The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-08-07

The merchants OF Tyler are 10 assist In wag.
ing n campaign against the boil weevils which
ARE attacking cotton fields OF Smith County with
great tenaclty. Some cotton fields have been
entirely destroyed by tho wcevila
The State Live Stock Commission, In spo-
cia bulletin, advises that the turkey buzzard
be shot. trapped or exterminatcd In any way
that will serve TO put an end to It. The scien-
lists connected with the commission believe
that the buzzards eat the carcases of infected
cattle and then carry the germ Of anthrax or
Charlton TO other herds, thereby spreading one
of the most deadly diseases known among stock
in the great Southwest.
On top of the other good crops comes the
report from Brentwood that the pecan crop
in Brentwood territory is very promising and
that big crop is anticipated. Brentwood is
noted for its many varieties of fine pecans.
Big Sandy is reporting big crop of corn
sweet potatoes peanuts, fruits and berries.
More than $4,000 worth of registered Hol-
stein-Friesian cattle will be bought by Dallas
County dairymen from Northern breeders with
in the next six or eight weeks They VIII
average in cost about $500 each.
An Abilene grain dealer estimates Taylor
County wheat crop at one million bushels.
Mr.. Logan Ramsey, who lives two miles west
of Bartlett, Williamson County thrashed out
3615 bushels of wheat per acre on his crop OF
twenty-five acres
Marshall and other parts of East Texas re-
port fine corn crop as well as good crops OF
peanuts, sweet potatoes, sorghum, cowpeas,
watermeons, canteloupes, peaches and all kinds
of other fruits.
The Hale County wheat crop varies from Is
to 40 bushels per acre. Some fields of oats have
made as much as 50 bushels per acre in this
county.
The West Texas Wool and Mohair Association
sold over 100000 pounds of wool and 100000
pounds of mohair to local and Eastern buyers
The first 1919 bale of Texas cotton sold at
Houston for S212 pound and it weighed All
pounds 1t was grown by Salvador Cardenas
on a ranch in Hidalgo County, one OF our South
Texas counties.
A number of cattle have died recently from
eating prickly pears in McCuoch County. Vet
erinarans do not understand why cattle prefer
prckly pears to grass since the ranges are well
supplied with grazing.
The Weld of wheat in Runnels County is aver
aging 26 bushels per acre and oats from 90
to so bushels per acre.
In order TO increase their dairy stock the citi-
zens of Edna have ordered Holsten calves and
yearlinps from the Northern States and are
raising them on SKINNED milk as their main
diet.
The first liberia peaches sold at Jacksonville
brought S275 per bushel.
A farmer near Stephenville raised cabbage
weighing % pounds.
United States aiIplane, with Lieut.. W. H.
Tsh as pilot, is being used among the cotton
fields along border counties by the Department
of Agriculture in search of evidences of pink
boil worm.
Smith County has shipped 500 cars of to-
matoes this season.
Runnes County is dragging its roads with
drags attached to auto trucks. They drag after
each rain at very small expense.
Glen Crawford of Sterling City purchased
1000 lambs from S. M. Ogilvie at $500 per
head, the flock being considered one of the best
in that section.
Frank c. Vaden who recently sold his large
Grayson County ranch, sold twenty Hereford
cows and twenty calves to the HUMPHREYS broth
ers at Oden, receiving So 300 for the forty head,
an average of S425 each.
It is estimated that Smith County will ship
from $50 to $50 cars of liberia peaches. Prices