Refugio Timely Remarks (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 11, 1957 Page: 7 of 12
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Refugio Timely Remarks, Thursday, April 11, 1957—Page 7
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CONTINENTAL TRAILWAYS
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tural land • may be conducted to
safe points of release with a mini-
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Basic Commodities:
Cotton, upland, 1b. ..
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Rice (cwt.) .....—......
Corn (bu.) .............-
Peanuts (lb.) ........
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Cottonseed (ton) ............ '
Flaxseed (bu.) ................
Potatoes (cwt.) ................
Grapefruit (box) ...........2
Oranges (box) ..................
Hogs (cwt.) ......................
Beef Cattle (cwt.) ..........
Calves (cwt.) ....................
Lambs (cwt.) ....................
411 chickens, live (lb.) ....
Turkeys, live (lb.) ..........
Eggs (doz.) ......................
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“sometime.” Wishful thinking seldom pays off. Money in the
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service to the next town or across the nation . . .
and you have a number of ’round-the-clock
schedules to choose from.
Crop and Livestock Conditions
Spring planting was again held
up by heavy general rains in all
parts of the county ranging from
one to as much as three and one
half inches in the Austwell area
Sunday week ago. Much sorghum
and milo seed was still in the sack
as frequent March rains caused
repeated postponement of plant-
ing. Cool weather delayed germi-
nation and slowed development of
the acreage which was up. Twen-
ty-five per cent of spring crop
planting remains to be done. Many
down in some fields due
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worm causing damage as early
planted fields reach maturity.
Onions continue good prospects
as all fields show signs of thrip
infestation.
Early planted blackeye peas be-
ing damaged by cut worms in
Bonnie View Communities.
Cattle were getting sleek and
fat on lush spring grass, clovers,
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One hundred Cornish-Whiterock
day old cockerals were purchased
and housed in an improvised budd-
ing with a floor space of approxi-
mately 324 square feet. The birds
remain in this building until mar-
keted 20 to 24 weeks later.
Home made automatic waterer
and self feeder were installed and
a 40 watt electric bulb furnished
light during all hours of darkness.
The birds were caponized be-
tween 7 and 8 weeks of age. Mar-
keting actually began when birds
were 18 weeks of age. At this age
a small number of the larger b rds
dressed out at 6 pounds. The mar-
keting continued until the last
were killed at twenty-four weeks
of age.
At the end of the feeding period
a large per cent of the birds had
reached the live weight of ten and
one-half'pounds.
The over all dressed weight ave-
age was six pounds per bird and
the average feed consumed per
bird was twenty-eight pounds.
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causing farmers worry as to how
weeds will be controlled if and
when they will be able to get into
fields. Most unplanted acreage will
be in need of rerunning beds to
control weeds and grass before
planting.
Flax prospects have been cut
Capons
Fred Eastwood of the Lambert
Ranch believes capon production
can develop into a profitable en-
terprise.
He conducted a demonstration
last year for the purpose of pro-
ducing a maximum amount of
good flavoured high quality meat
in the minimum possible time and
expense.
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will be held Tuesday, April 16.
The morning tour will leave the
Bonnie View School 9:00 a.m.
The afternoon tour will leave the
Austwell School 2:00 p.m.
The tours are Deng conducted to
assist cotton producers in the iden-
tifying of harmful and beneficial
cotton insects. Thg extent of dam-
age being done, how insect counts
are made, when to start control
and recommended control meas-
ures. Trade entomologist, pink
boll worm representatives and
commercial applicators wll ac-
company the tour. A number of
early planted cotton fields will be
visited and all interested cotton
growers are urged to attend.
4-H Rifle Practice
John Hardin, Senior Member
and Johnny Morrell, Junior Mem-
ber, turned in high score during
the Saturday 4-H Rifle Practice.
All firing was done in sitting po-
sition. The firing for coming Sat-
urday will be kneeling position.
Team members will be announc-
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in ponds for too long, or it may
flow across fields during rains and
cause damage from washing.
In draining standing water,
usually the lowest cost plan is de-
sired. Frequently, a leveling in-
. „strument must be used to deter-
mine the best outlet for water.
Sometimes, however, good outlets
are evident and poor d-ainage is
due to neglect. The ditches may be
grown up with grass and weeds or
may be filled with silt and sand.
Sometimes a fence row will pre-
vent the water from draining off
the crop. It often happens that
changing the direction of rows
will solve the drainage problem.
Laberal drainage ditches on flat
land should be dug a little more
mly CONTI NEN TAL TRAE LWAYS offers all this service!
During the past seventeen years
Refugio County Farmers, like
farmers in other parts of the coun-
try, have made a number of ad-
justments to the high weather-
risk, price uncertainties, and high
cost squeeze in agriculture. One
type of adjustment has been to
leave agriculture for some other
type of work. Another has been
to combine agricultural work with
off farm work.
While the numbers of farms in
Refugio County have decreased
from 507 in 1930 to 271 in 1954
the number of farm operators who
. work away from the farm 100 days
. or more each year has almost
doubled. The number jumped from
39 in 1940 to 62 in 1954.
The trend of increased off-farm
employment has been facilitated
by improved roads, a shorter work
week in industry and a continued
high level of employment and in-
dustrial development. The trend
of off-farm employment is more
intensive within a radius of 50
miles of cities and industries in
rural areas where part-time em-
ployment opportunities are avail-
able. This adjustment constitutes
a significant income stabilizing
facto ’ for many farm families per-
mitting them to weather the
drought and the price-cost squeeze
without giving up their farm en-
terprise.
The combination of agricultural
employment with non-agricultural
work may be expected to continue
to increase during the next few
years.
Designated non-basic commodities:
Butterfat (1b.) ........-....... 0.730
Milk, wholesale (cwt.) .... 4.76
Wool, (1b.) ........................ 0.645
Other non-basic commodities:
Drainage Problems
The Austwell - Tivoli Drainage
District Commissioners are able
to survey the benefits of a project
that had not received the maxi-
mum test until Sunday, March 31,
when two to three inches of water
fell on already saturated surface
soils.
Farmers of that area were jubi-
lant as the huge drainage ditches
ran full capacity draining excess
water from flooded fields in a rel-
atively short time. All agree that
had it not been for this system,
many acres of cultivated lands
would have been inundated for
weeks.
Due to limited moisture condi-
tions since the completion of the
drainage system not all farmers
have taken full advantage of
the benefits by the construction of
lateral ditches on their lands. The
major portion of this work re-
" -mains to be done. The Drainage
Commissioners advise that it is
the responsibility of each land
owner to work out his own indi-
vidual drainage problem on his
, land taking advantage of the main
ditches to the best of his ability.
On many farms in these two
• communities the contour of the
land is such that excess water
causes severe damage. Th’s ex-
the water as they will gradually
fill up. If the banks are not steep
’the ditch will give longer service
hvithout cleaning. A ditch having a
"semicircular cross section will
carry the most water in proportion
to the amount of dirt removed in
digging the ditch.
The local drainage commission-
ers welcome land owners of the
Austwell-Tivoli Communities to de-
rive themselves of the advantages
offered by the Drainage District.
Land owners would do well to con-
sult with the services offered by
the Copano Bay Soil Conservation
District and its conservation pro-
gram pertaining to drainage prob-
lems. The local Agricultural Con-
servation Program Chairman
Frank Hartman says cost sharing
is provided to cooperators in com-
pleting water disposal systems so
< that runoff water from agricul-
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over the range area. The March
rains have been very beneficial in
getting the ranges off to a good
start this spring. Much more
moisture will be needed to bring
native pastures back to normal
carrying capacity. The good
strong grass such as bluestems,
buffalo, bermuda are just begin-
ning to get started as Texas Win-
ter and Rye grass is fast reaching
maturity.
All stockmen busy with general
spring cattle work. The calf crop
is unusually good as mother cows
produce abundant supply of milk.
Farm flock sheep owners have
started spring shearing as transit
shearing crews pass through the
county.
Feb. 15,
1951 (4)
Prices received by farmers..............313
Prices paid by farmers, interest,
taxes and wage rates .......... .277
Parity ratio -------------------------------------113
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2—Average for Middling 1 inch.
3—Manufacturing milk.
4—February 15, 1951 record high for prices received by farmers.
Source: “Agricultural Prices” January 30, 1957, Agricultural Marketing Service, United
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Index numbers (1910-14 Equal 100)
Percentage change from: _____
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