Texas Farm News Highlights From Texas Farmers Chronicle
Texas reports annual US onion consumption at 20 million bushels with Texas supplying over 3 million. Milks in Fort Bliss area show monthly 167000 quarts and 64200 half pint bottles. Dairy guidance favors 10 months milking 2 months dry and breeding cows 12 weeks after freshening. Cow manure touted for compost fuel and ready sale across Marion County. New vegetable varieties include rhubarb chard alabaster white tomato and stringless fiberless pod bean. Cass County berries prove cash crop with ~1500 gallons per acre from about 1000 plants. Katahdin potato variety praised for production and keeping quality. A 4 inch rubber ball found in a cow stomach at Hallettsville meat market. Buffalo grass seed soaking improves germination. Seven ton bronze mustang monument planned at University of Texas fronting Texas Memorial Museum. Seedless tomatoes tested at Texas Tech greenhouse. Texas egg plants exceed 1,000,000 cases canned last year. Hardin Newton Jasper counties plan sweet potato acreage for dehydration plant. Texas has 633000 mules, more than Missouri, with Mississippi next at 357000. Some Texas farmers operate weekly beef clubs to share fresh meat without refrigeration.
Blind Thoroughbred Mare Exercises on Farm Path
A blind thoroughbred mare owned by W C Stroube of Corsicana Navarro County exercises daily in a farm enclosure. Her hoofs wear a 100 foot circular path as she walks to it then circles, then jogs and sometimes gallops. In Texas and the Southwest guayule rubber plant could arise from disrupted commerce and the national defense program. The Rio Grande Valley Experiment Station notes guayule yields 1,800 pounds per acre in four years and 3,500 pounds after ten years when planted from seed beds.
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W. C. Stroube
Corsicana
Navarro County
Texas
Southwest
Rio Grande Valley Experiment Station
WWE
Jim Drew
South
Hatchery & Poultry Farm
Iain Joe Fen Hatchery & Poultry Farm
Dallas
New Insect Menace Reported in Texas Cotton
Entomologist Cameron Siddall of the Texas Extension Service cites 1940 losses to pests and insect damage totaling 131 706 000 dollars across El Paso Ward Reeves Pecos and Hudspeth counties. Bowles notes 75 kW cooperatives boosted farm co op membership to about one third of Texas growers. A coyotes trapping method using far getter cyanide shells on Matador Ranch Oldham County shows rapid kills.
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el Paso
Ward
Reeves
Pecos
Hudspeth
Cameron Siddall
Texas Extension Service
Texas
C. E. Bowles
Bowles
Matador Ranch
Oldham County
Silage dam claim and long Texas fence plan noted
E R Eudal y extension dairyman says enough silage in Texas to make a dam 15 inches thick across the Grand Canyon. The proposed border fence would run about 500 miles from the Gulf of Mexico to Devil's River north of Del Rio to bar predatory animals and livestock movement. A portable stock dipping vat by E A Spangler debuts in Dallas to cut costs on tick area vats, enabling reuse of dipping fluid and easier transport.
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Texas
Grand Canyon
E. R. Eudaly
A. & M. College
Arizona
Rio Grande
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers’ Association
Gulf of Mexico
Devil's River
del Rio
Val Verde
Mexico
United States
E. A. Spangler
Dallas
Spangler
Remarkable Turnip and Unusual Calf Draw Attention in Texas
Texas readers report a 27 inch around ten pound turnip shown in the House in Austin by Rep Maggus Smith of Pleasan ton Atascosa county. Ira Cundiff of Sulphur Springs Hopkins county owns a eye deficient freak calf with no eyes tail or elaborate head. Mrs C T Sullivan Kauf man county plans an Arizona Cypress hedge and ornamentals for outdoor living spaces. Mrs Toland in Fisher county replants her two row frame garden supplying a family of four. S W Norwood of Sumnerwood Collingsworth county notes cattle dipping boosted weight and flesh. Mrs Chas Barber Cameron county shares Easter lily bulbs cured in sand and chilled storage for bloom in 1941.
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Maggus Smith
Pleasanton
Atascosa County
Austin
Rep. Smith
Ira Cundiff
Sulphur Springs
Hopkins County
Arizona
C. T. Sullivan
Kaufman County
J. L. Toland
Capitola Demonstration Club
Fisher County
Texas barley loan program marks first year in 1940
The Commodity Credit Corporation reports that nine barley loans were issued in Texas in 1940, its first year of barley loans in the state. The total volume reached 10,928 bushels.
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Texas
Commodity Credit Corporation
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G. G. Gibson
Marion County
Cass County
Atlanta
Hallettsville
Lavaca County
Leon E. Wenger
Bureau of Plant Industry
University of Texas
R. R. Ogden
Texas Memorial Museum
FE. H. Sellards
Texas Technological College
O. B. Howell
Texas Poultry, Egg and Butter Association
Hardin
Newton
Jasper Counties
Chemurgic Committee
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
Missouri
Mississippi
Ft. Worth
Texas A. & M
Pabst
Jerry Hendricks
Prince Albert
KJ. Reynolds Tob. Co
Winston-Salem, N.C
Afi
McCormick-Deering
Deering
International Harvester
International Harvester Company
Amarillo
Oklahoma Citys
Houston
San Antonio
Sweetwater
S. W. Norwood
Sumnerwood
Collingsworth County
W. K. Cottingame
Chas. Barber
Cameron County
Flossie
Eger
R.O. P
Dixie
H.W.D
Dixie Poultry Farm
Brenham
Rene Seed
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