El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-18
Farm and
Ranch.

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The corn crop in Wood county, Tex
IS, promises to be an abundant yield.
The range in Stonewall county. Tex,
is fine and stock water rlentiful.-Ex.
Over 100 cars of wheat have been
shipped from Garland, Tex, this year.
Elk.
The farmers of Navarro county, Tex
as. are rushing their old corn to mar
ket.-Ex.
Brisbin Bros. of Alvin, Texas, have
shipped over 500 crates of peaches
from their orchard this season.
Elk.
On the first the Mercantile bank of
Yucatan showed assets of 81, 712, 1884 81
and had 81, 475, 1878 of its bank bills in
circulation.
A battery of artillery has been re-
ce1ved to be used in the campaign
against the rebellious Mayo Indians
In Yucatan.-Ex.
Fruit growers around Lindale were
surprised at the yield of the peach crop,
1t being much larger than they expect
ed.-Bonham News.
Large quantities of peaches, cants-
!oupes and 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 Brentwood, Texas, the
other day for II cents per pound, the
highest price paid for Texas wool
for the last seven or eight years.
Ex.
During May there were &c, 1879 bales
of 8enequen exported from Progreso
weighing 5,015.176 Kilograms. The
last quotation was % reales the arroba
in Merida and 224 at Progreso.- Ex-
change.
At SprinRtown, Parker county, Tex,
the wheat and oats have been only
slightly damaged by rains, but farmers
are uneasy about the number of worms
and grasshoppers at work on the corn,
cotton and grass crops.-Ex.
The watermelon crop of Wise county,
Texas, is something immense. A great
mum Der are being shipped to the north
ern markets. Mrs. John Spencer. q
farmer living two miles west from De-
catur, shipped two cars to Colorado
Elk.
A number of trotting and running
horses are on the grounds of the Den
ton Texas Blooded Stock and Fair as
sociation in training for the racing con-
tests OF the approaching fair, and the
track is being put In excellent condi-
and Ranch.
In some sections of Grsyson county,
Texas, there is a great deal of un-
threshed grain In the fields yet. The
unusual acreage in grain and the fact
that the production per acre was Is
per cent greater than expected left the
grain raisers without adequate thresh-
Ing facilities.-Ex.
F. 8. Boomer, q farmer living three
miles east of Pilot Point, Denton coun-
ty Texas, has $50 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
cO.--Denison Herald.
Six hundred fine mules have been
crossed at Laredo, bought and raised
In Nuoes and Duval counties, under
with this government. These
animals will be shipped on steamers
from the port of Tampico. Several hun
dred more will pass through In a few
day for the same destination. Eek.
Hon. A. w. Childers was in Gaines
Vile, Texas, recently. He had finished
threshlng his wheat and oats and said
the former averaged sixteen bushels to
the acre and the latter forty-two. All
crops are hourishing in his neighbor-
hood and corn will average forty BUSH
els to the acre and cotton looks splen-
did.-Ex.
The Industrial company of Orizaba
has declared dividend of nine dollars
per share for account of the profits of
the current year payable on and after
the 10th inst. Besides this dividend
the company has just purchased the
old Cocolapam cotton factory, also near
Or1zsba which belonged to the Escan-
don and Arrange family of this CITY
Elk.
The Hotel Guardiola, which only
three months ago was bought by q
company organized in Mexico City,
announces dividend of one dollar per
share, payable on and after the 3lst
Instant. This is the first regularly in
corpOrated hotel company in Mexico,
Ind 1t commences to pay dividends
ninety days after starting the hotel for
account.-Ex.
J. E. Lovelace, q farmer one and q
half miles east of Sterling, I. T.: has q
,rop, the first of its kind in that Sec
lion of the territory. It is crop of
broom corn. Last spring Mr.. Love-
ace bedded fifteen across for cotton on
mis- farm and got discouraged later on
and decided not to plant the ground
n 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 he has fifteen acres of
rs fine broom corn as ever grew in any
and has COW started bending