Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-05-01
FIELD AND FLOCK.

Strawberry shiuments are many.
English peas are being shipped from
Alvin.
Heavy rains have fallen in Moore
county.
Some cotton is being planted in
Moore county.
Voluntee oats are heading nicely in
parts of Ellis county
On the 10th Margaret had her first
rain since October.
Bowie county farmers are encour.
aged by the crop outlook.
AT Sutherland Springs on the 10th
rain fell in sheets for an hour.
The green bugs have attacked peach
trees and shdubbery at Denison.
Sleet and snow last week injured
fruit some in Hardeman county.
Late cabbage in Bee county was
greatly benefited by the recent rain.
The oat crop was seriously damaged
in Wichita county by the plant louise.
Milford, Ellis county, shipped ten
cars of cattle to st. Louis on the 18th.
Last weeks heavy rains aid some
damage to strawberries in Smith coun.
ty.
A car Of fat hogs was shipped from
Italy, Ellis county, to Dallas on the
18th.
The green bug did considerable dam
age to wheat and oats in Throckbor-
ton county,
Missouri will exhibit 1000 plates of
apples at the Pan-American exposi-
ton at Buffalo.
A Cooke county strawberry farmer
expects to employ 500 hands picking
his crop, beginning May 10.
In some localities it is said the
warm weather is driving the green
bugs out of the snail grain fields
Mason & Eubork shipped seven cars
of cattle from Mabank and five cars
from Kemp to Longmire & Waters at
Anadarko, Ok.
w. G. Wright of Cuero, who left
the Concho country ten years ago, has
returned to his first love and is on the
lookout for cow ranch in that section.
Col M. Half will plant experiment.
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rigated farm near San Antonio, and
upon the Schreiner-Halfr ranch near
Pearsall.
Fayette Tankersley sold to j.. c..
Smith of Big Springs 5000 cows and
2-year-old heifers at $40, the deal ag-
gregating 100000.
A large number of farmers of Brown
county are holding cotton in their
yards at home awaiting better prices.
There are 1000 bales held in the cotton
yards at Brownwood.
f. c. Culpepper, living in Johnson
county near Grandview, is planting a
large corn acreage and raising hogs.
During the past several months Mr..
Culpepper sold $1,000 worth of hogs.
Piles & Lewis of Clarendon delivered
to Cantrill & Son of Harvelville, Kas.,
200 and 4-year-old steers at Estelline.
Thfrty-two dollars per head was paid
for them.
d. S. Terry last year raised about
one-eighth of an acre of fine Connecti-
cut seeding tobacco on mis- place, just
| north of Sherman. His bed of sets"
is now in fine shape and he will put in
about ten acres this year.
The department of agriculture has
issued a circular relative to steps Ia
ken to prevent the introduction of rim
derpest into the Hawaiian Islands,
which says rinderpest is the great
plague of oriental countries, which has
frequently swept over Europe, de-
stroying all bovine animals.
Messrs. Seaburn, Hiskins and Hudg-
ms of Velasco have sold to j. M
Daugherty of Abilene 1900 8 and
4-year-old steers, to be delivered this
month. This is the largest stock sale
that has been made there this year.
Mr. A. j. Boyd, who has a large
ranch in Mexico, has arrived at odes-
sa with twenty-nine cars of Mexican
cows, 900 head, which he will keer
about twenty-five miles north. They
are the best Mexican cattle ever
brought there.