Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-06-26
FARM AND FLOCK.

Watermelons are in market.
Stock in Oklahoma fare well.
Cotton around Chico looks well.
Ellis county will raise some fine
corn.
Late corn is doing well ii Live Oak
county.
Corn and cotton are in fine condition
around Burleson.
Cattle are being fed and tlso enjoying
grass in various pastures.
Vegetables are in good supply and
fair demand all over Texas.
Rye, alfalfa and hay are being cut
in Oklahoma with good results,
Farm work is progressing favorably
in Oklahoma and the Indian Territory.
The wheat yield in Grayson county
will be far better than was expected.
Heavy rains have fallen in southern
Russia and splendid harvest is as
sured.
The first new wheat marketed at
Hillsboro brought GA to IS cents per
bushel.
The first car of new wheat received
at Waxahachie this season brought Is
cents per bushel.
William White raised a car load OF
Irish potatoes on six acres, and they
brought $500.
Wheat around Grapevine averages
from twelve and one-half to fifteen
bushels per acre.
A number of carloads of Irish po-
tatoes have been shipped from Detroit,
Texas, to Chicago.
A better outlook for great corn
crop was never known before in the
vicinity of Malakoff.
Some Live Oak county farmers have
had to plant the third time before
getting stand of cotton.
The first watermelons received at
Dallas this season sold for 50 per doz-
en-. They were from sinton.
w. M. Smith of Vlnita, l. T., has sold
his last years wheat crop Of $500
bushels at 81 cents per bushel.
Some wheat in the vicinity of Mid
lothian, Ellis county, has thrashed out
twenty-five bushels per acre.
Wheat in Oklahoma is in fine condi-
ton and harvesting of the soft kind
is general, with good yields of plump
large grain.
Seven carloads of tomatoes were
shipped north from Jacksonville at one
time. One of these sold on the track
at that city at $1.OS per crate.
A contract has been awarded to J..
L. Hall, Jr., of Brentwood to supply
$50 horses for the new Twelfth cavalry
regiment now being organized at San
Antonio.
The farmers of Hopkins county have
Just organized mutual fire insurance
association with ]. A. Stevenson, pres
;ient, and R. n. Ramey secretary, with
$4,000 insurance.
A great number OF Irish potatoes are
being shipped to northern markets
from several localities to northern
markets from several Texas cities.
New York butchers have raised the
price of meat cents per pound. They
claim to have been forced to take this
step owing to a corresponding advance
by wholesalers.
Prof. Meade, the agricultural depart
ment's irrigation expert, while before
the industrial commission, said that
irrigation is necessary in two-ffths OF
the area of the United States.
The remnant of what once gave prom
Use of making an immense wheat crop
is being thrashed all over Fannin coun-
ty now. In some sections good crops
abound, but generally the yield is
small
A number of cows around Paris are
affected with a malady resembling
lockjaw, but veterrians pronounce it to
be form of collie. 1t is claimed the
trouble is caused by gas on the stom-
ach, resulting from eating certain
weeds and red clover.
Capt. Tom Montgomery has sold
off his Crosby county ranch to Clay.
Robinson & Co., 1850 sters, to be ship
ped to Billings, Mont. The captain
claims these were the finest steers ever