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SCHULENBURG, FAYETTE COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY, 29. 1903
NUMBER 26
FEEDING CATTLE.
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Undertaker's Supplies,, Give me a call.
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WE NEVER Take advantage of a cus-
tomer—never give them
w cauftef for loobrng on
\yith suspicion. ^e'deail hpnesily with all
irfifiVe them honest thing at livings prices.
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Dry Goods \ Groceries,
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STEP INTO THE
Sunny South Saloon,
H. F. Skarke, Prop.
you wish a cool and refreshing drink
lent of Wine.. Whiskey, Cigars,
A few extracts on feeding cattle
for market, from an article on cat-
tle feeding by J. R. Fulkereon,
Jersey City, III., may be of inter-
est to our readers.
It has been demonstrated that
cattle fatten better in open lots
with warm sheds to run to instead
of in barns. We use sheds four-
teen feet deep and forty to sixty
ieet long.
The next thing is to get the cat-
tle, either by raising them, buying
them at home or going on the mar-
ket. It will pay every farmer
to raise a few good calves. Select
some breed and then do not change,
for if you change often you will go
backward. A good plan to get
feeders is to buy calces and oarry
them over and especially if you
have grass. If you get feeders on
the market it is important that
they be bought carefully. A good
motto is "buy your cattle right and
you have them sold." No man
can tell you just how to select cat-
tle, but I will tell yon how^I do It.
It is easier to tell good cattle from
bad when they are fat. First we
must have an idea of what we want
the cattle to lo6k like when fat
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and we must £aye an idea of the
foundation qpon which to work.
The packer makes an enormous
difference in the price of good and
bad because he can tell at a glance
what he can get out of the cattle.
In a 1200 pound beef, the packer
gets: loin. 115 pounds at 18c; rib,
66 pounds at 18c; round, 172
pounds at 9c; chuck, 128 pounds at
7|c; plate 113 pounds at 6c; flank
26 pounds at 5c; shank 92. pounds
ps 3Jc,
For such a steef he will pay $97
the day he would hay* paid but $7
for such a steer as this one (indicat-
ing chart upon whi<ya was a poorly
bred, poorly shaped and poorly
fattened beef). He will pay only
$7, the price of a good bide, for
this animal, because that is all he
can get out of him*
In buying a steer we want one
that will get into the shape of this
ideal. We want a good, broad,
straight back, a good rump, well
sprung ribs. A good quarter goes
with a good underline as a rule
We want a good tyng and heart for
that denotes constitution. A short,
broad head is an indication of an
easy feeder. A deep body and
|bort legs denotes an e^ily maturi-
ty. I never ^y a #qn Of ipopse
qolqted steer, as it indicates scrub
stoc^ not far back. A black and
white steer is a poor steer, as it.in-
dicates Holstein blood. A steer
with a white face indicates Here
ford blood and is a good feeder.
The principal thing in feeding is
to save expense. In grinding feed
we save one-sixth o£~it as shown
by an experiment. \\'efeed bo^,
ground fped in self-feeder, $fld
broken cqr$ qnce a c'|qy. \ tlpnfc
both together are he^er than either
one. Qf course cattle will digest
more of the earn, if it is ground
for them. In summer feeding we
feed broken corn once a day in
pasture. We feed bran and oats
to give a better appetite. We
tried stock food at $550 a tor^. We
found that cattle that got stock food
did better than those that got oil
meal, bu{, not enqqgb to justify the
increased e^pepse,
We finish by the first of June
and avoid the bad spring weather
and are ahead of the fly season.
We usually strike a pretty fair
market in June, but later than t^at
we baye pot foqnd it *o good.
\Ye buy by Aug. 1st 700 or 8Q0
pound cattle. We feed oqtdoqrs.
We feed some shock corn, but it
gets the feed-lot in bad shape. We
use straw bedding for shelter sheds,
but do not floor them.
ON THE
BOLL WEEVIL PEST.
TEN CENTS IN VAULT
Marshal in Possession of the Fleage &
Son Band at Jacksonville.
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Division of Entomojogy Reviews Experiments.«=Boll Weevil
Confined to State of Texas Alone.
is
500,000 BALES DESTROYED LAST YEAR.
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TWENTY-EIGHT PER CENT OF COTTON ACREAGE AFFECTED-
SINCE THE ADVENT OF THE BOLL WEEVIL IN TEXAS ALL
CROP SHORTAGES ARE ATTRIBUTED XO INSECT.
Washington, Jan. 20 — The
division of entomology has just
concluded its rep^t on the boll
wevil, which has been doing such
immense damage to the crops of
the planters of Texas and the
Southwest. The results of these
experiments, which were conduct-
ed on 200 acres of land at Calvert
Tex., and 150 acres at Victoria Tex
where a complete field laboratory
was established, are embodied in a
bulletin No. 163, which may be ob-
tained on application to the repre-
sentative of congressional cftstv-ict
in which tl\e applicant resides, or
from either of the 'United States
Senators.
The statement is made that t«>il|[h
the boll wevil is as yet oonfinecflo
Texas, it includes at present about
28 per cent of the cotton acreage
of the United States. <•
This acreage in 1900 produced
about 34 per cent of the total crop
of the world. region affectcd
is bounded on the north by the
Red Kiver and on ths east by the
pine forests of the divide between
the Trinity and the Sabine rivers.
It includes all of the twenty two
as
Its hibtbi'y in Mexico, as well
in Texas, offers no hope that it
will ever be much less destructive
than now. Nevertheless it has
been demonstrated that cotton can
be grown profitably by means of a
few expedients in planting and
managing the crop where the in-
sect is present.
These expedients, it is said, in-
volves but little extra expenss,
and as employed in territory seri-
ously affected by the boll weevil
fcaye demonstrated that cotton can
be produced successfully in spite
of the boll weevil.
A number of cotton farms on
which these experiments were
made by the government entomol-
ogists are given in the bulletin,
and the result set forth at length.
Considerable space is given to
the ineffective methods of combat
ing the weevil, by discarding
which, tho cotton farmers are told,
they will save $ useless expendi-
ture
Specific nostrums, widely adver-
tised, tho bulletin states, hay©
been tested at the laboratory at
Victoria, awl in every case were
Wr*cl( on Colopido and Southern.
Trinity, Colo., January 24.—A
Colorado and Southern passenger
tram was wreoked last night at
Waterval, N. M.. spikes having
been pulled from rails. Four per-
sons were injured, two may die.
The work is thought to be that of
train r bbers,
counties, which, in according found to be useless. The weevil
to the twelfth census, produced 40,
000 bales ov- more each,
According to the estimate^ of the
4$ma$e m ida during the last year,
it is believed that from 235,OOo to
500,OQO bales of cotton were de-
stroyed by the insect.
Tho value of this crop is placed
at from $8,000,000 to $25,000,000.
The bulletin states that wliiW
before the advent qf ttyi ig-
to Texas, i^tyy.qrivbie weather at
planting time, summer drouths
and heavy rainfalls, as well as the
attack of many other noxious in-
sects caused light $rqpti tp fee pror
dflcedt nil shortages are «ow *ttrib
uted tq tfie >yeeytl. §till, it is ad-
mitted the boll weevil is among
the most formidable menaces to
tho cotton industry of the South
and it is declared to be well within
the bound* of conservatism to
s«tate that tho mseqt caused $exas
a loss of nearly $1,0^000 in 190$.
T*he most serious aspects of t,he,
situation according ^o th.e g0,vern-
men( eqtomolftgi^t, i^the ^act^h^t
t^e pesi is coqtantly spreading
anti will imdoqbtly eyentqally Ue
distributed al| over the ootton bolt,
there are no influences, it is said
which can check it, sHort of the
limit of its food plant in this coun-
try. In Mexico, where the insect
has existed for a number of y.euU'6,
it has b$en found by investiga-
tions, made by both the United
States and Mexican governments,
^hat noting wi\l restrain i\ but
al^iqde. Jt pan \\o% live at an
Altitude of a&OQ feet above sea
level, a condition which unfortun-
ately can not be found in this coun-
try, as no land adaptod to cotton
cultivation apppa&hes such an
elevation. The department states
that, basing the estimate on a care-
ful study of the annual increase in
territory siwc? the inseot reached
Texas, as well as upon consider-
able attention that has been paid
to the means whereby it reaches
new territctfY* jt is safe to predict
that in from fifteen to eighteen
years the pest will be a serious
drawback to ootton culture every-
where throughout the South, as it
is in Texas now.
The rather discuraging state-
ments is also made by thejgovern-
ment entomologists that it is
wholly beyond possibility that the
wceyil will etyer be exterminated..
can not bo destroyed by poison.
It is an insect that in all stages,
except one, feed well protected in
the square or boll, and takes
nourishment in t' c remaining
stage almost exclusively by insert-
ing its beak well within the tissue
of the fruit. It cannot therefore
be reached by poisons^
It is al%o stated there is no
fequwn variety of cotton that is
immune against the attack of the
boll weevil, notwithstanding the
advertised claiu^ oi certain seed
dealer The only advantage
tbat ope variety can have oyer
other is in poiut of maturity.
The cotton growers are also
cautioned to not waste their money
in buying machines with which
it is claimed, the boll weevil can
be destroyed. $one of these de-
yicss, the division of entomolo-
gy declares, after the most car of v\l
investigation, has Jov\nd pracUc
able or to oflbr any definite hope of
bping intimately successful.
They aye also told that, oontra*
ry to tb© report whioh has been
generally circulated, cottonseed
meal is not an attraction for the
weevil, and that the insect can not
be destroyed by mixing poison
with it. This report, tl^e di^i*!"n
of entotpejagy states, has gained
oredence in some quarters and may
unfortunately reach as wide circu-
lation as did the fallacious theor y
propounded last July that mineral
paint would kill the pest. Tho
division has experimented ex-
haustively, not only in the labara-
tory, but in the field, with Qotton-
seed meal, anc\ found it was totally
Ksaloss.
The specific recommendations o,f
the division of entomology by fol-
lowing which, it is declared, a
profitable crop can be produced
in any situation where tho boll
weevil prevails, is giyen below:
1. Plant early. Plant, if pos-
sible, the seed of the varieties
known to mature early, or at least
obtain seed as far north as possi-
ble. It is much better to risk
replanting, which is not an expen-
sive operation, than have crop de-
layed. The practice of some plant-
ers of making to plantings to
avoid having all the work of chop-
ping thrown into a short period is
a very bad policy from the boll
weevil standpoint. Taking a
series of years into considaration,
it will not be found too early to
plant cotton in the altitude of
Houston and southward by the
25th of February; in the Urazos
Valley, as far north as Waco, by
the first week in March; and at no
place m northern Texas later than
about the 20th of March.
2. Cultivate the fields thorough-
ly. Tho principal benefit in this
comes from the influence tbat such
a practice has upon the constant
growth and consequent early ma-
turity of crop. "Very few weevils
are killed by cultivation. Much
of the benefit of early planting is
lost unless it is "followed by thoro-
ugh cultiyation. In case of un-
avoidably delayed planting the
best hope of the planter is to culti-
vate the field in the most thoro-
ugh manner possible. Three
choppings and five plowings con-
stitute as thorough a system of
cultivation as is neegssary in most
cases.
2. Destroy, by plowing up,
wipdrowing, and burning, all the
cotton stalks in the fields not later
than the first week in October. In
some cases turning the cattle in
to the field is advisable. Aside
from amounting to practical de-
struction of the plants, grazing of
the cotton fields furnishes con-
siderable forage at a time when it
is generally muchan demand.
5. Plant tho rows as far apart
as experience with the land indi-
cates is feasible and thin out the
plantain the rows thoroughly.
In adition to these specific rec
ommendations it may be stated
that unything that can be done in
the way of protecting birds, like
the quail, which are known to feed
upon the weevil, will unboubtedly
be of advantage.
Tho bulletin is full of interest-
ing reading matter Uj the cotton
growers of the South generally,
and is well worth personal atten-
tion and study.—New Orleans
Times-Democrat,
Jacksonville, Texas, January 21.
—Deputy United States Marshal
George W. Eason today took
charge of the Floager & Son bank
which failed to open its doors and
against which action in involuntary
bankruptcy has been takeu by the
local depositors. The cash m valt
amounted to 10 cents. There were
no notes or accounts to bs accepted
as available assets. The office
furniture is valued at about $5)0.
The deposits and capital of the
bank should be, it is estimated,
about $85,000.
A number of notes have been
sent here for collection which are
declared by those named in them
as principals to be forgeries. One
New iork bank holds $10,000 of
alleged bad paper. Sonic of these
notes are: Slayton & Monkress
$1650; L. Douglass $1800; H. L.
Hodges $800; Devereaux-Bol
Drug company $4000; W. A.
ton 2500.
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Nothing has been heard
iast Sunday of the whereabouts of
any of tho members of the firm.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
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IAIBED COAL TRAIN.
A Train of Seven Cars Was Captured
and Temporary Needs Supplied.
New York, January 21.—A
crowd of men, women and child-
ren today attacked and captured a
coal train of seven cars, loaded
with more than S00 tons of anthra-
cite ooai, on the Long Island rail-
road, in Brooklyn. The train crew
tried to fight the crowd off, hut it
was too big and the railroad men
were forced to stand by while the
people filled their bags, baskets,
carts, wheelbarrows and even w g-
ons. Many of those who took the
coal say they are willing to pay
far it and it was only after efforts
to buy had resulted in failure that
they decided to raid a tram.
Cruelty to Their Children.
Binghamton, N.Y., January 24.
—Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cronk,
who came to Alexander Hill four
years ago from McHenry, 111., are
under arrest for cruelty to their
three children, The youngest
died Thursday. Officer Whe&t<^
found one child, 3 yoars old,
chained in a chair and starvtd un-
til it weighed only twenty pounds.
It had been in the chair all its life.
The condition of the other two
children was pitiable.
The 3-year-old child diod after
being released.
Do you read the Sticker? If
not, why not? It the'best paper
in the couuty tor the raoaey.
Fredr.ch Eilers & wife to Joseph
Neimann, deed, 50 acres
Korr league, $1,025.00.
Robert Miller & wife to
Johnson, deed, 86 45-100
John McGowan league, $421.00.
George Johnson, to Robert
Garr, deed, 85 4 acres John Mc-
Gown league, $500.00.
Charles Kaderka to Wm Hoel-
scher, release.
.R. S. Houiuth to Alix V
berg, deed, 71 acres Green
wright leagues, $350.00.
Trustees of estate of T. W.
Pierce, dee'd to C. E. Austin, deed
120 7-10 acres C. F. Wright league
Trustees of estate of T. W. Pierce
dee'd to C. E Austin, release.
Vine Michna*to B. Pekar, deed, 7
10-100 acres Levi Bostic league,
$142,
Louise McCauley & Harry
Davenport to C. R. Schmidt, deed
N. i of lot 145 in block 20 in La
Grange, $300.00.
VV. B. Croos et al to Gerhard
Boeing, deed, 60i acres of W. H.
Taylor leoguet $1,815,00.
Gerhard Boenseg to Henry
Huelsebusch, deed, 20 9-10 acres
W. H. Taylor league, $626.00.
Berhard Baening to Carl Riehs,
deed, 10 acres W. H. Taylor, $300
Louise McCaulry & Harry
Daycuport to Hugo Leuders, deed
8. J of lot 145 in block 20 in Ls^
Grange $300.00.
Frank Anderle to H. W. Haiv
rison, trtstee, for use of M. Cock-
riil, deod of trustee, 117 acres J.
Vivien survey, $130.00,
H- S. Homuth to C. J. V Rosen-
berg, trustee for use of Alex V
Rosenberg, deed of trustee, 302
acres John H. Moore i league,
$1,000.00.
Gerhard Boeniing & wife to
Eilert Cordes, mortgage, 29 6 10
acres W. H. Taylor league, $800.
Wm. E. Drisdale to Annie R.
Andrews, deed, lot No 4 in plum,
$1.00 and love and affection.
Theria Stanzel at al to L. C.
Melcher, deed, 1 63-100 acres I, Al-
mansur league, $700.00.
Gerhard Zoch to Michael Pletsck
release. s
1. E. Clark & J. F. Wolters
Frank Brossmann, deed, lot
and part of lot 22, block 12
Schulenburg, $1,125.
John and Robert Sample to
Nitschke et al, release.
Fritz Rosenberg and wife to
J. von Rosenberg, deed, part of
lots 224 and 229 in block 33 in La-
Grange, $4,250.
Carl Witt and wife to Wm.
Voelkel, deed, 100 acres James
Green league, $600.
A. B. Kerr to Vit Syrinek,
50 acres C. Williams i
$550.
Henry Schaefer to J
er, deed, lot
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