Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1902-07-02
FARM AND FLOCK
plums sell steadily.

Cabbages are in good demand.
Blackberries are in fair supply
Vegetables continue in good supply,
Creek nation will raise a fair corn
crop.
Wichita county expects large corn
crop.
Cucumbers of good quality are being
marketed.
watermelons are in active demand
and fail supply.
Luling reports corn and hay crops
nearly total failures.
The dry weather has hurt fruit Sc
yerely in Upshur county
The trading in Angora goats this
year will exceed any year on record.
c. S. Standenmeir shipped from
Llano to Houston two cars of hogs.
H. B. Holmes recently shipped from
Luling to st. Louis twelve carloads of
cattle.
w. ]. Mcintyre of Marathon sold to
a Mr.. Long of California 1000 and
4-year-old steers.
An extra good crop of oats was
raised in that section of Lamar coun-
ty adjacent to Roxton.
During the past year $5,00OOOo have
been spent for improvements at the
Chicago stockyards.
Fifty dollars per acre from potatoes
is what a number of Grayson county
growers have realized.
Over 1000 yearllngs and 2s (steers)
have been shipped from Quanah to
South Dakota ranges.
A Wise county farmer who expected
to gather 1000 bushels of corn says he
will do well to raise 800.
H. q. Storey and A. H. McGehee
lately shipped each to st. Louis from
San Marcos six cars of fat beeves.
----5. 1sz-1iattiinore, near noxton, Lamar
county, will realize from his $50 acres
OF wheat an average of twenty five
bushels per acre.
According to the BREEDERS Gazette,
the six leading livestock markets are
Chicago, Kansas City St Louis, st.
Joseph and Sioux City.
Wheat yielded from twenty to TWEEN.
ty-seven bushels per acre in that sec
ton of Grayson county around Van
Aystyne and oats from sixty-five to
seventy-five bushels.
]. ]. Harweil OF Llano shipped to
Kansas City two cars of sheep Henry
Hoerster shipped from the same place
TO st. Louis two cars of sheep and the
same number of cars of cattle.
Dallas Thompson, prominent John
son county farmer, living six miles
northeast Of Alvarado, has in corn
acreage Of 200 acres. Mr.. Thompson
says he will not make ten bushels per
acre to the entire crop, it is drying up.
A new branding iron used by the
FRANKLIN Land and Cattle Company
OF South Dakota in branding the 49,
600 2-year old steers received from
Texas. The brand is made of copper
and is heated by gasoline, which keeps
It at uniform heat
4 1t is said that all Of the growers OF
the Henequin fiber in Yucatan have
merged their interests into organized
company with capital stock Of $10,-
100000 The officers are said to be
we'll known milionaires.
Internal Revenue Commissioner
Yerkes has decided that no artificial
coloring whatever can be used in the
manufacture of oleomargarine without
increasing the tax from one-quarter of
a cent to 10 cents per pound.
Nathan Daugherty Of Wabash, Ind,
sold to It. L Studebaker of Warren,
that state and David and Harry Stude-
baker of Bluffton his herd of Here
fords They brought $4,000, or an
average of $4O6 per head.
s. j. Wilmo. who has been feeding
1900 head of cattle near Morgan. made
a recent shipment of four cars to st.
Louis This makes twenty-four cars
that he has shipped. He will ship all
told about fifty cars.
Capt. Harry Landa OF New Braunfels
has bought herd of Red Polled cattle
owned by J. F. Green & Co. of Encinal.
The herd is a young one, but has won
es many rlbbons during the past eIgh-