. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AUTOMOBILE CROSSING ON TEXAS GROUNDS TO SAVE GATE OPENING is promptly discovered. The afternoon was spent at the public park of New Braunfels, whence their river flows. Here, as in San Antonio, a very beautiful stream comes out of the hillside, boiling up from the ground and supplying several hundred cubic feet per second, of the clearest water that may be seen anywhere. It forms a small lake and a river. It is fine. We were told that New Braunfels was an early settlement, and that the scouts sent by the immigrants selected this location because of th
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AUTOMOBILE CROSSING ON TEXAS GROUNDS TO SAVE GATE OPENING is promptly discovered. The afternoon was spent at the public park of New Braunfels, whence their river flows. Here, as in San Antonio, a very beautiful stream comes out of the hillside, boiling up from the ground and supplying several hundred cubic feet per second, of the clearest water that may be seen anywhere. It forms a small lake and a river. It is fine. We were told that New Braunfels was an early settlement, and that the scouts sent by the immigrants selected this location because of these beautiful and immense springs. A fine city has re- sulted. That evening we bade good bye to our hosts and to the LeStourgeons, whose kindness it will be difficult for us to repay. The next morning saw us on the train for College Station. Along the railroad line planters' homes, surrounded with groves and built in colonial style, in level plains, indicate cotton plantations. The little cabins, for negro or Mexican field hands, are strung in endless rows along a private byway. The absence of out- buildings for chickens or pigs, around these cabins is striking. Is the planter to blame or are the tenants too shift- less to keep poultry ? No wonder there should be a tendency to 'provide" by visiting at night the coops of more thrifty neighbors. That is the explana- tion of the proverbial love of the south- ern negro for chicken. It appears to be a rarity. We expected to find something of a town at College Station. But the city, Bryan, is about four miles away. The college is on a gentle sloping hill. Professor Paddock was at the station and informed us that we were to be the guests of the institution, an unex- pected honor. An hotel is the usual stopping place of visitors at colleges. The Agricultural and Mechanical College is not a co-educational institu- tion. It is only for young men and the cadets have military drills during every year of their stay. This 4-year drill o
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