Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1897-06-23

ton, causing it to die. Some farmers
have planted over their cotton the third
time. Farmers are badly behind with
their work, and cotton Is very weedy
and grassy, and the prospects for
cotton crop are very gloomy at this
time.
The wheat and oat crop of the Goldth
waite section is better than 1t has been
in years. Much Of the wheat will make
twenty-five bushels per acre, and it is
about all harvested, though the clip
of the reaper and mower can be heard
in the oat farms around. The yield Is
100 per cent better than last year. Far
mers are badly behind with their cot
ton crop, the excessive rains of the past
month having put them all in the grass
and weeds. Corn Is about made, ami
will he an exceptionally large crop,
while forage crops-sorghum, millet,
etc-are very well advanced, and the
yield will be large. Stock Of all kinds
doing well. Grass and water are both
plentiful.
A rouslng meeting Of the Fort Bend
County Game Protective association
was held at Richmond recently, at
which it was decided to rigldly prose-
cute every volator of the new game
Jaw \ reward of $40 will be paid for
evidence to convict persons killing
game out eff season, and a fund was
raised to be used in their prosecution.
This move has been found necessary
on account of the great number Of pot
hunters who come to this county regu-
larly from Galveston, Houston, Bren'
ham and other points and destroy game
wantonly. The membership includes
residents Of all points in the county,
and a representative has been selected
for each railroad station, who will re-
port by wire all infractions of the law
\ resolution was adopted pledSing the
members to stand by the officers in the
discharge of their duty. The sheriff
and all other peace officers of the coun'
ty are enthusiastic members.
The weather around Webster is get
ting very warm and, not having had
any rain here to amount to anything for
several weeks, the land is getting dry,
| DuI lllb luIIutIS are llNlhb tihN tiAiNt'5N
Of this dry spell by killing all grass and
weeds, both in the field and pasture.
Prospects for crops of all kinds were
never better in this locality. The pros
pect now is that there will be plenty
of cotton to pick here in July; the plant
is growing fast and, as general thing.
the crop is clean. Corn is considered
| 10 o1thonnI, Iitt1n rain NOI1l1 1n
good, especially to the late planting.
There will be considerable corn planted
here this month, known as Mexican
June corn. This is the only corn that
made a crop here last year, owing to
June drouths. A few awberries are
still leaving here and good prices real
lied. Many farmers will attend the
meeting Of the Gulf Coast association.
which convenes on the last Saturday
of the present month at Alvin, and not
the last Saturday in July, as reported
from Alvin on May 20. The regular
meeting or quarterly meeting will be
on the first Saturday in August.
For the first time in several years
crops of all kinds are bountlful all over
the Delflna country. People have been
eating green corn since the 10th OF
April and all kinds Of garden truck
have been most abundant. With but
few exceptions farming in this section
is carried ON by the most primitive
methods. The ground is broken by
blowing with a yoke of oxen hitched
by the horns, and the plow used is a
forked stick. Consequently the ground
is mercy scratched. The grain is
thrown in any way and covered by run
ming furrow with a stick alongside of
il. And the wonder is that anything Is
produced. If any cultivation Is done II
is merely to break down the rank weeds
and grass that otherwise would entirely
choke the crop. one or at most two
cleanings is all that the natives con
slider necessary. And yet in an ordl
nary season the average yield of corn
with such planting and cultivation Is
from forty to fifty bushels to the acre
The results with proper cultivation, as
has been proven, are from seventy-iYt
10 a hundred bushels per acre. In this
county alone there are at least 200,O0(
acres that could be irrigated from th'
Rio Grande and would insure the very
best results every year. The climate
can not be excelled in any part of th'
world. and for rich soil it compares
! with the valley of the Nile. But there
is no railroad. Many of the large lant
owners would oppose one. 1t woult
, result in dividing up the large pasture
: into small farms and the cattle interas
would suffer.
The new Jail building will be com
pleted at Angleton this week. 1t is
two-story brick structure of handsome
: design and is great Improvement OF
the old affair at Brazoria. The frs