Texas farm news outlines wartime food drive and ag efforts
East Texas counties push tomato acreages and consider beans while beef calf tests show sweet potato dehydration as viable as corn. Cattlemen face parasite threats as planimeter aerial mapping comes to Dallas AAA office. Army worms damage oats and grains. coeds at East Texas State Teachers College consumed over seven thousand glasses of milk in a month.
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East Texas
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
A. & M. College Husbandry Department
Fast Texas Sweet Potato
Ford
Dickens
Jones County
East Texas State Teachers College
Commerce
Hunt County
Texas milk to dairy plants exceeds prior year
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research estimates show Texas farmers sent about 1.142 trillion pounds of raw milk to creameries last year to be made into butter ice cream and cheese. Consumption rose nearly two million pounds from the year before.
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Texas
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
Ben Monroe Heads Texas Ancona Chicken Ranch
Ben Monroe of Sweetwater Nolan County owns what is said to be Texas largest Ancona chicken ranch. He houses 500 birds in a modern plant, showcasing a pedigreed flock to poultry enthusiasts. Anconas, Italian origin, resemble Leghorns with mottled plumage, red combs and yellow legs. Monroe calls them fine layers.
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Ben Monroe
Sweetwater
Nolan County
Ancona
Texas
Italy
Wolves Move Into Randell Lake Area as Timber Clearings Begin
Driven from river bottom haunts due to timber clearance for Denison Dam, wolves are reported moving into the Randell Lake area northwest of Denison Grayson County. Farmers urge hunters to come and kill the animals to protect livestock.
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Denison
Randell Lake
Grayson County
Odd Potato Stalk and Notable Holstein Milk Record
Farmer F S Scroggins reports a potato stalk growing above ground in his garden while the rest of the patch is normal. A Holstein cow at A and M College records 108,084 pounds of milk and 3,582 pounds of butterfat in eight lactations. A Fairchilds man upgrades a hand driven sheller with an old auto rim and electric motor to shell seven bushels in 15 minutes. Cass County acreage shifts toward sweet potatoes with profits seen in No 1s and 2s while lower grades supply stock feed.
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F. S. Scroggins
Grayson County
A. & M. College
Holstein- Friesian Association of America
Allfonse Novak
Fairchilds
Fort Bend County
Novak
Cass County
R. L. White
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Mr. White
Texas Cotton Industry Across Counties and Facilities
Texas grows cotton commercially in over 200 of its 254 counties. The sector uses about 4,000 gins, 150 cotton seed oil mills, more than 100 cotton compresses, and hundreds of storage warehouses to handle the crop.
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Texas
Baby chicks flood Ellis Navarro and Hill counties
Italy's Ellis county post office reports over 40000 baby chicks delivered to Ellis Navarro and Hill county farmers in two months. Officials estimate poultry stocks rose about 40 percent in the territory.
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Italy
Ellis County
Ellis
Navarro
Hill County
New Unit Flour Mill Planned at Bowie with Puerto Rico Potatoes
Announcement of a new flour mill unit to be built at Bowie in Montague County. The project includes planting at least 3,000 acres of Puerto Rico sweet potatoes and a plant capacity of 100 tons daily. Products will include dehydrated yam stock feed yam protein and syrup.
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Bowie
Montague County
Puerto Rico
Poultry Expert Suggests Marble Feed To Boost Turkeys
Speaking at a poultry rally in Arlington H H Weatherby poultry husbandman of A and M College recommended placing bright colored marbles in turkey feed. Fascinated by the marbles the turkeys will peck madly and consume extra body building food they otherwise would not get.
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Arlington
Tarrant County
H. H. Weatherby
A. & M. College
Weatherby
Unusual Three Horned Goat At San Antonio Stockyards
G C Hutchinson of D Hanis brings a goat with a horn growing from the ear to the San Antonio stockyards. Veterinarians note horn composition resembles hair. The goat named Hornaplenty. experts discuss egg grading and Texas grade adoption. Gregg county stockmen build horn fly control system using oil sacks and mineral mix to deter flies.
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G. CC. Hutchinson
D'Hanis
Medina County
San Antonio
R. H. Still
Sport Fambrough
Gregg County
Three Twin Calf Sets Reported on Gambleville Farm
Carroll Brothers on their Gambleville farm in Foard County report three sets of twins from a herd of 25 cows. The twin calves include Roan Durham bulls, Whiteface heifers, and a mixed Jersey Roan Durham pair.
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Carroll Brothers
Gambleville
Foard County
Jersey
Durham
Bend woman’s pecan tree sets historic Texas record
Mrs. Hassie Morris of Bend in San Saba County is cited nationally for her Hollis pecan tree. The giant tree produced a 1,015 pound crop in 1919 with nuts so large that 33 nuts equal a pound. The ancient tree is said to be over 300 years old and yielded 500 to 600 pounds the previous year.
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Hassie Morris
Bend
San Saba County
Paris Farmer Sees Egg Bearing Initial Brand
W. G. Stamper of Paris Lamar County reports an egg laid by a hen bears the initial S. The letter S is clearly imprinted on one end of the egg.
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W. G. Stamper
Paris
Lamar County
AAA Lifts Planting Restrictions On Castor Beans
The AAA allows planting of up to about five acres of castor beans per farm depending on farm size, without considering soil depletion impacts.
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The
AAA
A. and M. College Delays Third Annual Air Conditioning Course
Wayne E. Long announces the third annual air conditioning short course at A. and M. College will be postponed to summer 1942 due to national defense industrial activity. The program has been popular in past years, and the university prioritizes emergent needs during the national emergency.
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A. & M. College School of Engineering
Wayne E. Long
Long
Sleeping sickness vaccine error warned by Dr Herschel Payne
Dr Herschel Payne warns farmers to administer sleeping sickness vaccines teradermally not under the skin. He says Ice dose provides inadequate protection and requires 20cc per animal with a 7 to 14 day repeat. A.M. Rector near Palacios reports a 10 ft 2 in alligator found beside a stall manger weighing over 300 pounds, likely stranded by flood drains.
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Herschel Payne
Dr. Payne
A. M. Rector
Palacios
Matagorda County
Rector
Sleeping sickness spreads in Cameron County horses
Dr Grady Deaton head of the county prevention health unit reports ongoing spread of sleeping sickness among horses in Cameron County. He notes two vaccine injections per horse and a two week wait for results, factors hindering progress.
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Cameron County
Grady Deaton
County Prevention Health Unit
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