Clarendon FFA Chapter Tops Area 1 With Perfect Score
Clarendon FFA Chapter earns Area 1 top honors with a perfect 1300 of 1300 points as area supervisor O T. Ryan and assistants note the sweep of 53 counties. Spur trails by 88 points while Clarendon eyes state and national competition. The year highlights include state wins in swine production and milk judging, nearly two thousand dollars in premiums, and extensive livestock and crop project activity by all members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarendon
Future Farmers of America
North
Texas
O. T. Ryan
T. L. Leach
W. A. King of
United States
Jersey
Wells Farm Societies Endorse Wells for Congress
Wellington June 12 Letters inviting other Agricultural Associations of the Eighteenth Congressional district to investigate the record of Deskins Wells and urge endorsement have been mailed by the Collingsworth County Agricultural Association. The Farmers Cooperative Society No 1 of Wellington also backs Wells saying he serves farmers and ranchers through the Wellington Leader and Panhandle progress.
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Wellington
Fighteenth
Wells
Collingsworth County Agricultural Association
Farmers’ Cooperative Society No. 1
Wellingto
Congress
Deskins Wells
Collingsworth County
Panhandle
The
Agricultural Association
Mr. Wells
Farmers Co-operative Society No. 1
Deck Wells
Careful Selection of Seed Affects Crop Quality
Des Moines June 12 seeds for 90 million acres now come via commercial hybrid seed in sealed sacks. Farmers historically picked ears. now they rely on controlled seed corn production to ensure better crop quality amid rising interest in Panhandle Plains crop improvement.
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Panhandle Plains
Des Moines
Stink Bug Infestation Threatens New Mexico Small Grains
Portales New Mexico June 12 A heavy stink bug infestation in barley and other small grains was reported by the county agent. W G Vinzant advised dusting infested crops to control the pest and warned the cotton crop may be less affected due to limited acreage.
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N. M
Portales
Cote Ton
W. G. Vinzant
Vinzant
Grasshoppers To Hit Sherman Dallam Counties Soon
Sherman and Dallam counties to face Mexicanus grasshoppers in coming days. County Agents Goule and Crabtree urge farmers to heavily poison infested land as entomologists warn of a strong hopper flight. Fire burning of weeds in fence rows cited as effective in Sherman County. Texas Extension Service and federal entomology bureau back a Panhandle campaign with vehicles applying poison along roadsides and pastures.
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Stratford
Sherman
Dallam
Ernest Goule
S&s
Shermen County
Goule
Texas Extension Service
Federal Bureau of Entomology
Panhandle
Roosevelt Expects Large Peanut Crop in Roosevelt County
Portales New Mexico June 12 Special Acreage planted this year in peanuts in Roosevelt County is about 3 300 acres for the Tennessee Reds 2 850 and Spanish 450 Mc Casland manager of a local roaster estimates Reds will yield 60 22 bushels per acre and Spanish 45 30 bushels per acre Last year 113000 pounds of Spanish were shipped from Portales and Mc Casland expects this year to be four or five times that amount
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Portales
N. M
Roosevelt County
Taylor McCasland
McCasland
Memphis FFA Chapter Earns Lone Star Rank
Memphis FFA members received the Lone Star certificate after a year of projects and record keeping. The Memphis chapter scored 1 002 of 1 200 possible points. L A Richards qualified to compete at the state FFA meeting in Huntsville on June 24 and 25.
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Memphis
FFA
Lone Star
L. A. Richards
Huntsville
Estelline FFA Named Lone Star Chapter
Estelline FFA earns Lone Star Chapter status with a 1000 of 1100 points score. The group hosted the Memphis District FFA encampment May 10 11 and led soil conservation efforts including 75 miles of contours and 25 acres contoured on ranch land. Members fed 34 hogs for shows and showed calves winning top junior and senior placings. They purchased two circle boars and 8 Jersey cows plus heifers improving local herds.
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Hampshire
Poland
Hall County
County committee upheaval reshapes local leadership
Tr A Shipp of Hale Center becomes county chairman as Earl Beach is ousted. C S Clark of Halfway and Ed Pope of Abernathy join as members, Hal W Kirchhoff of Halfway also elevated. Delegates filed the removal protest noting no hearing for dismissed committee officials.
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Tr. A. Shipp
Hale Center
Earl Beach
Cotton Center
Beach
C. S. Clark
Halfway
Ed Pope
Abernathy
Hal W. Kirchhoff
Millions of Trees Grow on Dust Bowl Plains to Shield Farms
George W. Hood, regional forester, reports 1.3 million more trees and shrubs will be planted in the Dust Bowl region this year, boosting windbreaks and farm shelter. Since 1935 about 7,500 acres have been planted, with 3,500 acres thriving and 2,000 showing potential to replace losses, as water and cultivation efforts expand across the Southern Great Plains.
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Great Plains
Dust Bowl
George W. Hood
Soil Conservation Service
Hood
Plains
Texas Panhandle
Walton H. Miles
Conlon
Texas
Forester
Hale Farmers Protest AAA Group Removal
In Plainview on June 12 delegates of the Hale County Agricultural Conservation Association elected a third county committeeman and alternates to fill the post after the division director of the AAA removed the previous county committee. Coleman Jones of Runningwater was chosen as the new third member with J C Eiring and J L Mann of Cotton Center as alternates.
Wheat drive for Panhandle Plains to improve bread quality
The Panhandle Plains launches a wheat improvement campaign led by farmers, grainmen, elevator men and millers to weed out undesirable varieties. They warn the region’s hard winter wheat reputation could fade if baking quality declines. Some Hale County USDA officials are removed without a hearing, provoking protests from local farmers.
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Panhandle Plains
Plains
Panhandle
Texas Wheat Estimate Up
The Texas wheat crop is forecast at 26,463,000 bushels based on conditions June 1. This is 291,000 more than the May forecast, with 2,908,000 acres to harvest and an indicated yield of 91 bushels per acre. Prospects improve in most districts except the North Panhandle. Hale County shows about 90,000 bushels below average, with 35 percent of its 185,000 seeded acres abandoned.
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Austin
Texas
Agricultural Marketing Service
U. S. Department of Agriculture
North Panhandle
Randall
Hale County
Hale
Central Plains To Cut Five Million Bushels
Grainmen from nine Plains counties met at the Hilton Hotel to estimate a 5,280,000 bushel wheat crop for the territory this year. Harvest expected to begin June 20 and reach full progress by June 25 with counties reporting varied yields.
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Plainview
Plains
H. G. Stinnett, Jr
Harvest Queen Mill & Elevator Co
Hilton Hotel
Crosby
Castro
Bailey
Haile
Swisher
Floyd
Lubbock
Deaf Smith
Hall County REA Elects Four New Directors
At the Hall County Electric Cooperative annual meeting four new directors were chosen and three were reelected. The reelected directors are T. E. Lenoir Lake View Carl Hill Parnell and Clyde Fowler Leslie. New directors are Arthur Gidden Plaska Starr Johnson Brice R H Hutcherson Newlin and T B Roberts Memphis.
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Memphis
Hall County Electric Cooperative
T. E. Lenoir
Lakeview
Carl Hill
Parnell
Clyde Fowler
Leslie
Arthur Gidden
Plaska
Starr Johnson
Brice
R. H. Hutcherson
Newlin
T. B. Roberts
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U. S
Amarillo Fort Worth
Sweetwater
Wichita Falls
All Druggista
Graham Hoeme
KGNC
Pierce St
Amarillo, Texas
Roosevelt
Memphis Ffa
Estelline Ffa
Lone Star Chapter
Canadian River
Hale Farmers
AAA Group
Harrowin
Raymond Heterok
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Atlantic
Lewis
Lewis’ Gas Marts
Lrd & Johnson
Georgia WE Deliv
Oliver
Chisholm
Texas Wheat
Central Plains
REA
Priel Ab
Teethina
Burgess Lumber
5Th and
Tyler St
Southern States Loan CO. the Home Company
Chas
M. Holt
Vice
East Fifth—Ph
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Perryton
Pierce Street
Amarillo
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