Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-01-25
PASTURE AND FARM.

Grain in Llano county is reported
short.
There is double the acreage Of wheat
in the Greenville section this year
than last.
Richard Conley, well known breed
er of blooded sheep at Marshall, Mich,
has been visiting in the state.
AT San Angelo G. B. Bell sold sew
enty-fve head of yearlings to j. M.
Shannon at s17 per head.
B. F. Darlington of San Antonio has
sold to Sheriff R, E. White of Austin
registered Hereford calf for $3.50.
The rainfall of last week will prove
of great benefit to the agricultural and
stock interests of the state.
B. W. Ferris, prominent citizen of
Waxahachie, intends establishing a
ranch somewhere in Western Texas
Eleven cars of cattle were shipped to
Terrell to be fattened for northern
markets. They were sent from West
Texas.
r. B. Butong of Sonora, Sutton
county, has just put to feed at Ennis
5000 head of sheep from the DEVILS
river country.
B. F. Darlington of San Antonio re-
ceived telegram from A. A. Bates of
Irwin, o., saying he had consigned to
him one carload of registered Durham
and Red Polled bulls.
Parties have been at Farmersville
with view of establishing cotton
seed oil mill and have met with con-
siderable encouragement.
Moore & Allen of San Antonio have
shipped to that city two carloads of
grass COWS from their ranch at Stand
ard.
w. j. Mcintyre of Alpine has pur-
chased the M. Holff ranch near Mara
thon for $4,000. The Holff cattle will
be removed to the Pecos ranch.
Mr. ]. Baker Of Cuero sold to A. G.
Kennedy of Beevile 1900 steers, Is and
3s, at $40 and $3.50 per head, spring
delivery.
AT meeting of the Melon Growers
association at Pearsall a few days ago
it was learned that the members would
probaly plant 1000 acres in melons this
year.
Farmers of Cherokee county are in
splendid circumstances. There is more
corn. syrup and meat in the county
than have been known for several
years.
Hogs and cattle are being shipped
from Norman, Ok, now in large num-
hers. There will be shipped from that
place in the next four months not less
than 10000 head of cattle.
Texas sent 5O.S06 fewer cattle to
Kansas City in 1898 than in the pre-
vious year. The decrease from the In
dian Territory was 27125; from Mis-
souri,, 25,143; from Kansas, 1906.
Horses in Washington county are
dying of a disease resembling blind
staggers. The disease comes on sud-
denly and in almost every case proves
fatal. About twenty horses have died.
l.. Peyton, a Kansas City man, says
is saturated with gasoline and thrown
1T saturated with gasoline and thrown
into the hole inhabited by prairie dogs
and the hole then closed by packing
with dirt, it will kill them.
The fine diffusion plant known as the
Calasieu sugar refinery was sold at
Lake Charles, La, by Master Commits
sioner T. T. Taylor to ]. C. Morris,
president of the Canal bank of New
Orleans, for $25,5OO. The plant was
sold under mortgage
w. Fl. Jennings, one of the most
prominent stockmen and heaviest oper-
ators in the southwest, whose home
has been at Pearsall, although much of
his time has been spent in San Anto-
MO, has moved his family to the lat
ter city.
John T. Lutz of Meridian, Miss, pur.
chased of D. & A. oppenheimer of San
Antonio, 1900 feeding steers, IS and As
past. at $27 per head, immediate de-
livery They were sent to Meridian
and will be sold to butchers in that
section.
A mixed car OF Durham and Here