El Campo Leader-News (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 54, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 29, 1982 Page: 36 of 37
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El Campo Leader-News, El Campo, TX, Wed., Sept. 2®,1982 Page7D
Farm & Ranch
Soil, Water Conservation Board
To Elect New Director In October
COW POKES
By Act Raid
An election for a
director to serve in
Subdivision No. 4 on the
Wharton County Soil and
Water Conservation
District Board is
scheduled for Oct. 14 at
the Taiton Community
Center announced W. A
Donaldson, chairman of
the board. The election
will be held at 7:30 p.m.
State law decrees that
to be eligible to vote in a
soil and water con-
servation district
director’s election, a
person must own
agricultural land within
the subdivision where the
election is being held.
The person must also live
in a county all or any part
of which is in the district
P|kN
AN UVI WITH
and the voter must be 18
years old.
Legal qualification
state that a candidate for
the office of a soil and
water conservation
district director must
own land in the zone he
represents, be at least 18
years of age and be ac-
tively engaged in farm-
ing or ranching. He must
live in a county all or part
of which is in the district.
Zone 4 of the district
includes an area in the
northwest part of
Wharton County bounded
by Highway 71 to the east
and Highway 59 to the
ATTENTION
Farmers & Ranchers
. / , •
Let Rice Belt Supply You With
Your Fertilizer
And Chemical Needs.
• No Job Too Big Or Too Small *
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Fit Your FaH Ptowdown Or Winter
Pasture Fertifizer Requirements.
Now Serving Ike Row Crop, Rico, Posture And Wheat
CmpotffHro Prices
Rice Belt Warehouse, Inc,
south and the county line
to the north and west.
This takes in the com-
munities of Brownson,
Sandy Creek, Gobbler
Creek, Round Mott,
Hahn, Pin Oak, Adams,
Mt Pilgrim, and parts of
Taiton, Louise, Hillje and
El Campo.
Current members of
the board of directors of
the Wharton County
SWCD are W A
Donaldson, chairman,
Wharton ; Leroy Strarup,
vice chairman. El
Campo; W. F Rainer,
secretary - treasurer, El
Campo; Frank A.
Kramr, member, East
Bernard; Jerome
Dorotlk, member, El
Campo.
The purpose of the
Wharton County SWCD,
with headquarters at 2918
North Richmond Road in
Wharton, is to promote
sound soil and water
conservation programs
on farm and ranch lands
within the district and to
serve as voice for far-
mers and ranchers on
conservation matters and
other issues affecting
private property rights of
landowners.
The district board of
directors coordinates the
conservation efforts of
various local, state and
federal agencies and
other organizations and
has authority to enter
into working agreements
with these governmental
agencies and private con-
cerns to carry out its pur-
poses.
ah conservation
programs managed by
the district are of a
voluntary nature to the
landowner or operator.
'Wul Jose, this wouldn’t havo happened if
you’d worn yore hat lower!”
Across the Field
By Your
Wharton County Extension Service
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Accelerated Brucellosis
Program Launched
By Johnnie Cooper
A program to en-
courage livestock
producers to increase
their efforts in calfhood
vaccination of heifers for
brucellosis control is
being launched in 33 east,
southeast and coastal
counties
Vaccination with the
reduced dosage of Stran
19 is an important
element in the state’s
brucellosis program.
Vaccination is the most
important thing a ran-
cher can do to protect his
herd and build up im-
munity against the
disease in his cattle, the
agent adds.
He points out that not
only does the vaccine
provide protection for the
cattle, they should be
worth more when vac-
cinated, and vaccinated
animals can move more
freely.
The accelerated
brucellosis education
program is being laun-
ched in Texas counties
that stretch from the Red
River southward to the
Gulf Coast. This area
generally has about 50
percent of the known
brucellosis infection in
Texas, a recent survey
showed.
Additionally, the
survey, conducted by the
Texas Animal Health
Commission, also in-
dicated that Texas has
about 30 percent of the
known brucellosis in-
fected herds in the United
States.
Overall goals of the
accelerated brucellosis
vaccination program is to
increase immunity so
that Texas livestock will
have more freedom of
movement in regard to
Brucellosis regulations
The present infection
rate prevents the entire
state of Texas from being
classified as a MBM state
under the new proposed
U.S. Department of
Agriculture classification
system, although the
western portion of the
state qualifies.
An obtainable overall
goal should be to raise the
immunity level in cattle
so that a minimum of 70
percent of the adult
female population will
have been vaccinated,
the agent says.
This level is considered
necessary by some
authorities to break the
disease cycle. To qualify
for Class B status, the
herd infection rate
cumulative for a year
needs to be less than 1.5
percent, hence the
educational emphasis.
Since Wharton County
is one of the 33 targeted
counties, the County Beef
Cattle Committee is
encouraging all
producers to vaccinate
their heifers Over 40
percent of the eligible
heifers have been vac
cinated in the first eight
months of this year,
according to Texas
Animal Health Com-
mission records.
Producers may have
their heifers vaccinated
by local veterinarians or
TAHC personnel. In
addition, the Beef
Committee has arranged
for producers to have
their heifers vaccinated
free of charge at local
livestock auctions on
Saturday, Oct. 16 and
Oct. 23 from 8 a.m. to
noon each morning.
Producers may contact
the county extension
office in Wharton for
more details.
Fertilize Now
Pay Later
Soybean Rates
Issued By USDA
Basic country loan and
purchase rates for
1982-crop soybeans
grading No 2 were issued
recently by Everett
Rank, administrator of
the U.S Department of
Agriculture’s Satabiliza-
tion and Conservation
Service.
Rank said the basic
1962 crop soybean rates
are based on the
preliminary national
average loan and pur
chase rate of $5<K per
bushel
Changes in the area ta
area relationships, prices
received by farmers,
trends in production and
results of the loan and
purchase program
resulted in some ad-
justments. Rank said.
No changes were made
in the schedule of
premiums and discounts
Rank said USDA will
issue a final 1962 soybean
loan and purchase rate
no later than Oct 1, by
which time t'SDA will
have final figures on
prices received by
farmers for the 1961 crop
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Barbee, Chris. El Campo Leader-News (El Campo, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 54, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 29, 1982, newspaper, September 29, 1982; El Campo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1006895/m1/36/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Wharton County Library.