The Howe Enterprise (Howe, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 18, 1976 Page: 2 of 6
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THE HOWE ENTERPRISE, THURSDAY MARCH 18, 1976 PAGE TWO
Farm* facts
A Weekly Report Of Agri-Business News
Compiled From Sources Of The
TFYAS nFPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
John C. White, Commissioner
Count The Cost... Some Are Up, But Most Are
Down . . . Texas Red Meat Production Increases . . . Farm
Labor Constant. .
Count the cost is an old Biblical admonition, and it is
also being 'followed by the Texas Crop and Livestock
Reporting Service relating to costs of production of beef
cattle and hogs. , ,
The state's hog and cattle producers are being included
in a nationwide survey to gather information to help
indicate the cost to farmers for producing beef cattle and
swine. . . , . „
The program, now underway, will contain information
via personal interviews about farmers expenditures for
livestock, feed, equipment, energy, facilities, interest, taxes,
cash wages, and repairs.
Production costs vary from one individual operation to
another, but the survey should give some valuable general
cost-of-production figures. All information provided by
individual farmers will be kept confidential, and only
regional and national summaries will be published.
SOME ARE UP, but most are down; that s the
conclusion you reach when you read the farm price
situation for Texas farmers. Only two commodities - oats
and mohair - are above parity. However, wheat, sorghu, .,
and some classes of livestock are above levejs of a year ago.
That isn't as good as it sounds, however, since those
commodities are still well below parity.
Parity for the month is 72, the same as a year ago.
Wheat as of the middle of February was averaging
$3 66 per bushel in th;e"state; that's up 26 cents from a
month ago, but still $1.20 per bushel below parity. #
Sorghum averaged $4.13 per hundredweight; that s
three cents higher than a month ago, and is $1.32 below
U" Cotton averaged 43.2 cents per pound; that'-s down 2.3
cents from a month ago and .is a whopping 35 cents below
parity. , ,
Hog and iamb prices are be.low a year ago, but beet
cattle, calves, and sheep are above year ag.o averages.
Broiler prices are a penny per pound higher than a
month ago; egg prices are about two cents per dozen lower
than last month.
RfD MEAT PRODUCTION in Texas increased a
whopping 27 per cent from a year ago to total 308,700,000
pounds. Nationwide, however, red meat production was 1
per cent less than a year ago and about the same compared
to two years ago. -
Pork production, however, was 14 per cent below a
year ago. V
THE FARM LABOR FORCE in Texas is virtually
unchanged from a year ago. The agricultural labor force on
farms and ranches in the state numbered 225,000, which is
a decrease of two per cent from a year ago.
TF&L residential
customers in 247cities pay
less for electricity than the
people who live in Austin,
Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit,
Los Angeles, New York,
Philadelphia, San Antonio,
and Washington, D. C® ■■■
to name justafew.
| NEW YORK.......
□$?5<1$
i PHILADELPHIA
□S47 09
* | AUSTIN
□$41.85
|j CHICAGO
□$40.38
| LOS ANGELES
| DETROIT
—J$37.02 GOST OF 1,008 KWH*.
I CLEVELAND
“j S36 o7 RESIDENTIAL fLECTiHCfFY
3 SAN ANTONIO
| WASHINGTON DC
——DECEMBER, 1875
□$36.09
j CORSICANA
□$3129
In Corsicana and most other cities in the Texas Power
& Light service area, 1,000 kilowatt-hours of residential
electricity costs less than in most areas of Texas and
the nation.
We’re not overlooking the fact that in recent years
the price of electricity has gone up everywhere, including
the area served by TP&L. Skyrocketing costs of producing
and supplying power have left TP&L and other companies
no choice but to ask customers to pay more for their
electric service.
Even so, the price of TP&L electricity today is far iess
than it would have been if we were not constantly working
to hold down the price. One of the ways we’re doing this is
to build and operate generating plants which use lower
cost lignite coal as fuel rather than natural gas. Two
lignite plants are now producing power for TP&L
customers and others are under construction and being
planned.
For almost sixty-four years, Texas Power & Light has
supplied dependable.electric service at a fair price. We’re
working to keep it that way.
TEXAS POWER & LIGHT COMPANY
A tax-paying, investor-owned electric utility
Pohlfchod Each Thursday a) 108 Hani.ng Street by
HOWE ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING COMPANY
P. O. Box 488
HOWE, GRAYSON COUNTY TEXAS 75059
Jim Echols, Editor anti Publisher
Sceono Class Postage Paid at Howe, Texas 75059
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The
Consumer
Alert
by John L. Hill
Attorney General
The Sr entists Tell ...
Convert Waste Problems
Into Energy Resources
AUSTIN—Alaska! The
dream of getting rich on the
Alaskan pipeline, where wages
for “go-fers” are rumored to
hit $1,000 a week, has re-
cently caused many Texans to
pay several hundred dollars
for “advance fee resume serv-
ices” in hopes of getting jobs in
the Far North.
Unfortunately, as attorneys
in our Consumer Protection
Division can attest, the only
assistance most persons
receive from such services is
help in parting them from
their cash.
Because of this, we were
able to^get a. permanent court
injunction against one such
“resume service” which was
misrepresenting its ability to
put customers -in touch with
employers hiring for pipeline
jobs. We were also able to get
restitution for many persons
who had used the service
under the impression that
pipeline jobs were plentiful •
and that the resume service
had special influence with
employers.
We discovered that the
company’s efforts amounted
to taking $400 and some back-
ground data from a person,
preparing and duplicating
several hundred resumes, and
providing them along with a
set of gummed addressed
labels of potential employers.
The customer, was responsible
for • stuffing, stamping, and
labeling his own envelopes and
mailing them to the ad-
dressees.
What the company failed to
tell customers, however, was
that they had had no contact
whatever with the companies
on the labels and that many of
the names and addresses were
merely copied from oil and gas
directories and journals.
The service also misrepre-
sented to consumers that all of
the employers listed on the
labels were actively searching
• for pipeline workers, when in
reality they had no idea if jobs
were available at any of the
employers listed.
in our investigations into
the services offered by this ad-
vance fee resume service, we
‘ discovered that the availability
of jobs on the Alaskan pipeline
was so limited as to be almost
nonexistent for most persons.
We talked with the Alaskan
assistant deputy of labor,
whose description of the job
situation in that state was so
revealing that we asked him to
come to Texas to provide in-
formation in our case.
According to this expert,'
the resume writing services
who advertise pipeline jobs are
useless in helping persons to
get those jobs. That’s because
most pipeline work requires
highly skilled, technical, or ex-
perienced labor, and hiring for
such jobs is done through
unions.
In addition, he pointed out
that there are large numbers
of unemployed workers al-
ready in Alaska, waiting for
any job openings that might
become available.
So if you’re interested in
using an advance fee resume
service to get a job in Alaska or
elsewhere, be sure to inquire
first into the service’s success
rate in getting jobs for its
customers. Ask for names of
persons who have obtained
jobs by using the service, then
check for information. Check,
too, with some of the em-
ployers whose names have
been provided. Find out from
their personnel director if
employees are ever hired in
this way. And if you have a
consumer complaint about
deceptive trade practices in
this field, or others; get in
touch with the Attorney
General’s Consumer Protec-
tion Division 'or your county
or district attorney.
When you are eating your
morning cereal, you are pay-
ing a small tribute to an an-
cient goddess, Ceres, who was
protector of Roman crops.
By Robert L. Haney
TAES Science Writer
As our energy needs grow,
we are forced to import more
and more oil in order to close
the gap between energy we
produce and that we need to
meet demands.
With domestic energy
sources depleting,
additional resources are
being sought and tapped
continuously. Scientists are
seeking ways to produce
methane from the vast
municipal and animal wastes
that are readily available
natural resources.
Methane is a flammable
gas that is a major con-
stituent of natural gas. This
efficient fuel is an important
source of hydrogen as well as
a wide variety of organic
compounds. The rate of
methane production under
natural conditions is a very
slow process and not com-
mercially feasible.
Two TAES mic-
robiologists in the Depart-
ment of Veterinary Mic-
robiology, Drs. Don Lewis
and Richard Hidalgo, Texas
A&M University, are work-
ing in cooperation with the
Center for Energy and Min-
eral Resources to improve
this process by using specific
microorganisms. They plan
to introduce microorganisms
which have'the capacity to
speedily break down the
sewage and waste products
and generate methane.
At present it takes 3-5
weeks to produce methane
from raw sewage and waste.
“We believe the introduc-
tion of the proper combina-
tions of microorganisms into
the process can cut this time
in half or to a fourth of what it
is now,” Lewis says. “This
means we can produce more
methane per unit of time
plus greatly shorten the time
required to dispose of the
waste materials. This would
be a double benefit. ”
Earlier efforts on methane
production processes con-
centrated mainly on the en-
gineering aspects. This new
-process capitalizes on the
biological approach, accord-
ing to Lewis and Hidalgo.
Initially, they see this pro-
cess as applicable on a small
farm. The process will not
only speed up and make
easier the disposal of waste
but also produce gas to heat
houses and buildings on the
farm.
The amount of waste ac-
cumulated day to day in this
country is indeed stagger-
ing. -For example, almost 2
1/2 million cattle are fed
every day in the High Plains
area of Texas, resulting in
about 19 million potfflds of
waste per day. The energy-
producing potential of these
products is immense.
Lewis and Hidalgo point
out that possibilities other
than producing methane
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from animal waste matter
exist for using the same basic
process of isolating microor-
ganisms and using them tc
the advantage of mankind. If
so, some of our worst
liabilities can be turned into
assets — from unwanted
wastes may come a solution
to the energy problem in the
U.S. and a long term answer
to the world energy crisis.
Editors Note—Any ques-
tions regarding this column
should be addressed to Sci-
ence Writer, Dept, of Ag-
ricultural Communications,
Texas AirM University, Col-
lege Station, Texas 77843.
Farm Share
Declines
WASHINGTON (USDA)
The farm-retail spread in-
creased 1.0 percent from
December to January, wid-
ening for the fourth consecu-
tive month.
Sharp increase*. ior eggs
and beef and more moderate
increases for other animal
products were partially offset
by decreases for crop
products - particularly bak-
ery and cereal and oilseed
products.
The farm-retail spread in
January averaged 5 percent
wider than in January 1975.
Returns to farmers (farm
value of quantities equiva-
lent to retail units) for
market basket foods de-
creased 1.8 percent from
December to January.
The farmer’s share of a
dollar spent in retail food
stores for these foods was
40.5 cents in January,
compared with 41.2 cents in
December and 39.9 cents in
January 1975
Tomatoes will taste better if
not refrigerated, but do not
delay using them.
Some people believe that if
you find your initials in a
spider’s web you will be
lucky forever!
SPECIAL LOW
PRICES GOOD . . .
WED. — THURS.— FRI.— SAT.
"Volume Buyers Special"
"Volume Buyers Special"
GROUND BEEF
FILET MIGNON
ricglb:....... .^i)90
12 6-Ox. $1429
Filet Pkg......JL
"Volume Buyers Special"
"Volume Buyers Special
CHOPPED SIRLOIN
GROUND BEEF
16 5-OZ. $C49
Steaks...........
patties $(-98
32 3-oz. ^ "1
Patties................V
A.F. SLICED BACON 1-Lb. Pkg............
?IIVIR SPUR RINDLESS BACON Lb.......
JIMMY DEAN PORK SAUSAGE 12-oz. Pkg
Smoked Link
HOT or MILD SAUSAGE Lb
Grain Fed Heavy Beef
SHOULDER ROAST Lb..................
A.F. Meat or
BEEF FRANKS 12-oz. Pkg................
GOOCH GERMAN SAUSAGE 12-oz.......
Heavy Beef
SIRLOIN STEAK Lb..... ..............
Swift'* Premium
BROWN A SERVE SAUSAGE 8-oz.......
aUB STEAKS Lb........................
"Volume Buyers Special" 10-Lb. $1.19 lb. .
T-BONE Lb..............................
"Volume Buyers Special" 10-Lbs. $1.59 lb.
SLICED AM CHEESE Lb...................
A.F. GRAIN FED HEAVY BEEF
CHUCK ROAST
-BLADE CUT- ............. Lb. 65*
-BONELESS-...............Lb. 99*
GROCERY
69* III
AUSTEX PLAIN
CHIU 19-oz. CAN................vr#
& BREAST OF CHICKEN 6.5^z. Can
|H CHUNK LIGHT TUNA .55* |P
V& UBBY'S (3 5-ox. Cans) £1 00 **
VIENNA SAUSAGE................... I
RANCH STYLE (4 1 3-ox, cans
BEANS...... ..............
DAWN LIQUID 22-oz. Btl.
DETERGENT .
Vlaslc
POLISH PICKLES
PIZZA
ASSORTED
«. FROZEN
13 5-Oz. Pkgs.
SUNKIST
H) TANGERINES
AMERICAN Vfi
Jio°Sf
83*
----32-ox. Jar
Foodkimg 6 8-oz. Cans
BISCUITS ........
.69*
• FROZEN FOOD
•
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FRUIT COBBLERS 2-lb...............
99«
Surfresh Asst. Flavors
MELLORINE Vi-Gal..............
59*
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Echols, Jim. The Howe Enterprise (Howe, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 18, 1976, newspaper, March 18, 1976; Howe, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1014559/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .