El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-31
Farm and
Ranch.

Over 100 cars of grain have been
shipped from Garland, Texas, this sea-
son.
The first bale of cotton to reach Gal
weston tt is season was sold for III Genus
Eek.
Some farmers In Ellis county, Texas
reporr the appears zee CT the Mexlcan
weevil.
Quantities of peaches are being ship,
ped from Carlsbad, N. M.-Carlsoao
Current.
The streets of Durant, I. T., are
crowded every day with wagons loaded
with wheat and oats.-Ex.
A Mr.. McMahan of near Forney,
Texas. will raise ut arly 1000 bushels OF
onions this season.-Pecos Times.
The Dallas News at Dallas was sent a
watermelon by the Fruit Growers as
socia ton at MIneola that weighed ~
pOunds.-Ex.
Cameron, l. T., has shipped 25l. 900
bushels, or forty nine cars OF Irish pc
tatoes, at an average price OF ~ cents
per bushel.-Ex.
Wha- ton county, Texas, is rapidly
developing as a fruit country. APP
piles, pears, plume and peaches do well
there Fort Worth Register.
The hog -raiser should strive for the
greatest possible daily increase in
weight, every day, from birth OF pig
until his immolation upon the block.
The recent flood struck a watermelon
patch near Cuero and juicy melons by
the wagonload fioa ed TO that city. All
cOlors of mankind we've represented In
the feast that followed ham
News.
James N. Bush, near Allen, Texas,
threshed this season 24OO bushels OF
wheat and 500 bushels of oats. His
wheat yielded seventeen and One-half
bushels per acre and oats fifty bushels
per acre.-Cleburne Herald.
Farmers should prepare to fight the
boil worm as recommended by Prof.
Malley in Farm and Ranch OF July
18th. County papers would be doing
the farmers service by reproducing
that article in full.-F'arm 81 Ranch.
The war department., we are inform
ed, wants 1000 bronchos for Gen. Otis.
These animals will be purchased ana
shipped from San Francisco. Before
these animals reach the Philippine is
lands the fishes of the Pacific will
know how horse meat tastes.-Ex.
The razor-bRck hog ie out of date,
because he is slow as a money-maker.
He is q superb rustler, and in health
and activity be is unexceiled; he fat
tens slowly, but accumulates flesh In
such Just proportions of fat and lean,
that dis bacon is unexcelled.-Ex,
Farmers in the vicinity of Thatcher,
Arizona, have cut and threshed their
grain and are now engaged In planting
corn on the same land that they cut
grain off of few days ago. Farming is
profitable when two crops can be raised
in one season on the same pi- ce OF land.
Tucson Citizen.
The Grayson county, Texas, Oat crop
Is turning out much better in some sec
tions than in others. It seems tina: the
later sowing of oats is yielding the bet
Fer crop. The earlier sowing did not
make SO good q stand as the crop sown
later with these was more moisture,
and in consequence the oats came up q
poorer stand.-Denison Herald.
The use of commercial fertilizers
alone will impOverish any soil by grad
ually working out of 1t the humus. In
com bination with green manurlng or
barpyard mapures they may be used
proftsbly; but the surest plan is to go
rot ate crops as to prevent loss of plant
IOO0. COWpeaS are GQ6 U6sG pl6QG lOr
this purpose in the south.-Ex.
During the year 1898 more than
$500, 900, 900 were paid 70 American
dairymen for tie products of the cow
other than beef. This makes dairying
easily the most important industry in
the country. How much of this i'm
mense sum was earned by Texas cows.
for lack of statistics, we cannot deter
mine, but it is certainly not 10 per cent
of what it may be made.-Ex.
Experiments made at the New
Hampshire experiment station give the
cost of raising a calf to the age of
thirteen months at S2S.31. This ip-
cludes only five months pasture at 81.
On a Texas farm we would pasture the
calf all the year except the toughest
weather, when we would have some
good hay for it and it would hardly
know the difference in seasons. AS
sooD as it was old enough to eat grass
We world give it all it could eat: and
the cost would be about eight dollars.
Then we would Craze it few months
longer, and then feed it cotton seed
me al and huils, about $3.50 worth, and
sell it at 1000 pounds weight at Al
cents, and call it S35 profit, and if we
had enough of that sort, we would
think we were doing pretty well our
seif-Farm and Ranch.