Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-12
rysS CROPS AND WEATHER.


Game of the big stockmen in johnson
SOM cav. nat as d general thing stock
co1nJ -, goid condition where the pas
sre 10 - not been overstocked but that
Ester Is scarce.
VIZ .ha viciuity OF Bear Bayou, Shelby
.- GOOD rain fell last Sunday
eg-,-'' ,o.77. crop is coming into the Brown
nc let at . lively rate: the nuts
Vo- i ~. arerage price of 5 cents per pound.
p'--1 ia mat the tomato vines continue
!. .. - md the luscious fruit continues to
- f, Parker gardens.
lie. county farmers are boasting of
~ ~, road and meat for next year and
some cash.
~. I,rn Bil!man Of Johnson county
NJ '. ~ CIrburne for sale 100 pounds of
p S.,,f, said TO be equal 10 any.
a,,5 average cotton crop has been
-, shelby county, and the most Of it
Is housed.
vel advanced. Some estimates of
Is IS. c-,p in many places is two bales 10
-. 3. ...rge amount of which will be
io-r for the lack o. lilckers.
T.. smith county much attention is being
- ~ setting Jdt new orchards. replen-
s5,r,.4 gaas and.planIing grape vines.
or. If the prosperous farmers of Wilbar
.,.,.. saws he intends sowing 500
e-.srf wheat ,hls fall, and also that he
s.a..-! ay fair trial that Jerusalem corn
- s.,.s well in dry season and makes
49,. ..-.- .ss- for cattle.
r,~.,g f. period of five months there has
80. r..-cripal = 10 rain in Navarro county.
g. VA = = scarce and in some sections
~ III. county farmers are hauling drink
: rltrr.
Ts..,.-,6-. IL Jack county so crowds the
US 4. -,a# s,Gr that it has become neces-
es-grt Use specIa. trains IN moving 1t.
Farmer, H. williamson county are pre-
nm, jill. ground for next years crop.
T..-,0 ri.- continued dry weather there
I. . s,..ra.'. Qt wafer in the county.
~,a tia Caldwell county is being driven
se..ra. mile, to get water
T.-r,; - equal to those Of any season
ra.l., g-,>Hlug in Blunco county.
Tie cotton crop in Blanco county is al
n ,.,,."ct
Ey.,T. laEyEIL CoUyTT, TEX, Nov. s.
O--l.. .u..s are about through with cotton
r.,ala.. ual many OF Them are planting
y,.r Bur VI account of The continued
dr. ,~.. her there viii not be as much
wheat so., l. a. otherwise, il 1t would only
I4.l.
. Grtriv. T0CyG COUNTY, Nov. 5.-The
yrl'n-.. continues warm and dry. Splendid
forr..hc.,az bIi TOO dry for sowing crops.
T,-luu. WILLIAMSON COUNTY. Nov. S.
fra rain :eE today, which was badly
r-aHe,. 4s grass WAS in bad shape and stock
,c.'ar w,- scarce This station
rs r,aelyeI nv wagon local cotton 1882
ha.s and mere are 5000 bales more at gins
AL rlr.-, residences. There is great COM
ralu- Ill ,uc gjus and Taylor compress
o. -,.ollt If the inferior class of cotton
t,-i. Heretofore. a bundle contained
tt-ty ties nd weight was from fifty to
f'tr-rw, pounds per bundle. Now they are
selling what purpugts to be the same-weight
:r-.g ta fo.Jy-,iEe pounds-and they are
c.lIitut.y breaking, and prices are higher
ugyy. a, h.Eh Is 81 70. The question is, did
tie McNiu,ey bill 10 it or the robbing
tariff
GrluiT.rgv, johnson couuty.-The cotton
cr1D is q good average. 1t opened early
and has been saved without any delay. a
ia. -s number - farmers state that they are
J. y 40 l: through Gathering. The crop
rs probably "c finished a month earlier
t..la usual il. this part Of Texas. Feeding
baegas ar-i raising hogs is announced as i
popular resort from the low price Of cotton.
TITS country IS rs well adapted to corn and
hog - j; 3, 10 cotton-raiSing.
IEyFLF. BELL COUNTY, Nov 6.-Though
prices are !.w cotton still comes in the city
by wagon al tho rate of 400 bales daily.
Center Shelby county-The weather
ha, ;cru good for the past six weeks, and
th' farmers have their crops nearly housed.
I'm Is plentiful and is being sold at fifty
cents hGsaal One farmer, Mr.. S. H.
Matthew's reports a field OF seventy-hve
bushels from one acre, and an average
y!s 3 oT his farm Of nearly forty bushels
per ac'r The cane crop is excellent and
Cte Hundred gallons of syrup to the acre IS
i-og. The average, though many farmers
report as much - two hundred and fifty
Eaaus per a're, which sells readily at
f.'y cents per gallon. The yield of peas,
pu'a'oe4 aHt COOLERS is good. The frost
haS es>troyed much of the top crop of cot
t7a b.: TIE crop IS IN average one in guam
~ and quality. Our farmers are in bet
terfnaucja condition than they have been
i-ce 'ac war.
1EHEELL. KAUFMAN COUNTY, Nov. s.
Extensive arrangements are being made to
at'1nLy..-t' the several hundred preach
els sud Attendants on the North Texas an
nlI, conference of the Methodist church,
WHICH gCuEenyy here The Nth