Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-11
TEXAS IN TYPE.
TEXAS CROPS AND WEATHER.

The corn crop in the vicinity of Farm
ington, Grayson county, is very short,
but cotton is yielding more than the
people Will be able 10 gather on account
of the scarcity of pickers.
Good rains have fallen in the neigh
borhood of Hunt county, supplying the
demand for stock water. Cotton Is
yielding much better than was antici-
pated. More cotton is being bought and
shipped from that point than ever be-
fore.
The cotton of Bosque county is yield
ing fully % per cent more than was esti-
mated at first.
The cotton crop is larger in Navarro
than was expected. About half of the
crop is vet in the field and pickers are in
great demand.
The Van AIstyne News says: MIR.
John Mari, who is cultivating 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 a big bale and
thinks he will get another bale on the
same acre.
An immense quantity of rain fell
recently in Falls county, swelling all the
creeks ana filling the tanks aud cisterns.
The excessive rains of the past few
days have hindered cotton picking IN
Fnunin county and it is feared that
much of the cotton will be beaten out
and lost.
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 il was last year. in fact, has about
reached that point now.
The Weatherford Constitution. in
speaking of the crops in the vicinity of
Mary s creek, says: Cotton picking is
the order of the day and is turning out
much better than was expected. Our
farmers will plant larger crop another
year than ever. The acreage in wheat
won { be as large as has been heretofore.
Past experience has convinced the most
of us that mixed crops will pay the best.
The yields and crop prospects in Mata-
gorda county are reported to be excel
lent.
Cotton piokers 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 ut present.
From two 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 radius of eight miles around
Chillicothe there were about 5000 bushels
of wheat sowr last year, from which
upwards of l04 900 bushels were har-
vested, and that in the same territory
this year over % 900 acres OF wheat would
be sown from which on the same average
over S25, 900 bushels will be harvested.
The Denison Herald quotes the follow.
ing and adds that The most Hattering in
ducements fail 10 obtain pickers:
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
than will be. This is worth Sl25, 900 at
least, and good prices are being paid to
picKers.
ALBANY, Oct. l0.-The next wheat |
harvest here is expected 70 be the largest
ever known, as a much larger crop |
than ever is beng sown. a great deal |
of attention is being turned TO this iu- |
dustry AS ii is q sure crop here and Yields |
from fifteen TO forty bushels per acre. A |
great many farmers are now engaged in |
sowing their crops and sown fields are I'D |
AID coming on nicely for winter pastur-
age. The late rains insure splendid |
growth OF winter grass and stock water
in abundance. The cotton crop, con-
trary to general expectations. will be
over an average one. The crop will ex-
oeed that of last year by fully 100 per
cent. The first load of pecans came in
to-day and were sold for 1925 per
hushel. The crop is considerably better
than for two years past and proves a