El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-15

} Farm and
Ranch.

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Brown county reports plenty of corr
and hay.-Ex.
Jones county's corn crop is said to b.
immense.-EX.
Dry grass causes fear of prairie fire!
in many counties.-Ex.
Rice harvesting is under full head
way in Jefferson county, Tex.
Mexican June corn is standing the
drouth we'll in Midland county.
The drouth badly injured apples in
the vicinity of Denison, Tex.-Ex.
Dangerfeld, Texas, has organized a
fruit and vegetable growers associa-
ton.
Kansas will use no corn for fuel this
winter, unless it be in liquid FORM
Denver Stockman.
It is stated tn at in one Texas county
cotton has shed everything except the
mortgages on fisherman Register.
Interest in Angora goat raising is in
creasiBg in the west and southwest
portions of the Lone Star state.-Dep-
ison Herald.
The sixteenth annual fair at the
Guadalupe Stock and Fair association
will be held at Seguin Oct. 19, 20 and
21.-Bonham News.
Childress county, Tex, farmers have
put up this season the largest crop of
forage and bread stuff ever raised in
that county.-The Star.
Commissioner Holmes of the United
States agricultural department is in
the state looking after cotton pros
pects.-Denison Herald.
One hundred and eight degrees was
more than many hogs near Rush
Springs, l. T.. could stand, and many
fatalities have occurred.-Ex.
The Leon County Fruit and Vegeta-
BILE Growers association is making
preparations to plant several hundred
acres next year.-Sherman Register.
A Little Rock statistician estimates
that Arkansas cotton crop on the up
lands is damaged by the drouth SO per
cent and on the bottom lands 30 per
cent.-Cleburne News,
It makes fellow feel tired to think
of all the eggs in cold storage that will
be. put on the market about Christmas
at a net profit to the holders of some
thing like 10 cents per dozen.-Ex.
James McKane of kaufman county
has closed contract with Terrell
firm to deliver them 1000 bushels of
Irish potatoes that have been raised by
him this season. Yorktown News.
Despite dry weather Bonhsm lady
is successfully growing two eucalyptus
and one pepper tree from California,
royal ponciana from Florida and a
cape jasmine from south Texas.-Ex.
A number of Brazos county, Texas,
farmers will plant alfalfa next year.
P. E. Mummy, a farmer of that county,
has secured satisfactory results and
will increase his acreage.-Denison
Herald.
It ia stated that all the irrigated
farms and gardens in the vicinity Of
Waco are looking fresh and vigorous.
The gardeners are selling fresh let
tuce, pears, beans, tomatoes and green
corn at fair prices, with q ready sale.
.BOuham News.
1t ia sometimes objected that increas- |
ing the use of corn for food for man
will decrease the demand for wheat. |
Were this true, it would still be a
question whether we had not better |
suffer some decline of exports of the
crop in regard to which we have such |
Gloss competition if we could thereby |
increase the demand for the crop which |
We can produce more cheaply than any |
other nation. But it is not probable |
that this result Will follow. More pro-
oably corn or corn and wheat flours
mixed would take the place of rye and
oarley-the black bread grains of |
Europe. The greatest practical diff
,ulty in the matter would seem to be in
Keeping up exports to supply any large
lemand when we had short crops. No
hing probably would more certainly
md quickly bring good results the n
vinp1Europesns an opportunity to see
nd cas- American corn dishes at great