Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-02-01
PASTURE AND FARM.

sands of dollars.
Six families of farmers travelling in
wagons passed through Denison on
their way to the indian Territory.
Active preparations are already be-
ing made for the fifteenth annual fair
Of Gillespie county at Fredericksburg.
Eleven carloads of cattle were ship
red to Kansas City from Gainesville
six by one firm and five by another.
D. E. Sims of San Angelo sold to Fa-
yette Tankersley fifteen Herefords and
seven Durham bulls 2 years old, at $40.
Gardeners in the Pecos valley are
giving some attention to the raising
Of that highly esteemed vegetable, as
raragus.
The Dublin oil mills of Dublin, Tex,
marketed steers at the East st. Louis
H. stock yards averaging 1923 pounds
at $4.O5.
From late advices it is learned the
recent rains have ruined cotton in the
hollis in the fields of Navarro county
The substantial sum received for
pear orchard at Hitchcock shows the
interest taken in raising that succulent
fruit.
Parties who we're figuring on erect
ms cotton seed oil mill at Farmers
vile have closed the deal and pur-
chased ground, and plant of ninety
tons capacity per day will in due time
A number of land owners controlling
100000 acres adjacent to San Angelo
have formed an association for the pur-
pose of Kidding their land of prairie
dogs.
The jury in the case of True C Co.
VS.. International and Great Northern
Railroad company, on trial at George
town, returned verdict of $7455 for
the plaintiff Plaintiff claimed DANA
ges for some cattle shipped from En-
cinal to the Indian territory.
he an industry of that place.
d. o. Franks, cattle inspector for the
Texas Cattle association, who has been
on an inspecting tourn around Del Rio,
reports the cattle in thai Vicinity in
fair condition.
w. T. McCampbell q Victoria has
syic7, his r,Gsch liz Victoria county to ].
w. and Beauregard McCutcheon for
$4,000 profit for the ranch and cattle.
The McCutcheons sold the ranch last
year to McCampbell.
Over 1900 jack rabbits were lately
killed in Clay county in a circuit of
over six miles Every day during two
weeks all the farmersand boys of the
German settlement were hunting these
enemies of wheat fields. All are salts
fed with the result and had much fun.
The cattle and other live stock in
terests of the state were quiet last
week owing to the fact that nearly all
the leading cattle men We're at the
convention at Galveston
From Paris Tex, Webb & Co. mar
keted among other cattle at st. Louis A
COWS 900 pounds average, sold at $3.50;
Webb & Warren marketed So steers,
SO5-pound average, sold at $685.; Webb
G. Melton marketed 10 steers S91-pound
average, at $685., and Webb & Leber-
man marketed "a steers 1OSS-pounds
average, sold at $500.
H. C. Coleman Hunt county farm
err, says he expects to make more
money this year off four acres of onions
than from forty acres of cotton. Mr..
Coleman is a belierer in diversified
farming. He also said that in his
neighborhood west of there several
horses have died of blind staggers,
which seems to be epidemic.
A contract has been entered into be-
tween the Rock Creek Growers and
Shippers association, the Sulphur
Springs Fruit and Vegetable associa-
ton and the Barker Springs Growers
and Shippers association to furnish
the Western Poultry and Game asso-
citation of st. Louis with cantaloupes
this season.
Ex-Gov. Culberson, in his message
several days ago to the twenty-sixth
legislature, renews his previous sug-
gestions relative to the depredations of
that terrible agricultural plague John
con r-rncr ,rhinh Il seems imnnSsihla