Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-10-31
FIELD, RANCH. GARDEN.

Cattle are in fine shape in Harde-
man county.
Considerable wheat is being sown in
Fannin county.
Stock are in excellent condition in
Swisher county.
Wheat sowing is in progress around
Bells, Grayson county. a.t
At Corsicana one day last week 800
cotton pickers arrived
A splendid sorghum crop has been
raised in Clay county. tNst
somervel county has raised some
fine apples this season.
A number of carloads of hogs were
marketed at Fort Worth last week.
Lon Fowler shipped carload Of
mulesfrom Brentwood to Louisiana.
Considerable cotton remains UNI
picked in the Indian Territory. A
The heaviest rain for several years
fell in the, Pecos section on the 10th.
Over 100 cotton pickers in one body
arrived at Gonzales from East Texas.
Miss Maria Judkins Of Valley Mills
picked 5O7 pounds of cotton in day
Farmers in the northern part OF
Tarrant county have sown much
wheat.
About three-fourths of Hill county's
cotton crop is said to have been
gathered.
B. F. hWeelis Of Paint Rock sold to
Will Wyatt III head of cows and
calves at SIS per head.
The Texas Truck Growers associa-
ton expects to ship 100000 worth OF
cabbage the coming season.
Much second crop hay has been cut
in Grayson county. 1t is averaging
three-fourths of a ton per acre,
G. H. Coe and w. D. Hodges OF Con
zales bought of l. G. Yates the latter's
ranch, tlse consideration being $4,000.
More than 1000 of the best shorthorn
and Hereford cattle are on exhibition
at Kansas City. The premiums aggre-
gate s200nN ,t'-
Geo. L. Abbott Of San Angelo sold
for R. s. Campbell of Ohio to Hayden
& Rucker of Irion county 400 head of
stock cattle.
L. G. and Ed Dupree of Tom Green
county bought 200 head Of horses from
Tol Cawley and 81 head from Henry
Sharpe of Sonora.
deal has been closed by which l..
NJ. Webb of Dundee sold and delivered
to Rue Houston of Bellevue 400 2year-
old steers at $27 per head.
On the Dallas county poor farm
5000 bushels of corn has been raised
this season and 1876. hogs are ready for
market. No cotton was planted, One
hundred acres will be sown in wheat.
w. j. Burton of Collin county, ten
miles northeast of Mckinney, has
fine crop of oats, the second Of the sea-
son. He is of the opinion two crops
ern part of the Lone Star state.
Between 400 and 500 negroes living
near Navasota left for north Texas to
pick cotton. They have all caught the
fever, although some of them had been
offered better wages than they could
ct there to remain. No inducement
would stop them. egoW
Many of the farmers living in the
country adjacent to Navasota will ex-
pertinent in cultiyating rice. These
men claim that they have the very
same Identical soil that rice is raised
on in Louisiana and southeastern Tex
as. The crops in that vicinity will be
greatly diversified in the coming year.
A farmer from the eastern part of
Navarro county took to Corsicana
wagonload of seventy-five young tur-
keys which he readily disposed of at
soc for hens and 75c for gobblers. He
says he has as many more on his place.
DR.. ]. D.. McMillin Of Biardstown,
Lamar county, owned large bunch Of
fine porkers. He turned them in patch
of oats sown last month When he
returned home that evening he found
eleven Of the hogs dead and the others
sick.
The sweet potato crop in Navarro
county this year is better than ever
known, in many cases the yield being
seventy-hye bushels per acre, and in
few 100 bushels per acre, the crops