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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1940
Page
5
A trench silo stores crops during drought or frost and preserves feeding value. Cut green when possible, add moisture for dry material, and ferment with sugar from grain sorghums corn or sweet sorges. Extra feed can be stored for emergencies and silage quality improves with proper moisture and exclusion.
The American Dairy Science Association reviews the problem of weeds causing off flavors in dairy cream and butter. Dr. P A Downs of the University of Nebraska argues losses rose in 1938 1939 to over a million dollars in the Midwest. He notes no effective method to remove weed taints from cream and urges supervision of cow feeding to avoid pastures with obnoxious weeds. Twenty more game wardens were hired in California and Texas now has eighty wardens.
The piece traces America's farm crisis to a shift from debtor to creditor nation after World War I. It notes that foreign demand fell when wartime loan support ended, with war measures and protectionism, plus price guarantees in France and Italy, worsening export protection.
A. B. Lange urges readers to protect Bobwhite quail amid harsh winters and food shortages that increase mortality. He notes good seasons yield more eggs and better shooting. floods, heat, fires, and predators reduce nests. Farmers can profit from game farming and seek help from the game warden. future essays will discuss bronze wild turkeys.
Fort Myer explores new Seiberling Rubber Company bullet proof inner tubes for scout cars and gun carriages. Tests show fifty and thirty caliber bullets fail to puncture and tubes can run 200 miles without loss of pressure. Tube technology to shield tires on trucks anti aircraft mounts and other Army vehicles.
Texas AAA reports record range conservation under the 1939 program with 22,236 ranches earning 5.82 million dollars of 6.35 million allocated. Seeding and replanting expanded across acres, terraces and dikes, with substantial gains in stock water tanks, wells, erosion control, and weed eradication on tens of thousands of acres.
The 1939 gram totals 78 241 807 acres. The AAA range conservation plan allows ranches a maximum building allowance earned by adopting approved conservation practices. The allowance depends on ranch range land area and unit grazing capacity.
Texas oilmen reported discovering 107 of the nation’s 259 new oil fields in the previous year. The Rio Grande perch native to South Texas changes color during spawning from grey with blue spots to pure white.
Texas reports two of the deepest oil test wells with depths of 13,728 feet in South Texas and 12,786 feet in West Texas. California holds the deepest at 15,004 feet, in the reported tests.
In this week’s Hospital News list Omer Cottle had an appendectomy on July 5 Oscar Voelkel underwent a tonsillectomy on July 8 and Mrs Rubin Herbert had an operation on July 10 A single accident report notes Monroe Tomlinson broke his right arm while cranking a car after a prior fracture a month earlier while cranking a tractor at home.
An unconventional ad teaser echoes a bold promise about discovering a “Renepee” experience. The copy emphasizes curiosity and a call to try a product or service to understand its value.
Archidean Weiss from this city attends the Kerrville Methodist Assembly in Kerrville. He takes a course titled Getting Along With People and participates in the handicrafts hobby group during the event.
The article notes that deer are ruminants and share cud-chewing behavior with cows. It explains their specialized stomachs enable digestion of fibrous plants and rough forage typical of their diet.
Advertisement claims CARDUS eases headaches nervousness and cramps from functional dysmenorrhea caused by malnutrition. It allegedly boosts appetite digestion and gastric flow. The copy notes daily use before and during the menstrual period and notes CARDUS has been popular for over 50 years.
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