Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1900-10-03
FIELD. RANCH. GARDEN.

The fieecy staple keeps rolling in.
Cotton seed bringn s14 per ton at
Bonham.
Ellis and Navarro county farmers
need cotton pickers badly.
Cotton was damaged about 10 per
hundred in Nolan county.
W. B. Brodie exhibited at Comanche
a cotton stalk with 100 bolls.
Bill oden of Chicago. Tex, reports
cattle in his section in good condition.
B. c. Rhome of Rhome, Texas, will
exhibit a bull at the Denton fair for
which he has refused $500.
Geo. Wilkes of Childress county,
sold $50 head of yearlings to Louis
Nichols of Colingsworth
Frank Thompson of Ballinger, re-
Gently bought in the Miles Station
country "a yearling steers at SIS.
Mrs. Robertson of Sulphur Springs
sold to Drum C Collyns 500 head Of
stock cattle in Sterling county.
L. F. Heitzler bought of Mckinley
Bros, in Tom Green county, 35 fat
butcher cows, at $40 per head.
Billie Montgomery of ozona, Tex,
sold to Robert Massie recently 500
head OF stock cattle at SIS head.
Jim Taylor, the DEVILS River ranch
man, has pleced 1000 head of COWS and
sters in pasture five miles east of
Ozona.
r. s.. Sproul of Valentine recently
bought 400 head of cattle from Mr.. Nc
Cam of Uvalde, paying SIS around for
them.
L. M. Perrin, well known ranch
man of Roland Valley, died at velasco
from injuries received in the hurri-
cane.
Cototn was damaged about 10 per
cent in that portion of Burleson coun-
tys, round Caldwell by the recent
Sem.
~ b. Dale shipped seventeen car
loads Of cattle from Henrietta to Coop
sr to feed at the oil mill for the st.
louis market
Milton ..6lsett of Crockett county
bought Of Bob Massie so head of picked
cdws out Of the Montgomery & Bry-
sop stock at $40 per head.
Joe Montague, manager of the 90
cattle sezs- s;.Ey, recently sold from the
eompany's Creek nation ranch 1000
three-year-old steers at $50 per head.
Ben Harmonsin of Justin has lost
three of his Hereford cattle with fever.
They were to have been exhibited at
the Denton fair. -lnpt,
: Clark & Linn recently bought of w.
B. Sims and w. w. Nelson, in Mitchell
county, so head OF steer yearl,ngs at
$1650 head.
G. B. Bell of Crockett county, re-
Getty lost a cow from the murrain, and
Theo. Bjorkman lost bulls, valued at
sos and s125, from the same disease.
w. D. Reynold of Reynolds, Tex,
has sold his cattle interests in Dako-
ia and expresses himself as we'll
pleased with the Pecos Valley coun-
try.
! G, w. Blankenship, residing near
Mckinney. paid $12 rent for four acres
of land. He planted alternate rows of
cotton and onions and has realized
5000. 1l-a
A. S. Henry and Geo. Elkins Of Col
orado, Tex, purchased II head of reg
istered Hereford bulls from s. Fl.
Townsend OF Midland, paying $4,000
for them.
Rally Conley of Lubbock county says
there are about 5000 steers and as
many stock cattle on John f. NOEL
roy's ranch in as fine condition as he
ever saw cattle on the range.
There are twenty-six oleomargerine
factories in the United States. II the
reports Of the commercial agencies are
true, their total valuation is less than
ss.0O0,0O0, and their annual output
100000 pounds of oleomargarine.
Owing to the damage to the present
crop of rice caused by the storm on the
gulf coast, much of which has not bee
harvested, the mills in Louisiana have
advanced quotations about IL cent per
pound from those ruling at the oyening
OF the season.
John W. Clever has sold half in
terest in his Fisher county ranch and
1000 cattle to Tom Mclean OF Titus
comfy for $4,000. There are ahout