Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-06-22
ON RANcH AND IN FIELD.

Corn needs rain badly around Flor
ersville.
Brownsville people are devouring wat
melons.
A general rain fell in r-rth Texas on
the 9Th.
Beevillc people began eating water
melons last week
Wheat and oats near Ranger are re-
ported extra good.
Live Oak county was visited by a
fine rain last week.
The drouth in Baylor county cut
wheat and oats short.
The wheat and oat crops of Comanche
county this year are fine.
Corn in Lavaca county is virtually
made, and splendid crop 1t is.
Several extensive range fires occurred
around Colorado City last week.
Lice are reported as doing much dam
age to cotton around Honey Grove.
Truck gardening has been paying
venture in Dewitt county this season.
In Karnes county quite a number of
farmers are raising cane to feed to
stock.
Cows that eat alfalfa give milk that
makes the richest butter known, say
some west Texas stockmen.
Over one hundred applications have
been filed for lease of land in block 81
In Scurry and Borden counties.
Brazorla county commenced market
ing Strawberries the last of February,
and few come from there yet.
Ten thousand pounds Of wool were
sold at Leander on the 4th. The aver
age price was 16 cents per pound.
A. ]. Hardin shipped carload of cat
were fed on cotton and meal and KAT
fir corn.
The commencement exercises at the
Agricultural and Mechanical college
were held this week and many visitors
were in attendance.
Two horses that were afflicted with
CHAMBERS, belonging to j. H. Loving, at
Rockwell, were appraised and ordered
shot by the authorities.
Tannehill Bros, of Amarillo, have
sold 500 head of yearling steers to r.
Sombart of Kansas City, The pure
chase price was 800 per head.
San Antonio and the adjacent country
had the heaviest raip in six months,
on the 9Th. 1t has fiLea't the water holes
on the big cattle ranches, and will pro-
duce fine lot of grain.
The heavy and continued rains are
causing weeds to get strong foothold
among the cotton in many counties of
the state. II will require considerable
hoeing to get them ont of the fields.
Wheat around Holland, Bell county,
will average about twenty bushels to
the acre. Last year there VISA better
yield, but this season greater average
was harvested. Oats are producing
we'll.
Harvest hands are much in demand
in Clay county. Nearly twice as much
wheat and oats was raised over last
years crops Corn and cotton in that
county are doing well and promise a
good yield.
For fourteen days a great deal of rain
fell around Gainesville. The result is
that wheat harveting, which had be-
gun, and would have been In full blast
has been retarded and the farmers are
blue in consequence.
An outfit has been sent to Borden
county by Sol Ware Of Amarillo tc
receive the first installment Of 100000
worth of cattle purchased by him last
fall. These cattle will probably be ia
ken to the Indian territory.
Farmers around Denison report that
oats suffered by the rains of last week
The rain came from the south with a
heavy wind and blew the straw in one
direction, and them north wind
passed over, causing it to break.
One of the pioneer cattlemen of west
ern Texas is j. G. Lynch, who is over
10 years of age, and has spent the
greater part of his long life on the
frontier of this stae Mr.. Lynch lives
on his nice little ranch in ,Shackleford
county, where he is surrounded by
enough of this worlds goods to make
him comfortable and happy, and
where the old gentleman hopes and ex'
poets to pass the remaining days of his