El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-09

on the Violet block to-day and re-
ports it an average proposition.-Dal-
las News.
Organized Truck Gardening.
A Runge, Texas, dispatch says: A
largely attended and enthusiastic
meeting of the truck growers was held
yesterday afternoon for the purpose of
perfecting the organization and having
more definite arrangements of the plan
to be pursued.
Permanent organisation was effected
by the election of w. II. Leckie as
president; S. B. Yates, vice president;
E. G. Gillett, secretary, and G. Tips,
treasurer.
Seventy-two names were enrolled as
members of the organization and this
number will almost certainly be in
creased to 100 or more. Nearly 500
acres of choice land were pledged for
the cultivation of various kinds of
for cantaloupes and watermelons. This
acreage will also Of course be greatly
increased with the increased member
ship of the association.
This is the first experiment ever
made in this county in organized truck
growing, but judging by the enthusi-
asm with which the members are en-
tering into the work and the precau-
tions being taken to guard against any
of the mistakes which would attend an
unorganized effort, the enterprise will
be successful one.
Other meetings of the association
will follow to arrange for securing the
seed of the proper varieties of melon
and vegetables, selection of markets,
manner and time of shipping, etc.
The farmers of Karnes county are
fully alive to the fact that it ia no
longer possible to cling to the one
crop idea and are determined to make
strong effort to grow something else
and at the same time cut down the
cotton acreaRe.-San Antonio Express.
LOW Price Cotton's Cure.
In the December number of the
Southern Farm Magazine is published
q table based upon the advance reports
of the United States department of
agriculture showing that this years
corn crop in the south exceeds that of
1897 by more than ia 900, 900 bushels
The significance of this advance be-
comes more apparent when it is con-
sidered that the increase in the whole
country over the crop of 1897 is but
"a, 900. 900 bushels. In other words.
there has been an actual decrease of
production in the country outside the
south. The showing made by the
south is particularly gratifying, in
that it indicates that that section has
some compensation for the low price
of cotton. 1t also offers hint, which
If followed persistently. will
effect Of low price cotton,
even if it does not prevent the low
price. It is an Indication of the ten
dency to diversifcation, which after
all, will do much to solve not only the
Ills OF low price cotton, but will benefit
in many other ways the Southern
farmer.-Manufacture Record.
G. N. Dilworth of Georgia has
bought about seventeen bushels of
Egyptian cotton seed from Mr.. Went
worth of Karney and will plant it on
his ranch in Wilson county.-Ex-
change.
A. N. Evans of Fort Worth has in
his Office five sweet potatoes which
grew in one hill weighing in the ag-
gregate ia pounds. The potatoes
were raised by Robert Mccall two
miles east from Fort Worth.-Pecos
Times.
The prices of alfalfa hay and feed
stuffs in the Pecos valley are rapidly
going up. The demand is good, but
the supply limited. The Pecos valley
farmer having q good supply of these
articles on hand if certainly to be con-
graduated. -Avalanche.
Robert Streikert, representative in
this city of the McFaddin Bros, ar
ranged for a shipment out of BRENNAN
today of q trsinload of cotton consist
IN 2 of about 1000 bales, going via the
Hous Ton and Texas Central to Calves
ton, there to be loaded on steamships
for foreign ports. This cotton is to be
billed through. 1t is the third large
shipment arranged by Mr.. Streikert,
the first being of 1900 bales via the
Santa Fe, the second about week ago
consisting of 400 bales going via the
Central and this being the last
Houston Post.