Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-14
TEXAS IN TYPE.
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What Texas is Doing and Trying TO Dots Do
ings and Progress as Shown by Cor
respondents and Newsp4pers
TEXAS CROPS AND WEATHER.

The prospects for good crops in Hood county
are very hattering, especially in corn and
cotton.
Reports from different sections of Hill county
indicate that corn and cotton were never better
than this season, and crop equal to that of 's9
Is expected.
Van Zandt promises to be The banner hay
county of the state. The first shipments we're
made from there on the 10th.
In Grimes county the weather is a little too
wet for the farmers work.
Fine rains have fallen in the vicinity of Gren-
ada, Deaf Smith county.
The crops in Ellis county are all clean, and
cotton promises to make one bale per acre, and
corn, though little late, is good.
Crop prospects in Pamela county are extr a
good, especially of cotton, and those who have
tried are well up with their work.
Farmers of Falls county are in high spirits
laid by corn. Cotton is looking fine, and there
Is no indication of worms.
In Fann1n county seasonable rains have fallen
ana crops are growing very fast.
Corn is beginning to move off nicely in Rusk
county, and cotton looks healthy.
The rains in Hill county have been abundant
and corn and cotton are looking finely. The
hum of the reaper is already heard.
CARRoLLToN, TEX. June 12.-Our wheat crop
is being harvested this week. IL is the poorest
Tor many years. The oat crop is light. Corn
and cotton are good.
No prettier sight could be desired than the
wheat harvest in Baylor county now. An army
OF selfbinders are busy cutting and binding the
golden grain. The weather could not possibly
be more desirable or delightful.
A splendid rain has fallen in Hunt county and
the farmers are elated over the prospects Of the
corn and cotton crop.
The song of the reaper is now heard in Dom
ley county and the yield makes the farmer
happy.
The present outlook in Wise county indicate
the best crops made in many years.
The Van Alstyne News says: The cotton and
corn crops are as fine as fine can be Just now.
i ne cat crop is not large but good. There is
little wheat IN the country and the yield will be
light.
The corn crop in the vicinity of Comanche
is certainty, and the oat crop will be good;
wheat is better than was anticipated, and cotton
is looking well.
HAMILTON, TEX, June 12.-Farmers are well
pleased as to the crop outlook. Wheat is light,
and small acreage. Oats are fine where they
were replanted after the freeze. Corn is as fine
as could be. Cotton is fine, though small. We
had plenty of rain on the It'll inst.
QUANAH, TEX, June 12.-This county is pro-
crossing right alo ng, Harvest has commenced.
and self binders can be at work in all parts
of the county. The yield of wheat will be much
larger than it was formerly thought. 1t is safe
~ say tllal tLe average ylelU Will IeaCn twenty
five bushels to the acre Farmers feel jubilant
over the prospective good prices for wheat, and
great many think they will obtain 81 10 per
bushel.
MOUNT VERNON, TEX, June 18.-The citizens
of this place would like to whack up with some
man that understands the business and put up
sugar refinery. 1t would be paying business
here.
Crops in this county, though late, are very
good. Farmers are well pleased with the pros
poets.
HASKELL, TEX, June u.-Crops are very
good, and with one more rain within twenty
days (and prospects are now good) corn will
make forty bushels per Wheat and oats
are rather light, but great many claim twenty
bushels of wheat and forty of oats per acre.
BOWIE, TEX, June 13.-Peaches raised near
here were on the market to-day, the first of the
season. They were fine specimens of fruit.
PoTTsBoRo, TEX, June I3.-Rain is needea
badly for growing crops around here and sout
Of here.
The crops around Preston Bend are as good as
they ever had and a rain in the near future will
put everybody here in the hest Of heart.