El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-15
Farm and
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Crops in the Chickasaw nation are
reported fine.
titles of wheat.-EX.
Wheat of the 1899 crop was delivered
in Socorro last week.
Many carloads of Irish potatoes
have been shipped from Gainesville,
Texas.
The agricultural department is to
introduce the Smyrna fig into Cslifor
nia.-Ex.
Watermelons and tomatoes pour into
Marshall, Texas, and command good
prices.
Richardson, Dallas county, Texas, in
one day shipped out rwenty-one car
loads of wheat.-Ex.
Over $4,000 worth of chickens have
been sold In NacogdOches, Texas. this
year.-Cleburne Herald.
It is estimated that the crop of grain
in the Salt River valley this season is
Is, 600, 900 pounds.-Ex.
The Gonzales, Texas, truck growers
are shipping out cargo of waterme-
Ions daily.-Yorktown News.
From four to five carloads of toma-
toes we're shipped daily from Smith
county, Texas, last week. Elk.
The statement that north Texas can
not raise as fine apples ss any place on
earth is q canard.-Denison Herald.
Texas will have to build more cribs
this year so che can take care of all the
corn left after feeding the rest of the
earth.-Ex.
France, 1t is estimated, will produce
1856, 900, 900 bushels of wheat this year,
against $50, 900, 900 bushels last year
Albuquerque.Citizen.
Satisfactory financial returns have
been received from the Irish potatoes
shipped by the Camp County, Texas.
Fruit aud Vegetable association.-Ex.
There never was q finer outlook for
corn than at present in this country.
The prospect is simply immense and
the crop is almost out Of all danger
Elk.
next five years rs they have in the
past two there will not be any ques-
tion about Texas being an empire
Elk.
Cotton is looking we'll and so far there
have been very few reports of any dam
age. The disaster in south Texas ought
to have some effect on the price, too
Elk.
Wheat within a radius of eventonee
miles of Milford, Ellis county, will
average seventeen bushels to the acre
and oats forty-6ve bushels.-Sherman
Register.
A COW belonging to S. A. Dupree of
Waco gave birth to triplets all cow
calves. They are lively lot and look
like they will live and grow up to be
fine cows.-Ex.
The fruit and vegetable growers of
Henderson, Texas, formed an associs
ton Saturday last, and will work to
secure the best prices for their pro-
duce. They will ship to distant points.
-BOnham News.
The Salt river valley, Arizona, will
have double the water melon crop this
year that it has ever had before. Ship
ments in car load lots are being mad g
to Denver, Albuquerque, Jerome and
other points.-Journal Miner.
The peach crop around Eddy, N. M,
is turning out much better than was
thought few weeks ago and many
orchards will give heavy yield. The
bulk of the fruit is being shipped to
Dallas and Fort Worth.-Ex.
p A. McHugh of Cleveland, O., re-
presenting one of the largest commits
sion houses in the west, has been in
Beeville buying watermelons, and he
says that section Is destined to become
one of the greatest melon-growing dis
tricts of the United States or other
country. Herald.
The watermelon crop of Texas this
season has psralyZed the estimates of
the lightning calculators and side
tracked all previous records, and the
man who cannot appreciate q juicy,
redribbed Texas watermelon Is not
long for this earth.-Dallas News.
Hay is selling for more money today
tn an it has done for ten years at this
season of the year, says the Stafford
With alfalfa selling at So so
and wheat at S1.35 during the
time of year that it is most plentiful,
indicates unprecedented prosperity for
the farmers in that valley.-Prospec-l
tor.
The cotton crop of Texas, with the
exception of the flooded district, ia
quite promising, but there are many
Contingencies that might happen to it
between this and picking time, but
the spectators will estimate the crop
on the prospects and base the price |
upon tie same. The cotton market
ought to be controlled by the law of
supply and demand and not by vision
airy spectators to the injury of the
producers.-Texas Democrat.
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