The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, March 14, 1941 Page: 7 of 16
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fRE MEXIA WEEKLY HERALD
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Published Every Thursday in the Interest of Kast-CVntral Texas Farmer ;inrl His Family.
Lasseter Urges
Farmers to Raise
Sufficient Feed
How much feed should bf pro-
ducer) on the farm ? Certainly
enough *hould be grown to ade-
quately feed all the liveatock on
tha farm. Judging by the condi-
tion of cattle on the farm at the
present time, sayg W. E. Lasseter,
vocational agriculture teacher of
Mexia, many farmer* did not pro-
ducp enough feed lwt year to pro-
vide aufficient feed to maintain
their livestock in the. proper con-
dition for the profitable production
of milk, meat or calvea.
A dairy cow in a thin, rundown
condition cannot 'produce much
much milk and the milk produced
will be of inferior quality. A beef
cow that goes through the winter
in thin flesh cannot produce a
calf that will be as large and vig-
orous as the calf from a cow in
good condition.
This has been an unusually hard
winter on cattle, not because of
eold weather, but,, because of the
excessive wet weather and the
little pasture that has been able
to, grow. An abundance of dry
roughage dr good silage properly
cured and stored during the sum-
mer is the best livestock insurance
that a farmer may have against
winter let downs in milk produc-
tion and poor calf and lamb crops
in the spring. It Is poor economy to
Farmer's Cotton Stamp
-SEED-
All Kinds f>f Bulk Garden
Seed
Certified Corn for planting
Yellow Dent
White & Yellow Surecrop
White Drought Resinter
FRESH CORN MEAL
Any Time
Feed for Everything
Claude King & Co.
400 E. Bowie St.
TWENTY FIVK CKM1
NON-TRANSFERABLE
—>■ COTTON OKD12H
SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS
PR ESCRIBED BY TH E SECRETARY
OP AGRICULTURE
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Cotton order stamps, like the one reproduced here, yrill be is-
sued to farmers cooperating in the new supplementary cotton pro-
gram by reducing their cotton acreage this year. The stamps can
be exchanged for cotton goods at retail stores.
have an animal enter the winter
in good condition and then comc
out in the spring thin and poor. It
takes less feed to maintain an ani-
mal than it does to rebuild and
maintain a run down animal.
Plan to plant sufficient feed this
year to have enough to feed re-
gardless of the kind of weather.
Seedling blights and seedling
decay seriously handicap farmers
in getting good stands of crops,
especially early plantings on wet
cold soils such aa will prevail thia
spring. Fungi and molds attack
germinating seeds and young
seedlings, causing them to rot or
the seedling to be stunted and
weak, resulting in poor stands.
These destructives fungi live in
most stands and most soils. Better
stands of healthier plants mean in-
creased yields.
Materials for treating all kinds
of seeds can be secured from seed
houses and drug stores at very lit-
tle. cost. The application is not dif-
CHICKENS, TURKEYS
Star Sulphurous Compound
Given in water or feed. Des-
troys as they enter the fowl, in-
testinal germs and worms that
cause most of all disease and loss
in egg production. Also rids them
of lice, mites, fleas and blue bugs.
Keeps the appitite good. Then you
will have good, health egg-produc-
ing fowls and strong baby chicks.
Costs very little. Money back if
not satisfied. For Sale by Kend-
rick'& Horn Drug Co.
If You Need It—Then We Sell It!
Hand Tools
Plow Points Shovels ,
Rakes and Hoes
Nuts and Bolts * Wood and Coal Stoves
Electrical Supplies Paint and Varnish
J. I. Riddle & Co.
—Hardware Department—
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CONTEMPLATE BUILDING
OR REMODELING?
Come to see un. We can advise you on your
Financial and Building plans.
OIL FIELD LUMBER CO.
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PLANTING COTTON SEED
We have in stock ready for delivery:
California Registered Acala
Hurley Registered Rowden
Texas Special Registered Mebane
We also have a limited quanity of
Macoupin Soy Bean Seed
FERTILIZERS, TOO!
Munger Cotton Oil Co.
Life at College
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This is a college girl studying.
Frances Hussey of SommerviUe,
N. J., is one of a Barnard Col-
lege group studying automobiles
in New York in preparation for
work as mechanics in event of a
- national emergency.
ficult, and the increase in crop
yields will mora than offset the
small cost of material and labor
required for seed treatment for
seedling diseases.
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Kite Flying Time
Is Here...
and BOYS, wo want
you to have your fun
...but It's Dangerous
.. to fly your kit# near on
electric line. It's DANGER-
OUS to use wire of any
kind for string. It's DAN-
GEROUS to recover your
kite that becomes tangled
in electric wires. Call our
lineman and he will help
get your kite back.
Batter IE SAFE Than SORRY!
Texas-New Mexico
CoJHfUHUf.
Protect Plants and String less Beans Are No. 1 B'-Stone Fruit
Trees From Frost Food Cro"in Sma"Garde"
COLLEGE STATION, March 13.
(Spl.)—Beware frost these early
March days. Thers is always a
chance it will appear suddenly and
wreck hopee for peaches and ten-
der vegetables just .beginning to
nmw their life cycle*.
Frost damages plants by freei-
ing the water in the small cells
which compose t.h« leaves, buds
and fruit, says .J. F. Rosborough,
Extension Service horticulturist at
A. and M. College. Freezing, suc-
ceeded by thawing, breaks down
the cell structure and may badly
injure, or even kill the parts af-
fected. Sudden thawing is as
harmful as freezing.
General ways of protecting
plants from frost are conserving
heat; by stirring the air, and by
adding heat.
Roil releases heat at night, but
if it is conserved there will be no
damage. This may be done by cov-
ering the ground with various ma.
terials. Glass is one of the best
known, since it allows the incom-
ing rays of the sun to penetrate
freely hut is almost impervious to
heat leaving the earth.
Rather heavy, closely woven
cloth laid directly over garden
truck or lo wgrowlng plants is ef-
fective in protecting against mod-
erate frost. Heavy paper, or sever-
al thicknesses of newspaper, laid
over plants also protect. Spraying
trees with water as protection
against frost has been proved im-
practicable.
Heating the lower air to replace
that lost by radiation is considered
the most practical method of frost
prevention. This generally i ob-
tained from a large number of
small fires scattered over the area
to be protected'. The fires definite-
ly will warm the nlr within 40 feet
of the ground as much as eight to
ten degrees, provided high winds
do not exist.
A large number of small fires is
more effective than fewer large
fires. A smudge pot to each tree,
or a pile of burning wood to each
tree is best.
Beulah Farmer Sure
As to Worth of Peas
One of the staunch supporters
of blackeye peas as en extra
4monev crop In Limestone county
is E. S. Ellis of the Beulah com-
munity, a few miles northeast of
Thornton.
□lis planted peas last year as a
soil builder and not for the mar-
ket. But when the market opened
Jie decided to harvest his peas,
Just to find out if he could make
anything out. of them.
"I had planted the third rows in
my 20 acres of corn in peas," Ellis
said, "and had also planted about
three full acres of pea? to build
up the soil in anther field. I havsn
always planted peas as a soil
builder, and believe, it is about
the best crop for this purpose.
"After the market, opened for
peas, I harvested mine and sold
them. To my surprise, I received
more than $200 for the crop. This
was an average of more than $20
per nere on a crop that 1 hadn't
even planted to sell."
Ellis, along with the rest of the
Various Lines
Bound Greater
City of Boston
BOSTON (U.R)— When a visiter
asks how large "metropolitan Bos-
ton" is, it is more than likely he
will he answered with another
question : "What Metropolitan
Boston do you mean?"
There are altogether more than
12 different divisions known as
Metropolitan Boston, the smallest
of them containing 14 communi-
ties and the largest containing 80
cities and towns.
The different districts are the
result of smaller communities be-
ing linked to Boston to obtain a
water supply more efficiently and
cheaper or to co-ordinate other
services. Most of the communities
co-operate with Boston along busi-
ness lines but refuse to be joined
to The Hub in ventures that would
bring them under the city's higher'
taxes and property assessment*.
■ Among the Metropolitan Boa-
ton* commonly mentioned are the
areas served by the Boston Plan-
ning commission, The Boston
Postal district, the Metropolitan
transit commission, the Metro-
politan police, the Metropolitan
Water Division, the Metropolitan
Park District and the. New Eng-
land Telephone and Telegraph
company.
None of the. districts is simular
In another and none is absolute.
The commonly accepted division,
however, is that of the planning
commission which contains 43
cities and towns.
Tha Texas Hairy Products As-
sociation will meet in Fort Worth
April 9 and 10.
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Turkey eggs should be gather-
ed at least twice a day, and three
cr four times a day is better.
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In a frozen food locker, if tem-
peratures rise abova zero, odors
may transfer from one to another.
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Texas ranked third among all
tha states in the number of fed-
eral credit unions established in
1940. The Farm Credit Adminis-
tration issued 131 charters in
Ne wYork, 76 In Pennsylvania, and
55 in Texas.
farmers in his vicinity, had a dis-
couraging cot'on crop last year,
making only two bales of cotton on
22 acres of band. "I made more
money on my peas than I did on
my cotton," he declares.
Kllis* experience with the black-
eye pea market, and scores of
other farmers who reported sim-
ilar results, are the chief reason
for the big increase in pea acreage
expected this year, according to
promoters of the crop,
Travis Lattner, of the T.*Hner A
Fer.n'tt partnership which pro-
moted and bought last year's crop
urges farmers who are planning
to plant peas for the market thi*
year to do so between April 1
and April 20. Peas planted in
April should come on the market,
before the California crop ma-
tures, ho explained. This assures
local farmers a price advantage
in selling their peas.
Beans are the No. 1 food crop of
the small home gardens. The scien-
tists express this value by laying
that they contain vitamins A, B, C
and D, proteins 2.3%. fats .8%, car-
bohydrates 7.4%, and seven of the
minerals which are beneficial in
the diet There are 184 calories in
a pound of beans, so if you are so
minded you can figure out Just why
beans are so nutritious.
If the flavor of food is more in-
teresting than its laboratory rating,
then grow your own beans and pick
them when half grown. You will
understand, then, why the French
serve "string beans" as a separate
course, and epicures rave about
them. Beans of this quality, how-
ever, are not obtainable In markets;
they are strictly • home garden
product.
For the American home garden
the "string" bean is obsolete. Only
a "stringless" bush variety should
be grown. These are now available
In fotir types: Hound and flat green
pods; round and flat wax pods.
As between these types, there is
no definite difference in flavor and
tenderness, when served on the
table. Market buyers in recent
years show a preference for green
pods; but the home gardener may
follow his own taste, or grow both
for variety.
Flat pod beans give a heavier
yield in some localities, but round
pods are preferred by many good
cooks, though not for any reason
they can put in words It would
seem to be just a matter of taste.
Earliest bush beans will mature
In 48 days. Pole beans take at
least two weeks longer. Both the
bush and pole beans may be eaten
when half grown; indeed they are
at. their best at this staee. It is
one of the greatest advantages of
the home gardener that he can har-
vest. his crops at their most deli-
cious stage, which in nr^ny cases
is in their babyhood.
Pole beans give a heavier yield
than bush; but besides being later,
most of them develop strings when
thev mature. A row of Kentucky
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gtrlngtees Bush Beans Are -
Tops In Quality.
Wonder on • fence will provide
many delicious servings in the late
summer, if one is careful to pick
the long pods before they have gone
too far.
All beans are tender and should
never be sown until the ground is
warm and frosts have ended. They
need room to develop, at least si*
inches in the row and 18 inches
between the rows.
In the home garden it is possible
to gather beans from the first plant-
ing through the garden year, though
the later yield will be smaller than
the first. By successive plantings,
heavy yields of bush beans may be
obtained until killing frosts arrive,
Liberal feeding will repay well in
growing beans. A balanced plant
food should be applied to the bean
patch at, the rate of 4 pounds to 100
square feet, after the ground has
been prepared and before the seed
is planted. Rake it lightly into the
top soil so that water will dissolve
it and carry it down to the plant
roots, making it immediately avail-
able to the young plants.
Erosion Found to Cost
Farmers in Livestock
AMES, la. (U.R)—.When erosion
rips away the farmer's soil, it also
take* away some of his livestock.
A survey of a selected group of
farms in Adair county, Iowa,
shows that badly eroded farms
have considerably les livestock
than farms with little erosion, re-
ports John A. Hopkins, aericul
tural economist at Iowa. State Col-
lege.
There is also r. jrrrit difference
in the kind of livestock raised, he
said.
"Acreages and yield* of corn
and soybeans were lower on the
eroding farms, and total feed pro-
duction was smaller," Hopkins ex-
plained, "Because of lower jrr*in
yields the eroding hilly farm* bad
a larger proportion of h«y and
pasture."
FARMERS!
FIDELITY NOW!
FIDELITY FERTILIZERS
have been the Texan favorite for
nearly 40 years because:
1. They "put out" easily—don't
clog
2. They give proven results
3. They arc always uniform
Always
Get
FIDELITY!
FERTILIZERS
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for
Results
Ask about your
'Help Cotton Farmers"
FREE Bandana
Mexia Grain Co.
MEXIA, TEXAS
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During 1039, approximately 1,.
094,000 dairy milk cans were man-
ufactured for use by dairy farms
and dairy riant* in the United
States.
Group Will Hold
Next Mppf March I
24 in Groesbeck
Hi Stone Fruit (rrqwers
Monday night jr, the T agu« h<eh
•chool building with President I,
L Caper* presiding.
R H. Waldrop of Teague mad*
a talk concerning opportuniti°*
offered in this eet.iori to fruit
grower* and J. E. Taekett, Troup,
Texas, gave his view* on market-
ing of fruit, and vegetables.
W, E. Lasseter. ^ optional' se-
riculture teacher of Mexia high
school, told the group of tha des-
tructive habits and control of tha
fruit curculio. H. W, Koehn of
Mexia, discussed the best site*
for orchards and T B Connell,
Teague. gave instruction on bovr
to control tree diseases.
A round-table discussion of fer-
tilization for fruit trees concluded
the night's program.
Attending were Ray McGm, W.
E Lasseter, E B Lightsey, Jack
Pstton, L. T . Co*, H. W. Koehn,
Mexin; .1. M. Kiser, H- T. iaal,
Carl Slack, T. B Connell, J. B.
Connell, R. H Waldrop, Walter H.
Casey, Mack Glanton, Bedford
Kilgore, O. .T, Larkin, S. L. Bryant
and L C. Holloway, Teague.
Others tt«nding were Fustoit
Taekett,' Troup; J. E. Taekett,
Troup, Mrs. F W. Rankin, P. R.
Culwell, W. M. .Tones, and Mrs.
W. M ,'ones, all of TahuacSns and
Henry Broun, Addie Orand. of
Fairfield.
The group voted to hold thair
next fruit-growers' meeting on
March 24 in Groesbeck.
Farmers
Live Stock Vaccines
Live Stock Remedies
Sprays for Fruit Tree#
Home Redemise
Prescriptimis
iTidwells
Ph. 483-484 Mexia
WE WANT PEAS!
We will have a large thrasher running
full lime in Mexia. and will buy your
peas as you bring them in.
Peas are a profitable CASH crop. Ask
the farmers who have tried it.
Peas can be planted, harvested and
sold from "government aeres" without
interfering with your conservation
check.
Lattner &
Thornton, Texas
USED TRUCKS
We havp on hand several exceptional value# tn ub*<$
pick-ups and trucks. Let us show them to you before
you buy.
—PHONE —
Mexia Machinery Company
Welch Rid*.
Sec us also for Lone Star Fertiliser
Mexia, Texa«
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Stewart, A. M. The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, March 14, 1941, newspaper, March 14, 1941; Mexia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299700/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gibbs Memorial Library.