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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1939
Page
6
M. B. Hill reports Carl Williams of Martins Hill 4-H club as the outstanding 4-H boy with projects in cotton corn and sweet potatoes. He produced 2,442 pounds of lint cotton from six acres, 60 bushels of corn on one acre, and 384 crates of sweet potatoes on 0.89 acre, earning about $580 gross on seven acres.
J C Bolding of Lakeview Floyd county turns 640 acre farm to Land Use Planning Committee for terracing to form a usable water catch lake. Terraces average 60 feet wide 18 inches high allowing a combine to pass. Mrs Clarence Farr Collin county recommends a winter cover crop in orchards to build humus and improve soil nitrogen with wheat oats or clover while avoiding excessive growth to prevent moisture loss.
Farmers in Ellis county Ennis trade area expect about 50 000 less for their pecan crops this year than 1938 as growers call the crop unusually short. Armadillos and tumbleweeds appear in Henderson county in numbers raising notes from stockmen. Daffron farm Seagoville milch cow gave birth to a triplet calf set with a 30 pound bull calf and two 22 pound heifer calves all doing well.
J D Sykes of the U S Department of Agriculture told the Texas Baby Chick Association that Texas hens average 90 eggs annually while 100 9 cents output is needed to break even. He cited a national average of 82 eggs and linked the figures to farm population declines and rural migration.
J J Willis, a Midland county farmer, reports 1325 sheep aiding his 325 acre feed crop with strong gains and ample silage and dry feed to cover depleted fields. Texas taxes in 1938 exceeded cash income from crops cattle wool and mohair by about 1.8 million dollars. A San Antonio cave bats colony consumes 600 tons of live insects annually aiding orchard pest control. Sudan cotton farmers test driverless tractors guided from end to end with four operators handling 12 machines.
John Tarleton College chemurgists say cedar leaves from Texas hills may yield oil to fix perfumes soaps and camphor oil. They also see possible use as an insecticide if distillation becomes profitable and demand stabilizes.
John B. Davis, secretary-manager, announced forty fourth annual Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth March 17 with cash prizes totaling 26910 for livestock exhibitors. Farmers in the Madera valley battle leaf worms in cotton fields and import Trichogramma minutum parasites to destroy worm eggs.
Brownsville to Dalhart and beyond saw extensive planting by Texas 4-H club girls over the past year. SAVS Onah Jacks, state girls' club agent for the A. and M. College Extension Service, notes the effort.
Dr George H Godfrey at the State experiment farm Weslaco uses Chioropterin to sterilize soil and reduce nematodes fungi and weed seeds to aid plant growth. Red Ganoa reports 2800 pounds of potatoes from one fourth acre this year with Bliss Triumph and Porto Rico varieties yielding 1200 pounds in June and 1680 in October. Copper sulphate and nicotine sulphate drenches on 485 goats at F J Rumfield ranch cut stomach worm losses. Mitchell county game inspector says quail populations more than doubled on 52 ranches due to Game Preserve Demonstration work and deferred grazing improving cover.
Mr Harry Thompson of Azle plans to fence 700 acres for sheep and goats and place 400 plus goats to clear understory. Nueces agent Tom Lee Easley promotes bran bait as a stomach poison for chewing insects, mixing one pound poison with bran and molasses water, adding lemons, applied at sundown to control cutworms.
Two years into demonstrations by Duval county ranchers J. B. Bur chett and C. K. Ryan, feeding bone meal to cattle eliminated creeps on both ranches. Despite below normal rainfall since 1936, creeps were common before using a mix of two parts salt and one part bonemeal.
In Galveston County M B Wieman reports Casteel dairy herd benefited from silage for feed. Two trenches stored Red Top and Schreck mix this season. Dry weather and short pasture reduced production but silage feeding reversed the trend as cows gained weight and held production after reducing concentrate.
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