Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-09-05
FIELD. RANCH. GARDEN.

lOAblhuO III Adll bupplys
first bale.
Hundreds of persons are picking the
1eecy staple.
The streets are crowded with water
melon wagons.
Much broom corn will be raised
around Hereford this season.
Oklahoma farmers are said to be in
excellent financial shape as a rule.
Oklahoma expects to market 100000
bales of cotton this season.
Guthrie, Ok, received her first bale
OF cotton on the 22d.
A few Lowry cattle in Mitchell coun-
ty are dying from blackleg.
Port Lavacans are feasting on their
second crop of roasting ears.
Pearsall has shipped over $500
worth of watermelons this season.
w. A. Jackson reports splendid grass
and fat cattle in the Pecos country.
watermelon weighing S71s pounds
was recently marketed at Greenville.
The peanut crop is becoming an inn
portant industry in Jackson county.
Sheep prices are declining in wyom-
ing.
Jas. Fegan shipped twelve cars Of
cattle from Giles, Tex, to Iowa few
days ago.
A gin, which 1t is claimed will be the
largest in the world, is being erected at
Corsicana.
Gainesville's first bale of cotton was
sold to the Gainesville cotton exchange
for 10%c per pound.
w. G. Wright of Taylor expects to
feed about 1900 steers this fall. He has
the cattle now on pasture.
Mr.. A. A. Cox shipped eleven cars OF
stock cattle from e. Paso and placed
them on his ranch near Van Horn.
A. ozona, Tex, ]. NJ. Shannon re-.
ceived from J. w. Odom, 100 head of
steer yearlings sold some time ago at
SIS.
w. H. Brennand of Big Springs has
sold his mercantile interests and will
devote his whole attention to his stock
business
w. H. Norris of Clarendon says cat
tie are fat and stockmen are putting
up immense amounts of sorghum and
millet hay.
]. A. Montgomery, VIM. Miller and
John Browder of Hall county sold their
steer yearlings to buyers from Iowa.
The prices were SIS and $40 per head.
DR.. w. A. Knight of Houston has
examined the liver and other parts OF
mule sent to him from Letitia, Tex,
and claims that the animal died OF
Charlton.
The experiment OF the government In
buying horses on the Pacific coast fol-
shipment to China for cavalry service
did not prove success. Few available
animals we're found.
The Abilene country is enjoying one
of the most abundant fruit yields ever
known in Texas The peach and melon
yields are equal to that of the San Ga
briel valley in California.
e. A. Herndon of Scurry county re-
Gently bought 1870 head of good mules
from Fount oxsheer of Stanton and
sold the bunch to Herndon & Walker
OF Richmond. Ky, at good figures.
w. J. and Wallace Good of Quanah
recently received at Woodward, Ok.
the 100 head OF stock cattle bought
from Byrd & Hawkins. These cattle
were sent to the SO ranch on the plainsi
Craft, Cherokee county, Shipped 3O7
cars of tomatoes this season, which
netted the shippers nearly $4,000 The
first two cars, shipped early in June
were sold on the track for over $4,000
John Ledbetter of Quanah has re-
ceived from B. B. and H. r. Groom OF
Panhandle, Tex, thirty-five Shorthorn
yearling bulls. he price paid for the
animals was $40 a head. They will
go to Mr.. Ledbetter's plains ranch.
Is c. Fl. Lafasse Of the King Willow
neighborhood, Navarro county, has
sold to Tinixle & Wilson $50 head Of
2-year-old steer feeders that will aver
age 500 pounds, for s24 a head, or 2
cents a pound, the cattle to be deliv-
cred in October.
At Claredon, Tex. Cooper 6 Horn
bought sixty-seyen cows at $1s from
Adolph Andrews, nine cows at private
terms from Fs,A Campbell, sixty head