El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-15
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The corn crop In Wood county, Tex
as, promises to be an abundant yield.
-Ex
Farmers around Atlanta, Texas, have
| organized truck growers association.
| -Pecos Times.
During July over $50, 900 was paid
farmers at Bonham, Texas, for small
grain.-Bonham News.
Texas, are rushing their old corn to
market.-Texas Stockmap.
Wheat receipts at Waxahachie, Tex
as, up to date have reached 1876 900
bushels. Herald.
Over one hundred carloads of wheat
have been shipped from G .rland, Tex,
THE year.-Shermap Register.
Charles Burton gathered 5000 bushe
OF Kaff1r corn from As acres near Mid
dleton, Texas.-Denison Herald.
| Brisbin Bros. of Alvin, Texas, have
shipped over 500 crates OF peaches from
their orchard this season. Dallas
News.
Fruit growers around Lindale, Tex,
were surprised at the yield of the pea" b
crop. it being much larger than they
expected.-Ex.
Large quantities of peaches, capta-
loupes aud tomatoes are being shipped
from Jacksonville, Tyler and other
eastern points in Texas.--Ex.
The farmers of McLennan county,
Texas, are talking of sheds for small
grain in which the sheaves can be pro-
tected from harvest rains.-Ex.
Wool sold at Brownwood, Texas, the
other day for IL cents per pound, the
highest price paid for Texas wool for
the last seven or eight yeaes.-Farm
and Ranch.
The county commissioners, sitting as q
board of equalization at Marshall, Tex,
charged the cattle rating to $40 head
on all cattle except registered, which
is placed at S50.-Ex.
The wild plums around Denison,
Texas, have not ripened yet. The
crop is large, and from indications the
wild plum crop is likely to be the last
thing in the fruit line to ripen.-Fort
Worth Telegram.
The country above Colorado, Texas,
has continued to receive good rains and
crops are in fine condition. The fret
crops OF sorghum, milo maize and
johnson grass have been cut and were
unusually heavy.-Houston Post.
F. S. Boener, a farmer living three
miles east of Pilot Point, Denton coun-
~, Texas, has 150 tobacco plants grow
ing on his farm. He says they are do
ing we'll and will make q heavy crop.
He considers the soil and climate of
Denton county we'll adapted to tobacco.
Abilene Times.
In some sections of Grsyson county,
Texas, there is q great deal of unth esh
ed grain in the fields yet. The un--
usual acreage in grain and tho fact
that the production per acre was Is
per cent greater than expected left the
grain raisers without adequate thresh-
ing facilities.-Sherman Register.
Hon. A. w. Childers was in Gaines
vile, Texas, recently. He has finished
threshtng his wheat and oats and said
the former averaged sixteen bushels per
the and the latter forty-two. All crops
are fiourishing in his neigh borhood
and corn will average forty bushels to
the acre and splendid The Star.
Never before has the orange crop of
the Salt River valley looked better
than at present and the yield will be
ASe'J' - IL COuoSTSdblVely eShmdGCQ
that the crop will be fifty carloads and
that the first shipments will be made
as early as October Goth. Several new
groves come in besring this year. The
recent bountiful rains have tended to
insure early maturing of citrus fruits.
-Enterprise.
J. E. Lovelsce, farmer one and a
half miles east of Sterling, I. T., has q
crop, the first of it's kind in that acc
ton OF the territory. It a crop of
broom corn. Last spring Mr.. Love-
lace bedded fifteen acres for cotton on
his farm and got discouraged later on
and decided not to plant the ground
In cotton and to try raising broom |
corn. He had to get the seed from |
st. Louis and got the crop in late. De- |
spite this fact be has fifteen acres of |
Is tine broom corn as ever grew in any |
and has now started bending !
the tops, preparatory to gathering the |
crOp.-Farm and Ranch.