Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18
TEXAS CROPS AND WEATHER.

| bountiful crop never was better. Cotton is
| as good as usual at this time Of year, anG
receives the farmers undivided attention
Oats have been cut and the crop was above
| as any could wish, and health good. Stock
| is fat, consequently farmers are happy and
non producers DISQUALIFICATION Monitor
The first new wheat of the season was
brought in Gainesville Monday from near
! Forestburg 1t was bought by the Lone
Star mills at 80 cents. 1t was good wheat,
and the yield was about twenty bushels to
the acre.
Farmers in Orange county are harvesting
their crop of wheat, and yield above the
average is expected.
! The prospect for good cotton crop was
never better for this time of year than at
/ present.
! Quite large quantity Of fine-looking
/ plums are being brought into the market at
/ Orange.
Strawberries are still on the market at
! Tyler. The crop is estimated TO be worth
I $40, 900 to $50 900 this season. Blackberries
are now playing an important part, and the
/ crop is enormous.
The wheat crop Of Kerr county has nearly
all been cut, and the yield far exceeds the
( approximate figures made a month since.
/ The oat crop is also turning out better than
the harvest season, the yield will be far
above the average.
Duncanville, Dallas County-Fine rains
have fallen here the past few days, which
with one more rain at the proper time, as
sureS the largest corn crop perhaps in the
history of the county. The wheat crop is
about all in the shock, ard the estimated
yield is placed all the way from sixteen to
twenty-five bushels per acre. Fall oats are
oil birtt ha for,
crop is not very large in this section.
Threshing will begin next week. The cot
ton web-worm has made its appearance
here, and some large fields of cotton, which
looked so promising one week ago, are now
being replanted.
Kasoga, Knox County.-Harvesting is
under Roadway, and the wheat is excellent.
From some cause the oat crop is not so re-
markably heavy, but us good. Corn is as
good as could reasonably be desired, and is
clean. The heavy rain on the 5th inst. will
make US a fair crop, if we get no more
Cotton is well up, and in good condition.
The acreage is much greater than that of
last year. Almost any variety of garden
vegetables would indicate that this country
is especially adapted to its growth. Pros
pectors are actually bewildered. So much
good country confuses them.
Ravenna, Fannin county.-Crops at this
point were never better so far.
The largest yield of corn and cotton ever
raised in Bee county will be harvested this
season.
The farmers of McLennan county were
never in better shape and crop prospects
were never better in that section.
The crops are now growing nicely in
Nacogdoches county and the corn looks
promising.
The market at Cleburne is well supplied
with early peaches, cherries, plums and the
various kinds of berries. New hay and
oats will begin to come into market in few
days, and in week or two there will be
plenty of new wheat.
Mr.. Haygood, thrifty farmer who lives
on Groesbeck, presented US with some
turnips, raised on his farm, seventeen
inches in circumference. MIR. Haygood
says he has one and one-half acres which
bring him handsome sum of money.
These turnips were raised on sod land. He
also has twelve acres in corn that is now IN
tassel-[QuanahT Tribune.
More corn than can be consumed and
more cotton than can be gathered will be
made in Bee county this year.
This years peach crop gives out good |
promise and quite quantity has already |
been put on the market.
The hay crop of this season is coming in |
rapidly. A great deal is being shipped at |
S. per ton.
The fine rains that have fallen within the
past four days have put the crops around |
Corsicana In the best of fix.
Crops on the line of the San Antonio and |
Arkansas Pass railway between Corpus |
Christi and San Antonio never looked /
healthier. Corn and cotton is in prime con-
dition and the prosperous farmer is all |
smiles. His pocketbook will soon be re-
plenished.
The rains of the past week have flooded
Wheeler county. The ground is soaked
deep enough to insure almost all crops.
Considerable hay is now on the market
at Bosque, being offered at s. per ton.
The corn crop of Bee county is made, and
it is the largest one ever made in the his
tory of the county.
Crops Just humping and it is feared by
some that there will not be sufficient room
in Hunt county to store the great crops of
wheat. oats, corn and cotton, to say moth
ing of the many other products.
Heavy rains fell at Luling last Saturday
night which insures the largest corn crop
ever grown in Caldwell county The tanks
and wster-holes were filled up and the gar
lens given new start.
The farmers of Shelby county all report
4 fine prospect for corn crop throughout
-to COuuISs we tIuly Sldu lLc
present prospects are so good, as our county
stands greatly in need of an abundance of
corn this year.
The shipment of fruit from Palestine has
for this season.
Corn is looking fine about Estacado.
The heaviest rain Of the season visited
Crosby county Wednesday night, leaving
he whole surface of the country shoe top
leep around Estacado, and, not content yet,
rave them another Thursday morning.
The indications are that the pecan crop
will be enormous this year. Pecan gather
ng proves lucrative employment for a
arge number of people.
Barley IS success in Childress county.
;. E. Brown has 100 acres and w. r. Stew
.rt has twenty-five acres that will make
twenty-five bushels per acre. The Pan
landle can supply the breweries of Texas
With al, Of the barley they can use.-[Chil-
Iress Index.
The continued rains will dispel the claims |
f the most credulous of this not being a
arming country. The rains have been as
requent and as copious as anyone could
sk-[Hale Globe.
Peaches and other delicious fruits are on
he market in Amarillo.
One of the most magnificent rains of the
eason fell Saturday at Burnett, Comanche
ounty. Corn is silkiRg and tasselling, and
o many places will make a big yield with
ut more rain.
The grape crop around San Marcos is !,
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