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SCHULENBURG, FAYETTE COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 19. 1903
NUMBER 29
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BERMUDA VALLEY
Stock Farm,
DR. I. E. CLARK, Proprietor.
SCHVLENBURG. TEXAS
Owne? and Breeder of Standard and
sf yff^ s/fc w HORSES
And ef Registered Red Polled and Registered Holstei
CATTLE.
The tamons standard bred Stallion J B, and
the eelebrated thoroughbred stallion Panmure
are now permanently located at my Farm.
Service of either $25.00 cash with return privilege
next season, in case of failure to foal. Corres-
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When you wish a cool and refreshing drink
Fine assortment of Wine, Whiskey, Cigars,
Fresh Beer always on Tap.
Venezuelan Settlement ClosJnf.
Washington, Feb. 14.—Herbert
W. Bowen, Venezuela's represent*
ative in "the peace negotiations a|
Washington, Friday night signed
with each of the allies5 represent-
atives here a protocol providing for
the immediate raising of the Vene-
zuelan blockade, and for the refer-
ence of* the question of preferential
treatment of the olaims of the al-
lies against Venezuela to The
Hague arbitration tribunal. It is
expected that the commanders of
the blockading fleet within the
next twenty-four hours will receive
their orders to withdraw their ves-
sels at onee. By the provisions of
the protocols Venezuela gains the
immediate raising of the blockade
from which she has been suffering
for some weeks, and the return of
all vessels, war and merchant, which
have been captured' by the allied
fleet. Great Britain, Germany and
Italy received advance payments of
5500 pounds, Great Britain receiv-
ing her payment on the signature
of the protocol and Germany and
Italy within thirty and sixty days
from date. Germany, in addition,
will receive five monthly payments
until the full amount paid her in ad-
vance aggregates $340,000.
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Texas Earmers Institute.
Austin: The Texas Farmers' In-
stitute held a meeting at the Dris-
kill hotel and its final meeting of
this series in the Hall of Kepresent-
atives Friday afternoon. .
Resolutions were adopted favrfr-
ing an appropriation of $200,000
for an exhibit at the World's fair
to be held? in St. Louis. Such ex-
hibit to be the property of the state,
and to be stored at the capitol in
Austin. This indorsement applies
to the bill introduced in the house
this morning.
| The bill, providing for a depart-
ment of agriculture to be devoted
solely to the Coeds of that industry.
The bill providing for p, state li-
brary commission.
Appropriation of $10,000 annual-
ly through the Agricultural and Me-
chanical college for the support and
maintenance of farmers' institutes,
same to be immediately available.
Legislation providing for the
working of short term convicts on
county roads, the counties to sup-,
port such convicts.
. The bill appropriating $50,000
for textile department to be added
to the Agricultural and Mechanical
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A Rush to New Orleans.
New Orleans, La.: L. S. Berg,
general figent of the Frisco system,
announced that an army of men
jtrould be put to work on construe*
tion aud that the Frisco would he
operating over its own lines between
Memphis and New Orleans within
one year. Between 1000 and 2000
men will be utilized at once and be-
fore long, Mr. Berg says, 10,000
men will be scattered between here
and Memphis.
utfle Bits of News.
J. J. Ginn was awarded $8009
damages by a jury hya suit against
the International and Great North
ern Railway company in the district
oourt of Smith county. " Ginn was
thrown from his wagon several
months ago. His team became
frightened at a train, injuring him
It is alleged, for life.
The city council of thfc Texas side
of Texarkana has ordered a special
election, to be held March 8, to de-
cide whether bonds to the amount
of $30,000 shall be issued for sewer-
age and general street improve-
ment.
I Arrangements have been made
for establishing an oil mill at Sweet-
wter. At present there Is no oil mill
west of Cisco.
The Cotton Belt is building a new,
depot at Honey Grove. The depot
will have separate waitingrooms for
the races, expressroom, baggage-
room, freightroom and office room.
A bank will be established in Al-
bs. Already sufficient etc#k has
been subscribed to m*ke it a cer-
tainty. A vault is being placed is
me of the new bricks, ostensibly te
weamodats this institution.
DOWN ON THE FARM.
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Items of Interest that, No Doubt, Will
Be Beneficial to Our Farmers Who
DEVOTE TIME TO LIVE STOCK
As Well As to The Agricultural Department.==-How to Produce
Creamery Butter on the Farm.
expen-
mainte-
Stockman and Farmer.
At the Wisconsin station
meets bearing- upon the
nance and constitutional vigor of
pigs have been carried on for a
nutnher of years, the results of
which go to show most conclusiv
ely that the most economical food
for pigs as regards maintenance of
constiturtoual vigor thriflness,
rapid growth, quality and solidity
of flesh and attractive proportions
of lean to fat is a well balanced
ration. As to what the balanced
rations may be much will depend
upon local conditions. But in a
general way the Texas farmer will
not go far wrong in providing
green feed for his hogs, of which
he has a large variety running
throughout the year. For the fall
and winter he may provide goob-
ers, rape, turnips, sweet potatoes,
oats, wheat and rye pasture; rut-
abagesand pasture in the spring,
followe by sorghum, green corn
and cow peas during the summer.
The farmer should not fail to re-
member kaffircorn and milo maize
which are sure crops rnd have an
equal feeding value with that of
Indian Corn. The cowpeas may
be planted in the corn rows after
the corn is laid by, but in drouthy
sections it is best to plant the peas
earlier, which may . 'necessiate
planting them by themselves,
corn. They do best on saudy
land though they do welll on any
soil, he says that any body can en-
gage In farming but not every
one can be a farmer. The farm-
er must use his head as well as his
hands, and unless the one assists
the other the farmer cannot ex-
pect to make a success.
John Frey a progressive stock
farmer of Waller County says
that no man p&u pQme tp this
country and expect to make a suc-
cess at farming without stock of
some kind. If he cannot baye
cattle a bunch of sheep will go a
long way to help along. But there
are few farmers who cannQt keep
a few head of pottle hogs and sheep
on their farma, We must diver*
sify not only in crops but also in
live stock. There are times when
the farmer Qan find no profitable
market for any one kind of stock,
but there is hardly ever a ti.ne
when there is no market for some
kind of stock. The hog and the
sheep are particularly the farmers
friends. From seyenty-two bead
of sheep he last year sold 426 lbs.
of wool for $51, and killed about
80 head for muttun. His sheep
are a pross of the Southdown on
the Merino, making a good sheep
for wool and mutton. He feeds
them during^the winter one-half
pound of cotton seed per head per
day and a little hay. The maii-
uie from sheep be says is better
than that from cattle, because it
lasts longer, It is neeessary^to
have a good WHO fence, which can
be done with five wires. 4 to 5
inches from the ground- He kefcps
his sheep penned every night aud
the manure which is thus accumu-
lated is applied to the corn land
atter the corn has been gathered,
the stubble turned under and fol-
lowed by cotton and the following
year again with corn without
manuring. His last crop averag-
ed him about 35 bushels of corn to
the aprp. Mr. Fi'ey says that
Spanish goobers and sweet pota-;
toes are about the beat crops tor
hogs. The former is also a highly
valuable food for milk stock, ac it
improves the quality of the milk
and butter. If by the middle of
June there is any doubt about a
full corn crops he plants goobers
in the corn rows about twelve in-
ches apart. He believes that one
acre of goobers will fatten as many
John Phillips a successful stock
farmer of Austin county has had
long experience in his line of busi-
nsss both in this country and
Scotland, and says that if the
American farmer would exercise
only half the energy of the Euro-
pean farmer ia the way of farm
economy and farm management
he could be the most indepentent
man in the world. Farming and
stock raising go hand in hand, one
can not be separated from the ot-
her and it is only tljte farmer who
pursues a system of farming that
combines the one with the other
that cau hope for success. It is a
strange idea that the people of
Texas entertain regarding the un-
profitableness of stock raising on
expensive land. How it is that
most of the northern states and in
the thickly portions of Canada cat-
tle are raised on land costing from
§100 to $150 per acre and not only
this but the farmers look to the
cattle for their main income.
The land in Texas has not reached
to that value, and perhaps will not
for many years to come, yet the
land in this state is yust as rich
and the climatic conditions far
more advantageous for stock rais-
ing than in the northern states or
Canada. But the farmers say we
caeqot raise the feed. This is pre-
posterous, in the face of our pre-
sent agricultural knowledge in the
state. While it is not to be
doubted that with a better system
of seed collection and proper cul-
ture we can materially increase
tho average yield of corn, yet we
need not dopeml absolutely on corn
for feed. It has been thoroughly
demonstrated that we can raise a
variety of feed stuffs in this state,
some of which if not superior are
fully equal to oorn, There are
very few places where peanuts,
cowpeas, kaffir corn and milo
maize will not grow successfulty.
These are sure crops and are val-"
uable feed stuffs. I am also sure
that alfalfa culture could be very
largoly extended if farmers would
take the propjr pains with it.
Our farmers pay very little atten-
tion to winter pasture, which is
of the greatest importance, yet
exDerience has proven conclusively
that it can be supplied in almost
any secton of the state by plant-
ing oats rye and wheat early in
fall. Of course stock farming in
this stato is something new and it
must bo admitted that much pro-
gress has already been made in
that line but after all only a be-
ginning has been madp, aftd 1 pre-
dict thqt before many years stock
farming in this state will attain
the same importance that it now
occupies in the northern states,
and when that time comes the
prosperity of Texas will be sure
and permanent.
the dairy.
Stockman and Farmer.
Go into a grocery store in a
town of a thousand or more inhab-
itants and you will see a lot of
hogsif not more as one acre of country butter becoming rancid
on the merchants hands at 15c per
pound while probably by its side
is a lot of creamerv butter going
pretty fast at 25 to 30c. Butter
at 15c is unprofitable to both the
farmer and the merchant and isn't
often palatable to the consumer,
It sells at this low price because
consumers cannot depend upon it
being a first class article. Every
farmers wife has her own ideas
of what geod butter is and she
produces an article differing in
color texture, taste, odor and
cleanliness, from that of her
neighbors.
In this paper I shall not go
deeply into details but will enum-
erate a few of the most marked
causes that make country butter
inferior article that it is and give
the essentials of making on the
average butter that is fully equal
to the highest priced fairy or
creamery butter.
Country butter is of inferior
quality because, first it is churned
at any temperature between 50
deg., in the winter and 90 deg.,
in the summer ; hot and cold water
being added indiscriminately tci
make the butter come; second it is
whipped and slashed by the dash-
er until the fat particlee have
broken down and accumulated in-
to a soft homogenous mass; third,
the cream in rising is exposed to
the odors of the kitchen; fourth,
the butter is generally taken up
by reaching the hand down into
the ehnrn and bringing the butter
out by letting the buttermilk ran
between the fingers back into the
churn. The bands are fine recep-
tacles for odors that are not desire-
able in butter; fifth, because per-
fect cleanliness is not followed
from the cows udder through all
the processes until the finished
product is delivered to the con-
sumer. There are other factors
too numerous to mention, but
these are the principle ones and,
to a large extent, embrace the
others that rriight be mentioned.
Failure to guard against any of
these is.sure to result in a product
of proportionally lower quality.
Now, to make butter that is
highly flavored, has a good grain
color, odor, etc., as any creamery
butter, begin by throwing away
the dasher to your old jar churn
and order the following artioles
from any first-class creamery
supply house: One plain five
gallon barrel churn, one butter
worker to match, two butter lad-
les, two dairy therometersL one
plain, one pound butter printer,
one thousand sheets parchment
paper. Then follow the direction
given below:
Use perfect cleanliness from cow
to consumer; collect cream until
you have not more than two gal-
lons for a five gallon churn at 58
to 60 deg., in summer, and 62 to
64 deg.| in winter; churn until
the fnt particles accumulate into
globules about the <«iae of wheat
grains, whioh may be seen
through the glass slit on the top
of the oh urn, draw of the butter
milk by pulling the plug at the
bottom of the churn; as the but
ter milk is flowing from the churn
let it pass through a strainer so as
to save any particles of butter
that may escape with tbe butter
milk, after the buttermilk has
about drained out, plug up the
buttermilk outlat, and pour on the
butter two or three gallons of pure
water not aboye §0 deg., after
standing a minute or two draw off
the water the same as the butter-
milk and continue to wash it until
the water comes out at tho bottom
clear. It usually requires but two
washings but some times three are
necessary; let the butter drain for
sevor&l minutes before going fur-
ther when ail the water has drain-
ed out at will empty the contents
of the churn upon tbe butter
worker which has just been welt
rinsed with pure water; make an
estimate of the amount of butter
on the worker and weigh up I to
one ounce of salt per hundred ibs.
of butter on the worker and weigh
up f to 1 ounce of salt per hund-
red pounds of butter, and salt sift
evenly over the mass of butter;
work just enough to distribute the
salt tbroughout£the butter, there
will be but little water to work
out if it has been well drained ia
the churn, print into plain one lb.
blocks, wrap with parchment pa-
per; pack in wooden boxes and
coyer each box with two or three
tow sacks and take to market at
once.
The outfit mentioned above will
cost between 10 and 12 dollars, is
small enough for five cows and
large enough for fifteen.
The increase in the butter pro-
duced will, in a short jvhile pay
for the outfit and then the increase
of income will buy many necessi-
ties through the year that the far-
mer usually buys on time.
Butter made this way will keep
longer than butter made in dash
churn because it is perfectly freo
of buttermilk; it stands up'awainst
heat better because the grain has
not been destroyed by the dasher
and by excessive working; it has
a goou yellow color because all
the color that was in the milk go-
es into the butter; it is cleaner
because no cooking vessels arc,,
used in handling the milk and no
ones hands have touched tho bet-
ter anywhere in the process; it has-
a fine nutty flayor because tbe
cream has not absorbed any for-
iegn odors and it is entirely free
of buttermilk; it brings a higher
price because the demand for first-
class butter is many times greater
than the supply.
To those who have always em-
ployed the old time dash churn,
the better way may at first seem
unhandy but if they desire to
make more money out of their
butter-making and will try tbe
plan suggested, all difficulties and
inconveniences will soon be over
come and t will be found a great
deal easier and more pleasant work
in addition to increase of income.
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Five persons died of the plagtti ftl
Mazatlan Monday.
China is having trouble again
with her anti-foreign elements.
Earthqvyikes in both Europe and
America wore felt in widely separat-
ed districts last week.
* War has been proclaimed between
Guatemala on one side and Salvadoi
and Honduras on the other side.
Victor Meyer, one of the founder*
of the New Orleans cotton exchange
and head of the old cotton firm of V«
6 A. Meyer, is dead.
Col. J. L. Morris, a noted Indian
fighter and scout, died a few day*
since at Albrequerque, New Mexico,
after a lingering illness.
Contract has been let for a hotel
to be built in St. Louis at a cost ol
$1,200,000. It will be 12 £toriej
high and have 400 rooms.
A runaway section of a freight
train destroyed the depot at Buffalo,
Iowa, and killed the 5-year-old
daughter of the station agent.
A "smooth" stranger worked a
Cleburne hardware firm for a lma
saddle, giving a $50 check, and took
the change. The check was bog as.
1 Castro has about quelled the Ven-
ezuelan rebellion, and the interna-
tional financial difficulties are
gradually cleared up and adj
: Dallas city council has under
visement an ordinance making
school childrens' fares on street carl
2 1-2 cents. ■■.«l
A man 22 years of age,
7 feet in height, and
pounds, was fined in a justice
at Corsicana on a charge of
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