Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-25
TEXAS CROPS AND WEATHER.

The recent heavy rains in Stonewall
county has put the ground in fine condI-
ton for sowing wheat and oats. Grass
has been started again and fine winter
range will be made.
A $40 900 school building and a $4,000
church are now on the programme for
Rayner in the near future.
Rockwell county wants 200 cotton
pickers.
Report speaks of fair crops and pros
porous times at Wharton.
The splendid rains which have fallen
all over Bee county insures splendid
top crop of cotton. Ranchmen will also
have excellent grass for winter pastur-
age.
Cotton of Hunt county will average
bale to three acres. Corn Is very light.
There is enough grain in Coryell coun-
ty for home consumption and cotton will
yield about the same as last year in the
aggregate on account of the increased
acreage.
Large fields of turnips are being sown
in Bell county since the rains. The
young cotton bolls were benefited by
them but cotton is not so good as last
year.
TERRELL, Sept. 1.-THE hay business
IS big thing this season. Many persons
are baliug straw for the winter feeding.
This winter will throw feed up 10 high
prices. Cattle are looking fine and there
is plenty of pasturege, and that of the
very best quality.
WICHITA FALLS, Sept, 1.-THE re-
cent heavy rains placed the ground in fine
fan -,lnvuinO and q nnrh
larger acreage of wheat will be planted
this year than ever before. Gradually
the praires are being turned into one
vast field of wheat, corn and cotton.
PLAINvIEw, Sept. lS.-The possibili
ties for farming on the plains are being
demonstrated in very satisfactory
though limited way this year. The
county of Hale has only recently COM
menced to settle, and consequently very
little has been planted, but what efforts
have been made in this direction have
been well repaid. Watermelons of the
finest quality and of enormous size have
been for sale in Plainview all summer.
Several have weighed over fifty pounds
each, and the last which was brought in
to-day, weighed siXty-two and one-half
pounds. Several patches of corn planted
this year have matured well, and from
what has been done with this cereal on
sod land, il is safe to say that the yield
will be at least thirty-fve bushels per
acre the second year. Wheat mas done
exceedingly well and will be the staple
crop Of this section. Vegetables of all
kinds produce abundantlv and are of fine
quality. After seeing the crops grown
here this year there can be no doubt in
the mind OF any one in regard to the
agricultural pursuits.
COLEMAN, Sept. 20.--We have had an
abuudaDce of rain and the prairies look
as they do in spring time. Cotton is
coming in ut Il rapid rate. 1t IN esti-
mated that we will make from third TO
half bale to the acre. Corn is also be-
ing gathered and VIII average about
twenty bushels TO the acre.
TExARKANA, Sept. 2O.-The fall has set
in hsre for good. The cotton is maturing
rapidly and is being brought to market
promptly.
Late corn i'll Lipscomb county is COM
ing out finely and the yield will be large.
The recent rains in Montague county
have put the ground in fine condition for
blowing, and the farmers are taking ad-
vantage of this opportunity TO get their
lands ready for next years crop.
Cotton pickeTs are needed badly in the
vicinity of Farmersville, Collin county.
The crop will be much larger than was
expected one month ago.
Archer county farmers are devoting
their attention towards getting in their
wheat. A larger crop by half than that
OF Inst year will be sown.
Coryell cotton is making bale TO four
or FIVE acres. Corn from twenty five to
thirty bushels per acre.
Corn in Wise county is fine in the bot
toms, but on the uplands it is rather
light.
Tho sorghum crop prospects in Borden
county are said TO be very fiattering.
Cotton in Ellis county seems to have
improved considerably in the last three
or four weeks and farmers have gener-
ally raised their estimates accordingly.
With q late frost a considerable top crop
may yet be made.
FAIRvIEw, Sept. 20.-A wind, rain
and hail storm broke over this section
and has seriously damaged the cotton
crop, no animals were killed. The corn
is all right and will be one of the largest
crops in the history of the section.
CALADoB CSpl. -ls-SOltOh
hands are in demand, owing to the con-
tinued dry weather. The cotton is all
open month or six weeks earlier than
in former years and the farmers are
wanting it out, if it is yet September.
There has been more cotton gathered in
this county up to this date than ever-wss
before and the crop was never so near all
gathered ut this date as it is now. Some
are about done picking, while others
have not been SO fortunate in getting
help.
Most of the farmers in Lipscomb county
are done sowing wheat, and the acreage
for that county will be between 400 and
600. Rye is being sown quite extern
sively, and in all there will be something
like l5eG acres of small grain put out this
fall.
The continuous rains and the worms
are hurting cotton a good deal in Austin
county.
The cotton crop of Hays county is bet
ter than even the sanguine farmers ex-
pected.
1t is reported from wilbarger county
that business has been little quiet since
the rain, and the farmers are all busy