Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-10-16
FARM AND FLOCK.
Indiana has a leech farm.
Wheat sowing Ia in order

Colorado beets arrive in Texas.
Cotton picking is nearing the end.
Barley for pasturago is being sown.
Collin county has fine pecan crop.
Green worms hurt Callahan county
grass.
The Pecos valley is sending out can
ialoupes
Army worms do damage in some
counties
Rice harvesting progresses nicely in
Fort Bend county.
The Fruit Growers association Of
Mabank has membership OF fifty.
Freestone peaches raised in the Pecos
valley find ready sale at 81 per crate.
Spanish fever is reported among cat
Tie in some parts of the Indian Terri
tory.
Some cattle losses from blackleg are
reported in the southern part OF Col
lin county.
A truck-growers' association was Or
ganized at Jefferson. Twenty-eight
names We're enrolled.
/ Neyill & Jackson of Alpine shipped
four cars of calves and one of cows to
Kansas City some days ago.
! Lige Runnels shipped lately twelve
cars Of cattle from Mineral Wells to
Allen, where they were placed on feed.
A man near Springfield Mo-, received
$4,000 for the apples from his fifty-ave
acre orchard, and the buyer haryests
the crop.
John Alter living near Wellington.
Kan, has a forty-acre apple orchard
which has paid for itself nineteen
times over the past four years.
Messrs. Ligon G Brown have return
ed from SOO-mile trip in Mason, Gill
iesple, Kerr and other counties look
ing for pasture for 5000 head of hogs.
Cotton experts are now trying to
reach correct conclusion regarding
the damage caused the crop in Missis-
sippi by the recent spell of bad wea-
Their.
Cnas. schauer and VIM. Shattuck CT
ozona sold 1900 sheep, including NUT
ton and stock sheep to r. G. Ferguson
and Hector Mckenzie at $1.47 1-2 after
shearing. t"
Southwestern Kansas, around Lib
eral, and west of there, is said to be
, well flled with excellent cattle. There
; is a good supply of Kaffir corn and 9TH
er forage food.
5. T. Coleman. living twelve miles
northeast of Terrell, is feeding his
twenty-five head of cattle leaves of
trees. He cuts the trees down Tally
| and allows his stock to eat one hour
: each day this forage.
: Tire cars of thoroughbred Hereford
cattle and two cars of horses arrived
at Roscoe from Coleman county, for
Marion zellner, who recently purchased
a five-section ranch short distance
, | - W "a SiAdI pidIt.
: G. M. Gentry, living Just south of the
> city limits of Denton, has sold thus
I far this season $62 so worth of toma-
0es from piece of land 54x66 feet.
and is still gathering. He has a bunch
Il peanuts, with 154 COOLERS thereon.
Col. A. G. Boyce, manager of the
; Syndicate ranch, has sold to Holt C
: Underwood of Montana 5000 head of
0 S-year-old steers, to be delivered as
t soon as it can be done. The animals
are said to have sold for $50 per head.
A Hillsboro report says that John
Alexander, a truck farmer living in the
sandy land near Woodbury., has had
= success with winter onions and cab
: bage, He plans his crops in the, fall and
has them ready for market by the first
: OF April.
t Broom corn, which at the beginning
t of the season sold at sos a ton has
: reached the unprecedented price o:
n $14O This is attributable to the Gro,
4 shortage of the two years precedizS
= this one.
A stock company has been fully or
S ganized and an experienced man engag-
|, ed to raise tomatoes near Atlanta, Tex
l Twenty acres will be raised for ship
s ping and thirty for the canning factory
I tho company will conduct
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