Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-09-18
FARM ANp FLoclS.

Worms are injuring Hopkins county
cotton.
Coyotes are killing lambs and chick
ems in Utah
Stockmen around Batesville, Tex,
are poisoning wolves.
Cotton is more than two-thirds gath
cred around Burton,
Kiowa, l. T., is shipping out twelve
carloads of hay daily.
A Kansas man has refused $4,000
for this years apple crop.
Several localities report damage to
cotton by wind and rain.
1t is feared lack of corn will make
hogs scarce in central Texas.
Boil worms are devastating the top
cotton in Washington county.
Lee Dalton shipped three cars of
beef cattle from Mineral Wells to Dal-
las.
Some Lamar county farmers say the
boil weevil will prevent top cotton
crop.
Some Lamar county cotton pickers
struck for Use per 100. They had bee n
getting soc.
Farmers in Hood county have broken
nearly all their wheat land and are pre-
pairing to sow.
TIL epoultry and pet stock show at
the Pan-American exposition will open
Oct. 81 and continue ten days.
DR.. w. A. Knight of Houston has
been appointed state veterinarian, sue
ceeding DR.. Folsetter, resigned.
Farmers in Lamar county as sowing
wheat and turf oats for winter pas
turage and are putting up sorghum
hay.
During August, Italy, Ellis county,
received 1902 bales of cotton, against
2O2 for the corresponding month of
200.
Cattlemen around Marble Falls are
iubilant over the late showers, saying
they will have an ample supply of
grass and water
Alternate sections of land of Mrs.
Cornelia Adair, owner of the ]. A.
ranch in Randall and Swisher coun-
ties, are being placed on sale.
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W. G. Langley. a student Of Chi
cago veterinary college, inoculated
thirty-six head of imported calves ar
Denton for his father Only one died.
Secretary Hester of the New Orleans
cotton exchange estimates the cotton
crop of 10000 at 10, 1883, 400 bales. He
puts the value of the crop at $494, $751;
$40.
J. T. Dial of Prattville, Delta county
has COW three years old that has
had three calves. One of them is one
years old and the other two are twin.
three weeks old.
Prof. F. NJ. Digger. botanist from
the department of agriculture at Wash
ington. is in Texas to inspect cottor
diseases. and is making experiment.
looking to the eradication of evils af
fiicting the plant
The irrigation commission granted t
G. r. Burkdoll and associates OF Chi
cago the privilege OF erecting storag
reservoirs. bitches and appurtenance
on the tract of land lying on eithe
side of the Mimbres river, in Grant an
Luna counties. New Mexico.
The supply of old corn In crib ives
of the Mississippi is estimated all tn
way from 1O0OOOOOO to 100000. 30
bushels. This divergence of opinion
however, is the result OF guess worl
as there is no way of approximatin
the amount.
1t is estimated by conservative me
that fully two-thirds of the cotton Gro
has been picked in the territory cor
tiguous to Caldwell, and it is though
by the LIST of next month there wi
be little left in the fields thereabout
A sale of thirty-five horses was mad
at Santa Maria, Tex, lately at SIS
head. These horses were taken
Mexico for tht use of the Mexica
army, and hundred more have bee
contracted for by the same parties.
: The finest rain since spring has latel
!, fallen in the vicinity of Dumas. A
early GRASSES Johnson grass and mill
had matured well, and now crops
late srasses are assured Cattle al