Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-08
TEXAS IN TYPE.
TEXAS CROPS AND WEATHER.

mixed carload of fruit and vegetable
was shipped from Sulphur Springs TO Chi
| cago last Wednesday. There were no mid
dle-men. The fruit and vegetables wer
| packed in boxes and shipped by tn
| farmers.
| Mr.: Spencer, a Wichita county farmer
| threshed 4"l bushels of wheat of of thirteer
| acres of ground.
The Santa Anna News has the following
| crop reports: VI. c. Ashley's wheat av
| eraged a little over twenty bushels pel
| acre. B. F. Jones' wheat averaged between
| twenty-five and twenty-six bushels pei
| acre. G. ". Sanders wheat averaged over
| thirty bushels and his oats averaged seven
| ty-seven bushels per Pcre. Mrs. f. W
divers wheat averaged between twenty
three and twenty-five bushels to the acre
". c. Holt's wheat thirty bushels and his
oats eighty bushels. Oscar Gray. on the
bayou, wheat twenty-nine bushels and oats
| over one hundred bushels per acre.
The recent rains have caused Brazoria
county vegetation TO take an almost tropi-
| cal luXIriance. Many of the banana trees
are setting on fruit nicely Wdtermelous
are being shipped from Alvin by the car
load.
Mr. Z. y. Hill Childress county farmer,
has yield Of about 100 bushels of Irish DO.
| tatoes per acre. ". II Browns oats
yielded seventy bushels per acre on sod
ground.
Crops III Bastrop county are looking fine,
but IN the middle and northeastern part
| they are needing rain.
The wheat crop OF Comanche county is
turning out as well as was expected some
time ago. Among the crops we have heard
fr9n IS J. ~. Cunningham, ffty-one acres,
tWenty.two bushels per acre; Thomas Har-
IFS and a. Roberts, fifty-seven acres,
twenty four bushels per acre; ID. T. Long,
hftee1sacres, twenty bushels per
acre. Pioneer-Exponent.
xf4,ke Vernon Cali says: Lucius Smith.
EAo lives on Wanderers creek. has
|&hrashed his wheat, which averaged TWEEN
ty-seVen and one-haf bushels per acre
The rain in Colorado county last week
was of great benefit 70 the crops. If i had
come ten days earlier it would have made
'7eHuSe good crop. The cotton crop IS now
very promising.
The first carload Of wheat ever shipped
from Dundee came over the Wichita Valley
TUESDAY.
Mr.. Davis, 4 farmer living south of Bowie.
has piece of land $40 YARDS on which
he has planted about ninety bIackberries.
MIR. Davis viii gather $40 quarts this sea
son for which he gets 10 cents per quart
John E. Kee, who lives seven miles west
of Bowie, has raised 227 bushels of i'm
proved Early rose Irish potatoes on one acre
Of ground. At the present market price,
60 cents per bushel, Mr.. kee has realized
5000 from one acre Gross Timbers.
The shower Monday was a blessing to
Williamson county, and WIS much needed
for corn. The rainfall was $40 of an inch.
J. A Cox, east of Iowa Park. has
threshed his wheat, which averaged
thiriy-one bushels 10 the acre. one field
ytetdins thirty nine bushels per acre.
TNlP>"N, SHELBY County. July st
commenced raining here at O'Clock this
morning, and is still raining at ) p. m. The
ground IS thoroughly wet. This insurcs,
50 far is rain IS concerned. one of the best
corn crops East Texas has had for n number
q years, also a good prospect for a cotton
crop. Some boil worms, however, have
been discovered.