Texas farm news highlights from hatchery to cattle drives
McKinney Hatchery installs all electric Robbins incubator for 32 000 eggs and automatic controls. Calf in Jackson ville gains 200 pounds in two months from December to February. Texas wheat output for 1940 projected at 29 953 000 bushels versus 27 650 000 in 1939. O T Cardwell 79 in Uvalde recalls life in cattle business and coffee absence. Henderson tomato growers transplant thousands of plants. Portable feed grinding service gains use in Dallas and beyond. Nacogdoches plans a farm forestry demonstration area of 150 000 acres. Matador ranch drives 3600 steers to shipping point from Hartley county, a rare two day 20 mile drive.
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McKinney
Collin County
Robbins
Texas
Chicago
Nacogdoches
Nacogdoches County
T. E. Baker
Chamber of Commerce
Matador
Hartley County
John MacKenzie
Tenants and Landlords in Texas Favor Written Leases
A Texas farm tenancy study shows 86 percent report tenants leaving farms in their area. Eighty percent back written landlord tenant contracts. Seventy seven percent favor leases of three to five years. Eighty five percent of landlords and 93 percent of tenants support compensation for improvements.
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Texas
Wildlife value shown by hollow trees near Alvord
A Wise county farmer near Alvord cut a large hollow tree and found three opos sums weighing seven pounds each, five squirrels, and twenty pounds of honey. Nearby a Crystal City spinach patch brought a record $125 per acre to O E Bookout, despite usual returns under $25 per acre.
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Alvord
Wise County
O. E. Bookout
Crystal City
Zavala County
McCormick Deering Pickup Baler Intro Highlight
This year the McCormick Deering Pickup Baler is showcased as a handy time saving machine that picks up and bales hay as you drive down the windrow. Amarillo San Antonio.
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McCormick- Deering
Texas Demonstration Club Women Lead Food Prep Gain
About seven eights of Texas home demonstration club women were involved in food preparation work in 1939. Nora Ellen Elliott of A&M College Extension Service reports more than 35 000 women and girls learned to prepare and serve better quality food for their families in the past year. McLennan county D H I L A members feeding grain to dry cows note improved sophomore cows. fresh cows outperform those fed only roughage during the dry period.
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Home Demonstration Club
Texas
Nora Ellen Elliott
A. & M. College Extension Service
McLennan County
Co operation of Mexico and Texas cuts pink bollworm in cotton fields
J. E. McDonald reports joint efforts observing delayed planting in Presidio Ojinaga area reduced worm numbers from 170,000 to 17 per acre after delay. Grover B. Hill notes Texas has more cattle than people, with 6,677,000 cattle on farms and a 1930 census population of 5,824,715.
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Texas
Rio Grande
J. E. McDonald
Presidio- Ojinaga
McDonald
Grover B. Hill
Amarillo
Thanksgiving for CCC Boys Tied to Turkey Feed Plan
The Texas Poultry Egg and Butter Association Convention in Dallas recommended weekly Thanks giving for Uncle Sam's CCC boys soldiers and sailors. Members urged the government to feed turkey and trim mings to the armed forces to curb the 65 800 000 pounds of surplus in cold storage nationwide.
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Uncle Sam
CCC
Texas Poultry, Egg and Butter Association
Dallas
Rodent Damage Hits Farmers in Houston County
Extensive damage throughout Houston County by rodents harms farmers and cattlemen as pocket gophers destroy plants crops and fruit trees. Reports urge poisoning trapping flooding and fumigating methods for eradiation.
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Houston County
County farmers report gains from legumes and silage trials
Arthur Bishop in Hopkins county notes a 25 percent hay yield increase from Korean lespedeza on a twelve acre bermuda field, with cattle wintering well on the mix. J M Sandusky of Floyd county demonstrates trench silo silage as a money crop, storing 450 tons of sorghum and selling feed at six dollars a ton. Roberts county farmers plant Volunteer Chinese elm seedlings from courthouse grounds with NYA help, distributing about a thousand seedlings to be grown for future use.
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Arthur Bishop
Palestine Community
Hopkins County
Bermuda
J. M. Sandusky
Muncy
Floyd County
Roberts County
NYA
County Agricultural Agents
Refrigerated Food Locker System Planned in Cottle County
Through the Land Use Planning Committee a refrigerated food locker system is organized on a cooperative plan in Cottle County. Capitalized at 10000 with 500 common shares at 10 and 200 preferred shares at 25. Articles of incorporation signed and charter applied for per County Agent G. J. Lane.
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Cottle County
G. J. Lane
Poultry gains reported in Gregg county farm test
Two Gregg county women report excellent results from feeding onsilage to poultry with Mr. and Mrs Grady Ray and Mr. and Mrs Sam McKelvey noting abundant winter eggs. Mrs McKelvey lists 38 hens on the farm and 34 in laying pens.
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Gregg County
Grady Ray
Sam McKelvey
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Millia Viet
Ross - Hick
Sudan
You. S Grain Company
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P.O
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Jones St
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Joe Steger
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