Michigan Prairie plans twelve acres for church fund drive
Community members in Michigan Prairie Fannin county will cultivate twelve acres this season to benefit the local church. Robert Heath of Wesley Chapel Houston county reports he sold peanuts from a 4 H club demonstration in bags each Saturday and is investing profits in five sets of laying hens. County agent L L Johnson notes veteran Cooke county farmers, all over 60, have terraced most of their rolling land after his instruction. G L Blair near Mabry Red River plans to plant over ten thousand onion plants for 1933, a result of fall planting and attempts to grow own transplants despite a harsh winter. Sour sap from the February freeze threatens many shrubs and evergreens. Mohank vocational students find injuries on privet roses jasmine and lavender due to frost, with cambium layer checks showing dead cells. J H Canon of Chalk near Paducah owns a champion laying hen. one egg weighed six ounces and measured 214 inches around the short way and 714 inches around the long way.
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Robert Heath
Wesley Chapel
Houston County
G. L. Blair
Mabry
Red River County
Mohank Vocational Agricultural
Armour River
J. H. Canon
Paducah
Mr. Canon
Sabine County Farmers Demonstrate Tomato Profit
Thirty Sabine county farmers grew three acres each to tomatoes by demonstration methods. They, with county agent Preston Goen, showed a net profit of a little over 100 dollars per acre. Fertilizer averaged 8.20 per acre. plants labor and equipment averaged 40. The average price received per pound was 1.75 cents.
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Sabine County
Preston Goen
Cow Peas Planted With Corn Boosts Turkey Feed in Victoria County
J. L. Moore, county agent, reports 12 demonstrations in Victoria county last year showed cow peas alternated with corn provided abundant turkey feed. Farmers approved the method with Edwin Zucker noting 15 acres saved $100 in feed and valued the crop at $130, while vines left could be tilled back to enrich the soil.
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J. L. Moore
Victoria County
Edwin Zucker
Garden Valley man shells walnuts to beat the mood
A Garden Valley man turned to selling shelled walnuts gathered from his farm to raise funds after job loss. He stored, cracked, and sold the nuts to grocery stores for cake and candy making, earning $45 cash by season’s end.
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Smith County
Garden Valley
Garden Valleyman
Townsend Family Receives Closet Upgrades At Home
Mrs Will Townsend, a bedroom demonstrator for the Elberta Women s Home Demonstration Club, added clothes closets with rods and shelving in three bedrooms to protect clothing for her nine members. She also improved rooms at minimal cost, including papered walls a lighter window a surplus cotton mattress a reupholstered rocker repaired shades and a desk from a discarded wash stand for 315 dollars.
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Elberta Women's Home Demonstration Club
Will Townsend
Local feed market shows 2417 cattle on feed in Tom Green
W L Marshall county agent reports a home market for one million pounds of home grown feed. Demonstrations in Tom Green County feature 2417 head on feed with grain sorghums. Two lots topped the market in previous demos as evidence of practicality.
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Tom Green
W. L. Marshall
Texas Wool Output Sets Record in 1932
United States Department of Agriculture estimates Texas produced 57,105,000 pounds of wool in 1932, the largest on record and about twice the 1926 peak. Nationwide fleece output totalled 344,854,000 pounds from 44,431,000 sheep, with Texas supplying 16.5 percent of the national clip and ranking first among states.
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Texas
United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Cotton advisory committee elected by cotton co operatives
The Federal Farm Board says cotton co operatives certified the election of a new cotton advisory committee to serve until December 31, 1938. Dr O E Baker warns population trends affect long term farm product demand with urban growth slower and births declining, while rural areas show higher child ratios. Jasper county Scouts planted 100 pounds of pecans bringing total to over 500 pounds in January, with 150 more in Newton, under Scout leaders H F Weaver and team. Texas turkey shipments rose 20 percent in 1932 to 1,626 cars, while chicken shipments fell 15 percent to 1,025 cars.
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Federal Farm Board
Cotton Advisory Committee
United States
O. E. Baker
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Baker
Jasper
Jasper County
C. F. Owens
Newton
Morgan & Lindsey Game Preserve
H. F. Weaver
Dennie Glenn
B. A. Ried
R. R. Childers
A. B. Coleman
Texas
Texas poultry and egg shipments show December rise
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research reports Texas December 1982 poultry and egg shipments at 877 cars, up 35 percent from 648 cars in December 1981. Interstate rail totals for 1982 reached 3,274 cars, down 8 percent from 3,550 in 1921, with late winter and early spring 1982 seeing about 100 car equivalents by boat to Eastern markets and truck shipments to New Orleans.
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University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
Texas
New Orleans
East Texas to Grow and Can Food for Relief Effort
East Texas Chamber of Commerce and A. and M. College plan broad gardening and canning aid across 70 counties. Officials supervise Federal emergency relief funds while a bulletin guides what to plant and when, and seed and labor are funded from relief funds to ease destitution.
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East Texas
East Texas Chamber of Comms
Xas A. & M. College
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
East Texas Chamber ‘of Commerce
East
Texas
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Michigan
Prairie
Fannin County
Cooke County
L. L. Johnson
Brazoria
Freeport
Freeport Sulphur Company
Girls 4-H Club
Mattie Wilroy
Grayson County
Loretta Mulder
Dorchester Club
D. K. Jamison
Denison
Cedar Springs
Jamison
Chester Bryan
Logan -Graham
Daggett - Keen Commission
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