Gillespie County Soil Conservation Board Meets
The Gillespie County Soil Conservation District held its regular meeting on Wednesday night July 16. A film from Soylaid Co was shown. Initial conservation plans were approved for Harry Jordan Pecawreek Bertha Fuhrmann Pilot Knob Emil Wendel Cherry Mountain A G Sagebiel Eckert and Omar Cottle Marper. Technicians will aid in developing plans and the Supervisors will reconvene August 20 inviting public discussion on soil and water issues.
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Board of Supervisors
Gillespie County Soil Conservation District
Soylaid” Company
Harry Jordan
Pecawreek
Bertha Fuhrmann
Pilot Knob
Emil and
Sterling Wendel
Cherry Mountain
A. G. Sagebiel
Eckert
Omar Cottle
Marper
Soil Conservation Service
Farm Safety Week Prompts Terrace Building Advisory
In cooperation with the PMA technicians of the Soil Conservation Service laid about two miles of terrace lines for Sterling Wendel. County equipment will be used to construct small channel terraces, outletting onto a permanent pasture sod. Accidents on farms kill about forty one residents annually. practice caution. Pellet-type superphosphate is on hand but may run out. check with the warehouseman for fall plantings.
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PMA
Soil Conservaion Service
Sterling Wendel
Cherry Mt. County
Schreiner Inst Adds Agriculture Department
Kerrville Schreiner Institute adds a Department of Agriculture to its curriculum. The program offers full transfer agriculture courses to Texas schools and expands the Practical Ranching Course to be offered in September. First year agriculture students take animal husbandry agronomy English chemistry and biology with full transfer credits. A judging team and rodeo club will be formed. Schreiner will offer sophomore agriculture in 1953-54 alongside freshman courses. For details contact Registrar F H Junkin or Dean Hopf.
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Kerrville
Department of Agriculture
Schreiner Institute
Andrew Edington
Texas
F. H. Junkin
Schreiner
Schreiner Agriculture and Ranching
Dean Hopf
Texas Peach Shortage Brightens Home Freezing Window
The peach crop in Texas is short but supplies from other producing areas of the nation are heavy. Homemakers may find it profitable to freeze or can peaches during the next two weeks when supplies are expected to be at their peak.
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Texas
New Armo Mills Creep Feed Introduced for Cattle
Bob Schneider of Armo Mills Supply announces the arrival of Armo Mills Creep Feed for local ranchers. The 13 percent protein pellet, made from ear corn, cotton seed meal, sorghum, alfalfa meal, molasses, and minerals, aims to boost calf growth and profits. The feed comes in easy to feed pellets to reduce waste, with Armo also offering 18 percent lay pellets and other poultry feeds.
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Bob Schneider
Armo Mills Supply
Armo Mills
Schneider
Lockhart
Alvin Leitz
Sudan
Armo
Bobby Joe Williams
Doyal! Everett
Armco Mills
A. Stone
Town and Country Home Demo Club Plans Picnic
Town and Country Home Demonstration Club met July 16 at Mrs. T. W. Neal home to plan a family picnic at Oakcrest Park on August 29 at 6 p m with basket lunches. The group also organized a July 25 talent show tea to raise funds for delegates to the GHDCA meeting at Kingsville August 26-28.
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Town and Country Home Demonstration Club
T. W Neal
Neal
Wm. Dietel
Walter Doebbler
Oakcrest Park
First Methodist Church
GHDCA
Kingsville
Doebbler
Otto Mintel
W. Main
Jenna Scherer
Wm, Dietel
Giles Points to Success of Vets Land Program
Bascom Giles, Commissioner of the General Land Office of Texas, states the $100,000,000 Texas Veterans' Land Program has far exceeded expectations in applications and achievements. He describes supervising thousands of farm and ranch tract purchases for veterans and notes large increases in Texas school funds and university funds during his tenure. Giles, a Travis County native, began in state service after Austin High School, with only a brief two year gap seeking promotion. He chaired the originations of the veterans program in an unprecedented legislative address and remains a prominent Democratic figure. He also participates in the Methodist Church and Lions Club and follows sports closely.
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Bascom Giles
General Land Office of Texas
Texas Veterans
Giles
Travis County
Texas
General Land Office
Austin High School
State Department
Permanent Public Free School Fund
University of Texas and A&m
Methodist Church
The
Lions Club
Cattle Prices Advance In Gillespie Sale
In Gillespie County Livestock Sales Company auction many head sold as prices climbed. Stocker calves sold up to 32.75 and 20.50 for low grades, stocker cows to 245 a pair, stocker cows to 150 a head, canner cattle to 22.10, bulls to 23.24 a hundred. Sheep and goats drew steady demand with lambs to 15.30 a hundred and ewes to 11 a head. top hogs at 21, packers to 19 a hundred, feeder pigs to 24.25 per hundred pounds. Notable buyers included Adams Fredericksburg 32.75, Lee Mason 31.50, Behrends Duckenbach 31, Schlaudt Fredericksburg 150 per cow, Evers Doss 245 per cow with calf, Hopson Llano 23.25 for a 1,400 pound bull, Hansen Fredericksburg 15.25 a hundred for lambs, Friedrich Doss 10.25 for mutton, Bierschwab Harper 14.40 a pair for ewes with lambs.
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Gillespie County Livestock Sales Company
H. A. Adams
Fredericksburg
Pat Lee
Mason
Ewald Behrends
Duckenbach
E. Moss
Llano
E. Schlaudt
Herman Evers
Doss
John Hopson
M. Hansen
C. Friedrich
J. L. Bierschwab
Harper
Miss Dittmar Employed At White Sands N M
Miss Hulda Dittmar, daughter of Mrs. Hulda Dittmar of Fredericksburg, has a position at White Sands Proving Grounds in the Tularosa Basin near Las Cruces. The facility represents all Armed Forces in its missile testing and research work. Dittmar, a Southwest Texas State Teachers College graduate, previously taught in Floresville. Egg producers in a grading program now earn over five cents per dozen more than ungraded eggs, with higher quality eggs in demand. Brews and drought affect agriculture, causing short term crop and livestock impacts and potential long term population shifts.
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White Sands Proving Grounds
N. M
Hulda Dittmar
San Antonio
Fredericksburg
Tularosa Basin
Las Cruces
Miss Dittmar
Southwest Texas State Teacher's College
San Marcos
Texas
Phi Epsilon Mu Fraternity
the Proving Grounds
Floresville
National Farm Safety Week prompts planning for safer farming
During National Farm Safety Week, farmers are urged to plan practices that will keep the farm safe for the next 51 weeks. The message warns against becoming an accident victim and emphasizes proactive safety measures.
Timely Tips for Home Management and Foods
A homemaker learns to manage by planning, coordinating, and evaluating family needs across life cycles. The piece emphasizes long term goals, cycles of income, and retirement as lightest, with guidance on simplifying work and achieving family satisfaction. It includes a Recipe of the Week for Tomato Soup Cake and a Cream Cheese Frosting.
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Texas
Menus and Tips From a Historic Daily Diet Plan
A sample one day meal plan lists breakfast with cantaloupe baked eggs in ham cups biscuits butter milk coffee. dinner features pork liver corn on the cob stuffed squash tossed salad bread and tomato soup. cake fruit punch. supper grilled cheese walnuts salad milk fresh fruit. Tips advise weekly liver servings and keeping fresh fruit available. notes alcohol guidance.
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Walford
Sageriel Enrolled at Oklahoma A and M Okmulgee
A Fredericksburg Texas student joins Oklahoma A and M this term per Grady Clack. The college offers 35 trades and some courses have been shortened to one year for intensive training. Charles J Sagebiel is listed in Architectural Drafting. A red and black buoy signals danger. The Security State Bank closes on Saturday July 26, election day.
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Okmulgee
Fredericksburg
Texas
Oklahoma A & M
Grady Clack
Charles J. Sagebiel
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Standard Ranch
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W. M. Arnold
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