Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 1965 Page: 4 of 16
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ICt MAKER
Brad Thompson
I AGENCY
GENERAL INSURANCE
PHONE MISS
HARDWARE DEPARTMENT
genuine
Texas Agriculture Report
Erath Area One of Driest
County Agent Reports
COLLEGE STATION <E i
Showers fell in part* of Texas,
offering temporary relief to some
crops and pastures. The teasers
served mostly to emphasise the
need for general, soaker type
rains.
John Hutchison, director of the
Texas Agricultural Extension
Service, said the over-all dry
weather is a big help to harvest-
ing but that farmers with late,
dryland crops are watching their
fields wither. Ranchers want rain
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any time they can get it.
Cotton harvesting is over the
hump in most South Texas areas
and is starting in North Texas.
Grain sorghum Harvesting in at
its height Livestock and rentes
remain in fair to good shapq and
seasonal marketing of cattle is
starting.
I.ubbock Area
Moisture is adequate to short
in the Panhandle. Cotton is mak-
ing progress. Sorghum is in the
boot to bloom stage and needs
rain. Livestock conditions are good
to excellent. Carrots are being
h turves ted an<j processed. Wheat
raisers are preparing for plant-
ing. i j , . pKl
The Lubbock area is generally
“very dry.” Rains south of Lub-
bock helped, hut there was a let
of hail damage. Irrigated cotton
and sorghum are in top shape. ,
A typical district is the Vernon
krea, where a few counties got
rain but the entire region' would
benefit from a general rain. The
drouth is causing paean shedding.
Several counties have started, stock
feeding, with some Increase in
selling of animals. Range condi-
tions are poor to fair.
Moisture also is short in North-
east Texas. The peach harvest is
about done, hay is being cut and
cotton harvesting is starting.
Scattered showers put new life
in ranges in extreme West Texas,
especially in the Davis Mountains
and the Midland area. A general
rain is still needed for pastures
and crops. Irrigated crops are pro-
gressing. Cotton it growing fav-
orably, although insect activity is
up. Harvesting continues on sor-
ghum, cantaloupes, onions and al-
falfa seed. Calves and lambs be-
ing shipped.
Abound San Sangelo, light rains
can’t take the plqce of a much-
needed general rain. Cotton is
coming along despite a boll wee-
vil increase, sorghum yields are
fair to good and pecan prospects
are favorable.
Cattle are in good condition and
calves are starting to market.
Labor is adequate.
It’s Dry Here 1
The Stephenville region, one of
the driest in the state, gpt show-
ers early in the week. Much mors
moisture is needed. The cotton*
harvest will peak in two or three
weeks. The sorghum harvest is al-
most complete. Some pecan shed-
ding waa noted. • jdlMkJ
\ Moisture is short despite show-
ers in East Texas. Cotton is de-
velqping, pastures are average to
below and livestock are In fair to
good shape. * '
In South Texas, showers failed
to help dry weather troubles. Hot
weather is opening cotton fast.
The sorghum harvest Is' over, a
good com harvest is under way,
and peanut harvesting is starting.
Carrots, cabbage and peanuts are
being planted. Pecan prospects
are spotted. Pastures are very dry,
but- livestock are in fair to good
condition. There is a lively market
for feeder calves.
Rio Grande Harvest
Scattered showers in the upper
Gulf Coast helped pastures but
delayed cotton picking. Harris
County had wind and hail damage
to cotton and rice. A general rain
is wanted on pastures.
*Range conditions are fair to
good, but more rain would help.
Livestock are fair to good, with
some calves being marketed to
save the cows.
To Preservation of Pastures
> By RICHARD GARY
Cammtr Asaat ’ |
Uneven distribution of livestock
on large pastures will decrease
the forage production and Utilisa-
tion. Proper selection of watering
sites, salt containers and cross-
fencing will' reduce the problem.
Earthen tanks should be con-
structed where they will catch ex-
oesaive rain fall and be no more
than about one mHe from any
Yarborough Newsletter:
Senator Sees Flaw in
Governor's Poverty Veto
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THINGS RARE
AND UNUSUAL
Jimmie Roger* owns property
in Erath County, is a loyal reader
of the Stephonville Empire-Tri-
bune, his lata honored parents were
early setters in Erath County,
has lived in California several
years visited in Stephenville last
wegk with a legion of friends. Mr.
Rogers visited Samuel E. Rogers’
lonely grave way out in the pas-
ture, cut the grass and weeds off
the grave and placed a beautiful
bouquet of enduring red plastic
roses on the raOund, about one mile
weBt of Carlton on the Rocky
Ranch in Erath County which was
founded by Rocky Martin, Blgckie
Martin’s grandfather, one of this
country’s great and most respect-
ed settlers. Rocky Martin is buri-
ed at the Heavenly Branch Ceme-
tery near Dublin by his beloved
wife Rebecca. Exaerpts from Sam-
uel E. Rogers mbnumeijt. Bom in
Tenenssee in 1809, married Eliza-
beth Sparks in Mississippi, came
to Texas in 1833, fought in ths
Texas Revolution in 1838, was a
Texas surveyor, killed by the In-
diana July S, 1883. The monument
was erected by his grandson Skrrt-
uel E. Rogers July 4, 1941. Indeed
a lovely enduring deed who lived
at 381G Case-St. Houston has since
passed on.
Samuel E. Rogers’ son, James
Carroll Rogers, married Elizabeth
Howard, Grandma Stephen’s sis-
ter, in the first courthouse erect-
ed in Stephenville Aug. 4, 1867.
J. F. Doo'ey, justice of the peace,
officiated at the wedding.
Excerpts from a book I wrote
several years ago, now out of
print. The pioneers graves are
sacred ground. The silent stars
shine with radiance upon their
resting place. The sunshine, the
moonlight, the winds sing their
requiem but in the hearts of their
posterity and those who loved
them their lives live on forever.
My good friend J. M. Siddons,
one of this country's great suc-
cessful business men encouraged
me to take an intereset in danc-
ing. I believe my sainted mother
and Grandma Case would approve
it or I wouldn’t do it
__Mylato mother to'd two or
three nice women I hired to stay
with her when I was out of town
after her ninety-fifth birthday she
did want me to be free and happy
that I devoted more than forty
years taking care of my folks so
cheerfully. They were happy, re-
warding years.
Some of the largest churches
sponsor danoihg events. When I
was a boy I went to a Holy Roller
meeting one night. Some of the
converts danced up the aisles and
jumped over the benches. After 1
reached my sixty-fifth birthday
I took dancing lessons in Fort
Worth. I have been to many dan-
ces and haven’t seen a drunk nor
heard one ugly word at the dances.
Excerpts from the master of cere-
monies at a large dance I attended
a few weeks ago. Folks we are
glad to have every one of you
here. We are especially honored to
have a colorful famed dancing team
Homer Stephen anil Mrs. Alvin
Spencer from Stephenville. This
colorful team have danced at tha
Wagon wheel Barnyard dances,
Ridglea Country CUib, Shrine
Dance at the Texas Hotel etc. The
tong dress, apron and bonnet worn
by Mrs. Spencer belonged to Hom-
er’s Grandmother Case more than
sixty years ago. The elaborate der-
by hat worn by Mr. Stephen is
more than sixty years old. With
his overalls, red shirt and red ban-
dana handkerchief they have won
the prixe. So put on your old blue
bonnet with the blue ribbon* on it
and hitch old Banner to the sleigh.
Sweetheart let’s go dancing on
our golden wedding day. With
those immortal tunes, “When You
and I Were Young, Maggie”, Sll-
var Threads Among the Gold”,
"When You Wore A Tulip ahd I
Wore A Big Red Rote”. On with
the dance. Dance folks with the
Kelly Walts with Homer and Mrs.
VlpeMer leading who are 66 plus.
HOMER STEPHEN
By SEN. RALPH YARBOROUGH
The Senate Labor and Public
Welfare Committee .of which I
am a member, has been review-
ing the War on Poverty pro-
gram which has now been in
effect for about a year. We are
trying to improve this anti-pov-
erty program for the next year,
to help the low income people
of this country help themselves
in the best way that we can.
In this committee, we have
found out that there is one ma-
jor drawback, to the way the
program has been run in the
past, which has hurt the effici-
ent administration of the anti-
poverty program. That problem
is the governor’s veto at the
state level, pf what are essen-
tially local community programs
at the county or city level.
Beseides the actual veto, the
“threat of a veto” and the de-
lay which this threat is caus-;
ing these programs while wait-
ing for a governor to make up
his mind whether to veto or not
to veto a project, can largely
cripple the War on Poverty.
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Threat of Veto
There are numerous reports
of governors using the threat of
vetoing a project either to get
his political appointees on the
sponsoring board, or to purge
from the board people who have
not supported the governor.
The Neighborhood Youth
Corps Projects and the eommu-
nit yaction projects are locally
sponsored programs organised
by the people themselves. They
are non-political, and largely or-
ganized by civic organisations
such as the United Fund, Boys
Clubs, and local churches. To
allow a governor to kick these
good people off a board and
substitute his own political ap-
pointees or else,threaten to veto
a project, destroys initiative and
interest on a local level. The
threat of a veto and the result-
ing stifling of local self-govern-
ment is a major reason for the
criticism of this program as a
“political football”. The manipu-
lation of the veto power discour-
ages the non-political people oa
the local level of a county or a
city. *
Delay Problem
Another problem is that of
delay. A governor has thirty
days in which to veto a pro-
gram after it has been approv-
ed by the Office of Economic
Opportunity, an4 he can wait
until the last day to make up
his mind. Under the excuse of
re-studying a program that has
been proposed in good faith by a
local community and examined
thoroughly and approved by the
Office of Economic Opportunity,
many projects have been delay-
ed the full amoent of time so
thtat they are no longer very
useful since the summer iB near-
ly over and school is about to
begin.
The War on Poverty should
not be a war between the Ideal
community groups and the gov-
ernor. We should cut out this
unnecessary step in the anti-
poverty program and encourage
local self-government. The Sen-
ate Labor and Public Welfare
Committee has voted to elimi-
nate the governor’s veto on these
local projects. '
A governor does not have the
power under a state constitution
to determine local issues and af-
fairs, and the removal of the im-
provident governor’s veto pro-
vision will strengthen local self-
government and the War on Pov-
jiNfe - .■ • i
2 from Stephenville
Graduate at Tech
LUBBOCK — A total of 17*
students received Master’s degrees
at Texas Tech's summer commen-
cement exerceses August 21.
Dr. Travis White, president of
Midwestern University, gave the
principal address at the 7 p.m. ex-
ercises in Lubbock Municipal Au-
ditorium.
The list included the following
from Stephenville:
Judith Ann Barham Anderson,
master of education and Robert
Bitta Palmer, physics, master of
science.
edge of the grazing area. Distance
between watering facilities variee
with land surfaco features, but
each properly selected watering
site should be sufficient for 1,000
to 1,600 seres of grazing land.
Use Of 8*U
The use of salt to lure livestock
to undergrased areas is a good
practice. We recommend placing
ealt about one-half mile from
water to obtain moderate use of
entire pastures. It should be mov-
ed occasionally to avoid tram-
pling and encourage even grazing.
Contrary to popular Relief, it is
not necessary that livestock obtain
water immediately after salt con-
sumption. As long w eight hours
may elapse between the time an-
imals sat salt and drink Water.
If cross-fencing is necessary,
the use of suspension fence will
reduce cost. They are well adapt-
ed to subdividing large pasture*
for systematic rotational grazing
programs. \ ,
Eight miles of cross-fencing is
required to successfully subdivide
a square four-oection pasture for
a systematic deferred rotation
grazing program. Research con-
ducted at the Sonora and Throck-
morton Experiment Stations re-
veals that increased animal pro-
duction will ropey the cost of
eight miles of cross-fencing in
about eight years.
Individual .animal’ grains in-
creased 25 to 100 pounds per head
and range conditions improved
from fair to good during ten yean
of experimentation at Sonora.
Dairy Herd Replacements
The success of a dairyman de-
pends on the ab lity of herd re-
placements to maintain or increase
milk production. Herd replace-
ments should come from good
cows, bred to the best bulls ob-
tainable. . ■( ,)„!, ( i • 1 | , I
The average dairy cow live# five
to six years and the age at first
calf is normally two years or a
little older. This gives a produc
ttve life of four lactations fttr *n
average cow. Of oouraa, most
dairymen have a few cows that
stay in profitable production for
, would
nually.
as long as ^ s-.v-tw
and a few for an even longer per-
iod.
The normal- turnover then,
be about 26- percent ann
WJiere you get the one new cow,
each year, for every four cow*
you are milking, is important. The
method you use, whether it is buy-
ing cows or raising your own, re-
quires good planning.
If a dairyman wants to raise
his own calves, it may be best if
he gives leas thought to the coat
of raising the calf, and more
thought to the selection of the
animal. Then, use good feeding
methods for rapid growth and
greater return on investment thru
earlier maturity and more milk
production. V .
Low producing cows can often
be purchaaod for leas than the
coat of raising them right. High
producers are difficult to buy at
any price.
Inspection Important
Dairymen who do not have ade-
quate apace and facilities to han-
dle home grown replacements nat-
urally will have to buy the ani-
malt.
.■ Whan buying dairy replace-
ments, inspect end select than
yourself. Get all tha information
available in making decisions. It
Is your money aim you wR| he
working with the raplasaeioeW for
the next few years.
When impossible to buy animals
in parson, have them checked by
someone in whom you have confi-
dence. A written agreement be-
tween buyer and seller may prove
to be important. Have your veteri-
narian check animals on arrival,
especially when buying on approv-
al.
If your neighbor is planning a
dispersal sale and you are in-
terested in buy mg s few head, be
sure to look them over in advenes.
A decision made on information
based on two or throe looks will
be better then snap decision made
when the animal is being auction-
ed.
A visit to the farm also pro-
vides tips as to the health of the
herd from which you may buy re-
placement*.
Some dairymen will bay only
bred heifers or first calf springers
to get lets mastitis. Others prefer
only second or third calf eows to
buy lass blind quartan.
Purchased animals should bo
quarantined or iso la tod, than re-
tested before contact with tha net
of your herd. ' 1
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