Experiments in Southwest Texas Grow New Crops and Varieties
Extensive trials across private and government projects in Southwest Texas expand crops from camphor and tea to tobacco and kumquat. Japanese colonies cultivate tea while the Rio Grande valley tests tropical hemp and guar sheep fodder. A flood of imports—grape vines and Orient ornamental trees—drives locals to believe any world variety can thrive in their soils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Agricultural Department of the United States
Luther Burbank
Rio Grande Valley
San Antonio
Japan
Japa
Europe
Orient
Asia
Marketing Home Canned Goods Push Requires Demand
The Palestine Herald notes home canners face weak demand and urge a publicity push. Canners should create consumer demand, with a publicity department and statewide board of trade support to establish a market and apply business methods for introducing quality goods. Patience is advised as the process unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canners
Board of Trade
Palestine Herald
Grocer Question Triggers Interest in Home Canned Goods
A shopper asks a grocer whether he carries home canned goods. If not available, the buyer urges the grocer to consider stocking them, arguing they are superior and expressing clear interest in future sales.
Agriculture in the Public Schools in Texas
S. A. Minear argues for expanding agriculture in public schools through required teacher examinations and new departments in agriculture horticulture stock feeding and domestic science. He cites Oklahoma Senate bill No 109 as superior to Texas efforts and urges farmers to contact legislators to support funding and implementation across state normals and universities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Oklahoma
Haskell
University of Texas, Agricultural and Mechanical College
Denton Normal
Texas Farmers’ Congress
Farmers’ Congress
S. A. Minear
Suits Filed Over School Land Across Texas
The State of Texas filed suits against 23 defendants to recover about 91 000 acres of school land scattered from Dawson and Gaines counties in the north to Duval in the south. The state says many defendants failed to settle and have occupied lands for three years as required. Texas holds much public domain under school land proved essential to its public schools university and agricultural programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Dawson
Gaines
Duval County
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Deer and Wild Animal Skins Sold in San Antonio
A fragment notes hunting and skinning practices over twenty years. It mentions Hardmann at 218 Alamo Street in San Antonio Texas and references rug making from dressed skins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oriental Art Association
Garden St
San Antonio
Texas
Hardmann
Alamo St
San Antonio, Texas
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South Texas
Jerusalem
Choice
Gulf Coast Country
Maverick Co
Allison-Richey Land Co
Moore Bldg
LA Oo
Texas Brown Prints
Offweather Architects and Engineers
Houston Blue Print Co
Drawing Materials and Engineering Instruments
Fannin St
Houston, Tex
Gulf Coast
Talbot-Torbert Company
Dallas
Ewarts V. Depew
Hicks
J. E. McGuire
Palacios
State of
Texas Development Publishing Co
Houston
Fe, Hertzberg Jewelry Co
Sharon
W. Commerce St
Texaa
Richter
John Deere
Interreticrel Fenestirge
Nechires
International
Moline
Woods Bros
Studebakers
Fish
Weber
Wood and Willow Sts
Preston
Reicha
Houston, Texas
ADT & Schulte
Sion Appli
Planer
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