Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-02-20
FIELD. RANCH, GARDEN.
Rain las helped wheat and oats.

DIT.
c. c. Smith of Mason sold 1900 threes
At $21 per head.
Considerable oat sowing will be in
dulged in around Ennis.
Farmers in the Blanco section are
preparing for corn planting.
In some sections land has been pre-
pared for. corn and cotton planting.
There will be considerable Irish
potato acreage around Albany this
wear.
S. E. Allen, an Ennis market garden
er, has sold strawberries grown in the
open air.
One hundred acres will be planted
in cantaloupes in the vicinity of Bee
vile this year.
Alvins first shipment of strawber-
ries was sent to Houston and SOC per
basket was realized.
Since Jan 1 over ITO head of cat
tie have been shipped east from Baird
TO feeding pens.
There were on feed in Colorado on
Jan i 100000 lambs, about double
that of any previous season.
Messrs. Webb of Baird shipped one
carload Of horses and one car of horses
and mules to eastern markets.
The Panhandle Stockmen's associa-
ton will hold its second annual con-
vention at Amarillo, Tex, March
and 6.
Cabbage growers around Corpus
Christi expect to ship 1000 cars this
season. Last season the shipments
were about 400 cars.
The steamship Montreal left New Or
leans with 1900 mules for Cape Town.
The recent snow in Kansas has
greatly benefited wheat.
Is The wool market has been more act
I've of late and Texas woods have been
moderately active in Boston with affair
inquiry for spring woods.
The meeting Of the Texas Swine
Breeders association, held at MGISi9T
ney. was largely attended ai1tg -sevsfal
interesting topics pertaining to the in
dustry discussed
The Cotulla Record is responsible for
the report, which it says is based on
good authority, that 1000 cars of cattle
will be shipped from Encinal to mar
ket during the next three months.
The official estimate of the wheat
crop in Argentine, which IS just now
being harvested, is that there will be
an exportable surplus of l,750,00o tons,
which is equal to nearly 100000
kashels.
Twelve cars of cattle were loaded at
the Denison oil mill for northern mar
kets one day last week and fifteen
cars were loaded to be shipped to mar
ket. These cattle have been fed by j..
s. Todd of Checotah.
J..E. Davis shipped 141S head Of hogs
from Milford In January, for which he
paid the farmers of that community
over $4,000. He ships great many
hogs all the year and the Dallas pack
ing house gets nearly all of them.
Seven thousand head of cattle is a
good-sized bunch to go from one ranch,
but that is the number recently shipped
from the x l T ranch in the Panhandle
by D. Rankin of TarlSio, Mo. The cat
tie are all to be dehorned and kept
in Missouri until next fall.
According to reports from Luling
cotton in that section will be planted
much earlier this year than last ow-
ing to the fear of the boil weevil, OF
which the farmers say there is no end
20 the number now in the fields, and
grass around the corners of the fences
The price of yearling steers In Texas
has been the subject OF much specula-
tion of late. The breeder contends
that yearlings will not be cheaper, but
COWS higher II the stockmen will shir
their heifer calves to market.
The acreage of potatoes, turnips and
beans Will be nearly doubled in the
Panhandle this season and that Of mil
let. oats and corn will be increased
nearly so per cent Much new land
will be put in cultivation ia that sec
tlon.
Word comes from Salt Lake CITY
that Secretary Martin of the Nationa
Live Stock association is very Heri
ousiy IN. He Is confined to his room
at the Knutsford hotel and physlcianl