Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-30
TEXAS CROPS AND WEATHER.

Cotton pickers are in demand in Hill
county.
local from Bee county says: The
.,rurers are highly elated over the big
cotton crop OF the season, when the re-
rorts came from other parts of Texas
hat the crop had been cut short. The
areraPe of Bee co nty will be about half
N three quarters of baIe per acre, and
IN some cases even bale has been
picked per acre.
An extraordinarily heavy rain storm
sTeUt OYER over Val Verde county on
wednesday.
Wheat sowing has been in progress in
Cooke county until the recent rains re-
farded the work. A largely increased
acreage will be sowu this year.
Cotton is turning out much better than
-ras expected IN Callahan county. The
farmers are busy gathering it and SOW
ing wheat.
Crops in Hill county are away ahead
of the estimates. A large amount of
cotton IS to gather yet.
In Lorena county cotton 10 turning out
much better than was expected. Pick
RS are scarce.
Irrigation IS doing wonders for the
farmers Of the Pecos valley, the alleged
a!kalI country. Sixty bushels of wheat,
Two bales of cotton, 600 bushels of on
IONS, o. seveu and one half tons of hay
10 the acre is the record.
Corn Is light in Hays county, potatoes
an excellent crop and cotton in good
shape.
About 80 900 acres will cover the
vgrat crop Of Wilbargar county for the
ensuing year. The late rains have
brought up the grain already sowed,
but thousands OF more acres will be put
before the season closes.
Cotton continues to be marketed rap
lily in DOnley county and the remainder
Of the crop will soon be in.
Large quantities OF pecans are being
brought to market III Brown county.
81 crop is large and the nuts unusually
fine.
The cotton crop of the present year In
this county, says the Mason County
News, will amount to at least 500, O00
Cotton upon the prairie lands in Colo
RADIO county has been nearly all picked !
cut aud the bottom cotton being fast
marketed, and it is thought by compe-
tent judges that fully if not over two |
thirds OF the cotton has been disposed of. |
Fifty thousand dollars was the value of |
Int cotton going into Mexico through the
port OF Laredo for the month of last Sep
TENDER.
Farmers in Comanohe county have
beeH 80 busy saving their cotton that
only few have yet sOwn their wheat.
There has been an abundance of rain
in stephens county which insures a large
WheHt acreage for next year. Cotton is
turning out about double OF what was
expected early in the fall.
DENTON, Oct. 25.-The cotton crop of
this section is turning out better than
VAS expected, being better than last
Gears crop. There have already been
marketed IN this city about 5000 bales.
with more than half of the crop yet I'M
sold.
JEFFERSON, Oct. 22.-It has been
raining here necessarily for the past
hrty-six hours and is still raining. The
lnmage done 10 the cotton crop in this
and the surrounding country is immense,
Is over two-thirds OF the crop is still in 4
he fields and most of it Is open. 1t is
almost impossible TO get cotton pckers
low that The election is so close at hand, {
h9t the negro's 'tiuence is worth more ,
han his cotton. The river here is rising
ApidIy and will soon be out of its banks.
KAUFMAN, TEX, Oct. 23.-We are {
aTlng some rainy weather. much to the @
encouragement of farmers who have not \
OF their cotton picked out. If the frost Y
lays ~ for two or three weeks the top @
Iop Will add very materially TO general u
rep. There is considerable wheat being r
OWN in the county. Z