Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-08-31
RANCH ANp FARM.
Bee county Is in good shape.

Bee county is in good shape.
Comanche county is said to be in fine
condition.
Palestlne's first bale of cotton weigh
ed 505 pounds
A younger lot of cattle will be fed
his year in Texas than ever before.
The hay crop of Texas this year is
Iaid to be one of the largestlever gath
red.
The weather is reported very dry
In Duval county, grain drying up and
cattle getting poor
Many farmers in southern Texas
have averaged $50 per acre this year
for their watermelons.
Wheat averaged from twenty to
| thirty-six acres per bushel in Kaufman
and Van Zandt counties.
The beet crop Under the stimulus OF
the generous rains is growing finely
throughout the Hkcos country.
John Deem of Kaufman county re.
allied 600 bushels of wheat from
twenty acres-th3ty bushels per acre.
The first bale of cotton Of this years
crop was sent to- Chicago and sold
three times on the board of trade,
$500 being realized. 1t was then sent
to st. Louis. Az
Cisco is to have aAS4O00O cotton COM
press. The proDr tor of the enter
rs'ise is N. B. Brow b, formerly of Mid
land. He expectg,b press 10000 bales
this coming season.
John Schcrbauer of Midland has
been selling Some of his thorough
bred Hereford BUN calves at 5000 each.
Many more willIleave his pastures this
fall at correspo4 dingly high figures
w. p. A. Sloah of Taylor has a Ply
mouth Rock hen that laid double
egg, S1a inchef long and as large
around in PROPORTION, and inside of Il
another perfeft egg OF the regulation
size.
Frank Colltnson, a prominent cattle
man of Clarendon, was at Fort Worth
recently. He says Donley and adioin-
ing counties are in good shape and that
the grass and water were never more
plentiful.
1t is predicted at Kansas City that
feeding cattle will sell at SO before
Christmas. Dealers base this opinion
on the presumption that there will be
large shortage, of desirable cattle
liiatisTa az g N seassRlk : r,,. .,u, 10
The stol8 y INC
Springs sectiorS are, talking of having
the jack rabb.b killed out Mr. Jim
Glass has been experimenting, and he
and two other nj hen killed 1922 in seven
days. Mr. Glass says that ten rabbits
will destroy asl much grass as one
beef.
Pecos valley farmers are giving
much attention. Just now to what is
termed susar-fdd stock, or in other
words, stock that is fattened on the
saccharine pulp of the sugar beet, a
substance that contains the greatest
quantity of fattening matter yet dis
covered by feeding experts.
The Grain Shippers association has
been organized at Fort Worth. The
objects of the association are for "mu-
tual protection, and to remedy many
existing abuses, such as unjust and in
correct weights and grades unjust re-
CARNATIONS and reflections and unjust
determinations in freight rates"
w. B. Currle of Garden City market
ed nine double decks of sheep in Kan
sas City lately, which met with ready
sale at s3S5 to 81. They were of his
own grazing and averaged eighty-nne
pounds, showing the effects of the
early drouth in Texas. They were
about fifteen pounds lighter than last
years output.
Midland is enjoying a season of pros
perity this year that has rarely fallen
to the lot Of any west Texas town.
Money has ben plenty and the citizens
full of enterprise and llberality. AS a
consequence, the town is being rapidly
built up with substantial dwellings and
business houses.
DR.. P. H, Mullowney, for many
months Inspector for the bureau Of
animal industry, stationed at San An
tonic, has been transferred to Boston,
MaaS., and will serve as assistant in
spector at that port. DR.. j. H. cihler,