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INDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPER—DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT or the AGRICULTURAL, MECHANICAL AND OTHER INTERE8T8 OF THE DISTRICT GENERALLY, BELL
BELTON, BELL COUNTY, TEXAS, JULY 81,1858.
VOL. 3.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
A. Z. RUMSEY,
TEXAS AGRICULTURAL WAREHOUSE
HOUSTON, TfcXA*.
Th* Agricultural Warehouse
IlttOCUD WITH THiflLLOWlHO AST* L1K
MOWERS AND REAPERS,
inumum nd CLiiNinu. iiikhi s and rf.uuto «,
Lnir ud Endleu Chain Hone Powers,
SBcsUO&aaee
PANNING MILLS,
'cobn bhelletts, * CORK mills,
«PLOWS, SUB-SOIL PLOWS, HAH HOWS
one a two-HOUSE CULTIVATORS.
hid drills. brain drills, m
FEED CUTT, RS,
Shovels, Spades, Hoes, Horse Hoes,
Corn Planters,
SUB WHEAT, OA TV, CORN, HAKLEY, HYE, JUI.TBr,
GKASS SEED, OLOVKlt 1)0.,
Garden Seeds, the Best Horticultural Seeds,
apfu', wail, l'LUU,
PEACH, CafllKY, NKCTARI.NK AND APRICOT Th KKS
will be delivered In season for setting, In flue order,
ALSO, GlUl'ES, G003EUEIÜUES. ¿C.,
A supp y kopt on hunü of the
POLAND ANO SCOTCH OATS,
These O-it are a Superior Ai t'cle, worthy th at-
teutlou of every l'luntei; limy weigh from
liUo 48Jb pat bu-hel.
Stationary
ve or Flue
, . _ Saw Mills,
B *t (irist Mills in the United States,
SMUT MILLS, BOL IS, BOLTING CLOTHS
MILL UI'.Anl.sU A.M) MrtCiil.M'.l(V UKM'.UAI.I.Y
ma le to nider with rppcifloations for imttlnitup:
_ Iran ■ Wui'dTu nliw-i. alies ringing Mil's -
Please call and Examine before Purchasing.
muygObty A Z UUMSUY
■ AM Riso Agent fir I he following: Stl
1 Engines, Portable, Locomotive
Boiler do., Oiro.las. saih or Mul* Sa
WL
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L. JT. LATHAM,
MAIN STUEl T llOUfcl'ON, TEXAS,
TJKALEIt IN DltY OOODS. GUOOERIKR,
-L Hurdwaie, Furniture, China, Glass
and Earthen win e. J. i li y, Bailiiltiy, Áo.
Also, it full supply of Clothing. Doom Shoes,
Carpeting, Wall I'nper, llouue-Fuinlsuliig articles,
beautiful s tsol Olilrni, rich Furniture, Cm lery, etc.,
wbluh will be sold on tue most reus .nalbd terms.
SAVE YOUR MONEY!
GOLD AND SILVER!
ALBUMEN PAINT!
>rpHE undersigned having obtained from 1 lio inven*
tor, a receipt for making and u inp the above
Paint, au I believing it to bo the most uselul invention
1o the 19th century, and being willing to impart the
nowledg* to others, ho will, on the receipt qf One
Dollar by mail, «en any perwon by return mail, a re-
ceipt which will teach any one of ordinary capacity
to make and use the ubovo paint, which i superior
to anything of the kind ever used, and it being so
cheap, not more than Ten Cents for Une Hundred
Square feet, make.* it valuable for paintiug Fences
aud all buildings enclosed with undreaaod lumber, as
it can be put on by any nous!ble negro. Any color
can be painted witli it except green.
Aldo, combined with the above, I will sondare*
ceipt by the same inventor, for making iiud using Fire
Proof Paint, which is nearly as cheap as the other.
I will also for Two Dollars, remitted to me by mail,
send a receipt which will teach any person to dissolve
Silver and Uold, and o plate any other metal with it
It is entirely a new process, done without machinery,
by which any one can plate their own ¡Spoons Forks,
Castors, etc with g"ld or silver, in a few m'nutes.—
A Watch can be plated with Gold or Silver in twenty
minutes ata cost of Twenty cents. This art is par-
ticularly adapted for keeping mountings of Harness
tn order and malting Drnss Candlestick - and Lam; s
into Mlver ones. The Gold plating will stand the
test of Nitric acid.
Also, combined with the Receipt f-r PI itirig. 1 pond
a Receipt for Quick Soldering, by which any person
can nu-nd any article oi Jewcln in a few seconds.—
Anyone wishingallthe above receipts can have tlioni
forwarded by return mail, on the reception of Two
Dollars and Fifty ( ents. or i'or the I la ting, Une 1 ol
las; the Mating aud Soldering i wo Dolíais. Be care-
ful and write your name and address plain.
\\\M PUNCH A It I), Postmaster
Fempronius, AnstinTo.. Texa*. junefi-tf
igm* WHITWANTS TO MAK K MONEY!
' FAST AND EASV't^
The most Liberal ltidnlaments ever offered to
those out of Employment mid having
but a Small Capital.
AGENT* >VA*TKD Al L OVf'H TUR Wntl.D
TO go into a htorailve d h 'lio able bu lneus,
which will pa* a" ne 've lois.io .g m n 'rom
Three to five Dollars n D¡jr fo«* Years, w'th a
Capitol oi Tnirtyio Fifty Dollars oco menc"
wini. Une huioirtnl tho ibaod men can make for-
tune by this proceos, hoi.or.ihly and wUliuut hard
labor. I is a practi'al and lfi¿itimati> sptvuh'ti'-n
that he who wttdies to better his ennd tioo, can go
into without the poFBihi it.v of Im&Iiik a dollar
Now. sir. If you think ail a humbug, just >vmt«jii in
youridl'nessaiidp-verty while others nap i > ♦• re-
ward of a little ♦ ncrgy. put *f v« 't actually want to
make money easy. html lift Cents by ma l to covi
th«expen^eof luinting-nd i«-.* 'a«o ami IwillBOint |
you an article \*orih One Dollar to a y fu l y,
with eiriulars only for those wi.o take ug<
show ing you how you can make your fortune
Tarr intsaiifcfactioii or refund your quarter.
with eiriulars only for those wi.o take tiwuolcr,
and I
iarr intsaiisraction or refund yonr quarter.
,ie capital required is fco>mia«ti in yonruu n hands,
mayby A C D.'.N ON, Mobile, Ala.
JAMES M. 1DNE1,
Commission Merchant, 147 L'hnmbewst, N Y
BU Vü aud forwards every kind ot me chandise at
•per cent, commission, Refers to ( ovs Swain
and Morehead, Rev C' F Deems, Hon W A (iraliam, N.
C.; Brown k McMlllcr, Washington. Christian Advo-
cate and News offices, Galveston, Texas, and others.
Dealer In Pianos, Melodeons. Organs. Harps, Guitars,
Music, Sewing Machines, Iron safes. Pumps, Garden
Engines, etc. A printed list, of nil the different ma-
kers, kinds and prices sent free. Publisher of an el-
egant lithograph of llHickory Nut Falls," N. 0. ($1.)
andth * "CHKROKEK PHYSICIAN: or Indian Guide
to Health*" This invaluable Family Adviser should
be in every houso. It treats of all diseases, has a co-
pious glossary and prescribes the remedies from Na-
ture s bounteous stores, for al. our infirmities and
misfortunes, It is printed on tine white paper, hand-
somely bound, fourth edition, iiOO pages, and is mail-
•cd free for One Dollar.
New Rosewood Pianos, $140. np120-
TIN WARÍ
SB. BRUSH, MANUFACTURER and Whole-
• sale and Retail Dealer in TINWARE of
every variety.
Pumps. Cistern, Well and Force Pumps.
Stoves. Cooking Stoves of different kinds. i-Xtra
Boilers, Pots, Kettle. ,, Griddles, Pans, l ipes, etc.
Roofing. Tin and other metal rooting. Guttering
and Piping done in town or country,
Bafhtng Tubs, Shower Baths, etc.
Jobbing done Terms Cash.
Shop on Congress Avenue, Austiu, Texas. aplIOy
BOOT & SHOEMAKING.
R. D. KINNEY,
Respectfully informs the ciu*ens
of Bell and the surroun-
ding counties that he has just
received a large nnd well se-gj
lected stock cf leather, and is
Íirepared to execute all work
nhis lino with neatness and dispacth.
april34tf
Report of (lie Gold Expedition.
Wo left here on the 2nd of June,
and travelled over a high, rn'ling
country, with flue grass and fertile
lands, plenty of .water aud some
scattering mezquite timber We
continued travelling until 12 o'clock
at night, when wo were stopped by
a severe rain and norther. On the
morning of tho 4th, it was clear and
cold tit) in January.
About 10 o'clock the same day
Orala ft OraM8c> tbeB,Crudles,IIorBu& Hand rakes | we reached the South prong of the
HAY AM) MANURE FORKS', tjT. . , ,. , ,
tíraseos. It is a beautiful, clear
stream; abounds with the finest fish
The soil is rich; plenty of fine mez-
quite timber and excellent grass.~
This will, some day, be among the
finest stock countries in the State,
since it possesses all the facilities
nnd natural advantages desirable.—
On'the 5th and Oth, we traveled thro
some of the finest valleys of red
land that it was ever our good for-
tune to see. They are large, and
rich as can be. This country will,
in time, offer some as fiue induce-
ments to tho agriculturist as any
land in tho western country. Wo
then struck tho head of Panther
creek, where we had the pleasure of
seeing tho first buffaloes. The boys
gave chase to some of them but did
not succeed in killing any. There
wore about 200 in the drove. The
water of Panther creek is very salty
^Mid totally unfit for use. On the
evening of the 6th, we left this point
and took ouV course south 30® east,
so as to intersect the Phantom Hill
and Gatesville road on the head of
Pecan bayou. On the 7th, pursued
our journey thro'the same kind of a
conntry, seeing nothing worthy of
mention save two herds of buffalo.
The men being all in fino spirits, the
most of them gave chase. We pui-
sued them 5 or (> miles and sucoeded
in capturing five of the burly heads.
We camped before night, and had a
jolly time in the way of a buffalo
feast, aa many of the company had
never seen one before, much ¡ess to
eat any of the meat. On the 8th,
we continued thro the same kind of
country, seeing no more buffalo, but
ph'iily of small game. We crossed
Big and Little Elm creeks, and the
Phantom Hill and Fort Oiiadliourne
road to the clear fork of the Brasses.
The fork of the Brasses is a fine,
large creek, and the vallies on the
same are from one to five miles wide,
very rich, and as level as a barn
floor. From tho time we left the 8.
prong of the Brasses, we had no
good water, all being salty or bitter.
On some of these streams we found
some of the finest Chickasow plums
we ever saw. From indications,
during the fall and winter season,
there must be thousands of buffalo
feeding here. We traveled from the
clear fork of tho Brassos 15 or 20
miles, and intersected the Gatesville
road, at the upper cross timbers.—
This is a beautiful, undulating coun-
try, well-timbered, and the scenery
as wild and romantic as the hills of
Scotland.
We continued through one of the
finest countries I ever beheld, killing
plenty of deer, and occasionally
finding a bee tree, until we came to
tho first settlements, about 15 miles
above tho month of Pecan bayou.—
From this point we traveled to Cora,
a distance of 30 miles, at which
place we had a jolly time; danced
all night with friends, but the treas-
ured sport was not graced with a
single day. At this place, a little
before da}', the negro man we had
in custody, prized off the lock with
a butcher knife and left. We were
NOTICE.
P AN off from my residence al110°t,red and a *'™"tu fieo home
in Bel ton on the 3d of March, ? ¡to make any seach for him, and it
red sorrel Horse, with a star in hit being a timbered country, we tho't
forehead, hind feet white, shod all ¡t doubtful if he could be found, but
round, his left knee considerably en- T , .
i „ . - I learn since, that he has returned
larged, a line traveler, six <>v seven ....
years old. Said horse is round bo- to his master. About 60 nntf* fiom ¡ process of sunrime
died, aud is some fjflcen hands high. C irn, the men commenced^!ealcinfl | to most American
This cloaes my notes of the expe-
dition, and I imagine you are not
sorry. A verbal report was given
on our return to all our friends, but
to those not having heard in that
way, I hope some interest will be
found in what I have wriiten.
When the expedition was first
spoken of we thought the chances
largely in favor of a small fortune at
least, and we know this was the
opinion of nearly evtry ono who had
heard anpthing about it. Our friends
who did not go were buoyant with
hope, and prognosticated not a little
about our success. We sacrificed
money, time and pleasure, to see if
we could be iustrumental in opening
up a resource that would be a finan-
cial blessing to Texas in general, and
our company in particular. Ar-
rangements were made, and with
the prayers and best wishes of
friends, we left our homes and sought
an asylum among the bleak sand
hills of the Pecos, in search of wealth,
but being foiled in our undertaking,
we returned poorer, but wiser than
when we started. We were kindly
received by friends, who by this
time had becomo all-wise, and exhi-
bited the same by saying they "knew
we would find nothing," they "were sat-
isfied there was no gold in that region."
To these friends who show such om-
niciencb, wo aBk why did you encour-
age your relations and friends to un-
dertake such an enterprise, when
you know they wore investing the
last dollar they possessed? An an-
swer might satisfy some "of us of
your sincerity and fore-knowledge.
Had we been successful, our names
would doubtless have been register-
ed among tho benefuctoos of the
age; our portraits would have ador-
nen the walls of parlors; children
would have pulled off their hats an.i
bowed to us after the old school-boy
fashion, and the fair sex would at
least have courted the favor of every
young man in the expedition. Our
sufferings, sacrifice, fortitude and
courage, would have been one of the
epitomes of the present century,
while our children would rise up and
cull us blessed. But we /bund only
a few bnffalos, panthers and snakes,
and hence loose all the glory we
might have anticipated. Now that
fame and even sympathy have been
denied us, you may all live and die
in poverty, for rest assured we will
go in search of no inore gold, even
if the little ones should cry for
bread, as wo have resolved to be a
Christian, and abide by that Bible
injunction which says:
"Take therefore no heed of the
morrow: for the morrow shall take
thought for the things of itself: suf-
ficient for the day is the evil there,
of."
And thus endeth the 4th chapter
of the Gold Expedition.
1 i
Summer ITKaungcmeiit of
Fruit Tree*.
I will pay a libeiral reward for his off in squads of Ironi 3 to
.apprehension nnd/ de1iv<ry lo rue.
JNCjB UAHDÜiMAN
jmarch20:46v2tíf
í5: "#i
made for home, leaving mys'lf ¡itid
i all the yuung men to bring up tho
•ear.
[continued.]
Summer Pruning —We have in our
previous remarks above referred to,
(p. 97,) given advice in regard to
winter pruning, manuring, and in-
sects. We shall suppose that the
trees are now in vigorous growth,
after the ordinary labors of the sea-
son. The first thing which will
require attention, with all but or-
chard trees, is the summer pruning.
This, with some kinds, should al-
ready have been confmenced, though
July is the month when the greater
portion of it should be done, but it
will require to be continued till the
last of Augustand even with some
vigorous trees into September. We
have, on several occasions, given
advice in regard to summer pruning
but at the risk of being tedious, we
shall proceed without reference to
anything we said before. The whole
pruning is new
cultivators, and
little understood except by those
who have made it a study, and per-
fected their study by practice. The
French, who arc masters of (ho art.
have long managed their trees in
this way, and it is to their intelligent
cultivators that we re indebted for
what we know in reference to its
practice. They have reduced it to
such a system, that they can bring
their trees early, into bearing, and
clothe them with fruit spurs from
top to bottom. We intend in future
articles to illustrate the practice with
engravings, from some of the French
writers, by which alone it can be
fully understood.
Summer pruning or pinching, for
most of the work should bo done
with the thumb and finger, bofore
the shoots acquire solidity, consists
in stopping the elongation or growth
of the young branches by pinching
or cutting off the ends more or less
&c., By this means, an increasing
formation of wood is prevented, and
the accumulated sap forced into the
shoots below those which are stop
ped, and what would otherwise be
borren spurs, (called dards by tho
French,) to become fruit buds in u
short time. As an illustration; sup-
pose a shoot was piodneed the last
year two or more feet long, and at
the winter pruning it was shortened
to ono foot. Now this shoot, when
it begins to grow, will only push to-
wards tho end, say the last five or
six buds; the other buds will push
so rapidly, that they soon crowd
each other, and make wood two or
three feet long which would have to
be cut back again at next winter's
pruning. Tho process may go on
for years if not checked, until the
tiees become a mass of wood, with-
out any apnearanco of fruit buds.—
If such a shoot is examined now, it
will bo seen as we describo it, viz:
with five or six young shoots spring-
ing from the last five or six buds.
Their growth must be checked in or-
der to push out the dormant buds
below; pinch them off, therefore at
the second, third, or fourth joint from
the branch—if already too tough to
break, cut them with the knife. In
a short time the eyes below wiil be-
gin to grow, or if already grown
they will begin to thicken and form
a good strong bud at the end. The
shoots that were pinched off will also
grow stouter, and form one or more
buds along the sides, or perhaps the
Iteiminal hud will break again; if
it does, after making four or five-
leaves, it should be stopped a sec-
ond time, later in the season. The
main shoot, if strong, may be nipped
off at the same time, unless to fill
some vacancy, or make a more sym-
metrical tree. Pinching it off at a
greater or less length, depends, up-
on the vigor of the tree; but as a
general rulo it may be stopped when
six or eight inches long. If stop-
ped too short it will make all the
dormant buds below break too
strong; and, in place of insipient
fruit spurt, fresh shoots will be for-
med, which will need pinching again.
Proceed in this way, to stop all
the side shoots, unless they are wan-
flie to fill some vacant place, all over
the trees, afterwards pinching the
main shoots, to give shape to tho
head. If the growth is carefuily
watched, the result of this process
will soon bo apparent, and spurs
will bo formed aiong the branches
which will become bearing shoots
in the second or third year, somo-
times the first; but with trecH upon
the pear, not often till the second or
third. Repeat the pinching as often
as the buds break on the shoots al-
ready operated on, until the growth
begins to slacken in autumn, when
it may toe discontinued, and the fiual
pruning left tobo completed after
the ripening of the wood.
Tho' summer pruning is applied
principally to the pear, it may be
Cotton ttpl**lag—Hhr. Hewrfi
Invention
The Apparatus of Mr. George G.
Henry, ior spinning cotton on th*
plantation, is beginning to attract
attention abroad and bids fair to
take a high rank in the list of great
and useful inventions. The Rich*
inond Enquirer—which appears to
have been giving special attention
to the stibject—says of ft:
"The great result intended by this
invention is actually startling in its
magnitude and importance. It is
nothing more than to double the pro-
ductive value of every cotton plan-
tation. The increased cost for the
production of cotton yarn, will bo
far leas than the waste and extra
freight incurred by shipping raw
cotton—and spun cotton will at the
lowest calculation, command double
tho prico of raw cotton."
Tho Enquirer regards it as tend,
ing to accomplish more for the com-
mercial independence of the South,
than "all the machinery of primary
meetings, caucuses and conventions'
as well as messages of Governors of
States, resolutions of legislatures,
acts of incorporation, &c., &c.
The writer of tho article in the En-
quirer has in possession a specimen
of the 'riving' or drawn cotton, as it
came from Mr Henry's machinery
now at work on Mr George S Yer-
ger's plantation in Mississippi,
which has tho fibre in perfect pres-
ervation, and in its texture is "al-
most as soft and elastic as Aobs
silk." It is said that heretofore the
cotton when brought tn this stage
by the best machinery, either of Eu-
rope or America, haB the fibre inva-
riably damaged by the operation.
Mr Henry writes with much confi-
dence as to tho success of his expe-
riment. The following is his state-
ment of the force required to work
his machinery for spinning Mr Yer-
ger's crop of 450 bales:
"1—Old man 65 years old, at the
"gin and lap."
1—One man (maimed, forefinger
off) at "cards."
2—One boy 10 and one girl l2yrs
old, as "speeders."
6—Three boyB 7 to 9, and three
girls aud boys 10 years old, "spin-
ning."
6—Six women and girls to reels,
but one a good field hand, and she a
girl 14 years old—
1*7 all told.
These hands do the ginning, grin-
ding the meal for all tho force on
the plantation, and crush all the ear
corn for tho mules, horses and oxen,
as well as spin up the 450 bales of
cotton.
On this plantation thoro were four
men engaged in the operation of
ginning alone—to say nothing of
that of baling, &c., with a steam en-
gine consuming three cords of wood
a day. Mr Henry expectB to use
only one and a half cords per day
for his whole process. If there is no
mistake in the above calculation, he
is in a fair way of fulfiling what he
set out to accomplish—the turning
of ¡the cotton into yarns at the same
expense heretofore required to gin it
It appears, too, that Mr Henry's
invention will effect a great saving,
not only for the cotton planter, but
for the cotton weaver. The Boston
Travelor states, that in a recent suit
in Lowell, the agent of tho Suffolk
Corporation testified that, within the
past two or three years, nearly sen-
enty tons of cotton waste had found
its way to different junk shops and
peddlery ¿n Boston, taken from the
corporations at a loss of nearly $88,-
000. no also stated that the whole
adopted with equal benefit upon the loss in weaving amounts to abont
apple, plum, and other fruits, espe- ( 20 per cent,—a great part of which
:ially the pnncli, only with «orne ino-; m attributed to waste taken jo dlf-
dificution, .is tho latter tree does not
form «puis, but bears only on tho
young wood of this year. It should
ferent ways from the mills.
Upon the whole, unless there sh'ld
prove to be some groat defect in the
not, therefore, l>e pin-l «*d hut onr.i\ calculations ibade, and already part-
:nid no later than the 1 i«t. >f .Tnly, ly verified by experiment, Mr Hen-
otherwise tin shoots will lie too ry'$ invention promises* to ÍM5 no^
weak, and make too late a growth less u,o era in the progress of the
to form fruit buds.
TO BK CONTINUED.
cotton interest than was that of Mr
Whitney.
Th «s«atQi
applied are nan
mandforitisi
now to ohroBMls i
which, If it '1
claimed for it, will i
influence upon the
tho snowy staple of th* I
correspondent of the
Oourier notices, with much <
dation, by which immature
rior cotton may be used for I
purposes. The intention, wo are
told, was patented one year ago,
and has had a successful trial. By,
this procesa, the soiled and water-
stained cotton of the fields, the
wrecks of fires, the aorapa aud hita
scattered everywhere, even aweep-
ings of cotton factories, whioh, In
many cases, are too bad to be pur
chased even by the paper mills and
arc oast outaa rubbish, ara destilad
to form the material of our public aa
woll as private buildings; the erode
fibre first losing its elasticity, yet
remaining singularly taaaoioua, be-
coming finally as hard and aa dura-
ble perhaps, as stone itself.
From the description, says th* 0
lumbus (Ga.) Enquirer, we infer that
the process is similar to that by
which chairs and many other ani-
eles of furniture are made of papier-
macha. The paper pelleta whioh
children sometimes; chew and throw
about become hard and strong whan
dry, oapable of sustaining conside-
rable pressure and of muoh durabil-
ity and firmness, Their plasticity
when wet is also very great, and
the furniture made ot th!*. material
is at once very light and Strong.—
The preparation of qotton waajt* for
building purposos, wo suppo**, is by
a similar prooessot reducing tho
fibre to a paste, with an ouraida coa-
ting of some impervious subf^UQp
to prevent the absorption of rata.—
The Courier's correspondent iays
a roof thus formed is both fir* and
waterproof. He farther s*ya:
"On the whole, from what we eur-
selves once witnessed, a plastta oot*
ton building should occupy In com-
pleting it from cellar to roof, juit
about one-half the time required fet
laying an equal measure bf brick
wall. When it is considered too, that
such houses 'will be aa fire proof as
brick, and as Strong, if not much
stronger than houses of modern eoo* •
nomy in material, and actually stfcad
the contractor in for but one-third
the average cost oth bricks when
laid, the belief seems fully ju*tlfi*d
that a few years wilt see our street*
and those of other cities adorned
with granite-like struotures, or here
and thore a fao-simile of brown or
farm freestone, not erected by mil-
lionaires, but by men whose fortuna*
might not have sufficed otherwise
for even unadorned brick and mortf*
This invention, if suocesafi^ is
certainly an importrnt one for tho
cotton planter. When Otyr cotton
fields instead of our briok yard* and
forests furnish the cheapest and best
building material, and Mr Henry'*
invention enables the plante? to
sond his cotton to market in the form
of spun yarns, the empire ofKiw
Cotton is without arivai, and. the de-
mand for cotton territory and m9f9
laborers will keep pace with die
new uses ot the staple and the a*w
demands on the industry of the pi*
tation.—N. O. Crtsmt.
•
Th* GsAssHorrn Puoe* m One.
—Mr Sohenk, of Franklin*
county, Ohio, writea to
Farmer that the grasshopper* are
making their app*aran«* th*r* in
vast numbers, He saysi "Last year
we had million* «if' thetn:
we have hundreda of millloM."
five year*, he say*,
increasing on hi* fan*,
that unleea some
ed for their destruction, they wW to.
tally ruin his own and Ma Mighban
clover fields.
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