Texas Farm News Highlights From Experimental Corn Breeding
Agricultural report notes cross breeding at Texas A and M yields a new corn variety called te un bee SUL or Corn with improved adaptability. Farmers in Randall County planted Belt seed sorghum and certified seed programs by Canyon Chamber of Commerce boosted seed quality and yields. Pecan growers report profits from 1922 plantings, while local hatcheries sold thousands of chicks and counties expand silo capacity. Expanded irrigation and diverse crops like cotton, potatoes, melons, and grapes anchor a year of growing intense farm activity and profitability.
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Texas AL & M
College
Texas Dias Berg
Acti Titel
Texas Agericulture
Randall County
Chamber of Commerce of
Canyon
Torr
Comin
Forres
PIRES
Acordes
Derries
County farmer reports strong potato crop under pump irrigation
M Be Jewell of Tear Plain Wew reports satisfactory results from growing Irish potatoes under pump irrigation. Re planted twenty acres in Buss Triumph potatoes on April 11. Crop ready for market in seventy one days. Average yield about 400 bushels per acre at market value near 175 per acre plus culls fed to milk cows and hogs.
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Hate
M. Be Jewell
Tear Plain Wew
Buss Triumph
Broomcorn Acreage Tops South Plains Output This Year
The broomcorn acreage on the South Plains of Northwest Texas was the largest ever for the region. The crop, new to the area, began with Lamb county farmers. Last year twenty one cars were shipped from Lamb. This year planting was heavy in Lynn, Hockley and Gaines counties. Harvest occurs in September. A modern broom factory operates at O’Donnell.
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South Plains
Texas
Lamb County
Lynn
Hockley
Gaines
O'Donnell
Improvement in Plains Livestock Booms Local Industry
The South Plains reports a notable rise in cattle sheep and hog stock over recent years. Longhorns have largely disappeared replaced by well bred hoof cattle and dairy stock. Modern packing houses creameries cheese factories and poultry plants have emerged ensuring a home market for livestock and products.
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South Plains
Plains
Proffer’s Cooke County Truck Farm Profitable, Varied Crops
Proffer, residing four miles south of Gainesville in Cooke County, runs a model truck farm on twelve acres. He grows a wide assortment of vegetables including an asparagus bed ten years old that has proven highly profitable, with beans, peas, okra, beets, onions, tomatoes, corn, watermelons, cantaloupes, peppers, berries, pumpkins, and more. Overall profits are satisfactory.
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the Simpson
Pemphill County
Low
Proffer
Cooke County
Gainesville
Parker County Home Demonstration Aids 1861 of 2000 Farms
Parker County home demonstration agent reports that 1861 of 2000 farm families have been helped this year. The statistic reflects outreach across Parker County improving household and farm practices.
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Parker County
Fifty Fifty Can Demonstration Supports Charity Drive
A home demonstration club in Nuavordachos proposed a fifty fifty canning project for a focal charity. The idea was warmly received, and members contributed 16,000 cans of fond to the cause.
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Nuavordachos
Wheat per acre contrasts in Cooke county fields
Al Kantz of Cooke county reports a 4.20 per acre decrease in income by growing 27 bushels of wheat on old sweet clover land. Nearby wheat on old corn land yielded slightly less than 25 bushels per acre, highlighting field-to-field variation in recent yields.
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al Kantz
Cooke County
Herman Borth
Sherman County
Farmers Trade Pigs Through Local Market Mechanism
Sixteen registered pigs were acquired by Shelby county farmers through a market based trade. The county agent coordinated the swap with swine breeders, appraising each yearling and paying the breeder. The farmer was notified and collected his pig.
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Shelby County
Nighttime shepherds hear of a savior born in Bethlehem
The passage recounts an angel delivering joyful tidings to shepherds in the field. The message proclaims the birth of a savior, Christ the Lord, in the City of David, with a sign of the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger, followed by heavenly hosts praising God.
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David
Christ
New Australian trombone squash catchs rancher interest
A Colorado rancher reports a new vegetable from Australia named the trombone or gramma. It grows in various sizes up to 20 30 pounds with a thin rind and solid meat like cheese. It cooks like squash and may be used for stews pies or baked dishes. University of California and Australian tribes reportedly cultivate it.
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Colorado
Australia
University of California
Farmer Paid for Tomatoes in Jack County
Mrs Herschel Kirk of Jack County received four hundred feet of tomato rows and was paid $42.25. She also supplied her own family and her father’s family with fresh tomatoes.
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Herschel Kirk
Jack County
Poultry Tattoo Policy Spurs Theft Prevention in Bosque County
In Bosque County this year poultry producers adopted tattooing on their turkeys to deter theft. The county agent reports over a hundred farmers joined the plan and not a single tattooed turkey has been stolen.
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Bosque County
County Food Mileage Estimate From Van Zandt County Cans
County agent and others estimate that cans of food stored in Van Zandt county homes would stretch nearly eighty miles if laid end to end. The calculation assumes five inches per can for one million cans produced in farm homes this year.
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van Zandt
Ants Routed by Sodium Evandie in Farm Beds
Hamilton county farmers, troubled by red ants, appealed to the county agent. A solution of sodium evandie was poured on beds when all the ants were at home and the ants were quickly destroyed at a cost of about 8 cents per bed.
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Hamilton County
Wheat yields differ with terracing on Texas land
Allie Walling, a Cottle County farmer, terraced part of his land and left another part unterraced. He planted the same wheat on both areas last fall. the terraced plot yielded four bushels more per acre than the unterraced plot. A Tom Green County farmer reports success with creep feeding for seventy-two lambs fed forty-two days with pasture access, averaging 25 pounds gain. Feed included mile oats and cotton seed, costing $19.25. Lambs sold at $3.75 each, total $270, or $250.25 after feed costs, with lambs on range and free feed access.
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Allie Walling
Cottle County
Tom Green County
Controlling Weevils in Peas with Carbon Disulphide
Instructions describe using carbon disulphide in tight storage containers to fumigate peas corn and grain. Process covers twenty four hours with careful ventilation and warns that the chemical is highly flammable and explosive. The article also highlights a climate machine by Dr Robert Steinberg that automates light humidity temperature air flow and soil moisture for rapid plant growth and research.
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Robert Steinberg
Bureau of Plant Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
Dairyman Trimble Cuts Costs With Small Jersey Herd
LL. C. Trimble of Somervell County says he produced milk for under 10 cents per gallon in a year. He maintains a twelve head herd of registered Jerseys on Sudan grass pasture, which materially lowered expenses.
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LL. C. Trimble
Somervell County
Mr. Trimble
Sudan
Back to the Farm Movement Grows in 1982 Statistics
The 1982 wear movement strengthens as the Agriculture Department reports 1,472,000 people leaving farms for towns and cities and 8,900 moving toward farming. Farm population on January 1, 1982 stood at 31,260,000, up from 30,612,000 at the start of 1924.
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Department of Agriculture
Rats Multiply Rapidly and Costly to Farmers
Dr Dan M Foster of the US Biological Survey spoke at Linden Cass county about rat populations. A single pair can yield 1562 descendants in a year if undisturbed, costing about 1.50 to feed per rat annually. A farmer with rats may lose over 75 in feed and face diseases like typhus and bubonic plague, justifying efforts to curb rodents.
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Dan M. Foster
United States Biological Survey
Linden
Cass County
A Thrilling Fox Hunt in the Yupon Thicket
In Yupon thicket near Hearne Texas a State fox hunting party pursued two clever foxes “Pretty Boy” and an older gray fox under a full moon. Hounds led by Pat, Mutt, Penn, Fanny, Lemon, Buck and others chased through fields and brush until the red “Pretty Boy” was finally slain by the pack with Matt and Penn closing in.
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Hearne
Yupan
Abel Wood
Calvert
Franz Pietsch
Charley Hutchison
Sleepy Wood
Penn
Matt
Pretty Boy
Pat
Fanny
Lemon
Buck
Fox
Silver
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