Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-05-25
STOCK AND CROPS.


he got from Kansas City, and paying
5000 per head for them. Thus fine stock
is fast becoming Texans, a fast indeed /!
gratifying.
! Castor beans are said to be prolific
crop that our farmers might well look
into. The beans, which, as is well
known, are converted into castor oil,
and those raised in Texas grade very
high in amount of OIL
Sheep-shearing has begun at San
Angelo in earnest. One firm has con-
tracted to clip 2O,5OO head. The spring
clip of wool this year will be about
100000 pounds-about 100000 pounds
less than was clipped last year.
Tom Flemming, of Victoria, has
sold B. L. Naylor, who is we'll known as
one of the heaviest Kansas buyers who
purchase in this state, who has visited
this section during the past winter, 14O0
head of 2-year-old steers at $500 per
head.
DR. Rice, who has held the position OF
United States cattle inspector at Eagle
Pass for the past year, has accepted a
position as veterinary surgeon in Teddy
Roosevelt's Terrors, and left for the
rendezvous at San Antonio to prepare
for active service.
Throughout the length and breadth
of the panhandle the prevailing i'm
preston is that the present year VIII
be one of uneXampled prosperity to an
extent hitherto unknown in the annals
of that district, which means, of course,
increased immigration.
The wheat fields around Denison are
as pretty as picture. Some of the
wheat is heading out and will soon be
ready to cut if the weather remains ia
vorable, A little warm dry weather
right at this time will soon ripen the
wheat in Grayson county, and the crop
this year promises to be better than
that even of last year, If conditions con-
tinue good.
The Wichita valley people have good
grounds for believing that they will this
year harvest larger wheat crop than
ever before raised in the valley. Every
condition has thus far been in its favor,
and an immense acreage has been
nlnnte1 Raporte frNp, Ndio,,,i ID oho,4,
county, state that the drouth there has
been effectually broken. The cattle loss
has been very heavy, but it appears
now that there will be an abundant crop
of grass and that cattle from now on
will prosper.
AT Clarendon, on the 10th, there was
one of the greatest downpours of rain
ever known in that section. The rain
was accompanied now and then by hail,
and windows, awnings and signboards
many out-houses and culverts and
suffered. The high wind demolished
bridges were washed away on the rail-
road. The whole country appeared in
undated and it is said that over a foot
of water stood in the streets of the
town. All question now as to big crops
and suficiency of stock water in that
section has been definitely put to rest.
Unless there should occur now sue
cession of dry, hot winds, extending
over many days, nothing can now pre-
vent one of the largest crops being har-
vested that the Clarendon country ever
saw.
Parties recently from the panhandle,
as well as from west Texas, report the
depredations of the vicious lobo wolf
are on the increase and that such meas
ures as have thus far been taken for
their determination have proved alto
gether Intellectual. AS the country fills
up with small ranches with herds of
stock and calves and lambs become
easier Of access just in that proportion
has the great lobo increased in audac-
ity and numbers. In place of now
travelling in pairs, or even single, he
now goes in packs. Parties recently in
from Amarillo report severe losses on
farms between Amarillo and the big
canyon. Thus far no means have been
found to rid the country of this pest
and probably will not be until farmers
tnrn out en- masse, as they did in the
old days in the Argonne forest in
France, and in the Black forest in Bo-
hemia, when the whole country congre-
gated at a certain point, and with dogs
and guns, kept after the wolves until
the last brute was eXterminated.
Capt. Stevens quartermaster at the
post, received orders at San Antonio TO