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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1941
Page
2
The Farm Parity Act makes agriculture operate like a manufacturing system with price floors and loan protections. Parity links farmer purchasing power to 1909–1914 levels, ensuring minimum prices and surplus controls to stabilize income and demand.
The article argues diverting surplus parity funds into durable farm improvements rather than expansion. Focus on paying debt, repairing and building on the farm, improving livestock, and boosting soil fertility. A soil management program can often enlarge current acreage’s output by 10 to 50 percent through proper fertilizers and practices, lowering costs and boosting quality for defense needs. It cites the Middle West Soil Improvement Committee on raising land fertility to sustain abundant crops and national defense.
A farm economist traces land values from 1910 to 1940 showing prices more than double from 1910 to 1920, then collapsing after 1920. He notes land in 1940 at $84 an acre, down from 1920 and below prewar levels, with fluctuations tied to farm product prices.
Kaufman County No. 2 board continues to fill quotas from a volunteer list, a rarity in the state. Three white men from the list were inducted Thursday, bringing the total to 49 white and 21 Negro volunteers.
College Station reports that summer is ideal for readying shrub and tree beds for winter planting. Sadie Hatfield notes cleaning weeds, deep spading, and mixing barnyard manure with leaf mold into soil, then adjusting soil depth to retain moisture and ensure robust future growth.
Eureka Lodge initiated Brice Bonner Jr. as the sole candidate. His father acted as master, assisted by Brice's grandfather and five uncles. The seven elder Bonners, with one exception, are past masters, and the seventh is the current master.
Quotation by Johnson noting that nontechnical effort makes many tasks feel hard to design yet easy to execute in practice. The line reflects a view on the balance between planning complexity and real world performance.
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