Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1902-05-07
FARM AND FLOCK,
Mules are in demand.

Oranges continue In heavy demand.
Hot weather has hurt Kansas wheat.
South Texas is shipping many beans.
Fancy Strawberries bring good
prices.
Wheats and oats look well around
Estelle.
Grasshoppers are reported In Waller
county.
somervell county crops are in good
condition.
Corn In Lamar county, despite hail,
looks well
someryell county reports good
stand OF corn.
Haskell county will have nice oat
crop this year,
Corn is up to a good stand in many
Texas counties.
Wilson and Karnes county farmers
are in good spirits.
Long Island farmers have organized
a caulihower trust.
The stand of cotton around Glen
rose promisese to be good.
The first rain for several months
fell at Sweetwater on the odd
r. H. Moseley of Llano will ship
5000 cattle, all told, to the Territory.
A plague of locusts has appeared in
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky.
The rice acreage in the vicinity OF
Port Arthur this year will be doubled.
F.. Curry of Omaha, Neb., has pur-
chased $500 2-year-old steers at Mid
land.
G.. A. Winters of Durant, l. T., sold
carload OF pure-bred calves at San
Angelo.
Corn. sorghum cane and all kinds
of vegetables are growing nicely in
Jack county.
]. s. Pierce of Crockett county sold
1000 muttons to w. w. Means, after
shearinf, at SO per head.
Asher Richardson, the well known
Dimmit county ranchman, expects to
feed 10000 sheep at Encinal.
Poulton & Mitchell will probably
ship 1900 cattle from the zavalla
county ranch to the eTerritory.
w. A. Johnson Of Snyder sold to Maj.
Watts OF Emma 5000 yearlings at
$3.50, delivery to be made May l.
A large consignment OF wheat has
been made from Portland, Ore. to
Bremen. Germany.
The total fruit and vegetable park
OF California in 1901 was 3753.130
cases, against 3756,6O2 cases in 1900.
Mrs. p. f. Jarnigan. living in Chero.
kee county, has turkey hen that re.
Gently laid nineteen eggs in thirteen
days.
The twenty-fourth annual meeting
Of the American Guernsey club will be
held May IA at the Fifth Avenue no.
tel New York.
On account OF the shortness OF
grass, the movement of cattle from
Berclalr to the Indian Territory has
been heavy
A Beeville firm shipped from Nor
mama two carloads of broom corn
which was the product of fifty acres
The growers received $1400, or $2S per
acre. A large acreage will be planted
this season in Bee county.
In the death of Sol" Sugg, the cat.
tie interests of the southwest have
lost one of there foremost operators
He owned the Conner and ]. B. Wilson
ranches, in Irion county. His estats
is valued at $l,5OO,OOO.
Texas cattlemen are feeding 100,
900 head of cattle for the markets oil
Cuba. according to ]. w. Vincent OF
Colorado City. He says that prices
are high on that island and Texans ex
pect good returns from the venture.
1t Is said that shipments from Enci.
nal to the Indian Territory of cattle
this season will not be so large as they
were last season. The cattle owners
1t is declared intend feeding at hons
on pear and cotton seed meal.
There have been shipped daily from
Alvin an average of 700 crates OF
Strawberries. Last year $4,000 crates
were marketed. and the crop of this