The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-26

start with thoroughbreds. THE beginner
should start with grades" said he. 1T
Is necessary for the man to evolute as we'll
as the hos"
He said he had found 1t most profitable
TO feed for the September market, The
packers want hogs TO supply the heavy
demand for bacon during the cotton pick
ing season, The best and cheapest way is
10 have the pigs weighing about 200
pounds ready on june l. then begin feed
Ing them on green oats; oats in the dough
viii beat anything to make pigs grow.
Il The oats Will last until about June 25. and
/ they should be followed with green corn
and sorghum until July |. when roasting
4 ears come in. About the LIST OF September
the hogs should weigh $50 TO 200 pounds,
and the gained flesh should have cost not
! to exceed . cents a pound He said al
though he had not tried sweet potatoes
| or peanuts. he believed they were good
| hog foods, but some corn should be fed
with them
| Colonel +. s. Peters Of Calvert made
| talk on How TO Plant Alfalfa" He said
| the soil should be thoroughly prepared,
and the seed should be planted early
enough In the fall to let the plant get a
good start, as 1t is very tender. He had
always been very successful In planning
oats with Il.
II think alfalfa Is going to be the sal-
walton of this country" said he. II cut
two crops OF II this year before the food.
and am satisfied that | would have cut
two crops more had II not been for tho
! flood. You can raise fifty head OF hogs on
ten acres of alfalfa The hogs Will eat
| the hay as we'll as the green alfalfa. The
sooner we get to raising alfalfa and get
our cattle and hogs fed ON 1t upon the
market, the better 1t will be for u.s." In
conclusion, he commended the paper to
i be read in the farmers section upon the
subject OF growing alfalfa on uplands.
/ Mr.. c, Falkner of Waco made short ad
| dress 'inon the subject. He predicted that
the day was coming when there would be
more alfalfa planted in tho Brazos bot
! toms than cotton, He said the Kansas en-
pertinent station had demonstrated that
| ground alfalfa with corn raticns was bet
| ter than wheat bran.
Prof. Cornell said the Kansas experi-
ment station has issued bulletin giving
| the result OF the experiments with alfalfa,
| and they say that ground alfalfa is 10 per
cent better than wheat bran, The farmer
| is no longer dependent upon bran. He
| said that Secretary Wilson OF the United
| States agricultural department had re-
Gently visited the southern portion Of
| Texas He regretted very much that he
| had not visited North Texas, but he was
4 in the hands OF some railroad friends, and
| did not have time to go to North Texas.
! Some of the Brazos valley farmers told
! Secretary Wilson that they couldn't make
money out of cotton
When he came here he told us what
| these farmers had said" continued Prof.
| Connell, ''and asked us what these farmers
| should do. | asked him what should
! farmer do who can raise four or five tons
of alfalfa per acre on these lands, and
| he replied they should raise alfalfa. /
/ asked him what would such land be worth.
in any civilized country. and he answered
D n "a a.srn Ia rat al fol fn
! one of the most promising of crops"
! Mr. Il. w. Kirkpatrick of Mckinney
| made talk on Grating and Budding
! with few interesting observations on
prosperity and Philanthropy. He said
/ every farmer should do some grating and
/ budding, as he ought to know better than
/ anyone else what is best adapted 10 his
! particular locality. He gave simple ex
4 PLANTATION of grating and budding with
I practical demonstrations of the processes.
Mr. G. Falkner of Waco made talk on
The Farmers Orchard" He had ex
| pected to talk on plums, and he made his
/ plum talk before he got down to the
| farmers orchard. He said when he was
young man going courtn' 1t used to
] be said OF a girl she is as pretty as n
| peach but plums have been improved
| so that 1t has not come to be said that a
! girl Is plum pretty" He exhibited some
splendid specimens OF plums which he said
4 were a cross betwean the little Chlckasaw
/ plum and the Japanese They get size
J from the latter and hardness from the
former. He said when he lived back in
/ Mississippi plums were not grown for
/ sale, and it would have been considered
a disgrace TO offer to Sell any. When he
went TO Waco he Bought place upon
/ which there were few plum threes. The
! following year he had several men AT work
gathering his fruit and pcddling II. When
I they had about cleaned out everything ex-
cept the plums. they asked him what
J was the matter with their selling the
4 pIums. He told them he didn't suppose
4 anybody would buy them, but they might
\ try II they wished. Eighty four dollars
for the product of the twelve trees opened
4 his eyes on the plum question, and he
/ had been getting them wider open ever
/ since. He said nearly every farmers or
I chard he had seen between here and Waco
had been neglected and grown up in grass
\ and weeds. He urged that they cultivate
! their orchards and said they would find
] 1t profitable 10 grow blackberries between
/ the rows Of trees.
| Mr.. w. A. Rhea of Mckinney made
! talk on "Acclimating Northern Cattle
( He said 1t was of the greatest Importance
TO improve the cattle of Texas. TnS
4 trouble In the past had not been that the
4 cattle cost too much. but the loss in ac-
/ climating them, He believed the Rubi-
\ con had been crossed He had been i'm
Z
years. At first his losses had run from
I 25 to 100 per cent. But in later days, as
I the result of the scientific research which
4 has been In progress, he has reduced IL
J to practically nothing. He read report
which be had made upon the subject to
| the bureau OF animal industry, United
! States agricultural department. He told
I In this report how injections OF blood Sc
/ rum from perfectly healthy, acelimatized
! cattle, had immunized the imported cat
tie from Texas fever. He said that what
\ ever success he had attained In this re-
/ spect had been due TO the efforts OF DR..
1 Francis, veterinarian OF the Texas Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college. DR..
4 Francis has done much for the State: he
4 is a public benefactor. He has made 1t
I possible for the people OF Texas to i'm
prove their cattle.
\ He also gave the formula OF an emul-
! sion he uses to remove the ticks from
! cattle, and he urged the Importance OF the
cattle having pure water.
/ President Foster OF the Agricultural and
| Mechanical college arose and said that
since he had been connected with tho
/ school DR.. Francis had expressed TO him
I the difficulties under which he was work
4 ing In this particular line. A few days
ago DR.. Francis came 10 him and said ne
/ was lust beginning TO see light on sub
! iert that he has had under investigation