The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. [18], No. [278], Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 2, 1960 Page: 2 of 4
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Top turnout sought for county farm tour
Educational program, good food, fellowship are promised
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FARMERS CO-OP ELEVATOR
of Levelland, Texas
Announces that
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Will be issued in preferred stock
fo the farmers
HOCKLEY COUNTY FARMERS
and businessmen have been urged
to circle Sept. 6 on their calendar
and keep it open for the first
annual Hockley County Farm
Tour.
Tour sponsors have promised
that all attending — and they’re
hoping to make it the biggest
such event in county history —
will have all they can eat and will
also learn plenty while they en-
joy the good fellowship of their
neighbors and griends.
A TOTAL OF 11 LEVELLAND
businesses will furnish air condi-
tioned busses for those participat-
ing in the tour and a big spread
of barbecue at noon at the wom-
en’s building at the county fair-
grounds.
County Agent Bill Taylor will
direct the tour, which is sponsor-
ed by the Levelland Chamber of
Commerce, the Extension Service
Program Building Committee and
the Soil Conservation Board of Su-
pervisors.
THE ELEVEN BUSINESSES
which will be footing the bill in-
clude the County Farmers Co-op
Gins and Elevator, Robinson-Gen-
try Grain Company, Levelland
State Bank, Levelland Grain Ele-
vator, Your Shop, Southwestern
Public Service Company, Homer
Johnson Oil Company, First Na-
tional Bank, Copeland Hardware,
Ideal Gas Company, and Pioneer
Natural Gas.
Other local businesses are sup-
porting the farm tour with their
advertising.
TOUR SCHEDULE
1. Willie Coufal — Great Plains
Farm Level borders on sloping
ground.
2. E. L. Kiesling — Great
MEMBERS'oF^REaTTHns' COMMITTEE'DISCUSS PROGRAM
Members of Hockley County's Greet Plains con- will include several farms under the Great Plains Unit Conservationist Billy Hinton, E. O. Schoen-
servation program committee discuss local soils program. From left, around the table, are Earl rod, and Arch Fowler of Farmers
and irrigation problems here Thursday. Most Gerstenberg of South Plains College, County Muleshoe. (Statt Photo)
of these same people have been active in plan- Agent Bill Taylor, Farmers Home Administrator
ning next Tuesday's big county farm tour, which- Horace Gilmore, H. D. Bond of Ropesvilla, Work
Plains Farm. Terrace system on
steep sloping dryland.
3. H. L. Moreland — Recharge
well for use in irrigation and un-
derground recharge.
4. Mike Benson — Cattle Feed
lots. (Unload bus.) (a) Silage
field, (b) Cattle and feed pens
(c) Silos and loader (d) Feeding
trailer.
5. Pete Waldrop — Dekalb var-
ieties of grain and forage sor-
ghum.
6. F. A. Carter — Great Plains
Farm. Border system on flat land
for irrigation. Alfalfa, cotton
grain sorghum rotation.
LUNCH — 12:00 Noon.
7. Martin Cuba — Grain sor-
ghum varieties. These plots were
planted June 20th and received
two irrigations, every other row.
8. Paul Gilmer — Placement
and times of applying 40-50-0 fer-
tilizer to cotton. Lankart cotton |
was planted on these plots May
6th^and has received one irriga-
tion every other row.
9. Jim Copeland — Rates of
fertilizer application on cotton. |
-Lankart 57 was planted on these
plots May 3rd and received one
irrigation. Cotton suffered from
excess rainfall.
10. Bill Tipton — Great Plains
Farm Sprinkler irrigation on ter-
race system and waterway for
handling outside water.
11. Sam Hoover — Fertilization,
row spacing and irrigation rates
on grain sorghum. RS 610 was
planted June 23rd.
12. Sam Hoover — Cotton field
combination and management of
production practices.
1. Post - Montgomery Hog ing crate, (c) Housing for sows
Farm, (a) New farrowing house oefore and after farrowing, (d)
under construction, (b) Farrow- Pig parlor for fattening swine.
USE ATLACIDE
TO KILL JOHNSON GRASS
A Proven
Weed Killer
• GREATER RESULTS
• GREATER SAFETY
FAST
SURE
ECONOMICAL
Spray Atlacide or Apply Dry
KILL JOHNSON GRASS NOW!
A PRODUCT of:
CHIPMAN CHEMICAL CO.. INC. ^
See Your Local Dealer & Distributor
WESTERN FERTILIZER CO., INC.
LEVELLAND, TEXAS
CO-OP ELEVATOR A in Levelland has added a new 6,000 bushel
1*9 to replace the 2,500 bushel leg for the 1960 crops.
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ELEVATOR B. located 2Va miles west of Levelland on the Morton
highway has a new 40,000 bushel tank for this year. This makes
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$66,670.84 or 13.1 cents per hundred will be issued in preferred stock on the 1959 crop.
$7,051.76 or 1.7 cents per hundred will be issued as preferred stock as the dividend from the Pro-
ducers Grain Corp. on the 1958 crop.
$2,187.00 was paid in cash or interest on first preferred stock. This means 14 cents more per hun-
dred that the farmer will get for trading with his co-op.
We appreciate your business and will strive to give you top grain prices
and excellent service during the coming crop season.
Only thro* years age, in 1957, the farmers of this area
invested $38,000 ih their Co-op Elevator. Now the total
assets are ever $300,000 with total liabilities less than
$100,000. These are some good reasons for trading with
the Co-op.
NOW TWO LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU
FARMERS CO-OP ELEVATOR
IN LEVELLAND & ON MORTON HWY.
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Brewer, Orlin. The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. [18], No. [278], Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 2, 1960, newspaper, August 2, 1960; Levelland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153732/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting South Plains College.