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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1940
Page
8
Farmers discuss trench silos as affordable insurance against feed shortages. Filling a trench silo is easy with a binder and cutter or ensilage harvester. Green crops with sugar pack well. low sugar crops need molasses. Expert guidance from agents or dealers helps tailor the method. Continuous silage supports milk and livestock during droughts.
Gillespie County farmers will save about 17300 yearly as Congress enacts temporary reductions on Land Bank and Land Bank Commissioner loans. The two year measure keeps first mortgage rates at 32 percent and lowers first and second mortgage rates from 4 to 3.5 percent, benefiting about 356 farmers with $1,156,060 in loans and boosting purchasing power and farm living standards. Chr Mathisen of Fredericksburg serves as secretary treasurer and local rep for the Federal Land Bank.
The article explains that rising farming costs widened the gap between farmers' income and national income. It cites figures from 1910 to 1935, including operating equipment costs from 4 million to 449 million dollars, farm mortgage interest from 199 million to 400 million, machinery costs from 922 million to 593 million, and electricity costs rising to 68 million dollars. These surging expenses reduced farmers’ purchasing power and helped create agricultural surpluses.
Calf producers should use leafy fine stemmed hay that is green with low fiber and high nutrients. Legume and grass mixes forming one third to one half legumes on fertile soil work well. Harvest early, cure partially in the swath to absorb vitamin D, then dry leaves thoroughly before storing to prevent overheating and color loss.
Arthur Kuenemann continues the family business started by his brother Charles before 1939. He recalls years when freight wagons took ten days between Fredericksburg and Austin or San Antonio and notes the shift to rail from nearby towns. He preserves birth certificates, Confederate papers, and early photographs, while serving as a civic leader as a longtime director of the Fredericksburg Fair Ass’n and former city official instrumental in bringing the railroad to town.
Grace I. Neely of Texas A and M Extension Service advises rural women facing fruit juice quotas to make home made grape juice. The guide highlights uses from hot weather drinks to punches and frozen desserts and notes one bushel yields 2.5 to 3 gallons with sugar. Blending varieties improves color and flavor with examples of Carman, Virginia and Ger- blends.
Arthur C. C. Rabke of Crabapple region claims county championship in melon length. He brought a fully ripened 21 inch long cantaloupe to the Publishing Company office, measuring six inches in diameter and displaying unusually good color.
The Arkansas utilities commission approved a deal where A. C. Stuart of Texarkana would acquire telephone plants at Blanco Johnson City Dripping Springs Round Mountain and Wimberly. Officials also sought permission to swap four Arkansas properties from Southwestern Bell to a Prescott company for the Texas exchanges.
Luckenbach News notes Gus Jenschke and Walter Hopf met with Pete Weber on Tuesday night to discuss a fall play by the Frohsian singing club. Several local visits are recorded including Willie Petsch and Tillie Petsch in San Antonio, Clemens Meurer in Kerrville, Edmund Kunz in Kerrville, and other family visitors across nearby towns.
Margaret Louise Roos, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ed Roos of this city, was named on the honor roll of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Texas for the spring semester, as announced by the registrar this week.
Fredericksburg resident Kueneman has served as a director of the Fredericksburg Chamber of Commerce on and off. His hobby is fishing and he maintains a well arranged cabin at the Llano River for leisure whenever his business duties allow.
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