Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-28
TEXAS IN TYPE.
TEXAS CROPS AND WEATHER.

! BRowNwooD, Tex, June 2s.-rCorrespond-
ence. Crops through the county are fine,
though they need rain now.
FARMERsvTLLE, TEX, June 2s.-[Correspond-
! ence. Every thing is very dry here and crops
are needing rain badly. Corn is beginning to
crop viii be short.
COMMERCE., TEX, June .-TCorrespondencel
-CFops are promising but are needing rain -
SEYMOUR, Tex, June 24.-iCorespsnde6ee ]
-harvestlng is over and it is estimated there
will be 80, OOJ bushels of wheat marketed at this
place this season.
ATHENS, Tex, Juue 6.-[Correspondence. j
The crop prospects are very fine, and with q
good rain inside of ten days there will be plenty
OF hos ana homlny the coming year In old
Henderson county. Cotton, too, though rather
small, looks well, and farmers are generally
well abreast of their work.
Plenty of rain fell In Swisher county in the
Panhandle, during last week. Wheat harvest
ing is going on rapidly.
The crops in Swisher county are said TO be
excellent. This year is the first in farming and
last year has large heads with well filled plump
heads. The yield is estimated to be from
twenty five to thirty bushels to the acre.
Crops in Coryell county are reported excep-
some places, the farmers are behind with their
work. Cotton is in bloom. The fruit crop is
failure.
Sheep shearing has begun in Coryen county,
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piece of ground near Weatherford 5Ox45
feet, has yielded crop of Irish potatoes that
sold for slI. The ground is now sown in millet
Crops in all parts of Hill county are said to be
jured by the rust.
backward. The corn crop is said to be better
than last year; small acreage of oats, vet
good yield, and the watermelon crop abundant.
In Donley county the farmers report the ra5ns.
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age is put at from twenty-five to thirty bushels
per acre and oats from sixty to eighty. Vege-
tables are exceptionally fine and all crops doing
we'll.
Mr.. George Cox of Coryel county has been
exhibiting cotton stalks thirty-two inches high
and having thirty forms.
New wheat has been brought to market at
Wichita Falls. 1t sold for 81 per bushel.
There is on exhibition in Quanah oats raised
this year in Hardeman county that averaged
fifty bushels to the acre, and barley that aver
aged thirty bushels.
A. H. Ward, a prosperous farmer near
Forney, had on exhibition at that place an open
cotton boil last week.
There is q sharp sprinkle of cotton lice and
web worms in Kaufman county; not enough, it
is thought, to 90 serious damage.
Cotton in Erath county is in some place
over two feet high, has well developed forms
and some blooms.
The farmers are realizing a fine crop OF vege-
tables in Runnels county.
Rain is needed in Limestone county.
Crop prospects in johnson county are re-
ported good, but there Is some want of rain.
Hay making is going on and the grass fine.
Corn and cotton crops generally are reported
good in all parts of Bosque county.
Cotton Is in bloom in Bosque county.
The corn crop of Wise county will be assured
II another rain falls soon.
It is thought another rain in Grayson county
county will insure good corn and cotton crops.
Il harvested & n he
factory to the farmers.
TAxARKANA, TEX, June 27.-rSpecialr-A
splendid rain fell here to-day and the reports are
that it was general throughout the county.