Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-01
TEXAS CROPS AND WEATHER.


out-yicli any crop known here il many
years.-lSan Saba News.
The Memphis Journal says the fine rail
that fell in Hall county last week wa!
highly appreciated by the farmers on &C
count Of making blowing easier. As large
an acreage Of wheat will be sown this yeal
as the ground can be prepared for.
The Quintana Times says the pecan croI
of Brazoria county IS very heavy this year
Hundreds Of acres of pecans 90 to waste il
that county every season.
Gonzales had good heavy shower Tues
day, bU5 more is needed to furnish stool
water
The rains of the past week insure 81
enormous crop of wheat for Hall county i
the season is propitious, as blowing an(
breaking is now being pushed rapidly
Ben Kelly and C. r. BIice left last Sat
urdaY morning for Kansas City in charge ol
a train Of cattle belonging 10 John Pope
They arrived home Wednesday morning
HAL County Herald.
Boo Burch has lake on his place of OF
which he has cut thirty tons Of hay for
which he will realize SO per ton Hale
county Herald.
About the best cotton picking we have
heard of IS that of Robert Cherry and Jesse
Nelson. On Monday they picked lO4S
pounds, the former picking 512 pounds and
the latter 536.-[GarLand News.
SoUrHMAYD, GRAYsoN COUNT. Sept. 2S-
We had quite nice rain Sunday which the
farmers all rejoice TO see. as water was get
ting 10 be quite a scarce article.
BIvINs, CAss COUNTY, Sept 2S.-The
rain began 10 fall last night about clock
1t Is still raining this morning. The creeks
and branches were all drying up and water
was getting scare in some places
KYLE, HAYS COUNTY, Sept. ga heavy
rain fell here yesterday.
The stockman is pleased. The recent
rains viii produce amplel winter pasturage
for his stock Beeville Picavune.
The pecan crop promises a very large
yield This year Coleman Voice.
Since the recent fine rains the grass has
commenced to grow like spring time and
looks green and pretty. If frosts do not
come too early the stock range will be fine
for winter karncs Reporter.
MWild cherries grow abundautly among the
mountains here. Our devil brought us
some OF this delicious fruit this week
Properly treated a rich quality of cordial
can be made of these wild cherries Kerr
vile Paper.
Mr. y. p. Mayes brought into the News
Office last Saturday an ear of corn meas
uring twelve and Il quarter inches in length.
This Is the longest ear on recOrd-TVan
Alstyue News.
Mr.. Jess Pollard contcm plates entering
in;o the culture Of wa,ermclons on an ex-
tens!ye scale next year. Thirty acres ofhis
lied Mud plantation viii be set aside for the
cultivation of the toothsome product-Tfs-
puela Bulletin.
GRAND PRAIRIE, DALLAS COUNTY, Sept.
27.-About two hundred bales of cotton have
already been ginned III this place and the
htlts ere is yet very white. Cotton pick
ers are in great demand. The farmers are
..f,Ilr NE !, bal hoo !
IN tits district for several years.
MEMPHIS, HALL COUNTY, Sept. 26.-Fine
rains have fallen in Memphis and surround
lug country; the ground is thoroughly Wet
and crops, such Us fall wheat, will be
planted at once. Some farmers have wheat
up now.
PANHANDLE, CARSON COUNTY, Sept. %
During The past three days have fallen the
most delightful rains The ground is
thoroughly soaked, and the draws, creeks
aEd the lakes here are filled with stock wa
ter. The farmers are using their best en-
beavers to put in fall grain, and all new
corners are highly pleased with Carson |
county. Much sod will be turned and |
many new farms opened up this fall and /
the coming spring. Our climate is such in |
winter that there are but few days that the !
farmer cannot pillow. There is plenty of /
cheap land for the homeseeker, and as good
as there IS in Texas.
FROST, NAVARRO COUNTY, Sept. IS
Frost Is coming to the front as cotton
market. Nearly one thousand bales of the
st pie we're sold here last SATURDAY. The |
cl OrHous ginning establishments of W. B.
Jones audJ. I. Suite are turning out fifty
bales Of cotton daily. The crop will aver
craze half bale TO the acre in this vicinity
which better than expected.
BIvINs, CAss COUNTY, Sept. give are
h1ring dry weather now. Farmers are
gathering crops rapidly. Corn is good, but
cotton has been injured by the dry weather
Teas potatoes and turnips are being in
jured for want of rain.
PANHANDLE, CARSON COUNTY. Sept. "a
in Carson county is completed
The yield Of wheat, oats and barley was
very fair. Mr.. Jabez Hill, two miles from
Panhandle, made ten bushels spring wheat
per acre. An increased acreage of fall
grain is now being sown.
GEANnvIEw, JOHNSON COUNTY, Sept. 90
The largest rain storm and hail that has
fallen for many months struck Grandview
gu vicinity last night. The farmers saw
hat cotton is greatly damaged and a large {
per cent OF the open cotton was beat into
lie ground by the hail. $
GRANDvIEw, JOHNSON COUNTY, Sept. 90.
Our town exhibited itself today with
good proportion. Business was good in all I
ines. About 20 bales of cotton crowded | l
he streets until here was hardly standing 1
Dom. The buyers took in pa bales, which
he First national bank Of Grandvicw paid 4
o.. and The remainder WAS stored for c
~ her prices. GraulyiCw Is one of the
,C5t cotton markets in johnson county.
About 20 per cent of the cotton crop here .
k MS TO have been picked, and about y or -
: per cent marketed. The principal part =
the corn crop remains uuguthered, as "
he farmers time has been devoted mainly
4 saving the cotton. v
DENTON. DENTON COUNTY, Sept 2a.-The
trcets Of he city have been crowded to-
ny with cotton. About 400 bales have ;
cen brought in to-day. Nest of it mar o.
etcd.
HENRIETTA. CLAY COUNTY, Sept 9S.- b
his section was visited by a fine rain to- a
ny and the indications are good for more. =
TERRELL, KAUFMAN COUNTY. Sept. %. - +
ms has been Gotten day in Terrell Il
here have been nearly six hundred bales -
ocal cotton sold on the streets. For
while during the middle Of the day Moore u
venue was hacked with wagons for four u
locks so as to make it impossible to pass al
he cotton came from surrounding counties pl
: well as different parts of this county
ottOn wclgEers have had to call in rein N
9rcemeutS. About forty bales of damaged a.
otton|were sold at auction and brought &C
IS cents. The town is full of insurance te
busters fixing up the losses in the recent
often fire. Is
DAiNGEEFIELD, MoRRIs COUNTY. Sept. te
s.--Ihe heaviest rain known here since al