Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-23
TEXAS IN TYPE.
TEXAS CROPS AND WEATHER.


Fruit promises bountiful crop in all
parts of Texas.
The present season is favorable beyond an
average for farming operations and all
signs promise good crop year. The pro
ductioniof wheat and oats twill be short,
simply because of the small amount planted.
but there will be large increase in the
acreage given cotton.
Wills Point Chronicle: There is fabu-
lous wealth in raising grapes and making
wine. \ vineyard of twenty acres will pay
a handsome interest on the land valued as
high as $1,000 per acre. The grape is indi-
sures success to any one undertaking the
business.
Wichita county and Northwest Texas are
getting all the rain they need this season,
and the harvests of small grain and corn
are going 10 be wonderful.
Belleville Standard: The experience Of
this year will certainly disabuse the minds
of the farmers of the idea that if they make
hay they cannot sell it. There seems TO be 4
regular hay famine throughout the entire
country, as hay is now selling in ST. Louis
at SO per ton. The usual price is not more
than 81 Our people are urged to make
hay, save hay. whether the sun shines OF
not Circumstances are such that the de-
mand viii keep pace with. if not ahead OF
the supply.
Brown county farmers are fairly well up
with their work. Corn is nearly all up 10
stand. The late frost killed some Irish
potatoes. No cotton planted yet.
During the season just closed Abilene has
shipped about seven thousand bales OF
cotton. The indications are that she will
ship from twelve thousand to fifteen thou
sand bales next season. There will De over
buO1y.p1- ihOuS1pl bushels Of small
grain raised in Taylor county, much OF
which will be transported to other less IA
vored sections.
Never in the history Of Cooke county has
the wheat crop looked so well. Last year
was the first complete failure for thirty
years. The people had to get seed from
other states and this Of itself helps out, for
nothing SO improves grain crop as Il com
plete change OF seed.
The area of wheat sown in Greer county
is now estimated at about lhirty-tive
thousand acres.
The recent fine rains have greatly en-
coulaged the farmers OF Somervell county.
The range of that section is becoming Il
great resort for those who are about out OF
corn. Oats. corn and garden Vegeta bleS
are very promising at present. Cotton has
been planted bS some and others will com
mence this week. Cotton seed and corn are
about the scarcest articles in the country,
except money.
A farmer near Austin has realized $50
per acre, or $40 on three acres OF cabbage.
Very little damage has been done the
fruit crop of Brown county. and oats. which
wei re thought to be killed, have only been
slightly injured.
The citizens of Grimes county have
formed an association for the purpose OF
raising waterInelons. The association con-
tains about twenty members who have
agreed 10 plant $50 acres OF this fruit.
The heavy rains Monday morning eX-
tended all the way along the international
road to San Antonio and down the Texas
Mexican to Corpus Christi and up the Rio
Grarde and Eagle Pass road TO the coal
mines.
Mr.. c. W Marsalis, who lives two miles
east of Plainview, Hale county, will plant
fifty acres in sorghum this spring. He has
:, large number of horses, some OF them of
the Percheron breed, and feeds abou. 100
ions of sorghum every winter.
GLEN ROSE. April 20.-Continued rains
have placed the Brazos river and many of
its tributaries past fording. Consequently
no mails We're received or left this point
to-day for the east or south. Only south
ern mails via Granbury out. Clouds still
hang low and promise more falling weather.