Hubbard Tops Fat Cattle Market in Local Sale
Ralph Hubbard of Libourn led the market with twenty nine steers and three heifers. The thirty head averaged 950 pounds for the steers and 540 pounds for the heifers, with two lighter steers at 90 pounds selling separately. Hubbard fed 13833 bushels of corn, 5 tons of cotton seed meal, and 24 tons of legume hay. He earned 630 dollars interest and labor pay, and emphasized soil fertility through manure and efficient use of labor during the feeding period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Hubbard
Libourn
Hubbard
Hez Ozment Shows First Open Cotton of 1939
Hez Ozment, a progressive farmer from the Sikeston district, displayed the season’s first open cotton, a D and P L variety, found August 6 in a 90 acre field. The first blooms were June 26 and picking is expected soon. The crop is reported in excellent condition across the district despite some drought damage to corn. alfalfa third crop may compensate for earlier failures.
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Herald Office
Hez Ozment
Sikeston
Civic Clubs Will Study Cotton Uses
In Hollandale Mississippi on August 10 civic clubs across 12 states prepare to hear a National Cotton Council program. Rotary Club of Hollandale funds support 26 members who received five dollars each to mail materials including an address, song Picking Cotton and a poem. A club leader outlines cottons plight with export loss, foreign production, rayon competition and price drops, followed by an optimistic note on unity in the Cotton Belt and plans for a threefold action: research, exports, and tariff removal to boost consumption.
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Hollandale
Miss
National Cotton Court
Cotton Belt
Rotary Club of
W. C. Galceran
Hollandale Club
Leauer Cotton
Cabin in the Cotton Theme Parade Pair
The item skims a rural scene with Aunt Pemima and Uncle Peter in playful attire near a cabin. It mentions Sara Manth and Araballa on a porch, children Ned and Eva in Lastex rompers, plus a family trip to St Louis for business. A stray safety note about perspective appears, then a line about a car appearing stationary at 500 feet.
New Program for Extension Work
Ella Fikuart reports priorities for 1940 county extension, selecting 53 problems from township cochairmen for county action with college support. Pleasant Valley women form Fidelity Extension Club. July meetings held. Club leaders advance demonstrations on mending, family finance, yeast breads, and rolls. 4-H and home economics clubs run programs. leaders training and nutrition topics discussed. questions answered on gardens, yards, food preservation, child care, clothing, and health.
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Farm Bureau
Cvenne
College of Agriculture
Pleasant Valley
Otto Allen
Fidelity Extension Club
Clarence Boardman
Owensby
Henry Frvin
Silent Hill
Redman
MacMullin
J. T. Smith
Te Miner
McMullin
Rockview Cooperators
Benton
Mary FE. Robinson
Fire Chief Arbaugh Leads Fredericktown Fire School Visit
Fire Chief Milburn Arbaugh and three department members Loomis Mayfield Pete Medley and Ted Kirby attend the district’s annual fireman’s school in Fredericktown today. The school met yesterday but no local force members were present then.
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Milburn Arbaugh
Loomis Mayfield
Pete Medley
Ted Mkirby
Fredericktown
Cotton Crop Forecast and Foreign Sale Plan
The Department of Agriculture projected an 11,412,000 bale cotton crop for 1909 with an expected lint yield of 225.7 pounds per acre. The same report notes last year’s output at 11,945,000 bales. Western Lee Pierson of the Export-Import Bank in Washington announced a plan to finance 250,000 bales of cotton sale to Spain, with credit extended to American shippers only and a monthly financing of 25,000 bales.
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Department of Agriculture
Spain
Werrern Lee Pierson
Endort-Import Bank
Washington, D. C
France
Rls
Alse
Pierson
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National Cotton Council
Pemima
Peter
Sara Manth
Araballa
Bembery
Ned
Eva
Chas. E. Ferner
Austen Cameron
Arthur Bruce
St Louis
Ella Fikuart
Scott County Home Demonstration
Fredericktown School
Diehlstadt
Firestone Sentinel
C&m Oil CO
Home Oil CO
Sikeston, Missouri
Mage Serm
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