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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-15

to be read on three several days DC
suspended, and it is so enacted
Note-This bill became a law with
out the signature of the governor
An act to prohibit railroad ana
railway companies or corporations III
this state from permitting Johnson
grass or Russian thistles from gong
to seed upon their rightofway' anu
fixing a penalty.
Railroads Must Be Careful.
Section :. Be it enacted by the
legislature of the state Of Texas. IL
shall hereafter be unlawful for any
railroad or railway company or cor
poration doing business in this state,
to permit any Johnson grass or Rus
sian thistle to mature or go TO seed
upon any rightofway owned, leased, or
controlled by such railroad or railway
company or corporation in this state
Section 3 If it shall appear upon
the suit of any person owning, leas-
ing or controlling land contiguous TO
the rightofway of any such railroad
or railway company or corporation,
that said railroad or railway company
or corporation has permitted any
Johnson grass or Russian thistle 10
mature or go to seed upon their right
of way. such person thus suing shall
recover from such railroad or railway
company or corporation the sum OF so,
and any such additional sum as he
may have been DANA ed by reason OF
such railroad or railway company or
corporation permitting Johnson grass
or Russian thistle TO mature or go TO
seed upon their rightOfway; provided,
any owner of land or any person con-
trolling land contiguous to the rightof-
way of any such railroad or railway
company who permits Johnson grass
or Russian thistle to mature or go 70
seed upon said land shall have no
right to recover from such railroad or
railway company as provided for in
this act.
Note.-This act took effect April 3,
1901, 80 days after adjournment.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-15
BY G.. A. Martin.

Billings, Mont, Oct. 11.-This little
city on the plains, claiming only $4,000
souls. can give FL Paso many pointers
on how to be up to date. The first
thing you see when you get off the
train at night is a row of nice looking
buildings with an electric sign in front
Of almost every one Of them and big
clusters Of street lamps on the side
walks and the passengers all exclaim
at once: ooh, what a pretty place"
Wandering down the street, the Won
der increases. FL Paso has gooseneck
arcs on each side of the street, but
Billings has fancy iron posts down
each side of every street with five such
lights as ours on every post Each
post costs $40 and they are beauties.
No city in the country is any better
lighted and it is q safe assertion that
no city the size of Billings has so
many lights Of this character. And
almost every business house has an
electric sign It is beautiful sight
almost like a fairyland or some mann
moth Coney Island to reach Billings
after dark.
The streets are just now torn up for
paving-the people have the paving
fever-and workmen are busy putting
down creosoted blocks and vitrified
brick. 1 explained to Mr. Moss our
Ell Paso system of a rotating or per-
petual paving fund and he was inter-
ested in this, so FL Paso is able to fur
nish some pointers to this wideawake
little city.
The Y. NJ c. A building for town
only a third as large as Ell Paso. is
almost as large and just as handsome
" furnished. It is three stories, with
a basement, and in many respects re-
senbles the FL Paso building, except
that it is not quite so wide.
The Masonic temple is three stories,
with a basement, and is built Of yell
low brick with Corinthian columns
and is artistic as well as commodious.
1t is as good a building as Ell Paso's
Toltec club.
The opera house is on the corner,
three-story building, with entrances
from two sides through an arcade, on
which face jewelry stores, haberdash-
cries, confectionery stores and other
business houses The opera house
itself is much finer than the Ell Paso
theater There is really no compare
SON
The EIks' club is the finest thing
in the city. With only $4,000 people.
the town has an E1ks' club that cost
$4,000 and is finished in real ma
hogany. II is four stories, built in the
center Of a big lot, with pretty
grounds around it and maintains
restaurant, finished in mission, that
will seat zoo people at one time. The
reading room walls are covered with
tapestry, one piece being 12x20 feet,
and all furnishings are mahogany. The
floors are all hard wood, covered with
Navajo blankets. Pool and billiard
tables are provided, and in one Of the
rooms the furniture is made from e1kS'
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-15
Irrigated Land

IN THE BEST FRUIT AND ALFALFA
VALLEY IN AMERICA is now omen
for settlement at Fort Stockton Tex
Richest soil i'm Pecos valley, limestone
formation (no gyp), natural flow of
pure spring water exceeding $4,000. 600
gallons per day for irrigation and do
mest1c use; irrigation system com
pIeted and in full operation now: no
waiting for water; assured profits of
from 800 to $1,000 per acre; no
drought; no crop failures; finest all
year round climate in the United
States; altitude $3.50 feet above sea
level.
Fort Stockton is county seat of Pc
COS county and important division
point on the Kansas City, Mexico &,
Orient Railway. now building into
Fort Stockton. Population now 1900
and growing rapidly. Those who have
investigated irrigated districts Of New
Mexico, Colorado. Utah. California.
oregon. Washington, Idaho etc. say
this is the finest body of irrigated
land they ever saw.
This is one irrigation project where
the water supply has not varied in
% years. where every drop of water
used for irrigation is good TO drink and
where there is water in abundance for
every acre of land that is irrigabI
You cannot afford to buy land any
where without seeing Fort Stockton.
Low rate excursions the first and third
Tuesdays Of each month. Write for
full particulars today.
REFERENCES: First National bank
Kansas City. Mo-; First State bank
Fort Stockton, Tex.
Prospectus. map and illustrated
folder describing these lands mailed
free TO all who address. FORT STOCK
TON IRRIGATED LAND COWP4NY
81 Fidelity Trust Bldg, Kansas city,
Mo-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-15
BILLINGS LOOKS GOOD
EVEN TO AN Ell PASOAN


horns. the product of the Montana
mountains. The two upper stories are
used for living apartments for MEM
bers and for ball room.
The town has two hotels, which
while neither is any larger than FL
Paso's leading hotels, have the Ell Pasa
places so far outdistanced in furnish
ings and the style in which they are
conducted, that there is no COMPARE
son.
Billings is a live city. surrounded by
a good irrigated and non-irrigated
farming country, and it can give many
cities in the country 10 times Its size
some pointers. If the Ell Pasoans
could get a glimpse Of this little city
by night or day, but especially at
night, they would take q new hitch
in the belt, draw a fresh breath and
start out in new race for progress. II
a town of Ii, 900 can do what Billings
has done, the possibilities are limitless
for Ell Paso, of $4,000. If Billings were
an average town for her size, then Ell
Paso would be far behind the average
town of the size of FL Paso-but
Billings is not an average town;
Billings is a leader.
FL Paso has always prided herself
on her leadership in the southwest,
and when FL Paso faces the music in
a fight, she has never known the
meaning of the word fail. If FL Paso
would go to work at home like the FL
Pasoans worked at Pueblo in their
fight against the greed of Colorado, 1t
would not belong until Billings would
not be such a wonder, but until they
do. this little city of 1900 people and
one railroad can make Ell Paso, with
its $4,000 people and eight railroads
hide its face.
The volunteer fireman has been rele
gated to the rear in Billings, along
with the gambler and other pioneer at
tachments They have a paid fire de-
partment here, eight public school
buildings, a flour mill as large as Ell
Paso's, a beet sugar factory, poly
technic institute-not state enter
prise either-and just lots of good
things. They have bought a postoffice
site for $4,000 and donated it TO the
government on which a building to
cost $4,000 will be erected. The peo-
pie just got together, raised the
money, bought the ground-the owner
has other property close by and cut
the price-and gave it to Uncle Sam
uel. Now Uncle is going to do the
rest
Billings has a library that is as
large as Ell Paso's, but it's not a Car
negie building Billings built it and
It has been used so freely that an
addition is being put onto It. The Ii
brary was erected in honor of the man
who founded the town.
The Great Northern railroad, which
runs through the town, does BUSH
ness of s250,00 month or $4,000, 600 d
year, according to P. B.. Moss, who, by
the way, is an old time friend of / A.
Shedd, of FL Paso, and asked very
kindly about Mr.. Shedd.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-15
Some Notes On Incubation
and Care In Handling Eggs
By H Assistant professor Of AgTOnOmy N Mex M Coin


! suddenly, but progressively, which is
shown by an abnormal evolution when
the egg is incubated.
In an experiment, eggs nine days
old, when incubated during July all
gave monstrosities; and part of those
I incubated at five days at high tenn
perature did likewise. In October and
November, eggs Is to 20 days old. de-
veloped well, but the majority pro-
duced mOnstrosities.
Dareate. a famous French embry-
oiogist, secured 25 eggs from Albert
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, carried them
himself over a railroad travelling 25
minutes Three hours after reaching
his laboratory, he put half of the eggs
into the incubator, and 80 hours later
he opened them. All but one was
dead and designating. The remain
ing eggs were kept between three
and four days before being put into
the incubator and after 80 hours all
the embryos were still alive. After
learning this, he kept all eggs two or
three days before incubating
Langly, of Holland, in 1874, estab-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-15

! narrowly IanceOlate, or taperlnS, III
shape, about two inches long. In the
spring these trees bear rather large
panicles of small, dull, white flowers.
cluster of brownish berries, each Of
which contains a single ellipsoidal
brown seed one-fourth of an inch in
length The trees may be grown from
the seed, or from the young trees
foot or two in height which may be
found in the warm rocky canyons.
The walnut or nogal is a native tree
which deserves more attention in this
region. 1t resembles the black walnut
of the Mississippi valley states in most
respects, except it is generally smaller
in size. and the nuts are only half to
two-thirds as large as the black wal
nut.
The Native Sycamore.
The sycamore is another native tree
which attains a height of so to 20 feet,
and not fnfrequently a diameter of "a
TO 30 inches. 1t has a wide spreading
open head, smooth, flaky, whitish gray
bark. and large palmate leaves whose
five long acuminate lobes hang down
ward in a cluster with points almost
touching
The wild mulberry grows in the drier
canyons at elevations below 5000 feet
and does well under cultivation. 1t has
no fruit and is consequently more de-
sirable than the Russian mulberry,
which is one of our most hardy and
drouth-resisting trees.
The blackberry is a spreading tree
which also grows on the drier, warmer
slopes of our mountains. Its small,
reticulated, or netted, leaves remain
until late in the fall and are among
the first in the spring. In summer, its
leaves become dark green and the
shade il produces is denser than is
usual.
New Mexico's Oaks.
The oaks of New Mexico are more
numerous than is generally supposed.
They are generally known as scrub
oak. including several species of ever
green trees having low widely spread
ing crowns; the white oaks. with dark.
deeply lobed deciduous leaves; the
black oak, with rather rough bark and
glossy spiney leaves; and the silver
leaved oak, which has narrowly oblong
leaves that are glossy on the upper
surface and white and woody beneath.
The evergreen species usually have
relatively small blush green leaves,
which are either smooth along the
margin or have a few more or less
spiney teeth. The deciduous leaved
oaks have larger leaves Whlcn nave
several rounded or incised lobes and
are chrome-green in color.
The wild crerry grows in the lower
streams and is a particularly beautiful
tree, reaching a height of so to so feet.
1t has a smooth dark gray bark,
branches which rise upward and arch
over. dark green leaves which resemble
the beech leaf somewhat, and small
cone-like fruit. The tree grows freely.
associated with mountain ash, black
willow, cottonwood and box elder.
Wild Cherry in the Valleys.
The wild cherry grows in the lower
levels of the drier mountains. 1t has
a dark smooth bark, glossy leaves and
pendant racemes of white blossoms.
In it's native habitat, it is one of the
most beautiful of trees and one of the
most conspicuous Of the green things
which beautify the mountain canyons
in the spring.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-15

I'm LAST Saturdays Herald a short
description was given of the cotton
woods and willows of this part of the
southwest. The following deciduous
trees are described in professor Woot-
on's notes and are varieties that all
residents of this section will no doubt
recognize without difficulty as being
among our most decorative trees.
The Mountain Ash.
The mountain ash is used and appre-
ciated quite extensively and is consid-
cred as satisfactory a tree for general
decorative and shade purposes as any
tree native to this region. 1t is true
ash, not like the shrub of that name
which grows in the eastern and central
states, and is found generally in the
rocky canyons and dry water courses
Of the warmer, more barren portions
of the mountains, where it grows to a
height of 80 to 40 feet. The trunk is
straight; the bark is a light brownish
gray and quite smooth even in good
sized trees; the branches grow oblique-
ly upwards with a sharp angle and are
stiff enough to bear their own weight,
thus giving the tree a symmetrical
head. The foliage is rather pale green,
not very dense, appears late in the
spring, and is rarely hurt by late
frosts. While not as rapid a grower
as the valley cottonwood the noun
tain ash is a vigorous and healthy tree
in cultivation The mist1etoe attacks it
but slightly and the winged fruits are
never sufficietly abundant to be a
nuisance. Young trees may be obtain
ed in the canyons of nearly any of the
mountains in southern New Mexico at
attitudes below $500 feet and are east
~ transplanted any time when the
leaves are off
Box Elder Graceful.
The box elder is q graceful, round
topped, symmetrical tree which grows
to the height of 40 or so feet in rela-
lively short time. 1t is quite similar
to the naples, but its wood is softer
and spongier, its leaves are light green
and composed of three separate leaflets
and the young growing stems are
green The fruit is of the common
winged type of the maple. 1t is native
in the lower levels and is associated
with the valley cottonwood, the black
willow, the mountain ash in the irri-
gated valleys or along streams.
The Southwestern Maple.
The two varieties of naples native
to New Mexico are not of particular
Importance The red maple grows in
ranging from $500 to 5000 feet and is
recognized by its red growing twigs
and leaves with three separate leaflets.
The other maple has light gray, almost
whitiSh, smooth bark and the usual
simple 1obed leaves. 1t usually forms a
large spreading shrub rather than
true tree. Under cultivation, they might
be useful for variety on large lawns
or in parks. Their leaves are brilliant
ly colored just before the fall, and for
the sake of their brilliant autumna1
foliage alone a few should be grown
Adaptation of the SOapberry.
The soapberry tree is well adapted
to the lower, warmer and drier parts
of the southwest. The tree is of me-
dunn size with straight trunk, smooth
ish light brown bark, round head and
light green foliage. The leaves are of
the compound type something like the
walnut, from six inches to foot in
length, but the separate leaflets are
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-15
SHE WAS NOT
CUT TO PIECES
Letter From Terre Haute
Tells How Mrs. Sickler
Escaped Unnecessary
Operation.

Terre Haute, Ind refused to be
of 4S4 N End Street. the morning OF
the day 1 heard about Carduf. had
assesses inside. way up, and my doc
tor said I would have to be operated
on, before would ever get well.
Il tried Cardut It helped me greatly.
Now. am almost well, and am not CUT
to pieces either. Before taking Cardut,
1 could not stand on my feet TO do my
work Now I do my own washing ana
ironing"
Cardui has brought health and happf-
ness to thousands of weak women. For
over so years. 1t has been relieving
women's sufferings. and building weaH
women up to health and strength.
Using Cardui is no experiment. It has
stood the most severe Of all tests-the
test Of time. OF how many drugs in the
materia medica can this be said? ;
If your druggist is a friend. ask hfns
confidentially whether he recommends
Cardui. He will tell you the truth.
Forty thousand druggists sell Cardut<
1t is a good medicine.
y. B.-Write to; Ladies' Advisory
Dept. Chattanooga Medicine Co, Chat.
tanooga, Tenn, for Special Instructions
and 64-page book Home Treatment for
Women, sent in plain wrapper. on re>
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-15

= OHNSON grass has spread over half
of the United States in 20 years.
1t was introduced into this
country from Turkey about the year
1880 into South Carolina.
Nine-tenths of the Johnson grass
that natures seed is in cultivated
fields or where it can be easily
reached.
The seeds are distributed by birds.
stock. irrigation bitches, wind, Manure,
oats, alfalfa hay
The hard covering of the seed en-
ables it to pass through the alimen-
tary tract of animals without i:.lury.
The spreading of the grass may be
a1,nos+ entirely checked by not allie
ing it to go to seed.
standing Water Kills LIT.
Standing water will kill Johnson
grass.
Pasturing will cause it to run out if
not allowed to seed. 1t cannot stand
tramping-
determination of Johnson grass is
impossible in the Rio Grande valley
as long as our ditch and canal banks
are not kept clean
It can be killed by blowing fallow
land and cultivating it during the sum-
mer months and during the winter.
It can also be killed by blowing in
the fall wedding thoroughly with a
cultivator or harrow, and planting the
land with a cultivated crop like corn
in the summer.
Quick Grower.
Johnson grass is a quick-growing,
vigorous perennial, three to six feet
high with leaves one to two feet
long and half an inch wide, with open
and spreading panicles resembling
sorghum heads, and creeping stems, or
root-stocks, often half an men IN
diameter. which have numerous joints
and scale-like leaves 1t IS thouSht
10 be the original of the cultivated
sorghum.
Back in the thirties, governor Means
of South Carolina received request
from the sultan of Turkey for some
one to aid the Turks in raising cotton
TJpon his return from Turkey, the in
structor sent by the governor, intro
duced a grass that has since become
known as Johnson grass. Col john
son. from near Selma, Ala, was the
first to grow any large area OF the
new grass. which he had brought back
with him on a trip to South Carolina,
and recommended it so highly that
outside of South Carolina and Georgia,
where it is commonly referred to as
Means grass, it is generally known
sby his name.
Worst Feature of Grass.
The worst feature of Johnson grass
is that each joint of its root-stock is
capable of producing a new plant. Its
pernicious character was not recog
nized until it had spread over the
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-15
The Habits Of johnson Grass:
It's Control and Eradication
By Professor AgOnomy Mex A College

greater part of the south. It is tbe
most productive hay crop in the conn
try, also one of the most nutritious
Like all sorghums, it is lacking in nro-
tein and should be fed with food rich
in protein, like alfalfa, for instance
1t will grow in al soils, but best in
heavy, moist ones. 1t does not flourish
Wnere the soil freezes to a depth of
three feet
Where Johnson grass has become es
tablished, like in some portions of the
south, three cuttings of hay are or
dinarily secured. Pastures are kent
productive by blowing every few
years. II is not bad pest if the land
in this grass is kept pastured and is
watched closely so that the grass will
not go to seed. 1t is plowed in the fan
or early in the spring before growth
begins. The yield can also be in
creased by sowing some winter
legume, such as ur-clover or common
vetch and pasturing this during the
winter
Hard tC Separate From Oats
Johnson grass is hard to senarate
from oats. Texas rust-proof oats
raised along the Gulf coast. are grown
on land infested with Johnson grass:
consequently, wherever these oats are
sown this pernicious weed is introduced
1t grows along railroad rightofwavs
where the seed was dropped from cars
laden with baled hay and from stock
cars.
Its Introduction Question.
1t is a question just how it was in
PRODUCED into this portion of the
southwest. Some of it was undoubt-
edly planted and some was brought in
in adulterated seed. 1t has been dealt
with so carelessly, notwithstanding its
ruinous habits, that now roth UPPER
and lower valleys have constantly. in
creasing areas. The ditch banks and
those Of the main canals have their
seeing TO it that no farm is sighted.
Near Fabens, there are acres of land
in Johnson grass, and in the vicinity
of Las Cruces one can find acres COW
cred with this pest. At Mesill4 Park
there is a pasture of some Is acres
which is we'll cared for and no plants
are allowed to go to seed. In the
course of five years or so since it was
joining fields and some has been killed
horses and by water standing in low
places. The rootstalks have become
delicate after years of effort II produce
expected.
Fed to Stock.
A custom which should be discour-
aged is that of the native laborers TAX
ing Johnson grass, that has been hoed
out on farms, home with them to fee
their stock. In the first place. some
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-15
TTEAT is the essential condition
RI for the development of the egg
- = nrnrr,n- rorniratinn is q secnnd-

TTEAT is the essential condition
for the development Of the egg
- germ; respiration is a second
airy. yet essential, condition.
Cooling eggs. even if prolonged for
two days on the fourth day of incu-
baton, merely suspends the manifesto
tions of life.
Aristotle thought that long eggs pro-
duced males; Rimy, that they pro-
duced females. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
proved that there is no reason to be-
lieve either.
The proportion of shell, white and
yolk is variable and the composition
Is different.
The germ is male or female from
its origin. long before the formation Of
reproductive organs in the embryo.
Germ Life Varies.
The length of the latent life of the
germ is variable and depends upon
two kinds of conditions: the individ
uaIity of the germ and upon external
causes. The temperature, season and
climate have their influence. The vi
tally of the germ does not disappear
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-15

lished the fact that the yolk was
lighter than the white; and the germ.
than the remainder of the yolk. This
is why when an egg is at rest, the
germ always appears on the upper
side of the yolk.
Earring Damages Eggs.
The position of the eggs when Jared
determines the damage suffered by the
eggs. Jared in a vertical position, the
small end up, generally gave mon
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-15

strosities; the large end up or placed
horizontally, generally gave normal
embryos.
The temperature of the hens body
varies with the hour of day and the
season and climate.
NJ. de Villers, of Lyon. France, has
made eggs hatch on the 18th and 2Sth
days.
Hens eggs lose between onefifth
and one-sixth of their original weight
during incubation.