El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-23
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Over one hundred carloads of wheat
have been shipped from Garland, this
year.-Star.
A farmer In Henderson county plant
ed i've acres in cantaloupes and sold
169 crates.-Ex.
The corn crop in Wood county, Tex
as, promises to be an abundant Yield
Abilene Times.
Farmers around Atlanta, Tex, have
organized truck growers association.
|-Cleburne Herald.
Wheat receipts at Waxahschie, up
to date have reached 200 900 BUSHELS
Sherman Register,
During July over $50, 900 was paid
farmers at Bonham, Texas, for small
grain.-Denison Herald.
The grass in the panhandle Is said
to be fine and cattle getting in fine
shape for the winter.-Ex.
A watermelon weighing 70 pounds
was marketed at Greenville recently.
1t was raised near Campbell.-Ex.
Briabin Bros, of Alvin, have ship
ped over 500 crates of peaches from
their orchard this seasop.-Brenham
News.
Wool sold at Brownwood, Tex, for
IL cents per pound, the highest price
paid for Texas wool for the last seven
years.-Ex.
The Navarro County Farmers Mill.
ing association of Corsicana, has fled
its charter with the secretary of state.
-Pecos Times.
Fruit growers around Lindsle, Tex,
were surprised at the yield of the
peach crop, it being much larger than
they expected.-Dallas News.
The farmers of McLennan county.
Tex. are talking of sheds for small
grain in which the sheaves cen be
protected from harvest rains.-Denison
Herald.
Large quantities of peaches, canta-
loupes and tomatoes are being shipped
from Jacksonville, Tyler and other
eastern points In Texas.-Abilene
Times.
The county commissioners, sitting
as board of equalization at Marshall,
Tex, changed the cattle rating to $40
q head on all cattle except registered,
which is placed at S50.-Ex.
A weak point about stable manure
is that it contains too much nitrogen in
proportion to its phosphoric acid and
potash: it will, however. produce much
better results If the deficiency of the
two be made up from artificial sources.
Herald.
The hot dry weather is playing havoc
with the cotton in north Texas and the
Indian territory. Between Denison
and Durant along the line of the Katy
the plant is beginning to chow signs of
the lack of moisture and is slowly
turning color.-Houston Post.
The rains in the Abilene country
seem to have been general over q large
scope OF country. The farmers have
only one problem before them, and
that Is how to take care of what they
and forage crops is large.-Register.
In come sections of Grayson county,
Texas, there is great deal of un-
threshed grain in the fields yet. The
unusual acreage in grain and the fact
that the production per acre was Is
per cent greater than expected left the
grain raiser without adequate thresh-
ing facilities.-Ex.
The second meeting of the Fruit and
Vegetable Growers association at
Mireola was we'll attended. Constitu-
ton and bylaws were adopted. Prof.
81. M. FOote of Sulphur Springs de.
livered an address. The organization
is in good shape, and will be heard
from in the future.-Ex.
The farmers and merchants of
Walker county came together and or
ganized the Walker County Fruit and
Vegetable Shippers association. OFF,
GERS were elected as follows: Presi-
dent, T. W. Oliphant; vice president;
F. 81. Foster; secretary and treasurer,
John G. Williams.-Ex.
Cotton planters from different Sec
tons of Navarro county report that
the damage to the present crop BY boil
worms and shsrpshooters is greater
than has heretofore been estimated.
Lowland fields have suffered most and
10 some cases it is claimed that the
yield will be cut short SO per cent
Elk.
The watermelon crop of Denton
county Is unmistakably large, and the
ruit is being carried to Denton in such
Quantities that it is becoming q drug
IN the market. One shown there
rs 81 pounds, while those
Weighing from 35 to Is pounds were
requent. Large ones can be bought
or B, 10 or Is cents esch.-Ex.
o. Darwin, farmer of years of ex-
'erience, whose land Is below Waco,
where the Tehuacana joins the Brazos,
uttered heavily from the overflow.
lie bad 500 acres of cotton, from which
re would have made over 500 bales,
ubmerged and most of it killed. Mr..
Darwin says all the insect pests known
nd catalogued are busy ia the over
Owed lands. He saw shsrpshooters.
aterpillsrs, boil worms and army
worms in his field.-Ex.
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