tho
plants. but they and the plants are
necessary to each others successful
gruwths.
Tho bacteria do not furnish plant
food. but by some not yet Understood
method enable the plants TO draw a
larger quantity OF gaseous nitrogen
from the atmosphere.
The bean and pea family will produce
only sinnll crVpl In rev. rich soil that
w not supplied with bacteria. ana al
most no crops on worn1it soil where
there In no bacteria. The bacteria
alone makeH the poor soils produce
fine crops. and those cereals. and thore-
fore whore bonne, peas. etc, DO not
produce wen. row bacteria IN tho mnn-
ner described above and you will ind
a. large Increase m the production OF
these crops.
necessary TO a thrifty growth Of FOR
cst aud fruit trees us are those lust
described 10 the bean and pea fnrnl-
lies
Where the forest trees have n ylRor-
Gus growth you may know TINT the
noll about their roots IN fun of that
| Kind OF bacteria. necessary 10 tron
growth and by soaking some OF that
SOL IN water and then pouring the
water around your orchard trees. vines
| and nhfubbury you viii thus SOW the
bacteria where II VIII do most good.
Thc above facts are CLEANED from a
| noted French writer Mnngln, and he
| aides tho valuable prnrticai infor-
| nation. Roc8 toward sustaining the
| theory that plants obtain all their
nutriment from the atmosphere.
In stables whore horses are kept,
more particularly IN Easements. the
wnlls are often covered with Il white
powder similar to frost and nnlmuls
eagerly Hex II hF thoy would salt That
| powder N tho nitrate OF commerce
~ valuable 40 fertilizer. IN coun-
tries whore no rain falls thia nitrate
hccumulateH IN large quantities.
/ . LIVING microscopic Organisms In
| the aoll. by some not well undrrHtood
process. gRthor nitrogen gna from the
ntpnaphore or from the soil and the
REFUSE or result II what ~ called nj
ttnir. The work 90 these little harterIa
"a what we ser In all formentatione.
"a N beer, yeast sour milk and other
! puirrfnctlona
When The working OF these mieroa-
copio animals are undcrstood tho
scientific world win be uhwlIlinri,,
| forced 20 admit that all tbinrn oxisf-
Inc IN solid or liquid parts Of the
earth had prior existence az ether.
and ~ a Fna having come 10 the
more solid parts OF the carth through