The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 17, 1927 Page: 4 of 6
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ALTO HERALD. ALT > TRXAS. MARCH 17, 1927.
Prize List 1927 Cotton Contest.
America's Golden Rule Girl
Grand Prize, $1,500 (State- fields have been officially'
Wide)—For highest yield of measured must have an insptlc-
minimum length of Government tor to supervise the picking,
inch staple grown on five acres This inspector is to be supplied
of unirrigated upland or bot- by the local cotton contest com-
tom land anywhere in Texas. mittee.
State-Wide Upland Staple 11. A sample from both
Prize, $1,000—For highest sides of each bale grown in the
yield of a minimum length of contest must be mailed to the
Government one-inch staple on Textile Engineering Depart-
five acres of unirrigated up- ment of Texas A. & M. College,
land anywhere in Texas. to be stapled after all the cot-
Crop Rotation Prize, $1,000 ton from the five acres has been
—For highest yield of minimum ginned. _
(if Government one-inch staple 12; Any lield which, alter
grown on five acres of unirri- official measurement, is found
gated upland or bottom land to contain less than 4.75 acres,
anywhere in'Texas which has will be debarred from winning
not been in cotton the previous a prize. A field having 4.75
year, but was planted to a feed acres (but less than five acres)
or food crop. ,wiH stand as five acres.
Gros? Income Prize, $1,000 13'. E?c*? "instant must
-For highest yield of any "Jve. 81X stf.lks °*h cotton for
length staple on five acres of the mA ec}wn_°l 1*e_State cot"
unirrigated land anywhere in
Texas, showing largest calcu-
lated gross returns based upon
New Orleans staple market of
Dec. 1 as to premiums for sta-
ule and grade.
Crop Record Information
Prizes (Total, $1,500)—First
prize of $500; second prize,
$300, third prize $200; fourth
prize $150; fifth prize $100,
and five other prizes of $50
each for most useful informa-
tion as to profitable cotton rais- J
ing and raising f "living at
home" during 1927.
1. No entrant will be eligi-
ton contest committee.
14. Entries to the 1926 cot-
ton contest will close July 1.
The cotton contest will close
Dec. 15 and all crop records
must be in The Dallas News of-
fice on that date. To this com-
pleted crop record which each
entrant keeps he must attach
his gin bale receipts showing
weight of each bale.—Dallas
News.
BAD COTTON NOT
TO BE REPORTED
One of the most important
ble to the award of any prize j measures passed at this session
whose complete crop does not of the Congress is the one which
show that he has "raised his
living at home," either through
the direct use on his farm of
homegrown feed and food
crops or from their sale. The
State cotton contest committee
will be governed in its awards
by the fair requirements of an
average farm family as to feed
for one year.
2. No entrant can win more
than one prize !
.3. No winner of a prize in
The News "More Cotton on
Fewer Acres" contest of 1926
ma^ compete for any prize in
15*27 except a Crop Record
Prize!
4. Each contestant is en-
titled to enter only five acres,
which must be in one tract and
should be as nearly four sided
as possible to insure accurate
measurement.
5. No record will be con-
sidered unless it is complete in
every detaii.
6. No prizes will be award-
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sr.]
acquired a great fortune and|
another Vanderbilt of the same1
provides for the listing of the
grades and staple length of the
cotton in the so-called carry
over. The original bill by Con-
gressman Marvin Jones was
passed by the House in Decem-
ber. A similar bill by Senator
Mayfield was recently passed
by the Senate. The two bills
were combined and as such
have recently been enacted into
law.
There are between four and
five millions of bales in the so-
called carry over. There are
ten tenderable grades of cotton.
Hundreds of thousands of bales
of the carry over are not of a
tenderable character. Much of
it is of a non-merchantable
character. All of this cotton,
however, without regard to
grade or staple has heretofore . ,
been included in the reports! r"IvJP'.T a.1? *
and only the total figures given
as so many millions of bales.
j Naturally this affects the mar-
ket adversely the same as if all
ISS BETTT C0MFTON of New York h*s U«en Mlacted la a national
compatttten to pmtrar th« gjjrtt of tka Golden Rule in connection
with the forthcoming obaafraace at International Golden Rata Sunday
for the Near Bast Relief.
YOUNG VANDERBILT tables and fruit.—Richland
3,000,000 IN DEBT j Springs Eye-Witness.
FARM FACTS
The California Fruit Ex-
name has set out to do likewise f hange made refunds to mem-
—to pay his debts.
A recent dispatch from New
York gave the information that
Cornelius Vafiderbilt who is
doing his own cooking in a tiny
apartment on Fifth ave., and
grinding out manuscript in an
effort to accumulate $3,000,-
000 to pay what he owes.
wr
and
u to pay wnat ne owes. <i ..." .
ed in any division of the contest! of such cotton were of a tender
for a smaller yield than one-1 able and merchantable char-
half bale an acre. ; acter. By referring to all of
7. All cotton entered in any
division of the contest must be
grown on five acres of unirri-
gated land. Awards will be
based on the highest yield of
pounds of line. The State-wide
staple, upland and crop rota-
tion contests require that cotton
this cotton as surplus or carry
over, manipulators have been
able to depress the market and
greatly reduce! the price.
Under the new measure it
Mill be known just how much
of this is of a tenderable and
. ,, ,. . . merchantable character, and
grown in these divisions must bowmuctfofit should there-
have a minimum length of Gov- lore really affect the price
ernment one-inch. The gross u is thought by the Depart-
income contest permits enter- mtnt 0f Agriculture and by
ing cotton with a length of less those who have studied the
than one inch, the purpose question generally that this
measure will mean millions in
increased prices to the pro-
'lucer of cotton throughout the
South.
The measure also provides
for abolishing the semi-month-
ly estimates instead, thus util-
ising the funds heretofore used
in making estimates of produc-
ts n for the listing of the qual-
ity of the cotton. It provides,
1" '.vcver, for the retention of
10 semi-monthly ginning re-
, , , , of actual cotton produc-
reputable persons who will (jon
make affidavit as to the acre-t
age and the character of the j
entrant.
9. All contestants whose
fields promise a high yield and i
who intend to compete for a, going, but I'm on my way."—
first prize or grand prize must. Columbus.
notify the cotton contest de-j "Keep the home fires burn-
partment of The Dallas Newsjinp "—Nero,
or The Semi-Weekly Farm "The first hundred years are
News ten days before they in-|th" hardest."—Methuselah,
tend to begin picking, so that "Treat 'em rough."—Henry
an official surveyor can meas- VIII.
ure their five acres. This meas- j "Keep your shirt on."—
urement, with all field notes, | Queen Elizabeth.
must be in the office of The "Don't lose your head."—
News for reference. Following Queen Mary.'
this official measurement, the "The bigger they are, the
contestant must run a turn-row harder they fall."—David,
around or otherwise delimit "It floats."—Noah.
his five acres so that the limits j "You can't keep a good man
of the field will be clearly de- down.".—Jon#!}.
fined before picking starts. | "I'm strong fop yoij kid/W
being to test staple cotton
against short staple. The up-
land staple contest division ap-
plies to any part of Texas and
the local cotton contest com-
mittee after inspection will re-
cord in the entrant's record
book as to whether the field is
upland or bottom lann.
8. Measurement of the five
acres by a local cotton contest
committee must be completed
not later than Aug. 1. This
committee must consist of three!
SOM£ FAMOUS SAYINGS
'1 don't know where I'm
ber associations of $420,000
during November and Decem-
ber, 1926.
Experiments with sulphur as
a fertilizer for alfalfa have
.^liown that on about 100,00(1
acres the yield Can be increased
by one ton an acre, says the
station.
leats of copy papery: "j™ Tj '7 •" meaJB an(*
nocketful of nen-|1afd in co,d st<>rage are larger
cils. His workshop is his home] £h*n at tf.is Je&r ,&«0'
—a two room kitchenette a-!bu] suPPhes °f ^tter, cheese
partment on! the seventh {looE;and eggs are smaller, according
over a toy shop. His neighbors!to 'Ia"ua!"y cold-storage re-
are artists, musicians, photog- fort, of the burea" °f ?S™ul-
b tural economics, United States
While the former newspaper} department of agriculture
publisher work., day and nijhtt,*™
turning out magazine articles' ooo , ,,
and motion picture scenarios,}and 6K30'000 cases of yellow
laborers are busy across the™ beans were put up m the
street demolishing the famous ®
chateau of his grandmother, vn/w i n • u
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. } Oats following soybeans in a
"I'm going to pay off every <rotatron yielded eight bushels
penny I owe if it takes me fifty m°re,pfjr ac'"e than when the
years," Vanderbilt said. "Iam ^n 1"1,owed cor"' ^cording
determined that no one shall10 Jurduf® university.
lose a penny from having trust- Ar*cntm\ 18 making govern-
ment loans to co-operates, also
to individual farmers for buy-i 1
ed in me and my ventures.
Vanderbilt may come into 4 , ■ • , • ,
some of the family fortune in'*1*™?"? '"T™/ land-
time, but he is not banking on ", Western Canada farmers are
that now. He Has cut his ex-i try-in? camels for pow-
i er instead 0f horses. They are
p. nditures to a minimum ?.nd
is turning out stories on a*fac-'fai.d t0 li%I°.n straw
torv basis to a ready market. qu r,e n0f , .
His articles, he said, arc Almost a thousand hogs, sold
bringing him much more than farmers of Perquimans coun-
his living expenses and he is uy' Carolina, last year,
saving a substantial margin to- a Pr°f,t of $4296.
ward settlement of his obliga- j world wheat crop this
tjOIls K year does not differ greatly
• from the 1925 crop, but pro-
Tunwnrniuo ... duction .has , been smallest
THUNDERING IN where it is needed most for
and re-
FEBRUARY
consumption, according to Guy
W. Wilier, extension specialist
February of Ohio State university.
The 18th annual dairy cattle
It thundered in
pood and loud, and on several
different occasions and accord- congress will be held at Water-
ing to our best informed town loo, Iowa, September 26 to Oc-
loafers, it is a bad sign and tober 2. The National Belgian
there is sure to be frost in April, i Horse show wiU be held in con-
George Muse saysiie has been rcction with the congress,
watching it for over a hundred Veterinarians of Marion
years and that it never fails to! county, Indiana, offer to vacci-
frost in April when it thunders j nate dogs against rabies at
in February but George has $1.50 per dog, on account off
been caught so many times that presence of this disease. Other
the general run of people want counties will make special of-
a little more evidence on the fers to control it.
fiuestion and have been.re-1 The hardy catalpa, one of
ferred to Bill Smith who has'the trees to( be distributed to
grown gray headed and cran- farmers under provision of the
kv in explaining the mysteries, Clarke-McNary act of con-
of the weather man. igress, is recommended for loam
Personally, ive are agin it j Boils where the roots of the
frosting in Aoril and shall froroi trees dan reach to water.
' :me to time ent«r a vigorous "Ajb loag as conservation is
time to ttxr.e enter a vigorous > a, dpmiaant factor in the per-1
protest, because we realize that) peituation of the country's for-1
if it does frost as per the Feb- ( ests. the people of the United 1
ruary thunder schedule, our'Stated must accept forestry as
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daddy-in-law's garden and
fruit crop will be ruined and
we will bf blovfld up foe v g4jv
an opportunity as well as a re-
sponBibility," says E, A. Sher-
man of the United 3tftteg forest
service.
A strict quarantine is to be
enforced against all animals,
hay, straw or other feeding
material originating *.n the
southern part of Mexico wh re
the foot-and-mouth disease is
suspected to exist, according to
United States department of
agriculture reports.
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Weimar, F. L. The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 26, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 17, 1927, newspaper, March 17, 1927; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth214423/m1/4/?q=music&rotate=270: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.