The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1919-09-04

do not demand high wages, and do not object
to long hours The average capacity OF the
silos is little below 200 tons.
The Plains country reports oats making as
high as 100 bushels to the acre and wheat as
much as 40 bushels to the acre. There has
been big demand for threshing machinery
from the Dallas houses.
Mat Zollner, of Fate, Texas, 66 years old,
died recently. Mr. Zollner was very proml-
nent and influential farmer of Rockwell
County and was very successful as farmer
and stock raiser He and his brother, Charles
Zollner, owned the largest farm in Rockwell
County. Mr. Zollner wrote considerably for the
newspapers and farm papers and his contribu-
tons were always sensible and well worth the
reading.
There are numerous complaints of damage
In some fields from boil worms and boil weeVlls,
around Lockhart, but they are not any worse
than in former years. Many farmers have cut
out every other row of their rank cotton 10
give the plant more air and sunshine and this
should bring the damage from cotton pests
down materially.
II is estimated that thousands of dollars was
lost by melon growers of Hopkins County on
account Of car shortage.
Farmers are harvesting the best maize crop
ever grown in Scurry County. The yield is
running a ton to one and a half tons an acre
The market for head maize opened at $4,000
a ton.
A dispatch says that more than 80 per cent
OF the cotton crop around Wharton has been
abandoned. In places entire fields have been
deserted as the land has been constantly under
Tho Indications hEWpVpr good Tor
fine rice crop.
Farmers in the Abilene section are finding
great difficulty in getting their feed crops out.
Maize is making from three to five tons to the
acre but cutting machines are scarce and so
is help. Some farmers are offering one-halt
of their maize crops to anyone who VIII cut
them.
The corn crop is good in Williamson County
and cane has been cut and stacked but the
boil worms are eating the squares of the cot
ton before they bloom
At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on August 18th, Mrs.
Earl Fry bought a bushe basket Of peaches
for $3.50 In the bottom of the basket she
found note from a women in Texas saying
that the basket had been sold for SOC and ask
ing that she be notified of the cost price to the
consumer.
Arthur Dixon. living near Jacksonville, from
three-fourths of an acre of blackberries sold $50
gallons of berries These sold at $500 per
crate w. G.. Fuller. from four acres of berries
sold $50 three-gallon crates or 2,250 gallons OF
berries. at 81 90 per crate. Berries in East
Texas require very little cultivation, as the
vines are hardy and multiply rapidly, making
it profitable investment
The death during August of hundreds of
horses mules and cattle, and some hogs, from
charbon is causing alarm among the farmers
and stockmen of Harris County. Steps have
been taken by the Houston Chamber of Com
merce TO check the ravages of the disease as
far as possible.
There is widespread and serious complaint
from all of the cotton farmers from North,
South and East Texas Of the TavageS of boil
worms and boil weevs, which is accumulated by
the warm, damp weather The crop, which was
flourshing up 70 four weeks ago, is now injured
to a great extent irreparably and the outcome
Is still in doubt as TO how great Is the damage
Many farmers around Tyler are making from
$4,000 to $4,000 per acre from Bermuda hay
The corn crop is the best raised in Smith
County for fifteen years and sweet potatoes and
peas are very promising.
veterinarians are warning OWleIS Ol Cstlle
herds regarding the carcasses Of cattle which
have died of anthrax. Under no circumstances
should the carcasses be skinned, they say. as 1t
will result in spreading the disease.
Recently Dallas men went into partnership
with Fort Worth man in the purchase of
Holstein bull in the North at a cost of $4,000.
Dallas County dairymen are purchasing 100 or
more registered Iiolstein cows at an APPROX
mated cost of $4,000