The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, June 13, 1947 Page: 3 of 10
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THE CLIFTON RECORD, CLIFTON, TEXAS, JUNE 13. 1947
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AUCTIONS IMPROVE LIVESTOCK
PRICES IN CENTRAL TEXAS
“It’s easier for my husband to miss
a Sunday dinner than one of these
sales at the livestock barn,” said Mrs.
H. L. Morgan of China Spring.
The auctions in Central Texas are
camparatively unknown to some city
dwellers, but to Central Texas farmers
and stockmen they are more impor-
tant than lodge night to the small
towners or circus day to the young-
sters.
Outgrowth of Early Days
Particularly common in Central
Texas, sales barns are just what the
name implies—places where farmers
of the surrounding communities can
county enjoy one of the best markets
to be found anywhere in the State.
Nearly all classes of cattle and calves
bring as good price at the auction
ring as any market in the State, with
one exception, heavy slaughter -steers
do not move as well. Most local kill-
ers and shippers buy cows, yearlings
and butcher calves to provide their
trade.
Central Texas have many good live-
stock auction sales. Hillsboro sale
was organized in 1939 and according
to reports, enjoys a nice business.
C. S. Simons, one of the old-time
stockmen of Central Texas, after
many years dealing in cattle around
Waco, organized the Calvert Livestock
auction in 1938.
Bradstreet’s Best Growing
Bradstreet Gin and Feed Mill.
Cakes for all occasions
I Haugen’s “Art
gather to auction off anything they ^^^Kuykendall operates a fine
Cliftos. As a rule the bulk of
Soil Conservation News
The Bosque Soil Conservation Dis-
trict Supervisors recommend terraces
on cropland with 2 per cent slope or
over.
When rain falls on a cultivated hill-
side some water evaporates and some
soaks into the soil. The remainder
runs downhill with a speed that de-
pends upon the steepness of the slope
and the resistance to the flow of
water that is caused by vegetation
and other barriers. During a rain the
volume of water rushing over suc-
cessively lower portions of a slope is
greater and greater, because to the
rain that falls farther down the slope
is added the water that flows down to
that point from higher up the hillside.
As the water runs downward it
gathers speed. As this continuously
enlarging volume of water travels
down the slope at an ever-increasing
speed, its cutting and carrying power
increases. Much soil, and even large
clods, may be carried down the slope
with the rushing water.
Terraces can be placed across the
path of this water. They break the
long slope and change the direction of
the flow of water. Each terrace chan-
nel forms a waterway that conducts
water slowly off the field. This pre-
vents the accumulation of a large
volume of rapidly moving water and
the consequent loss of a large amount
of fertile topsoil.
Terraces do not completely stop
t}ie movement of soil. There is con-
siderable soil movement downhill be-
tween terraces; but by slowing the
speed of runoff water, terrace chan-
nels cause the water to drop at least
a part of its load of soil particles. The
heavier particles drop out first, and
although soil movement may not be
stopped entirely, most of the soil re-
mains in the field.
Terracing alone does not adequate-
ly protect a field against erosion. It
ig used most effectively as a part of
a well planned program of soil con-
servation. When combined with con-
tour cultivation, strip cropping, crop
rotation, and the use of a cover crop,
legumes and stubble mulch, these shal-
low-, broad-channel terraces make pos-
sible soil building at a rate that ap-
proaches the rate of soil loss. The
terrace channel, developed and main-
tained by the regular plowing, should
be cropped. Terraces offer no serious
barrier to any farming practice; in
fact, they lay out the fields for com-
panion practices of strip cropping,
contour cultivation and crop rotation.
MISS ORA BELLE HAMPE
HONORED IN GATESVILLE
Honoring Miss Ora Belle Hampe,
bride elect of Calvert Helms, Mrs.
Buddy Biffle entertained with a linen
shower at her home, 1311 Leon Street,
Gatesville, Texas, on June 4th.
A yellow and white color scheme
was carried out in the beautiful table
decorations of gladiolas. These were
later presented to the honoree.
Flowers were also used at other van-
tage points over the house. .
At the conclusion of a contest the
hostess presented a large parcel post
package to Miss Hampe containing a
number of useful asd beautiful gifts.
A delicious salad plate was served
to the following guests: Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Lipsey, Mrs. C. H. Wallace, Misses I
Thelmarene McCarver, Truie and
Thelma McGilvray, Buddy Biffle, Miss
Hampe and Mr. Helms.
FOR RENT—Rooms. Mrs. Erna B.
Murphree, 315 South Ave. F. 17-2tc
have to sell. They are commercial
outgrowth of the farm sales of pio-
neer days, when neighbors gathered
to bid on the property of a farmer
moving on to greener pastures.
The crowd stands or sits in eager
rows around a small ring in the cen-
ter of the barn as the auctioneer'
opess the sale by asking for a bid
on a milk cow. The auctioneer speaks
with triple-tongue double talk.
“Who’ll give me $100? Who’ll bid
me $95? Who’ll give me $90? Ninety-
one, 91 y2, 92, 92%, 93.” The cow final-
ly goes to Tom Anderson or Lee Tor-
rance at $95.
Come for Miles
A small boy holds a bleating kid
he has brought to market. “Baa-a-a,”
went the frightened kid. A farmer
bought him for $1. “Feed him for six
weeks and he’ll make mighty good eat-
ing,” said Stockman A. L. Murphree.
Some bidders come 100 miles. They
eat popcorn and drink soda pop sold
by a cafe in the building.
Some buyers don’t want others to
know what they are bidding. They
wink an eye, or look at the auctioneer
while bidding, but never look his way
if they are not bidding. Some have a
habit ' of waving their hand as if
fighting off a fly from their face.
There are times wnen a good buyer
is not bidding. You may hear the
auctioneer say, “You are going to sit
here and lose a crop,” or he may say,
“Stop that visiting and tend to busi-
ness.”
From best information at hand
Franklin was the first town in Cen-
tral Texas to open a livestock auc-
tion. This was in the year 1934.
In 1935 J. F. Jackson of Groesbeck
opened sale on a lot, had no building,
just roped off a space of ground and
the auctioneer sat on a truck and sold
cattle
The small farmers and the stock-
men had no place to market their
livestock up until that time. They
didn’t have a car load to ship to Fort
Worth or Houston, so the only outlet
was to sell to some trader who ship-
ped.
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sale at Cliftos. As
offerings at this sale consist of bet-
ter grades of cattle than sales located
in the farm areas because Bosque
County stockmen take pride in breed-
ing good cattle.
The same is true at the Hamilton,
Gatesville, Evant and Goldthwaite
sales. They are all located in the
cattle country.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our heartfelt
thanks to our friends and neighbors
who were so kind and helpful during
tlie illness and death of our father,
Charles R. McFadden. We do most IS
sincerely appreciate the beautiful
flowers, kind deeds and loving words ft
of sympathy. When like sorrow jv
comes to you, may you find such
friends to comfort you in your be- tv
reavement. , !•:
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Barton
and Family I j-j
Mr. and Mrs. Ashley A. Seott ft
and Son j
Mr. and Mrs. M. B. (Jack)jtt
Kirton and Son j 8
Clyde McFadden. j ||
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Baldridge, Robert L., Jr. & Baldridge, Mrs. Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, June 13, 1947, newspaper, June 13, 1947; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth779138/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.