Mt. Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 5, 1973 Page: 3 of 14
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SPECIAL SALE
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Expecting A Good Selection In This Salo
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Beef & Dairy Cattle
Artificial Breeder Service
Jones Dairy Auction
4 Miles South Of Sulphur Springs On Hwy. 19
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JUNIOR DRESSES
& SPORTSWEAR
Owner: Mr. and Mrs. Durwood Steed
Sulphur Springs, Texas
For AN Your Gardening
NEEDS—
Barn Phone:
ShHey Exchange 214- 485-2576
Mobfl Phone:
214- 885-7941
CONSISTING OF:
25 Jersey cows, milking in good production
19 Springing Jersey Cows
7 Holstein cows, milking good
5 Holstein springing cows
These are first and third calf cows with a few older
cows in the herd. Good size and quality.
July 6, 1973, we will be in our present location one year.
We would like to express our sincere appreciation to all
our friends and customers. It has been an honor and
pleasure to serve each and every one of you in the past
year.
18 Second and third calf springing Holstein cows,
some fresh by sale date.
Home Phono:
214- 885-7188
Walter A Grice, Manager
Federal Land Bank Association
P.O. Box468
Sulphur Springs, Texas 75482
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Mi cap raid water
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Thursday, July », 1973
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Mt. Vernon
BOKAY FLORIST
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ALL OCCASIONS
Phone 537-4575 Day or Night
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Includes Lady Wrangler
Jeans, Shirts, Shorts
RONNIE ABLES
Phone (214 ) 342-4450 Winnsboro
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Including The Large Imported Beef Breeds
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TOMMY JOHNSON
Phone (214) 885-4181 Sulphur Springs
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ITKM: When you buy meat,
chock the price per serving rather
than the price per pound. If the
cut is boned, you have leas waste,
more servings.
ITEM: A record 24 million
new housing units were started
in the nation last year, breaking
the 1871 record of XI million
units.
Vernon was the home of pro-football greats Don Meredith and
Bobby Maples. (Optic-Herald Staff Photo!.
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He said they are now working
in an effort to get a 5.5 percent
increase in prices to druggists.
Guests introduced by Charlie
Brown included Anthony Bolin,
guest pianist; Laine Murphy,
guest of Glen Flay; Rufus
Bolger and Charles Winfield,
guests of Waiter Sears; Patil
Arthur, visiting Rotarian, Mt.
Pleasant; Jim Solomon and
Neal Worker, of New Zealand,
who is on his way to a position
as an agriculturalist in the
Bahamas, guests of Neal
Solomon and Craig Harvey,
guest of Sam Harvey.
The club will not meet this
week due to the July 4 holiday.
Mike Edwards will present the
program for the meeting on
July 13.
IMPROVED GRASSES which have been planted by Texas farmers and ranchers, such as this
three year old stand of Ermelo lovegrass on the R. L. Carraway farm in the south part of Franklin
County, helps to provide the abundant supply of beef that Americans find al their favorite grocery
stere. (SCS Photo By Buford L. Folmar’
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THE FRANKLIN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE has
just completed repainting the signs on Interstate 30 as this one
appears above. The signs previously proclaimed that Mt.
spite of the fact that seed are
Why do pork ehops cost more
than tome other equally nutri-
tious pork cuts’ Actually, it's a
simple matter of supply and de-
mand Of approximately 120
pounds of saleable cuts from the
150 pound careass of a 200 pound
hog. less than 20 pounds end up
in pork chops, leaving more than
100 pounds of other cuts. Since
all cuts must be sold, there are
price differentials to equalise de-
mand for the less well-known cuts
with the more popular ones If
there were hogs that produced
nothing but pork chops or bacon
or hams, the supply could easily
be fitted to the demand. But that’s
not the way it is — * point to
keep In mind as you consider the
prices of different cuts of pork.
Give a dinner to celebrate the
next special birthday on your list.
Plan the menu around the per-
son's favorite meat dish, be it T-
bone steak, Veal Parmesan or
Beef Stroganoff. Be sure to check
the recipe carefully in order to
select the proper cut of meat for
the most delicious present of the
year.
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stressed.
“In the past 25 years, annual
beef consumption has jumped
from about 64 pounds per
person to 113 pounds. Mean-
while, our state’s population
has increased by more than 90
per cent. That adds to •
gigantic increase in the demand
for beef.’’
Without improved grasses
and better conservation treat-
ment of grassland, this demand
would outstrip available sup-
plies. ‘
Thomas said 23 grasses
released by SCS are being
grown in Texas. Each has its
own area of adaptability and is
used to fill a specific
conservation need.
Two grasses account for a
major share of the acreage
planted. Buffelgrass, released
by SCS in 1949, has been planted
on 1.8 million acres of land in
Texas; increased beef produc-
tion from this grass averages 74
million pounds annually.
King Ranch bluestem, re-
leased in 1941, is growing on
about one million acres. Other
widely planted grasaes include
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Pensacola bahiagrass, El Reno
Bideoats grama, and weeping expensive and scarce, 132,000
lovegrass.
To illustrate how quickly
some new grasses become
popular with livestock pro-
ducers, Thomas told of the
success of Selection 75 klein-
grass.
"We released this grass to
commercial seed growers, in
cooperation with the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Sta-
tion, in 1969," Thomas said. “In
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acres have
established."
And even though much of this
land has not been grazed as yet,
increased beef production from
this one grass amounted to 11
million pounds last year.
In addition to the increased
beef production, the survey
revealed that the new grasses
have increased mutton produc-
tion by more than 1.1 million
pounds. Smaller increases were
noted for milk, mohair, wool,
and goats.
Increased beef production is
only one benefit from improved
grasses. Others include erosion
control, reduced sediment
damage to lakes and streams,
fewer dust storms, and more
abundant wildlife.
Thomas said several other
factors also contribute to
increased beef production from
Texas grasslands, such as
better livestock, improved
grassland management, irriga-
tion, and increased use of
fertilizer.
"Yet it’s hard to grow more
beef without having more
blades of better grass,"
Thomas said.
The goal of SCS plant
materials work is to find new
strains of plants that will solve
specific conservation problems
Since livestock and wildlife
co-exist on the same land, the
search extends to grasses,
legumes, forbs, and shrubs
which have dual values for both
wildlife and livestock. Such
plants are needed for use in
range seeding mixtures, travel
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plantings
Strains of plants thought to
have value for solving a
conservation problem are
grown and evaluated at the SCS
plant materials center near
Knox City. After careful
selection, promising strains are
field tested on farms of soil and
water conservation district
cooperators under a wide
variety of conditions. Selections
that prove superior to other
plants available commercially
are then released to seed
growers. These producers then
growseed and sell it to the
public
Some of the groups who
cooperate with SCS in this work
include Agricultural Research
Service, Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station, Texas
A4M University, Texas Tech
University, Prairie View A4M,
Abilene Christian College, U. S.
Air Force, U. S. Corps of
Engineers, Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department, and the
state's 193 soil and water
conservation districts.
Next time you go grocery
shopping, think how bare the
shelves would be without that
extra 335 million pounds of beef.
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, planted by Texas conservation
( farmers and ranchers.
In fact, an extra 335 million
pounds of beef is produced In
Texas every year from grasses
released by the USDA Soil
Concervation Service.
Edward E. Thomas of
Temple, state conservationist
for SCS, said the figures came
from a recent study conducted
by his office.
“Our survey revealed that in
the last 20 years, 5.9 million
acres of land has been planted
to new grasses released by
SCS," Thomas said. "State-
wide, increased beef production
is averaging 56 pounds per acre
per year from these grasses
And the average climbs every
year.”
Thomas admitted that he
didn’t know how much this
affected the price of beef for the
housewife.
“But take away that 335
million pounds of beef every
year and prices would have
only one way to go - up,” he
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Bass, James T. Mt. Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 5, 1973, newspaper, July 5, 1973; Mount Vernon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1277993/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Franklin County Library.