Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-05-22
FARM. GARDEN. LIVESTOCK.
Vegetables are abundant.

Dat prospects are poor in that por-
ton of Lamar county around Blossom.
There are said to be 1O,oOU,OOO mi
gratory sheep in Spain.
q ]. X. Read of Paradise latel sold
abost SITS worth of hogs.
Last weeks hail storm damaged crops
and fruit in some localities.
Neill & Douglass of Van Alstyne
shipped three cars OF hogs to sher.
man.
Some Texas tomatoes sold in st.
Louis on the 4th at $1.5O per four
basket crates.
Moore Bros. of Bastrop have bought
the farm and ranch of E. Lewis near
Brentwood paying $76O5.5O.
Cattle shipments from san Angelo
for the month of April, including two
days of March, have been 1912 cars.
j. F. Grant, recent buyer in Dali
las, shipped from the Dallas Union
stock yards, three care of hogs to
San Francisco.
Blackleg is reported prevalent in
portions of .-cLennan and adjoining
counties, and number of head of cat
tie have died.
Since the recent rains about Uvalde,
cattle are said to be worth 81 to 81
more than they were before the break
ing up of the drouth.
j. F. Younkers OF Arkansas Pass had
the first of this seasons tomatoes on
the San Antonio market on the 9Th.
They sold at & per crate.
Geo. W. johnson has sold the re-
mainder of the Dixie ranch consisting
of fourteen sections of land, to w. d.
Novels of Borden county, for $4,000.
Col G. G. Slaughter has sent to his
alfalfa farm, near Roswell, N. NJ, some
splendid registered Herefords pur-
chased from the Marshall Field stock
farm at Madison, Neb.
w. G. Robertson has sold 1000 steer
yearlings off the Howard County ranch,
owned by Winfield Scott and himself,
10 H. g. Harding of the American Pas
toral Company, at $3.50 around.
A. b. Robertson reports the sale of
1900 head of stock cattle from the Hat
.ransht sa,NewS Mexico tod w. Snyder
of Georgetown at private terms. The
cattle were delivered Immediately.
Col. w. E. Hughes of Denver and
Dallas has bought at Esseline 5000
steers to send to his Montana ranch.
He paid $24 for the Continental Land
company's twos. He bought 5000 9TH
er north Texas twos at $3.50.
A county organization or Van Zandt
hay men was perfected at meeting
of all hay raisers of that county, held
at Wills Point. Every hay farm in
the county was represented. H. G.
Manning was elected president, and
e. q. Wright, secretary.
The recent hail in the country with
In radius of ten miles north of Ennis
was SO severe cs to kill birds, chick
ems and rabbits. In some places the
hail drifted to depth OF four feet.
Fruit was knocked from trees.
Richard Ward of Peoria took to
Hillsboro the first Hill county straw
berries that were ever marketed there.
They are fine sweet berry and the
local dealers say that no finer or larger
strawberry was ever marketed in that
city.
The largest shipment of beef cattle
from Waxahachie this season waa
made from that place on the 9th.
W. A. Briggs, H. A. Pierce and o. d.
Sims shipped nineteen cars of fine cat
tie to St. Louis. Ten cas- went next
day.
Grasshoppers have made their APP
pearance in the southern part of Tay-
lor county and farmers report that
they have attacked the oat and cotton
crops. In some instances they have
destroyed the young cotton.
Oswald Wilson, special field agent,
division statistics United States de-
partment of agriculture, has been in
Texas making Investigations relative
to the cotton crop. He has talked
with quite number of ginners on the
subject at Fort Worth.
Alderman George Look of 81 Paso
has purchased for San Francisco
company nearly one million and half
acres in the Sierra Madre mountains
in Mexico. heavily timbered and rich
In minerals; the consideration is said