The Brady Standard and Heart O' Texas News (Brady, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 25, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 21, 1955 Page: 3 of 8
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^==-THK BRADY STANDARD AND HEART 0’ TEXAS NEWS, BRADY, TEXAS TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1953
fAGE THREE )
NEW OIM( KHS IlKTI |i Newly ducted
officers of the Te.<u County Agricultural Agents
Association pose together in College Station after
their election at thi- annual Texas 4-H Roundup
at Texas AiM College They are, left to rghl:
Dan D. Clinton, Hun is County, Houston, piv?si-
dent; J. II. Martin, Ector County, Odessa, vice
president; Cel Ray Storkard, Tarrant County
assistant agent, Fort Worth, second vice presi-
dent, and Felix J. Burton, Rusk County, Hender-
son, secretary-treasurer. </Pi Photo.
Gartman and Son
To Attend Dallas
Butane Meeting
Planning to join with some 600
other butane dealers of Texas in
celebrating an important milestone
of the industry, R. J. Gartman and
. tertainment events assure an unus-
j ually interesting and important
j gathering.
The Dallas convention is of im-
portance to far more Texans than
to the (UK) butane dealers who com-
prise the association, Gartman said.
Butane and propane gas serve
nearly a million Texans in rural,
suburban and semi-urban areas, and
these users have a direct interest in
whatever affects the industry.
. i At the convention the dealers
son, Jack, of Hartman's Butane Go.. I wj|| view the newest and most ad-
vanced appliances for use with bu-
tane and propane gas. This list in-
cludes an array of appliances and
equipment from one-and-two burn-
er hot i lates through the entire
category of space heaters, ranges,
water heaters, clothes driers, well
and irrigation pumps, stationary
engines of many types, immense
power plants serving heavy indus-
try, farm tractors, truck, passen-
here. will lie in Dallas June 22. 2d,
24 attending the 10th annual con-
vention of the Texas Butane Deal-
ers Association and the Southwest-
ern Butane Exposition.
Butane dealers from every section
of the United States and a number
of foreign countries are expected.
The Brady firm, which is a mem-
ber of the Texas Butane Dealers
Association, already has received
copies of advance convention and ger-car and tractor engines, metal
exposition literature and, Gartman cutting torches, weed and pear
said the program and the many en- burners, and much other equipment
serving homes, farm and industries.
The Gartmans expect to spend,
several days in Dallas during which
time Walter Bowden will he in
chaige of the Brady store.
Guest* In Lackey Home
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ward anil
two children, Betty and John Wes-
ley, have returned to their home
in Devine after several days’ visit
with Mrs. Ward's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. H. L. Lackey. During their
visit, both families spent some j
time in the Ovalo home of the
Lackeys. They also visited in the
home of Mr. Lackey’s sister, Mrs.
Frank Smith and his sister-in-law,
Mrs. C. H. Lackey of Ovalo. Mr.
Ward and the children also enjoyed
fishing in Lake Kirby, Abilene and
in Coleman Lake.
Home From Hospital
Mrs. H. L. Hairston has just re-
turned from St. John’s Hospital in
San Angelo for a check-up.
Bill Jackson has 110 acres of
good ntilo at his place northeast
of Brady. His neighbor, Arlie Mc-
David, is going to plow out the inilo
crop this week. Jackson says with
one or two more good rains he
should harvest a good ciop.
—*
Jas. Finlay, Sr-., and James Fin-
lay, Jr., of F ife, were in Brady
early Monday morning on business.
They have just replanted Hitt
acres in cotton and have 20 more
acres to put in cotton just as soon
as this field dries out. Junior re-
cently cut a ditch to let the water
out of the 20-acre field and he said
it was stili too wet to plant.
The Finlays reported fine mist
was falling at their farm when
they left for Brady yesterday
mot ning.
—h—
By The Associated I’rss
An all-out effort is l>eing made
to curb an extremely bad grass-
hopper infestation in the North
and East counties of the Texas
Panhandle. Moisture conditions
range from very dry in the south-
west to adequate in the north.1
Grain harvest is expected to begin
about June 25.
The insect situation also remains
serious in cotton fields in a wide
area of North Texas. The moisture
situation continues to improve.
—*—
In Central Texas wide-
spread thundershowers, hail,
wind and rain brought crop
damage. Pastures are good in
the eastern section. All crops
are making good growth, and
harvest of truck crops has be-
gun.
—♦—
Much of South Texas still is in
critical condition, and supplemental
feeding of livestock is necessary in
the Winter Garden area and south
including the Coastal Bend coun-
ties. Irrigated cotton continues to
make excellent progress with some
boll weevil damage. The tomato
harvest has passed the peak, and
watermelon marketing is well un-
der way.
Near the Louisiana border sur-
face moisture is drying out rapidly 1
due to high winds. However, pre-
sent crop and pasture- growth is re-
ported good. The tomato harvest
which has been very disappointing
with low yields is almost complete
in th • Nacogdoches area, ami cu-
cumbers and pink tomatoes are
moving from farmers’ markets in
tire Tyler area. Cotton is making
good growth, but insect damage
continues.
—*—
In far West Texas conditions
remain generally dry except on
the eastern edge and in other
locations where scattered
showers fell during the week.
Livestock are described as “in
surprisingly good condition."
Cotton in the Trans-Pecos
country is recovering from a
“beating" by earlier strong
winds. Irrigated crops are
growing satisfactorily.
—★—
In the South Plains about 75
per cent of the cotton crop is from 1
two to three w’ecks behind schedule
due to very variable weather.
The Gulf Coast rice crop is re-
ported almost completely planted
and in good condition as are other
crops and pastures.
Consderable erosion from rain
and replanting of cotton for the
third time has resulted in some
counties in the eastern section of
the rolling Plains. Moisture con-
ditions remain the best in years
and range conditions are improv-
ing.
At least one-fourth of the coun-
ties in the Edwards Plateau are
Wmipih
MV SI.IOK KKKII
Farm and Ranch News in
The Heart o* Texas Area
still “very deficient in moisture.”
Cotton was badly damaged by a
dust storm in some locations.
In South Central Texas crops
and ranges in the Gonzales-Austin
Bastrop area are in good to ex-
cellent condition after rains last
week.
Broiler supplies are normal, wat- ]
termelon marketing has begun, and
the 4,000-acre broom corn crop in
Caldwell ami Hays Counties is ex-
cellent and ready to harvest.
— ★ —
J. D. Cowscrt, noted Junction
horseman, (Ians to sell out the last
of his Quarter Horses this fall.
Date and site of sale have not been
decided. He will have 8 or 10 head
to sell.
Included will be his famous 14-
year-old stallion, Bacchus. Offer-1
ing will be mostly mares.
He has pared down the horse
herd through the drouth but fig-
ures that he has fed the horses too
long now.
Cowscrt has had no real rain. He
has only 200 yearling ewes left on
four sections of his Junction ranch.
If there is no rain soon he will have
to move them too. Most of his
sheep are on a lease in San Saba
County. (Windmill Column.)
—♦—.
Many sections in the northern,
and eastern sections of Mason!
County got heavy rains last night j
ami some damaging hail Wednes-!
day.
At Bennie Wienecke’s place near
Fredonia 2'i* inches of rain came
down in two heavy showers, the
first accompanied by hail which
knocked out 40 panes in his barn ;
and all the windows in the east'
side of his house except those on I
the front porch.
The Schooley and Morgeson1
homes in the Fredonia area took
good boatings from the hail.
At Castell an estimated rain of
between 4 and 5 inches, with hail,
did considerable crop damage an i
made the river and creeks impass-
able. Swollen creeks inconvenience 1
traffic on almost all roads in the
north and east. The rains cama
west as far as Art. (Mason County
News)'
Jack Sloan, San Saba County
rancher, said here Monday that
parts of his county received from
1 1-4 to 2 1-4 inches of rainfall
last Wednesday and Thursday
night. Most pastures in San Saba
County are affording lots of cow
and sheep grass now and many
ranchers there have their pastures
and fields leased out to rancher*
from the "no grass” areas in ex-
treme West Texas.
Jack reported the row crops
down his way were looking ani
doing mighty good these days.
These crops consist of milo, sudaa
and corn.
George Dutton, coming in from
Brownwood early Monday after-
noon, ran into a good rain at th«
Colorado river sections in both
Brown and McCulloch Counties. H*
said the rain covered some ten
miles in the Brown County section
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