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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1918
Page
6
Livestock sold directly from farmer to consumer at unusually low cost compared to other farm products. The report highlights direct farm sales as a lower price option for shoppers and notes possible benefits to local producers and communities.
Dallas May 29 1918 The Tepary bean is urged as highly suitable for Texas by W S Reyner with many years in bean farming He notes Tepary yields four times per acre of other beans and can be grown in arid to semi arid regions including Texas New Mexico Arizona and California experiments show good crops with tiny rainfall The bean is native to northern Mexico and surrounding states and can be sown broadcast or cultivated by hand with modest equipment.
A Texas Industrial Congress feature notes Tepary beans thrive in hot, arid soils, yield up to 60 lb per bush and 30 bush per acre with dry farming, mature in 90 days, and serve as a valuable cover crop. Planting, cultivation, harvesting methods are outlined, with growing interest from growers and a planned state bean growers association to market beans.
Wanted experienced gardener for shares at J B Norris truck farm. Call Norris Johnson Co or see I B Padgett for particulars.
200 straw hats offered at 10 to 20 cents each with a note they are good summer hats. Also a large stock of men and ladies Oxford shoes advertised at low prices. Includes legal blanks available at Leader office.
Graham Electric & Auto Co promotes battery charging insulation repair and guaranteed workmanship at its service station.
Cotton seed meal bran hay oats rye barley wheat and feed oats advertised by Louis Bower at his FEED STORE 103 tf.
A Durham Bulls sale lists about twenty registered Short Horn and Roan Bulls, yearlings to three-year-olds, priced from $100 to $300 per head. Call or write for details.
Hens wanted in large or small quantities by Graham Produce Co. After April 6 price advances to $1.50 per suit for cleaning. pressing unchanged. Also a house to rent on South Elm and cow hides buyers seeking green and dry hides at top market price. Don’t mold butter in hot weather. bring to us in jars buckets or pails.
Highest prices paid for fat cattle hogs sheep goats and green or dry hides. Graham Meat Market offers full stock of business letter heads and envelopes at Leader office.
Unloaded car of horse, dairy, and hog feed now available at low prices. Cheapest and best feed on the market. Buy once and you will buy again.
Independent Phone 16-3 offers second hand sacks for sale and pays 15 cents each for good cotton seed meal sacks and 10 cents for sacks with small holes. Located at Graham Cotton Oil Co. Offers portable sack exchange and quick payment.
Norris Johnson Holn. Co. promotes buying summer shoes at the West Side Shoe Store with appealing prices and goods. Morrison's advertises bulk peanut butter, inviting shoppers to stock up.
By order of the District Court of Young County Texas a foreclosure sale is set for the property of W F Nance. The state seeks $4.62 plus costs with six percent interest from May 2 1918. Sale at Graham County courthouse between 10 AM and 4 PM on July 1 1918 subject to two year right of redemption.
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