Machine harvest expands in Texas cotton farming trends
Texas cotton harvest increasingly uses machines with 64 percent picked by machines last year. Defoliants and desiccants prepare plants for harvest, with dust and spray options and specific moisture and growth timings. Desiccants target open bolls, and guidance from county agents helps avoid fiber damage. The piece also notes family visits and a funeral in Leander and Dickinson.
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College Station
Texas
Fred C. Elliott
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Elliott
Milam County Ginners Back Cottonseed Price Support for 1962
Milam County ginners join the Cottonseed Price Support Program with CCC backing a 44.00 per ton price for cottonseed. The program offers protection against market declines. Also noted is a Wheat referendum date of August 30 for 1963 crop quotas, with price implications of 1.82 if approved and 1.21 without quotas.
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Althoug
Alva E. Sanders
Milam County
Sanders
Secretary of Agriculture
Cotton harvest expands as drought drives Texas picks
The Texas cotton crop shows harvest moving north with gins operating round the clock in the upper Coastal Bend and to Waco while irrigated Winter Garden fields begin processing. Labor remains scarce, machines in demand, and prices offer relief as drought may shorten the season. Fire danger rises in dry areas.
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Austin
Coastal Bend
Navasota
Waco
Rio Grande Valley
Farm Sales Up Net Income Down Across U S Agriculture
College Station reports that farmers have higher gross sales since 1945 but lower net income, with 1945 net income at 12.8 billion on 25.7 billion gross and 1969 gross rising to 37.9 billion while net fell to 11.6 billion. Experts cite shifts to more machinery, fertilizer use, and rising inputs as reasons.
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College Station
C. H. Bates
Extension
Bates
RHS Twirlers Attend SMU School
Rogers High School sends its cheerleaders and baton twirlers to a weeklong school at Southern Methodist University. Participants include Linda Martinec Betty Jean Sabeik Diana Engbrock Donna Wilkerson and sponsor Myrtle Wood with band members Carol Frits Carolyn Necas Diana Bartek Barbara Smith Paulette Raley Linda Mikeska under new band director Charles Edward Conner.
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Rogers
Southern Methodist University
Linda Martinec
Betty Jean Sabeik
Diana Engbrock
Donna Wilkerson
Myrtle Wood
Carol Frits
Moajorette
Carolyn Necas
Diana Bartek
Barbara Smith
Paulette Raley
Linda Mikeska
Charles Edward Conner
Lamb producers vote on new agreement referendum
Lamb and wool producers may approve or reject the new agreement between the American Sheep Producers' Council and the U S Department of Agriculture in a referendum set for September 10 to 21, per Ed Avacek. The Southwestern Peanut Growers' Association holds its annual meeting in Stephenville on August 17 starting at 10 a m.
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Lamb
Wool
American Sheep Producers’ Council
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Ed Avacek
Southwestern Peanut Growers’ Association
Stephenville
Porrest Sapp Named to 192 Leaders Legion
Porrest Sapp of Dye-Great Southern State Insurance is deferred for the 192 Leaders Legion. The home office in Houston announced the selection based on conduct, service to policy owners, and client relations.
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Forrest
W-Sapp
Dye -Great Southerntate Insurance Company
Legion
Tharithé- Home Offier
Houston
Weed
Rockdale Student To Receive Degree At North Texas University
Mrs Charlotte A Wollridge of Rockdale is among 519 seniors applying for bachelor's degrees at North Texas University. Summer commencement exercises are set for 8 p m August 23 at Fouts Field. Wollridge is a candidate for the bachelor of science degree in education.
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Denton
Charlotte A. Wollridge
Rockdale
North Texas University
Fouts Field
Wooldrige
Ernie L. Laurence
4-H Club Notes Senior Livestock Team at Duroc Judging
4 H Club notes Penny Graves Reed Davis and Henry Abel Jr. competed in the Duroc Judging Contest at Liano on Saturday August 4 1962. 4 H Record Books are due in the County Extension Office Friday August 17 with expectations of more books than last year. Junior Dairy Field Day is set for Brenham August 30 and 31 with Dairy Judging entries invited via the County Extension Office.
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Ass't Milam
Liano
Penny Graves
Reed Davis
Henry Abel, Jr
Sharp Community
Brenham
4-H
County Extension Office
Local Dairyman's Cows Rate High
J K Stuart of Camel owns registered Jersey cows with official production records and high cow power ratings. Dreaming Regals Blonde produced 10,340 pounds of milk and 592 pounds of fat in 305 days, index 10.3. The American Jersey Cattle Club promotes their cow power program for Jersey owners. Miss Janice Sapp is a patient at Newton Memorial Hospital.
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Jersey
J. K. Stuart
Camel
Regal
American Jersey Cattle Club
Janice Sapp
Newton Memorial Hospital
Auction Report From Last Week Live Stock Sale
Cattle numbers 489 steers 139 hogs and two sheep sold. Prices ranged for steers and yearlings 22.00 to 24.75, cows 14.00 to 15.59, calves 24.50 to 26.00, stocker and feeder steers 19.50 to 23.00, hogs varied with no 1 to 3 grades 19.10 to 19.60, heavy and light butcher hogs 18.00 to 19.30, sows 14.10 to 15.40, boars 5.10 to 6.60, feeders 10.50 to 17.50.
Rogers Church Revival Set for August
Rogers Methodist Church in Rogers announces an August revival in the church auditorium from August 12 to 19 led by evangelist Rev. C Herman Murph of St Johns Methodist Church San Antonio. Rev. Wayne Murph will lead the music with special music planned each service. Evening services begin at 7 30 p m and the final Sunday service is at 10 30 a m. The public is invited to attend.
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Rogers
Rogers Methodist Church
Wayne Murph
C. Herman Murph
St. Johns Methodist Church
San Antonio
Murph
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Odie Sapp
Leanders
Sapps
Dickinson
Elmo Hearne
John McFarland
Leander
Milam
Milam Ascs Report
Cotton Report
Texas Farm and Ranch Safety Council
U.S
B. G. Reeves
Reeves
Moore J. D. Moore
National Agricultural Agent's Association
Trae
Marlin
Gulf Brewing Co
Houston, Ter
RHS
SMU School
Peanut
Porrest
Tockdale
Tete Aitte
Sisma-Rex
Rta
New Cameron Pharmacy
Pat C. Garner
Local Dairyman’s
Rogers Church
Gard Vy
Trace Association
The
United States Brewers Association
Terry
Albert Sidney Johnston
Kentucky
Tennessee
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Georgia
Joe Wheeler
South
Carasi
Aas AS
Lon A
W.th
Charter Osk
North America
Gordon S. Baskin
Insurance
W. Main
Travelers Insurance Con
Cherter Ock Fire Insurance
Cameron
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