Falfurrias Facts (Falfurrias, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, September 16, 1938 Page: 3 of 6
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FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 16, 193S
FALFURRIAS FACTS
PACE THREE
NEWS FROM
PREMONT
A Complete Coverage Of Southern Jim Well* County
By MILDRED WARKENTIN
Hume Economic}. News
A large group of parents and
teachers enjoyed an Achievement
Day Program given by the Home
Pep Squad Organized
The Premont Pep Squad held a
meeting Monday morning to de-
cide on the year's activities. The
Economics Club of Premont Fri-i*1^ to start the new season
off with a bang! About 10 new
U.S.D.A. Releases Pink
Boll Worm Information
Control Difficult Once place to another anil runs all the
Paine Tn way from 100'^ in some localities
r xt 111 to as 1. w as 15 % or 20% of the
Numbers crop in others. It differs from some
- 1 other cotton pests with which wo
By R. E. McDonald 1 are familiar in that the damage
day afternoon. September 9.
The girls gave Interesting re
ports on what they have accom
pllshed this summer. Misses Mary
Lee Mullholland, Enedlna Barrera
and L&zara Gonzalez presented the
dresses they had made during the
summer. Then the guests made the
rounds of looking at the girls bed-
rooms. First the guests stopped at
Miss Freddie Annen’s home. Miss
Annen made a very nice portable
closet and redecorated her room.
The second stop was made at Miss
Mildred Warkentin’s home and her
room was very attractive fixed in
Mexicah colors Next the guests In-
spected Miss H u 1 d a Jansen’s
project. Her bedroom had been re-
painted and was attractive in pale
blue and white. Miss Theda Wehr-
man’s home was the last stop. Miss
Wehrmans room had been repaint-
ed and the closet had been re-
modeled. Her color combination
for the room was peach and light
blue.
The guests then returned f > the
school house where deUclous Re-
freshments of sandwiches and
punch were served. The girls re-
ceived many compliments on their
work.
You have a very excellent cotton
growing section and it is very ne-
cessary to protect it against any
new pests. This fall a few pink
boll-worms have been found in
Brooks, Kleberg. Nueces, and Jim
Wells Counties. The pink bollworm
Is recognized as being the worst
cotton pest In the world. As yet
you have suffered no damage
whatsoever. The pink bollworm
seems never to do any damage the
first year of its Introduction, be-
cause it takes some time for it to
build up; but once having built up
to injurious numbers It Is exceed-
ingly difficult to control.
In order to best understand h"W
to combat this pest, we have to
understand something abut its life
history. The adult pink bollworm is
a small moth, no larger than a
hi use fly, and these are seldom
Miss Theda Wehrman spent j seen. They fly by night and depos-
Sunday in San Antonio visiting her! it eggs on the fruit of the growing
members have been added this
year and everyone is anxious for
the first game. Lee Tolbert, new
football coach from Robstown, ar-
rived Monday and his reports are
that he will soon have the boys in
good shape.
Important Meeting
The citizens of Premont called a
meeting Wednesday night to dis-
cuss the city water problem.
Bill Laughlin and Morgan Miller
Jr., left for A. & M. College Sun-
day afternoun, September 12.
cousins at Randolph field. Her
cousins are students at Randloph
field.
Mrs. C. T. Jones and Leaman
Jones were in Corpus Christ! Sa-
turday.
Tonor Lobrecht left Monday for
A and M College.
Boy Scout News
The Premont Boy Scout Troop
50 held a court of honor last Wed-
nesday night. Leslie Crabb, district
chairman of Falfurrias, presided
over the ceremony. Jim Evans re-
ceived his Second Class Badge.
Harold Warkentin received a me-
rit badge.
Miss Mary Alice Langen Honored
Miss Grace Canales and Miss A-
delaide Duerksen honored Miss
Mary Alice Langen with a fare-
well party at Engelking Hall on
Thursday night.
The color scheme was blue and
white. Menus arranged in the
form of little books were attractive.
On the cover was the caption “Col-
lege Bookshop." On the inside it
said, Mary Punch, Alice Cheese
Sandwiches, Langen Ham Sand-
wiches, Hick olives, and Slow kiss-
es The sandwiches were in the
form of books and diploma’s.
Guests were MLss Leola Franz,
Miss Mary Lee Mulholland, Miss
Genevieve Barrera. Mr. and Mrs.
Ed. Hope. August Van Meter, Bill
Speer, Paul Glover, Bruce and Roy
Thomas, Homer and Herbert Bar-
rera, honoree and hostesses.
Quite a number of guests at-
tended the American Legion pie
supper last Friday night.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Fast and Mrs.
J. S. Warkentin, who have spent
the past week in Oklahoma, re-
turned this week.
Mrs. W. J. Thomas of Corpus
Christl is visiting her relatives
here this week.
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SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK
San Antonio, Sept. 12: Hogs, re-
ceipts 70o. Market active and gen-
erally 25c higher than late last
week. Packing sows about steady.
Top $8.50 to all interests for most
good to choice 175 to 230-lb. of-
erings. G< od to choice 160 to 175-
lhs. $8.25 to $8.60, 140 to 160-lbs.
$7.50 to $8.25, and 230 to 300-lbs.
$7.75 to $s.60. Packing sows mostly
$6.50 and down. Few stocker pigs
around $6.75.
Cattle, receipts 600; calves, 1,100.
Receipts light because r f scattered
rains. Trading more active than
late last week on most classes.
Stocker calves and some cows
strong to 15c higher, spots 25c
higher. Most < ther classes fully
steady with late last week, spots
higher, especially on medium
slaughter calves.
Steers scarce. Bulk of plain and
medium light weight grass year-
cotton. These eggs hatch into
worms which grow to full size in
less than 10 days. These worms
change it<> pupae and on into
moths in about 30 days from the
time the egg is laid; and these
newly hatched moths, of course,
proceed to lay more eggs. The pink
bollworm propagates on squares
and blooms, but it much prefers
the green bolls. Infested green
bolls although they may have a
dozen worms in them, show ho
outward symtoms until the worm
is ready to leave the boll when an
exit hole Is cut. But they fail to
open normally and many produce
no cotton at all. The amount of
damage the insect does to the cot-
ton crop varies, of course, tr< m one
that it does in a given locality is
rather uniL rm from year to year,
after It becomes well established.
The insect seems to be more or
less Independent of weather condi-
tions during the growing season.
Stages Of Evolution
It was stated above that this in-
sect goes from the egg to the a-
dult in about 30 days. We need to
understand how it passes from one
seasi n to another. Some worms,
instead of changing immediately
from the worm stage to the adult,
curl up, spin a web around them-
selves and go into hlliernatlon, and
remain there dormant for a li ng
time. The worm may hibernate,
and often does, Inside the hull of
a single cpttonseed which it has
hollowed i ut, or it may drop out
of the boll and go into the ground,
or any other convenient place; but
me st of them are either in the
seed or in the ground. We do not
know exactly what causes them to
go into hiberanation, but we do
kn<w that the majority do not go
Into this condition until toward
fall when the cool nights set in.
It was formerly believed that
the only method of eradicat-
ing this pest from an area, even
lightly Infested, was by means of
a non-cotton zone; but we found
that It can be eradicated, in some
cases at least, by making an area
free of living cotton plants during
the spring or during the fall; thus
giving the peat a starvation period
for a part of the year and during
warm weather. This is a rather
simple pneedure and does not in-
terfere with farming operations,
because in most localities we have
time to produce and harvest a cot-
ton cri p and have some warm
months to spare. We have succeed-
ed in eradicating the pest by this
method in many cases. Obviously,
we can not kill all of the worms by
this procedure. Therefore, this
plan will not work so well when we
have a heavy infestation. Condi-
tions are very favorable In the
coastal bend area to carry out this
plan, and It Is believed that with-* 1
the light infestation we have It
will be successful.
Planting Delay Impractical
In this area It does not seem
be practical to delay planting in
the spring in order to give the pink j
bollworm a starvation period then.
The rainfall In your area Is such
that it is necessary to start the
crop off fairly early in the spring.
Fortunately, It is harvested early,
giving time to destroy the living
plants, thus giving the worms a
starvation period in the fall.
Therefore, it Is necessary to kill
completely the c> tton plants in all
of this area as early as we possibly
can. We are informed that the
State of Texas will promulgate re-
gulations requiring this to be done
as soon as legal procedure can be
compiled with; but let us not wait
but proceed to kill the plants Im-
mediately after the picking is fin-
ished, the earlier the better. I am
not sufficiently familiar with the
types of soil and methods of farm-
ing in your locality to tell you ex-
actly how to do this; but there wii>
probably lie various ways of ac-
complishing the same results. The
method used should be one that
will completely stop growth. It Is
not necessary to burn the plants;
because what we are trying to do
is to stop the insect from reproduc-
ing and to stop It while the weath-
er is still warm, and It will not
reproduce on dead cotton plants.
If a stalk a is cut off and sprouts
these sprouts, even though short,
will enable this insect to repro-
duce itself. It is suggested that
your, various county and sub-coun-
ty committee carefully study me-
thods adaptable to eprh locality
and adopt one or more that will
get the results desired; 1. e. com-
plete stoppage of the growth of
cotton.
It may be that some will not be
convinced that this pink bollworm
Ls a threat to this cotton produc-
(Continued on page 4)
THE AWFUL PRICE YOU
PAY FOR BEING
NERVOUS
lings $4.50 to $6.50, few good kinds
around $7.o0. Medium t o go<d
slaughter calves around $6.00 to
$7.25, few to $7.50. Culls ranged
i down around $4.00. Low cutter and
cuttercows mostly $4.00 to $4 50,
good to $5.00 and odd head $5.25.
Bulls mostly $4.00 to $5.00, odd
head good weight bulls $5.25.
Sti cker calves mostly $6.00 to $7-
.25, few light choice offerings to
$7.50.
Sheep, receipts none; goats,
none. Market slow and weak on
holdovers. Few aged sh<rn Ango-
ra goats $1.25 to $1.75.
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Mr. Joe C. GUbreth of Austin was |
a week-end visitor in the J. B. |
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