El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-20
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A good rain fell at Mount Pleasant,
Tex, benefting peas and sweet pota-
| toes.-Denison Herald.
Corn crops in Kendall and Kerr coun-
ties, Texas, are better than last year; in
| the latter by 10 per cent.-Ex.
A man who has not prepared his
turnip patch for the seed is sleeping on
| his chance to get greens.
News.
Farmers around Gainesville agree
that this years cotton crop has been
reduced a. least 60 per cent, compared
with last years crop.
Fall tomatoes are beginning to come
in, bringing from SO to IS cents per
one-third bushel crate or basket. The
market will gradually increase.-Texas
Farmer.
The wild plums in the country about
Denison are simply drying up and COM
ing to naught. The dry weather has
been to much for them and has ruined
what might have been good crop.
The corn crop of Bexar county, Tex,
will be about the same as last year, or
slightly less. Corn planted early was
killed by the late frosts, and that re-
planted was injured by drouth.-Ex.
The best time to destroy trees or
vines root and branch is to cut them
down when the sap first begins to show
in swelling buds. and before the buds
open. Numerous experiments with q
great number OF species confirm this
theory. Neither the moon nor the signs
of the zodiac have anything to do with
Tx.
S. 81. Smith, who lives two miles
nf 10
SCISSOR of Jersey beifer yearling that
promises to be dairy prize. She has
already developed the ability to fur
nish milk In Quantities unprecedent-
ed for such q young animal, the dsily
milking being about one gallon. Tho
yearlipg is pasture raised.-Ex.
Cabbage, black-eyed peas, potatoes,
are all being shipped into San Antonio
by the carload. None of the proceeds
stop for one moment in Texas. What
doesn't go to New York City for
freight, goes to California, Michigan
and other northern states. Texas pays
the freight and other charges.-Texas
Farmer.
Grass on 600 acres of the government
experimental grass station near Abb
fire. The portion of the station devot-
ed to cultivation of special varieties
introduced from other countries escap-
ed. All the grass on the portion of
the land where experiments were be-
ing conducted for restoring the ranges
was destroyed by the fre.-Bonham
News.
Fulwiler Bros. of A bilene report
great success in the raising of Colora-
do grass for hay. This grass has not
been introduced into that part of the
gentleman have been raising it for hay
for several years, and find that it grows
well on sandy land. This year they
cut some eighty acres of 1t that aver
aged over two feet in discriminating in
some instances over two tons per acre.
.EX.
We don't know how it Is with Mex
can June corn generally in this section
this season, but this we know: If, with
q continuous drouth since it Was a foot
high, and cold month of excessively
hot weather, it natures ears, it's char
acter as q drouth resister is establish
and the ears all right except the ker-
nels. Before too badly fred 1t would |
have made good silage, but if it fails
TO mature the whole crop will be dis |
appointm ent.-Ex.
The long drouth is cutting off the |
egg crop as we'll as others. The OPP
Dressive heat predisposes hens to leth-
,rgy and unfruitfulness. Another rea-
ION for unproductiveness is the lack of
green food, which has as a rule dissp-
)eared. Fowls will not lay we'll when
deprived of natures vitilizer, grass, or
is equivalent, and these cslsmitous
conditions coming at the beginning of
he annual moult, aud combining their
Malignant force with it, form q can
alienation of circumstances that has
ent up the price of eggs and down the
,roba bility of gathering them in by
,asket full.-Ex.
When pasturing sheep on rape, there
re several points to be guarded. eau
ion is required to avoid bloat and
udden death. First give them very
title. 1t is better to cut and feed un-
IL all have had q taste. After a few
lours they may be turned on the rape I
nd kept there. Lambs become very
ne of these butter-bslls should lie
own in rut or gully they are not
kelly to get up again readily, and If
q their struggles they get all four
eet from under them they will die if
OF rescued. This is not peculiar to
Am bs fat from eating rape, however.
Eek.
1t is ell right to advise people to
row fall chicks for winter cOnsump- !
ion, but it would be more satisfactory !
these authorities would indicate !
efficient source OF fertile eggs for the
urpose. 1t is just now bad time to
ct hens with the expectation of fowls
Or breakfast in December. The hens
re not actively in the egg business,
nd those they do lay are infertile, or
scking those 'indeterminate qualities
nat secure vigorous chicks. Both
axes are more or less dilapidated; the
EMS look slnuanlu and fha ooal1S Saarn | J.