Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1897-12-29
FARM AND STOCK ITEMS.


Ter Bros, bought from w. T. Carpenter
$50 Is and 2's at $40 and $25; Bird &
Mertz sold to Winfield Scott two cars
of bulls and stays at $21.50.
The cattle shipped from Corsicana
to Chicago during the past few days
were sold on that market as follows:
Sweetman Sc Wilson, ten cars, cattle
weighed on an average 1917 pounds;
same parties, second lot averaged lao;
Eden Bros, four carloads, average 900;
W. H. Bartos. cattle averaged $50.
T. d. Mckenzie of Colorado, Mitch
ell county has just sold his entire herd
of cattle, consisting of about 1900 head,
all ages, with 10 per cent cut-back,
for $2O.25 all around. They were
bought by w. r. Harris of the same
place. Mckenzie retains his range and
will start a new herd after visit to
the east.
The cotton receipts of Denison up
to few days ago by wagon were 49,
500 bales. Cotton is still being re-
ceived at lively rate; 100 to 300 bales
per day, Ehich promises to keep up for
some time yet. The receipts for the
season will go above the 10000 mark
set by the most sanguine prophets at
the beginning Of the season.
The pecan crop in Navarro county
this year has been an unusual one, and
the nuts, unless extra in size and quail
ity, have been a drag on the market.
Good nuts that usually command from
2 1-2 to cents have sold at Corsicana
as low as IL cents, and small nuts
as little as one cent. In some sections
the smaller nuts are not gathered, but
are left on the ground for hogs.
1t is predicted that the crop of 1898
IN North Texas will see a reduction
of 50 per cent in the cotton acreage,
and very large increase in the acre
age devoted to wheat oats corn, veg
etables and fruits. The principal far
mers are all of one opinion on the
question of diversity of crops and in.
dustries in Texas. The present price
of wheat will induce farmers to plant
thousands of acres of wheat this VIM
ter and next spring and much less cot.
ton than they planted the past season.
The price Of cattle being high is an
incentive in that direction and there
will be much more attention paid to
raising cattle, aud especially graded
cattle. ---.------
Five hundred bales of cotton were
sold at San Angelo a few days ago.
The sale amounted to nearly $4,000.
John X. Rosson, live stock agent Of
the Missouri, Kansas ard Texas, was in
Corsicana the other day, looking after
cattle shipments, which were to made
at once Twenty carloads Of cotton
meal-fed steers were shipped, fourteen
cars over the Cotton Belt to Chicago,
and seven cars went over the Central
and Missouri, Kansas and Texas route.
Mr.. Rosson stated that Texas was send
ing quite number of beeves to mar
ket, but that the shipments of fed cattle
were not proportionately very large.
Fed cattle from this state are bringing
very fine prices, and SO far shippers
are most generally pleased.
Cattle men of Fort Worth estimate
chat the number of cattle now on full
feed Cotton seed meaD in the various
feed yards of the state, will approx
mate 100000 head. In addition to this
there are about $4,000 head Of steers
bought for future delivery that will be
! placed on feed later in the season.
Sheep are being received at Fort Worth
daily in constantly increasing num-
bers. They come mostly from the San
Angelo country and the Pecos Valley.
A sheep raiser Of the former place is
now feeding 10000 head on cotton seed
meal at Dublin, Erath county, and
Wolfe City, Hunt county. The Texas
and Pacific is looking for future large
shipments of beef cattle from the west
as they are forwarding stable cars to
points ON the Rio Grande as fast as
they can be secured.
From the best information attaina-
BILE, we are led to believe that an I'M
usually large area of wheat has been
sown in Texas this fall, and some re-
mains yet to be sown. In the Southern
part of the state, entirely beyond what
is generally considered the wheat re-
gion, wheat is being tried this season.
We are not acquainted with any part
of arabic Texas where enough wheat
for family use cannot be grown with
as much certainty of harvest as any
other field crop. Wheat was grown all
over South and Southeast Texas dur
ing the civil war, but as the people