El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-29
PASTURE AND FARM.
Wheat around Midlothian looks

well.
Wheat and oats are doing well
around Margaret
Several consignments of pecans and
peas have been recently shipped from
Sinton to north texas points.
Will and Bert Belcher of Henrietta
have purchased from their father 1900
head of cattle in LaSalle county.
John T. Germany of Brentwood
bought 300 two-year-old beeves of T.
J. Lewis and w. - Mcclellan at $40.
Messrs. Ferneaux Bros. of Albany
received one train (siXteen cars) Of
steers and stock cattle over the Texas
Central.
besides fifty cars of watermelons will
be the record for Sinton this year, it
is said at that place.
Two hundred and ten stock cars
have been ordered for the next two
or three months in advance to Sinton
for shipment of cattle.
The strawberry crop in the Denison
section of the country has not been
seriously injured by tie cold weather
of the last few days, but has been set
back.
A Grayson county fruit grower says
there will be plenty Of peaches on
Seeding trees, many apples and nu-
merous plums this season in that
county.
w. T. Waggoner of Wise county has
made his father, D. Waggoner, pres
ent of fifteen month old Hereford
bull for which he paid $500. He is one
OF lizards thoroughbreds.
Messrs. Coleman and Blocker of
near Garlic Springs and Armstrong
are on the market in that city in
ample amount. Radishes, in particu-
lar, are quite numerous.
E. H. East, a prominent stockman
of Victoria county, shipped three train
loads of steer cattle to the Territory
from J. ]. Waldin's ranch near Senton,
where he purchased them.
and Jennings of LaSalle, four of the
biggest stockmen in Texas, have join
ed hands in making a gigantic ship
ment of cattle to the Territory. 1t will
take 1000 cars to carry the cattle.
1t is stated that few cattle in the
Alice section are ready for early mar
ket because of scarcity of water and
grass. Shipments from Alice will be
lighter than last year for that reason.
Some Grayson county farmers have
plowed up almost their entire crop OF
wheat because the wind mad laid bare
tn roots of the grain and causd the
plant to die.
Col. Ike T. Pryor has returned to San
Antonio from a weeks trip to Frio
county and while away purchased a
string of some of the best bred and
best known herds of cattle in south
west Texas.
H. w. Mccoy Of Oshkosh, Wis, who
is manager and part owner of one of
the largest and best cattle ranches in
Texas located in Irion and adjoining
counties, was a visitor at Fort Worth
some days ago.
The ground is being cleared for the
new oil mill which is soon to be built
on South Center street, Bonham. The
machinery has been ordered and will
be there in the course of few weeks.
1t will start in with the fall trade
The shipment of gIrden truck from
Corpus Christi by express are rapidly
increasing, notwithstanding the bad
freeze in February and the lack of rain
in that section. A good rain now
would cause the garden truck to roll
out by the carload, for there are acres
and acres of beans, tomatoes, onions,
potatoes, etc, planted.
S. B. Burnett, the we'll known cattle
man Of Fort Worth, returned from
Waco, Groesbeeck and other central
Texas points. 1t is understood that Mr..
Burnett has recently purchased for
his ranch in the Comanche reservation
several thousand one and two-year-
old steers.
Fearing that the corn they had
planted had been ruined by the frost,
some Hood county farmers would take
no chances, so have planted between
the middles. They feel that by pur-
suing this course they will be able to |
count on crop to a certainty.
Corn in Rains county has about |
recovered from the effects of the re- |
cent freeze. Some farmers are plant |
ing cotton. but the bulk of the crop |
will not be planted for week. Most |
every farmer is fixing to plant plenty |
Of forage crops.
Powell Garner who lives naar Ralle