Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-06-07
PASTURE AND FARN.

Price Simmons shipped two carloads !
of fat hogs to Los Angeles, Cal.
Boil weevil are reported as doing
some damage in Bee county cotton
fields.
D. c. Cogdell of Granbury shipped a
carload of hogs to Fort Worth and
sold them there.
The wheat and oat crops in Eiath
county have improved nicely the past
two weeks and fair crops are assured
1t is estimated that the cotton acre
age of Texas has been reduced this
year 7.9 per cent from that of last
year.
One hundred and fifty persons were
engaged a few days ago by Grayson
county farmers to chop cotton. Farm
ers are busily engaged at this occu-
patton in many counties.
Implement dealers at Hillsboro ce-
port harvesting machinery in great de-
mand and have and are selling many
binders particularly.
Cotton stand is fine in Erath county.
Ernest Hines of Ellis county cuts
his wheat at night. He says he can
do as much work and the atmosphere
is cooler.
The crop prospect for Ellis county
was never brighter. Cotton choppers
are in demand. There is a decrease
in cotton acreage, but this is made up
in grim, which promises large yields.
The second meeting of the Guada-
lupe Truck Growers association was
held at Seguin. constitution and
bylaws were adopted and officers
elected.
Some farmers around Yoakum say
that If the weevil develops to any
great extent in time to plant any other
crop, much cotton in that part of the
county will be plowed up and substi-
tuted with something else.
Crops in Taylor county were never
better at this season of the year. There
is considerable growth OF weeds, but
they are being thinned out by the
farmers. The cotton acreage is about
equal to that of last year, while there
is an increase of corn and other crops.
Fine rains have fallen Ground Floy-
dada, and, notwithstanding the con-
tinued winter and extremely late grass,
stock of all kinds is now in fine shape
and doing well. Grass was never bet-
ter at this season of the year.
The wool-scouring mill commenced
work on the spring clip at Colorado
City with almost 100000 pounds O.
wool on hand to start with. Five car
loads of staple came in from Pecos
lately. The price is looking up little,
and sheepmen are feeling better
Some miscreant entered the large
potato patch belonging to Mr. w. H.
Sullivan at Flatonia and pulled up AMI
destroyed almost half an acre of pota-
toes. The Truck Growers association
offer SIS for the arrest of the guilty
party or parties
The stockmen of Crockett county, at
meeting held at Ozona, effected an
organization for the determination of
wild animals. Rewards for destroying
such animals are to be paid as fol-
lows: For each lobo, SIS; lobo cubs
up to size of coyote, $40; gray wolf,
$40; coyote, $3.50; panther, $40; wild
cat, 81.
No cotton is now being cultivated
in the Pecos valley, as under a system
of irrigation other crops have proved
more profitable. Alfalfa, sugar beets
and fruit growing. together with cattle
raising form the principal avenues of
profit there, and to these may be add
ed the culture of celery and asparagus
on large scale for shipment.
A good, soaking rain in Moore coun-
ty has been of great benefit to farm
ers and the acreage of cultivated land
in that section is being considerably
increased. Cattle are doing we'll but it
is said that the calf crop will be small
Large shipments of cattle are being
made from southwestern Louisiana to
Indian Territory. A Vincent and T.
d. Woody shipped 600 head from Edger-
ly to Chickasha, where they will be fed
for market next fall.
The straw on oats In the Midlothian
country will not be long this year but
the heads are ordinarily large and will
yield about fifty bushels per acre.
Volunteer oats are in prime conditions;
are ripening rapidly. Harvesting is
cOmmeuring