The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-24
TEXAS CROP SITUATION.

Tex,s Farmer: Prospects Of a good corn
and cotton crop in every town and county of
Texas.
Gonzales Inquirer; Report. from all over
tbs county show the crops TO be better than
they have been for years.
Mount Vernon Herald; The crop Of small
fruit is Unprecedented. Crops are splendid ;
everything much refreshed by the late rains
Rusk Observer: The rains of the past
mOnth have been of immense benefit to the
e5ru crop. All agree that every farming
prospect is very enc )uraging.
San Diego (Duvsl county, Tribune; The
heavy rain which fell on Tuesday last was Il
e,e,t blessing. Splendid rains all last week.
Croops looking fine and good grazing album
d4nt.
A letter from Csney, in Matagorda coun-
~. SAWS: Prospects are better for y fine cot
ton aud corn crop than for many years past.
great deal of corn is already too hard for
roasting or boiling.
Gstesyille Sun: Cotton is too far adyanc-
ed to be damaged to any great extent by the
careless worm. The prospects are that there
will be more corn raised in Coryal county
This wear than our farmers will know what to
do with.
Seymour, Baylor county, Creseent Bay
lor county has been favored with plenty of
rain. Grass is very fine and crops very
promising. The army worm has been play
Ing havoc with the cotton and potato patches
in some localities.
Bonham (Fannin county, News: Cotton
worms have made their appearance, and are
doing considerable damage in several neigh
borhoods of this county. The prevailing
opinion seems to be that 1t is not the regular
army worm, but sort of striped caterpillar
known as the 'careless worm."
Bastrop Advertiser: The weather for the
past week has been terribly hot. Rain is
badly needed in many portions of the county,
aud fit does not come in few days some of
the corn will not make nubbins. Something
over half the farms in the coanty, however,
have had excellent rains, and the crops look
well.
Reports from the counties of North Texas
continue favorable Thecorn crop is rapidly
maturing, and there is not left ga loop-hole
upon which 10 hanga doubt" that it will be
the heaviest crop raised in thirty years.
There is certainly an abundance now in sight
TO amply supply home consumption for
eighteen months.
As to cotton the reports are uniform that
the plant has attained vigorous growth /;
that it is in a far more favorable condition
than it has been at this time in four years 1t
is said That the army worm has appeared in
some counties, but as yet little damage is re-
ported. The reports concerning this worm
are so conflicting that it is doubted lift is
the army worm that has been seen. Time
will tell.
Mckinney Advocate: The web worm is
still depredahng on cotton fields IN different
parts of the county. Some farmers, how
ever, contend that they will not do much
hsrm.-The continued wet weather mate
rally embarrasses our farmers, who are anx-
ous to house their grain and clean their cot
ton.--Some farmers have not chopped out
all of their large cotton crops.
Brazoria Independent; Crops never looked
better than we saw them on our late trip to
Wharton. We were shown cotton bolls rs
large as Smsll.sized hen eggs, by Dr. Phil
lips. Jere Warren, esq, inf rms us that
crops, wherever he has been, look well. He
says there are eight hundred persons living
between the Masterson sugar-houie and the
lower line of the precinct, all surrounded by
splendid crops, the best he ever saw