Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-04-17
FIELD AND FLOCK.

strawberries are moving a little
lIyelier.
Guatemala will have an exhibit at
Buffalo.
Corn is three weeks late in portions
of Falls county.
A $1OOOOOOOO Alaskan syndicate
has been formed.
The wheat outlook around Chilli
Gothic is promising.
Owing to cold weather some corn
will have to be replanted.
ternational Live Stock show at Chi
cago has been fixed for Nov. 80 to Dec.
Z.
In the Choctaw nation it is said the
green bug is doing much damage to
oats.
Pine apples of the finest quality and
in good supply are on the San Antonio
Market.
Wheat in the Ardmore section of
the Indian Territory is reported ex-
cellent.
Blanks, Wfthers & Wooten shipped
+ from Lockhart to st. Louis several
cars of beef cattlet
Damage to wheat around Sarger,
Denton county, is estimated at from
40 to 60 per cent.
Eggleston and Hadden of Smith
vile shipped from Flatonia seven cars
Of cattle to Comstock
F Bellville is said to have shipped
some of the best cabbage this season
ever grown around there.
Three carloads of cattle and the
same number of hogs were shipped
from Bonham to northern markets on
the LIST.
Pittsburg, Pa, had snow storm on
! the Sd inst. of such severity as to prac-
tically tie up the street car traffic and
!, inflicted nearly 100000 damages.
] Around Rhome in Wise county a
great deal of wheat has been ruined
by insects, while, on the other hand,
i large acreage has not been molested.
\ Two thousand Angora goats, 500 of
them registered, were sold at Kansas
4 City. They We're from the ranch of
FraBk Garst in the Pecos river valley,
i lAa Mexico
~ "A number of ranchmen in the Pan
n fandle around Mani will have an
abundance of feed, such as sorghum,
millet and kafir corn, to carry over
the next winter.
Prof, Mally thinks the wheat pest
4 will last two years and advises far
mers to neither pillow up wheat nor
use Paris green. He says if the lana
i Is put in corn the bug will devour that
cereal.
Messrs. Charles F. Hunt of FL Paso,
y J. N. Porter of Globe, Ariz., w. M.
4 McClintock and w H. Wood of Stat
ford, Ariz., purchased 1000 head of cat
4 tie from Terranzas of Chihuahua,
4 Mex, few days ago.
7 A. G Stantz of New Braunfels, the
y we'll known -eeder of that place, has
p bought 1000 8 and 4-year-old steers
\ from Ike T. Pryor which he will place
y ON feed in short time. The price
4 paid was $25 per head.
The bids Of the successful contest
& ant leasing 1000 acres of the Kaw
& lands in the Indian Territory recently
opened in Washington amount to $780,
"a 600 or $4,000 more than the lands
have brought under former contracts.
81 w. M. Gamer, large wheat far
mer of Denton county, tried lime on
W the wheat pest. The lice, he says,
= after being immersed in the lime,
r water, crawled about as lively as usu-
K al and began operations on the wheat.
\ The Dallas Union stockyards, just
III opened will accommodate undersheds
and in pens 1000 hogs, an equal num-
~ Der of cattle and 1000 sheep. The lin
1t for a single weighing is 10000
pounds.
Something in the neighborhood of
10000 acres of prairie sod will be turn
ed in the Creek nation this season.
3 Information received is that more full
blood Indians who have never here
tofore farmed win do so than ever
before this year
Receipts of cattle, hogs and sheep
BIT five western markets combined
Showed in March decreases from
March of last year Cattle for the
present month, totaled 100000 falling
Dtf 10000 from last March, and were
" he smallest for March since 1897
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