The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1920-03-12
ri TEXAS FARM NEWS

their cotton crop. An increased acreage is re-
ported. Several counties are increasing their
peanut and corn acreage.
Big lake, which is 70 miles west Of San An
gelo, is getting on the map these days, there
recently having been organized at that place,
a Mohair Association with a capital stock of
$4,000 A warehouse to cost $4,000 will be
built to store the spring clips.
c. NJ. Largent of Merkel, well-known breeder
of Herefords, has entered fourteen of his fine
white-faced cattle in the classes of the Fat
Stock Show to be held at Fort Worth March
to 10. Walter and Carl Matthews of Cole
man have sent an entry of baby beef.
c. N. Hobson, has realized $4,000 from cot
ton grown on the farm of A. w. Blain near
Vernon. One-fouith, or $4,000 of the $32 1000
goes to Mr. Blain; the landlord Hobson raised
about 200 bales and is a tenant farmer He eX-
poets to own his own farm next year.
The price of eggs dropping to 30 cents per
dozen at Smithville sounds like old times COM
ing back again. The recent Sprng-like weather
caused old "bidde" TO get busy and it is prob
able that, the markets will soon be flooded with
fresh-laid, spring eggs.
A corporation, with capital stock of 500,
600, has been organized in Tyler to build pack
ing sheds to standdardze the pack and grades
in Smith County. Standald-pack and grading
enables the grower to realize 80 per cent bet
ter price for his products,
While other West Texas Counties are ship
ping in hogs, Howard County has many pigs
for sale, which Is due mainly to the work of
the Pig Club boys, who were financed last year
by the West Texas National Bank of Big
Springs.
The House Agricultural Committee reported
a bill approprating 800 600 for seed to be fur
nished farmers in the Corpus Christi district,
in order to help the farmers who lost heavily
during the recent storm on the Gulf coast
maximum of $500 will be allowed to each far
mer
Edwin Skinner. a newspaper man of Balm
ger, has installed machinery for Smelling pecans
and will deal extensively in the buying and sell
ing of pecans. He has severed his connection
with the newspaper interest and Will be actively
connected with the Colorado Valley Pecan
Company.
The first shipment of strawberries for this
season arrived on the local market at Galveston,
February Is. The berries were grown in the
vicinity of Dickinson, Galveston County, and
retaed at $500 crate wholesale. Some OF
the 18th of February.
Five elks from Yellowstone National Park
have been received at Sonora in Sutton County,
as an experiment to determine whether or not
eks will propagate in Texas. The experiment
is being conducted by the state at its livestock
experiment station No II, located 20 miles
below Sonora.
A Travis County hen earned for its owaer,
Mrs. Susan Walker $3.50 during 1919. This
chicken is a cross between a Rhode Island Red
and White Leghorn Her record for the year
was 103 eggs laid, 70 chickens Matched and 62
chickens raised. The hen attended strictly to
business and set six times during the year.
A premium list Of the Fat Stock Show, to be
held in Fort Worth March 6-13, provides for
a total purse of 81 400 on beef cattle in car
lots; $3.50 for grass cattle; and $1,000 for feed
er cattle Many other additional purses are
offered for pure breed cattle. tol mules
purse of $3.50 has been provided.
POULTRY
Eggs for Matching should be kept in a cool