New Texas Laws Take Effect Under Broad Reforms
Texas begins Saturday under two new state laws taxing and spending while 145 bills remain in the emergency class. Major changes include higher gas tax, highway safety inspections for cars, heavier trucks with new enforcement, doubled motor vehicle license fees, sweeping crime measures, revised criminal code, stricter barbiturate controls, and redrawn legislative districts for 1953 elections.
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Texas Economy Commission
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Department of Public Welfare
Seedless Watermelon Developments At University Of Georgia
Georgia university researchers on the Athens campus plant seedless watermelons bred from Japanese seed. Current fruit are small 10 pound icebox melons, with prospects for larger varieties as seedless cultivation expands in Georgia gardens in coming years. Seedless melons require yearly hand pollination to breed seed, by crossing a high chromosome plant with a normal one.
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Sherman
Texas
Mattie Juanita Treadville
S. V. Earnest
Iva Davidson
Winter Legumes Must Be Inoculated For Best Results
Texas A and M Extension agronomist W B Coke urges inoculating winter legumes or planting on nitrogen fixing bacteria rich land. Inoculants list effective legume species and help legumes fix atmospheric nitrogen via root nodules, boosting soil fertility.
Fertilizer and Inoculant Steps For Soil Bacteria Growth
The article covers supplying lime or calcium phosphorus and potash plus trace elements, applying fertilizer per soil type, and inoculated seed handling. It details rates: 200-400 lb acre of 0-14-7 or 3-12-12 on sandy soils, 20 percent superphosphate on other soils, or 300-400 lb acre of 5-10-5 on depleted land. It notes in-seed mixing and early planting, with local agent guidance and Texas A and M soil lab analysis.
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To the Young by Edgar A. Guest
Poem reflects on intergenerational duty and liberty as fathers urge youths to pursue goals. It laments complacency and urges carrying on the struggle for freedom, ending with a call to report news at phone 76.
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