Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-05-15
FARM AND FLOCK.

NAA CfNN'A NcNHNJ A4ttN - AAAS At"AA-'
Chinch bugs are on Collin county
corn.
Navarro county reports chinch bugs
on corn.
Splendid grain is reported in jack
son county.
Tyler is shipping strawberries by
the trainload.
therefore, is shipping many cattle to
northern pastures.
A. NJ McCustion of Miami shipped
500 steers to Montana.
Wharton county's dewberry crop is
the largest in ten years
Considerable watermelon acreage
has been planted around Berair.
At Nacogdoches farmers have been
selling cabbage at $11.25 per 1OO
The Bellevue neighborhood will
probably raise half wheat crop
The Aldine Berry Growers associa-
ton was organized at Aldine, Harris
county.
Numbers of crates of blackberrles
are being shipped from several Texas
points.
The Lockhart Grain company is dis
posing of 100000 bushels of corn in
Kansas.
Green bugs are doing serious damage
to Irish potatoes and flowers around
Greenvile.
Wheat and oats will be almost a to.
tai failure around Italy, Ellis county,
owing to green bugs,
W. w. Whatley shipped carload of
hogs from Mineral Wells to Fort
Worth few days ago.
The Illinois legislature has appro-
priated $6S,QOO for the use of the state
agricultural college at Urbana,
M. R. Birdwell shipped carload
of mules from Mineral Wells to New
Orleans, destined for the Transvaal.
Mr. Whiting shipped fifteen cars
of cattle from Corpus Christi to Falls
City and n Dunn of the same place
sent twenty-siX cars to the Indian Ter
ritory.
Growers Of broom corn throughout
the country are now looking for seed
and the prospects are that larger
quantity will be planted in the South.
o,n ,4o+on 49,. 49,.
The Atlanta. Texas, Truck Growers
association has employed w f. Cam
eron as corresponding secretary and
business manager of the association
during the business season.
Ex-Gov Tarrazzas. of Chihuahua,
Mexico, is said to own 100000 acres of
land and annually brands $4,000 calves.
He ships each year great numbers of
cattle into the United States.
The recent rains in some southwest
counties will prove of vast benefit to
the growing crops, besides cause
goodly supply of water to be stored
and result in grass growing fast and in
abundance.
Several cows have died in Kaufman
county recently of strange disease.
The first symptoms are swelling of the
legs and later bleeding of the nose.
The COWS afflicted have Invariably died
in about seven days.
John V. Farwell and A. G. Boyce
have sold to E. " Halsell of Vinita
/. T., 10000 acres of grazing land in
Hartley. county and 1000 head of cat
tie. The land was sold for 50 per acre,
and cattle $50 per head. @
George T. Reynolds of Albany pur-
chased two additional ranches in New
Mexico, together with about 5000 head
of cattle. He acquired valuable water
rights and alfalfa farms. The consid-
Grafton paid for the cattle is said to
have been sl25,OOO. Price of the land
not stated.
The wheat and oat crops in the
Qinlan, Hunt county, section are prac
tically ruined by the green bugs, and
the corn crop is suffering from the
same pest The crop prospect is de-
cidedly gloomy at present.
Twenty cars of meal-fed cattle we're
shipped from Italy, Ellis county, on
goth ultimo, and eleven cas- newt day.
They went to Kansas City and St.
Louis. This wound up seasons ship
ment of meal-fed cattle. Total since
Jan. l, 1902 cars
Last year saw nearly 100000 pounds
of hog bristles exported from one dis