Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-02-22
PASTURE AND FARM.


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William Childress of San Angelo !
bought from R. w. Hoskins fifteen
graded Hereford bulls at $50.
Stock farmers are gradually en-
croachlng upon the large pastures in
the country around Childress.
Cotton seed meal makes a better
feed for dairy COWS when mixed with
an equal weight of wheat bran.
The National Oil company of Den
ison sold to the Sherman Cotton and
Oil company 500 cars of cotton seed.
Dale Bros. have shipped seventeen
cars of cattle from Henrietta to Bon
ham to be fed for the eastern market.
A large number of Smith county farm
ers will plant from one to five acres
in Irish potatoes for market this sea-
son.
During the month of January Texas
furnished the st. Louis market with
243ss cattle, -239 hogs, 747O sheep and
81 horses.
1t is claimed that from 200 to $50
bushels of onions can be raised in Col
lin, Grayson and contiguous counties.
per acre.
The continued severe weather has
caused severe cattle loss, particularly
in COWS, where the animals were not
unde' shelter.
Hezekiah Williams of Kansas City
was in Fort Worth several days ago.
Mr. Williams is wintering $4,000 head
of cattle in the territory.
Joe White of the Pecos valley coun-
try bought carload of fine registered
Durham and Hereford cattle at Colo
RADIO City. paying $125 per head.
Liebold & Morris of Kerr county
have bought from H. II. Carmichael
of Bandara 500 head of mixed cattle
for spring delivery at Sis around
A trainload of ten cars of fat meal
fed cattle were shipped to the ST. Louis
market, eight cars by Saunders & Jen-
nings and two cars by the Union Meat
company of San Antonio.
Hon Barnett Gibbs of Dallas bought
the Slaughter Grapevine ranch in Tar
rant county. He made five-year
lease and $4,000 conditional sale to
the Armour Packing company of
50x200 feet on Elm street, Dallas.
VIM. Ragland returned to San Anto-
MO from a trip to Cuero, and Yoakum
and reports heavy shipments to the
markets during the past few days from
the feed lots throughout that section.
DR.. M. Francis. veterinary surgeon
at the Agricultural and Mechanical
college, recently went to Beeville and
inoculated a herd of Hereford cattle
for R. e. Mutt, Sr., which that gentle
man recently imported.
Cattle that have been on feed in
Texas are now moving rapidly to mar
ket, From Corsicana, Tinkle & De
LaFosse shipped to Chicago over the
Cotton Belt four cars of bulls and two
of steers, and Ben Sweatman shipped
seven cars of steers.
There have been 10000 acres more
wheat sowed in Van Zandt county this
season than for any one season for
the past ten years. There have been
from 500 to 700 acres planted in or
chards, fruits, berries, etc.
Owing to the large crop of 1898, and
the long time it took to gather and
market same. come Ellis county farm
ers are behind with their land break
ing and other work preparatory for thi
ing and other work preparatory for
this years crop
Much land is now being cleared In
Lampasas county, and many who now
say that not more than half the till
able land is yet in cultivation There
are yet many fine valleys which will
yield abundant harvest when they are
in thorough cultivation.
At Rockwell ]. W. Vance has on ex-
hibition a curiosity in the shape of a
pig. 1t has two bodies well developed
each of which has four hoofs The
pigs bodies come together at the
shoulders and it has one neck and
head.
Shippers of cattle from the state OF
Chihauhau, Mexico, complain of the
increased rate of the Mexican Contra
railroad which went into effect Jan
1, saying that the present rates rem