El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-28
Farm and
Ranch.

Quantities of peaches are being ship
ped from Carlsbad, N. MEX.
L. M. Rose carried to Dewitt .
pumpkin that weighed seventy-one
pounds.
A Mr.. McMshan of near Forney will
raise nearly 1000 bushels of onions this
season.-Cleburne Herald.
Tho largest hay crop that has
been produced for years is now being
harvested around Sherman, Tex.
The streets of Dursnt. I. T., are
crowded every day with wagons loaded
with wheat and oats.-Yorktown News.
Around Thatcher, Ariz., the farmers
all have their grain cut and threshec,
and the ground is now being planted
again.-Ex.
Cameron, I. T., has shipped PSI, 600
bushels, or forty-nine oars of Irish po-
tatoes at an average price of 40 cents
per bushel.-Sherman Register.
James N. Bush of near Allen thresh-
ed 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.
sherman Register.
Farmers should note and profit by
considering the difference between
pork fattened on putrid city slops, city
garbage and slaughter-pen offal, and
| those fattened with pure grass and
clean Rrain.-Farm & Ranch.
A pest resem bling the army worm
has appeared in Navarro county in
countless numbers and are causing
much damage. The worm is about an
inch in length. grayish brown in color
and has black shiny head.-Ex.
A great many of the farmers
of Dona Ana county, New
Mexico, are threshinR their grain out
with horses, as they claim that 10 per
cent, the rate charged by the owners
Elk.
It is estimated by those in position
to know whereof they speak that the
year will be the largest ever grown
there. In consequence 1t is thought
many hogs will be fattened this fall
Elk.
The Salt river valley will have
double the water melon crop this year
that it has ever had before. Ship
ments in carload lots are being made
to Denver, Albuquerque. Jerome and
other points.-Tombstone Prospec-
tor.
D. E. Ledbetter, q prominent whole
eale grocer and grain dealer of Ander-
son, S. c., was in Sherman interview
ing grain dealers about oats. He says
the fame of the north Texas oats has
reached the Atlantic coast.-Denison
Herald.
The largest corn crops ever raised
In Texas were in 1895, when there was
produced 107 1906 ZOO bushels, and in
1898. los, 1886 bushels. This is accord
ing to the report of the United States
department of sgricuiture.-Ft. Worth
Register.
Territorial Livestock Inspector Can
telou has been to Greer county, Okla
homa, where he killed q dozen of hor-
ses infected with CHAMBERS, and quaran.
tined nearly 200 animals. The disease
has good start and many valuable an
finals are infected and will doubtless
ldie.-Bonham News.
Two beans we're grown in q Dallas
garden, one measuring thirty-two
inches. the other thirty, in length,
with tremendous pods. M. F. P. Gil
lespie, who raised them, calls them the
'Texas Wonder" and has an abund-
ance of them.-Dallss News.
George Shelton of Corsicans has
lean peanuts in the western suburbs of
that city, the yield of which is phepo-
menal. The vines are nearly two feet
high and the roots are literally loaded
with these nuts.-Corsicsna Sun.
The Irish potato crop of Lamar coun-
ty, Texas, brought the growers an
average OF $3.50 an acre. Between
SIS, 900 and $40, 1000 was paid out in
Paris for the crop, and farmers say
: that the prices this season beat cotton
raising two to one.-Houston Post.
The condition of cotton in the prin-
: c1pal growing states of the staple for
June was: North Carolina. SS: South
D Alabama, 49,: Mississippi, SO: Louisi-
r ana, IS; Texas. SO; Arkansas, 81; Ten
nessee, SS; Oklahoma, IS; Indian Ter
: ritOry, 91.-Ex.
J The Grayson county corn crop ia turn
ing out much better in some sections
than in others. It seems that the
better crop. The earlier sowing did
not make so good stand as the crop
! sown later, when there was more
I moisture, and in consequence the oats
o came up poorer STANDARDIZATION Her
aid.
The largest percentage of profit from
sheep is realized on farms with small
hOcks of from SO to $50 ewes. Such
focks can better be cared for. better
protected against cold and wet weather
. and the lam bs can be better preserved.
t Such flocks should double their num-
bers every year, giving one lamb to one
4 eve, the number extra by reason of
twins making up the loss from lack of