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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-08-11
Foul Brood.


Editor Florida Agriculturist:
Your request as to the outlook for
the bees and the progress of the foul
brood at hand.
Regarding the former, must report
it an off year, as but little if any hon.
ely will be harvested the present sea-
son. The saw palmetto did but act as
Stimulant to encourage the many of
young bees. The cabbage palmetto as
we'll as the mangrove has failed so far
to furnish but sufficient stores to car
ry them over. This may slightly vary
as to locality. The foul brood is but
little heard from in this locality in
which it originated. This is in n
measure the result of the present
honey flow, but as the bees consume
honey contaminated with the disease
it will break out later or conditions
have changed in regard to the disease.
[ base my statements upon what
came under my observations the past
season, when an apiary of sixty or
more colonies was destroyed in order
to save what was possible out of the
effects financially rather than to Grad
icate the disease. Briefly the condi-
tions were as follows: The bees were
smothered. the combs containing
honey and decomposing brood were
piled up in the apiary subject to rob-
bling bees from the neigh boring apiar-
! les. A tent of burlap or bagging was
used to protect from robbing while
| the combs were being extracted
and after the combs were empted
| they were taken to a couple of
| large kettles, set in furnace to be
melted up in order to save the wax.
distributing the diseased honey to
other apiaries. The future only can
decide the result. Had any consider
alton been taken for the interests of
the neighbors whokept bees this work
should have been done only at night
and a small quantity at a time or
rushed through at once.
What disposition was made of the
honey and wax [ did not learn. The
present season being unpropitious for
the secretion of honey, there being
no extracting, this diseased honey
will eventually be used during the
coming winter and the result can be
imagined. AS to it's cure the use Of
lysol and other prepare tions of car
bolic acid has heretofore failed and
but little can be expected from them
in the future.
The starvation process is the only
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-08-11
Poultry Business not Child's Play.

The poultry products of the United
ties" may amount to in the aggregate.
Ones horses, cattle, sheep and swine
are of so respectable dimensions they
attract the notice of all, and the mind
is often led to contemplate the great
value of the aggregate of either; but
the fowls, in comparison, are so small
and gnificant that they are no more
regarded than the small birds of the
air; and yet it is surprising to realize
that the value of the products of poul
try are far in excess of that of either
class of animals named, or the value
of the entire crop Of wheat or corn
grown. Agricultural papers devote
99-1O0 of their attention to other mat
tiers, and only the hundredth fraction
to poultry, the most important pro-
duct of all. Poultry is generally con-
sidered unworthy the attention of
men and only fit to be looked after by
women and children, to bother with
few minutes at a time two or three
times day. To get a knowledge of
the real amount of care and labor re-
quired to grow poultry successfully
and the profit in it, [ asked the pro-
prietor of the Willow Creek Poultry
Yards to write up briefly his views
and experiences in the matter, as he is
notedly successful in the business. [
did this because in agricultural jour
nails some poultry writer's assure the
public it is easy to realize nice sum
out of poultry and hardly feel the Ia
Dor involved; and others think it
won u be a comparatively light task
for one person to care for 1000 or
more head of poultry. Now read be-
low what poultryman says about it,
who has been in the business twenty
years, and has done nothing else He
says:
1t is no. difficult for a man to over
rate himself in any kind of business
I do not know any vocation in which
a man is so apt to overestimate his
capacity as in the chicken business.
The beginner thinks it but child's
play to care for a thousand hens or
three thousand broilers; ut when he
gets at it he finds an elephant on his
hands. 1t will not take all day to
throw down grain for a thousand and
let the fowls go as they please; but to
do the work right one must keep the
premises clean, watch for sick ones,
observe that the fowls are neither
over nor under fed, see that the tenn
perature of the house is correct, and
particularly to see that they are kept
at work in winter scratching for feed,
and that they do not ''bunch" as idle
hens are apt to do at this season of
the year, for if they bunch most as
suredly they will not lay. And then
there are nameless other little things
to look after. The wise ones" may
say what they please, but do not be-
lieve 1000 hen farm was ever yet
successful where the labor was done
principally by one man or hired help.
To do the business rightly, 2C- hens
and 500 broilers annually will furnish
all the work one man can do profita-
IL
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-08-11
POULTRY DEPARTMENT..

Address all communications to Poultry De-
partment, Box 2oo DeLand, Fla.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-07-26

RAISING situation with reference TO the
tariff measure. Had this opposition de-
fcated the bill tho republicans would have
claimed that the democrats and pcruls's
~cre responsible fcS continuance Of evils
and conditions which che proposed tariff
would han remeiled. The opposition
would have ~ me, 100 with the very
proper objection ts1eir hostile action
tina, the country dS<Sed for a new
tariff las; year There wWs>SSihing 10 do
under suoh circumstances hur>suow the
iniQuitous measure TO become ~ and
hold the republicans responsible for>
For any democrats who actually voted FOR
the measure, however, there IS neither eS-
ctise nor paillai.on.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-07-26

i,y with which the statesman failed to
connect the tall with the body. and put
the eye In the middle OF the head.
Senator McEnery OF Louisiana, whose
support Of the rtntcctive features OF the
tariff bill has attracted much attention. Is
lawyer and has been In Politics since
before tho war He is just 81 years old,
and had completed university education
and part Of the course at the Annapolis
academy before entering the Confederate
army.
The Rev. Henry c, Minton Of San Fran.
cisco. who has Just been elected president
Of Center college. Danville Ky, has Tor
>nany years been regarded as one of the
ne& brilliant and scholarly Presbyterian
cleressSen on the Pacific coast. He was
oandldh> for moderator at the Presby-
terrain general assembly which met at
WinonR Park, InA In May.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-07-26

West sullivan CMaine) girl is spending
thlrty days In jail for uttering a SANDER
There are about thirty newspaper pro-
prietors and journalists in the British
house Of commons.
The empress of Austria COLLECTS COWS
AT whatever place she stays she purchases
COW. which becomes part OF her luggage
when she returns home after her travels
Estrada Palma, the head OF the Cuban
iunta In this country, has sent a machete
TO Senator Mason OF Illinois to be given
10 his little daughter. Win,fred. Mr. Palma
makes this present IN recognition OF Sem
ator Mason's services for free Cuba.
Victor Franconi, the celebrated circus
proprietor. died recently IN Paris at the
age OF So; Hts grandfather, Antonio Fran
conf: established the first circus in France
IN iJsb. Tho family will continue In tho
business, AZ Victor Franconi leaves son.
The death q Arn. Alexander campbcl
at bethany. w. Va. week before last. st
tho age OF % yearp. will remind tho public
Of the remarkable growth OF the church
founded by her Husband. She saw tho very
beginning Of q acct which now numbers
over l,o0D.o00 commandments. which once
turned the scale In : pfssidant,aI election.
ana Which T r9RidlF 14111l = ~ uelll;
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-07-26

should see at once that purse is raised
TO pay off the buildings indebtedness,
which is less than $1,000, and raise suf-
fcient fund to maintain splendid exhibits
at the centennial from now on to the close
OF the same.
The cool weather will soon set in. then
the great influx of visitors from the North
and West will begin to arrive. most of
them on the hunt of homes in the South.
What has Southwest Texas done to in
duce them to come TO her borders?
! Not even folders of the vast railroad In
terests are shown.
| No towns or cities in the State show up
their resources even in printed literature,
save Sabine Pass. She is TO the front in
good shape-visitors are handed the pros
pectus Of the greatest seaport on the gulf.
Now II Sabine Pass would show in effect
the products of the forest and soil there
she would reap the harvest OF the home
seekers
| 1t is time some OF the interests OF the
Southwest were awakening to action. Let
the immigration societies act at once.
Houstor-'s business men should send for
ward at once the fine exhibits they have
| In store. and equal to that of any section.
| Galveston might send a carload of sea
foam and a ton of jelly fish. but let all
act in concert, and let something be done
for Texas
! When visitors trc7n Texas go to the
I Texas building they all say. II am ashsm-
ed OF Texas" Let us see how much you
are ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS o. cents or SIS
| worth. II some one will start around the
hat perhaps all will contribute. Give it
a trial anyway. Visitor.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-07-26
4 800 rrRorEAN rRIcK.


There Is no public matter except the
money question and The tariff in which
the South II more vitality Interested as a
section or the s4u cities individually.
Than the construction OF an interoccanic
canal 10 the immediate south OF us. The
Washington aeHs .n recent issue az Tho
Post gives an inumation NJ the source Of
the opuositiou tia, has so successfully kept
back the Nicaragua canal project.
The Nicaragua canal would have been
several hundred miles nearer oar gulf
coasts and South Atlantic soaboard than
The Panama canal This would have given
rs sill moro decided advantage over the
Europeans IN reaching the west coasts
Then AGAIN the United States would have
claimed absolute control Over the Nicara-
qua route because built by American
money To Offset such advantages It seems
10 have entered the shrewd head Of the
Rothschilds to proceed rapidly with the
comol-ton Of the Panama canal and or
eanize uuadruple control, with England,
France, Germany and the United States In
charge This would mean that our COM
fer We should be hut one against three
The frst thing necessary to be done, how
ever. was 10 Kill OFF the Nicaragua canal
project and these Washington adyiees in
form us that this European influence las
been actively ct work in Washington rs a
hostile lobby toward the Nicaragua canal.
The agents OF the Rothschilds would
naturally find plenty OF assistance on this
side. The extreme North has looked with
jealousy upon the South's favored position
and the big transcontlnental lines have
been ready 10 stab any canal scheme
Whether these various agencies, as sug.
gested. have actually been instrumental ia
killing off the canal bin before congress
certain II is that the measure met viii
unexpected and especially bitter opposition
from quarters that looked extremely sus
picious.
II II he true that the foreign capitalist
and governments have In view sucl
schemes as are reported. splendid OPP
portnnity Will DO afforded the senators an
representatives from the South to get ever
by . little lobbying OF their own. The
United States ought never 70 be drawn int
u quadrupie agreement for the control o
the Panama or any other canal. What w
want II tho Nicaragua route. 700 n,iles
peares 10 cur gulf coasts. and falling 4
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-07-26
SOME rosTsSsrrs.

ON an average an ErgliahmaE is four
teen pounds heavier than a FrenchiNAp.
The wh-clbarrow coolies Of China hs<s
joined In the general movement for trades
unions and have formed a guild OF their
own.
The annual increase OF the German ma.
ton during the last FIVE years has been
more than five times as much as that OF
the French.
In down town barber shop in Phila-
delphia Ia the sign In the shape OF a
tombstone bearing the inscripti 'n, "Whis-
kers dyed here"
\ chain bridge over the Mcr-lmac river
at Amcsbury, Mass, Is sad to be the
oldest suspension bridge IA the United
States. II was built In 1899.
a 6o-year-old widow In Tidenham, in
Gloucestershirc. England has been sent 10
jail for two months for milking other PEG
pies COWS on the town common.
The United Kingdom has added 10 the
British empire during these sixty years
an area Of square miles of the Land of the
earth equal 10 thirty-ono times its own
area.
The earliest thimhlcs were made OF
leather, but IN the vcnteenth century
they were of gold al silver principally
gold, and enriched .th rubies and other
gems.
i
to accommodate 1000 persons, and contain
ing n lar-e organ VAS burned recently
causing damage estimated at from 10000
TO 20.rJ0 pounds.
Street Commissioner Samuel G. Bail Of
Pottstown grew monster turnip, measur-
ing ~ "a by is IL inches and being ia
inches in diameter 1t weighs three pounds
and three ounces.
The grave OF John Boyle O'Reilly. the
I.t. A. - -
outside OF Boston. is kept constantly deco
rated by tlcral emblems from his number
less friends and admirers
or the Ii9 900 coo old copper cents which
were sent out from the mint only 100000
have ever been accounted for, and only
now and .h~u IA 2 stray one Of tho ref
naming l''ooO.ooo seen In circulation.
Isaac Lorg. Downsvile. shipped from
the c. v ralrond station at Williamsport.
Md. TO the Pittshurg market in three days
40 bushels OF raspbcrrios, weighing TO-
0Oo pounds. Mr.. Long employs seventy
pickors.
out Of 80 Indian boys and girls late
~ at the Indian Industrial schoo, at Car
lislc. only 16; are there now. The 1ths
400 are out among the farmers OF the state
helping 10 harvest the crops.
Chicago is laying plans for more extern
sivo public improvements this year than
have been undertaken there before. In
sewers, street paving. bridges and elevation
Of tracks. and the adjustment of grades in
various parts of the city, her budget al
ready calls for $S,o0o0c0.
The city ol Baltimore has already re-
ceiyod S3gS3li rs part OF Its three-
fonrths share Of this years rcoc'nts by
the municipal liquor license commissioners
The city's total amount for the year WI,
probably exceed $500 900. one-fourth OF
Tho rtpefpis goes 10 the state.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-07-26
houston. MONDAY, July 70, 1soT.
- EXTRA SESSION.

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, -sss....,r,,en. O, .se ,or,n the country
v--rs a, os,e sbow s,egs Of 4 retiring
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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-07-26
THE LATE MAGAZINES.


A special fiction number is Frank Les
lies Popular Monthly for August, There
ARE seven complete stories, all illustrated.
and all are bright and clever, the one by
Margaret Il. Sangster being particularly no.
iioesbc for Its sweet simplicity. But the
number is not given up entirely to fiction.
There is an attractiyely illustrated paper
entitled "a Grandee Of the Fields in
which Martha McCulloch- Williams chats
enteTtRiningly OF tobacco, its history and
cultivation. The University OF Virginia is
the subject Of an article by Richard Heath
Dahney. forming the tenth paper In this
magazines popular series on American
universities aud colleges; It is illustrated
with good portraits and We've.
Tho illustrated American of July II con-
talns the second OF Speaker Reeds arti-
cies. II Is entitled "a Half-Forgotten
Leader" and discusses tho career OF the
late Senator Congcr Of Michigan. It IL q
chiyalrous and Intensely interesting paper.
full of tho Reed humor and the Reed phil
osophy. Hon. Walter Evans, member Of
the house from Keatucky. Discusses In The
same number Of the American the making
OF u tariff bill; and Julian Jcrruid writes
entertalningiY Of the old steam navy OF
the United States.
Godey's Magazine for August opens with
breezy contribution from the PEN Of VIM,
p, NeCrscasn, wkees recses yerks a
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-07-26
Cucro summer Normal.
To tho Editor Of The Post

cuero. Texas, July "a, 1897. Considers
Ing the prime object of the summer normal
schools, the advancement OF the country
teacher as 10 teaching ability. the Cuero
summer Normal is succeeding beyond
doubt. The second week OF the session
closed with an enrolment OF forty. mainly
country teachers who show 10y their con-
slant application from day to day that they
mean to make the best possible use of the
opportunity presented them. Their spirit
Is mat OF the real student, a searcher ar
Ter knowledge. They seem especially in
teresteh in trying TO understand something
OF the modern and better methods of teach
ing.
Too much can not be said In commando
ton OF Conductor p. A. Daule and his
able assistants They are making the daily
sessions pleasant, interesting and prof-
liable. Professor II. q. Long. A. M. n
teacher Of marked ability and large ex-
perience. Is making the subjects which
ne teaches, reading, grammar. composition
and geometry. very Interesting. and highly
profitable. Professor c.; II. Grigss has
charge Of civil government. physics. physl-
cal BIOGRAPHY. history and moral phiioso-
ply. Under hls skiilfui instruction these
branches are being thoroughly taught.
HIS methods are Interesting and strictly
mooern. Those teachers Of the country
neIeapoub who are not attending are un-
dountediy missing that which they ought
70 nave " order 10 make any real success
~ TIE school rom. Y, y y ~
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-07-26
The next issue of the Texas Magazlne
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
Farmers want Irrigation.

To the Editor OF The Post.
San eoh, royae I,,ly 90 An orrona-
GUS ihipitssioh ID entertainer by soiHe peo-
pie in the thickly settled portions OF Texas
that the peonle of Nest Texas are onposed
to ,h., ,,r,.,,t>,, ,,,..,.., mn
Nv guy
organized opposition thaJ nave heard oil
comes from the owners OF irrigated farms
near San Anp.la trha forc. az choir M
suinenV ~ utoheh wien IL 10 uuueIstoo"'
~ ~ 10 ho'h'nS less ih"h mat IL Is against
Vuei ihleipse io' any one cISu 10 RAISE rIo-
uuee io' ,tie narhe'S oil West leAas' lpey
49, "i,'ns 'u"l tuei' ''Hus "te ho" No'tn
slu" yer acre ana that lneY nave bT0u6nl
'ip iapulous rental OIL =" per acre
IN me San sapa valley, where ! i've,
'o"''e'eu, p"t "ltnih the Instance Oh e'eht
vi ven mics ot NY hulue' mere are seNerdi
nuhnteu acres 81 lrr's"ttd !ahds. lhese
Janus nave Deen uhder ItIls"uoh inr the
last Twenty-Five wears ana nave uniformly
produced one ana Il NAN pAIes oil eollCn
pVI acre anu other crops IN proportion
Just as Good IahdS only across WIRE
ttH'r' nut Without Tue ldVlHbes VI Ntltr
iuF TlGauoh' nave not averaged one-ililh
81 pale Oh COTTON To 'he acre WINE the
ina. .t'sa''a anus nave pa!u the owners as
lcHthl during mo last lew years rom Sl1
10 81 per acre annually even Win the
~" pll'e thal COTTON mas Drought BUY
II l,'EA' 'oh WAS pIa'tleeu on lacse seh!e
III 'he San SABA Na'ley' we W"uIi pave
Ih''ioad I"'lhties ana 'heh raise crops
'hdI are not prouuced elsewhere m icAas
ON HrV lands. Without railroad laE''Ities
cotton Is the only crop that WI bear the
cost oil TRANSFORMATION to market, aud hence
"ui FARMERS nave talsed COTTON heretofore
On IRRIGATED lNnds Inc lhhu VIII wafer
iaclRle" can be sold any day ior 500 per
acre, Wnile the land equally aS gSod a.ollg-
| htN L. az ~
Ihefe Is no DOUBT about inc value OF iiri-
sa'lon IN ms section OF Texas as can be
testUed TO by the entire population OF san
SABA county, Notwithstanding ms, and
the further fact, that more beautiful
river than the san saba does not flow
on the banks of this river 5000 acres of
land as fertile AS any in the world await
LEX omN We ii'asic ,1ush Oh Wttor 10
wears we have tried in vain to get capital
to put in the necessary irrigation works
Slo ncr nero and would have riven SARA
and have offered to pay 81 annually Tor
the use OF the water We did not have
one u.sN 10 pny, pua onu.eu 10 SECURE .he
question was raised as to the mower Of
husband and wife to create a lien on their
homesteads Tor ms purpose Ihere is no
Sro,,, u'' ,rrati . an, is ' a IN, ', 49,
man, to III. honos,oad for ,b -.
| chances mo own, nrnd,Iciro o,,,ii,t,s -,
he land four fola But we have NOT vet
gotten the money under the prcsent laws
and we are very much afrnid that We can
not Nno-tenths OF the owners of homes
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CURRENT Fun.

"Pa sent mo over to borrow your lawn
mower. An he says that wouldn't you
prefer to sharpen II yourself .,
"Why should | prefer to sharpen II
"'Cause pa says he is so awkward ABOUT
such things. an he might turn the edge -
Cleveland Plain Dealer
why. Mr.. Baxter exclaimed MISS
Fri sbie. AS the two sat on the porch OF
the seaside hotel your proposal aston'sh's
lnci We met only yesterday for the hrst
time and ! know almost absolutely hoVh-
ing about you .,.
pUed MIR. Baxter 81 do not ask you TO
take my word as 20 my social standing !
am ready TO show YOU testimonials lroi'
all my last summer hance, s. liHrper y
Ba2ar.
"How do pnow that you really love
mc?' she asked What assurance have l
that YOU would be willing to make sacr'-
ficos and endure hardships for my sake -
He looked at her IN reproachful aston
ishment and exclaimed; q,
What more can you ask? Haven't l
for six months refrainod from laying vio-
lent hands on your little brother MATT
mazoo Telegraph,
Waggs--I see there Is a coed deal o'
talk about Boston having horSeless hre
engine. But that IL nothing, horseless nr'
engines were in common use u huhureu
years ago.
Jaggs-I guess you are mistaken,
Waggs-No, | am not; they were hauled
by me flremen.--Now York Tribune.
AT thy shrine. o Cupid" she whispered
81 sink upon my Blended knee!'
The fair god shrugged bis SHOULDERS I'M
patiently.
"The idca," he exclaimed, "of girl us
ing her own knee for such purpose! -
Detroit Journal.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-07-26

Turkey. Japan, Spain. or ANY old coun.
try" iinds a ready and sympathetic lis
,ener tn Emperor ilam-partlcularly II
there Is complaint against the united
States. We have been making such 4
draft upon tho population OF Germany
during tho past twenty years that the
emperor docs not look upon US with the
kindliest evN