The Goliad Weekly Guard. (Goliad, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 3, 1914 Page: 3 of 8
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Estimating consumption at six and
n
per per-
terial reduction of cotton acreage in brought the Texas farmer to the
1915 and the raising of food pro- cessity of providing a home-grown
Today the United States, as
re-;
will immediately enchance the value
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gards many necessary articles, is in
ducts whic hthe south can advant-
Too many misfits and mongrels
Health Giving Breezes.
self.
Sunshine in Abundance.
Plenty of Rainfall.
No Hog Cholera.
committee which will have charge himself and to the country at large.
of the work.
It did just what you said it
cotton loan fund and its use under
Not Depend on
the
beneficial influence
and
upon
J. L. Steenman Cabinet Co.
Manufacturers of
Factory: 206 Vance Street
San Antonio, Texas
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Christmas Gift Genuine Mexican Pecan Candy
A MOST ACCEPTABLE GIFT
This peculiar
Alamo Plaza
Palace of Sweets
to supply the demands of the re-
San Antonio
adjustment made necessary by the
ter—if our farming is improved and
stockman
Hog raising is easy.
Green stuffs and feed stuffs are
PATRONIZE
Hogs have no
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thirty-three years later (last year)
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manufactures constituted
flows above ground.
Numerous
Supplies
: ! Review makes these statements:
. than sixty per cent of the world’s
boundaries.
8,000,000 bushels of this ce-
■ paperman and Publisher.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
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$
Medium Doing a Legitimate Adver-
tising Business in the Southwest.
article is sold by druggists, three I
10c sticks for 25c or by mail from
cotton and business situation, nev-
ertheless the attention of the South
lakes, rivers and creeks are scat-
tered over the area which guar-
antee an abundance of water as
well as a drainage system.
of intelligent, correct breeding; not
j haphazard, hit and miss mating.
sends out of the State about seven-
ty-five per cent of her cotton oil
our
than
Does
Cotton.
Beautiful Baskets and Boxes
of CHRISTMAS CANDIES
has
ne-
in 1
fif-i
in
(By A. S. Alexander, M. D. C., Agri-
cultural Experiment Station, Uni-
versity of Wisconsin.)
Every foal should be the product
The farmers of this section are
fast forgetting that cotton is neces-
sary for their upkeep, in fact, so
little cotton is raised in comparison
to other crops that it is insignifi-
cant and does not figure heavy in
the profits.
Pure artesian water is found in
abundance and in most sections it
Best Stock Raising
Country in the World.
An Even Climate the
Year Round.
Best General Farming
Area in the State.
The Home of Health and
Wealth.
Packed in Dainty Packages
Shipped to any Address
Increased Production by
Irrigation.
Twelve Months of Grow-
ing Season.
the condition of Edison, whose sup- AS THE COLT IS. SO
ply of carbolic acid required in mak- WILL BE THE HORSE
in or orenhenhenA -AAN rA o nma ohnt
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Southwest Texas is the natural
home of health, wealth and hap-
piness. Here we need no heavy
clothing for winter. Fuel bills are
comparatively nothing. Living is
made cheaper by being able to raise
a garden the year round.
SOUTH TO DIVERSIFY IF AID
IS GIVEN BY THE BANKERS
- ■ alig as icuszui al piuuucuun, the se-
Ensland and rious condition of affairs confronting,
i nations must be apparent to all.
mittees power to appoint commit-,
tees in each of the cotton producing fine-
ri
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The Magic Washing Stick.
South Texas Newspaper Service;
; they were forty-six
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THINGS TRUE IN
SOUTHWEST TEXAS
creased yields in foreign countries
time as a result of the war. The world
Hunter’s
this committee will be held in New. he reduces the cotton acreage and j and
York. I raises food supplies.”
Mr. McAdoo’s statement said in
part:
"The plans give the cotton loan
"Potchernick’s"
208 E. Houston St.
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men would receive the benefit.
I There is no section of the United
per cent.
"In spite of the fact that more
committee power to appoint com- |
acreage of corn
1913, to the end of February, 1914.
While the miracle of this season’s
wheat crop has again furnished oc-
casion for agricultural optimism, our
States better able than the South mill, Ashdown, Ark.
da, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, I nice and white; all that hard rub-
North Carolina, Oklahoma South Sarah
Carolina, Texas and Tennessee to •
assist it in carrying on the practical Goodale, Preston, Texas.
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"Fu
A. B. Richards Medicine Co., Sher-
man, Texas.
Showing that the necessity for
better and more diversified farming
is overshadowing this nation—and
the illustration applies with peculiar
force to Texas—a writer in the No-
vember issue of the North American
is located within
we imported more
ilar and ideal as possible. Violent
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8 meal and cake; if some of the nine
Mail Your Order to the
Candy Shop of Quality
ducts on a large part of the acre- living, it has at the same
of the present crap. The food pro-
Washington—Warning was given
by officials of the federal reserve
board and the treasury department
that the South must learn diversifi-
cation of crops and make a reduc-
tion of cotton acreage next year if
it is to get the full benefits, from
the $735,000,000 loan fund just
completed and insure a material in-
crease in the price of raw cotton for
next year’s crop.
J real from the beginning of October,
। Under New Management and Now
' in the hands of a Successful News-
I have ever used. Hope every lady I
will try it, writes Mrs. W. F. Gam-i
’ farming methods will have to un-
; dergo a decided improvement if our
• supply of breadustfs is to be more
the clothes without rubbing—makes i
be a profitable use for the cotton * the whitest clothes I ever saw. 1|
seed meal and cake we ship out at j cannot do without it anymore. All
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, 9 war, and no part of the South bet-
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"The Magic Washing Stick is the i
finest thing in the world. Cleans )
itself cannot absorb them with cheaper than he had bought it from i
greater advantage than by buying Germany; and likewise there must
more. With a constantly increasing
urged the raising of other food pro-
ducts, which he predicted will find
a ready market, particularly if the
European war persists.
"The Southern farmer,” said Mr.
McAdoo, "therefore has an unusual
merchantable crops to the limit of
productiveness, summer and winter
: alike. There is no other w ay to
prosperity in this state.
This nation was once made up of ‘
an almost exclusively agricultural
supplies from neighboring states, be some inventing and special farm-
"If the war in Europe is protract- ing done in this country or people
ed, the demand for foodstuffs will j will have to do without some of
grow in volume and intensity and I the things to which they are accus-
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9 and one-half million dollars worth
9 of livestock we imported last year
were grown in Texas; there would
mads XX PosttablmtaantTxaisa
a feeding price lower than in past you say is true, it does all you say:
years, and cotton producers and oil it will. I would give it for nothing
While the European war
The poor man can live on a
farm here and be happy. Land is
cheap and can be had on long time
payments. The growing season is
twelve months long and there are
products to harvest every day in
the year.
i to see where the people of the world
I will be next year if there should be
even a slight falling off of the Am-
i erican crop, remembering the de- i
SHOW CASES, WALL CASES, BANK,
OFFICE AND STORE FIXTURES
are produced. They fail to make
work. While the creation of the
people, but it is no longer so. In
1880, eighty-four per cent of our,
exports were products of the soil; i
age heretofore devoted to cotton, forced the American nation to the • has seen bread riots and may see
Not only will crop diversification necessity of producing at home a
help Iba prosperity of the South, but great manycthing8, ’vhichsformerly ! population and a steadily decreas-
the mere assurance of a large de-; tri, France“TuS. BsliumaAusing agricultural production. ’
crease in the cotton crop next year her dependencies.
should not be drawn away from the DIVERSIFIED FARMING NO ’ L-i-,___--e -____a___
other pressing and important prob- IONGER A MATTER OF CHOICE one-half. bushels of wheat
i s.i i ( i . . . i.timot1.. son in the United States, it is easy
lem with which it must intelligently 1
’ teen per cent of our exports;
LET US FIGURE ON YOUR JOB
easy to raise,
cholera.
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Bicycles, Ball and
Gymnasium Goods
i , than adequate for domestic con-
%nmemnreeeeqeeeeemeeemenenmemmmmmameq umption.”
Southwest Texas is above all
the rest of the world in stock rais-
ing. Silos are being built in hun-
dreds. The small planter is now a
i ►1913 manufactures were forty-nine
। ’ per cent. In this time we have
* : practically ceased to export meat,
• and have almost ceased the expor-
A । । । । M . A .. 4 tation of breadstuffs. Last year saw'
Absolutely the Only Advertising ; : thembeginningeninimports of cattle
and effectively deal, namely, a ma-
For instance “America sopnt crosses should be avoided. The most1
The first meeting of He cannot do this however, unless abroad last year’ for livestock nine preaotentpure oredusirthshsildshs
one-half million dollars, for mere waste of time and money.
dairy products ten and one-half mil- Given a foal that is born right its
lions; for hides and skins one hun-devel opment Should not be eft to
dred seventeen millions; for cotton, | chance or luck. It can only mate-
The Magic Washing Stick. fax and hemp products thirty mil-rialize the hereditary possibilities of I
The Magic Washing Stick is just iondiefo-rsugansand. molasses.one its breeding if perfectly nourished,
hunared three mininsi for olive oil The inadequately fed, and conse-
_— seven millions for vegetables six quently stunted foal never attains
states of Alabama, Arkansas, Flori-i would do and the clothes were so million; for rice and rice products full size or value At least one-1
six millions. The only-reason that half of the growth'and weight of a
can be suggested why these articles horse is attained during the first
The Maric are.not produced more extensively twelve months of life. That is there-
‘ . in the south is that, apparently, the fore the most important period in
Stick is not a soap nor a washing people are so busy raising cotton to the life of foal j
,, . powder Sold by druggists, three 10c buy them with that they have no The pregnant mare should be fully j
the plan will have a far-reaching sticks for 25c, or by mail from A time for growing them. Not all the fed to insure adequate nourishment
end the Richards Medicine Co Sherman products specified here are furnish- of her fetus and an abundance of
8 Richards Medicine Co., Sherman, ed by the nations at war but some milk for its reception. She should
Texas. are thus furnished as well as manybe as weli fed While nursing the
______________________________________ other products not named. I foal
PRICES TO SUIT YOUR INCOME. We have been buying our imports I fthe foal is to make permect
"" with our surplus grain, cotton and growth it must, from its earlier
BARGAIN SUITS—Tailor-made by the Best and Biggest Manufacturers meat products largely, and now find days, be provided with oatmeal, then
in the United States. i because the spindles of Europe are crushed oats and wheat bran and
Exceptional Assortment of Real “Snaps” in Rain Coats and Overcoats. out.o conmission t hat a large Par afterwards an abundance of whole!
of our cotton must be carried by a nats hran grass hav and roots
IT WILL PAY YOU TO LOOK THEM OVER. । great loan and that as little as 0at ’ • ’ g. ’ . hay, and roots. !
B ’ and There is no time in the life of a
CHAS. E. HUMMEL . PoSsible.must. be grown next year, horse when the feeding of oats and;
333 West Commerce St. San Antonio, Texas. The United States should manutac bran is so profitable. The foal that!
.............. ■ --- ture.all those millions of dollars is not so fed may lack at maturity
■■ ■ ■ ....... . ..... worth of cotton products that were twenty-five per cent or more of the
imported last year, and the vast ■ size, weight, strength and value of j
quantity of products whose base is ibl through heredity. Over-
cotton oi! The importation of olive feeding and pampering must be
oil, for salads totalled $6,739,172 inavoided, however, as they may prove I
1913. A recent improvement in the injurious or ruinous. |
processing of cotton oil now removes Then, too, if care is not taken to!
all of the color and taste, leaving a train the foal’s hoofs properly they;
product equal to the best olive oil may grow crooked and throw the'
in every respect, vastly cheaper, and leg bones out of plum. This will
far superior to the grade secured spoil action and utility at maturity,
from the second pressing of the The feet must be made level and
° lives. . From these two sources, true by expert rasping once a month
much help could be given the cot- or so during the growing years. I
ton growers and the cotton oil in- Such trimming is all-important.;
terests, and the substitution of cot-1 Postponed, it soon becomes too late
ton bagging for nine million dol-1 to help; the mischief is done.
lars worth of jute grown abroad, “As the colt is, so will be the
j would help that much more. Texas - horse "
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added that bankers had an excellent' means and methods of crop diversi- vide a German statesman with a yarious ournoses and then should
opportunity to aid in this work byfication suitable to the conditions highly interesting problem. He f . nd d, the nroduct wr
using their influence to direct the of each locality. The bankers also would study them to see which im-fectiy p Pou
character of crops by imposing prop- have an exceptional opportunity to ports could be grown and which oni, . . . h
er conditions upon advance made to aid in this commendable work. They could be profitably changed from -rad, horse He also must he
farmers. Jean in large measure influence the the raw to the manufactured pro- sound, muscular, prepotent and suit-;
Members of the reserve board character of crops by imposing duct in his own country, and then able in type if the colt is to be
interested in the cotton fund were proper conditions upon the advanc-1 would follow some highly efficient ideal This is equaly true of his
inclined to believe that present con-les they may make to the farmers. I government promoting. This analy- correet in / his rpon, +H, eriois
ditions point to a decided reduction Where the bankers are not dealing) tic tendency has made Germany in' R or conformation of his mate/
in the cotton acreage. direct with the farmers, the mer- a generation of the first producing: He reproduces oni y those of his feat-
It was recalled by W. P. G. Hard- chant who supplies the necessary countries in the world and has ures which ar e stronger or dominant
ing of the board, the active head of credits can exert the necessary in flu- been a pertinent factor in doubling; over the corresponding features of
the fund, that the farmers of the ence. I earnestly hope that the her population since 18 <0. the mare
south turned to grain during the farmers, the bankers and the mer-* Of the grand total of agricultu-: shAmnsassreiynnLerAf !
Spanish war, and again during the chants in the South will co-operate ral imports into the United States, | stHos of her undesirable
Boer war, as a result of the de- with each other for the purpose of amounting to $10 per person, pro- trit „Hich arganatortthe
mand for their mules for army use. I materially reducing the cotton crop ducts aggregating some $630,000,-' ’ trit f . . 6
Secretary McAdoo announced thatjin 1915 and securing the satisfac- 000, or almost two-thirds, can be , A colt born rieht so that it
general supervision of the cotton tory crop diversification. Not only produced as well in this country, [ j,, aey’ol ri„ht -n characters of
fund would be under the individuals should the southern farmer plant and much, of them in the south J bo th sire5 and dam shoulddeassim-
who compose the federal reserve food crops, but he can raise cattle Some of them will have to be pro- -- .... ... — . I
board and named the cotton loam and poultry with great benefit to duced here if we get them at all.
SPORTIgKe
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Secretary McAdoo in a formal
statement, called this “the other; ageously raise on a part of the cot- ing graphophone records was shut
pressing and important problem with J ton acreage will find a ready market off by the war. Edison invented a
which the south must deal.” He' at profitable prices even if the south process for making his carbolic acid/
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Tally, J. Littleton. The Goliad Weekly Guard. (Goliad, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 3, 1914, newspaper, December 3, 1914; Goliad, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1565980/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.