Texas farm news highlights 4-H profits and dairy growth
Miss Alice Lee Bonds of Delta county shows a 179.14 dollar profit from 2000 pounds of vegetables and 282 canned containers from 19 varieties. Wharton county 4-H members report 253.29 dollars profit on 258 hens in ten months, with 395 pullets. Texas dairy herds now yield 73.565 million pounds of milk weekly as butter and creamery plants expand. A Brazos county 4-H boy nets 63.45 dollars per acre from 800 pounds lint and 1500 pounds seed on pedigreed cotton. Tarleton egg-laying contest records average 206.78 eggs per bird in 857 days. Erath Egg Farm leads with 2627 eggs and 2689.5 points. San Antonio's W A Seidel's hen clocks 309 eggs and 333.9 points. Six hens exceed 300 eggs and points.
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Alice Lee Bonds
Delta County
4-H Club
Wharton County
Texas
Sam Desterfanno
Brazos County
Stephensville
Erath Egg Farm
W. A. Seidel
San Antonio
Garden investment yields 84 this year for Upshur club woman
Mrs. C. L. Hurt of the Rosewood Home Demonstration Club in Upshur county reports that a one dollar garden investment produced 84 this year. Her three-quarter acre plot supplied fresh vegetables for use and sale while she canned 3138 containers.
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C. L. Hurt
Rosewood Home Demonstration Club
Upshur County
Kill of Mesquite Trees by Trunk Spraying at 6666 Ranch
The King county 6666 ranch pasture test used kerosene sprayed up two feet on tree trunks. Results showed a 50 percent kill in two weeks and 75 percent in one month with signs of eventual complete kill in some pastures, though smaller growth appeared unaffected. County agent notes the spray impacted larger growth more than smaller shoots.
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King County
Erosion Threat to Texas Farming Alleged by Agency
The United States Bureau of Chemistry says soil erosion uses more plant food in one year than twenty one years of crops. Without terraces, another generation or two of soil washing could ruin Texas farming and related agricultural businesses.
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United States Bureau of Chemistry
United States
Texas
Dairy farmer reports low feed cost with Sudan grass
K E H Childress of Avoca Iowa reports his eight dairy cows used Sudan grass and small grain pasture lowering feed cost to 4 cents per pound of butter fat in the last eleven months and a profit above feed costs of $454.77. Robert Randow of De Witt Iowa turned to Huban clover grazing five acres supported 20 cattle for 30 days in spring and yielded four and one half tons of hay. he says Huban provides more grazing and lasts longer in spring than any clover tried.
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K E. H. Childress
Avoca
Jones County
Sudan
Robert Randow
DeWitt County
Texas Terraced Acres Boost Local Economy in 1982
After state agent reports are compiled for 1982, about seven million Texas acres are expected to be terraced or contoured. Farmers say terracing boosted income by over 10 million dollars last year, a major driver in Texas trade and business.
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Texas
Hairy vetch boosts cotton profits for New ton county farmer
J. T. Roundtree of Weaver in New ton county advocates hairy vetch as a cotton fertilizer. He reports an extra 7.00 dollars per acre profit after costs, with 512 pounds of lint per acre from vetch treated land versus 327 pounds on untreated land.
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J. T. Roundtree
Newton County
Terracing Boosts Farm Profits in Mills County
Ten Mills County farmers with ten year old terraces report an average of 2.25 dollars more per acre annually over unterraced land. The county agent notes the gap widened in dry years, with 1925 cotton on terraced land earning 7.50 dollars more per acre, and terracing costs from 2 to 4 dollars per acre often repaid in one year.
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Mills County
4-H Club Girls Cut Dress Cost for Schoolwear
The Central 4-H club of Washington County reports ten members spent an average 24.20 for ten months on school dress. They made their own garments saving 325.21, mended 141 garments and did most family sewing. Shoes averaged 5.77, dresses 8.15, other clothing 2.48, hats 2.81, underwear 2.13, and 0.38 for accessories.
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4-H Club
Central
Washington County
Texas home canning nearly doubles in eight counties
Figures from eight Texas counties show home canning nearly doubled last year. An August check counted 3,279,244 tin cans and jars used this year versus 1,770,850 in 1931, an about 85 percent rise. statewide, demonstration agents logged over 382 million containers in 1931 across 120 counties, with an unofficial estimate exceeding 50 million more canned statewide, roughly twenty containers per person.
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Texas A. & M. College Extension Service
Terracing Brings Gains for Texas Farmers
Texas farmers are increasingly terracing land to curb erosion. County agents estimate land value rises by $5 per acre on terraced fields, with farmers boosting expectations by at least 50 percent. Terraced acres total about 7,000, yielding increases of $10 million year over year. terracing is seen as raising land values and future market conditions favorable.
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Texas
Farmer demonstrates value of old pasture renovation near Naples
D C Russell of Morris County transformed a 26 acre pasture by thinning woodland and seeding burr clover and Bermuda grass. He reports saving 156.72 dollars on feed in 12 months and sustained grazing for three mules eight dairy cows and five calves. Neighbors plan to plant burr clover seed in 1000 pounds quantities.
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D. C. Russell
Morris County
Naples
Farm population of United States tops 32 million
The Department of Agriculture reports the early year farm population around 32,000,000, near the 1910 January 1 peak of 32,077,000. Gains in 1931 and 1932 offset a 1.5 million drop since 1920, with January 1, 1930 figure at 30,169,000 as the era’s low point.
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United States
Department of Agriculture
Harlequin cabbage bug outbreak reaches northern belt
Vegetable growers in the cotton belt faced a first large resurgence of the harlequin cabbage bug this year. Mild winter weather allowed the native South insect to over-winter farther north than normal, spreading widely through Maryland, West Virginia, and Southern Ohio. It is the first serious northern outbreak in a decade.
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Cotton Belt
South
Maryland
West Virginia
Ohio
Farmer Reaches Profit by Feeding Stock to Raise Prices
L KE Campbell of Dallas county found a more profitable method than selling corn at 15 to 20 cents a bushel. After crops of corn oats and hay, he fed forty head of yearling Hereford heifers and earned 50 cents a bushel for corn 27 cents for oats and 13.50 dollars per ton for cane hay. He included labor feed pasture improvements and depreciation in costs.
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L. KE. Campbell
Dallas County
Long staple cotton trial expands on West Texas farm
The Col C C Slaughter estate on the old Whiteface Ranch launches a large long staple cotton project. Seed blocks and increasing acreage converted to long staple over years, yield averaging half a bale per acre with some fields reaching a bale. Pigeon peas tested in Lower Rio Grande Valley show 100% forage yield gains, soil benefits, and multi-use pasturage and windbreak value. An USDA ice box for farm meat storage, using sawdust and cork insulation, proves safe for curing pork with minimal ice loss, and can scale to hold thirty five 200 pound hogs.
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West
Texas
Whiteface
Col
W. H. Friend
Lower
Rio Grande Valley Experiment Station
Tropics
United States Department of Agriculture
Farmer Drains Marsh to Reclaim Four Acres for Bumper Hegrari
Four acres of formerly marshy land were reclaimed by Houston county farmer Frank Parrish through drainage. Under County Agent supervision Parrish laid a drainage ditch and contoured rows to channel middle drains into the ditch, turning waste land into a bumper hegari crop this year.
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Frank Parrish
Houston County
Parrish
Farm wages fall to thirty year low across three states
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports the lowest farm wages in thirty years, 60 cents a day without board in South Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi, and a national average of $1.19 per day. The October 1 index stood at 84 percent of prewar, down 38 cents since July 1, with demand at 60 percent of normal. Labor supply reached 123.6 percent of normal, 9 percent higher than a year earlier, creating a 208.8 percent supply-to-demand ratio.
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South Carolina
Georgia
Mississippi
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Apple orchard expansion boosts Hopkins County crops
Last year several farmers in Hopkins County added Delicious apples after a productive season with large well flavored fruit. Americans are eating more pork and lamb but less beef and veal, per the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Beef and veal consumption fell 8 percent in eight months of 4932 while pork rose 4.3 percent and lamb 2 percent. lard up 7 percent. Prices for beef pork and lamb in New York City first eight months of 1932 fell 12 to 17 percent versus 1981.
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Hopkins
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Bureau
New York City
Debts Debate: Postwar Loans and Revision Arguments
The article surveys the foreign debt issue amid calls for revision, noting over $3 billion lent after November 11, 1918 for postwar reconstruction and to protect American interests. It weighs how much debt has been canceled, the costs of money used as a basis for cancellation, and the impact of armaments and trade on debtor nations' ability to pay.
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Europe
United States
United States Food Administration
Herbert Hoover
Presi
Treasury
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