Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-09-25
FARM AND FLOCK.

Tobacco crop of Kentucky will be
large.
Bee county reports plenty of green
grass.
Pink eye is in portions of Grayson
county.
Stock prospects are improved around
Laredo.
Texas woods are strongly held at
Boston.
Potato bugs are exciting alarm in
England.
During August Cuero compressed
10000 bales of cotton
Milo has been much revived by the
rains around Dickens
Farmers around Industry are plant
ing many Irish potatoes.
Late rains have not benefited sugar
cane in Wharton county.
Recent rains around Estelline greatly
benefited feed crops and grass.
The drouth killed sixty-two shade
trees in the city park at Dallas.
AT Pecos, Richard Riggs sold to Sebe
Jones 1900 3-year-old steers at $24
Gollad county will have a greatly in
creased garden truck acreage next
year.
Stock in the Claiming country are
fat and will enter the winter in prime
condition.
More than 100 acres will be planted
in tomatoes in Nacogdoches county
next season.
John w Springer has received three
carloads of horses at Denver from his
Montana ranch.
Recent rains in the vicinity of ANA
rillo insure a large amount of feed and
plenty of surface water.
Wash Began, a Wood county truck
grower, shipped carload of large wa
termelons to Dallas one day last week.
G. j. Blackburn of McCulloch ceun-
ty, has purchased Tom oglevys ! 1-2-
second ranch in Tom Green county for
$4,000.
T. D. Fisher of Ell Campo has sold to
r. e. Ward of Jackson county $50 cows
and dry.cows at $3.50 per head, calves
not counted.
s. w. Merchant shipped seven cars
of horses from San Angelo to Fort
!. Worth They will 30 to South Afri-
ca for the British.
Four acres of rice on the Hazard
farm, near Prien Lake, La, yielded
100 barrels, This is the first of the
season in the vicinity of Lake Charles
With the heavy shipments of cattle
into Colorado from Kansas and Ne
braska, the purchasers thereof are get
ting somewhat alarmed at the prices
of hay.
w. G. Bartlett sold to w. A. Paul OF
Mount Nebo, Tom Green county, fine
yearling colt stallion for 500. The
colt is sired by Judge Timmins' and
full of promise.
Bert Simpson of Colorado City and
Mrs. G. F. Thomson of Pecos have
purchased the ]. M. Keithley ranch
and 200 head of cattle in the Van Horn
country for $4,000.
j. N. Winter & Co. of Fort Worth
sold the Iowa ranch in Lubbock coun-
ty, consisting of $4,000 acres, to j. w
and H. l.. Kokernot of San Antonio
The sum paid was 81. S5 per acre.
Cattle are in good condition in the
Donley section of country at the pres
ent time and with favorable weather
during this and the month of October
the grass will be good for winter
range.
Moore, Kitchener C Co. of the NJ bal
ranch, in Armstrong county, have sole
their ranch and herd Of high grade
Hereford cattle to Hunter Bros. o
Grayson county. Consideration abou
$4,000 The cattle were sold at $4
around.
Capt VIM. Schneemann of Crockett
county bought SOC yearling steers from
Messrs. Baggett. Ed Crosson, Joe Har
relI, Archie Cochran, Phil Perner AM
Others of Tom Green county at $14 pc
head.
The annual melon day festival a
Rocky Ford, Colo. was attended b.
vast concourse OF about 10000 pei
sons The nile of watermelons 70