Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-31
TEXAS IN TYPE.
TEXAS CROPS AND WEATHER.

rio +rst peach of the season was shown
M streets on Wednesday morning by
o. ". Eel OF Palestine. 1t was a
..a5'iug from cross OF the Beatrice and
seL5srs0n varieties, and measured eight
go and weighed five ounces East
Texas News.
- al gone ard DlackberrieS are COM
iuc in
r~,ps are good all over Jones county.
u4ea- harvesting is now going on in
,--ssr in Cooke county.
r,r awhile the cotton crop around Hen
,.r.,.. was looking rather sorry. but warm
U IRE bringing 1t out beautifully, and
- prospect IS dattering.
.J,4.-. oats. corn and grass never looked
,....rr F4nnin county Cotton is look
We buJ is = little late.
.-s,p. county farmers say there will be
,,~- =acues plenty of apples and an
.Gauce Of grapes.
po-rva has a large percentage of in
.-,.-as I'm the cotton crop over last year, and
,-,z,..- 10 make enough cotton this year 10
..r1r among the banner conntie- for
cotton
Tine crop prospects of Bowie county arc
-. Tie Il1.it crop VIII be good.
-,.-.vr. Timpson. Wills FONT, Bartlett
- Lining report copinul rains ard fire
r1,-z2n. Boslue, sRusk, Ellis, CALLAHAN,
pars and NIaa counties report crop pros
r.rrs never brighter.
Ma, N. \ Pleasant, living two miles
,,-,rass- of ROchdaIe, informs US that he
s,4-,@- finished cutting the fifth clop Of
,,,.5igce 10 saw the seed. In five years
- has raised five crops Of oats, two crops
r. c5,-or and one crop of sugar cane on the
sl,.e piece nj ground.-lRcckdale Mes
se1sel
uu- county wheat viii make from
.,rsr-. 70 thirty bushels per acre this year.
r.4r,. ie not q large acreage. The oat crop
.4--r tine and VIII make fifty TO seventy
fire bushels per acre.
n- II. y Jacobs, six miles north of
Greeny.-e, has crop OF wheat that meas
.-ra4 FIVE feet high and is remarkably fine.
seluer'ed TO yield twenty-five or thirty
bgsar~ per acre.
some af our farmers are laying by corn
81, ,gc-. and report their corn as high as
-rr head Cookville Banner.
Farmers viii soon be making hay. Hunt
caty annually cuts about 1900 acres OF
rr-r,. Law ia addition 10 miilet and other
,.r.,rI grasses The only county in
ggN,,Ir,iug more prairie hay than Hunt
!sK4lf,nIn.
some # The farmers Of Johnson county
y commence cutting wheat this week.
TgefrUspcct IS still very fine.
Greer Rush Coryell johnson, Hartley
RocEwal, Washington and Eunt counties
and Tie san Gabriel county report crops
Irrcr better
U..e,'sYi.le and Terrell report fine grow
ilF crops.
Icnderson-D. F. Spivey. the champion
melon grower of East Texas, tells Us his
syfr-aele patch Of watermelOnS are vining
U.ue.r with some blooms showing them
selves He expects to commence market
ire about the 10th Of June, and will have 1T
least iorty-rvc cars for shipment. The gen
En-. outlook for fruit has improved some
What during the last six weeks. Many of
The trees. however, have never recovered
me b.Thted effects of the severe weather
over one year ago. Early peaches are
turning ana soon VIII be ready for market
OF peaches and apples we may possibly
lave . half crop. Vegetables have been
prolific, except cabbage and tomatoes for
early market which were failure.
Duur-uyiIIc- Before this week closes
ul1g hundred acres Of wheat, and the fall
ca crop viii be in the shock.
Pilot -HnrveStmg has begun, and
Die crops Of wheat and oats are reported
Tue best for / number Of years.
Fine rains and crops are reported from
Camp. Colorado, Fairfield and Henderson.
BOWIE May 29-The first shipment of
fruit from this, the Fruit City of Texas"
W.. be made tomorrow and Will be shipped
bg " Trinlbe Il Co. to points on the
Denver. If reasonable rates can be secured
On this ROAD aud fruit cars furnished, there
Will b- greater shipments of fruit from
Bowie than ever before. The yield in this
county is immense.
c,ERoLLroS. May 29-The weather is
wauu aud dry Wheat harvest will begin
l.A. Week. Il IS The best crop for many
years. 1t is thought many crops will weld
from twenty 10 twenty-five bushels to the
a."' Corn and cotton Is doing well A
god rain would be thankfully received and
DC Untold good Just now.