El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-22
Farm and
Ranch.


Tyler, Texas, is shipping strawber,
ries north in carload lots.
The spring wool shearing is nov In
full blast on many western ranches.
Denver will be called upon to enter
tain the gstherin of the Nation al
Farmers congress In 1900
Agricultural lsborers are becoming
so scarce in England that $3.50 per
week is paid for good farm hands.-Ex.
change.
One of the business men of Las Cru
ces, N. NJ, has planted 300 acres OF
tomatoes. He has a canning factory
that employs $50 people for three
months each year.-Exchange.
Cotton can no longer be classed as
Texas only staple crop. Corn is as
much king now as is cotton. This year
will see Texas leading the union in
corn shipments.-Halletso Re
cord.
A Mexican blowing at Floresville for
Conrad Lux steerd the pillow horse into
4O-foot we'll. 1t was considered i'm
possible to get the horse out and he
was shot and the we'll filed up.-Ex-
change.
1t is only in growing special high
priced crops that a farmer can afford
to purchase manure. In all other cases
it should be made at home
that is to say, as one of the products
of the farm.-Farm & Ranch.
Now is the time to diversity your
tatoes and sorghum, which will cut
off from the size of the cotton crop and
give you surplus of things to bring
to town, even if you get very little for
them.-Ex.
The first shipment of strawberries
this season from Lindale, Smith cOun-
ty, Texas, contained $50 siX-gallOn
crates, packed in a refrigerator car
and consigned to Cleveland, o. The
same day $50 crates were shipped by
express.-Ex.
The truck growers of South Texas
sre making larger shipments of veget-
ables than ever before and the business
ia increasing all the time. Near Sin
ton alone we are told there are over
eighteen hundred acres in watermelons.
-Yoacum Times.
With another big corn crop and the
wonderful pork making power of this
country, look out for generally low
befall this years corn crop packers can
say good-by to 3t-cent hogs for long
time.-Exchauge. i
1t is said by experienced poultrymen
that the eggs of young turkey hens sell
dom hatch strong paults, the first batch
of eggs being not worth using for
Matching: the second but little better. |
Eggs from turkey hens2 and years |
old are the best of al.-Exchsnge.
Last year California produced 1900 |
tons of beet sugar; this year an output
of 70, 600 tons is promised. The sugar |
beet Industry is found to be q most |
profita BILE one by California farmers. |
There is vastly more money in 1t than |
in raising wheat.-Denver Stockman.
The Galveston Tribune calls atten-
tion to the fact that some of the Texas
coast Countries have been realizing as
much as $4OO per acre from rawber-
ries, or clean net of 5000. 1t were
we'll If other owners of land would
follow in the: rake of these orchardists.
Develop your little pstches.-Dalla as
Time s-Herald.
The best way to eradicate weeds in
pasture is by moving. When and how
often the moving should be done will
depend on the kinds of weeds we wish
fore forming seeds. AS some weeds
will continue to come and bear seeds
up to the first frost, it will be necessary
TO continue the campaign until late in
the fall.-Ex.
It is no trick at all to raise 500 pounds
If tobacco on an acre of the cut over
ands of East Texas, and it is just as
Easy to sell it at 80 cents per pound.
This would give gross value to the :
product of each acre of $3.50, and after
$50 per acre for cultivation
he planter will have 500 net. Six
ent cotton can't touch tobacco grow
ng; nevertheless cotton land is sale
bile at $50 per acre, while tobacco land
nay be bought at from So to S5 per
Journal.
A man living within half a mile of
be corporate limits of Denison raises
yer $500 worth of lettuce on a hotbed
4x36 feet. He sells lettuce all the
ear round. Every sprig of lettuce
hat is used in Denison might be rails
d here, aud the supply had the year
on d; and, indeed, Denison lettuce
hight be shipped north in the winter
eason. People looking out for some
hing for profitable investment might
1vestigate this with proft.-Denison
[erald.
Half a bale of cotton per acre at 5
ents per pound will bring $3.50, and
ne seed about S1.75-$1425 for the
ield of one acre. The picking will Z
ost 1915, and raising the CROP, gin
ing and hauling to market will cost
bout $500. This leaves q profit of ,
2 so. If, by selection of seed, better
and cultivation, bale per
ere is made, the corresponding profit =
ill be about $1,000, or nearly five i
mes as much. Every farmer who $