Low Hog Prices Press Swine Producers to Boost Efficiency
Floyd Key notes low hog prices demand efficiency to withstand a price cost squeeze. Key costs include fixed costs around 125 dollars per pig, feed efficiency, grain costs, and pigs per sow per year. Improving management can save about 3.50 dollars per head. harvest season grain is cheapest. Hospital note: Dr. L K Orr had eye surgery in Brownwood Wednesday. Proverb reminds how lessons from Sunday linger to Monday.
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Floyd Key
Chamber officials hear Texas Power and Light computer program
Frances Lockwood and Comanche leaders meet February 5 in the Texas Power and Light Hospitality Room to hear E H Sheffield discuss a computer printout on Comanche. The data, compiled since January 1970 and finished in September, maps the town’s economy taxes housing services and culture for industrial and civic planning.
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Comafiche
Texas Power and Light Company
E. H. Sheffield
Texas Industrial Commission
Sheffield
Comanche
Chamber of Commerce
Austin
Texas
Hanline
Lexas
Goats Could Make You $$$
The hardy brush goats common in the Southwest offer a profitable response to rising kid goat meat demand says Floyd Key county agent. Kids yield 20 to 25 pound carcasses and 40 to 50 pound live weight. Angora mohair demand limits meat production in Angoras, so ranchers crossbreed for better viability. Mixing cattle sheep and goats on Southwest Texas grazing lands increases income per acre.
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Southwest
Floyd Key
Texas
New Winston Graham Espionage Novel Acclaimed
A new adult thriller by Winston Graham lands at the Comanche Public Library. The master storyteller to readers, the book follows the deadly sport of espionage under terror filled rules.
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Winston Graham
Comanche
Booklet On Trees Of Texas Printed For Governor
The Texas Forest Service unveiled the first copy of Famous Trees of Texas to Governor Preston Smith. The 20 page color booklet, funded by a $49 009 Moody Foundation grant, will sell for 3 with free copies in public and school libraries across Texas.
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Preston Smith
Texas
Texas Forest Service
Texas A&m University System
Paul R. Kramer
Tex& Forest Service
College Sta
College and University Lihraviews
Moody Peredetan
Galveston
Austin
Sem Houston
Huntsville
Fort Davis
Pratoria
Rough Riders
San Antonio
College Station
Seven Local FFA Members Enter Houston Show
Seven members of the local FFA Chapter entered live stock in the Houston Livestock Show from February 24 to March 7. The lineup includes Efferson Elliott Jack Boyd Stacy Reese Micky Scott Doug Johnston Curtis Neel Ricky Geye with breeds such as Hampshire Crossbred Duroc and Poland China. The event opens with livestock judging and sales, followed by a rodeo headlined by Johnny Cash then B J Thomas and Glen Campbell over successive evenings.
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FFA
Houston
Johnny Cash
B. J. Thomas
Glen Campbell
The Jade Wind Aviation Adventure in 1926 China
A nostalgic set piece of early aviation in China during 1926. the era features rudimentary pre flight checks and fragile machines. The text blends historical mood with a note on early aircraft handling and control quirks.
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China
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