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

y large quantity or prall1e nay Will De
saved in Hood county this year.
The wheat and cats crops of johnson
county are said 10 be better than for years.
though the acreage is small.
The grape crop of Caldwell county will
soon be ready for market aud the yield will
be unusually large.
While the cotton crop is much too young
TO give a fair estimate of the probable
yield, leading farmer of this section stated
last Saturday that he had been farming
here for fifteen years, and during that time
he had never seen such uniform prospects
for heavy crop. One more rain. he stated,
was all that was needed to make the corn,
and the crop was all that could be asked.
= Luling Signal.
Considerable wheat has been harvested
in GraysOn this week, and the reports from
the crop are very encouraging.
The reports from various sections of this
county give the corn crop 4 tiattering pros
pect The oat crop viii soon be
ready for harvest.
The wheat harvest of Collin county has
begun. Farmers have been busy the past
week buying Irvine and other necessaries
for their reaping machines.
The corn crop OF RuSk county is simply
fine. Cotton IS beautiful.
The cotton crop of Bastrop county
promises 10 be large about McDade.
Algareta berry hunting is the order of
the day now at Merkel. Every day there
are several parties out gathering this
splendid fruit
The early fruit crop of Morris county IS
good. PlumS, apples and small fruits are
ripening.
Crops in Williamson county are looking
well, oats are being harvested, the acreage
IS small but the yield is heavy, Corn is i'll
fine condition and promises d large Weld.
The wheat crop of Kaufman county is
simply immense as to yield.
The hay crop Of Hays county will be
fine this year Hays county furnishes i'm
mense quantities of hay in ordinary sea
sons, and this is an unusually favorab bic
year for the hay industry.
The prospect for an oat crop in Hill
county is better than il has been for wears.
No disaster occurring the yield bids fair to
run from fifty up to one hundred bushels
per acre Cotton hoemg is in advance of
last years work aud from present indica-
tons good crOl. of that product is prom
iscd.
FRAZER, GREER COUNTY. June 3.-Whcat
harvest began this week and Is somewhat
impedcd by bad weather and short supply
of Irvine. The amount Of Jwine sold in this
county IS enormous, and an estimate at the
amount of wheat IS very hard to make, and
gueSSes run from six hundred thousand
bushels to two million. However, the
wheat is very fine and viii average at least
sixteen bushels per acre. There Is great
deal of rain failing here and fears are enter
tanned that wheat will be injured in the
shock.
Uoans. Wilbarger county-The farmers
are all busy eating wheat and the binders
are seer OF the move in every direction. 1t
Is the largest crop of wheat ever raised in
this county and will yield more TO The acre.
We are having plenty Of rain. Oats and
corn are doing splendid.
ALBANY. tune 5.-Thi~ entire county was
visited with Il splendid rain this morning.
making a good season and insurng the
crops. AT this writing, p m, the weather
has cleared beautifully and harvesting viii
be- IN again III the morning.
TERRELL, June "a small shower of ram
Iii this afternoon.
AUSTIN. June 5.-Nore rain to-day.
VERNON, June THE farmers here are
az ncrvOusly anxious about their crops. and
the harvest has begun in earnest. Great
relief is felt This morning, as the weather is
l'ulcr and il is hoped the threatening rains
are over. The crop Is estimated at twenty
bushels per acre, and one can get some idea
CT -he number of acres when we say that
between Otb ana t'O DInuefS nave already
1aen taken 70 the fields, besides a NUMBER
sof headers. Every report brought in in
creases the estimate, as the heads are well
filed and the grain very plump
j. \ Finch. Wilbarger county'S immi-
grafton agent. has returned from an East
eru tour, aud is waiting the result Of the
harvest. and will return TO Chicago in ten
days with his pockets full of statistics of
the new crop. He says all eyes are turned
towards Texas, and that there will be a
heavy immigration TO the state this fall.