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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1929
Page
12
The Kodak finishing plant has been sold to Mr. A. H. Welgehausen and moved from Heiner's Store to the Striegler building upstairs across the street. The seller thanks customers and asks continued patronage, trusting Welgehausen will provide prompt efficient service.
For sale for limited time Improved place at city limit of Fredericksburg Texas 1414 acres a five room stone house garage chicken house and other outhouses A 35 foot dug well More than 50 large pecan trees Price 1600 cash 400 Balance convenient terms 7 percent interest per year
40 acre tracts offered for gas and oil lease at 50 dollars per acre with 400 dollars cash and balance on terms at 7 percent interest. Drilling has begun nearby two miles north of Eneinal near L G N Ry and Main State and Federal Highway, San Antonio to Laredo Texas. Considerable citrus growing noted. Prices quoted by a known realtor. Write owner R J Box 34 Smithfield Neb. Taxes for 1929 and small school and interest due.
The piece questions improving poultry stock affordability and outlines several reader-suggested ideas to help amateurs upgrade their flocks without discarding current birds. It presents practical options and calls for constructive community discussion.
Editor notes a continuing 52 part series on poultry raising by national authority Dr. L D LeGear of St. Louis. The paper urges readers to study the articles carefully and clip for future reference.
The piece promotes grading up as a practical method for improving mixed breed flocks by mating best mongrel hens with standard bred males, advancing generation by generation toward high purity. It stresses persistence and vigilance, with culling of nonconforming chicks and marketing grade males.
The article argues against amateur grading up of mongrel flocks. It favors buying thoroughbred chicks from hatcheries or standard bred stock. It advises professional care, proper housing and feeding, and emphasizes forward progress over stagnation, urging an uplift movement in yards and slums.
Governor Moody commuted the death sentence of Jesse Charles, a Liberty County negro, to life in prison after being shown a dying statement by a key witness that certain testimony about the murder was untrue. Jurors who had voted for the chair urged clemency. Charles was convicted of murdering Winfred Knipple at Devers.
The U S Department of Agriculture endorses cleaning seed wheat to remove weed seeds and copper carbonate dust treatment to combat bunt and smut. Recent developments include combine machines mounted on trucks or in baggage cars for mobile service. community projects in California and widespread farm adoption with low costs averaging about 1.94 dollars per ton.
In Luling on September 13 C J Wise of this city lost his left arm when his gun discharged while squirrel hunting. His son, trained as a Boy Scout, applied a tourniquet and stopped the bleeding until help arrived. Amputation was necessary to save his life, doctors reported.
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