The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, June 21, 1940 Page: 7 of 8
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Way, June 21, 1940
The Paducah Post
Page Seven
-OIK RURAL HOME and FARM PAGE —
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STRESS APPLICATIONS PASS
100,000 MARK DURING JUNE
LLEGB STATION, June 21
plications to receive cotton
CM making materials have
1 the 100.000 mark with 119,-
Ml«d in 203 Texas counties
, are participating in the
itBuMg of Agriculture’s pro-
for aiding low income farm
M. Of this number 95,363
already been certified by
^<;Vi r a 1 conservation
HIM eligible to receive
^Wlfcking.
announcing this response,
Ni Horton, vice-director and
SiWlMH demonstration agent
id Tessa A. and M. College
don Service, reported that
ite 10,069 mattresses have
made In the 46 counties to
cotton and ticking have
gp§p These materials
by the Federal
jpdities Corporation,
the program, 1,-
| centers have been
oplicants may gath-
^peratively on mat-
rcselves and their
are completely
organized and will be ready to be-
gin operation upon the arrival of
cotton and ticking.
Commenting on the rapidity
with which Texas communities
have prepared for operation of
centers, Miss Horton paid tribute
to 4,999 women leaders and 2,-
258 men leaders who are volun-
teering their time and services to
enable all eligible families to
benefit from the program.
“These leaders are not receiv-
ing any pay for their services,”
Miss Horton pointed out, “but
they are everywhere being rec-
ognized as ‘good neighbors’ in
their communities.”
AAA Cooperation
Showing Increase
Harvester
H? At A New
V Parma 11 Price!
is adjust-
,111111,, 10 to 68 inches.
S»u smooth 4-
rer, new com-
*eulti-vision.”
|bv-||$|e Biggest
Mipta 1 u e In
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Jack
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COLLEGE STATION, June 21
—With an estimated 40,000,000
acres of cropland and 85,000,
000 acres of rangeland signed
up under the AAA for 1940, of
licials here believe participation
in the program will be the largest
of any year since the program
began.
Latest reports indicate that
more than 414,000 Texas farms
will operate under the Agricul
tural Conservation Program in
1940, an increase over the 1939
participation of nearly 4,000 while
approximately 1,200 a d d i t i onal
ranches will practice range-im-
provement. measures under the
R a n g e Conservation Program,
bringing the number of ranches
cooperating to 26,100.
To these farmers and ranch-
men will go the greater portion
of the $89,000,000 available to
Texas for full participation in
the AAA program, George Slaugh-
ter, chairman of the state commit-
tee, pointed out. Full cooperation
requires planting within soil-de-
pleting acreage allotments and
earning the maximum available
for soil-building arvi range-im-
provement work by adopting spe-
cific conservation practices.
In the range program the en
tire payment is made for con-
servation work done, while in the
farm program part of the pay-
ment is made for soil-building
work and part for taking a por-
tion of the cropland out of soil-
depleting crops.
GOOD NEWS!
TEXAS
■KM
Forty-one civil engineering stu-
dents, receiving their degrees from
the five major Texas colleges in
June, will be employed by the
State Highway Department in the
engineering division in the field.
The students were selected in line
with the .policy employed by the
Department each year.
Try Post Want Ads. They Get
Results.
Phosphorous Is
‘Key To Farming’
COLLEGE STATION, June 21
—“The grass is darker green . . ,
1312 acres of pasture showed 40
percent more grass in the spring
than did untreated, pastures . . .
alfalfa was planted in 1936 on
soil that previously would never
grow tre crop and yielded three to
four cuttings a year .... it is
easy to see the exact line where
the fertilizer was applied because
the grass and clovers were big-
ger and nad a darker color . .
These are excerpts from reports
from farmers demonstrating the
use of TVA phosphate. The dem-
onstrations have been going on
m Texas for the past three years,
M. K. Thornton, Jr., agricultural
chemist of the Texas A. and M.
Extension Service, has announc-
ed.
Phosphorous has been called
the ‘master key to agriculture,’
and applications of phosphates
greatly stimulate growth of nitro-
gen-gathering legumes. Tests by
the Texas Agricultural Experi-
ment Station show that most
Texas soils are deficient in phos-
phorous and nitrogen.
Most of the TVA fertilizer used
in Texas has been of the 45 per-
cent triple superphosphate type,
but the 63 percent metaphosphate
has also been tried. Commercial
superphosphate contains from 16
to 20 percent phosphorous.
The fertilizer was furnished by
the Tennessee Valley Authority
to representative fanners who
agreed to follow a production
plan worked out by their county
agricultural agents and local land
use planning committees. The
demonstrators paid freight and
handling charges.
Good results from use of lime
in combination with the phos-
phatic fertilizer were reported irj
areas east of the Trinity River,
Thorton said.
The effects of the use of the
phosphate in some cases are so
outstanding that they “have to
be seen to be believed,” the chem-
ist noted.
In Brazos County, 13 demon-
strators reported an average farm
net income of $1,710 for the third
year after application as compar-
ed with $830 for the second year.
Demonstrations in the use of
TVA phosphate are being con-
ducted in Cass, Harrison, Shelby,
Newton, Jefferson, Jasper, Rusk,
Red River, Harris, Grimes, Brazos,
Washington, Gonzales, Youn g,
Erath, Eastland, Menard, Rains,
and Mills counties.
Additional demonstrations are
slated to begin this fall in Ange-
lina, Johnson, Refugio, Parker,
Wilson, Fisher and Floyd coun-
ties.
4-H CONTEST
IS UNDER WAY
CLUB MEMBERS VIE
IN ONE-VARIETY
COMPETITION
Twenty-nine Cottle county 4-H
club boys are participating in the
second annual one-variety cotton
contest being sponsored here by
the Quanah Cotton Oil company
G. J. Lane, farm agent, announc-
ed today.
Eeach contestant has received a
three-bushel sack of Western
The Four Bandits of the Cotton Field
By T. Cl RICHARDSON, Associate Editor
Farm and Ranch
No part of the Southwestern
cotton belt is entirely free from
insect depredations and most of
this area is subject to attack by
Mebane 140 cotton seed which all lour of the “cotton bandits,"
was to have been planted on nine
acres of land. Western Mebane
140 is a seed developed by the
at one time or another through
the growing season. Happily
enough we seldom have all four in
Chillicothe experiment station and the same field in the same season,
has been the station’s No. 1 cot-1 but no season passes where they
ton for the past five year. It has ' -
averaged 299 pounds of lint per
acre over a five-year period.
A total of $37.50 will be a-
warded in prizes as follows:
First prize—$12 for the best
all round crop front a standpoint
of stand, cultivation and final
yield.
Second prize—$10 for the
are prevalent without some dam-
age to the crop. Like weeds, they
are a constant threat, and also
like weeds, they can be controlled
ljy the timely use of right meth-
ods.
The cotton flea hopper and the
boll weevil are the most common
and the most dangerous of the
four bandits which are annually
of cotton.
greatest number of pounds of! robbing Southwestern cotton
lint cotton raised on nine acres, j farmers of approximately o n e
Third prize—$8 for the largest1 bale out of eight. They are first
percentage of crop picked. ! in the field, and often appear to-
Fourth prize—$5 for the best gether. The flea hopper is dif-
staple of cotton. I ficult to see unless one is trained
Fifth prize—$2.50 for the best to look for it, but its presence is
per cent of turnout on any bale suggested when the tiny fruit buds
fall off before they grow to be
“squares.” This is often attrib-
uted to lack of moisture or ex-
cess moisture, which may be the
case later in the season when the
plants are loaded with friut, or
take a spurt of growth after a
rain succeeding a dry period. At
early fruiting time, however, the
stalk is not overloaded, and if
it is failing to hold the fruit buds,
both are present, therefore, the
mixture should be used.
A machine which blows the ma-
terial directly into the foliage of
the cotton plants can be had in
various sizes to suit the acreage,
from a hand gun costing $20 or
less to a horse-draw or tractor
machine costing up to $350. It
is a waste of effort and materials
to merely sprinkle it on the plants
with a gunny sack or other make-
shirt.
At early fruiting stage of the
otton (it is important to save
the first fruits, which make the
early crop and best bolls), it re-
quires only a small amount of
dust to thoroughly cover the
plants. At all stages the amount
applied is governed by the size of
the plants and luxuriance of foli-
age, the rule being to get a com-
plete coverage at each application.
311 Cases Served
By WPA Project
Three hundred and eleven of
325 eligible cases in Cottle county
were served through the WPA
surplus commodities project dur-
ing May, accoiding to announce-
ment by R. A. Metcalfe, district
17 commodity supervisor, of Lub-
bock.
Total amount of food distribut-
ed during the past month was
13,074% pounds. One thousand
three hundred and thirty-f o u r
articles of clothing and household
furnishings also were distributed.
Cost to Cottle county, sponsor
of the project, was $63.30 while
the federal aid was $97.50, bring-
ing the total to $160.80.
During 1939, 143,909 new A-
meriean passenger cars valued at
$89,172,300 were exported.
Pre-square poisoning especial-
ly if flea hoppers are present, is
the first battle of the war and
one of the most important, but it
is not enough alone if conditions
are favorable for the multiplica-
tion of the insects. It is well
mown that hot. dry weather re-
duces boll weevil numbers, but
the conditions which bring the flea
hopper into the cotton fields are
not so well understood. Nothing
but close observation in the field
can tell.
DUNLAP NEWS
By Mrs. Claude Stewart
Farmers in this community are
busy finishing planting their
crops.
Miss Ave Leith Smith and Mrs.
ar iff s.lh‘“ fl“
Henderson, Mrs. Roy Powell and1 ^"ls ^nie .1 weevils aie
Mrs. Buck Oldham of Paducah vi-1 conilP£ ou^ °* winter quarters,
sited Mrs. W. H. Mulkey and Ella! fnd, if they are present can usual
Lawhon last Saturday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Cantrell
and children of Earth, Miss Wilma
Miller and a friend of Wichita
Falls, Mr. and Mrs. Roy McClen-
don, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Miller
and children, Mrs. Earl C. Jones
ly be found in the cool of the
day around the terminal buds.
They cannot multiply until squares
are large enough for egg de-
position. Those which die natural-
ly or are killed by poison at this
stage of cotton growth (early
H/Hff
ON
Less than 100 miles from the
University of Texas’ McDonald
Observatory—located on Mount
Locke in the Davis Mountains—
are the oldest living trees on the
North American continent and
possibly in the world. Botanists
say they may be 10,000 years
old. Microscopes must be used
I to see their annual rings.
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Fads Hurt Concern Yotc
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•EN FORUM OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
and Byron Ballard Jr. were Sun-1 fruiting) will never have progeny.
■ -- '“Pre-square poisoning is there-
fore a measure of insurance to
delay heavy summer infestations
of boll weevil.
It is quite practical to dust for
both boll weevils and flea hop-
pers with one operation, using a
day dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. McClendon.
Haden Walters, Logan Walters,
A. P. Tucker and Mr. and Mrs.
Claude Stewart visited Mr. and
Mrs. Lester English last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Finch of
Cee Vee spent Sunday with Mr. 1 mixture of calcium arsenate, one
and Mrs. W. T. Goodgame.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wisenmiller
spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs.
Carl Black.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Whitener and
Mr. and Mrs. Cole Whitener had
dinner with Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Whitener last Sunday.
Misses Margaret Lawhon and
Ave Leith Smith were dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Mulkey and mother last Sunday.
Erma Dell and Iona Tucker, Bil-
lie Goodgame and Bobby Stewart
spent Sunday with James Barrett
Walters.
T. V. Johnson spent last week-
end with Ollie King.
part, and dusting sulphur two
parts. It has been found that
the mixture is more effective
against both insects than the same
materials used alone—calcium
arsenate for boll weevil and. sul-
phur for flea hoppers. When
URS GEORGE 5. » yeats we
froJ to pay {ot oUCS'
• Operates on Butane, Bottled Gas,
Kerosene, as well as Natural Gas
• No moving parts ia its freezing
system
• Silent—new and forever
• Centiaaed Low Operating Cost
J. A. CHRISTIAN & COMPANY
CEE VEE NEWS
>N: WHY IS BEER CALLED
fERAGE OF MODERATION?
>N: DO BEER AND ALE
Raid the farmers?
>N: JUST WHAT ARE BEER
LE MADE OF?
>N: HOW MUCH DO BEER
CONTRIBUTE TO THE COST
fERNMENT?
ION: DO BEER AND ALE
OBS FOR WORKERS?
(ON: HOW OS THE BRteW=
IUSTRY COOPERATING WITH
IlFORCEMENT OFFICERS?
ANSWER: Because beer's alcoholic con*
tent is low. Temperate, moderate nations of the
world... and their people... prefer beer.
ANSWER: Since re-legalization the brew-
ing industry has bought 25,000,000,000 pounds
of farm products. That has helped farmers °..
particularly during the depression years.
ANSWER: Beer is made by a natural fer-
mentation process ... from malted barley and
other grains, hops, yeast, water. Nature makes
beer. The brewer makea it good beer (and ale).
ANSWER: Beer contributes $1,000,000 a
day...$400,000,000 a year...to help pay the
costs of government... local, state and federaL
Everybody benefits from this contribution.
ANSWER: Beer and ale have already made
a million jobs. This employment is wide-spread
... all over the country. More than 100 other
Industries benefit from beer and ale.
ANSWER: The Brewing Industry la tutle«
ly on the aide of law and order. A “self-regula-
tion” plan to eliminate retail abuses has already
been put into effect in a number of states in co-
operation with law enforcement authorities. This
plan is being extended. We would like to tell
you about it. Write for an interesting free
booklet. Address: United Brewers Industrial
Foundation, 19 East 40th Street, New York, N.Y.
By Mrs. Ray Richardson
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Gilly have
returned from Bonham w here
they visited relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Davis
Jr. of Paducah visited Mr. and
Mrs. Clifton Hill last Friday
morning.
Mrs. G. W. Lane left last
week to enter Texas Technological
college at Lubbock for the sum-
mer term.
Mrs. J. B. Merrill of Dallas
is visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. B
Merrill.
Mrs. A. Glover of Oklahoma
City is visiting her son, Bill Glov-
er, and his wife.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Langs-
ford and children have moved to
Odessa.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Boykin
and children and Mr. and Mrs.
W. C. Boykin and children spent
Tuesday of last week in Welling-
ton.
LONGEST
OF TH ELOT!
IrJvtffigG qf moderation
NOTICE
The prica of that good CONO-
CO Keroiene hat been redaced
to
6c Per Gallon
This Kereteae U aapocially
recommended to bo aaad for
Elactrolux Refrigeration.
TOY CONOCO
¥
J. F. POWELL
AGENT
CONTINENTAL OIL CO.
It’s
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tatfcbr
pts ext
Chevrolet for ’40 out-
noosuros all other lowest-
priced cars from front of
grille to roar of body (141-
inches) ... and it also out-
sells afl other makes of
can, roganEoes of price!
Hilt’s tbs biggest package
value In the bualest
■Hhrange; and, of course,
H extra length and extra
rwclghtmeanextra worth to
you, the buyer, In all ways.
j That’s why people are
Laying, “Why pay more?
Why accept leas?’’ That’s
why they’re buying more
jCherroleta than any other
'car, for the ninth time In
the last ten yean!
amours
RRSIMUNr
Ike 1*40 Chevrolet glvea Maher
gaeOty at lew witt... lew Mm
• • • Lew Offllug Coot* ... Lew
Upkeep.
No otfior moOor cor com
■notch Its all-round dol-
lar value
it ■ nr it* but m
Wood-O’Neil Chevrolet Co.
PADUCAH, TEXAS
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Fyke, E. D. The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, June 21, 1940, newspaper, June 21, 1940; Paducah, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth723766/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bicentennial City County Library.