Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1902-07-30
FARM AND FLOCK.


Catalogues are in good supply.
Fannln county cotton looks nice.
Watermelons continue numerous.
Cotton in Denton county looks well.
Clay county will have fair cotton
crop,
Creeks and tanks are full around
Santo.
June corn is doing well around Glen
Rose, Somerville county.
Some Hunt county farmers report
boil worms in their corn.
Rains in the Pecos valley have been
the heaviest for ten years.
Brown county farmers are planting
large quantities of fall feed.
Large quantities of feed Taylor
county farmers hope to raise.
Hereford has shipped about 10000
head of cattle so far this season.
Stockmen around Van Horn are jub-
AlhuL OfeT lue GRABS plOuuSin6 ialhs'
The late rains will enable Scurry
county farmers to raise forage crops.
Cotton in the Dublin section of
Erath county is in splendid condition
Some cattle on the range near Bart
lesville, l. T., have died OF Texas
fever.
Pineapples are said to have the
same wonderful digestive aid princi
pies as pepsin.
Runge's first bale of cotton classed
good middling. 1t brought 1-2c, with
a $25 premium.
Farmers in the southern portion of
the Chickasaw nation expect to raise
q large cotton crop.
Karnes county's first bale of this
seasons cotton was raised by G. w.
Sickensen. 1t sold for SC.
Nearly every farmer in the vicinity
Of Sunset, Montague county, is talk
Z ing of planting some late crop.
The recent rains in the San Angus
tine section came too late to help
corn, as there was little of it left.
The Grandview section of Johnson
county hopes to be able to raise fair
amount of sorghum, June corn and
millet.
H. T. German, near Proctor, Erath
county, has raised an ear of corn
twelve inches long and ten inches in
circumference.
Negotiations were closed at New
York for 5000 Puerto Cabello, La
guayra and other hides, they being
sold at 10 3-4c, duty paid.
Col Ike d. Pryor has become owner
of the I'D ranch in Zavalla county
The ranch comprises some 10000
acres and is valuable property.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Kuykendall of near
Bay City, Wharton county, have sold
their 15,0O0-acre ranch and farm TO
Rev. M. D. Chilson of Nebraska.
Four large tracts of land near the
Vera Cruz and Pacific railway were
sold to Americans, the amount of sales
exceeding 100000, Mexican money.
w. B. Fogle of Comasco, Fannin
county, has cleared S470 from his
three-acre blackberry patch this sea
son. He intends enlarging the acr
age next spring.
Agricultural societies of Poland are
negotiating with American manufac
turers direct it is said, for the pur
chase of farm machinery, excluding
the German middlemen.
A truck growers association has
been organized at Timpson with 1oC
members. A thousand or more acres
will be set out in peach trees and 6
large acreage put in tomatoes.
N. B. Glover raised in Red river
bottom north of Denison some corr
which has been ground into meal. The
seed was planted March is and the
corn gathered July 70. little less
than four months. He will make six
ty bushels to the acre.
A stalk of cot.2- Gearing seventy
two developed bolls was gathered il
field near Hutchins, Dallas county
by A. j. Richter, excursion agent o
the Houston and Texas Central rail
way. 1t is in sunset-Central exhibit
at Houston.
]. L. Higgins sold at Henrietta e.s'
en- cars of cattle to B. B. Smith o
Honey Grove at $40 per head. The!