Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-02-16
FARM AND STOCK ITEMS.

Ohe gin IN lno toWu paleu oJ4V DaleS
this season.
The Smith County Fruit and Vege-
table Growers association met a few
days ago in Tyler. The committee APP
pointed at the last meeting to ascer-
tain the increase in acreage of early
vegetables reported that the acreage
would be increased threefold over that
of last year. The subject of transpor-
tatlon was taken up and the repre-
sentative of the American Refrigerat-
ing Transit company addressed the
meeting on that subject, stating that
his company would have at Tyler in
few days an expert in transplanting
tomato plants, also an expert packer
who would give the shippers the bene-
fit of his experience in packing fruits
and vegetables for shipment.
Eleven cars of good hogs were re-
ceived at the stock yards in Fort
Worth a few days ago, nearly all be-
ing Texas raised stock. The demand
for good stock is excessive, and but
for the fact that the market there is
controlled entirely by quotations OF
eastern meats, prices would go up
many points. The shipping of mules
to louisiana is getting to be quite a
feature. During the past few days
about 200 head have been shipped into
that state through the stockyards at
Fort Worth, and it Is learned that sat
isfactory prices have been realized for
each and every shipment. The mules
raised in this state are in great de-
mand in Louisiana, as the people
there need light, active mule gener-
ally, to haul their cane and other
light products.
The crop-mortgage is strictly OPP
posed by the farmers in Wilbarger
county, They are of the opinion that
it paralyzes the energies of the far
mer and throws the profit arising from
his labor into the hands of the banker,
instead of into the farmers pocket 1t
is stated that few, If any, mortgages
will be given in that county on this
years crop. The county has had fine
rains and the farmers are busy plow-
ing. Wheat will be sown mostly, more
hogs will be raised than during any
previous year. The health of the sec
ton is so good that the medical fra
ternity have taken to planting wheat
Wolves, principally coyotes, have been
SO bad this season that farmers and
cattlemen have been trapping them
with steel traps, and many hundred
have been takciSln that way.
Hunting coyotA with horses and
dogs is getting To be quite the fash
ionable sport in Tom Green county.
Many have been killed in that way
this winter, stag-hounds being found
to be the most serviceable dogs for
the sport. Coyotes lave played such
havoc with the young lambs that en-
ergetic masures have been found nee
essary. 1t is claimed by sheepmen
that one coyote can destroy fifty head
of lambs in years time. The little
wolf by no means devours the carcass
but contents himself with sucking the
blood from its throat. These wolves
are also deadly to the interests Of the
swine raiser. A litter of pigs under
the protection of the mother is safe
from any ordinary onslaught, but two
or three will attack the mother at once
and succeed in stealing all of her pigs.
1t has been customary in the south
for a farmer who desires to increase
the amount of his crop to buy more
land, or put the pillow into some of his
pasture land. This plan is not the best
one, except in cases where the capacity
of the soil already in cultivation has
been taxed to its utmost. Fifty acres
can be made to produce as much under
high, as one hundred under average
tillage, as it is far more economical to
produce the desired increase of output
from the lands already under the pillow
than to add to the surface area at
heavy expense. When more land is
wanted, go down for it--no heavy cash
outlay is required and no deed of trust
applies. An acre is regular or irreg-
ular pyramid with its apex at the
earth's center. You can go as deep for
plant food as you like, and thus prac-
tically increase the area.-Texas Farm
and Ranch.
A prominent farmer Of Navarro
county states that the farmers of that
county are turning their attention
more-to grain and hogs than they ever
have before and propose to cut down
the cotton acreage as much as they
possibly can consistent with their
needs. He says it is the only crop
they can get advances on and there