Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-17
TEXAS IN TYPE.
TEXAS CROPS AND WEATHER.

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There is a certainty of good corn crop in
| Limestone county and an average cotton crop.
| Oats are much better than we expected.
Corn is smallin some sections Of Van zandt
| county, though cotton is good.
| Heavy rains with some damage are reported
from Lavacca county. Crops fatterIng.
correspondent from Throckmorton county
says: Oats look well as We ever saw them,
with large acreage sown. Corn IS line, and the
prospects for a heavy crop is very hattering. In
TACT all crops are good
Wheat and oats in Wise county viii be short,
| but the corn and cotton crops are very promising
The corn crop in Dallas county will not be up
to the average.
Blanco county has prospects of teavy corn
and cotton crop.
Polk county planters report the prospect for a
cotton crop much better than for several years.
Corn was injured by the frost
Crop prospects in Montague county was never
ers are well up with their work and are in fine
spirits. Cotton is looking fine, corn is also do
ing well, though beginning TO need a little rain
Oats are as line as one could WISH.
Camp county has good crops generally and ex-
tremely heavy oats. Harvesting is in progress.
The splendid rains which have fallen recently
in Brown county insures bountltuI corn crop
and prospects for cotton are excellent. Wheat
1 S being harvested ana oats are reported fine
where uniniured by the cold weather IN March.
The farmers of Bosque county report the crops
in fine condition and the prospects for big
yield of corn and cotton are unusually hne.
The Wills Point Chronicle says: a thorough
season prevails over county, and crops are
simply bouncing upward, growing being too
slow term to apply TO them
glorious rain has fallen in Williamson
county which insures good corn crop IN that
car rhan uf1n Nlr v-aG M
for bountiful crops in Williamson than it Is this
year.
Prospects for good crops in Hunt county were
never better at this season OF the year
than now. With one or two more good rains,
the county will make an abundant supply OF
corn and cotton.
So far cotton is doing well in Anderson
county, and corn, though not large crop, will
turn out better than anticipated. Many persons
think that both crops will be equal 10 any during
the last four of five years.
1t rains, corn and cotton grows and the farm
ers of Bell county are happy. Crop prospects
were never better than now.
The last three days seem to have been Or
dered especially for the benefit of the crops in
Smith county. Corn has taken a start under
the cool and moist atmosphere and cotton pros
poets were never better.
The Seymour Sun in speaking of Seymour
valley, Baylor county, says: Wheat
fields are ready for tne harvest, short
stand so thick and heavy that they will surely
make seventy to eighty bushels per acre. Corn
fields as black as crow, some of 1t on sod.
The farmers of wilbarger county are now very
busy harvesting their wheat, and will be busy
with their eat harvesting ana threshing for
some time. Wheat is good, and they Wil soon
have pl enty OF money.
A correspondent from Henrietta, Clay county,
says that corn is as good as corn can be, but
cotton is late.
The quality of wheat and rye in Lipscomb
county is fine and the yield far better than was
expected
Wheat is good, while oats will yield immense
ly in Young county.
Fannin county crop prospects up to the
average.
The cotton crop in Falls county is late but
very promising
Corn and cotton crops are growing rapidly in
Jack county, and the oat crop is indeed fatter-
ing. Farmers in the midst of wheat harvest
and the crop is much better than was expected,
the quality being extra good.
WICHITA FALLS, TEX, June 1.-THE 1890
wheat crop of this section is in the shock and
will soon be in the sack. Yesterday there was
unloaded at this station seventeen thrashers.
They were shipped here from the old "black
waxie'' counties. Wheat having failed there
this season the man with the thrasher decided |
to move to the wheat belt of Texas. There has |
been not less than fifty thrasheTs, new and old, |
shipped in here during the past ten days We |
have been favored with dry weather for harvest, |
and now that it is about over kind Providence |
has given us abundance Of rain, which insures |
our corn and cotton crops Rain set in about |
last night and continued till morning. |
Corn and cotton both look well and the pros !
poets are excellent for a fair crop.
LEw1svILLE, TEX, June 16.-Levisville was |
visited yesterday by q light rain, which was |
greatly needed In fact, If we don't get rain |
$ DON the corn crop will be very short. Cotton, |
however, looks we'll.
Iowa PARK, Tex, June 16.-Wheat threshing |
is now the order of the day. The yield per acre |
win not be as large as last year The yield three
adjoining farms as threshed last week was g. IL |
and 10 bushels respectively. 1t is thought that
this is a good bit lower than the average |
will be for the county. Another fine rain yes
terday morning will go far toward adding a corn
crop to the wheat and oats crops that are being
gathered.
CHICO. TEX. June l6.-The fine rains which
have visited this section in the last few days
have placed crops OF all kinds in a growing con-
dition. The cat crop was almost an entire fail
ure. Farmers well up with their work,