El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-08
Farm and
Ranch.

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Wheat and oats will soon be ready
, for cutting.
: Texas raises one nineteenth of th'
sheep in the United States and stand
fourth.
At Lindale, Smith county, Texas
from one to two carloads of straw Der
. ries are being shipped daily.
Three carloads of potatoes shipped
from Tyler, Texas, to Chicago netted
the shippers IS cents per bushel.
A Paris, Texas, gardener reports
tn at potato bugs are eating his plant:
and doing great damage.-Ex.
It is thought that the next session
. of the Georgia legislature wifi consider
the uniformity plau in cotton clsssi6
cation.
E. L. Crane is picking and deliver.
ing in Yuma one thousands pounds Of
apricots per day from his orchard in
the Colorado River valley.-Ex.
In the strawberry districts of Texas,
} this berry is fast ripening, and great
many carloads are being sent to var1-
Gus parts in the north and east, while
quite a number are being shipped to
various points in this state.-Ex.
The Denison Herald says that every
report from the country emphasizes
the fact that the farmers of north Tex
as and the Indian Territory are living
at home this season more than ever.
Next season will find an increase in
numbers.
It is said that the crops on the re-
1 h,io = 4
! ly total failure for want of water
There have been short crops before,
but never SO nearly none at all, as now.
| This is strong argument in favor of
the. Butte reservoir
Farmers from almost every section
of Fannin county Texas, say that the
oat crop will be immense this year.
They are kept busy now trying to give
the cotton and corn q chance to out
grow weeds and crahgrass, as the con-
tinued rains have retarded work.
Texas is sixth in corn acreage in the
United States, the humber of acres be-
ing 4.213, 46S; in the United States,
1881, ISL, which Is also one-nineteenth
and made showing of 10,537 900; in
the United States, 924, 1874 900, which
is one-nineteenth of corn in bushels.
The national department of agric-
ulture has reorga lied the superiority
of Texas tobacco when it proposes to
make an exhibit of that product at the
Paris exposition. Texas is coming to
the front as producer of the weed that
in the near future will be to her q
sourde of untold wealth-Houston
Post.
Crops throughout the state of Texas
are reported to be in excellent condi-
Gion, though q little late. In fact there
has seldom been q more promising out
look for farmers, and consequently for
the state. Rains have been abundant
and have extended to every part of
the state, and it keeps the farmers bu-
sy killing weeds and grass.-Farm 81
Ranch.
California now has 10000 acres OF
olive trees, and one third are in bear |
ing. Once, Mexico had its clivares, |
but revolutionists and consequent van
dalism brought about their destruc- |
ton. But the olive should win the at |
tention of our landowners. Italy sells |
S120, 900, 900 worth of olive oil yearly, |
and Spain has ar equally valuable |
yield of oil.-Mexican Herald.
Harvesting is in full blast in Arizona |
and ranchers who feared their crops |
would fall far short of last season are |
sgreeably surprised at the yield pro-
duced, some of them last year. This is
fact that when they saw the water sup
ply getting scarce they made hay of a
portion of their grain and devoted their !
full water supply to use on q lesser
acreage.
The cotton boil weevil has already
attacked the cotton in the south west
ern portion of Texas, and the hopes of
those who thought the February freeze
had killed out the pest have been
.udely blasted. The weevil is slowly
northward and probably we
will hear of it in central, and later, all
,ver north Texas. This is powerful
argument against the foolishness of
arrying too many eggs to market in
me basket.-Farm & Ranch.
The worlds wh eat production in 1898
7as the largest on record. According
o q compilation by Statistician Hyde,
the federal department of agricul-
ure, the grand aggregate wheat yield .
ast year was 2,S79,92 900 bushels. 3
hitch was 652, ITO, 900 bushels larger :
han that of 1897 and 1872, 571, 900 bu-
hels in excess of the annual average q
roduct during the seven years for g
hich the United States ststistician D
as prepared complied dates. ,
w = oOu UellSVS tut prhctlCe VI DeO- =
ing sweet potatoes in fresh manure, ,
r in soil highly fertilized with stable ?
Is good one. There is good 3
eason to believe that disease germs 2
re developed in such soils and carried 2
hence to the field, causing rot in the 3
ored roots. Any light, loose soil will 3
ring sets good enough in every way 2
n start, if kept we'll watered. For 7,
lie main crop, cuttings of vines are G
etter than draws anyway and should Y
2 used when they can be had. A good s
an is to plant a few rows of draws 6