Fruit Growing Offers Another Income Source for This Area
The county has a few apple orchards now yielding an excellent crop and the land shows strong suitability for commercial fruit growing. The piece argues investing this season with cost profit methods, new cultivation practices, and varieties tolerant of late freezes. Growth in population and land abandonment make fruit production a bright spot.
World sets prices as foreign markets drive U S food costs
The Perryton Herald notes that global commodity values now set local food prices with 85 percent of the 1973 wheat crop moving overseas. As incomes rise in Japan and Germany and dollars strengthen, foreign buyers pay more for American beef and soybeans, while the U S sells mainly food. A curtailment of foreign markets could worsen trade imbalances and erode the dollar.
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Texas to auction Gulf lands in largest sale in 25 years
The oil and gas lease sale on Texas public lands is set for October 2. About 1,448,610 acres in 1,712 tracts will be offered, mostly Gulf submerged acreage and Texas bays, with 940 Gulf tracts totaling 998,610 acres and 663 tracts in bays. Bidders may submit sealed bids for five-year leases. in kind royalty options are being written into propositions.
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Collated Thoughts and Verse Fragments in 19th Century Muse
A mixed set of quoted lines from poets and writers including Coleridge Rogers Adams Wordsworth Moore and Scott, with brief reflections on memory faith and love. The collection presents literary snippets and aphorisms attributed to notable figures alongside general musings.
Call for nationwide handgun confiscation by 1983
In Crossroads USA editor D E Scott argues a National Advisory Commission may push for disarming private citizens by 1983. He warns Congress might move faster amid inflation and a spending spree, suggesting ten years could be too long to wait.
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