Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-09
TEXAS CROPS AND WEATHER.

" uuN 10 OClut- Shb Ill luoAb4-
ties in Randall county.
The cotton yield of the Valley Mills
country will be much better than was
expected one month ago, and great
deal of the valley cotton is just beginning
to open. Some Of the bottoms will yield
bale 10 the acre.
The cotton crop of Navarro county is
turning out better than the farmers ex-
pected. Much of the rich black lands
about King Willow are making half a
bals to the acre, and the fields are white
with the fieeog staple.
Cotton in Lipscomb county will make
fully half bale 10 the acre, and would
have made quarter more had the hail
not injured it.
The cotton crop of Williamson county
Is turning out much better than was ex-
pected some time since. 1t is thought
now that the yield will be half a bale
per acre. The fields are yet white, and
the pickers are putting the gins up to
their best liOks.
Another week of fine weather will
finish the rush in cotton. picking in Hill
county. Corn ia estimated from Il light
crop up to forty and fifty bushels an
acre.
Kerr county cotton is estimated at one
half bale 10 the acre, and corn forty
busbels on the average.
MEMPHIS, oct. 2.-Planting wheat is
TIE orde: # the dag, and farmers are
gong 20 sew large acreage this fall.
uardemau county has been blessed
with good rains and the soil is in fine
condition for The reception of fall seed.
Core is selling At eighty cents bushel
on the strcets OF Tyler.
Corn in Fannin county is light but
Eiuch better than was expected.
Cotton picking VIII soon be over in
Limestone county. Farmers are making
more corn than they expected.
Cane can be grown to perfection and at
little expense in Lipscomb county. The
crop tits year is very abundant and the
great want now is sorghum mills.
The farmers of Whit have been agree
ably disappointed in the cotton crop and
have more picking gu hand than they
were prepared for.
Everybody in Burnet county is busy
picking cotton, and the gins are kept
busy. The bulk of it is out already and
is in excess of the expectations.
An bACHduRt bDGuhS Oh Iu0' crops III
Coleman county as follows: Some crops
are short, but this year will compare
well on the average. We have good
fruit, fair wheat, oats and corn, and an
average cotton yield. Should the fall
continue warm and dry as ordinarily,
Che top crop will DO the heaviest ever
picked in this county, aud make the total
average yield close on to a bale per acre.
Our farmers have all made enough TO do
them and a good deal to spare, and
owing to good prices, have realized more
money per acre on their produce mar
heted than they ever did of best crop
years.
Cotton piokers are badly wanted in
EastlGud county. A great many planters
are trying to sell the cotton in the field.
farmer of Tatum, Rusk county, says
he has six acres of cane which is worth
twenty acres of cotton there.
In the vicinity of Pottsboro, Grayson
county, the crop prospects are much
better than has been supposed and that
the farmers are much elated over the
cotton yield as it will make on an average
one-half bale to the acre.
SEYMOUR, Sept. 29.-Tbe first bale of
cotton 5ver placed on the market at Sev-
mour was sold Saturday by o. B. Rob-
erts of Knox county, and bought by r.
r. McKeon for $40. He also got pre-
MUM of S2j.
CoLLINsvILLE, Oct. Farmers in
this section are rejoicing to know that
their cotton crop is yielding beyond their
expectations. September receipts at
this point are the largest in the history
of the place for SANS month.
The cotton crop of Kerr county is
turning out far better than the planters
expected. 1t will average nearly half
bale to the acre.
The condition of weather being 30 ia
vorable many farmers around Beeviile
have begun 10 plant fall crops of cab
bages, turnips, potatoes and other veg
etables, while many have ordered straw
berry cuttings. Truck farming prom
Uses to develop into big business there
This fall
The Harrison county cotton crop is
turning out well, and IL is now believed
that there will be two-thirds of q crop
gathered in that section. Cotton re-
ceipts are q little behind last years
record or account of the rain during the
last ten days.
Cotton i'll the vicinity of Spriugtowu,
Parker county, is turning out beyond the
expectations of the most sanguine. Gins
are running day and night.
An exchange reports ten-inch rain
fall at Lanier, Cass county, during
two and one-half hour storm on the 21st
ult.
Corn is being gathered in Kaufman
county, and is Yielding much better than
YVES at the first of last month expected.
Cotton pickers are badly wanted there.
The correspondent of the Ellis County
Mirror from Bristal says: Everybody
wants cotton pickers. We will make
from one half 10 one and half bale to
the acre, which we think can t be beat
III the county, but they never beat us on
a crop aud we are never very for behind
with anything.
CHILpREss, Oct. 2.-Farmers are max
ing preparations for putting in an extern
sive aroa of land in whent this fall be-
sides building houses. fences, and max
ing other Improvements TO render their
homes comfortable and happy. Cowmen
report cattle in fine fix. The range is
excellent, but stock water is a little
scarce.