The Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1953 Page: 22 of 22
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A Happy
Yuletide
As Christmas again lights the
die world with its message
of peace and good' will, so
our thoughts are brightened
by the warm memories of
pleasant associations contri-
buted by our friends.
DREYER BROS
HATCHERY
Thursday, December 24, 1953
THE SHINER GAZETTE — SHINER, TEXAS
New K. €.
Council
In Seymour
Shiner friends will be grati-
fied to learn that Dr. and Mrs.
B. F. Grill were most active in
the recent celebration in Sey-
mour when 43 candidates were
initiated in the second and third
degrees of the Knights of Co-
lumbus.
At the banquet served by the
Sacred Heart Altar Society to
more than 300 persons, Dr. Grill
was master of ceremonk .
Many visiting dignataries were
present for the all day session,
including 150 visiting Knights.
During the exemplifications
Mrs. B. F. Grill assisted by sev-
eral ladies furnished entertain-
ment for the visiting ladies in
the home of Dr. and Mrs. B. F.
Grill.
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Before you question your
husband’s judgment, take an-
other look in the mirror.
South Texas Sesame Growers
Sign For 400 Acres In 1954
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South Texas Sesame growers
have signed up for at least 400
acres of the seed oil cash crop
in 1954 and there may be many
more Sesame acres planted by
acreage-short cotton farmers.
That was the word that came
from the latest Sesame meeting
sponsored by the Yoakum
Chamber of Commerce at the
Yoakum City Hall last week.
Fifty-seven persons, including
farmers and their wives, were
present from Yoakum, Shiner,
Moulton, Garwood, El Campo,
Nada, La Salle, Iowa Colony,
Cuero, Runge, Yorktown, Edna
and Brushy Creek. T wenty -
eight of the farmers signed a
libt indicating the amount of
acres they intended to sign con-
tracts for during 1954. Many
more were reported getting
ready to try a few acres of the
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place of cotton in seasonal tim-
ing and soil suitability, drouth
or no drouth and regardless of
insects none of which ever both-
er Sesame anyway.
Yoakum Chamber of Com-
merce Agriculture Committee
Chairman R. A. Peters, presid-
ed at the enthusiastic meeting
which Frank Hanslik, Moulton
area farmer who was success-
ful in growing a Sesame crop
last summer, was the star wit-
ness for the new agricultural
development to be launched in
south Texas.
Hanslik’s sponsor, Robert L.
Parker, manager of the Texas
Sesame Seed Growers Associa-
tion of Paris, Texas, and pre-
sident of the Liberty National
Bank at the same location, told
of research experiments that
led to the growing of Sesame
3ther look in the mirror. cash crop that could take the | in north Texas. Said Parker. ~~~~ ~~ * j__'_____
“It’s not a new crop. It dates
back beyond 1,000 B.C. in In-
dia and China. Highly drought
resistant, it grows fast with
very little moisture and at the
same time it is capable of stand-
ing wet weather too. Insect
damage is practically unknown
to Sesame plants and it will
grow on any well-drained cot-
ton soil.”
Sesame seeds, he said, are
about 50 per cent oil, of a qua-
lity so superior to any other
that it is called the queen of
vegetable oils. He told of how
the Frito Company in San An-
tonio had purchased this year’s
crop, to use on food products
because it remains fresh ten
times longer than other oils and
is better in other respects also.
Sesame meal is the coming
thing for chicken feed too, Par-
ker explained. He elaborated on
the claim that for thousands of
years Sesame has suffered no
insect damage.
The farmers learned that
Hanslik had planted Lis crop
May 23 last year, made some
$56.00 an acre on it with one
plowing. He harvested the crop
75 days later and had it ready
for threshing in stacks after 85
days.
A color film shown by Par-
ker at the meeting showed that
Sesame is planted about like
cotton, not less than 2 inches
deep, the narration explaining
that it needs warm soil and will
come up in 3 to 5 days.
Parker listed the seed price
at $1.50 per pound, enough to
plant an acre with at least one
of the tiny seeds on every inch
of row soil. He said it would
grow slowly for three weeks,
then shoot up with remarkable!
stalk and pod growth even if
the weather is very dry and un-
favorable. Bees will make the
finest honey obtainable if they
find its flowers, he revealed.
The farmer delegation were
advised that A. & M. tests j
showed Sesame responds nicely
to nitrogen fertilizer and likes'
16-20-0, just like cotton, in a
coverage of about 100 or 150
pounds to the acre. ,
“It will outgrow cotton after
three weeks, and the hotter the
CARL ULAND, Collin County farmer living near Plano, Texas,
displays two stalks of sesame heavily loaded with seed pods. He
is one of nearly 200 Texas farmers who experimented with se-
same in 1953 and found it to be a highly profitable cash crop.
He’ll plant a larger acreage in 1954.
weather gets, the better Sesame
likes it,” Parker assured the
pioneering farm people. He also
revealed that the company has
plans for replacing, free of
charge, any seed lost due to rain
or other causes.
Rosy prospects for the new
crop appeared likely to bring a
heavy demand for seed to the
Sesame Seed Growers, at the
Liberty National Bank in Paris,
as the word spread in south
Texas that cotton farmers have
found a new substitute to off-
set acreage cuts.
Studying the brand-new,
3,000 year old crop, the farmers
were reminded by Lee Pargman
of cotton acreage reductions to
be made next year and there
was also a talk by R. A. Peters
on the serious cotton limitations
lately imposed.
Dr. A. L. Harrison, Yoakum
plant laboratory scientist, was
among the speakers and Fritz
Barre helped along the diver-
sified farmers movement by
outlining plans for a water-
melon deal to be arranged at a
meeting in January.
Yoakum C. of C. Secretary £
Don Teas registered the visitors
and was in charge of the pre-
liminary draft of the Sesame
acreage allotment.
Eras
Good friends . • . gifts given and received • . . gay voices ringing
out — bells caroling "Merry Christmas" — These are the many
things that add up to the true and rich spirit of the holy day
~-To all our friends, we say "The best of cheer for the holidays,"
City
Shiner
We hope you wili derive as much
pleasure from our greeting to you,
as we do in extending it —
MAY THE JOYS OF CHRISTMAS
BE YOURS!
BUFFINGTON FUNERAL HOME
PHONE 4-3352 — SHINER, TEXAS
PHONE 4-3112 — SHINER
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