Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1902-04-09
FARM ANp FLock.

Celery continues in fine supply.
Corn has been planted in Bee county.
Wheat and oats around santo look
we'll
Corn is growing nicely in Frio
county.
Texas peach crop promises to be a
large one.
Bee county farmers are well up with
their work.
Cherokee county reports abundant
stock water.
Recent rains have greatly revived
Kansas wheat
There are good stands of cotton in
Bosque county.
Recently set out fruit trees in Camp
county look we'll
Corn planting is finished in a num-
Der of Texas counties.
1t is not thought there will be many
lambs in Frio county this year,
Dick Payne, near Terrell, has thirty
acres in cotton that is doing we'll.
A great deal of wheat is being
shipped from this country to Europe.
Camp county truck growers are
planting cantaloupe seed and tomatoes.
Farm products of Arkansas have in
creased 80 per cent in value for ten
years.
S. C, Roberts made a shipment of
carload of horses from Pearsall to Ell
gin, Kan.
Myriads Of blackbirds are reported in
Lamar county and farmers fear they
win destroy crops.
Kansas farmers are predicting their
state will yield nearly 1OO,OOOOOO bush
els of corn this season.
Hemphil county reports grass as be.
ginning to grow and expects to soon
have a uxuriant growth
Farmers in Smith county fear the
blackbirds that abound there will de-
your their freshly planted corn.
w. d. Farrer made recent ship
ment from Ennis to Chicago OF eight
carloads of excellent beef cattle.
j. M. Skater of San Antonio, has
bought 1900 3 and 4-year-old steers
from Fred wilkins of Crockett county.
N Texas leads all the states In the
'numher OF turkeys raised, in 1900 hav-
ing 64S,671. Iowa led in chickens and
eggs and Kentucky in geese.
The Northwest Texas Melon Assoc
citation has contracted with San An
tonic firm for all the cantaloupe the
members can raise on 200 acres near
Chillicothe.
Fl. Flelschauer, immigration agent OF
the Texas Central railroad company, is
If the opinion that the day is fast ap-
preaching when Texas will take the
lead in the raising of fruit
Four and a half million pounds o,
cooked corned beef, packed at Kan
sas City, will be shipped to the Brit
ish army in South Africa during this
spring. This will require $4,000 cattle
The prospect this season for a fine
crop around AVN is the best ever
Known. The + ooms have nearly all
fallen and lrees are covered with
young fruit II one-tenth of the fruit
on trees stick there will be large
crop.
Confederated poultry clubs OF cen
trail Texas held a meeting at Waco tC
arrange for al exhibit at the Louisi
ana Purchase exposition next year il
ST. Louis, the Texas State fair at Dial
las, and the annual meeting at the
latter city next December.
There is a larger wheat acreage II
Kansas this season than last nnt
those who are cultivating the cerea
are in hopes that the yield per acre
will be of a large character. 1t look
well at this time.
w. C. Isaacs & Bro. of Hemphil
county have sold to McCulstlon Bros
Of Montana 2460 head of 2-year-oh
steers. These cattle will be Delivers
to the ranch of the McCulstlon Bros
in Montana some time in May.
Many farmers are going into Sher
man county and they are, as a rule, o
the better class-those who go Their
with the intention of making that cou1