El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-15
Farm and
Ranch.

Straw berries are gradually ripening,
Frost has damaged some of the fruit
in Grant county New Mexico.
New hay from the Salt river valley
has commenced to arrive in Prescott
Exch.
There will be over 100 acres of can
taloupes planted near Troupe, Texas,
this year.-Ex.
Haying is in progress in Graham
county, Arizona, and now alfalfa is
said to bring 81 90 ton.
Runnels county, Texas, expects to
raise large quantity Of grapes and
wstermelons this season.-Exchange
Strawberries are now being shipped
by carloads from all prominent points
in the fruit region of East Texas
Farm & Ranch.
The cotton acreage in the section of
reduced, it is estimated, 20 per cent
this year over last.-Exchange.
Texas raised it's banner crop of corn
last year. but the prospects are that the
acreage will be largely increased this
year and another bumper crop raised.
Exchange.
Considerable attention is being Civ
en- to the cultivation of tobacco this
ers and quite large acreage will be
put in.-Exchange.
Col w Parker Earle, of Roswell,
gives the total acreage in orchards in
Chavez county as nearly 1,50O, one
single orchard four years old, covering
almost 500 acres.-Ex.
A Mexican blowing at Floresville for
Conrad Lux steered the pillow horse into
possible to get the horse out and he
was shot and the we'll filed up.-Ex-
change.
Owing to the continued drought tn e
sgriculturists around Ciudad Juarez
are in danger of losing their wheat
crop. They are anxiously longing for
a rise in the Rio Grande so that they
may irrigate their crops.-Monterey
Globe.
Three thousand acres of land has
been secured around San Antonio,
Texas, for the planting of cana-agria
and the other 1000 acres needed to
secure an extract factory will be secur
ed within the next few Disqualification
Herald.
King Cotton has been knocked out
in North Texas this year. The wealth
er in the spring was SO unfavOrable for
the planting of cotton that the acreage
is largely reduced. A trip to the sur
rounding country will convince anyone
Of this fact.-D snison Herald.
A number of pei sons about Waco,
Texas, are making q decided success of
berry, fruit and vegetable growing by
from wells. The wells are
from thirty TO forty feet deep, and sup
ply sufficient water for each to irrigate
about five acres.-Sherman Register.
The Gainesville Signal says that
farmers were never in better spirits in
Cooke county. Their crop prospects
are as good as they could expect, and
with decrease 10 the acreage of cot
ton and a general diversifcatiOn of
crops they will enter upon an era Of
unprecedented in this coun-
Try.
A SIS 900 land deal was closed at
Ennis, Texas, wherein p. Freeman sells |
% Arch Moore d we'll improved farm |
If 15O acres, two milesaeast of Ennis, |
1t $50 an acre and Mr.. Moore sells to |
Mr.. Freeman a farm of 355 acres near |
Trinity river at $50 an scre.-Ex- |
change.
The farmers of Oklahoma are organ
zlng mutual society to bear each |
,ther's losses by fire, lightning, hail |
md other disturbing elements. It is |
composed of the best farmers in the |
erritory and the prospect Is fiattering
or a big organization. The society
will be known as the Oklahoma Farm
RS Indemnity association.-Ex.
There are numbers of farmer in tn e
'alt river valley who testify to the
immense product of their farms when
Tater can be had for as many crops as
hey can raise. The alfalfa farmers
sst year almost without exception
rent up to $50 per acre of product.
With water stored on our river such
rops would be raised every season.
lrizona Star.
All down the great valley of New
1exico farmers are getting Rll the
alter they want, and planting is in
rogress or completed. While the
eason has been backward, alfalfa is
bout ready for cutting once and there
plenty of water to insure a quick
nd heavy crop for the second cutting.
70 indications of floods coming are
lanifest, though. heavy rains in the
colorado mountains may yet cause
apid melting of the snow that feeds
ne Rio Grande. There will be no
Material damage to farmers generally
floods - come, except that if the
nows melt quickly the water supply
ill not last through the summer sea-
On. The railways companies would
lffer from floods, but they have made
xtra preparations this year for the
of tracks.-Las Vegas OPP
C.
It is no trick at all to raise 500
ounds of tobacco on an acre of the cut
YER lands of East Texas, and it is just /:
3 easy to sell it at 80 cents per pound. |
his would give gross value to the