Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-16
TEXAS CROPS AND WEATHER.

twenty-seven bushels per acre of this
wheat.
As far as heard from the wheat crops
already threshed have turned out as fol
lows: Bushels to the acre-D w. Watson
twenty-seven and one-half; G. II. Glass
nineteen: II. S. Watson. twenty-five; w. j.
Roby, twenty-four; William Winn, twenty.
three; o. H. Bowers, thirty; Bill Hender.
son, twenty-three; Peter Keller, thirty and
one-half. o. H. Bowers oat crop yielded
100 bushels to the acre. This is one field
that actually yielded over 100 bushels OF
oats this year.-[Coleman Voice.
Wild plums and grapes are getting ripe
o. the creeks around Amarillo.
1lainview, Hale county-A good deal OF
TIE 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 matured and heavy. There will be
thresher here in a few days. and when
threshed out it will be known what the
yield 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.
All sections of Navarro county have had
good rains. Corn will make good crop
without any more rain, and cotton will be
better without il.
Adam Sliger Of Comanche county threshed
1853 bushels Of wheat from tifty-five acres
Archer county farmers say their wheat is
yielding from twenty-five to thirty bushels
per acre. William Coleman says he thinks
his corn will make sixty bushels to the acre
The Reporter says wheat and oats are
coming in at Abilene at lively rate. Wheat
is selling at from % to 20 cents and oats at
from 80 to 35 cents. The wheat is averag-
ing from fifteen to thirty bushels per acre,
and the oat crop from twenty to thirty
bushels per acre.
Mr.. c. L. Carter of Swisher county has
about twenty acres of oats that will yield
fifty bushels per acre. His corn and millet
are also looking fine.
The fine rain which fell Tuesday evening
was worth many dollars to kosse and Lime
stone county. The corn crop is assured and
the cotton greatly benefited.
MIR. 7. W. Epperson of Polk county has a
japanese plum tree which had several
plums on it but the fruit was too heavy and
broke the boughs. He has about ten on the
tree now. One of9the plums measures six
aud one-fourth inches round.
Shelby county had fine rain Sunday and
Monday which was of great benefit TO the
crops. Mr.. T. S. Garrison has d two-acre
patch of corn planted on old land, from
which he claims he will gather 100 bushels
OF corn. He used cotton seed as fertilizer
From five to ten loads of grain is received
at Van Alstyne q day. The News says
Mr.. Edwards, living southeast of Van AL
styne, brought in limb from an apple tree
about four inches long that had 81 apples
on it.
The Hamilton Herald says Capt. Smith is
through threshing and does not feel dis
,l.,,,, L.,
more than twenty-five bushels per acre and
his oats over sixty. Corn is good and cot
ton waist high.
Y Finley, kaufman county.-CropS are fine
~ prospect
The Baird Star says H. Burnett, living
four miles east OF Baird, threshed ten acres
OF wheat last week that averaged forty-one
bushels per acre. The average of the en-
tire crop was thirty-two bushels per acre.
His red oats made seventy-fve bushels per
acre.
The Childress Star reports the following
crops: r. A. Quisenoerry's wheat threshed
out an average of 80 bushels per acre; II
ID. Bailey MADE y bushels of wheat and 81
Of oats to the acre; l.. L. Thompson and
Ebert Howard's oats averaged so bushels
per acre; 1ilman Kings wheat thrashed %
bushels to the acre; J. H. Bowmau's oats
made l02 bushels per acre.
Jacksonville, Cherokee county, had nice
rain last Sunday. which put the crops in
good shape. Corn is already made, and
cotton looking fine
Watcrmelops and canteloupes are being
brought in by the wagonload at Henrietta,
and great many are being shipped to
Northern markets.
Mr.. William Smith, living twenty miles
west of Mckinney, harvested $50 bushels
Of wheat on nine acres Of ground.
Nevada, Collin county.-Crop prospects
Ire still hattcrinG. Corn is considered
made and was never better.
Home grown grapes are in the market at
Deniscn. Blackberries and plums are still
plentiful
The fruit crop of Colorado..county is large
his year, especially the peach crop Hay
,utting time has arrived and some have
operations
Mr. E. d. Allen of Corpus Christi shipped
rom his Ingleside vineyard 262 baskets of
grapes last Friday.
The wheat crop of Mr.. S. r. Childs of
Stephens county yielded forty-one bushels
Ter acre. Mr.. J. J. Robertson's wheat
,rop threshed out forty bushels to the acre.
The crops in Johnson county will average
,etter than for many years past. The
wheat yields all the way from fifteen to
bushels to the acre, and corn in
Yearly every locality is good Cleburne
There are orange trees in Laredo which
re bearing very profusely, and the fruit
ppears to be very good quality Laredo
lines.
The Coleman Voice has the following crop
eports: j. w Watson's wheat made over
wenty-nine bushels to the acre. w. c.
iolt's wheat thirty-one and half and bar
ey forty-two bushels to the acre. Alex
'ampbell's wheat twenty-three bushels.
Jalvin Holmes barley forty-three bushels.
p. McrrymanS wheat twenty-five BUSH
Is. & Joe andWillis Green's wheat threshed
and twenty-four bushels per
cN. The lowest yield reported is sixteen
Hsheis on new farm.
PUTNAM, CALLAHAN COUNTY, July g.
The weather of the past week has been
cry favorable for threshing, and some
gonderful yields of wheat are reported.
iessrs. Mandy & Wilfang have just
hreshed crop of sixteen acres of wheat
rown on the farm of Mr.. ]. A. jackson,
which made an average of forty-threc bush
is per acre, and crops that Average thirty
i've to forty bushels are numerous. Oats
re turning out better than was expected,
nd it is now certain that the average will
OF be less than sixty bushels per acre. A
God crop of corn is already made, and the
respect for a large yield of cotton was
ever better.
Cisco, EAsTLAND COUNTY. July Wheat |
hreshing is about over Here are some |
cures from actual measurement of few |
rops in the Hicks settlement, fourteen miles
orth of Cisco: Crop of B, F. Parrish, |
orty-three and oue-half bushels per acre;