Weather Complicates Texas Cotton Harvest
Western and northwest Texas harvests faced delays due to continuing bad weather. Crops and pastures show mixed progress with gins clearing backlogs, land prep and fertilizer work advancing, and livestock in fair to good condition despite scarce labor and moisture shortages.
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College Station
Tex
Texas
John E. Huchison
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Panhandle
Canadian
Castro County
South Plains
Billy Gunter
Lubbock
Gunter
James Simmons
Vernon
Simmons
Ted Martin
Denton
Fannin
Hunt
Montague
Rockwall
Wise
R. S. Loftis
Overton
Loftis
Ray Siegmund
Ft Stockton
Roy Huckabee
San Angelo
Huckabee
Blacklands
John Burleson
Stephenville
Memphis Cotton Harvest Resumes After Damp Weather
The Memphis Cotton Report notes harvest in Greenbelt area resumes in force after rain. The Memphis office classed 15 510 samples this week bringing the season total to 65 588 with grades 13 percent White 65 percent Light Spotted 21 percent Spotted. Micronaire readings mostly 3 5 to 4 9 and 12 percent at 3 0 to 3 4. Prices for cotton and seed at gins listed with several price points.
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W. E. Cain
USDA
Memphis
Texas
Self-Employment Tax Due From Texas Farmers
Texas farmers face a 6.9 percent self-employment tax on net earnings of 400 or more, with a maximum of 538.20, in addition to income tax. The tax applies to a 7800 cap reduced by any Social Security wages, and a farmer must file federal returns if earnings exceed 400.
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Dallas
Texas
Ellis Campbell, Jr
Internal Revnue Service
IRS
Price Support Activity Lower Than Last Year
Price support activity on 1969 crops through Nov 30 shows farmers holding smaller quantities of several major crops than at the same date last year. Lean corn barley sorghum and soybeans are well below year earlier levels with soybeans and oats among the smallest in three years.
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Washington
Seasonal insect control and holiday tree safety tips
County Agent Cure urges planning for insect and disease control in orchards and nut groves using Texas Extension Service guide MP 691 on external parasites. He also warns livestock lice risk, reviews loaned crop data, and offers Christmas tree care steps to keep trees fresh and fire-safe at home.
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Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Mule Defined as Sterile Offspring of Donkey and Mare
A mule is described as the sterile offspring resulting from mating a male donkey with a mare. The definition appears in the classifieds section.
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Frank Orts
The
Advertising Council, Religion In American Life
International Newspaper Advertising Executives
Childress
Memphis Cotton
Taal Volcano
By Lowell B. Cure
Childress County
June Meacham
New York State
Humphrey
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