The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 1888 Page: 7 of 8
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OUR DISTRICT FAIR
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What Oar Nelghbori Harrf jk Say About It.
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exhibit at our different fairs. Every
fanner ever citizen of 'our county
is interested ill sceina to it. that our
j county iff fully represented. No man
must lid back under the belicT' that
it Will be Useless for him to exhibit
because his neighbor will. There
must be a quantity exhibited and
great numbers of our people must
exhibit. No matter ;f our fanners do
show the same things. Wc want the
i worm to Know that we can raise all
sorts of things and that we have
many farmers now who are raising
just as good things as 'Jcan be pro-
duced apywhere. Agricultural exhibits
and fine-stock shows arc the very life
of a prosperous country and let us all
tp a man determine now and see to
U too) that our district fair at Abilene
is a grand success. Do riot forget
either that Callahan's reputation at
the state fair will be at stake that a
little effort on your part will give her
the reputation of being the best
county in this section. We can ''and
must succeed and therefore look
well to the vork. Remember the
date Abilene district fairOct. 3 4
5. btate fair at Dallas.Oct. it til to
31st Baird Star.'
The time is drawing near when our
ounty fair will be held. Everything
eedful to make this a grand 'success
in our county and but little effort
ill be required to get it together.
every household will exhibit some-
hing we will have a collection
Innf nnu mwntxr iir tinnffrtr .irlorn if
ffinay- be micht well be proud of. No
one -should omit makinc an exhibit
ecause he has fears that his neiehbor
ivill exhibit the same 'thing It is
ecessary to the successrofaifair ithab.
here should be. a great number of
exhibitors. A fair can only be' main
tained from year to year by number
of people taking an interest in it and
exhibiting at it. It is to the interest
of every farmer to help keep up an
agricultural fair for it is the very life
of a prosperous country and this can
not be done unless there is a general
interest in it and unles you all exhibit
something. Much depends on the
1 successs of our county exhibit for if
an interest is taken in this we may be
sure of a good exhibit at our district
fair at Abilene ontye 3d 4th and 5th
of Oct. and our sfafe fair on the 1 jth
to 31st of Oct:" "No 'fnanshould fail
to do his part 'nor should anyone
fv depend on his neighbor to show what
he cotempiates to show himself. Nor
should any be discouraged by the
action of the original promoters of the
fair who after having drawn the peo-
ple intpit.i djemsektcs abandoned trie
a enterprise.? 'The farmers and stock-
v men of Coleman are able to make tlie
undertaking a success and they "should
do it now4 if for no o'ther reason than
" to prove " that they can Coleman
Voice
Who would haye dreamed a- few
years' ago that an. agricultural fair
would be held in this section of the
ft state. Time has made many changes
and greater ones will follow rapidly
in the future if we will only do our
part. Our western" country is now
A fast developing into an agricultural
country arid if we! will only do ' our
part in making known to the world
the advantages of our country the
development will be all the faster.
We want people to come; we want
them to cultivate our rich lands; we
want happy prosperous citizens.
The question is hJW can we get them?
Tlie answer is plain enongh. Fisher
county has homes enough for thous-
ands of good people who are dissatis-
fied with their surroundings and as
soon as the richness of our soil the
Cheapness of lands and the healthftil-
ness of our climate are made known
they will come. Our district fair at
Abilene to be held on the 3rd 4U1
and 5th of Oct. will attract many
strangers who will then be impressed
with the healthfulness of our climate
and all of the surrounding counties
should have a fine exhibit at Abilene
to convince these strangers of the
richness of our soil. Follow up the
Abilene fair by an exhibit at our state
fair atiDallas on the nth of October
and the good that will follow to our
county can not be over-estimated.
You may depend on it that a number
of the counties in this section will
avail themselves of these advantages
v but what is Fisher county doing and
what will Our people do? Roby Call.
Reports from all parts of the
' United States are of cheerfulness and
confidence in business circles. The
gaoat staple industries iron woollen
and leather-are in much IfetteT form
than would be thought possible by any
one who credited the wailing protesta-
tions that went up from certain man-
ufacturers when the tariff question was
taken up in Congress. Hank exchanges
throughout the country are increasing
labor is generally employed railroad
earnings hold up welj and the trans-
iportntion of the new crops and the
lerchanqise tor which the larmers will
cliamrc them promises increased
returns to hojders oPrailroad securities
New York Herald Ind.
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Advertise in the Abilene Rk"o&tkh
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The Growth and Value of Alfalfa'.
The.rcport of the first year's growth
of alfalfaon the" New Jersey state farm
at Nov Brunswick will doubtless prove
interesting reading to agriculturists. It
is as follows: The ground had been
in corn the preceding year; it was not
believed toi be espeeially fitted for
alfalfa for the subsoil is" rather a com-
pact clay It was prepared on April
28 yard manure having been used nt
the rate of fifteen t$ls per acc. A
warm rain fell almost immediately
after the seed had been sown. The
drilled plot was cultivated with a
Palnet Jr. wheel hoe on the followinir
"dates: May 26 June 2 and 9. The
broadcast plot was over-run with weeds
and grass. The 'first blossoms were
noticed June 25 and on June 29 the
alfalfa was found to be forty inches tall.
The first cutting was secured July 7
seventy days'from the date of seeding.
The yield was 7 3-10 tons of green
Jodder per acre. The weight of trie
crop from the broadcast plot was not
recorded. The second growth upon;
drilled plot was ten inches tall on July?
19. It had stood in a remarkable
manner eight stalks being noted upon
many roots. On this datentwas culti-
vated for the last time; On the 13th
of.AugustJhc plant stood twenty-eighjt
inches high the second cut from the
drilled plot was secured on that day?'
and yielded eight and seven-tenths tons
of green fodder per acre this growth
having been made during art interval
of forty days. .
On the aGtftjpXrf August the crop
vWsix inches tall.'! It was cultivated
on this date and again cultivated on
the nth of September. The ground
at this time was baked hard for no
rain had fallen for a long time. The
alfalfa was however of a bright green
color and stood twenty-two inches
tall. The first rains came on the 12th
3foJand.wi4th"of September. .Th?
third andjast cut was secured on the
27 th of September; no blossonisf-we're
noted. It yielded four and six-tenths
tons of green fodder per acre.
The total yield of green fodder per
I acre from ground seeded April 28 was
mereiore twenty ana eignt-iemns 1011s.
As above stated no record of yields
from the broadcast plot was staken
because of weeds and grasses with
which this plot was infested. The
catch of alfalfa upon it was however
good and its outlook encouraging.
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Game Fowls for the Tttble.
'Onfcthis tdpic"" Farmer's Magazine
holdsin accorcLwith the Prairie Far-
mer that the game fowl is superior to
all others for the table. Being strictly
thoroughbred it has consequently
bred true for more than a hundred
years and as it has been used for the
pit the object sought by breeders to
fit it for such a purpose have been the
cause of its superiority for the the ta-
ble. Hard compact but light (bone
was required and therefore the offal is
lessened. Strong muscular develop-
ment became prominent and the bones
were thus heavily covered-with flesh of
a rich jucy characterUie thighs being
being particularly so and the breast
full. There is an old proverb that
the "game possesses more meat for its
weight than any other fowl" which is
true. Those who have used the course
grained fowl no matter how fat they
were will at once distinguish the flesh
of a game fowl if a comparison could
be made. The trame crows slowlv.
but they are solid and firm for itseems
as if nature intended to pack every
ounce of flesh on them into the small-
est space For iriarkdt they are per-
haps not as profitable as some other
kinds but in place where the chicken
must supply the plage of the turkey
the- games nearer the desideratum than
anything else.
Knows it All.
The man who thinks he knows it all
is usually a man of very limited infor-
mation. The man wlio thinks he
knows all about dairying because he
was brought u$ in. the .dairy takes a
very narrow view. Such men do not
believe in book-farming in dairy cbrt-l
ventions in dairy papers or any other
source of information than the one
with which theyare fully.familiar. They
have yet to learn how profoundly
ignorant they are for they do not
know enough to be aware that they
are ignorant. As Sir Isaac Newton
felt that he had but picked up a few
grains of sand on the boundless shore
of knowledge so the well informed
dairymen who is not only practical in
business but has read books and papers
on the subject attended conventions
and institutes and thouglit profoundly
on the many yet undetermnicdj)tob1
lems is modest in his peanng and pre-
tentions by the side of the man who
thinks he knows if all simply because
he knows so little. Uut it is only a
question of time when the know-nothn
ings will be driven out of the dairy and
off the farm and their pjaces will be
filled by men with inquiring and pro-
gressive minds.
While fine hay or fine well-broken
straw makes good nesls a very good
nest can be made with shavings from
wood. Select only the thinnest and
softest and make the nest welj with
them. They can be lightly sprinkled
ith diluted carbolic acid to' keep
away lice and being very porous will
Vetam the smell and affert of the acid
much longer than any other material
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Hoeny, John, Jr. The Abilene Reporter. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 1888, newspaper, August 30, 1888; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth330589/m1/7/: accessed May 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.