Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-17
TEXAS IN TYPE.
TEXAS CROPS AND WEATHER.

Cotton picking is going on lively in Taylor
county. and the weather keeps dry despite
IT, fA.E-.nakers.
Crops in the Braz1s country are turning
oUr ,l..nouly and the farmers are sowing
m'-e small Grain than last year.
Al Fra, Cooke county, about 400 bales OF
cotton hI.e been ginnei, which is said 10
b. .es than one-half the crop.
Rams above Fl Paso have caused rise
in The Rio Ccande at that point.
h. liam, Fannin county-Your CORES
'uE.rl. has just returned from two days
'-p around the southern. western and
northern part of our county overland. We
t.ttuat there was 4 fine crop of corn raised
'I' year in the parts over which We tray
rr- Most of the corn Is gathered and
D~bbei. The cotton is very good with the
exception o.. few fields which We're not
''c. c.. Tuted. Some few fields we passed
u''.r IT, Sc we were informed would weld
N. -hrcc-IudrterS to 4 bale per acre
Hardly amy we saw which was anyways
-.t cultivated viii fall under half bale
Ier4c... We also noticed thar there is be-
-- plant. ! Il larger acreage of wheat than
-4> been scwu Tor years past in this
county. They are still sowing wheat.
N'ur II il IS up and looking fine. Some IS
Isl NuIIg up, and some, as we said be-
..-s is LIST being planted. The farmers
are gurWuiuS about the long dry spell,
-i- say that ii il continues much longer
i-'' ". fail 10 get good stand of wheat,
1' Great deal Of ii is Yet lying III the
s'nIna, here not being enough moisture TO
Dong Il up. Rain is needed badly. All of
TIE praA"hcS AID creeks are dry as a bone,
Ord most OF the pools are dry. Stock va
Ter T',.r,c, and stock in some places are
suffering. The wells are running low, and
- few pieces we found that they were
.'-"e,ely dry. Passing on the northern
par o. he county, we were aStOnished at
finding Tie woods fall of half burned bales
-' rv.,un At nearly every cabin over in
lie poS'oahs north of here, we saw j group
~ i..ia Lalf-clad barcfoOted children, clus-
Tered around the door Of their humble home,
H-.a i.e father and mother in the back
ground, sOrrowiuiiy looking on. perhaps
MY bale OF cotton they had iaboriously
-1--d, but now half burned and almost a
'.'- ruin. for this part of the county is
sandy lnu and most of ii is not considered
7. cotton .and, at least what crops VIC
81" woa.t not anyways compare with those
H.. black land bat Yet we saw in spots
re very good crops.
Dublin, Erath county-We have handled
aa'e soma 5000 bales of cotton, most OF
'-.t- has been compressed here. The pro-
seeds of the sale of this cotton being diff
!a'at 10 our city and community has very
'."7."-t reviewed Tue nndnclaI pressure. we
..N lave about 5000 as happy, busy people
as nay be found anywhere in Texas or else
E.re. The country tributary to the town
..-' sathere,i the best general or all-around
or ? We have ever produced.
hlliSBoRo. HILL COUNTY. Oct. 16.-The
'e.4. receipts of cotton to date this season
AMOUNT 10 II, l03 bales. Up to this time
.4>t season there were 9503, being & gain of
'"' Mr.. J. V. Hampton. who lives eight
-.-'> west of HillSboro, brought to town a
Few days since stalk of cotton that eau
We 5e termed tree. 1t is six feet high,
Ken ZEE. vide and had over 300 well devel-
,.ee DOLLS on it. 1t is known as the ''long
improved" MIR. Hampton will gather over
" 'p pounds from twenty acres. 1t was
PAINTED 2uG of June. which proves that it
WI sand the drouth better than the crdi-
lazy kind. This stalk will be sent to the
Janus fair
tLoYDADA, FLOYD COUNTY. Oct 10
h'gsy part of Floyd county has been
.. -f,tl with rain during the past ten days.
De ground is now in excellent condition
!or wing wheat. and farmers ure busily
,iE red il cropping their lands with this
cereal. There will probably be ten acres
S'Nn here this year where there was one