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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Thursday, June 9, 1955
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First National Bank
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Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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1954 Near Record
SEE US IF YOU WANT TO BUY OR SELL
CITY OR FARM PROPERTY
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Service
WE ARE ALWAYS IN THE MARKET FOR CORN
AND OTHER FARM PRODUCTS
(Reprinted from
The Cotton Trade Journal,
Memphis, Tenn., March 18, 1955)
By C. L. Lundell
Director, Texas Research Foundation
Renner, Texas
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keep us on our toes.
From where I sit, this country
needs papers with different points
of view—just as it needs people
with different ideas and tastes.
You may prefer iced tea as a hot-
weather cooler ... I generally
choose a cold glass of beer. But
if either of us couldn’t express
his opinion, and act on it, that
would be “bad news” for the
whole community.
Check Your insurance now! Are you well protected? Is
your insurance program complete? If not, stop in and
see us soon. Let us plan an adequate insurance program
for you ... we represent old line capital stock companies
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Texas Research Foundation Proves
Cotton Can Continue To Be Big Factor
In Economy Of Blacklands Of Texas
Sad Note
From The Bugle
| In 1928, that county put 347,000 acres
in cotton and ginned 129,000 bales.
As row crops wore out more and
more land, the cotton acreage fluc-
tuated downward to a low of 163,200
acres in 1941, with a production of
48,100 bales.
No significant changes appeared in
per-acre yields, because farmers
then, as now, always put cotton on
the best land. “Tired” land was
withdrawn from row-crop production
and put into small grains and pas-
ture.
fertility to its present low level
two-thirds of the region’s acres.
This trend throws much
weight behind the practice of
rotation to make one acre do
CITATION No. 63058
THE STATE OF TEXAS.
To:. PATRICK C. MARTIN, if living, and
if not living, his heirs, devisees and legal rep-
resentatives, and the heirs of any deceased
heirs, whose names and places of residence are
unknown; J. P. DUMAS, if living, and if not
living, his heirs, devisees and legal represen-
tatives, and the heirs of any deceased heirs,
whose names and places of residence are un-
known; M. A. E. DUMAS, if living, and if not
living, his heirs, devisees and legal represen-
tatives, and the heirs of any deceased heirs,
whose names and places of residence are un-
known ;
J. A. WILDER, if living, and if not Jiving,
| his heirs, devisees and legal representatives,
and the heirs of any deceased heirs, whose
names and places of residence are unknown;
J. C. DONNELL, if living, and if not living,
his heirs, devisees and legal representatives,
and the heirs of any deceased heirs, whose
names and places of residence are unknown;
GEORGE H. STOWELL, TRUSTEE, and the
beneficiaries of such trust, whose names, and
places of residence, are unknown; J. M. PET-
TY and wife, NANCY PETTY, if living, and
if not living, their heirs, devisees and legal
representatives, and the heirs of any deceased
heirs, whose names and places of residence are
unknown; Greeting:
You are commanded to appear by filing a
written answer to the plaintiff’s petition at or
before 10 o’clock A. M. of the first Monday
after the expiration of 42 days from the date
of issuance of this Citation, the same being
Monday the 11th day of July, A. D., 1955,
at or before 10 o’clock A. M., before the Hon-
orable 15th District Court of Grayson County,
at the Court House in Sherman, Texas.
Said plaintiff’s petition was filed on the 24th
day of May, 1955. The file number of said
suit being No. 63058.
The names of the parties in said suit are:
Frank F. Neinast and wife, Aina M.
Neinast as Plaintiffs, and Patrick C. Martin,
et al (the defendants are those persons first
named in this writ and to whom it is di-
rected) as Defendants.
The nature of said suit being substantially
as follows, to-wit:
Plaintiffs pray for title and possession of
the following described propertv, to-wit:
Lots Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 27, 28, 29 and 30, ALL
in Block No. 3 of College Park Addition to the
City of Denison, Grayson County, Texas.
If this citation is not served within 90 days
after the date of its issuance, it shall be re-
turned unserved.
Issued this the 24th day of May, A. D., 1955.
Given under my hand and seal of said Court,
at office in Sherman, Texas, this the 24th dav
of May< A. D., 1955.
S. V. EARNEST, Clerk,
District Court, Grayson County, Texas.
By NANCY DRAKE, Deputy.
(Published in The Whitewright Sun May 26,
June 2, 9 and 16, 1955.)
CITATION No. 63075
THE STATE OF TEXAS.
To: Vincent Joseph Pierce, Greeting:
You are commanded to appear by filing a
written answer to the plaintiff’s petition at or
before 10 o’clock A. M. of the first Monday
after the expiration of 42 days from the date
of issuance of this Citation, the same being
Monday the 18th day of July, A. D., 1955,
at or before 10 o’clock A. M., before the Hon-
orable 15th District Court of Grayson County,
at the Court House in Sherman, Texas.
Said plaintiff’s petition was filed on the 4th
day of June, 1955. The file number of said
suit being JsTo. 63075.
The names of the parties in said suit are:
Flora May Pierce as Plaintiff, and Vincent
Joseph Pierce as Defendant.
The nature of said suit being substantially
as follows, to-wit:
Divorce on the grounds of cruel treatment.
If this Citation is not served within 90 days
after the date of its issuance, it shall be re-
turned unserved.
Issued this the 4th day of June, A. D., 1955.
Given under my hand and seal of said
Court, at office in Sherman, Texas, this the
4th day of June, A. D., 1955.
S. V. EARNEST, Clerk,
District Court, Grayson County, Texas.
By SHIRLEY DAVIS, Deputy.
(Published in The Whitewright Sun June 9,
16, 23, and 30, 1955.)
All of us on the Clarion were
alarmed to learn that our prin-
cipal rival in the newspaper field
—the Salesville Bugle—might
have to shut down.
Crops were bad in Balesville
last year and one of their fac-
tories moved out of town. Just
temporary hard times, of course
—but the Bugle needs help now
if it’s to survive.
So, this paper is going to
scrape up a little money to help
tide them over, and we hope other
local concerns will do the same.
We’ve seldom agreed with them
editorially over the years —but
NEW YORK.—National advertis-
ers spent a near-record total of
$594,120,000 on newspaper advertise-
ments last year, the American News-
paper Publishers Association re-
ported Sunday.
The total outlay
APPLIANCE EXPERT ~
NAT FIRST IS AN APPLIANCE EXPERT
ON THE BEST WAY TO OBTAIN
YOOR NEW...WASHER,
DRIER, OR OTHER
APPLIANCE
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gion’s heavily eroded, tightly packed
soils.
The experiments are extensive to
the extent that each crop in each ro-
tation system is grown each year.
Annual average yields therefore rep-
resent true averages struck from
seven successive crops.
Mississippi Variety Used
Inasmuch as the program tackled
the basic problem of yield, studies
of grade and staple length were not
incorporated. The program
with a Mississippi variety,
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work of two or, perhaps, three, with
an accompanying drop in production
cost, a rise in income and the birth
of a sense of personal security based
on a rising level of soil fertility—a
sense of security the contemporary
blackland farmer definitely does not
possess.
Now that the Foundation’s scien-
tific and technical staffs have dis-
covered this key to the restoration
and maintenance of soil fertility, the
next step will consist of a broad edu-
cational program among farmers,
wherever they may congregate, to
get the most promising system es-
tablished on as many blackland acres
as possible.
When that is done, cotton as the
favored cash crop once more will
come into its own as the mainstay
and hope of the Texas blackland
farmer.
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1954 drouth yield, incidentally, was
higher than that of the preferred1
system, 610 pounds as compared to.
LEGAL NOTICE
THE STATE OF TEXAS
COUNTY OF GRAYSON
TO THOSE INDEBTED TO, OR HOLDING
CLAIM AGAINST, THE ' ESTATE OF
GEORGE G. COTTS, DECEASED
The undersigned, having been duly ap-
pointed independent executrix of the Estate of
George G. Cotts, deceased, late of Grayson
County, Texas, by J. N. Dickson, Judge of the
County Court of said County, on the 25th day
of April, 1955, hereby notifies all the persons
indebted to said estate - to come forward and
make settlement and those having claims
against said estate to present them to her
within the time prescribed by law at 2738
Procter, Port Arthur, Texas, where she re-
ceives her mail, this the 18th day of May,
1955.
MARY LORENA SIMON,
Independent Executrix of the Estate of
George G. Cotts, Deceased.
(Published in The Whitewright. Sun May 19
and 26, and June 2 and 9, 1955.)
began
Delfos
Another variety, Delta Pine
and Land No. 15, has been used dur-
ing the last two years.
The seventh harvest in 1954
tinued trends that had been observed
The average yield of the
lowest—746
The height
' the eighth
of re-1 raised its budget 13.5 percent to
to the I all-time
The
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From where I sit... Joe Marsh
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tern, incidentally, was the one where
fertilizer paid $3.58 for every $1 in-
vested in it.
A variation of this system in which
the sod remained only one year gave
an annual average seed cotton yield
of 958 pounds, but cost of produc-
tion was not commensurate with re-
turns.
A third system gave a 7-year an-
nual average of 959 pounds of seed
cotton to the acre and paid $2.60 for
every $1 invested in fertilizer.
This system was a cotton-maize-
hubam rotation, with the cotton and
maize receiving 40 pounds each of
nitrogen and phosphorus and the
clover receiving 40 pounds of phos-
phorus.
Drouth Yield Good
High yields in this third system in-
cluded 1,210 in 1949; 1,719 in 1950;
894 in 1951; and 850 in 1953. Its
Acreage Increased
When World War II stimulated
cotton production, Ellis County re-
sponded by slowly increasing its cot-
ton acreage. By 1946, acreage had
risen to 198,000, with a 48,400-bale
crop. Obviously, the war had
brought back into cultivation much
marginal land.
Blackland cotton’s economic abil-
ity to stand on its own feet without
the crutch of government support is
highly questionable.
The low estate of blackland soil
fertility was the salient factor in the
organization at Renner in 1944 of
Texas Research Foundation. Be-
lieving that the soil fertility of the
blacklands could be restored through
farming systems using grasses, le-
gumes and row crops in rotation, the
Foundation immediately began a se-
ries of fertilizer and sod-crop exper-
iments with cotton and corn.
In 1948, the Foundation enlarged
the cotton experiments to their pres-
ent size, in which eight different
farming systems are under examina-
tion.
The prime objectives of these ex-
periments are; (1), to raise the per-
acre yield of retired blackland acres
so that they can be rotated periodi-
cally to produce cotton profitably in
competition with such regions as thei
Pecos Basin and the Mississippi Del-
ta; (2), to prepare a place for cotton
in a balanced scheme of farming; and
(3), to determine the most effective
farming system, or systems, in re-
building the impoverished soil of the
blacklands.*
Those objectives must be realized
in the near future if the cotton-pro-
ducing blacklands are to avoid com-
plete bankruptcy of farmers and soil.
Results Encouraging
Results accrued through the 1954
harvest year at Renner are most en-
couraging. Soil fertility has been
restored to the extent that some of
the systems show lint yield increases
up to 50 percent, with fertilizer ap-
plications paying off as much
$3.58 for every $1 invested.
The experiment involving
farming systems includes, of
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eight
course,
a check system of continuous cotton
with neither fertilizer nor winter
All systems, including the
check, were started on land that con-
sistently had received the same hard
cropping treatment in past years.
At the beginning of the program,
moreover, all land involved, includ-
ing the check plots, had a higher
level of fertility than most of the re-
earlier.
check plot was the
pounds of seed cotton,
the yield did reach was attributed to
the level of soil fertility in the be-
ginning. During the second and third
years of the test this check plot gave
1,127 and 1,065 pounds, respectively
—yields much higher than it has
made since those years.
The annual average yields for sev-
en years revealed that the most prac-
tical system for the blacklands is a
cotton, maize and sod crop of button
clover and smooth brome grass in a
4-year rotation, with the sod re-
maining two years.
Fertilizer applications were 50
pounds of nitrogen and 80 pounds of
phosphorus on the sod the first year
and 50 pounds of nitrogen the second
year. Both cotton and maize re-
ceived 40 pounds each of nitrogen
and phosphorus.
994 Pounds Average
The annual average yield of this
rotation was 994 pounds of seed cot-
ton, with high yields of 1,191 in 1949;
1,899 in 1950; 928 in 1951, and 1,011
in 1953. During the drouth-ridden
year of 1954, this system made its
lowest yield, 607 pounds. This sys-
CITATION No. 10909
IN THE COUNTY COURT OF . GRAYSON
COUNTY, TEXAS, SITTING IN PROBATE.
IN THE MATTER OF THE:
ESTATE OF HENRY THOMAS NEWTON,
Deceased. No. 10909.
TO THOSE INDEBTED TO OR HOLDING
CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF
HENRY THOMAS NEWTON, DECEASED
The undersigned, having been duly ap-
pointed Administrator of the Estate of Henry
Thomas Newton, deceased, late of Gravson
County, Texas, by J. N. Dickson, Judge of the
County Court of said County on the 4th day
of April, A. D., 1955, hereby notifies all per-
sons indebted to said estate to come forward
and make settlement; and those having claims
against that estate, to present them to him
within the time prescribed by law at 210 East
Jones Street, Sherman, Texas, where he re-
ceives his mail this 20th day of May, A. D.,
1955.
H. HUB BARRETT,
Administrator of the Estate of
Henry Thomas Newton, dec’d.
(Published in The Whitewright Sun May 26,
June 2, 9 and 16, 1955.)
Texas Research Foundation at j
Renner, Texas, has demonstrated
that cotton can continue to be grown
profitably on the Texas blacklands.
The Foundation has demonstrated
that cotton can continue as one of the
major factors in the economy of the
blacklands.
The foundation has demonstrated
that cotton yield can be increased to
a bale and a half to the acre or more
under favorable moisture conditions.
The Foundation has demonstrated
that cotton definitely has a strong
place in a grass, legume, row-crop
rotation to maintain blackland pros-
perity. '
Soil restoration and perpetual
maintenance of high fertility are
prime concerns of the 11-year-old,
privately supported, agricultural re-
search Foundation at Rnner.
Fertility Reduced
The traditional row-crop economy
of the Old South, imposed by pioneer
settlers upon the soils of Texas dur-
ing the last century, has reduced soil
fertility to such a low level, it has
thereby increased per-acre produc-
tion costs until profitable cultivation
of cotton and corn under the old sys-
tem is no longer economically prac-
ticable in the blacklands of Texas.
Blackland agriculture faces bank-
ruptcy unless it adopts sound farm-
ing practices, such as those demon-
strated at Renner.
A high percentage of the black-
lands’ 18,000,000 acres of plow-land
already has been withdrawn from
cultivation of cotton because of in-
ability to yield profitably.
Warning Signs Posted
The complete collapse of cotton,
even to the salvage of gin stands, on
the sandy lands of East Texas where
yields flourished up to two or more
bales an acre has posted warning
signs for neighboring North Texas
blackland farmers.
Cotton production figures for Ellis,
a typical Texas blackland cotton
county, reveal. the downward trend.
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shown by only seven years
search is most encouraging to the all-time high of $37,391,415,
Foundation’s supporters. The 7- ANPA’s bureau of advertising said
year demonstration is a vivid con- ,in its annual report.
trast to the lifetime in which two! GM’S expenditures topped
successive generations have mined combined outlays of the second and
the land with row crops to bring soil third biggest advertisers—Ford and
x_„x.-..-x__ x. •, . , ' _1 on Chrysler, which also run behind GM
in that order in auto production.
more I g>
crop
the
607 pounds.
A continuous system of cotton fol- I
lowing winter clover each seasn gave !
an annual average yield of 870
pounds of seed cotton and a return of
$1.79 for each $1 invested in ferti-
lizer, 40 pounds of nitrogen and 40
pounds of phosphorus. High yields
for this system were 1,205 in 1949;
1,361 in 1950; 875 in 1951; and 924
pounds in 1953. The 1954 drouth
yield was only 576 pounds.
Late in 1953, the Foundation ac-
quired a 313-acre depleted farm ad-
jacent to the Renner station. Pur-
chase was prompted by a number of
reasons, amohg which was the desire
to supplement the Foundation’s pres-
ent cotton culture research. The
Foundation also wished to investi-
gate the region’s landlord-tenant re-
lationship possibilities.
Any deductions presently made
about this farm would be immature,
as the Foundation only put in its
first crops in 1954. An interesting
development of the tenant’s, cotton
crop, however, lies in his figure for
lint production, which he reports at
a cost of approximately 10 cents a
pound on a yield of 0.44 bales an
acre on 74.6 acres.
Expert Operation
Much saving over the blacklands’; The total outlay ran 1.2 percent
usual costs—which range from 12 to - below the 1953 all-time record of
25 cents a pound or more, depending $601,224,000, the association said,
upon the number of times the crop is That made 1954 the second best year,
sprayed and the method of harvest— it said.
was effected by the tenant’s expert ■ General Motors, the world’s larg-
operation of mechanized equipment,, est privately owned manufacturing
especially the stripper. j concern, led the list of advertisers
The upward trend in soil fertilityi for the eighth straight year. It
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