The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 11, 1940 Page: 3 of 12
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FARM NEWS
The Mineola Monitor, Mineola, Texas, Thursday, April 11, 1940.
Page Three
SOIL NOTES
Land use planning does not
mean so much planting cer-
tain fields in certain crops as
the use of land for cultivation,
pasture or woodland, depend-
ing upon the type of soil, the
degree of slopes, the fertility,
and the amount of erosion,
according to E Gentry, county
agent of Smith County, in
talking with the AAA com-
mitteemen concerning the farm
plan sheets that they would
be explaining to farmers in
all parts of the county this
coming week. Mr. Gentry said
that in his long experience in
Smith County that the farm-
ers who selected land to cul-
tivate where they could con-
trol the erosion and did so
years ago had good farms and
were in good financial condi-
tion today, while the men who
had fanned for quick returns
and no regard for the land,
today had poor farms and were
dependent on the public or
relatives for their existence
and most of these farms were
a liability to the schools and
general welfare of the count-
ty. By reducing crop acres the
Crop Adjustment Administra-
tion has proved that more
yields can be made on less
acres and better cared for, most
every farmer recognizes this,
but with the approach of spring
most farmers strive to get every
acre plowed and planted, con-
ceding to himself that he is
better than the well known
rules.
feed the Negro boys and girls
attending this college and be-
cause of this and the efficient
management of C. A. Berry,
farm manager, the farm is
producing more and the land
is becoming better each year.
Through the proper selection
of fields for cultivation erosion
has ceased to be a problem.
Whipped Through Farm Bill
Due to the demand for large
acreage in truck crops, fertili-;
zation is a big problem and
this is to be cared for by plant-
ing a portion of the farm each
year in hairy vetch. This year
the college has the best vetch
of any farm in this entire
section.
Jarvis Christian College near
Hawkins has for the past sev-
eral years actively cooperated
in soil building program on col-
lege farm that is operated tc
The AAA committee this week
is explaining to all farmers
in every community how they
might earn all the money al-
lowed them in the crop ad-
justment program and at the
same time improve their in-
dividual farms for future re-
turns and use. Some of the
more important practices being
cited for 1940 are: construction
of standard terraces for which
proper outlets are provided-
strip cropping on the contour,
strips must not be less than
10 feet nor more than 200 feet
wide and occupy at least 30
per cent of the area of the
field; contour farming of in-
ter-tilled crops; contour list-
ing of cropland in 1940; seed-
ing small grain crops for har-
vest on the contour; seeding
winter legumes (vetch); 240
pounds of 20 per cent super-
phosphate or its equivalent is
equal to one unit with the
seeding of winter legumes or
permanent pastures; summer
Senator James F. Byrnes (left) of South Carolina congratulates Senator
Richard B. Russell of Georgia after the Senate passed the billion dollar
agriculture appropriation bill. The Senate added almost $300,000,000
above the amount voted by the House, thereby practically wiping out
nrevious eoonomv nmasurfis.
There IS a
Difference in Gasolines
tumble
legumes; mowing pastures, for
weeds when two mowings are
made during a season: plant-
ing bermuda grass, $4 50 per
acre; growing a home garden,
shall not be less than one-
half acre.
Soil conservation districts are
being formed in many parts
of Texas in complying with
the State Soil Conservation
law to join all agencies in the
movement to control the ero-
sion problem in recognition of
the fact that what has been
done in the past has not been
enough to meet this problem.
Over 500 districts of this kind
have already been organized
in the United States under the
direct supervision of farmer
boards of supervisors. This law
recognizes that farmers should
provide their own leadership.
They are handed the ball to
carry whether or not they do
anything depends always on
the leading farmers.
o
Gladewater Boy
Wins First Place
In State Contest
Charles Welbourn, Glade-
water High School student who
won first place in the district
oratorical contest held here re-
cently under American Legion
sponsorship, also won first
place in the state finals last
week at Austin.
He will compete in a region-
al contest in Oklahoma. If he
wins here he will go to the
national finals in Washington,
the winner of which will be
awarded a $4,000 college schol-
arship.
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gasolines.
Improvement of these gasolines results from our policy of
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like the improvement in
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olines, that your special
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My back was so stiff and I
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of the time. Every time I stoop-
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to grab hold of something. My
nerves kept me awake for
hours every night, then the
next morning I felt all tired
out.
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and causing trouble.
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and pains in my body, neither
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the dizziness has passed off and
my nerves have calmed down so
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State Fair's List
For Schools Now I 4' and
Being Distributed o
registration, 9; no chauffeur's more than in 1938, due to pro-
duction on 900,000 trees plant-
ed three years before by 4-H
Dallas, April
lists for all school
and exhibits which will be held
as a feature of the 1940 State|
Fair, are no;v being distribut 1
ed to every school in Texas, it
has been announced by Miss j
Edgar Ellen Wilson, deputy!
state superintendent at Hous-
ton, who has been named as
chairman of the committee in
charge of the contests and ex-
hibits by L. A. Woods, state j
superintendent.
Prizes amounting to more
than $1,000 are listed in the
eight contests offered, which
are School Exhibits,, Fall Band
Festival and Clinic, Spelling!
Contests, Choral Singing, Pub- j
11c Speaking, Rhythm Band
Contest, Hobby Show, and
School Beautification Contest.
Contests are open to any
school child in Texas with the
exception of those from the
larger cities. All entries in
the contest must be made not
later than June 1, 1940, at
which time the complete pro-
gram will be announced.
In addition to the contests
and exhibits there will be sev-
eral school room demonstra-
tions held during the Fair,
one of which will be the radio
broadcast demonstration which
will be held under the super-
vision of John Gunstream, de-
puty state superintendent at
Dallas, who is also director
of the state department's school
of the air. Mr. Gunstream
will arrange two broadcasts.,
one for children's day, Friday,
October 11, and the other for
high school day, Friday, Oc-
tober 18.
o
Overloaded Trucks
Bring Many Fines
Austin, April 9.—State po-
lice headquarters reported this
week that of 2,126 cases filed
by license and weight inspec-
tors in March, 2,083 were foi
alleged excessive truck loads.
The other complaints were
classified as follows: No regis-
tration papers, 19; improper
Fruit production in Texas
11—Premium ' for 1939 was 1,150.398 pounds
contests , "
Club girls and home demon-
stration club women.
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YOU tliink electric service is a wonderful thing—
and it is. It lights our homes. It makes our streets
safe at night. Turns wheels in factories. Lifts the bur-
den of housework. Helps make the good things of life
cost less.
Really, there doesn't seem much left for electricity
to do, does there?
Yet we employees of your electric company believe
that every service and comfort electricity now gives
you is but a beginning of that's to come.
Why, today we don't even know what electricity is.
We simply know and enjoy some of the things it is capable
of doing every moment of the day and night. But we
also know that there are
tlill a great many un-
discovered tasks for
electric service.
** \\ ho will perform
these miracles-to-come?
MORE FOR YOUR MONEY
In the last 10 to 15 years, the engineering improvements ami
operating economies of your electric company have made it
possible to cut the average price of household electricity just
about in half. Many customers now using more household ap-
pliances, lots of light, a radio, and refrigerator pay very little
more to operate till of these than they used to pay for light alone.
The men who 6erve you now—the same great army of
skilled technicians, capable managers and loyal em-
ployees whose tireless efforts in your behalf have
already vastly improved the service your electric com-
pany gives you, already drastically reduced its cost.
No, it isn't an accident that electricity has reached
its greatest present development in the United States.
The reason is that these thousands of men and women
in the electrical industry have the American spirit of
initiative—the good old-fashioned kind.
Their work, and theirs alone, makes your electric
service the best in the world. It's an amazing service.
It gets better and better, costs less and less.
\our electric company
doesn't often think
about the work it ha9
done because it is too
busy planning the work
that lies ahead.
SOUTHWESTERN GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY
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The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 11, 1940, newspaper, April 11, 1940; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth298965/m1/3/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Communications+-+Newspapers%22: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.