Texas 4-H club girls report profits and crop yields
Miss Alice Lee Bonds of Delta County reports a garden demonstration profit of 179.14 from 2000 pounds of vegetables and 283 canned containers. Wharton County 4-H girls tally 253.29 profit from 258 hens in ten months, with 395 pullets. Dairy growth and cotton uses rise as Texas milk output reaches 73,565,000 pounds weekly. Tarleton egg-laying contest nets 206.78 eggs per bird in 357 days, Erath Egg Farm pen wins with 2,627 eggs and 2,689.5 points. U.S. farm population around 32 million at start of year, with 30.17 million on farms in 1980.
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Alice Lee Bonds
Delta County
4-H Club
Wharton County
Stephensville
Erath Egg Farm
W. A. Seidel
San Antonio
Garden investment yields eighty four dollars for Upshur clubwoman
Mrs. C. L. Hurt of Rosewood Home Demonstration Club in Upshur county reports her three-quarter acre garden produced 84 dollars this year. She used and sold fresh vegetables and canned 313 containers.
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C. L. Hurt
Rosewood Home Demonstration Club
Upshur County
Killing Mesquite Trees at 6666 Ranch in King County
The county agent reports a herbicide spray up trunks with kerosene oil killed about 50 percent of mesquite trees in two weeks and 75 percent in one month. Indications point to complete kill in pasture work on the 6666 ranch in King County, though smaller growth appears unaffected.
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King County
Soil erosion threatens Texas farming and agri business
The Bureau of Chemistry states soil erosion uses up more plant food in one year in the United States than twenty one years of growing crops. It warns that another generation or two of soil washing without terraces would ruin Texas farming and all agriculture related business.
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United States Bureau of Chemistry
United States
Texas
Avoca dairyman cuts butter fat cost with Sudan grass
BE H Childress of Avoca reports from his eight dairy cows that Sudan grass and small grain pasture reduced feed cost to 4 cents per pound of butter fat in the last eleven months, yielding a profit above feed cost of $454.77. Robert Randow of De Witt praises Huban clover after grazing 20 cattle for 30 days on five acres and producing four and a half tons of hay, noting longer lasting grazing than other clovers.
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BE. H. Childress
Avoca
Jones County
Sudan
Robert Randow
DeWitt County
Texas farm terracing boosts income by millions
County agents report 1932 figures will show about seven million acres in Texas terraced and contoured. Farmers with terraced land say income increased by more than $10,000,000 last year, a major factor driving Texas business as this money channels through trade.
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Texas
Hairy vetch boosts cotton profits in Newton County
J. T. Roundtree of the Weaver community reports using hairy vetch as a soil fertilizer in cotton fields. He earned $7.00 more profit per acre by plowing in the vetch last spring. Vetch-treated land yielded 612 pounds of lint per acre versus 327 pounds on the untreated portion after deducting seed, picking, and ginning costs.
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J. T. Roundtree
Newton County
4-H Girls Cut School Dress Costs in Washington County
The central 4-H club in Washington County reports an average $24.20 spent on dress for ten months with ten members. They saved $325.21 by making their own garments, mended 141 items, and did most of the family sewing. Expenditures covered $5.77 shoes $8.15 dresses $2.48 other clothing $2.81 hats $2.18 underwear and $3.88 accessories.
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4-H Club
Central
Washington County
Terracing Proves Worth In Mills County Farms
Ten Mills County farmers with ten year old terraces report an average of 2.25 dollars more per acre annually than unirrigated plots. The county agent notes this accounts for low farm prices in recent years, with higher gains in dry periods such as 1925 when cotton on terraced land yielded 7.50 dollars more per acre. Terracing costs from 2 to 4 dollars per acre, depending on field condition, are often repaid in one year.
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Mills County
Treasury
United States
Europe
Canning in Texas Rises Sharply Across Counties
Nutritionist from Texas A and M Extension reports eight counties show home canning nearly doubles from 1931 to 1932. August check tallies 3,279,244 tins and jars used this year versus 1,770,850 last year, an about 85 percent rise. Overall 1931 statewide canning by 120 counties with agents reached over 382 million containers, hinting at around 50 million more statewide and over a hundred million final tally, roughly twenty per person.
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Texas A. & M. College Extension Service
Texas farmers push terracing to curb erosion gains
Farmers in Texas steadily adopt terracing to combat soil loss. County agents estimate land values rise by about 5 dollars per acre, with farmers increasing expectations by at least 50 percent. Terraced fields boost yields from one to two times prior levels, covering about 7,000 acres and adding at least 10 million dollars in earnings year over year.
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Texas
Farmer proves value of old upland pasture improvement
D C Russell of Morris county near Naples converted 26 acres of woodland pasture by thinning trees sowing burr clover and other grasses in Bermuda sod. He saved $156.72 on feed in a year with minimal seed costs and good grazing for three mules eight dairy cows and five calves. Neighbors plan to buy 1000 pounds burr clover seed for their pastures.
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D. C. Russell
Morris County
Naples
Harlequin Cabbage Bug Outbreak Reaches Northern Belts
Vegetable growers across the cotton belt faced an unusual invasion as the harlequin cabbage bug, native to the South and feeding on cabbage and other greens, over-wintered in large numbers due to a mild winter. The pest has spread widely through Maryland, West Virginia, and Southern Ohio and marks the first major northern outbreak in about ten years.
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Cotton Belt
South
Maryland
West Virginia
Ohio
Farmer Sells Corn For Profits By Feeding Livestock
L. E. Campbell of Dallas county finds higher returns by feeding forty head of yearling Hereford heifers. He earned 50 cents a bushel for corn 27 cents for oats and 18.50 per ton for cane hay, including labor feed pasture improvements and depreciation in costs.
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L. E. Campbell
Dallas County
Long staple cotton trials expand on West Texas ranch
A large scale program on the Col C C Slaughter estate near Whiteface in West Texas shifts 65 tenants across 1400 acres to long staple cotton. Yields reach up to a bale per acre with earlier blocks showing strong progress. the manager touts it as best for plateau land. Pigeon peas show soil improving potential in Lower Rio Grande Valley trials, with forage yields doubling cow pea results and benefits for pasturage and windbreaks. An ice box designed by USDA engineers aids safe on farm meat curing by chilling hog meat to 38 degrees and maintaining temperature with minimal ice loss.
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West
Texas
Whiteface
Col. C. C. Slaughter
South Plains
W. H. Friend
Lower
Rio Grande Valley Experiment Station
Tropics
United States Department of Agriculture
Drainage Reclaims Marsh Land For Big Heed Crop
Four acres of marshy waste land in Houston County were reclaimed by farmer Frank Parrish this year. Under County Agent supervision, Parrish laid and contoured a drainage ditch last year, directing all middles into the ditch. The former waste land yielded a bumper hegari crop this year.
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Frank Parrish
Houston County
Parrish
Farm wages drop to thirty year lows in South region
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports the lowest farm wages in thirty years with 60 cents daily without board in South Carolina Georgia and Mississippi and an average of 1.19 dollars nationwide. Wages on October 1 1932 stood at 84 percent of prewar tracing a 38 cent fall since July 1 and 29 points below a year earlier. Demand for farm labor was 60 percent normal on October 1 versus 62 percent on July 1 and 68.9 percent on October 1 1981. Labor supply reached 123.6 percent of normal, 9 percent above a year before, totaling 203.3 percent of demand.
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South Carolina
Georgia
Mississippi
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Delicious apples boost Hopkins County orchards
Last year a number of apple trees of the Delicious variety produced large, well flavored fruit in Hopkins County. The soil of that county seems well adapted to this fruit, and several farmers are adding this variety to their orchards.
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Hopkins
Meat Consumption Shifts Ahead of 1932 Beef Decline
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics notes Americans buy more pork and lamb but less beef and veal in early 1932. Beef and veal use fell 8 percent from 1931 while pork rose 4.3 percent and lamb 2 percent. lard rose 7 percent. Prices in New York City for beef pork and lamb were about 12 to 17 percent lower than in 1931.
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Bureau of Agricltural Economics
Bureau
New York City
Debts Debate Previews Revision of Postwar Loans
The article weighs arguments over revising war era debts. Opponents cite $38B lent after November 11, 1918 mainly for domestic needs, not war wins, and warn reform could hurt American farmers and markets. Proponents argue debt relief could reduce armament spendings and boost postwar trade, though tax and revenue effects remain debated.
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Europe
United States
United States Food Administration
Herbert Hoover
Presi
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