The Giddings Star (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 6, 1958 Page: 4 of 8
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THE GIDDINGS STAR - THURSDAY, NOV. 6, 1958
Plowin’ Under the “Sorry Land"
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Today rich, new grass has replaced the brush
that covered the 100,000-acre Briscoe Ranch.
This is the “sorry land.” As rancher Dolph Briscoe says, “We’ll either
turn this country into * desert or we can make it the most productive
grass land in the world.” ___________________
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Typing Paper
Bookkeeping Records
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This is the giant root plow. Specially designed
and mounted on Allis Chalmers tractors it
cuts deep into the earth to uproot the brush.
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Memo Books and Pads
Flashbulbs and Film
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er and Miss Fay Hattox
Mrs. Dorothy Ogier is head spon-
sor of the Junior Class, and the
other junior sponsors are Mr Tom
Cherry and Mr. Carl Andress
Mrs. Florence Cherry is head
sponsor of the Sophomores and
Mr Boone Jackson will assist her.
Mr. Truett Mobley is head spon-
sor of the Freshman Class and Miss
Bess Black will assist him.
Others spread across Southwestern United
States — it proves the statement of H. H.
Cook of the Soil Conservation Service at
bert Jenke visited Sunday evening |
with Mr and Mrs. John Winkler.
Later in the evening they visited
with Mr and Mrs Albert Urban
and Eudoris.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl O. Jatzlau,
Mr. and Mrs. Erich Drosche, Mr
and Mrs. Otto Domann, Mrs. Mar-
tha Schimank, Gilbert and Clar-
ence, Mrs. E. F. Wendland vis-
ited Sunday night with Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Jenke and family and
Mrs. Willie Becker.
Mr and Mrs. Ernest Jenke and
Helen, Dorothy, and Ralph Jenke,
Billy Jenke, Dorothy, Karin and
Rose Spitzenberger visited Sunday
evening with Mrs. August Dube,
Mrs. L. Karcher returned on
Tuesday evening from Eola, where
she had visited for several days
with her sisters.
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The actuality of the present sel-
dom looks as good as the theory
of the past.
Parade will start at I p. m. Drawing at Court House following parade Free Show
by DUDE FELLOWS and the KROSSROAD CAPERS.
was tried. So was burning. They all failed.
Then, after a number of modifications,
construction machinery contractors and an
Allis-Chalmers dealer, working with cattle-
men and conservationists, developed a wide
angling root plow.
They proved this plow, pulled by powerful
tractors, could bite through the baked earth
to the depth necessary to completely uproot
and kill the mesquite and cactus.
On the Briscoe and Gates ranches near
Catarina, Texas in the heart of the "sorry
land” this plow, together with a new combi-
nation of grass seeds, has brought about a
dramatic transformation in the landscape of
South Texas. - -----, t .
Almost a year ago on these two sprawling plowed rangelands of the Briscoe and Gates
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LINCOLN
By MRS. OTTO FICK
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hob-
ratschk and Ronnie of Port Arthur
spent Sunday night and Monday
with Mr, and Mrs. Herman Du-
be Jr. and Larry.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Jenke and
faimly spent Friday in Austin with
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Urban and
girls.
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Urban and
girls, Fritz and Louise Drosche,
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Urban and
family, Judy and Jane Jenke vis-
ited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Urban and Eudoris.
Mrs. Willie Becker and Mrs. Al-
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FOR MORE NEWS
ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW
Tall, cattle-producing grass is growing
again in South Texas.
The reason? A pioneering soil conserva-
tion and reclamation project called root
plowing and rangeland seeding is plowing
under and seeding hundreds of thousands of
acres of South Texas.
It could mean that an area in Texas as
large as the State of Tennessee will be
plowed and seeded. An area, much of which
has never before been broken by a plow.
Years of drouth, decades of overgrazing
and the resulting jungle-like infestation of
brush brought 26 to 30-million acres of
South Texas the title of “sorry land."
But today in areas where ambitious cattle
men and construction machinery contractors
— have gone to work with new ideas to lick the ranches, big Allis-Chalmers crawler tractors ranches. ,
long-standing problem of the brush, they equipped with dozers, 12-foot wide root The transformation has meant that in-
have succeeded. The brush is gone and cattle plows and unique grass seeders went to work stead of grazing one steer for every 50 acres
stand thigh-high in a sea of tall, rich grass. I on the first large scale job of this immense under brushland conditions, the South Texas
Experiments began several years ago soil conservation project.
when cattlemen realized the drouth and re- C_ he 130,300____"_______
suiting brush infestation had nearly elimi- 000-acres have now been root-plowed and
nated the growth of native grasses and
turned the soil into a baked, eroded range-
land that would support only one steer for
every fifty acres.
Many remedies were tried. Heavy cable
chains were attached to teams of crawler
tractors to chain the brush down in huge
swaths. Big rotating steel-bladed imple-
ments six-feet in height were drawn by trac-
tors to chop the brush down. Deep discing
Tuesday, November 18, 1958
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AU in one operation the tractor’s dozers knock down the brush,
plows sever the brush root, and new grass seed is planted.
seeder utilized draft from the '
to blow seed over the plowed er
sual seeding operation sprer
of blue panicum and buffe’
rate of four pounds per .n-
bination was also the r /eri-
mentation. Neither, ive to
the area. Blue panic gin to
Australia, buffel to So Within a
few months the grass P. virtues of
quick germination, its abin develop deep
root-systems.
Today, both quality and quantity range
grass that will hold the soil and the mois-
ture, reproduce itself and prohibit the recur-
rence of the "sorry land" covers the root-
_________________,---= cattlemen will be able to graze one steer for
On the 100,000-acre Briscoe Ranch, 70,-every eight to ten acres.
—----------— —.3 When it is considered that 25 to 30-million
seeded. To do this giant plowing job South-acres of South Texas could be subjected to
west Construction company used six crawler this conservation treatment — plus great
tractors and two crews of tractor operators areas across the Rio Grande in Mexico and
working around the clock, six days a week
over a period of several months. Likewise on
the adjoining 83,000-acre Gates Ranch, four
more crawler tractors and eight operators r .
plowed under and seeded a 15,000-acre test Laredo, Texas, "This is the biggest soil con-
plot. serration program ever undertaken in this
In the same operation a specially attached country.”
Heart Patients
Need Spinal
Check-Ups
Heart trouble is the number one
killer in the United States. After
a breakdown, there are limits on
what can be done to correct a
heart disorder. Tissue that has
been damaged cannot be replaced.
But the heart is a strong organ
and every effort should be taken
to make the best use of the strength
that is left.
Some heart disorders can be cor-
rected. In any case, you should
have a physical checkup regular-
v.
Many cases of heart trouble are
the result of stangulation of the
nerves that feed the heart. Fre-
quently this pressure and choking
of the nerves is caused by a slight-
ly misaligned spine.
Often the heart trouble will clear
up entirely once the spine has been
corrected. Spinal correction is
probably even more important if
you have already suffered heart
damage. Then you want to be cer-
tain your heart is getting proper
nerve impulses to save what you
have left.
Chiropractors are the best train-
ed spine specialists and are ex-
pert in finding and correcting de-
fects which can damage your heart.
For further information on Chi-
ropractic care, call 315M or write
Dr. John F. Stewart at Giddings
Chiropractic Clinic, Giddings, Tex-
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30 Entries 10 States . . .
Ended June 29, ’58
1st Production per Hen 208 eggs
—Av. all entries 186
1st Feed per Doz. Eggs, 4.3 lbs.
—Av. all entries 4.9 lb.
1st Net Income per Hen over
feed & chick cost, incl. meat
value $3.46
—Av. all entries $2.56
3 H3W entries placed 1st, 2nd, 4th
MISSOURI
51 Entries 16 States —
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CAMERON, TEXAS
Mr. Karl Hickfang was recently
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sponsors are Miss Eleanor Fletch-
Success formula A man s
1st Production per Hen 259 eggs
—Av. all entries 231
1st Feed per Doz. Eggs 4.33 lbs.
—Av. all entries 5 08 lbs.
1st Net Income per Hen over feed
& chick cost, incl. meat
value $4.89
—Av. all entries $3.76
Mortality 500 days None
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The Giddings Star (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 6, 1958, newspaper, November 6, 1958; Giddings, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1615742/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Giddings Public Library and Cultural Center.