Oklahoma Farm News Notes Cucumber Station And New Crops
Twenty Oklahoma farmers hear of a Ana darko cucumber buying station as a marketing step for other farm products. Lima beans to be trialed near Talihina with a Stigler canning factory owner backing seed and market. Audey Perkins touts sweet clover for pasture and soil, while Daniel Rosenbaum develops a cheaper dairy feed blending citrus pulp sweet potatoes peanut meal and cottonseed meal. Tests show milk cost savings of 25 to 43 cents per 100 pounds.
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Talihina
Oklahoma
Daniel Rosenbaum
Dallas
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Rosenbaum
Oklahoma and Texas crops expected to break records in 1949
The 1949 Oklahoma wheat crop is forecast to exceed the 1947 all time high of 104,734,000 bushels, with the U S Department of Agriculture estimating over 108,000,000 bushels. Texas 1948 cotton output reached 3,150,000 bales, with 1947 at 3,437,000 and the 10 year average 2,894,000. Insects like cutworms affect early cotton and pecan crops face threats from nut case bearer while dusting helps control the pea aphid.
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Oklahoma
Agricultural Department of the Santa Fe Railway
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Texas
Corn acreage and harvest trends in Texas counties
Texas grows corn across the state with 11 counties reporting no commercial corn in 1948. The Blackland Prairie in Central Texas holds the largest area. A ten year average shows 4,985,000 acres planted and about 77,427,000 bushels produced at 15.6 bushels per acre. Most is hand harvested though over 800 machines were used last year.
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Texas
Blackland Prairie
Barker Herefords continue three decades of breeding effort
Claude W Barker and his father started the Barker Hereford herd near Gageby in 1919 with 20 cows and a bull. The herd grew using Advance Domino 154th from the old Advance as a key foundation sire. The current herd traces to Superior Return by Lamplighter Return from Benny Lucy line. Edd Boele near Lone Wolf Oklahoma credits tillage and fertilization for his two acre peach orchard, with annual weed control and manure additions maintaining crops for 12 years.
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W. L. Cocanougher
Deaf Smith County
Claude W. Barker
Gageby
Claude
C. G. Barker
Benny Lucy
Edd Boele
Lone Wolf
Oklahoma
Weatherford man operates pecan oil plant
R Fleming runs a pecan shelling operation and is the sole U.S. producer of pecan oil in high demand by cosmetic makers. He uses 3 percent of shelled meats unfit for packing to make oil and processes shells to yield 100000 pounds of tannin weekly, used in drilling mud for the oil industry.
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R. Fleming
Weatherford
United States
Fleming
Texas and OklahomaFarm irrigation plans note
An overhead sprinkler system operates at Webby Peters farm northeast of Hugo Oklahoma, run by Mason and Cecil Peters, to support field crops and some vegetables. They aim to grow two crops on some acres using supplemental irrigation. Marshall county details long term planting plans with preliminary neighborhood boundaries drawn. Kingston and Madill named community centers, about 20 neighborhoods planned versus 32 before Lake Texoma.
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Webby Peters
Hugo
Okla
Mason
Cecil Peters
Marshall County
Oklahoma
Kingston
Madill
Lake Texoma
Hog feeding economics for hogs 150 to 300 pounds
Assistant County Agent E Harri son of McLennan county outlines that hogs weighing 150 to 300 pounds gain about 50 pounds monthly on balanced rations. Feeding costs rise with weight, about 7 growth per 50 pounds, making 200 to 250 pounds the target except in Fall. Fatten hogs best in May to July to reach heavier weights with sales 6 weeks to 2 months after.
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E. Harrison
McLennan County
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