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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1939
Page
2
The article argues mowing boosts pasture value on permanent and temporary pastures, mows weeds and seed stalks, and improves forage quality. It recommends timing for July and August on sprouts, plus using electric fencing for rotating temporary pastures and harvesting late summer growth by grazing corn fields with sheep. It promotes integrated farming linking crops and livestock.
Washington. Chairman Jones of the House Agriculture Committee urged immediate production of much of the cotton surplus into cheap fabrics for broad U S distribution. He hinted the plan could substitute for Secretary Wallace’s cotton export subsidy, aiming to use most of a $51 million Agriculture Department appropriation to subsidize domestic disposal rather than exports.
The North Carolina town with the playful name Loafers Glory celebrates its 60th anniversary. The name traces to 60 years earlier when Jonathan Burleson saw men loafing on a crossroads porch and exclaimed it was the “loafers’ glory” of the Blue Ridge. In 1823 quinine sold for twenty dollars an ounce.
Scenes preview the World's Poultry Congress to be held in Cleveland from July 28 to August 7, 1939. The Cleveland Museum of Art grounds host activities. Hall of Live Poultry and Hall of Nations and States flank the four acre exhibit area. Birds shown include a mottled Chabo of Japan and a Japanese Frizzled Bantam as part of more than 200 fowl varieties and nearly as many pigeons on display. Several nations have applied for exhibit space and over thirty plan exhibits.
In Cordele Georgia ex sharecropper C D Collins recalls starting with 25 acres a mule and 37 chickens thirteen years ago and now farms 102 acres with an up to date home He abandons cotton for turkey hogs and a big garden selling 640 in turkey profit 340 net last year and 600 from hogs While six children help and schooling remains priority Collins plans to hire help next year highlighting his belief that steady work can lift a farmer out of sharecropping without neglecting family education.
Texan reward of 10000 dollars set aside in Texas to spur cotton use by 300000 bales annually. State Senator George Moffett pushed the bill creating a cotton research award fund. The device must prove it increased consumption before trustees pay out the prize.
Mr. Moffett reported strong interest in a Texas law creating a fund with a minimum $5,000 and maximum $10,000 award for a discovery to exterminate boll weevils at under $1.50 per acre. The fund is supported by trustees from the University of Texas A and M College and Texas Technological College, who will decide if and when awards are made.
Reader quotes a spring poem that makes him feel a bird in flight while the editor comments that each poem makes him sore. A light exchange highlights contrasting reactions to verse in a humorous exchange.
Denison area rapid growth as Bryan County Oklahoma adds Lee Heights, a 10 acre townsite filed by George Harrison Colbert farmer, following Cartwright at the damsite north end. Colbert remains the boom town with four lumber yards and rising dam work bids likely July 15 for 3 000 000 cubic feet earth excavation and drainage assignments.
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