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Like boys cautiously testing the temperature of the water at the swimming hole before making the plunge, farmers in this area have been making test runs in the maize fields, and will make the big plunge soon to harvest what is expected to be another bumper crop. Some fields have been cut, but the big swing to the harvest has not begun. By the last of the week, if the weather holds, loads of grain should be coming into Win ters elevators in an ever-increas ing stream. J. C. Jarrell, agent for the Abilene Southern Rail road, said he had shipped out two cars by Wednesday morning. Rail road sidings have been filled with boxcars for several days—about 50 cars now are in the Winters yards, Jarrell said — and extra trains probably will be put to work moving the maize when harvest hits its peak. Some observers have guessed that harvest shoud be in full swing for three weeks, but that because of some of the late-ripen ing fields, there will be ‘‘dribbles’’ for several weeks. City mail delivery started in Winters last Saturday, and Post master Rankin Pace said that many people who have notified the post office to send their mail to their street addresses have not installed mail boxes. Unless the boxes are up, Pace said, the mail will not be delivered and will be returned to the post office, result ing in a delay in delivery. Being by nature hard-headed and hard to convince on many subjects, it’s unusual when we find something in the papers we will go along with one hundred percent. But we'll have to agree with the following item we swip ed: “Three fourths of the earth’s surface is water and one fourth is land. It’s clear that the good Lord intended man should spend three times as much time fishing as he does mowing the lawn.” We've just read where some scientists are conducting experi ments with cattle feed made from newsprint, which is supposed to be 90 percent cellulose and en riched with vitamins. Almost as good as hay, they say. With world and national events being what they are, however, we wouldn't recommend that cattlemen feed their livestock too many newspa pers. Filled with the news of Mr. K’s curses and lies, and the eye wash flowing from the Republi can convention, a diet of news papers might cause a severe case of indigestion for old Bossy, and could clabber the milk. Also just read that there’s one thing that will give you more for your money that it would 10 years ago—the penny scale at the drug store. Fast the Old West has lost its cloak of tranquility; the dancing light of the mesquite chunk camp fire has given way to the fleeting sword of the automobile’s head lights; the moaning lonesome ness of the old steam locomotive has been replaced by the million decibeled shriek of the diesel en gine; horse-tail cloud streaks in the western sunset are forced to compete with the contrails of in tercontinental jets. And now the cow is being shoved off the right of way by the automobile. The Legislature passed a new law, which became effective July 1, which makes it illegal for a person knowingly to permit his livestock to roam at large and unattended on state and federal highways. It applies regardless of whether the highway right-of-way is fenced. Farm-to-market roads are ex cepted from the law, which makes us wonder if the legislators think the cows know the difference.
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Winters Enterprise
Winters, Texas, US
Fri, Jul 29, 1960
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