Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-12-11
FARM AND FLOCK.
Grapes bring good prices.

Galloway, Neb., has farmers club
Austin is said to be feeding 5000
cattle.
Victoria is shipping many cattle to
market.
Wild ducks are reported numerous
In many localities.
Wilbarger county will have an inn
mense wheat acreage.
]. NJ. Chittim has sold to j. X.
Burr, of Eagle Pass 1000 calves.
The Illinois Poultry association
meets at Jacksonville, Dec. 12-17
j. Raphael shipped from San Angelo
to Fort Worth two cars of horses.
Strawberry acreage near Dickinson.
Texas, has been increased 80 per cent.
sheepmen from various points are
pasturing their flocks near Sanderson.
Platte, Buchanan and Clinton coun-
ties Missouri, hiss an increased wheat
acreage.
Fifty Shorthorn cattle were sold at
Indianola, Ia, at an average of s5O6.6O
per head.
Col, w NJ L. Black of San Angelo
shipped carload of Angora goats TO
Paducah, Ky.
Rev. A. s. Burning, of Reeves coun-
ty. has bought small herd OF Gallo.
way cattle.
The Improved Stock Breeders asso-
citation of Iowa meets at Jefferson, De-
cember 1919.
From Clip 7. M. OConnor shipped
seventeen carloads of cattle to ST. Lou
is, Galveston and New Orleans
Joseph Cotulla of Cotulla has sold
$50 more steers to the Temple parties
he had previously disposed 800 to.
Eggs continue in strong demand and
at top prices ali over Texas. They
have for long time been scarce
article.
Cattle range is in demand around
Sanderson. and some cattlemen are
paying from 25 to 40 cents per month
per head for pasturage.
Forty acres of improved farming
land near Charlton, Ia, recently sold
for $125 per acre, the highest price
ever recorded in Lucas county.
George A. Kennedy shipped 250/iitsd
of threes. and lfonrs- steers FROM. val
de to San Marcos. The %%ere pSf.'
chased some time ag1 byiH. G. Storey.
j. M. Lewis of Jacksonville, Fla. has
a curiosity in blood gfape fruit. 1t
is the first year that the tree has
fruited, and the fruit is revelation to
Mr.. Lewis.
1t is claimed that in portions of Kan
sas prairie dogs are increasing. 1t is
asserted the little pests are inhabiting
1,224,S54 acres of pasture land and
committing many depredations.
Judge Fred Willhouse, the apple
king" of Kansas, having 1910 acres
in orchards in the Sunfower state,
has sold his 6O,OOObushel crop for
$4,000
Some excellent lemons have been
raised in the city park of Dallas. this
year. They were grown in dollhouse
Good judges declare them to be better
than any brought from tropics
At the Hereford cattle sale in Eas,
ST. Louis, Ills. the prices brought
we're Of satisfactory character
total of 112 animals brought an aver
age price of s164.91 made up of fifty
one bulls and sixty-one females.
The West Texas Poultry and Pet
Stock associations officers are making
preparations fer the first meeting,
which will be held at San Antonio
four days, beginning on the 10th. Tho
premium list is liberal.
officials of the International Live
stock exposition, to be held at Chicago
next week, say they expect an attend
ance of 100000. Arrangements to en-
terrain that number of visitors are be-
ing made by the parties in charge.
Ex-Sheriff Lee Hughes, of Dallas
will next year experiment with the'
raising of rice on a ranch he possesses
in Kaufman county. Mr. Hughes says
he will depend on rainfall, and no,
irrigate any.