Texas Farm Cash Income Falls Sharply in 1953 Four Months
Texas farm cash income for January through April 1953 totaled 431.994 million dollars, about 123 million less than the same period in 1952, per the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research. Six commodities rose, led by wheat up 144 percent and oats up 75 percent. cotton and cattle suffered the largest declines with Cotton down 57.6 million and cattle down 42.5 million, while cottonseed wool grain sorghum corn and others also fell.
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University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
Godfrey Wins Second in State Dairy Foods Contest
Shirley Godfrey, 4-H Club outstanding girl in Comanche County for 1952, earned second place in the Texas state Dairy Foods contest at Texas A&M. She won first in district competition in May at Hamilton and scored 50 percent for her milk drink demonstration, receiving an electric mixer as a prize.
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Texas A&m College
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Milk Sales Decline in Central West Texas May 1953
Handlers in the Central West Texas Milk Marketing area received 8,484,116 pounds of milk from 544 producers in May 1953. Buford W. Bain announced the numbers, noting a daily decrease from April and March. Base milk paid $5.92 per hundredweight, excess milk paid $3.15, with Class I sales totaling 248,082 pounds.
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