Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-12-19
FIELD AND FLOCK.
Cotton picking continues.

y.
Mexico has raised fine pecan crop
this year.
few tomatoes are seen ia some city
markets.
Sugar cane seed is in demand in some
localities.
Junctnon City has shipped over 2OO,-
900 pounds of pecans.
The mast in the vicinity of Hunt
ipgton, Tex, is tremendous.
Caneis fast being ground and syrup
made around Huntington.
One man has shipped 9S7 head OF
mules from Navarro county this year
Plantersiaround Turtle Bayop expect
to put in .25OOOO acres of nice next
season.
Holly Banks of Franklin county
made four and half bales OF cotton
from three acres this year.
The, bonus offered by the Uvalde
merchants of $3.50 on every bale of
cotton sold in that market IS bearing
fruit
Hon. 1. w. Collier with Messrs. 7. J.
Hooks and H. w. Turner, all of Beau
mon, have purchased a tract of Mata-
gorda rice lands, comprising between
5000 and 5000 acres.
/
Two American girls Misses Slocum
and Page, are making money raising
and selling Strawberries and turkeys in
Manila. t,.,.,
IT. F. Hamilton of Trinity Valley,
near Bridgeport, Wise county, gather
ed 400 bushels of vinelss yams to the
acre.
w. H. Pate of Wise county, gathered
1900 bushels of sweet potatoes from
what he says is patch little shy"
of six acres.
This has been a great year for the
truck gardener, and it is likely that po-
tatoes will reach $1.50 per bushel IN
some markets.
r. w. Prusser of Sutton county
bought 600 head of sheep from R. A.
Williamson of the Juno country, pay
ing $2,25 per head.
/ The ditch Is now running full of wa
\ ter through the farms around Bates
-ll-xille. Tex. and fariaars are. preparing
Il to plant a big crop
John Hyde, statistician of the agri-
cultural department, says that notwlth-
standing reports to the contrary the
government cotton report will be is
sued Dec. 10.
Authorities upon broom corn produce
ton estimate the worlds consumption
of brush to be about 10000 tons, grown
on 10000 acres, about $4,000 tons being
produced in Illinois.
Wilburn and Robert Miers of So
nora paid G. M. Rawls OF Sterling
county, s2.1O per head for $50 stock
sheep and to Mccall of Concho coun-
ty, 50 per head for 300 head.
Fourteen thousand head of cattle are
being fed at the grounds of the Cot
ton Seed Oil Mill company in Deni-
son. They represent nealry 5000
They will be shipped to the eastern
: markets about Jan l.
The Kansas association of millers
and grain dealers will send to Turkey
for cargo of Russian-Turkey seed
wheat and will deliver 1t to Kansas
farmers at actual cost which will be
made not later than Sept, l, 1901.
Frank Ribbons of San Angelo will
: take charge of 10000 head of sheep In
New Mexico for Jas. Hamilton and
drive them into the Pecos country
where green grass abounds this win
ter.
Comparisons of the wheat exports
from the principal shipping countries
of the world for the season ended July
81 this year indicate that the ship.
ments from all countries were S42, $685.
900 bushels,
} The Ontario department Of agricul-
ture has completed the estimate of the
yields of crops for 1900 On the whole
the grain crops of the year were in
quality and quantity quite up to the
} average. The new fall wheat crop is in
fair condition.
Tobacco grown from all over the
} United States and the world was on
exhibition at the Paris exposition, and
It is known fact that the sample thai