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FLETCHER’S STATE RIGHTS FARMING
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_HONDO, TEXAS_
A Farm Journal of constructive
thought and endeavor. Issued
the first of each month.
Entered as second class matter
June 24, 1922, at the Postoffice at
Hondo, Tev*s, under Act of
March 3, 1879._
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Editor and Publisher.
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Austin, Texas.
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ALL
AGRICULTURAL AND
ABOUT TEXAS
RELATED ACTIVITIES
Compiled From All Available Sources.
Early, deep, and thorough break-
ing of the land followed by deep
planting, thin spacing, and good cul-
tivation made the “lucky man” among
the corn raisers of Comal county, ac-
cording to George E. Ehlinger, farm
demonstration agent, The “unlucky
ones” were those who followed a hap-
hazard system of preparing their
lands. A surprisingly good corn
yield was made in this county with-
out any rain since the last of March
and the first of April. A number of
farmers took advantage of good sub-
soil moisture and some improved
their yield by planting paired corn
rows with cow peas in the vacant
row. Herman Schulze with his corn
in paired rows is making a better
crop this year than last. Albert
Soefje, Willie Kresche and Walter
Schulze, his neighbors, are likewise
making good corn with this system,
plus early and good soil preparation,
while some other neighbors had to
cut their corn for forage.
—AAT—
Cull fruit from citrus orchards is
the basis for a new industry in the
Rio Grande Valley. During the past
season 3,000.000 pounds of culls
were made into bv-products, such as
marmalade, grapefruit juice and oils,
$22,500 being paid to the producers
for fruit that otherwise would have
been a complete loss. Approximate-
ly $50,000 worth of these products
were exported to Europe and the re-
mainder found a ready market in the
United States and Canada. E. C.
Cristensen, president of the company
operating the plant, figures on pro-
viding a market next season for 10,-
000.000 pounds of culls and believes
that ultimately half the Valley’? cit-
rus crop will be moved in the form of
concentrated juice. The saving in
shipping costs—an 80-pound box of
grapefruit will be reduced to seven
pounds after the concentration pro-
cesses—will be enormous, he says,
and will be a powerful help in widen-
ing the demand by reducing costs to
the ultimate consumer.
—AAT—
Texas, producing almost one-half
of the petroleum of the United States,
is more vitally concerned than any
other State in the onerous taxation
that industry is being increasingly
called upon to shoulder. The petro-
leum industry’s annual tax bill is es-
timated at a cool billion dollars a
year or at the rate of $1,000 on every
worker in the industry. In fourteen
years the gasoline tax has climbed
from $1,000,000 a year to $700,000,-
C00.
—AAT— 1
Manufacturers at Denton under
auspices of the Chamber of Com-
medee recently staged “industrial
week” with downtown displays of all
local manufactured products. Unable
to find a building large enough to
house the show, they secured a week’s
use of practically all display windows
and the exhibits attracted a lot of at-
tention with placards in each window
reciting the total of industrial em-
ployes and pay rolls in the city and
carrying the slogan, “The best way to
attract new industries is to support
ihe ones we already have.”
—AAT—
Kohler & Sons Pickle Manufactur-
ing Co., Somerset, is a new incorpor-
ation recently chartered for the pre-
serving* of encumbers.
—AAT—
Texas production of poultry and
eggs for 1933 was valued at $23,-
571,000, a very considerable decrease
from the 1926-1930 average total of
$53,463,000. Price reductions were
largely the reason for the decrease,
but production also dropped off some-
what from peak years.
—AAT—
Encouraging results with dallis
grass are reported by L. W. Worsham
of Goliad. He seeded a plot of
gound with this very valuable grass
about a year ago and was disappoint-
ed to find that in the plowed parts
of the field he did not get enough of
a stand to be worth keeping. How-
ever, under some very large pecan
trees where the gound had not been
plowed and was very firm, the dallis
grass which had been seeded with a
small hand whirlwind seeder came up
very thickly. The grass is already
going to seed now with seed stems
about 3 1-2 to 4 feet long and in an-
other year it bids fair to form a
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[ thick sod under the trees. Hogs had
been running in this field until re-
cently and some of the plants had
been mowed, but return growth was
remarkable. In spite of unprece-
dented drouth, this dallis grass is the
greenest vegetation on the whole
farm.
—AAT—
Erwin Soyars, stock farmer in the
Sabina! Community, creep fed 17
November and December calves and
marketed them in May at 6 cents,
weighing 464 pounds. Mr. Soyars
realizes that by using his home grown
feed in this way he is able to mar-
ket his calves earlier, and it gives the
cows more time to mend.
—AAT—
One of the 1933 Kleberg County
honey June sweet corn demonstra-
tors saved enough seed to plant five
acres of honey June sweet corn this
year. This acreage was ready to
market May 24. This was marketed
locally and was sold at a premium.
Mr. Miller was advised by the county
agent to sell this crop and save his
later planting for seed as this early
crop would command a better price
as roasting ears. Mr. Miller has
carefully selected this seed and ex-
pects to have three acres of a later
planting producing a lot of pure seed.
—AAT—
Many people think it funny that
farmers and county agents work for
bigger yields per acre or per animal
at the very time that the Government
seeks to remove surpluses through re-
duction programs. Yet this is very
logical, because big yields usually go
hand in hand with efficient farming
and profits. Low production per acre
or per animal is unprofitable at all
price levels except abnormally high
ones. Acreage reduction is the
cheapest way to reduce production.
Poor farming is the most expensive
method. Drouth is the most cruel
method.
—AAT—
If you have extra good tomatoes it
will be cheaper to save seed from
your own crop than to buy it next
spring, says J. F. Rosbovough, exten-
sion horticulturist. Cut the best
specimens in half, place in a barrel
hall full of water, and when the pulp
separates, sours and comes to the top,
skim off the pulp and scoop out the
seed from the bottom of the barrel.
Rinse and dry in the shade. Store in
tight containers. One bushel of to-
matoes will furnish enough seed for
one acre.
—AAT—
Experiments in the culture of wild
dewberries have proven profitable to
Mrs. J. A. Turner, Barker Home
Demonstration Club member in Har-
ris county. She planted one row of
wild berries in her garden last year,
and gathered enough in early season
to can six gallons. She is putting out
two more rows.
—AAT—
Seed oats treated for smut with
the formalin method made 15 bushels
per acre more than those not treated
on the farm of Harvey Mackey of
Hill county. Mr. Mackey was a bank
clerk until his bank closed in 1932,
but now he is devoting his entire time
to farming. Although fitted for of-
fice work, he is proving a most suc-
cessful farmer, according to the
county agent.
—AAT—
That it pays to have purebred hogs
and then finish them well has been
demonstrated again—this time by
Rex Hardin of Hockley county. Last
fall he purchased seven purebred
Hampshire pigs to use for a 4-H club
demonstration and fit them for the
spring shows. They were placed on
feed the first of November weighing
60 pounds and they averaged 214 at
the Lubbock show. They were well
fitted as shown by the fact that Rex
won first in the light class, reserve
champion, and fourth on a litter of
five. They were fed threshed grain
and a protein supplement composed
of cottonseed meal and tankage half-
and-half by weight in a self-feeder*
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Davis, Fletcher. Fletcher's State Rights Farming. (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 1, 1934, newspaper, August 1, 1934; Hondo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth555495/m1/2/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hondo Public Library.