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Newspaper
Hearne Democrat
Location
Hearne, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1925
Page
7
A Texas extension summary notes county home demonstration efforts and club activity from Scurry to Navarro counties. It highlights canning, kitchen contests, remodeling dresses, and home demonstration results, plus expert guidance from Dr. B F Kaupp on winter egg production and poultry housing, nutrition, and feeding schedules.
Farmers guidance warns 1926 honey yields hinge on fall beekeeping. Weak colonies or old queens threaten profits. strong winter-ready hives improve next season. Advice covers uniting small colonies on two frames with newspaper, preserving queens, and avoiding spread of foulbrood.
The article outlines a winter-egg feeding plan for pullets. It emphasizes starting pullets early, feeding a mash of wheat bran, middlings, yellow corn, oats, meat scrap, and salt, kept in an open hopper. Milk can replace meat scrap. bone meal and ground oyster shell support calcium. The cost is justified by better winter production.
In Eureka Lake Kansas a farm yard was used to demonstrate modern pest control by a U S Department of Agriculture team. The plan fed rats salmon apples and eggs with barium carbonate, then dispersed calcium cyanide dust to gas and kill burrow dwellers. A week later the gas was reapplied and officials report absolutely no rats remaining.
The latest department of agriculture market notes record gains and declines in potatoes cabbage and apples with eastern and midwestern centers showing varied prices. Livestock prices trend irregular with hogs and beef steers higher on some grades while cows and heifers weaken. Cotton futures rise while dairy butter and cheese markets move irregularly with supply influences and storm area stocks noted.
Commissioner George B. Terrell of Texas places the 1925 cotton crop at 2,980,000 bales, down from 4,851,000 in 1924, with Texas leading national production. He notes drought may affect Collin and Hunt counties, and that about 80 percent of the crop is picked with an average price of 1.50 per hundred pounds. Several hundred workers are needed in western districts to finish the harvest likely after Christmas.
New Orleans spot prices were unchanged but firm on Friday as demand remained moderate. Pancy Blue Rose quoted at 10 to 11 cents, choice 6 ½ to 7 ¾ cents, fancy Lady Wright 11 ¾ cents and fancy Honduras 7 to 7 ½ cents per pound. Receipts totaled 2,748 rough sacks and 7,284 clean pockets, most of which was exported to Porto Rico. Favorable weather spans the belt and late crop harvesting progresses swiftly.
Fort Worth Texas cattle market shows a small Friday run with 2,600 cattle and 60 cents calves received. Week-to-week totals compare to 2,485 cattle and 702 calves previously and to 4,300 cattle and 1,550 calves a year ago, outlining modest activity and price movement.
Austin Texas. An issue of six thousand dollars in waterworks bonds for the city of Lott received approval from the attorney general’s department and was registered in the county treasurer’s department. The bonds carry a nine and a half year term with a ten year option and mature in forty nine years.
Forty persons suspected of ties to Bulgarian Comitadji were arrested in Athens amid a crackdown. Officials say the raid targets regional terrorism networks and ممکن authorities seek further leads and prosecutions.
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