The Eddy current., 1899-03-25
PASTURE AND Farm.

J. =. Light shipped IN ono day from
Waxahscbic TO Dallas $500 dozen eggs.
Abost 1000 acres viii be planted this
spring ln watormelons IN san patrlcio
sounty.
Word a Son shipped four cars oi
corn-ied hogs from Hllsboro TO san
Francisco.
Some farmers IN Bee county say corn
s. doing better than they have ever
known lt this early IN the season.
sInton. Boc county. which shipped
twenty-five cars Of watcrmcl1ns last
year. expects 20 double this this SUM
uor.
Andy Armstrong Jr. of Cotulla has
sold 20 W. o. llalsol a Son of Vinlta,
] r., 600 yoarllng steers. private terms.
April delivery.
The executive committee Of tho Cow
boys Reunion have decided 10 have
their reunion Tor 1899 at Abilene. in
stead of Haskell
a report from san Angelo says that
Hill a Palmer OF san Antonio have
bought in the former city $50 900
pounds of wool IN the warehouse at
SM cents
Tho Texas railroad commission has
announced that hy the ncw grain ta.lf.
effective March 10. the i2is cents corn
rn'os from Texas points TO Galveston
are restored.
There u report that pnrturlcnt
fever ls killing sheep about Lone Oak.
~ Rains county and that a number OF
young cattle In the same section have
died o. blacklcg
Entpmologlst Howard Of the national
department ~ agriculture. says that
the Insects found on blood weeds NJ
foabum and sent him are not the
Mexican boil wceyli
II Is conceded that the nFs NJ Alvin
arc Killed to the ground. But II is
clalGlod by experienced growers that
they will nprout ont from the roots ana
bear a good crop this year
All the members ~ the Truck Grow
ors' association az Flatonla have re-
eoiyed potato. melon and other seed,
and heye gone 20 planting. II re-
CURED three carloads of potatoes 20 nm
tbs associations ordors for seed.
8. J. Van Raub Of Van Rauh pur.
ea.med 0i j n. Hodges o. Bandora a
carload OF hogs. which ne will feed at
HIS ranch a while before placing on tho
market. They are a fine lot Of younR
hogs. averaging about i3O pounds.
Tho city OF Moody claims 10 be the
h.nner egg town of Texas 10 lts size.
the merchants there having bought
1900 dozen from tho the producers In
one day, the price paid bdng Q cents,
which IS ti35 paid TO farmers for egea.
John Scarborough and lew Hall
shipped four carloads Of bulls from
Wortham 90 Chicago. ana next day
they shipped ten carloads more 10 tho
same market. Both OF these shin.
menis went out from Corslcana over
tho Cotton Belt road.
Tho Oklahoma Farmers Mutual
Indemnity Insurance company. M El
Reno, has been chartered. lts pur-
poso Is TO mutually insure the property
OF ~ members. grain IN bins. Dtackcd
and growing wheat 1.-Two stock and
buildings. against hail. nre wind. etc.
J. y. spragIns and leo Johnson o,
tho Indian Territory purchased from
John and Al Watkins Of the Era com.
munity near Gainesville. thiriy.ays
head of Durham bulls The prlces
paid were quite large. ana yet salts.
factory TO both parts. aud evidence
the good results from raising ins
cattle.
Webb & Hall Of Albany purchased
1900 one. two and throe-ycar-old steers
from judge J. A. Matthew Of Fort
Worth Il is stated that this bunch o.
steers are well graded native white.
face. Both parties say that the prices
paid are IN excess OF last years prices.
There a on exhibition IN drug
store at beaumont a plg having eight
legs There we're ten pigs IA one ne
Ter, but tho mother pig. evidently
thinking this particular Offspring was
TOO 'hogglsh" with ita double supply OF
legs. killed a.
About thirty bales OF cotton we're
brought 20 waxahsehlc IN farm wagons
one day last week. The men stated
that they had just gone over their cot.
ton fields. and the few bales brought IN
BY each was a result Of close picking.
The only place IN tue United states
where tea Is grown FOR commercial
purposes ia al summeryllle. s. G..