Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-18

TEXAS CROPS AND WEATHER.

IDLY. The crops are better than they
promised before the rains.
In Eastland county the drouth injured
the cotton TO some extent. Farmers are
i busy gathering the crop.
In the vicinity of Sherman the rains
have wet the ground thoroughly, and
sone of the farmers are hard at work
breaking the ground for sowing.
The rains in Mills county have started
/ the grass to growing nicely, and stock is
doing well.
Fairly good corn was made in Kerr
! county, and the recent rains have bright
ened up everything there.
Knox cotton will yield about one-half
bale of cotton to the acre. Corn will
average about twenty-five bushels.
Hill county will yield as much cotton
In the aggregate as last year on account
OF the increased acreage.
Cotton picking in Shelby county is
4 varied with harvesting sorghum and
| making the syrup.
Fine rains in Haskell county have put
the ground in excellent condition for
seeding and late millet OF which the crop
is large.
Crops in Fort Bend county are the
best that have been produced there for
many years.
The Sherman Register: There will be
en- immense increase in the acreage OF
wheat sown this fall. Farmers never
get two bad years i'll succession.
The late rains have been very beneficial
IN furnishing abundance of stock water
which was getting decidedly scarce
throughout the state.
In Wilbarger county the fall rains have
been of great benefit to the farmers.
seeding wheat has begun, and the fall
ranges will be covered with excellent
grass.
The Thornton Herald: A farmer liv-
ing about mile and a half from Thorn
ion will gather twenty-six bales of cot
ton off of twenty-five acres. Can any
other section in the county come up with
that?
Copious rains have fallen in different
parts OF Childress county during the past
few days. A large amount of wheat will
be sown this season, more than five times
as much as heretofore. The yield this
year will average eighteen bushels per
acre.
Magnificent rains have fallen in Run
nels aud throughout the entire P. c. c.
country.
Crops in Wise county are much better
than was expected. Picking is in full
blast.
The rains that have fallen In Camp
county have benefited the potato, turnip
aud cane crop.
The cotton crop in Comanche county
VIII equal that of last year and plenty OF
corn has been made.
Hill county has had fine rains. Cotton
of late planting will be greatly benefit
ed. Cotton will average about one
third of o bale to the acre, and corn was
lighter than was expected.
While the cotton crop is cut off to
considerable extent in Rusk county, still
there viii be more of the staple raised
this year than there was last.
The Greenville Banner says: There is
not much said now about going West,
every body is busy and seems to be salts
lied. And people certainly ought to be
satisfied with the crop this year. While
II is not perhaps as great as it has been
in the past, il is very good. Corn is
good en- the black land and cotton
throughout the country will make some
thing. A very large acreage hae been
painted and will all make some cotton,
while many crops are considerably above
an average.
Cotton will yield about one-half bale
to the acre in Hays county. The corn
crop is good.
There is n scarcity of hay in Austin
county. The sweet potato crop will be
good and the fall gardens are fine.
1t is expected that the sorghum of
Throckmorton will yield heavily.
Corn crop failure and cotton very
light is the last reports from Fannin
county.
The cotton OF Red river county will be
gathered early. About two-thirds of the
crop is open now.
The acreage in wheat this fall will be
much greater than it was last fall, says
the Sherman Register, and it is not likely
there will be another year as destructive
TO the wheat crop as the one we have
Just passed through. The wheat supply
this year is decidedly behind the demand
and the price will of course go up in pro-
portion. We can therefore expect much
wheat and a good price for it by June /,
1891.
The good corn crop in the vicinity of
Marlin will make up the deficiency in the
cotton yield.
The cane crop OF Polk county is I'M
equaled. aud plenty of the very best
syrup will be made.
A large part of the HAYS county cotton
is late and has been benefited by the re-
cent rains.
LipscomL farmers are putting in large
quantities of rye rs well as wheat for the
next crop.
The Seymour Monitor: 1t was gener-
ally supposed that the amount of cotton
planted IN Baylor county this year was
smull, but this is mistake. The Moni-
tor learns that there was good acreage
of the staple planted and that it looks
well and will yield finely. No doubt
much larger acreage will be sown next
year, which will necessitate the building
of gins.
CoMANCHE, Sept. "a good rain
fell here last night and to-day, and the
prospect is good for more.
LEXINGTON, Sept. s.-A copious rain
fell to-day, the first good season since
May.
WICHITA FALLS. sept. 9.-This section