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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1958
Page
2
Hog care guidance for 4H Club members focuses on summer shade and cooling for Sears gilts. Emphasize high shade off ground with hose linked sprinklers, and grazing a green pasture for vitamin A and exercise. A high digestible protein diet supports gilt development and strong legs.
County agent notes multiple insect control methods with BHC lindane and a copper compound for crops. Buddie Yager reports Heptachlor sprays on cotton with three applications and a planned fourth by early June. Plant lice infest maize terminals. Parathion sprays used by Angell and others aided by airplane. Bill Whitaker and Son move early squash to markets and test tomato varieties. Dr Darrow and agents demo Fenuron pellets for post oak and elm on sandy soils at multiple sites. Breeding swine sales to several counties and fly control with malathion bait cited. Continuous removal of breeding places advised.
Cameron Livestock Auction sold 717 cattle on Thursday from 190 sellers with 58 buyers bidding. Hogs included 12 head and overall cattle quality improved from the prior sale with plains and oat-field types common. Prices featured slaughters and stockers with steer and cow categories and top hogs selling direct.
Dr. Robert R. Skrabanek says farm to city migration will slow but continue, with 39,000 moving 1950 to 1957. Texas showed 26.6 percent decline versus 18.6 percent national average, while nearby states fell more. Texas farm population was 1,061,000 in 1957.
Attendance expected near 2200 for the annual Texas 4-H Club Roundup at Texas A M College June 10 to 12. State winners will be named across 22 judging and team demonstration contests and the event will inaugurate the 50th anniversary of 4 H in Texas. Weekend visitors included the Leonard and Drennan families from Ft Worth Dallas Burlington and other areas attending with local hosts.
County agent J. D. Moore reports varied rains from under half an inch to 2.5 inches. Oats for hay and seed ripen. about 50 percent of Milam oats may be cut for hay. Corn tassels, plant lice and aphids noted. cotton looks better with continued poison until mid June. Pastures and truck crops show strong growth.
C F Garner extension entomologist urges control now while worms are small. Obtain L-199 Texas Guide for Controlling Insects on Ornamental Plants from the local county agent for proper methods.
California visitor Mrs. Bill Shore arrives at Temple airfield to stay over the weekend with her relatives the Fontaines. Numerous local families host weekend guests from Beaumont Houston Cameron Cameron and Port Arthur while nurses and patients recover in Newton.
Wayne Fisher of Cameron and David Ewing of Waco, Baylor School of Business students, won first and second prizes in the Burleson Taxation Essay Contest for papers on Texas taxation. Fisher, 21, earned a Bachelor of Science in three years and received $60 for his essay on The Oil Production Tax in Texas. He is the son of Mr and Mrs George N Fisher of Cameron and holds a Citizens National Bank Scholarship at Baylor.
Farm Safety Week is not until July but the Texas Farm and Ranch Safety Council urges ongoing farm safety. The council stresses a safe family on farms by avoiding mistakes and practicing safety every week of the year.
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