Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-13
TEXAS IN TYPE.
TEXAS CROPS AND WEATHER.

AMI W II.
Y The cotton crop of Anderson county is
D opening finely and in places yielding
better than expected.
The Sherman Register: There will be
an immense Increase in the acreage of
wheat sown this fall. Farmers never
get two bad years in succession.
: Crops in Collin county are cut short
and the entire crop of cotton will be
harvested by November 1. 1t will not
exceed one-third OF q bale to the acre.
The late rains have been very beneficial
In furnishing abundance of stock water
which was getting decidedly scarce
throughout the state.
In Grayson county the top crop is
small which greatly diminishes the yield.
In Wilbarger county the fall rains have
been of great benefit to the far ers.
Seeding wheat has begun, and the fall
ranges will be covered with excellent
grass.
The Thornton Herald: farmer Iiv-
ing about a mile and half from Thorn
ton Will gather twenty six bales of cot
ton Of of twenty-five acres. Can any
other section in the county come up with
| that?
NODiOus TdiHS nave Ialleu IN Oluerent
| parts of Childress county during the past
lie" days. A large amount of wheat will
De soWn this season, more than FIVE times
as much rs heretofore. The yield this |
| year will average eighteen bushels per |
| acre
| Magnificent rains have fallen in Run
nels and throughout the entire P. c. G.
country.
Crops in Wise county are much better
than was expected. Picking is in full
blast.
Reports from Burns, Cooke county,
say that crops are nearer a failure in that
vicinity than ever before. Corn Will
average about five bushels per acre, and
COTTON about 250 pounds per acre.
The STAR indicator: There is a con-
siderable shortage in the cotton crop in
hays county because of the drouth, but
there Is no cause for dependency
Enough produce has been raised to keep
want from the doorway of even the poor
est classes If they will work and be econ
omical.
NEVADA, Sept. 1I.-Farmers are gen.
orally ID high spirits The cotton yield !
IS beyond expectations aud selling is at
an average of nine cents. Plenty of
corn was made for home use and some
for shipment, selling at sixty cents per
oushel. Rain is much needed and water
Is becoming scarce.
LADoNIA, Sept. I1.-FOr two or three
days slow mist, or rain, has been fall
ing, but the cotton continues to come in
at the rate of l25 to $50 bales per day.
Inc receipts are heavier for this season u
or the year than ever known before. |
me cotton crop will be nearly double l
last years crop, but corn is not nearly
SO good. The farmers are generally
feeling very good over the prospects.
MARBLE FALLS, Sept. IA splendid
rain fell yesterday doing much good to
the vegetation in This section and re-
the water supply for stock. =,
The cotton crop il yielding much better =
than was anticipated. d
BLACK JACK GROVE, Sept. I1.-This n
section has been blessed with rain, which n
was welcome visitor, as everything was
suffering. Stock water was scarcer than
It had been for many years, and cotton i"
was dying SO great was the heat, and -
will be cut short considerably. 1t is es- "
mated by the most conservative farmers e.
hat the crop will be not more than q -
1ale to every three acres, and that at VI
east half will be sold by the 18th of this
month. If this be true the entire crop I'll
his year will not be more than 20 per III
'ent. greater than last and in that case Nj
his place will only receive about 100 e.
,ales this season.
PANHANDLE, Sept. 1O.-The manager NJ
# the Diamond T ranch" four miles In
asst from this place, is having several IN
hundred acres of wheat sown. Mr., Nc
Donald, one mile west, is breaking 400 ur
cres or sod for wheat. Mr.. Masters, of
hree miles south, sowed wheat last De- &C
ember that threshed out fourteen BUSH I'll
Is per acre this fall. This is the "gar- tic
en- spot' for all small grain. ag
Cisco, Sept. l2.-Sufficient rain has VT
allen 10 start the mills and gins, Cot on
IN is coming IN at the rate of 200 bales q ito
ay. tos
GAINESVILLE, Sept. 12.-The fall CIV
atermelon crop is being marketed and 90 W.
lie fruit is by far the finest of the sea- o o
N. The cotton crop in this county is H. H.
uprising the farmers themselves in its o
ED and will more than realize their bbo
ost sanguine expectations. bt,
WICHITA FALLS, Sept. I2.-Good
caches by the wagon load are sold on -.
e streets here daily at from 81. 80 to 81 oI.
n bushel. The soil and climate of this III
'rtion OF Texas seem to be especially na,
apted TO the growth of peaches. They &C.
e OF fine flavor, and the trees bear ~. III
avily the third year. wa.
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