The Hamilton Record and Rustler (Hamilton, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 22, 1912 Page: 2 of 12
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years ago The trees of the first
Indian com," one inquirer jokingly ed to begin now and raise, some
years, and 1000 years from now
kaffir corn or milo maize every year.
from nuts. Any one cangrow them.
comes and then produce a good
WE CAM REPAIR
to the Katy. Instead of bringing
verse conditions of rainfall willdie.
ter of fact every farmer in Erath
tag statement;
The term "Indian com" applies to
usually known simply
Coffins and Caskets
Texas Central points but who do
THINKS NEW ROAD
have planted that day will be a
with any Style and Price.
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speaks, but whose name is not used
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spoken of as "Indian" corn or maize
to distinguish it from the European
use of the word, as there "com" to
made to include all grains. It is
believed that Indian corn originated
certainly to an object lesson. An
apple or a peach tree will not last
not arrive here until a considerable
time after the Texas Central has
left. could connect with that road at
Hillsboro, and persons coming on
the Texas Central, destined for
ed information and application and
application blanks to anyone writ-
tag to its headquarters at Dallas.
planted two pecan seed on his resi-
dence lot adjoining McElhany Acad-
as Central at Whitney.
Besides being valuable to the
Katy in this respect, as the sched-
ule to now arranged, persons com*
Cream Buckskin, and
Black and White Fabric
centuries.
White it to our principal forage
and grain crop, there are certain sec*
to bearStephenville Tribune.
The above suggestion ae to pro*
fitable tree growing to just asap-
The Trees Are More Profitable
Than Apples or Peaches
he is firmly convinced that it is strict-
ly a Katy proposition. • ,
it can be seen at a glance that
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seed to Europe on his return, it was answering any inquiries regarding
the contest end in furnishing detail- ing south on the Katy, bound for
W.L. Willis, Prop.
‘ HAMILTON, TEXAS
eties. Characteristics, Value,
Etc., Given in Brief.
WHY MT PLANT
PECAN ORGHARD
east of the city, he planted pecan
nuts around two sides of a long
ments could be sent from Hilsboro,
forming a connection with the Tex-
$3.50
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drouth-resistant properties. They
give equally as large yields as com,
and can be successfully substituted
for it as food for stock. •
Kaffir com and milo maize differ
greatly from Indian com in their
physical characteristics, both belong-
ing to the sorghum family, which to
divided into several classes, namely,
sweet sorghum—kaffir com and
milo maize—important grain and
forage crops and brooms and brushes
are made. ,
Kaffir corn and milo maize are
very similar in most respects, but
each has certain advantages over
the other, milo maize to more drouth
resistant then kaffir corn, yielding a
harvest where the ratafalito but tne
to fourteen inches; it matures earlier
than kaffir com, and is lees liable to
be attacked by kernel smut On the
other hand, the leaves of kaffir com
more ornamental then the i pecan,
tall, symetrical and graceful with
their delicate foliage they make
ideal shadetrees besides the "valua-
ble yield of nuts each year. When
Arbor Day has passed it to to be
Mooeooeen
THAT WATCH!
______accurate tip, that the
Katy to the moving spirit in tide en-
terprise— Whitney Messenger. ...
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Ladies Low Heel, 2 Strap, Patent Leather Pumps $2.00
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Ladies Law Hee), 2 Strap, Gun Metal Pumps, only $175
Just made, f inished and
Trimmed. Come to me for
your wants in this hine.
None can serve you better.
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plete stock of coffins andITERESTING FACTS
Caskets and can serve you
than all the apple orchards in Erath
- county. Old Judge Armstrong
county should have a few pecan
. trees on his farm. Plant the seed.
•' 2 and later on have them budded or
"grafteg,WhenG, W. Jenks, now
editor of the Tribune, owned a farm
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hoped that among the trees you in America, probably in Mexico,
where it has been cultivated for
IS THE KATT points on the Katy north of here
•__ who would not arrive until after the
Katy northbound had left Waco,
A prominent Waco traveling man, could also connect with the Katy at
who claims to know whereof he Hillsboro.
tion as to this which he believes ab- given to positive,
solutely accurate and reliable, and considers an ace
REGULATION
A small watch well regulated is more satisfactory than a fine large one that is either
gaining or losingtime, Yon can't depend on a watch that is not regulated. v Neither can
you depend on a store that has no regular fixed price, if you could not do any better of
course you would have to,put up with kinder guessing at it, but you don't have to guess
when you trade at Safe Side Store. Everything is right on the "Dot.” High quality--
tow price. ,
Ladies Patent Vamp Button Oxford, Medium Heel, $2.00
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Minses Gum MetalStrap Pumps. Black sukBow,
Misses Tan 2 Strap Pumps, Silk Bow, $1.50 and $175
Misses White Canvas Strap Pumps, $1.00 and $1.25
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RELATIVE TO CORN tions of the country, West Texas as
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pliable fa Hamilton county as in
Erath. There to no tree in the world it. hence, when he took some of the
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••L ~ecrl offer of $10,000 in gold for the best
For thirty years we have
been handling “balky” time-
keeper; we know their tricks;
we have learned all their ugly
little wave; we know too, -just
bow to handle them.
Lot us look over that watch
you cant depend on any more.
If it‘s worn out we'll tell you
on, if it ian’t well make it
right or your money book.
All work, that we do on a
watch K uarantead for one year.
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W. B. DeSHAZO
JEWEER
makes the follow- crop white Indian corn under ad- the road would be of great value to
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Read These Prices
In value as feed for live stock of all freight intended for. points along
the Texas Central to Waco, ship-
Judge Frank Guinn of Rusk who
married a daughter of Mrs. V.' M.
Cox of Stephenville, has demon-
strated conclusively that pecan
grafting to a success. He has graft-
ed the pecan on hickory trees, and
thus converted the hickory into val-
uable pecan-bearing trees, and he
has also grafted wild pecan trees
which bore small nuts, and made
them produce the large, softshell
nuts which bring fancy prices. He
has a pecan tree he calls the Tuck-'
er, which to a steady, prolific bear-:
er of nuts, the size running from 60!
to 70 to the pound, and it to of fine
shelling quality. He is grafting the
Tucker on hickories, and also on
seedling pecan trees. Such men as
Judge Guinn are doing a great work
for Texas. They are helping to con-
tribute to her material wealth. We
, need more of them We need half
a'dozen in each county to teach
men and women how to develop the
resources nature has given us. As
long as farmers remain slaves to
cotton just so long will there be a
necessity for mortgages. If we had
half a dozen men in Erath county
like Judge Guinn of Rusk our farm-
ers would soon learn that they
could convert their alluvial valleys
and creek bottoms into valuable
nut-bearing orchards, and make
---------dollars where they are not now .
making dimes. It is silly for a man
to say that he must wait a life time
to realize profit from a pecan or-
chard. Pecan trees will begin to
bear from eight. to twelve years,
and when they are budded or graft-
ed they begin to bear at six years,
and a 100-acre pecan orchard would
be worth more as an investment1
asking if by it the Congress meant
"squaw corn." For the information They will wait for the rain until it
Its Origin, History, Different Vari- milo maize can be grown to much
better advantage by reason of their
seedling pecan trees produced very
fine nuts, and some trees rarely fail that most familiar of all grata crops kinds they are tally as valuable as
See the New Things in
“QUEEN QUALITY"
Pumps and Oxfordsthat :
we are showing for
planting are some sixteen feet high,
these trees will still be bearing. This Don’t say you cannot grow trees
Loans Made on Farms and Ranch-
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es. Long time, low rates of inter-
est. No delay. Vendors Lien
Notes purchased. I make a special-
ty of lending money on real estate
seenrity in Hamilton and adjoining
Counties. I own a compete Abstract
oftMsof all lands and town lots in
Hamitorm County. Abstracts of title
furnished on short notice. Titles ex*
amined and perfected '
J.T. JAMES
1 have just received a com . goodly number of pecans.
trees are now some thirty feet tall planted began to bear some, two
and have been bearing several
If you tail one year try the next of thoeetowhom 1
over 15 years, as a rate. As a mat- Trees twenty years old will yield all deer, the Congress
ter of fact every farmer in Erath the way from $5 to $30: Some
which there are many I
When Columbus discovered Amer* offering large cash prizes for the
tea he found the Indians cultivating best yields of those, as well as other
crops, and will take pleasure in
Spring, in Tae, Calf,
Black Ooze, White and
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yields of certain crops, the Texas less pithy than those of milo maize in deference to his wishes, declared /j"??1 the J
I _________________.Industrial Congress found; that and the leaves keep ereen up to the the Ka is behind the propositionEd Hisboro Whtbey ndite eu?.
emy in this city, and the resulting string of fence, and the first nuts he there wes considerable confusion in time the grata ripens. to build a road from Hillsboro who tarninhow the Timeg.
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Ladies Black Suade, 2 Strap Pumps at $2.50
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Ladies 3 Strap Patent Pump, Very Flexible Sale, at $2.50
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L LadiesPatent LeafherPump.silkbow, detachable Strap $2.50
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tetter The Texas Industrial Congress to
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Ladies White Canvas Strap Pump, Silk Bow, $2-00
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Peck, L. O. The Hamilton Record and Rustler (Hamilton, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 22, 1912, newspaper, February 22, 1912; Hamilton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1564435/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.