Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1897-12-08

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been totally destroyed by the boil
weavil.
Cotton fields around Webster are
rapidly being plowed under and plant
ed to oats. The staple will not pay for
picking and will make good fertilizer
If the stalks are turnel under when
green.
Twelve hundred and fifty bales of
cotton were marketed at Monroe last
week, which makes the receipts to
date about 5000 bales. About 2000
more bales are stlll in the hands of
the farmers. The price hangs around
DC in round lots. Business is Sow,
Notwithstanding the big rush of cotton.
The farmers sell the cotton to meet
their obligations for supplies of land
notes, etc, and are buying as few
goods as they can. This Is. strictly
speaking, a cotton country, and things
would have been glorious had cotton
brought cents, but this A ID and s.
cent racket has demorallzed the whole
thing.
The beautiful trophy given by the
railroad company to the champion
team in the Coast Country base ball
league arrived at Victoria last week
from New York 1t represents play
er standing on the base holding a
large baseball and on top two bats are
crossed in a wreath 1t is made OF
silver and gold and has the following
Inscription: Coast Amateur Baseball
League. Presented by the New York,
Texas and Mexican and Gulf, Western
Texas and Pacific Railways. ID. L.
Forbes, General Superintendent; w.
j. Craig. General Passenger Agent
Season 1897 Awarded 10 Port Lavaca
Club, Winning Every Game" 1t VIII
be sent to Port Davaca.
Messrs. Herman, Lutner and Charles
r. Kountze, large stockholders in the
Sabine Land and Improvement com
pany. are expected at Sabine Pass in
the early part of December. The an
nual meeting of the stockholders of
the Improvement company will be held
at the offices of the company here Dec
cemher I. On the same evening re-
cepton will he given at the Windsor
in honor of their visit, to which large
fist Will be invited. AS NIessrs.
Kountze Bros. are large property
A..ders in different parts of southeast
Texas, and especially at Sabine Pass,
the result of their visit here is looked
forward to with interest. They will
probably remain in Texas for week
or ten days.
Mr.. James Ingram, an extensive
land owner of Williamson county,
was in Tay,or last week exhibiting
specimens of June corn, the seed of
which was planted ON the 24th day of
last June The ears were large and
the grains we'll filled and developed.
He planted only small patch as an
experiment, which received no cult
vatjon, and estimates the yield at forty
bushes to the acre. Experimenting on
this planting some of the corn was IL
rlgated, but irrigation proved a him
drance rather than help, that which
was not watered yielding the best
product The cultivation of this corn,
Mr. Ingram states, is far better than
raising 4 and . cent cotton or sowing
Johnson grass seed.
A fruit growers association has
heen organized at Neches, n village in
Anderson county. The purpose of the
association is to put 200 acres of land
into an orchard of such fruit trees as
prosper in this climate, especially the
peach, which is an indigenous growth
in many of the lands of this county.
The efforts of the refrigerator car
companies to put the fruit of this
county into northern markets early
and at cost far below what has been
| paid for transportation Of fruit, has
| done much to stimulate owners oi
land to put in and cultivate orchards
upon a large scale. Other associa
| lions having in view the same purpose
will doubtless be formed, as there Is
much talk in that direction, and it will
only be question Of time when vas
bodies Of id,e land in this county, hith
erto considered untitled for agrlcul
turnl pursuits, will be developed iRtC
fruit farms.
The farmers in Williamson county
seem TO be actively in earnest as t
planting wheat for next seasons crop
| Upwards CT six carloads Of seed whea
have already been disposed of in tli'
county, and the merchants of Taylor
Georgetown and other county town!
are stJll ordering more. Williamson
county will raise her own -four mex
year and have some to spare for othe
exclusively cotton counties. One firm
III Georgetown has disposed of tw'
carloads of seed wheat TO planters ans
has ordered more Taylor merchant
have disposed Of two carloads; J. D
Towns of Towns MIL has sold on