El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-10
} Farm and
Ranch.

reported excellent.
Corn is being sold at the rate of 1000
bushels per day at Georgetown.
W. L. McCarver of Denison raised
seventy.seven pound watermelon.-Ex.
w. D. Belt carried to Waxshachie
few day ago the first open boil of cotton
this seasOn.--Ex.
The farmers of Texas and the Indian
Territory have raised more money pro-
ducing crops this year than ever be-
fore. -DenisOn Herald.
A peculiar worm that eats grass and
weeds has made its appearance in the
Whitemound neighbOrhoOd. Grsyson
county.-Farm and Ranch.
The new departure in wheat against
cotton has resulted in making Waxa
hacEie wheat center. The receipts
up 60 few days ago were 195, 900 bush
els.-DenisOn Herald.
Galveston received her first bale of
cotton, lS99-1900 crop, the other day.
1t came from jackson county, and will
be sold at auction or the Galveston ex
change.-TeXas StOckmap.
J. r. Colgin of Rowland, Collins
county. raised an average of thirty
four and one-twelfth bushels of wheat
this year.-Corsicena Sun.
Lockhart's first bale of cotton for
the season was marketed the other
day. It was bought by Mr.. James G.
Blanks, local buyee, at 1-Sc and
premium of SIS. The cotton was rails
ed on the farm of Mr.. Joe Masur, near
town, by German named Wolff. was
ginned by Mr.. j. II. Wick and weighed
500 pounds. Register.
The watermelon crop of eastern Den
ton county is immense. The principal
market for the growers of that section
is Mckinney, into which constant
stream of canvas-cOvered wagons, load
ed with. tn e product, can be seen going
all the time. As many as fifty of these
wagons have been counted at one tim.
on the public square OF the town.-Ex.
The watermelon crop of Denton
county is Enthusiastically large, and the
fruit is being brought into the city in
such quantities that it is becoming q
drug on the market. One shown here
today weighed II pounds, while those
weighing from 35 to IS pounds were
frequent. Large ones can be bought
for five, ten or fifteen cents each
Elk.
The cotton boil weevil has appeared
in Wharton county. Mr. Robert Hous-
ton, who travelled over considerable
extent OF the county, says they are 10
be found in innumerable quantities.
The stalk is apparently healthy, but
the young fruit is punctured, and it
will take but q few days OF clear
weather for the insect to spread over
a wide eXtent.-EX.
j. A. Smith, living one mile south Of
Denton, showed limb of q Golden
D. ~
was clustered almost like grapes. On
the limb two feet in length there
were no less than seventy plums and
all the trees are alike, and so thick is
the fruit they have to be proppsd up to
keep the weight from breaking them
News.
A gentleman returned from Rem
river bottom farms to Paris reported
that he saw cotton fields with the rows
eight feet Bpart aud the branches OF
the plants locked from end to end Of
the row. There is more than bale !
per acre now in al ght on that farm and |
the owner says he expects to gather
1000 pounds of seed cotton from each |
Herald
The prevailing hot weather is prov
ing to be very beneficial 10 the farm |
ers near Mckinney. There was some !
S-A C-lcab JLi5 CObglA1 fsOA-0 lC ~ JAtCN I
oy the bOll worms, but the hot sun is
such fear. Threshiug is
progressing ST a rapid rate and the
prospects for sthe heaviest crop ever
marketed in Collin county grows
righter.-Bonhem News.
The Lion county Fruit and Vege-
able Growers association is making
to plant several hundred
.cre5 next season, is having been fully
demonstrated this year that fruit and
can be successfully grown
lere. This place could have shipped
everal cars of melons and cantelOupes,
nut was unable to get cars on account
Y the crop coming on in time of the
ysshouts on the ailroads.-Dallas
News.
There has been a marked increase in
he almond crop this year It is
stimated that a. the end OF the season
he amount will be twice as great as
last year. This is due partly
o an increase in the bearing of old
rees, due mostly to the many new
which are bearing their first
rop. The variety of the new almonds
iffers from those of last year. They
re paper shells and II there is any
n the color.-Republican
The Waller County Fruit and Vege-
able Shippers association was organ
zed at Huntsville recently, with the
officers elected: President,
=. w. Oliphint; vice president, F. H.
Foster: secretary and treasurer, John
). Williams. Mr.. Sells, representing
he American Refrigerator Transit
ompany, and Mr.. Clarridge of Inter-
Iational and Great Northern publica-
ion, were present and addressed the
Meeting at length. A large number of
armers, merchants and others were
resent, add a great amount of interest
vas manifested in the meeting.-Dal-