Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-05-29
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fruit crop.
Baylor county farmers are planting
much cotton.
Grasshoppers are feared by San Saba
county farmers.
Some oat fields around Ennis will
make fair yield.
Green bugs have disappeared from
many localities.
Volunteer oats are being harvested
in number of localities.
Far crops of wheat and oats will
be made in Bosque county.
Spring oats in Hill county are gen.
orally regarded as failure.
The spring crop of pigs in San Saba
county was unusually good.
Ten bushels per acre will be an av-
erage wheat yield around Burleson.
Neill q Douglass of Van Alstyne
shipped two cars of hogs to Sherman.
Some farmers around Iowa Park say
they will average ten bushels of wheat
per acre.
The wheat crop in the vicinity of
Italy will average from eight to ten
bushels per acre.
Atoka !. t., and vicinity have been
visited by fine rains and crops have
been greatly benefited
The Chfldress County Land and Cat
tie company shipped 1850 head of cat
tie to Billings, Mont.
Walker Eros. of San Saba have
shipped over 1000 head of cattle to
the Indian Territory.
Kountz & Weinacht stored about
1000 pounds of wool at Pecos City and
will hold it for better prices.
Gov. sayers has appointed delegates
to the Farmers National congress, to
be held at Sioux Falls, S. D., Oct. ITO.
The German government crop report
estimates the winter Wheat killed at
%. 6 per cent, representing over 1,ooO.-
900 acres.
On the sandy land east OF Denison
there is much wheat the, cereal not
having been touched by the green
bugs. All OF it will yield well.
The first shipment of cattle sent over
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail
way since its completion to San An
tonic was car from New Braunfels,
sent by A. G. stortz, of that city.
1t is officially announced that the
Hungarian rye, and wheat crops are
medium and so is barley except in the
northern mountainous districts.
r. B. Masterson of Fort Worth re-
Gently delivered at Quanah 1000 head
of cows sold to Al Yantis last fall.
The cattle were shipped to Kansas.
Within radius of five miles OF
Sherman there are 1000 acres in Irish
potatoes. 1t is thought they will
yield about 100 bushels to the acre, or
about 100000 bushels.
Edward Sells, owner of Las Frutas
farm in Cherokee county, has 100
acres in tomatoes and 40 acres in
Irish potatoes. He reports all in fine
growing condition.
q. M. Pulliam of RoseIand, La,
from March 10 to May q sold through
one Chicago commission house 1850
boxes of radishes which netted 49,,
522.S6, or about 70 cents box.
At the Shorthorn dispersion sale of
e. S. Folsom, w. F. Christian and
e. G. Thompson, held at indianapolis.
the females brought fair prices, but the
bulls brought dong the average.
The Abilene Reporter says that
dressed beef is worth 10 cents per
pound, while snakes are worth 20 cents
ION foot" hair, hides, bones and all
and suggests that now is the time for
farmers to dispose of their snake crop.
A special order has been issued by
the department of agriculture provid-
ing for the return of northern show
cattle TO their homes after they have
been placed on exhibition at the Inter-
state fair, which is to be held in At
lanta, Ga.
Walter A. Kern has just returned
from six months stay in the Argen-
tine Republic, where he was engaged
in teaching the farmers of that county
how to use United States harvesting
machinery, says the Kansas City