El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-19
Farm and
Ranch.

X 0ASAs
| The strawberry crop around MiDeola
was damaged some by the rains.
| A large mum Der of Irish potatoes are
being shipped north from Texas
poiuts.
Ford cantelopes shipped from coast
| finest on the market.
| Plenty of roasting ears of corn are
now on the market at Peeville, Texas.
The prospects for good corn crop are
fattering.
| Some of the farmers in the storm de.
vastated district around Clarksville
| Texas are blowing their cotton and
will replsnt.
Texas farmers should grow less cot
| ton in the aggregate, but more cotton
| per acre. thus releasing more acres for
i, other and really more pro6tabl crops.
The Arkansas potato growers are
| coming to Texas to find warmer soil
| and a more certain crop. They are
| welcome and they will find that Texas
| is plastered all over with sites for po-
tato patches.-San Antonio Light.
There is no use in wasting time de-
termining the extent of the Texas cot
ton crop. This state can raise all the
cotton that the country consumes and
then raise sheol and not half try.-San
Antonio Light.
Rio Grande valley hay is going to
be valuable again this year, the farm
ers say: Last year the sales of alfalfa
hay in this valley paid off dozens OF
mortgages. This years sales will be
all ''to the good. "-Albuquerque Citi-
zen.
The area for corn and other grains is
| materially increased in Kansas this
year. An official of the Atchison
| winter wheat is q conservative es-
innate of the yield.-Denver Stock
man.
A carload of wheat from Waco, Tex
as, the first of the season, sold at Chi
cago few days ago at cents per BUSH
ell above the regular market price. 1t
graded No. 2 red winter and weighe ed
81 pounds per measured bushel.- Farm
81 Ranch.
Mr.. T. G. Harrison of New York
city, who with his brother owns about
$50, 900 acres of land in Taylor county
and have thereon IL, 900 head of cattle,
says there have been wonderful
changes in western Texas since his
visit in 1873.
The extremely cold weather and late
| spring seem to have had comparatively
little effect on the Texas stra berry
crop, and reports from the growing dis
tricts show enormous shipments. Their
flavor, also, is fully up to the usual
standpoint, likewise their size.
For the first time in the history of
Texas supplies are going direct from
Interior points to the West Indies.
The shipments, SO far, have been con-
fined to poultry and potatoes. A large
shipment of potatoes is about to start
from Waco to Cuba by way of Calves
ton.-Dallas News.
II. w. Blaisdell,, of Phoenix, last
Wednesday made the first shipment of
ripe figs of the season. The crop is un-
usually large and as these are the first
figs in the market they are in great
demand. Mr.. Blaisdell is also shipping
apricots in large quantities, some of
them going as far 10 The City of Mex
lcO.-Ex.
The ranchmen of Montana have de-
cIded that alfalfa Will make no more
Than half q crop this Year. The Sc
we're winter of 1898 and spring of 1883
have been too much for Inc plant.
Conditions, however, have demonstrate
eu The fact that the Older seeded fields
Ere the ones to be depended on for the
crop.-Ex.
1t has been demonstrated at the Kat
Sac Experiment Station that alfalfa ls
an excellent food for hogs, either green
or dry. Alfalfa hay WAS fed to hogs
with excellent results. The first ex-
pertinent showed a gain Of S6S pounds
of pork per ton of alfalfa hay, after de-
Quoting the gain resulting from the
grain fed.-F'arm 81 Ranch.
A prominent potato grower of Fort
Smith, in Paris reports the potato crop
almost failure there, owing to the
recent rains rotting them. Digging
yielding 200 bushels per acre is turning
only forty bushels. Two leading Fort
Smith growers have secured lands IN
this county near Arthur to secure the
ad van tsge of an early market the sea-
son here being two weeks ahead of
Fort Smith.-Houston Post.
The Year Book of the Department of
gives the average yield of |
corn in Texas for 1898 at % bushels per |
acre. This is about the average of any |
other southern state and two-tenths |
above the general average, Florida |
and Georgia being 9 bushels each.
The same authority gives the average |
Of wheat in Texas at 14.S bushels per
acre, also more than the average of any
other southern state, and one-half be |
low the average of all the states. Cali
fornia, of whose wheat production we
have heard so much, only averaged
,. l bushels per acre. In oats the aver
age for Texas was 29.7 bushels, being
l.3 bushels above the general average.
Farm 81 Ranch.