Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-10-05
= eMER AND sTockMAN.

marketed at Runge this season
The county farm of Wa. hngton
county produced COCO bushels of corn
this season.
Tom SmltN of West recently sold his
calves, about fifty head, 10 f. M.
Brown at $15 around
Farmers in Victoria county nave had
great success in the raising of fax.
They received S5 cents per bushtl for
it from an oil mill
T. II. Shaw of Ballinger has 1000
yearllng steers recently purchased in
east Teaxs, and will pasture them with
r. A. Smith until spring.
The second annual exhibition of the
Wilbarger County Fair association
was grand success. On the last day
over 1000 persons attended.
Earnest & Shepherd have leased
thi~ty-eight sections of land in Terry
county to Scott w. Greene, and Mr..
Greene will establish new ranch up
there.
Eggs and chickens are scarce arti-
cles in the Smithville market, frying
size chickens, and not very big ones at
that, being readily sold anywhere from
Is to 20 cents.
Cotton is coming in now in great
rush at Coleman. Gins are running
night and day. Everybody busy pick
ing. Most of the cotton will be gather.
ed within the next thirty days.
The rainfall in the Midland section
during the present year has not reach
ed six inches and unless the pas
lures soon have rains some of the
stockmen will have to seek new pas
lures.
Inquiries are coming in from all sides
in regard to Midland country, and
great influx of settlers is looked
for this fall, not only from the north
west, but of stockmen from east and
middle Texas.
Lon Arnett recently sold all of his
cattle in the Indian Territory. Five
thousand five hundred mixed cattle, to
Oliver & futile of Minco, /. r., at $21
per head, making total transaction
amounting TO s1ls,I9O,
The first carload of Texas corn for
export arrived at Galveston on the
Goth, from near Waco, and graded as
No. 2. It was consigned to the William
d, Orthweln Grain company, which
has about 100000 bushels to follow it.
c. T. Turney of Sonora bought from
Sam Warlng in Concho county re-
Gently ten head of grade Hereford bull
calves at $50 per head and ten higher
grades for $50 per head. He also bought
from VIII Malloy Of Concho county
ten half-breed Hereford bull calves at
$25 and eight very high grades at $50
per head.
In response to letter from the
South Dakota Sheep Breeders associa-
ton, urging that sheep dips be ex-
cluded from patent medicines, the
United States commissioner has decid-
ad tbot c,ioh incarceration &c M, tO h,,
construed as patent medicine, and
is, therefore, not taxable under the
revenue law.
1t is feared that the new deep well
on the Lockwood ranch in Pecos
county will prove failure after ali
the expectations of 1t that were enter
tanned. The water still rises hun
dred feet in the pipe, as it did at first,
but on trial it has been found that
the supply is somehow deficient and
that it is quickly pumped out.
DR. Herman, United States veterl-
nary surgeon in charge of the cattle
dipped at Fort Worth and sent to Mid
land as an experiment, reports that he
gave all the cattle a careful examina-
ton and finds no ticks on them of
any kind, all having died since the
dipping. thus showing the success Of
the experiment.
W. 5. lizard of Henrietta sold from
mis- Sunny Side Hereford herd, or
Turkey creek, eight registered White
face bull calves for sseoO-one at 5000
two at $500, four at $500, and one at
$500. They We're last November, De-
.ember and January calves, and CON
seQuently not rear old, Tom Wag-