Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-09-04
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Camp county farmers viii plant
10000 peach trees this fall.
About 700 acres are seeded to tur.
hips in Lincoln county, New Mexico.
o. B. Robertson loaded six cars OF
cattle at Victoria for Moulton.
Texas twelve months clip OF wool
was sold in Boston of late as high as
IS cents. ,
w. A. Jackson has sold his ranch on
the Canadian in the Amarillo country
and moved to Stratford. r s'ta.s
d. G. Summers has sold his Tom
Green county ranch and $50 head OF
cattle to S. o. Richardson and DR.. IL
Virgins.
w. f. Lamon of Cuba, Johnson coun.
ty, has 100 peach trees. Last year hs
realized SIG per tree. but this year
will not do so well.
A number of Grayson county farm.
ers have just planted Irish potatoes
and are sanguine of raising good
crops.
The feeders. in the corn states con
tend that as the corn crop has been cut
short, it will be necessary for them to
buy cattle cheaper in order to feed any
this winter. 'iHH
Capt. J. e. Horne has submerged
twenty-six acres of his farm, six miles
below Waco and will devote it to fish
culture. He will stock it with black
bass.
August Nickel of Mason county has
purchased the Perry Mcconnell ranch
near Sonora for $500 The ranch
contains seventeen sections and is well
improved. ISN ~ tuat
! Richard Riggs of Davis Mountain.
Preside county, estimates that the
erection of the two big packeries at
Fort Worth will add 50 head to the
value of all west Texas cattle.
T. H. .McNeely of Uvalde has sold to
Paulton G Mitchell 300 S-year-old
steers. The price paid is said to be
s27.5O per head Stock water is get.
ting scarce and the grass very drys1
The ravages of grass worms, boil
worms and rust around Naples, Morris
county, are making a gloomy prpspect
I fof cotton A few farmers say that
their crops are injured 50 per cent al
ready. W. Nsfl
France will have to import during
the coming year Sc 100000 bushels OF
wheat, according to the report received
at the state department from United
States Consul General Skinner at Mar
settles. ,tt,siS ,,,..i ,,,,d.{ n
A tomato growers association has
been formed at Heely's switch on the
International and Great Northern in
Cherokee county The members have
agreed to put 25ts acres in tomatoes
next year p
Farmers who live along the line OF
;lral free delivery mail routes are to
4 have the advantage OF the United
States weather bureaus forecasts OF
the weather All they have to do is to
watch the mail cart as it goes by.
Thirteen hundred head Of Texas cat.
tie were unloaded at Morecroft, Wyo.,
few days ago. having been bought by
Miles City parties. About 10000 cattle
have been moved from the southern
states to South Dakota thus far.
\ At Bloomburg, Cass county. truck
growers association, with over forty
members, has been organized Jesse
Sherman was elected president; A. G.
Stewart, vice president; L. B. casters,
secretary. and G. F. Mcknight. treas
urep, 8 Us a,sr 4 slI, nhi.-%
Secretary Wilson, as result of his
recent tour of the corn belt. will issue
a hand book for farmers, setting forth
not only the idea OF liberalization OF
crops but also the adaptibiiity of the
soils Tor the different crops. ~
Grapevine's first bale of cotton was
picked by three children. all under 70
years of age It weighed 5O7 pounds
and was raised by Mrs. Sarah Powell
and sold for cents for cotton and
$3.50 for the seed, The premium was
s25. a'
B. S. and r. F. Bishop, who own