Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-07-25
FIELD. RANCH. GARDEN.
Peaches are abundant.

WoISliuelOho are COulub III qulLe
lively
Rain has benefited cotton in some
localities.
Cotton looks strong and healthy in
Wise county.
Tomatoes and roasting ears con-
tinue in good supply.
Farmers in Coryell county are well
up in their work.
Prairie hay is being cut in Moore
county.
Cantaloupes in some localities are in
fair supply.
The drouth has been broken in
Greer county, Oklahoma.
Chickens are in fair supply and go1o
demand throughout Texas.
After a drouth of thirty-eight days,
rain fell in torrents around Bridgeport
Many portions of Hood county have
been the recipients lately of good
rains.
A grasshopper of some sort is badly
damaging corn and cotton around
Santo.
T. j. Martin of Midland, Tex, de-
livered 1000 yearlings to Scharbauer &
Wall.
Farmers around Ennis say cotton
has been materially benefited by the
recent rains.
q Dan Scarborough of Grand Prairie,
Dallas county, had three fine hogs
killed by lightning.
The first bale of Texas cotton for
1900 was raised in San Patricio coun-
ty and shipped to New Orleans.
Corn and cotton in the vicinity of
Ben Franklin were badly damaged by
hail storm several nights ago.
]. B. Foster of Shreveport, La,
bought d. H. McNairy's ranch and cat
tie, in Sterling county, for $4,000.
? Lum Hudson of San Angelo has sold
the lease of his four-sectlon pasture
On Crane 6 HaEs,a;ss;,,.
John scharbaaser' 81 Midland, Tex,
sold to Geo Kerr 1902 cows and forty
four COWS at s225O. and five bulls for
1890,
Geo. q. Webb of San Angelo sue
ceeds Fayette Tankersley as overseer
of the Hat ranch and cattle in Crockett
county,
E. s. Sugg & Bro. have re-christened
their old Conner ranch on Middle Con-
cho in Tom Green county. 1t is now
called Riverside.
Geo. Woods has sold his ranch aud
cattle in the Pecos country to A. F.
Dawson. The cattle went at $50
around.
SO little interest was manifested in
the stock law election which was to
have been held in Celeste that it was
abandoned
j. N. Ivy has sold Davis & Filter
land of Kiowa, Kan, for the small
stockmen of Deaf Smith county 600
yearling steers at $50
F. B. salter Of Colorado Tex, bought
from Mart sutherlin of San Angelo
forty-seven head of dry cows at pri-
vate terms
Pete Scoggin of Colorado, Tex, re-
Gently delivered to Tom Trammell at
the M X ranch in Borden county, 1000
exceptionally fine steer yearlings.
Statistician Brown of the New York
produce exchange estimates the total
production of wheat in the United
States for 1900 at 1O95O,OOO bushes
as compared with SAT 100000 bushels
in 1899.
The sea island cotton crop for this
season is sufficiently advanced to war
rant the opinion among the trade that
there viii be an increase in the out
put, though not as create was expect
ed at the opening of the season.
After three weeks of dry weather 1t
rained at Emma, Crosby county, on the
3rd and 4th, which insures crops Of
every description on the plains. Grass
was never better, and cattle will get
fat early in the fall and reach the MAJ
kets earlier than in the past four we r.
w. d. KeUoff, wel-to-do farmer Of
Mabank, YRS in Dallas few days age
and had the misfortune OF having his
,,cot,ot ,fci,rd Tro said that hie lose