Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-03-20
FIELD AND FLOCK.
Corn planting Is under way.

page.
Much broomcorn will be raised in
Texas this year.
Morris county's cotton acreage will
equal last years.
The potato crop will be doubled
around naples this season.
Winter vegetables continue to be
shipped in fair-sized quantities.
G. w. Peterson has near Austerlitz,
N. Y, flock of seventy black sheep.
Clark & Collins of Alice bought 1900
head of high-grade cattle from John
Bull.
Tinple & Wilson of Corsicana on the
4th shipped two cars of cattle to st.
Louis.
Broken saddle horses now running
on the ranges of Arizona are offered
for sale at $3.50.
Some farmers around Seguin will
plant cotton early in an effort to head
off the boil weevil.
About two carloads of seed have
been planted around Naples this sea-
son by truck growers.
". D. Farris shipped nine cars of
cattle to Chicago from his pens at En-
mis-. The animals were fat.
1t is estimated that the general acre
age in Bee county this year will be
increased over so per cent.
Twenty-Five carloads of fat cattle
belonging to j. T. Holt were shipped
from Honey Grove to st. Louis.
1t is estimated Sat the recent rain
in Neuces county enhanced the value
of the cabbage crop at least $4,000.
Lon G. Hill of Beeville is preparing
to put in 200 acres of rice on the Rio
Grande river in Cameron county near
Brownsville.
Judge ]. w. Rountree of Paris, who
has been in Delta county, says there
is quantity of cotton yet unmarketed
In that county.
G. Leroy Sanderson of New Orleans
has been investigating the adaptability
of the soil around Corcus Christi rela-
tive to tea culture.
G. o. Harris of Ballinger has sold
his France & HigginsOn ranch of $500
acres in Concho county to F. e. Muir
phree. The consideration was $685.
O00
The farmers of the Beeville section
are now preparing to put in the largest
crops Of cotton corn, potatoes, water
melons, sorghum and broom corn ever
planted here.
Rev. C. w. Wright of Hillsboro has
a Jersey COW 2 years old and forty
two inches high that gives sixteen
pounds of milk per day She gives her
weight in milk every twenty-four days.
The Navajo Indians of Arizona own
100000 sheep and the $4,000 mem
Ders of that tribe find employment in
working up the cheaper grades Of wool
into the famed vari-colored blankets.
which are alike impervious to both
cold and water.
Milford, Ellis county, shipped 1918
hogs in February, for which the far
mers of that community received more
than 10000. This is below the aver
age months business on account OF
two weeks of muddy weather, in which
no marketing was done of any mo-
ment
Word comes from Chicago that
deal has been closed transferring to
the Chicago Cattle company $4,000
acres of grazing, coal and mineral
lands on the Rio Grande river in New
Mexico. The tract is fifty-seven miles
long, extending along the Rio Grande
river.
Hon. James M. Smith of oglethorpe
county, Georgia, received check
some days since from an Augusta firm
for s1O1, 900, being part payment OF
2O50 bales of cotton, portion of his
last years crop.
The Hill county commissioners
court has had three small houses
made on wheels for the benefit of the
county road gang. They are provided
with sleeping berths and furnished
with numerous windows to afford ven
tilation. This is quite an innovation.
Prominent Angora goat breeders are
cooperating for the purpose of i'm
porting large number of goats from
Turkey. The choicest selections will