Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 19, 1934 Page: 3 of 8
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CROW MORE LEMS'
IS YEJUI PIETERS
URGES SOUTH FIRIERS
Washington.—Reduction of
cotton and tobacco acreage af-
fords a ready-made oppoituni-.
ty for making a large-scale
demonstration of lespedeza as
a valuable crop in the Cotton
Belt and in the southern part
of the Corn Belt. This is the
opinion of Dr. A. J. Pieters of
the U. Sw Department of Agri-
culture, in charge of forage
crop investigations.
With millions of acres of cot-
ton land withdrawn from pro-
duction, Dr. Pieters is recom-
mending strongly the seeding
of iespedeza on many of these
acres, and the use of their crop
in accordance with the provi-
sions of the cotton contract
The contract permits the grow-
ing of crops on rented acres
for soil improvement and ero-
sion prevention, and in feeding
livestock producing products
for family use only. "Take
this opportunity,” Dr. Pieters
advises southern farmers, "to
find out for yourself what
Iespedeza can do for your
fields. Lespedezs is s soil
building crop that will grow
on poor acid soil. It will grow
better on good soil. On either
it will improve the soil and
make the fields more profita-
ble in following years.”
“This year, or any year,” he
continues, ''iespedeza would
be worth while if it did no
more than prevent erosion, the
loss of the top soil by washing.
But Iespedeza will do much
more than that We have been
getting reports from hundreds
of practical farmers who give
us before-and-after records of
fields seeded ti Iespedeza. K
is on the basis of this kind of
records that we are urging
farmers to plant Iespedeza this
spring.”
On a North Carolina farm.
Dr. Pieters says, Iespedeza was
seeded on oats in the spring of
1.929. It reseeded and came
again when oats were seeded
in 1930 and 1931. The oat
yields reported by this fanner
were: in 1929. 23 bushels; in
1930. 43 bushels; and in 1931,
77 bushels per acre. Another
farmer followed the same sys-
tem for four years, from 1928
to 1931. The yields were, 28,
48, 69, and 81 bushels of oats.
These records are not the re-
sult of carefully controlled
test* Dr. Pieters concedes
that favorable seasons may
have cansed some of the differ-
ences in yield. But the De-
partment has received so many
reports of great benefit from
introducing Iespedeza into the
rotation in the regions where
it grows well, that the forage
specialists are confident that
many other farmers would
profit by seeding more lespe-
cezn than they do.
Lespedeza is good for pas-
ture, good for hay, good as a
soil improving crop, and good
to check erosion. As a crop it
has one unusual feature in
that It will reseed itself from
year to year without becom-
ing a troublesome weed. When
planted as a soil improving
crop it can remain on the land
for one, two, three, or more
years, producing a crop each
year from a single towing, and
when it is turned under it will
cause a substantial increase in
the yields of corn, cotton, or
small grains, says I>r. Pieters.
What the practical can
wants to know, the forage ex-
perts realize, is whether it will
pay to nse lespedeza for soil
improvement. Dr. Pieters isn’t
trying to offer exact figures,
because these vary from year
to year. “But suppose,” he
says, "a farmer pays 10 cents
a pound for iespedeza seed
and sows 25 pounds per acre
on winter oats this spring. Sup-
pose, further, he leaves the
field for two years without
other return than the first
giaia crop, and then puts it j
into cotton and harvests a half ■
bale pe.- acre more thar. he
would have if he had not
grown lespedeza. Even with a
low price for cotton this extra
half bale will be worth from
815 to 820, a substantial profit
on the investment of 82.50 two
yean before. As a matter of
fact, we have had many re-
ports of increases of more
than a half bale per acre in
cotton following lespedeza.
Tor the land’s sake,’ plant
lespedeza.”
There are several varieties
of annnal lespedeza. The coun-
ty agent, the State experiment
station, or the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture will rec-
m_____
COD-LIVER OILS
The knowledge of the im-
portance of Vitamin D in the
nutrition Gf both human beings
and animals has been steadily
increasing since its discovery
a little over ten years ago.
Since then, cod-liver oil, which
is one of the richest sources of
this vitnmin, has been exten-
sively used for feeding pur-
especially for poultry.
omtnend seed for any specific
farm. (Korean lesnedeza ma-fconsumed1 by the chickens of
America than by children.
Its use is the secret of raising
poultry successfully in confine-
ment and securing high win-
ter egg production.
Cod-liver oil is supplied to
the poultry raiser in several
different forms, and success in
his enterprise may depend up-
on the proper selection and
use of these oils.
It must be remembered that
plain cod-liver oils vary great-
ly in their vitamin D potency.
Some are potent in this impor-
tant factor, and some have very
little of it.
There is no simple test for
vitamin D. The only way to
determine the amount of it in
a given quantity of oil is to
measure its effect on living
animals. Oils assayed for their
vitamin D content in this way
are called "biologically test-
ed” oils. Rats and chicks are
used for this purpose, but ob-
viously chicks are best when
the oil is to be used for poultry
feeding. It is safe to use, at
the level recommended by the
manufasturer, oils that have
been assayed with chicks, but
one may run risks with oils not
so tested.
‘'Fortified” cod-liver oils are
also available. These oils are
prepared by adding to plain
farm. (Korean lespedeza ma-
tures early and is best north of
northern Tennessee and in
western North Carolina. It is
not the kind for the far South.
Kobe and Tennessee T* are
varieties of common and are
best from Kentucky south-
ward.
Lespedeza serecia is a
perennial, and a promising
crop. But the seed is still ex-
pensive and the Department is
not ready to recommend it so
vigorously as it does the plant-
ing of the older varieties of
lespedeza on acres withdrawn
from production of other crops
this year.
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5he Could Hardly Work
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cod-liver oil a vitnmin D con-
centrate extracted from cod-
liver oil. By this process the
nt?mia D content of the oil is
inn eased and standardized so
that much smaller quantities
nre needed. Transportation
and other expenses are there-
fore reduced.
Fortified cod-liver oils ere
suitable for home mixing.
They are also suitable for use
in mechanically mixed feeds
put out by feed manufactur-
ers, and many nse this type of
oil in their products.
Fifteen Varieties of
Vegetables Produced
In Small Garden Plot
Fort Worth.—In her first
year eooperator’a garden, 25x8
feet, Clara Long of the Hendon
gril’s 4-H club planted 15 va-
rieties of vegetables which in-
cluded white butter beans,
speckled butter beans, string
beans, tomatoes, lettuce,
radishes, turnip greens and
mustard, according to the re-
port of Miss Mae Belie Smith,
assistant home demonstration
agent of Tarrant county. From
her garden Clara has canned
13 quarts of vegetables and 11
quarts of piekles and relishes
besides 3 quarts of fruit and 2
quarts of fruit juice. She fig-
ured her garden produced 374
pounds valued at 820.
From Friday’s Daily.
Miss Alma Reeves of Wesla-
co is in the city for a visit with
her sister. Mrs. E. H. Adams
and family.
Ernest Weaver of Center
was a business visiter in the
city for a short while Thurs-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Terry of
Kilgore attended the funr-a.
of their relative, Mr. Tol Shep-
herd today. Mr. Shepherd
passed away at his home in
this city Thursday.
Eurone today is like a boil
that will not come to a head.
—Hendrik Willem Van Loon.
Am your b«a
Improve*, ;
. ho tur« j
is they birr feat after ■
€o*Mol to *oi4 at <Lng at
WEATHER .... what to do
The lowest temperatures in
years have been freezing us up
in the East. In my home town
the thermometer crept down
to 18 below and cuddled up in
the bulb.. Steam-heated city
folks think such cold is terri-
ble. They have forgotten how
to wear wool.
There is nothing unheah)
about cold weather for most
folks in regions wbe-e it pre-
vails. Its principal drawback
is that it makes the automobile
useless. The old reliable horse
and the span of oxen come into
their own in New England
winters.
An occasional frostbite
doesn’t worry rural folk who
have "holed up” for the
winter, with plenty of salt
pork and cider in the cellar
and forty cords of birch and
oak in the woodshed. If they
can’t get out to the movies,
and the R. F. D. carrier is de-
layed by snowdrifts, they can
at least gossip with the neigh-
bors over the telephone. That’s
the way our ancestors lived
for three hundred years in
America, and we are just as
resistant as they were, if we
only thought so.
• • •
PLANS......for economy
I hear a lot of talk about a
"planned economy" for the
United States. I have observ-
ed the planned economy of
Italy at first hand. I have read
about the planned economy of
Russia and Mr. Hitler's effort
to introduce something of the
sort in Germany. Hie general
idea, as applied to the United
States, leaves me cold.
Every imaginative man has
at times thought of or been im-
pressed by the idea that this
would be a perfect world if
everybody would cooperate for
the common good. 3o it would
be, but try and make’ em. The
only way any sort of planned
economy can be imposed on
any people is by force, as the
examples I have mentioned in-
dicate.
As long as great groups of
people disagree with the plan,
or have other plans of thoir
own, there isn’t _ny way to
put any national plan into ef-
fect exeept by force. I haven t
heard any one suggest that,
and I am sure that Americans
would never tolerate methods
which have worked in other
countries. We’ll continue to
"muddle through” as indi-
vidualists.
• • •
MAPS.......from the air
I never knew what my
farm looked like until a few
months ago, when one of my
wealthier neighbors who owps
a great deal mote land than I
do, and wanted to develop part
of it for summer homes, en-
gaged an aerial photographer
to map tho whole township
from the air. He gave a print
to our village public library,
where it is about the most in-
teresting display.
There is only one way to
find out just what each farm
has on it, and that is by an
aerial photographer. So the
Federal Government proposes
to map great farm areas that
way, as a part of its domestic
allotment program. It may
have other effects, also. In
one Connecticut town a few
years ago an aerial map dis-
closed a dozen or more houses
and buildings which had been
overlooked by the tax asses-
sors!
Anyway, air maps are quick-
er and cheaper and far more
comprehensive than any other
methods of surveying, and I
look for their general adop-
tion.
PRESIDENT-----------
"Black Sam” Fraunces, who
was the steward of the Presi-
dent's household when George
Washington lived in Cherry
Street, New York, before the
national capital was moved to
the District of Columbia, paid
no attention to the Gneeral’s
remonstrances against the
luxury of the Presidential
table.
“He may discharge me, he
may kill me if he will, but
while he is President of the
United States, and I have,the
honor to be his steward, his es-
tablishment shall be supplied
with the best of everything the
whole country can afford,”
said Sam,
LATfST
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• ON TEXAS FARMS •
By W. H. Darrow, Extension •
Service Editor •
I have frequently said, by
word of mouth and in print,
that we in America are losing
respect lor the office of Presi-
dent. We do not pay the
President a big enough salary;
France pays hers three times
ss much and demands far less
of him. .1 think it is one of the
weaknesses of s democracy
that we think of the man,
rather than the office he
holds. As a man no one is
entitled to more respect than
another of equal character;
but I would like to see the
President, as such .held in
such high respect that, by re-
flection, the Government of
which he is the head is looked
up to, rather than held in con-
tempt.
• v •
LINDBERGH.....and wife
The more I see and read
about Col. Lindbergh and hid
wife, the less respect I have
for the horde of notoriety-
seekers who get their names
and pictures in print so fre-
quently and who try to cash
in on the publicity which their
antics bring them. Most of
them are completely lacking
in the qualities which, taken
together, make up what Is
called character.
My principal grievance is
that silly people are so widely
misled into admiration for
mere notoriety, that children
grow up thinking clowns more
important personages than se-
rious intelligent men and
women. That, of course, has
always been true of human
nature, a fact which accounts
for the ease with which clowns
get themselves elected to pub-
lic office and the difficulty the
honest man of character has
to face if he goes into politics.
Lindbergh and his wife are
flyers, the best flyers in the
w orld. They do not pose in
public when they can avoid it,
and they do not talk for pub-
lication about anything but
their work, and pot much
about that. I have the great-
est admiration for these two
young Americans and rank
them far above almost every-
body else whose name gets
into the papers.
It has been well said that
woman, always style conscious,
plunges head first into a new
style season, which means
literally that a new hat is
usually first in her selections.
Designers and fashion pace-
setters of millinery have been
scrambling wildly for weeks
and had first spring models on
display before the holiday sea-
son ended.
Off-the-face models have
the lead as this written. The
small little creations have been
shaped from satins and ribbons
and may be worn with winter
ensembles without disrupting
smartness. Such early felts as
have been shown run to lighter
colors and thereby make their
claim to being early spring
hats.
The hats shown in the sketch
above display excellent uses
of satin and grosgrain ribbon.
Designers agree that we may
see little Puritan poke bonnets
develop from the off-face
styles at an early date. The
models shown above are but
forerunners of regiments of
new models now on their way
for the Spring season.
BITS O’ PHILOSOPHY
Dean E. V. White, Texas State
College for Women (CIA)
Stand on your feet, and yon
will not get down in the
mouth.
• * •
The weak do not recover
from attending college,
For dressing well a whole
year on $17.35, Mrs. O. L.
Howard, wardrobe demonstra-
tor for Oak Home Demonstra-
tion Club in Ellis county, gives
credit to careful planning and
the use of a foundation pat-
tern.
• • •
The cost of insuring a steady
milk flow from his dairy cows
was 81-02 per ton for 80 tons
of seeded ribboa cane buried
in a trench silo, Dr. J. G.
Daniels, dairy demonstrator at
Gilmer, has reported to the
county agent. “My two trench
silos are worth more than any
other improvements on my
form,” he says.
» • •
To improve the quality of
sheep, goats and poultry, and
to wage active warfare against
predatory animals and thieves
which prey upon this class of
stock, 47 Brown county farm-
ers and ranchers have organ-
ized a sheep, goat and poultry
improvement association. A
government trapper has been
hired and rewards will be of-
fered for arrest snd conviction
of thieves, the county agent re-
ports.
• • •
Sheep have paid for a nine-
room. two-stery Frick house on
the farm of O/A. Peterson in
Denton county, without inter-
fering, he says, with his other
farm activities. Sheep have
kept down the weeds on the
528-acre farm, and greatly im-
proved the pastures.
* • •
After raising a garden and
canning 247 quarts of vege-
tables. besides helping three
neighbors with their canning.
Pearl Lee, Haskell county 4-
H club girl, finds that she has
produced $60 worth of food.
“But it would have cost lots
more than that if we had
bought it," she adds.
FUNERAL OF INFANT
HELD WEDNESDAY
From Friday’s Daily.
The nine-dsv-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. , Prescott passed
away in this city Tuesday
evening at 7:30 o’elock, and
funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’-
clock. The service was con-
ducted by Rev. D. J. Collins at
tbe home of Mr. and Mrs.
Hayden Hawthorn, parents of
Mrs. Prescott. Burial was in
Woodlawn cemetery.
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Science says Today
use a LIQUID Laxative
If you want to GET JUD of Contttpatkm worrits—
Any hucpital often evidence ol tie
hens done by harsh laxatives that
drain the eye tern, weaken tbe bowel
muscles, end in erne cases even
affect the liver sod kidneys.
A doctor will tell yon that the
unwise choice of laxatives is a com-
mon cense of chronic constipation.
Fortunately, the public is test
returning to the use of laxatives
in liquid fenn
A properly-prepared liquid laxa-
tive brings e perfect movement.
There is no diwomfort at tbe time
aad no weakness after. You don’t
have to take "e double dose” s day
or two later.
In baying any laxative, flfaaqp
nod the label. Not the claims, but
the contents. If it contains one
drubtiul drag, don’t take H.
*f)r. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is a
prescriptions! preparation in which
it ere are no mineral drugs. Its in-
gredients ire on tbe label. By using
it. yon avoid danger
You can keep the I
of bowel strain.
and comfortable: yon
constipated speHa as rasa ae colds.
Tit* liquid tilt:
This test has proved to many n
and women that their tranhia t
not "weak bowels," bat itn
cathartics:
tire. 2 Take tbe does yon find ■
suited to your system. 3. Graduafiy
red ore tbe dose until bomb are
moving regtdariy wilbont any naed
Syrup pepeia has tba highest
standing among liquid laxatives,
aad is the one generally used. It
contains senna, a natural laxative
which is perfectly sale for
the youngest chad. Yoof
druggist has Dt Cald-
well’s Syrup Pepsin.
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