Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-09
TEXAS IN TYPE.

for Mediterranean, but this year John Put
man lacked but one bushel in all of making
thiJty-ive bushels to the acre on his May
wheat, while last year his neighbor, John
Dixon, made thirty-five bushels 10 the acre
on that variety. Thus, you see, it would
take some Of the biowhard Panhandle
counties to beat that on a small wheat.
Lancaster. Dallas County-We have had
good seasons in most of the surrounding
country. Crops are reported as doing well
where rains have fallen but suffering IN
the few spots where there has been too lit
tie precipitation. Taking the whole sur
rounding region. corn will be little below an
average crop. Wheat IS good. but hardly
up to expectations. Oats are threshing
from thirty to fifty bushels, and the area is
less than usual.
Plainview, Hale county.-Wheat harvest
ing has commenced in Hale county, and the
yield is from ten TO twenty bushels per
acre. Ma~salis 4 Croft have purchased a
thresher to thresh wheat, oats, barley,
sorghum. millct, etc. They say there viii
be 1000 bushels of all kinds of grain this
year. Everyone who is able will plant
wheat this fall. One man will put in 500
acres. Others will plant from forty to 200
1t is believed by everybody that the plains
country will soon be the best wheat section
Of the state.
a mixed carload of fruit and vegetables
was shipped from Sulphur Springs to Chi
cagO last Wednesday. There were no mid
dle-men. The fruit and vegeta blcs were
packed in boxes and shipped by the
farmers.
Mr.. Spencer, 4 Wichita county farmer,
threshed 49, bushels of wheat off of thirteen
acres OF ground.
The Santa Anna News has the following
crop reports: NJ c. Ashley's wheat av-
lr,cl ,,Te
acre. B. +. Jones wheat averaged between
|, twenty-five and twcntysiX bushels per
acre. G. W. Sanders wheat averaged over
thirty bushels and his oats averaged seven
ty-seven bushels per Pcre. Mrs. Z. W.
! divers wheat averaged between twenty
three and twenty-five bushels to the acre.
w. c. Hollis wheat thirty bushels and MS
oats eighty bushels. Oscar Gray, on the
bayou, wheat tweuty-nine bushels and oats
over one hundred bushels per acre.
The recent rains have caused Brazoria
county vegetation 10 take an almost trOpi-
cal luxuriance. Many of the banana trees
are setting on fruit nicely. WatermelOns
are being shipped from Alvin by the car
load.
Mr.. F. Y HilI,a Childress county farmer,
has 4 Weld of about 100 bushels of Irish 20
tatoes per acre. W. II. Browns oats
| yielded seventy bushels per acre on sod
| ground.
Crops in Bastrop county are looking fine,
| but in the middle and northeastern part
! they are needing rain.
The wheat crop of Comanche county is
| turning out as well as was expected some
| time ago. Among the crops we have heard
| from is ]. ". Cunningham, fFty-One acres,
! twenty-five bushels per acre; Thomas Har-
ris and A. G.. Roberts, iifty-seven acres,
/ tWenty-four bushels per acre; D. T. Long,
| fifteen acres, twcnty-three bushels per
( acre PiOneer-EXponent.
The Vernon Call says: Lucius Smith,
/ who lives on Wanderers creek, has
( thrashed his wheat, which averaged TWEEN
/ ty-seven and one-half bushels per acre.
/ The rain in Colorado county last week
/ was of great benefit 10 the crops. If it had
| come ten days earlier it would have made
! an immense crop, but is it was 1t viii
; cause a good crop. The cotton crop IS now
/ very promising.
! The first carload OF wheat ever shipped
/ from Dundee came over the Wichita Valley
/ Tuesday.
/ MIR. Davis, farm err living south Of Bowie,
( has piece of Iand 3x4O Yards on which
/ he has planted about ninety b!ackberries.
/ Mr.. Davis will gather 30 quarts this sea-
son for which he gets 10 cents per quart.
John Z. Kee, who lives seven miles west
/ of Bowie, has raised 227 bushels of in
| proved early rose Irish potatoes On one acre
| Of ground. AT the present market price,
| 90 cents per bushel, Mr.. Kce has realized
| $l36 % from one acre.-[Cross Timbers.
| The shower Monday was bic sing to
| Williamson county, and was much needed
! for corn. The rainfall was $40 of an inch.
/ J. y Cox, east OF Iowa Park, has
/ threshed his wheat, which averaged
| thirty-One bushels TO the acre, one field
| yielding thirty-nine bushels per acre.
! TINrsoN, SHELBY COUNTY. July st
! commenced raining here at 9 o'clock this
morning, and is still raining at } p. III. The
! ground is thoroughly wet. This insures,
+ SO far as rain Is concerned, one of the best
| corn crops East Texas has had for a number
| of years, also a good prospect for a cotton
| crop. Some boil worms, however, have
| been discovered.