Terraces Boost West Texas Farm Yields and Water Conservation
Wylie Pate, Weribest farmer, reports terraces worth over 1000 dollars and rising yields. Since adopting a complete conservation system in 1936 with the Soil Conservation Service, his 219 acre farm on 4.5 miles of terraces holds runoff from 100 acres, improves cotton and seed yields, and makes cultivation easier.
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Wylie Pate
Pate
Mr. Pate
The
Soil Conservation Service
March Decline in Texas Livestock Shipments
Texas to other states and Fort Worth stockyards moved 6 039 cars in March, a 12 9 percent drop from 1939. Cattle shipments fell 22 9 percent to 2 913 cars while calves rose 11 8 percent to 76 cars, hogs 2 1 percent to 84 cars, and sheep 3 9 percent to 476 cars.
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Texas
Fort Worth
University of Texas Bureau of Business
Texas Workers Get 6 Percent Pay Rise Since 1929 Boom
Office and supervisory staff in Texas now earn six per cent more than in the boom year of 1929 while working hours have been reduced by eighty five per cent.
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O Company
Texas
Pecan Budding Time Spurs Growth in Gillespie County Trees
County Agent Henry Grote notes rising demand for pecan budding in Gillespie County as growers prepare buds from April to June after winter pruning. Trees 12 to 18 inches diameter yield best results, require about 25 buds, with improved varieties like Success and Burkett boosting yields and prices. The county provides budding cloth via AAA, with stock available at the Agriculture Building offices.
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Gillespie County
Henry Grote
Grote
Burkett
Western Schiey
AAA
West Texas National Range Conference Set in June
The West Texas National Range Conference will be held June 24 to 28 with ranchmen delegates from 17 range states drafting the 1941 Range Conservation Program. The event opens in Midland and tours West Texas ranches before a final session in San Angelo. Speakers include R. M. Evans and Grover B. Hill.
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AAA
West Texas
Howard T. Kingsbery
Santa Anna
State Agricultural Conservation Association Committee
Midland
Pecos
Fort Davis
Marfa
Alpine
del Rio
Sonora
San Angelo
R. M. Evans
Grover B. Hill
Panhandle
Hot Springs
S. D
Contest Winners Named In Lumber Company Contest
Trene Grobe of Fredericksburg High School Advertising class won 2.50 dollars for the Wall Paper Letter Writing Contest prize. Helen Goehring took second and Ruby Lang third. About thirty students entered. Judges were Mrs. Arthur Stehling Edyth Krauskopf Walter Knoche and Art Kowert.
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Trene Grobe
Fredericksburg
The
Mutual Lumber Company
Helen Goehring
Ruby Lang
M. L. Bogish
Gillespie
Arthur Stehling
Edyth Krauskopf
Walter Knoche
Art Kowert
Power Lines Reach One Quarter Of U S Farms In 1939
The Rural Electrification Administration reports about 1.7 million farms, 25 percent of U S farms, had highline electric service by early 1940. REA extended service to roughly 225,000 farm families and 1,000,000 people in 1939, with 180,000 services under REA financed systems and 688 miles energized that year. Construction averaged about 400 miles per workday, weather permitting, and total REA lines in operation reached 180,000 miles with 60,000 more under construction. Farmers cooperatives accounted for 88.4 percent of REA borrowers.
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United States
Rural Electrification Administration
REA
Washington
San Francisco
Poultry Shipments Rise 20 Percent in March Texas report
A University of Texas Bureau of Business Research release shows poultry shipments from Texas to other states rose 20 percent in March 1940 versus March 1939. Of 72 carloads 64 carried chickens and 8 turkeys. Egg shipments climbed from 26 to 87 cars. Oil industry wages also up 5 percent from 1929 levels while hours fell about one third.
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Texas
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
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Doctor Feller
Schaetter
State of Texas
Felix G. Stehling
Adams St
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Federco Electric
Joseph Bros
Oliver
Hill Country Implement Company
Chester Bonn
Morris Ranch
Felix Maier
McCormick Deering
McCormick
Hill Country Implement Co
Electrolux
Kolmeier & Klier Co
Nimitz Hotel
Louis Kott
H. H. McFarland
VAPO
Meredith
Austin
C.J. Bees
Speedway
Goodyear Tire Service
E. Main St
Deering
Carbide
My Place
Premier Ranch
Mason, Tex
John Weidemann
Main Street
Schneider Hatchery
Otto Kolmeier & Co
Meier Miser
Business and Professional Directory
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Usener
Alfred Petsch
Herman Usener
Attorneys - AT - Law Associates
Boerne — Kerrville
Llano — Menard
J. W. Yancey
Striegler Bldg
Jas. A. Schmulen
Fire
Strie
the Loan & Abstract CO
Reuben E. Jordan
A. Seidemann
Bedall
San Antonio
Optometrists
Leon F. Zwiener
Optometrist
Palace Theatre
H. Welge Lewis
Beckmann Funeral Home Telephone No
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