Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-03-23
FARM AND STOCK ITEMS.


Kaufman county, recently bought 300
9 and 4-year-oid steers from Wiley
Kirby here for which he paid cash $780,,
600.
w. r. Moorehouse of kaufman, Kauf-
mau county, shipped one car of beef
steers to Kansas City, and one car to
Chicago, several days ago. over the
Midland.
Farmers all over Denton county say
they are needing rain, as the ground is
too dry in some places to pillow. With
about two exceptions not a creek in
Denton county is running, having been
below low-water mark for months, and
the stock raisers also, who depend upon
the creeks for stock water, are nesdine
rain.
j. d. McCutcheon of Longview
brought in 200 head of stock cattle to
the fat stock show, which he proposes
placing on a range near Henrietta.
There were also several fair-szed ship
ments to the Territory, Coalgate, AtolSa,
and other points The movement of
live stock to the Territory is rapidly
increasing.
The Rio Grande had two trains o.
stock in Fort Worth several days since
from Brentwood consigned to White
Eagle, l. T., over the Santa Fe. The
Chi Of fnt ptrn tl,o
on the Rio Grande are generally trans
ferred to the Santa Fe at Bird sta
ton now, new station recently estab-
llshed Just south OF the hospital in this
city
The fruit men of Cherokee county
have jubilant over the prospects of a
large crop this year until few days
aog, when they discovered little worms
in the blossoms destroying the germs.
Ii they are not got rid of in some way
they will greatly damage the fruit crop.
Theselittl worms did great damage last
year to the fruit. Quite Number are
having their orchards sprayed.
c. H. Brown of Denton, who had
twenty head of Durham COWS on exhi-
bition at the fat stock show at Fort
Worth recently, sold eight head to
WaXahachie parties at SIS head.
Twenty head of Durham steers were
sold at the Union yards for the Denver
market at SAILS per 100 pounds TWEEN
ty-1ve Durham COWS brought cents.
intended for same market.
Mr.. Geo. Miller of Corsicana, Navar-
TO county, who owns a large tract of
land about two miles northwest from
the city, has began the work of plant
ing part of it in pecan trees. He will
plant forty acres this season, and will
add to it for several successive years.
The matter of pecan culture is awaken
ing no little Interest in the people
here, it growing out of the steady de-
mand and good prices Tor nuts this sea-
son.
The following cattle sales were made
during the cattle raisers convention, at
Fort Worth several days since. Vecller
& Dugan of Denver bought Of j. ID.
Jackson, Alpine, $500 yearlngs and 500
2-year-olds, graded $4,000; Ed. r.
Stiff of Collin county to O'Brien, Stand
berry & Watkins Bros. of Gainesville
Is fine bred bulls, $25OO each; b. NJ.
Brutton of San Angelo to Paul & Har-
rlson of Panhandle, $500 2-year-olds in
Lubbock county spring delivery, S25A
Mrs. Adair of Scotland to Rome Bros.
of Clarendon, $500 1-year-old heifers,
without any cut back, $40; Landergin
Bros.of Eureka, Kan, bought from Bird
& Mertz, of San Angelo 35Oe IS and As
for April delivery, SIG.
Texas now has five or six poultry
journals, all of which seem to be
reasonably we'll patronized. This is
merely an indication of the recent
growth of public sentiment favoring
improved fowls. Poultry shows are be-
coming a popular entertainment in all
our larger towns, and every other man
you meet has, or wants some fine fowls
of some sort or other. This is healthy
sentiment and means better fed peo-
pie, and consequently better people
for man is largely made of the food
he eats. Can there be any question
that a people fed on eggs, and the va
rious dainty dishes that can't be made
without eggs, and fowls cooked in the
numerous and apitizing ways known to
our dainty housewives, would ultimate
ly become superior to a similar people
fed on corn dodgers and fat pork, hogs
grease and baked potatoes? There is a
wonderful power in food as every care
full breeder of animals knows. So true