Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-03
ON CHANGE.
Wheat Opened Weak. Fluetuated Mar
rowly and Closed at a Decline.
Spot Cotton Unchanged, Futures From to 8
Points Higher-Cofee and Wool
We're Unchanged.

OFFICE or TIE GAZETTE,
EoRT MoRTH. Tx. Eeb. z. 1859

Daily Review.
OFFICE or TIE GAZETTE,
FeRT NORTH. Tex, Feb. z. 1889.
Tt would be unreasonable to ask for
better weather than has prevailed in this
part of the country during the latter part
of the past week, and sufficient time has
elapsed since the last rain to permit the
roads entering Fort Worth to assume
their normal condition; so everything to-
day has been favorable to trade on this
market. It was to be expected, then,
that business in the city would take on
something OF boom to-day,
and the outcome has been
full realization of that expectation.
During Thursday and Friday improve
ment began to assume noticeable proper
lions, and to-day has brought a return
of the activity that pervaded dealings
here during last fall. OF late the supply
of grain, produce and cotton has been
cut of from the country, but to-day the
farmers have resumed their traffic, and
have put life into retail dealings.
Prices on produce during the week have
weakened on the local market, but such,
the case all over the country; while quo
tutions on grains have remained station
airy in contrast with fluctuations on other
markets
The approach of spring is provide
against to some extent by vegetable deal
ers by the receipt Of seeds of ali kinds,
noticeable among which are seed potatoes
and onion sets, quotations on which are
given il this report
Quotations on the spring crop of
oranges are given to-day.
Poultry show no change since last week.
All coffees have advanced Il cent i'll
sympathy with Eastern markets, where
recent estimates of short crops have
caused a recession of prices
Flour is marked down by several cents
per hundred.
Hog products are off a fraction, as are
graduated sugars
The growers of India tea are looking
with longing eyes towards the United
States as an outlet for their product,
which is increasing year by year. They
have already obtained firm fOothold in
Great Britain, where their product has
been found to be admirably adapted to
the purposes of blending, and they now
Several years ago an effort of this kind was
made, but, although in the hands of ex-
perienced men, it did not meet with sue
cess-probably because the funds at their
disposal were not adequate. The ulti-
mate success of such an enterprise de-
ponds upon an abundant supply of money
to be judiciously spent-not wasted.
The annual croD report of the depart
larger aggregate product OF cereals than
has ever before been recorded. 1t will
amount to 5 200 coo 600 bushels, or fully
fifty bushels per head. This is about
three times the average supply per capita
of Europe for home production, and
receipts from other continents amount
to only about one bushel per head.
The aggregate potato production is
200 900 600 bushels, the sweet potato
crop about 40 900 900 bushels. The pro-
ductiOn of cane sugar is small, sorghum
a medium crop. The hay crop was very
large. The cotton crop is OF medium
yield with Increased acreage. Fruits
have been fairly abundant, though vari-
able in production locally. 1t is the
"even year, and apples are plenty for
domestic use, while their cheapness has
favored expectation The wool clip
Of 1888 was slightly reduced in
consequence Of the reduction Of
nocks in Texas and elsewhere. The
estimated product is 269 900 900 pounds.
The meat supply has been very album
dant. The area of maize, as estimated
from the crop OF 1888, makes an increase
Of 3 $50 ,043 over the crop of 1887, and
- 594 $50 acres over the census crop of
1879, indicating a gain of u per cent. in
nine years. The estimates of wheat area
makes Il reduction of 305 .G45 acres
from the breadth of 1881 The
aggregate is 81, 1876 ,O3S, an increase
Of only 1866 sos on the area
OF 1879, or little over more than per
cent. The exports will probably be less
than those of 1879-80 by at least 1OO,-
GOO 900 bushels quantity more than
ample for the annual supply of ali the
increase of population since 1880. There
appears to be a further increase of the
area of oats amounting to or 1916 acres
and about II 900 900 bushels increase ia
the quantity produced. The yield per
acre is twenty-siX bushels, against 2J
bushels in 1887.