El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-19
Farm and
Ranch.

, Rio Grande valley around Albuquer-
que.-Exchange.
Corn-cob pipes. which are made by
| the car load in Missouri, are sold at n
! cents MISUNDERSTANDING
The first shipment of spring vegeta
blei, six bushelssof green peas, left
Port Lavaca last week for market.
} Too dry to plant cotton at Devine and
farmers are out of work until it rain:
in another week the drouth will cause
suffering.
Reports from the range all over the
country tell of fine rains, grass start
ing well. and cattle improvipg.-Ros-
we'll Record.
There has been a very general COM
plant this spring of the disinclination
of hens to set, and as result the crop
of chicks will be late.-Farm & Ranch
Granville Moore, having sold his
ranch in Coke county, will leave soon
for the Indian Territory with 500 head
of cattle and start q new ranch.-Mid-
land Reporter.
The hemp company which has been
experimenting with wild hemp N the
Lower Colorado River valley for the
past elk months has closed operations
for the season, The result SO far has
been very neutrality-suspicious. Sun.
A. B. Robertson, of the Hat ranch
east of Eddy, has sold 1000 young COWS
to J. G.. Brown of Miles City, Mon, at
500 per head: 1000 two year old steers
to Clay, Robinson & Co., at $25 per
| head.-DOna Ana Republican.
Frank Rodgers has sold out his
ranch and all of his cattle interests for
the sum of $4,000. MIR. Rodgers is
one of the Oldest cattlemen in Arizona.
and thinks he has been in the business
long enough to retire. Williams
News.
Prof. Henry, of Wisconsin,, says that
if Southern farmers should attempt to
replace the fertilizing elements re-
moved from the soil in 400, 900 tons of
cotton seed meal, it would cost them
S4S, 900, 900 per annurp.-Texas Farm
and Ranch.
E. A. Won Arnim, general manager
of the Double Circle ranch on Eagle
Creek says the cattle in that section
are looking very bad. He thinks there
are fifty thousand head of sheep in the
northern portion of Graham county
and they are fast destroying the cattle
ranges.-Arizona Citizen.
Waller, in Waller county, Texas is !
expecting to ship $50 car loads of wa
tsrmelons the coming season. Hemp
stead, of course, will see this and go q |
good many cars better. Waller county |
is largely composed of fine truck farm
ing land and the once show going farm
ers there seem to be finding it out
Farm Ranch.
An Abilene druggist recently sold
S75 worth of strycbEine to one man, to
be used in killing prairie dogs. The
same druggist has sold during the past
winter $500 worth of the drug to three
other men to be used for the samu pur-
pose, The concern has ordered q car
load of bisulphide of carbon for killing
these rodents.-Farm and Ranch.
Flowing begins about May 10Th to
May 18th, in Colorado and costs per
acre from $3.50 to 500, per forty
difference In cost depends upon the
blowing under of alfalfa, used to en-
rich the soil. It is done about every
third year, manure being added the ,
other years.-Roswel Record.
Much of the winter wheat N west
ern Kansas has been damaged, except
where sown in the cornstaIk fields.
The ground is in 6ne condition for
work, yet, owing to the cold, but lit
lie has been accomplished. Spring
grain sowing is progressing in several
If the counties. Alfalfa has come :
through the winter well. Fruits, ex-
,ept peaches, are considered SAFE
Denver Stockman. g
The prospects for good crop this
rear were materially improved by the
'ecent rain and at this time there :
Gems to be no reason to fear the re-
ults of the season. All crops are be- :
ated by the dry weather and the
wheat and oats are undoubtedly injur-
ID, but the prospects for corn and cot
on and other crops are very prom1s-
ng. The backward condition of the
rops, while caused to some extent by
he drouth, lack of rain was not
Wholly the cause.-Waco Times-Her-
Id.
One of the rapidly growing indus.
poultry. Up to few
ears ago there were few focks of
hickens that were not of the mongrel
ariety. A few poultry fanciers, low
yer, more for pleasure than profit,
nported and began the raising of
fowls. 1t was what
light be termed fad. Gradually
theirs became infatuated with the
eauties of pure-blooded chickens and -
ute a mum Der Of fanciers began rails
~ fancy thoroughbreds. There are
any strains of blood and the div
-gence of opinion resulted in the
reeding of all varities. Houston
ost. III
Take one acre of fall sown wheat, \
,e acre of sorghum and field peas mix
|, and one acre of Spanish peanuts.
s soon as weaned turn twenty good
gs on the wheat. When that is eaten L
,wn turn them on the sorghum and
las, until the peanuts are ripe about n,
e first OF October, and turn sthat crop nj
ver to the shoats. When that acre Is
eaned up give them forty bushels of