Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-06-19
FARM, GARDEN. LIVESTOCK.

& jules Ol Gan AuBelU.
All conditions point to an immense
yield of cotton this year,
Steer yearlfngs are selling all over
New Mexico at SIS per head.
The motto of Texas at the present
time seems to be Let us dig"
Cow peas, like clover, improve the
land upon which they are grown.
At San Angelo Lee Mays sold to T. j.
Neill 100 cows and calves at $780,
j. @. MCabe of Coke county paid
5000 each for two Hereford bull calves
w. e. Perminter of Big Springs
states that his calf crop will reach 9S
per cent.
w. T. Hudson of Haskell has sold 10
his brother in Dickens county 200 cows
with calves at $50
The Germans have proverb which
reads, Love your neighbor but do not
pull down the fence"
Lay Powell of Sterling county re-
Gently sold to John Lovelady 100 twos
at reported price of $3.50.
Several small punches of yearlings
In Donley county have been sold re-
rently at $14 to SIS head.
If you expect your neighbor to love
you, do not allow fence breaking stock
to run lose and destroy his crops.
All the capital farmer needs as a
beginning is the physical strength and
an ordinary amount of skill to till the
ground.
William Herald of Amarillo sold to
Henry Heating of Billings, Mont
$500 steers ranging in age from one
to four years.
w. S. Cook of Wakefield, Neb., has
bought of Frank N. Page of Clarendon
ESQ exceptionally fine yearling steers at
$40 per head.
1t is the farmer who has paid the
greatest attention to his business and,
not the one with the richest soil who
comes out best
At Alice Clark & Collins sold $50
grade yearling steers to ]. G.. Woods
of the Benton ranch at price reported
to be $12 head.
John Scharbauer OF Midland recently
sold car of Shorthorn bulls at $75
around to H. M, Truehart of Galveston,
whose ranch lies near Maria.
The first carload of poultry ever ship
ped to Hillsboro, Texas, included 5000
chickens, turkeys and ducks, and this
shipment was made on April 10.
At Midland N. H. Ellis bought of S.
e. Townsend a Subsection pasture
near the town and 1876 head of grade
Shorthorn and Hereford COWS.
A most destructive hail storm visit
ed the section around Angus. Corn
and cotton in places are ruined The
cotton will be replanted at once.
Lovelady & Stokes of Mitchell coun-
ty have sold to White Bros. 100 year
lings and 1886 three-year-oId sters at
SIS for yearlings and $23 for threes.
Do not raise animals for which there
is very little demand when for very
little more you can raise those for
which you can always get good
price.
w. d. Cornell of Midland, who
ranches in Gaines and Terry counties,
recently sold 40 young bulls at $40
around to Martin & Sloan of Silver
City, N. M.
The country around Matador is
wringing wet. The cowman, the far
mer, the merchant and every other
kind of man is wearing smile. Crops
are fine and water and grass are ev-
erywhere.
John Young sold the Mrs. Drake
steer yearlings to j. NJ. shannon last
week for $14 a head.
At Alice Gunter & Jones bought
about 500 yearling steers from II. W..
Garrett.
A good rain fell all over Coryell
county. 1t came in good time for corn
and cotton, as some parts of the coun-
ty had not had rain for two months.
Wheat harvesting is in progress in this
county, and the yield will be better
than was expected two weeks ago.
The Childress Land and Cattle COM
pany owners of the "Shoe Nail' ranch,