Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-16
TEXAS CROPS AND WEATHER

81 IN Sd some by The rains, but farmers have
81 taken advantage of 1t to SOW their
n wheat.
The yield OF cotton in the neighbor-
Il hood of Whitesbnro is much better than
81 was estimated, and prices average about
a cent more per pound than last year.
Very heavy rains have fallen recently
Il I'm Rains county aud cotton pickers are
greatly in demand, as there is more cot
a ton tina. vas expected, and it is opening
very rapidly.
correspondent of the Carthage Ban
n ner from Oakland has this resume OF the
crous: Cotton is being gathered and
marketed very rapidly. 1t is thought
4 by some that there will be much better
h turnout than was expected. Our COM
muuity will make plenty of corn &c sup
ply the demand. If the fall rains con-
tiuue there will be a Gue yield of ribbon
cane syrup. Stock peas and potatoes
will be scarce. Turnips late. but fine.
No OATS sowed at ali. Tue mast in the
Sabine bottom is just as good as heart
could wish.
The cotton crop OF Cook county will be
double what it was first estimated it
would be by the farmers at the beginning
of the picking. Thus saith the Gaines
vile Hesperian.
The cotton crop of Hunt county is
turning o"t far better than was thought
Il manih ago. II will he fully an aver
age crop, according TO reports of farm
ere. Many farms will yield three-fourths
of bale TO the acre in some sections,
while an occasional crCp will make bals
10 the .yre Pirkers are in great demand
all over the county and good prices are
being paid.
Good rains have fallen in the neigh
borhoud of Hunt county, supplying the
demand for stock water. Cotton Is
yielding much better than was antici-
pnted. More cotton is being bought and
shipped from thar point than ever be-
fore.
The cotton of Bosqhe county is yield
ing fully % per cent more than was esti-
mated at first.
The cotton crop is larger in Navarro
than wns expected. About half of the
crop is yet IN the field and pickers are in
great demand.
The Van Astyne News says: Mr..
John Aarr, who is cuItivating Mr..
Slaughter farm just east OF Van Al
styne, measured an acre OF bottom land
last Thursday, picked the open cotton on
the one acre and got big bale aud
thinks be will GET another bale on the
same acre.
The extent OF the cotton yield in Gray
son county this year, says the Sherman
Register, is of course much in the
future, but enough already develops to
show that it will be largely in excess of
what it was last wear. in fact, has about
reached that point now.
The weatherford Constitution, in
speaking OF the crops in the vicinity of
Mary creek, says: Cotton picking is
the order of the dag and is turning out
much better than was expected. Our
farmers will plaut larger crop another
year than ever. The acreage in wheat
won I be as large as has been heretofore.
Past experience has convinced the most
OF us thar mixed crops will pay the best.
The yields aud crop prospects in Mata-
EOrda county are reported TO be excel
lent.
Cotton pickers are in great demand in
Ellis county and farmers are in town
daily on the lookout for them There is
much open cotton IN the fields at present.
From NV, acres in Knox county,
planted In watermelons and corn, w.
L. Robinson has sold 500 worth OF
melons, given away as many and gath
cred twenty bushels of corn.
Within a radius OF eight miles around
Chillicothe there were about 5000 bushels
of wheat sowL last year, from which
upwards of 1914 zoo bushels were mar
vested, and that in the same territory
this year over 20, 900 acres of wheat would
be sown from which on the same average
over 1925 900 bushels will be harvested.
The Denison Herald quotes the follow.
ing and adds that the most tattering in
ducPments fail to obtain pckers:
"Cotton picking is being pushed right |
ahead and if the pickers could only be |
obtained in The number desired the yield |
would simply be immense. If 500 more |
cotton pickers were in Grayson county |
to-day, and there is work for them, we
would see at least 5000 more bales saved |
thnn will be. This is worth SIPS, 900 at |
least. and good prices are being paid to |
picKers. -
ALBANY, Oct. l0.-The next wheat |
harvest here is expected TO be the largest !
ever known, as much larger crop |
than ever is beng sown. great deal
OF attention is being turned TO this i'll
dustry as il is q sure crop here and yields |
from fifteen TO forty bushels per acre. A |
great many farmers are now engaged in |
sowing their c.ops and sown fields are up |
and coming on nicely for winter pnstur-
age. The late rains insure q splendid
growth OF winter grass and stock water
in abundance. The cotton crop, con-
,rary to general expectations, will be
over an average one. The crop will ex-
ceed that of last year by fully 100 per
cent. The 0rst load OF pecans came In
to-day and were sold for So % per
bushel. The crop is considerably better
than for two years past aud proves
source of handsome revenue for this Sec
ton.
Cotton pickers are IN great demand in
Clay county. Some farmers are Offering
one dollar per hundred for picking.
\ big cat crop will be planted this
season in the vicinity of Garland in
order TO MAKE up for the deficiency of
corn next summer.
The cotton crop In the bottoms of
Burleson county is very good, while that
of the uplauds fall short of an average.
Farmers are gathering it rapidly. The
corn crop is short.
A large crop of corn is waiting in
Eastland county till the cotton is saved.
Tint t.ron Ia mora than half I'm