The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 24, 1904 Page: 3 of 6
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DIsF'3Ing... of - ApplSS*-.;
At ilic laoLjaeeting nf the Illlnol*
State Horticultural Society a-, good
d al of attention was paid to the ques-
tiqa of dt8 oalag,,Qf ..the apples that
fa.II below number one grade. It was
suggested that they should be .made
into cider or sent to the evaporating
plant or fed to the hogs—anything
rather than have them go on to the
market to keep down the price of
number one apples. One, grower said
that if as could hare his way, a num-
ber two apple would never con p Into
the market The idea prevalent was
that if only number one apples were
marketed there would be such a
scarcity - of apples that the people
would have to pay a. big price for
them, and that the growers would get
a good deal of money out of . a small
amount of fruit, as there would be a
great saving on packing, transporta-
tion and the like.
This seems just a little heartless.
The number two apples and even
poorer am fairly good apples. Some
of them lack color, some are small
in size, and some have a worm hole
here and there. But they are in
reach of the common people in price,
and if the markets carried only num-
ber one apples the great mass of the
American people would taste apples
but seldom. The best apples on the
Chicago market now retail at 5 cents
apiece or at 65 cents per dozen. If
there were no other apples in the
market but number ones the apples
in our market might bring as fancy
prices as do those in Paris and some
of the other European capitals. A
few days ago the writer priced the
apples in some of the fruit stores in
fitliesfpv He found small Jonathans
pelting at "three-for-tcn" or 40 cents
a dozen... He found large, fine Jona-
thans from Colorado selling at 55
cents a dozen. Crimes Golden and like
apples sold at little leas price. In the
same store oranges were selling at a.
less price than apples. A dozen of
the finest bananas obtainable could
^.bought for 25 cents.and good ones
at lfi cents. How much higher would
some of our apple raisers like to have,
apples? Fancy apples sell for a big
price now and the men that know ,
enough to produce them are making
fortunes out of them.. r:
The best way to dispose of the lower
grades of marketable apples is to ar-
range to sell them to the people of
moderate means that want them.
There are multitudes of people in the
cities that will be delighted to pur-
chase these apples, if they can. only
get. them. In fact, they are purchase
lngr them now.. The peddlers hawk
than about the streets, and they pro-
vide the only means ^some of the poor-
eft people ever have of eating apples*.
If all of the lower grades of apples.
•**: driven orft of. the market, the
common people wiU be compelled to
eat bananas. instead. Erery man
should have at heart the interest of
the whole people. No man should
#epjre to curtail the food supply of.
a people for a little temporary gain.
Itds a great thing for apple growers
torrealtze good returns for their prod-
uct It Is a greater thing to be able
t<£ supply a whole, nation with apples.
at;a moderate cost It is this latter
thought that stimulates. the formation
gf .horticultural societies,, the members
Of which iffiseiftshiy give to |he world
all-they know on theseienee of plant,,
fruit and flower production.'—Farmers
Review.
1 " - Covering Strawberries.,
I believe that "strawberry plants
make a considerable growth during
winter, that is, unless the ground is
powered so deeply with snow that it
dees not freeee. Another thing tha*
meet -horticulturists have noticed is
that if an Injury is done to the foliage
of** plant, the whole-plant is injured,
is apparent when the strawberry
is struck by the frost in the
spring. I think that one essential
ponditipg that favors the winter
growth of strawberry foliage is the
perfect condition of the foliage When
It goes Into winter. Therefore we
should get the cove* on before the
foliage is injured by the frost but I
do, not mean that the eover shculd
be so deep as to prevent freezing of
the gwnwJ.
Some plants grow, at a very tow
temperature. You can hardly sow
rye in the fall so late that it will not
come up before the snow is off in the
spring. The strawberry plant Is one
of those that grow at a very low tem-
perature. I have no means of know-
ing whether it will gfow at as low a
temperature as . rye, but I am certain
the temperature at which it will
grow is very low.
In . the fall 1 cover as soon as we
begin to have hard frosts, and that is
just as soon as I stop cultivating the
strawberries. It Is before the ground
is frozen. We . have been taught in
ihe past (hat we should not Cover
till the ground is fft*en solid, so bard,
in. fact that the ground can be
driven over. When the. ground begins
to show a little crust in the mornings
I begin to cover.
for cover I use any kiqd of coarse
material available. Marsh hay is a
good substance to use. Straw would
be good were It not for the weed
peeds. This year I used oorn fodder,
growing a supply for the purpose.
When I mowed the old bed I plowed
It under and sowed oorn in drills, at
the rate of four or Ave bushels to the
pare. When I had put h* the oorn J
west over the land with a harrow and
the eom in that way. Then
I scattered manure in the furrows; In
a day or two I went over It with the
harrow again. If we had had a rain
at that time I should have dragged
It Just *s soon as I could get onto the
land. On that land I raise 1 enough
corn fodder to cover an equal area of
strawberry bed.
I covered the plants just deep
enough to hide them; 1 should say
about an inch deep, only deep enough
to keep the sun off the plants. A little
later I put straw between the rows,
so the ground would not freeze so
deep as it otherwise would and so it
would thaw out early in the spring.
In the spring I do not remove the
stalks from the plants, but the latter
grow up through the plants. If In
any .spot the stalks ara so. thick, that
the plants can't get up through them,
E have to remove a part of,them.
We do not cultivate In the spring.
The fisst cultivation begins after the
crop has been picked. We may, go
through the patch and pull up a few
weeds, but that Is all.
Franklin. Johnson,
Sauk County, Wisconsin.
We publish thin letter at this time
to call our readers' attention to the
matter. It would be well to v/atch
the beds at. the opening of spring
aitf-note what their condition is as
compared to what it was last , fall at
th^, time, of going into winter quar-
ters.—Farmers' Review.
The. Surprise Plum.
The best native plum I grow is the
Surprise, taking all things Into con-
sideration. The tree itself is a very
fine ,grower and makes a very nice
shade tree. It makes fairly rapid
growth, though there are others that
grow a little faster. I have been grow-
ing this variety, for four years and
the tree was two years old. when set.
That will make it six years old. I
have taken two crops of ..plums from
It Perhaps I.favor .this tree because
Jt is the- best shade tree. Unlike
most of the Am eric anas, it does not
overbear, but it bears all. the plums a
tree should bear. The. fruit is of good
size and does not rot. I do not know
of a poor quality possessed by either
tree or fruit In addition to my own
experience Is that of others who
recommend it highly. All the plum
experts that I know that have tried
tbls plum put It ahead of the others
of the same group.
At my .place It is growing on clay
land, but land that is well drained.
The land was naturally well drained,
but before planting the trees I put
tn tile. Then before setting out the
trees I manured the ground very
highly. The same ground baa borne
corn and potatoes in the preceding
two years. It was virtually new land.
This matter of the condition of the
land must be taken into consideration
whenever we pass on any fruit.
H. T. Thompson,
McHenry County, Illinois.
Regrowth of Pine,
The writer of the article entitled
Scientific Supervision of. Forests" in
the Jan. 14th number of Farmers' Re-
view, makes the statement that in
certain parts of Wisconsin the pine is
largely gone and can never be re-
placed. I see no reason why It cannot
be replaced and would like to have
the writer explain that point.—Phil
S. Darlington,
• * •
The point is well taken, for while
the pine has been cut off it l~ possible
that it might be replaced by expert
planting apd after pare. It is improb-
able, however, that success would at-
tend these efforts and. they have not
thus,far been largely made. Settlers
cut off every tree and shrub, then,
farm and graze their land. Fires are
so much dreaded that tree planting on
a large scale is not undertaken and
does not. appeal to settlers as a profit
able business for tbem to engage In.
Replanting would have tr be done at
statj expense and new. forests would
have to be sa'e-gu:u*ded afterward.
This may come in time,, but "the time
Is not yet" In Sandy districts orig-
inal pine removed is followed, by
"Jack" pine and white pine has sel-
dom succeeded wTiere replanted.—
Ed. F..II.
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Hew Feed Affects Bone.
It is desirable to have strong bones
In . pigs, to make it possible for them
to eseape accidents that Include brok-
en bones. The .feed has very much
to do with the quality of the bones.
At one of our.stations tests were
made to ascertain to how great an ex-
tent, the bones were affected by the.
feed. One lot was fed on corn and
beef meal, and the thigh bones broke
under a pressure of 1,200 pounds, or
about eight times the weight of the
body. These pigs weighed on an aver-
age 152 ponnds. The next lot was fed
on corn and aborts and weighed on an
average 192 pounds when killed. Their
bones broke at a weight of 835 pounds,
or 4.3 times the average weight of
the body. It will be noticed that these
bones were larger than those of the
pigs in the first group, but broke un-
der a smaller weight
Hereford Association Reorganized.
The American Hereford Cattle
Breeders' Association held a meeting
in Chicago last week and voted to re-
organize. This they did by surren-
dering the Illinois charter and adopt-
ing one taken out in Arizona. The as
soclation will pot henceforth be a
beneficiary one, doing business with-
out profit, *b it will be on a commercial
basis. The assets of the old associa-
tion are estimated at $60,000. These
weie surrendered to the new associa-
tion. The capital stock of the new or-
ganisation is to be $100,000, divided
into 10,000 shares of $1© each. The
headquarters of the association are to
be in Kansas City,
Angus Premiums.
The board of directors of the Aber-
deen-Angus Cattle Breeders' Associa-
tion has voted \o appropriate $4,600
for a show at the Uraislana Purchase
Exposition and $2,500 for an Aber-
deen-Angus show at Kansas City, in
case one |s held there in 1904. For
the International 'Live Stock Exposi-
tion in 1904 $4,300 was set aside for
special premiums,
The cost of tile drains win, of
course, vary with the locality, bome
estimates of cost made in the vicinity
•of the Iowa Agricultural College may
prove of value to farmers intending to
put in tile drains.
Tile waa-found to cost per 1,000 feet
as follows; 4-ineh, $20; 5-incb, $27;
6-inch, $37; l-lnoh, $58; 10-inch, $85;
12-inch, $115; 15-ipch, $255. The cost
of hauling was estimated at $5 per
1,000 feet for the 5-inch tile and a
corresponding increase for the larger
sizes. The distance hauled in this
case was five miles. The cost of lay-
ing, per rod was 12 to 15 cents for all
tile below 8 inches in size. This
price includes digging ditch and lay.
ing tile, filling ditch to be done by
owner. Where a capable engineer is
employed to do the work, his fee
must be added.
SOriE FACTS ABOUT
By Chairit\a.n Wotters
(Continued from Page I.).
of some one peculiarly adapted ior
that style of politics, buy up.every
negro that could be bought on the
river, beginning at Winchester,
going to West Point down to Plum,
gobble them up at LaGrange, get
a share at Biegel, and another lot
at Holman. If there has eyer
for ne other solution than to nom-
inate, and for reasons ef their own
they do not wish it to be df ne.
The situation is just this. If the
democratic party does not nominate
for county and precinct officers, and
any other political party in the
county does, the democratic party
will not, iindsr the law, be entitled
to hare an official ballot printed.
been any other political ring or anjj henc# under such conditions,
clique in this county, than such as
I have just decribed, I have never
heard "of it. And that ring or
clique will be formed every two
years so loner as the democratic
people do not take this matter into
no democratic tickets would be
Voted, If, on the other hand, no
p<?litieal party makes nominations,
the candidates will haye to select
the ticket upon which they will
place their names. And each cafidi-
their own hand and nominate can- aa^e have his name only upon
didates for county offices. Of,
course, ifc may be that Judge Rob-
son has been in politics in this
county fcr twenty-Aye years, more
or less, without ever knowing that
such a condition existed, but if he
told me he did hot, I am sure he
would pardon me if 1 would say
that I did not believe him. He
know that they exist. I
think that he, from his observa-
tions and experiences could write
a very intersting book on political
conditions as relate to the election
of county officers in Fayette coun-
ty, If he Would state the facts, it
would at least be very readable.
No, there is no danger of any
clique or ring ever controlling the
intelligent men who constitute the
democratic party in Fayette coqq-
ty, and so long as I live in Fayette
county, no man shall make the
charge without my at least de-
nouncing the statement as a libel.
As to the letter in the last issue
of the Journal written by "Mike"
of Schulenhurg, I regret that so
ntoliigent a gentleman as "Mike"
doe not yet understand enough
about the proposition involved to
distinguish between a primary
election and ^primary convention.
K* one wants to nominate county
officers by primary convention.
The proposition is to nominate by
a primary election, which is con-
ducted under the law just as is a
general slecjtion, whare the election
Judges are sworn just as they are
at a general election, and where
each democratic voter casts a secret
jallot just as at a general election,
and that candidate who receives a
majority of all the yotes cast at
such primary election, is declared
he nominee of the democratic
party. Even Mike can, under such
circumstances, go to the ballot box
at Schulenburg on the second Sat-
urday in July and cast a free bal-
ot for any candidate that he may
see fit, and if he is in aocord with
nhe majority of his fellow demo*
crats, and votes for the man who
receives the majority ot the votes
cast, he will have the satisfaction
to see his favorites the nominees of
(he tleraooratic party, and can then
have the satisfaction of joining
with those who opposed his choice
the primary election to ratify
the nomination by an election in
Novembar. Both the letters of
Mike and of Judge Robson charge
that this would be atv infringement
of our individual rights.. Of whose
individual righto? Certainly not
of any democrat, for any demo-
crat would have the right to go to
the primary election and fight for
^is choice. Certainly not of any
republican, because any republi-
can will have the right to go to
the primary of bis party and vote
for his choice. Of course, the re-
publican, if he wou.d vote at his
primary, would ef necessity haye
to vote with the darkies, and he
would have to be presided over by
negro chairman, but if he wishes
to do that, that is a part of his in-
dividual rights, and no one shall
gainsay him the right. So how
will any man's individual rights,
his independence, his freedom, or
his liberty be jeopordized by
nominating by a primrry election?
kot a single gentlemen who has
undertaken to oppose the proposi-
tion te nominate h*s discussed the
questions involved as to the effect
the failure to nominate would have
upoo the democratic party, Not a
one has offered us a solution re-
lating to the difficulties that con-
front us through the enactment of
the Terrell election law. £ven the
learned Judge Robson does not tell
us how we shall extricate ourselves
from the difficulties that confront
us by reason of the Terrell election
law, The reason they have not
done so, is simply that they can of-
one ballot. Srt that instead of the
democratic party at a, primary elec-
tion selecting the candidates that
shall go upon its ticket, the candi-
date would merely nominate them-
selves, and place their names upon
tfee democratic ticket. Should more
than one name appear upon the
democratic ticket for any county
effiee, it would afford an opportuni-
ty for the republicans to induce
some other gentleman to place his
name upon this ticket, and by the
solid yote of their party elect him,
Any gentleman, thus elected, would
t|e the candidate of the republican
garty,«nd his election would enure
to the benefit of that party and
consequently injure to some degree
t|he democratic party, In other
Words,if you nominate by a pri-
mary election, you will say who the
candidates shall go upon the demo
cratic ticket.
It does seem to me that the time
has como when the democracy of
the great old county of Fayette
should fall in line with the demo
crats all over Texas, and select the
candidates that are to serve them
in the courthouse, by a primary
election, and then go to the polls
in November and select them, Al 1
oyer Texas this is done, and no
where is there complaint at the sy«
tem. If rings and cliques a re the
natural result of county nominati-
tions, then rings and cliquos must
control practically every county in
Texas, for with the exception of
Fayette, and a few small counties
there are none in Texas where the
democrats do not nominate.
I have a letter from the Hon.
Roger Byrne of Bastrop County in
which he states that there are no
democrats opposed to county nom-
inations in that county now. He
say* further: "In conclusion I beg
to say that the nomination of county
officers has benefited the democrat-
ic party, and as a consequence the
entire county, and I do not belie ye
that the democrats could be induced
to abandon the system." He also
states that prior to the time nom-
inations were made, a candidate
spent all the money he had and all
be could borrow from his frieada
to be elected for office. That now
the amount incident to the nomina-
tion and election to a county office
iis between one hundred and fifty
and two hundred dollars. When
ijt is remembered that in that coun-
ty, one race, prior to the time the
democrats began nominations, cost
each of two contestants practically
15000, it will readily be understood
the difference that nominations
haye mfcde. In Bastrop County
tjhe republicans used to poll over a
thousand majority,, but since the
demociats nominate for county of-
fices, they have carried the county
by a good majority. Whene'yer
you take money out of it, the negro
politician loses interest in elections,
and subsequently pays no attention
to it, but stays at his work. The
result is that the republican party
loses its strength, while the system
of nominating attracts the attention
of and commands the admiration
and respect of honest white republi-
cans, who as a natural result, quit
the party dominated by negros and
go with their white brethern in the
democratic party.
I appeal to the democrats of
Faystte County to go to the pri-
maries which will meet at the re-
spective voting places on next Sat-
urday, March 26th, and there set-
tle this question ss democrats,
and when the majority shall have
Spoken in favor of nominations by
a primary election, all join hands
and together march to glorious vic-
tory, and if the majority should
ipeak otherwise, all bow in acquies-
eence of its decree,, and together do
the best we can. Youra truly,
J. F. Wolters.
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Effect of Mangels on Land.
The Journal of the Royal Agricul-
tural Society of England has given
an account of experiments in the
continuous . growth for 27 years of
mangels on the same lands, which
form a part of the Rothamstetj in-
vestigations. After describing the
experiment and reporting the result
In detaU, the author concludes:
"That mangels can be grown con*
tinuously on the same land without
injuring the tilth of the land or the
health of the crop. That a liberal
dressing of farmyard manure forms
the best basis of the manure for man-
gels. That the crop will further re-
spond to considerable additions of ac-
tive nitrogenous manures to the dung,
particularly of nitrate of soda. That
a free supply of potash salts is essen-
tial to the proper development of the
mangel, hen^e a specific potash
manuring „|s. desirable, even when
dung is used in large qttaatitles and
on a strong soil initially rieh in pot-
ash.' When nitrogenous manures aro
used in addition to dung, the potash
salts ehould be increased pro rata,
in order to mantaln the health and
feeding value of the crop and to bring
it to maturity. That, in conjunction
with dung, super-phosphate or other
phospbatlc manure is hardly neces-
sary and will give little appreciable
return, especially when the crop is
grown in rotation. That, as soluble
alkaline salts are beneficial to the
mangel crop either as direct foods or
as economizers of potash, a dressing
of salt should, always be included
among the manures for th^mangel
arop."
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Stable Ventilation.
At the last state dairymen's con-
vention in Wisconsin, W. D. Hoard
said: A few years ago when 1 built
a cow stable I put windows In it every
three feet to let In the light. I also
put in a ventilation system that cost
$350. One of my neighbors said to
me that he did not see how I could
afford to do that I replied that if a
man should come along and give the
cows of any man parls green or any
other kind of animal or vegetable
poison he would be prosecuted. But
the farmer himself will poison his
cows with bad air and think nothing
of it. We must wake to a realization
of this fact Now the expenditure of
$350 for a good ventilating system IS
not a large matter. The interest on
that amount at 6 per cent is only $21
per year, and that Is what the ven-
tilating system really costs me. If I
didn't have the money myself I could
borrow it from my neighbor at 6 per
cent. That $21 is a very small sum to
pay for the furnishing if pure air to
a stable 142 feet long and 36 feet
wide. I have found tba\ this costs
oaiy a little over 40 cents per animal.
We keep cows In the stable for about
200 days out of the year, and "should
we refuse them the expenditure of 40
cents each to keep them in pure air?
I am snre tbt I get back at Icist te^
times 40 cents in the increased ef-
fectiveness of each cow. I do not
think that I ever made aa expendHiora
on my farm that paid a better interest
than that ventilating system. All this
winter the temperature in my Stable
has not dropped below 6® to 65 de-
grees. The bodies of the cows give
off enough heat to keep the tempera-
ture right for the cows. By the Kin*
system of ventilation, which I have,
you take off the foul cold air
retain the warm air that Is
at the top of the barn, and your 1
ble Is kept at an equ.table
ture. It will not cost most of the
farmers as much to put in a ventila-
ting system as it did me because most
of,,them have not stabler as large aa
the one 1 have.
Aleutian leland Ranges.
Several large stock growers of
Washington state aire planning to con-
vex t the Aleutian islanda into vast
cattle and sheep ranges, which will
surpass in extent the rapidly diminish-
ing ranges of jfontana and Tekas,
One company has begun the shipment
of 25,000 sheep and 5,000 head of
cattle to the Aleutians, a first con-
signment of S,000 head of sheep hav-
ing recently been sent from San
Francisco. The company had demon-
strated previously that sheep will
thrive there, living throughout the
winter solely on the grass of the
islands, by having landed 1,000 head
there about a year ana a half ago.
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