Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-06-28
PASTURE AND FARM.
Plums are in faid supply.

210O head of stock sheep at So.
B. C. Rhome shipped two fine regis
tered bulls to parties in Pettus.
IIillsboro is shipping oats to Calves
ton and other points.
The corn crop of southwest Texas
has been cut short by drouth.
Mr. Field, living near Burnet, sod
a 9OOO-pound wool clip at Is cents.
A carload of goats have been shipped
from San Angelo to Kalamazoo, Mich.
Strawberries have about vanished,
but blackberrles still are on the mar
ket.
The first load of hay for the season of
1899 sold at Paris was raised near Max
ey and sold at Sc a ton.
Farmers in the vicinity of Ravenna,
Fannin county, have killed several
wolves recently.
A cyclone damaged crops some in the
vicinity of Picton. 1t was followed by
an unusually hard rain.
The first carload of wheat sent out
this season from Gatesville was raised
by ]. B. Roby.
The first new wheat was received
at Midlothian on the 14th. 1t was sold
for 60 cents per bushel, classed as No.
2 and weighed 60 pounds to the meas
ured bushel. The new grain was ship
ped to Galveston for export.
Tomatoes and roasting ears are be-
ginning to come in in goodly guam
tity, and they, too. will soon be in
abundance.
Boone Simmons of Hillsboro bought
two carloads of hogs at Lorena and
Bruceville and shipped them for the
California market.
The terrible wind and rain of the
10th did great damage to about fifteen
acres of oats on the farm of Col. G. B.
Pickett, four miles from Decatur.
Crops in che vicinity of MCGEE, l. T.,
are reported in fine condition, especial
ly corn and oats. Wheat was consid-
erably damaged by the late spring
Farmers in the northern part OF
Fannin county say that notwithstand-
ing the damage done by the recent
hail storm the crop outlook is bright.
]. F. ana u. Mutt of Granbury sold
100 head of 2-year-old steers to w. B.
Dennis of Chicasha 1. t., for $21.50 per
head. They will be shipped to the Ter
ritory at once.
The first trainload Of watarmelons
shipped from the Beeville section this
season consisted of twenty-one car
loads The train was made up at Bee
vile and several stations south.
What is to be the largest goat-ranch
In the world has recently been started
at Lamy Junction, N. M, by Robert
Foerderer of Philadelphia, in connec-
tion with Lucius Beebe, leather deal.
er of Boston and several other cap
italists. IT. has $4,000 goats now.
Walton Bras. shipped thirteen car
loads of fat beef steers from Corsicant
over the Cotton Belt to Chicago. This
cleans up the Corsicana feeding pens
and will be the last shipment from
there until fall,
Among the through shipments which
passed Paris few days ago were six
ty-six cars of cattle from points OF
the Santa Fe, Midland and Texas ant
Pacific, consigned to the northern
stock yards. Three loads of melons
from Mathis, on the Arkansas road
went through to st. Louis.
T. A. Coleman of San Antonio hai
purchased of links Blocker the Moro
ranch, in Dimmitt county. This rancl
consists of about 10000 acres, includ
ing lands in fee simple, leased lane
and improvements and 1900 head o
stock cattle. The terms are private.
Col. e. H. Cunningham, the wealth.
sugar planter of Sugarland, says thu
prospects for a good sugar cane croI
are promising.
About 100000 pounds of last year.
clip of Montana wool that was storet
during the winter in Boston, was sol'
few days ago for II 10 cents. TIL
wool was the property of the Bank o
Fergus county, of Lewiston, state o
Montana