The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1919-11-14

east OF Fort Stockton, BeCOS county, mas conf
pleted a dam at a cost of S160,000, to rrigate
$4,000 acres of land The main canal is sixteen
miles long.
Williamson County sheepmen recently sold
two lots of wool to Boston buyers for 60 cents
per pound The wool was shipped on the CO.
operation plan by Williamson and surrounding
counties.
Several cases of hog cholera have been re-
ported from Delta County Some Of the herds
were vaccinated to prevent the spread of the
disease.
Many bushels of wheat are rotting in the
shock in Western Texas and Western Oklahoma
because of no cars to haul the grain to market
or to storage.
Between 800 and 500 cans of homemade
products, which were exhibited at the Tarrant
County Boys and Girls Club Show, was sent to
the Corpus Christi flood sufferers gratuitously.
The products consisted Of fruits and vegetables.
D. II. Kerley can probably be called a city
farmer for he leased ten acres of vacant prop
erty in the southern part of Temple this spring
and planted it in cotton He has just gathered
and sold his fourth bale and will get three
more.
F. N. Gray, Texas cotton crop specialist, esti-
mates that about 100000 bales of unpicked
cotton was lost by the tropical storm that
swept the Gulf Coast of Texas last month
c. P. Little. a merchant of Bolton, who is
strong believer in chickens, reports that from
forty-six hens in eight months he received
1894 eggs. These eggs, figured at a price
of 40 cents per Dozen would yield an average
of $3.50 per month. Pretty good profit.
The farmers of West Texas are in crying
need for help to gather their maize and kattlr
corn crops and are paying good wages 10 an
able-boded men who are willing to work II
anyone reads this notice and Is out OF JOB,
all he has to do is to buy ticket to West
Texas and he will find plenty of employment.
The cotton crop in that part of the state is
averaging about one-haf bale to the acre ana
pickerS are scarce.
C. c. Morrison, prominent fruit grower of
Cooke County, sold his pears on the trees from
an orchard of 800 acres at 500 per acre.
Proof again that Texas is the greatest state
in the union.
A bale of long staple cotton sold on October
10th at Detroit, Red River County, Texas, at
So 1-2 cents a pound. The cotton Melted the
owner $335.62. The seed sold for Ssh
heavily on account of rains, as a large amount
of rice is already cut and standing in the shock
unprotected
Howard County had terrible hail storm,
which knocked the horns from cattle and killed
sheep on the w. P. Edwards ranch.
The COW that brought the highest price in
the Hereford auction sale at the Dallas State
Fair was Beauty Fairfax II and she was con-
signed by c. NJ. Largent of MerkeI She was
bid in to f. O. Kothmann of Mason for Sl,3lO
About forty animals were sold at an average
price of $40.
Bell County has dipped more than $4,000
heed of cattle since the dipping campaign start
ed in that county.
From present indications there will be be-
tween $500 and 5000 carloads of onions
shipped from the Laredo section during the
carly part of the coming season. Last Feb
luary POO carloads of onions was marketed
II. e. Crofts Of Marble Falls, a breeder and
raiser of Angora Goats, says that the goat rails
ing industry is highly profitable. lie says he
ships his mohair to Houston, and that from
there it is distributed among other States OF
the South and East
Trucks are being used in some parts of Har-
rison County to take the country school children
to the Marshall school every morning. As a
quick means Of transportation, it is proving
success in every particular
Hog cholera is spreading into Dallas County,
from Ellis County. Hog men say that when
cholera breaks out in herd, it should be iso-
lated and vaccinated at once and every pre-
caution taken to see that the disease does not
spread