The Velasco Times (Velasco, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, April 7, 1893 Page: 4 of 4
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Pittjrpat and Tlppytoe.
All day long they oomu mid go—
Pittypat mid Tlppytoe;
i up aud down tho hall,
Dgt scattered on tho floor,
r toarles along the wall,
i smudges on the door—
By theie presente yon «hall know,
Pittypat and Tippy toe.
How they riot at their play!
And a dozen timen a day
Iu their troop, demanding bread-
Only buttered bread will do,
Aad that butter must be spread
Inches thick with sugar, too!
And I never ran nay "No,
Pittypat and Tlppytoe!"
Sometime* there arc grief* to soothe,
bometimei ruffled browi to soothe;
For (1 much regret to nay)
Tlppytoc and Pittypat
Sometime* interrupt their play
With an internecine «pat;
Fie for shame! to quarrel so—
Pittypat and Tlppytoe!
Ob, the thousand worrying tilinga
Every day recurrent brings!
llanda to scrub and hair to brush,
Search for playthings gono amias,
Many a woe complaint to hush,
Many a little bump to kiss;
Life acema one vain, fleeting allow
To Pittypat and Typpytoo!
And when day la at an end,
There are little duda to mend;
Uttle frocks are atrangeiy torn,
Little alioes great holes reveal,
Mllle hoae, but one day worn,
Rudely yawn at the toe aud heel
Who but you could work such woe,
Pittypat aud Tlppytoc! ,
But when comea tilia thought to nic;
"Some there are that child less bo "
Stealing to their little beds,
. With a love I cau not speak,
Tenderly I stroke their heads—
Fondly klaa each velvet ofieck,
God help those who do not know
A Pittypat or Tlppytoe I
On the floor and down the hall,
Rudely Smutched upon the, wall,
There are proofs In every kind
Of tho havoc they have wrought,
And upon my heart you'd find
Just such trade-mark* if you sought;
Oh, how glad 1 am 'tla so,
Pittypat and Tlppytoe,
—Eugene Field,
NO CKOWDINU IN TEXAS.
Some Staggering Figures Regarding
the Aren of the Lone Star State.
Kate Field's Washington. •
A recently printed statement
that the westor/i states of America
are becoming crowded is dis-
proved by figures that, through
various manipultations, tell a
most wonderful story of tbe
length and breadth of tho magni-
ficent empire lying west of the
Mississippi river. Of the vast
area of the larger western states
people who have not visited them
and traveled over them have no
comprehensive idea. Texas, tbe
largest of the United States, has
an area of 362,290 square miles.
To the casual reader these figures
mean but very little; they show,
however, that the Lone Star state
is more than fifty-four tiraos as
largb aB the state of Connecticut.
If it were possible to run a rail-
way train from Connecticut to
Texas and back in a day, and if
the train could take the entire
population of the nutmeg state,
as given by the last census, at
every trip, and upon its return
there should be as many persons
in the state as there were before
the train left its cargo, and if each
one of these people were placed
upon an acre of ground upon his
arrival in Texas, tho train would
be obliged to make 224 trips, or to
depopulate Connecticut 224 times,
before accomplishing its mission,
and then there would remain in
Texas 703,808 empty acres. It
may be of passing interest to
know that such a train, made up of
coáches twenty feet long, capable
of accommodating fifty passeugers
each, would extend over a distancs
of more than fifty-six miles.
If the entire state of Texas
were planted with corn and the
hills were two feet apart and the
rows were three feet apart, and if
every man, woman and child in
the state of Connecticut were set
to work in the field to hoe the
corn, and each person was able to
and did hoe two hills in five min
utes, it would take this army of
laborers seven years, 280 days
and seven hours to hoe every hill
of corn in the state, laboring con
tinuously day and night 305 days
each year.
To those persons who have
never stopped to consider how
great a country they are living in
these figures may be of interest,
The man who fears he could not
elbow his way around in tho
crowded west without chafing the
nap of his coat sleeves may gather
some solace from the statement
that tbe entire living population*
of the globf, 1,400,000,000 souls,
divided into families of five
persons each, could be located in
Texas, each family with a house
on a half-acre lot, and there would
still remain 50,000,000 vacant fam-
ily lots.
Nut Tree Notes.
The pomologist of the United
States Pepartmelit of Agriculture
urges tbe planting ol more nut
trees. "All over the country,"
says the annual report, "there is a
slight interest in the culture of
foreign chestnuts, but there is u
great need of more extensive
plantings, Our markets are poor-
ly supplied, and the price is there-
fore high for these und other nuts
which should become a common
article of food here as in .Southern
Europe."
It is said that the English wal-
nut is not truly named. It ought
to be called tho Persian walnut.
The walnut and tho hickory be-
long to the same botanic family.
One of the best of all the hickory
nuts is t"io pecan nut. In refer-
ence to the pecau the Government
pomologist says it is "probably
the best of all nuts."
The native chestnut grows nat-
urally amid grass, weeds and
brambles, but that duos not prove
that it will not respond to good
culture, it might pay to plant
large numbers of native chestnut
trees on some of our waste lands,
aud allow them to tako care of
themselves, but it would proba-
bly pay better to give them some
cultivation.
Tho hickory nut seems to be
subject to wide variation, and
hence oilers a field for interesting
and profitable experiment. It
varies all the way from the deli-
cious shell bark to the forbidding
hog-nut, and from the size of a
cent to the size of a silver dollar.
Specimens of the more desirable
kinds ought to be forwarded to
the agricultural experiment sta-
tions. In that way the improve-
ment of the edible hickory nut or
shellbark can bo rapidly effected.
Tho common black walnut is
worthy of increased attention,
both for its lumber and for its edi-
ble nut. The size ol the natural
nut varies a good deal, some speci-
mens being fully twice the size of
others. The latter ought to be
cultivated and improved. Grass
grows well under walnut trees.
Planting Nuts.
Tho failure of chestnuts and
other nuts with thin shells is
caused, usually, by allowing them
to become too dry in the fall.
Walnuts, hickory nuts and poach
seeds are rarely hurt by drying if
they are placed in conditions
favorable to moisture by tho timo
winter fairly sets. Their very
thick shells protect them for a
time, but it is better if they are
kept from dryiug out. They
should be exposed to the frosts
all winter spread in rather thin
layers on the surface of tho
ground and covered with about
three inches of fine soil. They
iuust be kept from the depreda-
tions of mice, and as soon in
spring as they show signs of
growth they are to be planted in
nursery rows three to four feet
apart, and six to ten inches apart
in tho row. They can bo cultivat-
ed once in ten days or two weeks
during the summer, and by fall
they will have made nice trees.
Transplanting the next spring,
and giving them more room, will
increase the fibrous and lateral
roots, so that tho final transplant'
ing at tho ago of three or four
years can be done with but little
risk.
In tho cose of peach trees the
yearlings are usually budded the
first fall, and the buds will have
made trees fit for removal at the
end of the next season; that is,
with two seasons' growth from
tho seed.—Eddy Argus.
Have a home. Have that home
on the gulf coast for health, cli-
mate and prosperity.
OUR VARIED RESOURCES.!
Opportunities for the Farmer;
in this County.
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OPENINGS FOR INVESTORS.
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Cotton, Sugnr, Cereal*, Fruit, (Jurtlen. |
lug, Vegetables and 1 lowers
But though a man is persuaded
that our climate is perfect, that he
can grow any product ol the tem-
perate or semi-tropical zone, wej
must convince him that lie can |
better his condition when lie gets
here, or our efforts are vain.
The gulf coast offers many in-
ducements to settlers. Land in
this and adjoining counties can
be purchased at very reasonable
prices,assessment and the tax rate i
is very low. What more could a
prospective investor desire?
Farmers can find opportunities
without number for the investment ;
of their capital and energy. Here I
he lias twelve months in the year!
to make his crop, while his brother ¡
farmer in tho north is snowed
under und frozen up. llere ho-
is plowing anil planting, while j
up north they are having a bliz-
zard.
Cotton, sugar cane, corn, wheat,
barley and oats give him bounti-
ful returns.
As a fruit country, the gulf coast
is without a rival. For gardening,
for the market, he has 305 days in :
the year
Dairying is an industry, which
if properly followed will give you
large returns. The grass is green
all the year, and but little shelter
required for the stock, whereas in
the north the dairyman is com-
pelled to feed from six to eight
mouths iu the year.
liaising poultry and eggs for the
market is another very profitable
industry. Eggs and poultry are
always in demand and spring
chickens are never out of season
here.
Apiculture is especially a pay-
ing business. There is abundant
food for the bees and as land is
brought into cultivation the food
supply will be increased. Mr.
John Boss, living on Oyster creek,
about five miles north of Velasco,
has been very successful with
bees. He has shipped annually
for the last l'ouv or live years
from forty-five to sixty barrels of
honey, receiving as much therefor
as he would from the same num-
ber of 500-pouiul bales of cotton.
Good agricultural lands can be
purchased in this county for $0 to
f35 per acre. You don't pay any
thing for climate. In California
climate and water rights are ad-
ded to the price of land, and you
pay at the rate of from ¡M50 to
#300 per acre.
Land in Brazoria county is
comparatively cheap, yet par-
ticularly so when we consider
the great variety of crops that
can be successfully raised. The
rainfall is seasonable and abun-
dant. In the last twenty-live
years there has been no f-iil-
ure of crops in the gulf coast
country. The farmer who invests
in Brazoria county lands is abso-
lutely sure of a competence in a
few years, if he will only give the
same labor and attention to his
crops that he did when fanning in
the north and oast.
One of the greatest farms in the
United States is the great barley
farm of the Manhattan malting
company, in the Gallatin valley
Montana. The acreage is 13,000,
5,000 acres of barley being har-
vested last year. In operating
this large farm 200 horses and
mules are in daily use, and 150
men are employed in irrigating.
Among the farming equipments
iti use, are twenty-live gang plows
and the same number of harrow*,
thirty binders of the widest cut
anda 100-horsepower Jacob Price
steam plow, capable of breaking
forty acres a day. It is an impres-
sive sight to see the thirty bind-
ers drawn up in line before the
field of swaying grain, all in readi-
ness to start together at the fore-
man's whistle. An elevator of I
27 *i,000 bushels capacity and a
malt house of 250,000 bushels are ]
on the ground converting the j
enormous barley crops into malt]
before shiping Field aud Farm, j
A school boy down in the rain
belt has been suspended for read
ing the following composition:
"Bunts are made for men and not
men for pants. Woman are made
for men and ¡not for pants. When
a man pants for a woman and a |
woman pants for a man they are
a pair of pants. Such pants don't :
last. Bants are like molasses,
they are thiner in warm weather
and thicker in cold. The man in |
the moon changes his pants dur-l
tho eclipse. Don't go to the j
pantry for pants, you might be
mistaken. Men are often mistaken
I
in pants. Such mistakes often j
make breeches of promise. There
has been much discussion as to
whether pants is singular or
plural. Seems to us when men
wear pants they arc plural, and
when they don't wear pants it is
singular. Men go on a tear in
their pants, and it is all right;
but when the pants go on a tear
Field and Farm.
SUNSHINE!
Come to Velasco
And Live in Sunshine.
Come to Velasco for Health,
Sea Air, and Comfort
A correspondent from Grand
.1 unction, Mesa county, Col., re-
marks that as a rule- the most suc-
cessful orchardist is the man who
puts in practice the bestknowledge
of pruning. The first mistake men
usually make is in trimming the
young trees when first set out.
Side branches should never bo re-
moved—the top limbs are the
ones to cut back. The sun is of
as much damage to a young un-
protected tree as all other causes
combined. It scalds or cracks
them, a prey to borers, and the
nurseryman is condemned for
sending bad stock. Cutting back
reduces the number of leaf buds
and hence the work to be done by
the new roots.—Field and Farm.
An Oil Mill for Velase .
Contract has been closed at
Velasco, Texas, for the erection
of a #150,000 cottonseed-oil mill
and work on it will be common *ed
¡if once. The building is to be
built of brick, 400 by 000 feet in
size, and will lie equipped with
the latest improved machinery of
100 tons capacity daily. Messrs.
Jens Moiler, It. I>. Hefiiii, .1. S.
Brice, James Ketts and others are
interested. — Manufacturers Rec-
ord.
There are more acres of good
sugar land iu Texas than in Lou-
isiana, and under proper cultiva-
tion, with the present bounty,
these lands could be made the
source of great wealth to the own-
ers.—San Antonio Light.
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Leonard, W. A. The Velasco Times (Velasco, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, April 7, 1893, newspaper, April 7, 1893; Velasco, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185367/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .