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Thomas Carson Carson. Ranching, Sport and Travel
Ranching, Sport and Travel
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
TEA PLANTING
PLUCKING TEA LEAF
NAGAS
CHAPTER II
CATTLE RANCHING IN ARIZONA
ROPING A GRIZZLY
A SHOOTING SCRAPE (By C. M. Russel.)
ONE OF OUR MEN (To show the hang of a six-shooter.)
1883 IN ARIZONA. AUTHOR AND PARTY. CHAPTER III
CACTUS RANCHING IN ARIZONA—continued
FOOTNOTE:
CHAPTER IV
ODDS AND ENDS
"WOUND UP." (Horse tangled in rope.) (By C.M. Russel.)
WATERING A HERD. CHAPTER V
RANCHING IN NEW MEXICO
HERD ON TRAIL, SHOWING LEAD STEER
CHAPTER VI
ODDS AND ENDS
CHANGING HORSES
A REAL BAD ONE
CHAPTER VII
ON MY OWN RANCH
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VIII
ODDS AND ENDS
CHAPTER IX
IN AMARILLO
BREAKING THE PRAIRIE
FIRST CROP—MILO MAIZE
CHAPTER X
FIRST TOUR ABROAD
CHAPTER XI
SECOND TOUR ABROAD
CHAPTER XII
THIRD TOUR ABROAD
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XIII
FOURTH TOUR ABROAD
LLAMAS AS PACK ANIMALS
DRIFTING SAND DUNE. (One of thousands.)
PERUVIAN RUINS (Note dimensions of stones and locking system.)
CHAPTER XIV
FIFTH TOUR ABROAD
PALACE OF MAJARANA OF UDAIPUR
FOOTNOTES:
APPENDIX
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Thomas Carson
Published by Good Press, 2019
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At Scottpore I went in strong for vegetable, fruit and flower gardening, and not without success. Visitors came from a distance to view the flower-beds and eat my green peas, and I really think that I grew as fine pineapples and bananas as were produced anywhere. The pineapple of good stock and ripened on the plant is, I think, the most exquisite of all fruits. A really ripe pine contains no fibre. You cut the top off and sup the delicious mushy contents with a spoon.
In such a hot, steamy climate as we had in these tea districts, the rapidity of growth of vegetation is, of course, remarkable. Bamboos illustrate this better than other plants, their growth being so much more noticeable, that of a young shoot amounting to as much as four inches in one night. It sometimes appeared to my imagination that the weeds and grass grew one foot in a like period, especially when short of labour. The planter usually takes a pride in the well-cultivated appearance of the garden in his charge; but how can one be proud if the weeds overtop the bushes? It may be appropriate here to note that eighty-five per cent. of the twenty-four hours' growth of plants occurs between 12 p.m. and 6 a.m.; during the noon hours the apparent growth almost entirely ceases.
