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

Mr.. ]. F. Roach of Hunt county brought
load of wheat into Greeuville which
weighed siXty-four pounds to the bushel,
and sold at 70 cents. Mr.. Roach raised
twenty-seven bushels per acre of this
wheat
Nearly all portions of Throclmorton
county have had good rains during the past
week and an excellent crop is assured. Cot
ton Is growing nicely, being generally about
knee high and full of squares and blooms.
Other crops are all doing well.
Cotton is doing finely in McLennan
county, but corn needs rain.
Bell county had good rain last week
and the corn crop is now assured. a few
more showers will make the largest cotton
crop ever known.
The Granbury Graphic says Rev. ". j.
Moore showed a twig from one of his
plum trees only four inches long with sew
enteen well developed plum5 on it
AS far1as heard from the wheat crops
already threshed have turned out as fol-
lows: Bushels to the acre-D. W. Watson,
twenty-seven and ole-half; G. II. Glass,
nineteen; II. S. Watson, twenty-five; ". J.
Roby, twenty-four; William Vim, twenty
three; O. II. Bowers, thirty; Bill Hen6er-
son. twenty-three: Peter Keller, thirty and
one-half. o H. Bowers oat crop yielded
1913 bushels TO the acre. This is one field
that actually yielded over 100 bushels OF
oats this year Coleman Voice.
Wild pluuls and grapes are getting ripe
on the creeks around Amarillo.
RUsK, CHEROKEE COUNTY, July Far.
mers coming in from the country report
that the rain that fell here on the 4th and
9Th was general all oyer this vicinity and
section, and a thorough season is in the
ground. Prospects for crops are the best
for years, as the seasons have been perfect.
Pianview, Hale county.-A good deal Of
the wheat Of Hale county has been cut.
The bundles lie thickly over the ground.
The straw is of good length, and the grain
is well matmed and heavy. There will be
q thre5hcr here in a few days, and when
threshed out it will be known what the
WELD has been. Judging from the looks of
the fields now, the farmers have good cause
for congratulation on the prospects of the
plains county becoming the best grain
growing section of the state.
PUTNAM, CALLAHAN CoU3TY, July C.
The weather of the past week has been
very favorable for threshing and some
wonderful yields of wheat are reported
NIessrs. Mandy & Wilfang have just
threshed a crop of sixteen acres of wheat
grown on the farm of Mr.. J. A. Jackson,
which made an average of forty-three bush
els per acre, and crops that average thirty
five TO forty bushels are numerous. Oats
are turning out better than was expected,
and it Is now certain that the average Will
not be less than sixty bushels per acre. A
good crop Of corn is already made, and the
prospect for Il large yield of cotton was
never better.
Cisco, EAsTLAND COUNTY. July Wheat
threshing IS about over. Here are some
figures from actual measurement of few
crops in the Hicks settlement, fourteen miles
north Of Cisco: Crop Of B. T. Parrish,
forty-three and one-half bushels per acre
W. H. Anderson, thirty-three bushels
George Johnson, twenty-four bushels; W.
H. Prichari, twenty-six bushels The
who have been running the threshiug
machines say that twenty-eight bushels is a
/ fair average of the crop of this particular
neiehborhood, and the quality of the wheat
is the best they have ever seen.