The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 301, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 31, 1935 Page: 13 of 32
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THE CUEKO RECORD, CUERO, TEXAS
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31,
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'eWitt Turkey Growers Reap $378,000 Harvest On 1935 Mark
ighest Prices In Three j
Years Paid As 135,000 ;
Birds Come To Market
EXPLAINS VALUE OF VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE
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DeWitt county turkey growers reaped a harvest
Crf gold in November and December of 1935 as 135,-
HQO sleek turkey gobblers and hens were marketed on
By FRED L. HANSEN j is the only sure means of success; ers of America Chapter.” This or-1 neighbors and their community a
| Vocational Agriculture Instructor, and development. j gar.ization of vocational agriculture worth-while service. The ecor.qnuc
Cuero High School I The school can benefit endless I students has proven to be most j t of such n service, m-v be far
| Agriculture has been taught on amounts of valuable services j helpful for developing in the boys.: reaching and hene^rial -o all tvne-
| a general basis in a few schools of through the vocational agriculture 1. A vision to see the beauties and 0f bri-siraes-s in "the *communit\ :
jthe United States as far back as j department through the various; possibilities of a progressive farm „ ‘ .s ‘ co mu 1
1900. This was only the beginning, i methods of school developments, i business. : Up to this date, the types of cla.s-^
Tlie small General Agriculture Text j The beys have as their objective j 2. Confidence in their own abilty. 'National .agriculture taught ■
was used and only the theory or jthe development of themselves, the 3. Ability to cooperate and to ap-
book was used and only the theory ' school ancf the community. predate the value of a wise division
Record Turkey Crop.
Promised for 1936, Big
Breeding Stock Hel
or book was studied. Our education j Those boys who are enrolled in
_________ ______ system was on a very low basis and I vocational agriculture have the op-
ISSli i- * w ...... ... just as other fields developed so j portunity of fitting themselves far
did our educational systems develop, more efficient to compete with the
For those 135,000 Thasksgiving and Christmas Thus we moved along slowly until 1 world in the Struggle for an honest
1917 when the Vocational1 Educa- j living. He will learn those funda-
tion Act was passed by Congress, j mentals of life which will prepare
Since the passage of the Vcca- j him to -lead and to be led.
ticnal Education Act by Congress in i The course of vocational agrcul-
February 1917. there has been a j ture is not in itself only a one year
steady growth in the development course but a continued study of
of Vocational Agriculture in the : problems, developments, and un-
United States. With only a few' de- provements advanced through a
growers of DeWitt county received
thousands
some
of
more than they
jived from a crop of
turkeys in 1934,
» nearly 165,000 fine
tin. 1933.
fog 1935 set a new mark
three year period. Corn-
wall an average price of 8
1963 and an Average price
t in 1934, turkey growers
j during the marketing
cjiist closed, received the
iof 19 cents for their
with peafe prices hitting
II mark.
gobblers brought a crisp
Mi the farmer’s back yard,
were worth more than
profits in 1935 were in-
due to the fact that grow-
, their own feed *fc.nd
green ranges, had their
» the best shape when the
opened than birds had been
of the Thanksgiving
years. The market then
a golden harvest. •
the farm. In practically all in-
stances during the season just pass-
ed, the grower produced his own
feed, land retired from the pro-
duction of cotton being used to
produce grains of every descrip-
tion. Cost of proper feeding is
averaged at about 90 cents per
pound, figuring the feed at market
price. Turkeys on the 1935 market,
averaged from 14 to 25 pounds,
with more heavy gobblers of the 25
pound class being marketed this
year than in many seasons prev-
ious.
of labor and responsibility in car-
communitv | boys.
The largest number of turkeys ever held ba J
by DeWitt county growers for breeding stock
roam ranges ^of this county, the nucleus of
The aii day class is open to pupils j promises to be the greatest crop produced in
regularly enrolled in the Cuero high;! pnnnfTr
school, 14 years and older. This;OUIliy. ,
in Cuero and the surrounding trade
territory are:
l.One all day class, enrollment, 42
partments in the first few years of j period of three years and some ! years following the founding of the
lying out school and
programs.
4. The value of being thrifty.
5. Leadership,, the outstanding j school, 14 years
need of the hour. j class meets five days a week for a,! So Say Some Of the leading growers. *
G. Citizenship, being an asset to period of nor less than 90 minutes’ T • ___ __ _
, . .. __. ,H Low prices on the opening i est by local turkey growers,
ThCem^y "America i ^ *** * market prompted growers to hold find growers in this sectl^
if Srm ~ 0ne day Unit class’ Snrollment’> back their best birds, and when to fill orders,
is a National Organization of farm 22 boys and girls
boys studying vocational agricul-! • * ,
, . .. ... ... . , 1 Day unit classes are open to fu-
ture m the public high schools j , , „ . . ‘ .
.. . . ,, TT ., , c. , 0. pils regularly enrolled in the pub-
throughout the United States. Six . . . , . . ,
1 lie schools 14 years and over who
its life. Vocational Agriculture
grown in Texas alone to about 400 J dents high school education,
departments with an enrollment of j In this first year of vocational
about 10,000 pupils. In the past l agriculture in Agriculture in Cuero
three ‘ or four years the number of j high school there are 42 boys enroll-
; meet for 90 minutes, once, twice, or
has j times the entire four years of a stu- organization at Kansas City, 47 1 . .
' Honic hirrh e/*v»ru"»i states, the territory of Hawaii and ! __1,rne.5 '?er ___?s n ^
Puerto Rico, had formed associa-
tions of Future Farmers of America,
affiliated with the national organi-
the cost of Christmas dinners was j Scores of orders for DeWitt
finally hiked to 21 cents, the last! ty turkey eggs are received by
minute rusti to reach the market i Cuero Chamber of Commejpt
caught many growers with unusu-1 other agencies each year, but
ally large flocks on their hands. of these orders have beenfc
departments in Texas have been ]ed. No finer group of boys has ever zation. There are at present approx-
doubled. In the summer of this year (enrolled in anyl first year agricul
as many as 50 different high . ture class in the state cf
schools in 3Texas wanted to put in
DeWitt county growers made no j a department of Vocational Agricul-
effort to cash in on the egg market ture but found the supply of Voca-
preferring • to keep their eggs for tional Agriculture Instructors ex-
production of turkeys locally rather hausted.
than ship them to distant points.! Cuero was first exposed to Voca-jmay be the “’fundamentals of ag-
There were numerous calls for De- j tional Agrculture about eight or ten i riculture” will by all means be use-
Witt county turkey eggs in 1935,! years ago, but was forced to drop j ful to them, in this our great agri-
Texas.
These boys will be the Futrure
Farmers, business men, doctors,
lawyers, etc.. in DeWitt county.
Whether they be farmers, business
i men, lawyers, or what ever they
the
however, and tit is possible that an
organized market for eggs may be
created in the coming year. Eggs
sold on the early market will prob-
ably bring from 13 to 14 cents each.
Turkey flocks of this section are
being improved annually, and a
number of fine blooded gobblers,
raised in this area, will be found on
every average farmer lfarms scattered over the county in
county shared in this j 1936 as growers seek to l improve
as turkeys in DeWitt coun- 1 breeds.
small droves on, production of poultry on a
rather than in great; jarge sca]e first became recognized
--engaged in the
turkeys only. Of
many of the larger turkey
produced droves of sev-
birds, but the bulk of
it about 1929. At that time the de- | culture nation and 'state,
partments were few and widely j The major farm problems which
separated. Without a department j these boys are studying this year
for about five years, Cuero again I are:
has put in the department this | 1. Restoring and maintaining soil
year. Changes have been made, ' fertility. ._______.. ________,,.........t______
new departments have been gained I 2. Improving livestock and poul- j farming practices which are now m
imately 100,000 members fti 4,000 lo
cal chapters in the United States.
Through practical demonstrations ment> 202 men and women.
However, growers were not to be
used when the vocational agricul- j daunted. They had previously de-
ture teacher in a central school ! cared that rather, than sell • their
meets classes in a smaller school \ turkeys for .17 cents, they would
near by, for one, two or three pe- j hold back large flocks for breeding
riods per week. % j stock, and produce a banner crop
3. Foui evening schools, enroll- of birds next year.
and actual farm practices on their
own farms or on those of their
neighbor farmers these organized
groups of young boys are rendering
valuable services in increasing the
efficiency of farmers throughout the
I According to Thad Lane, DeWitt
Evening classes are composed of county ranche/, who produces
adults interested in improving their
proficiency in farming. These class-
es meet for a period of not less
than 90 consecutive minutes per
meeting at the discretion of -the
hundreds of birds each year, many j
growers have held back breeding | this angle
growers having just enough
to meet tdeir own demand*,
on the early market bring
to 14 cents each. With ?
stock held back for the
there is a possibility the
eggs will be marketed at
prices this year. Hiat,
to be seen, observers say.
Regardless of^ne
of the ti
flocks of a hundred or more birds.! however, DeWitt
turkey
country. Through their supervised 1 members of the group.
farm practice work, the economic j
value of the recommendations of
the colleges of agriculture, experi- j
ment stations and other research j
agencies are clearly demonstrated.!
In many communities. improved 1
It now appears likely that de-
mands for DeWitt county turkey
eggs, never, before given any inter-
crop, barring unforseen
promises to be one of the 1
the history of the county.,
and it has been growing faster than * try.
the agriculture colleges could turn j 3. Improving plants,
cut qualified instructors. j 4. Feeding livestock and poultry.
In September of this year through
5. Producing a living at home.
the valuable efforts of the Cuero ! Practical demonstrations, lessens.
Chamber of Commerce Vocational j and improvements are studied in
Agriculture has again been estab- i the class room and bjt field trips,
scare nrsi Decame recognizee lishe;J ^ Cuero Hlgh school. This where they actually do the job.
moist prof table^ industry n\ | department of Vocational Agricul- ! Practical problems projects on con-
__ . , _ , , | ture can be and should be devriop- venient agriculture enterorises and
Northern Produce Company estab-|ed ,nt0 cce of the most esselviat
lished the first e> dressing and vaiuatjle departments in Cuero means of individual students
plant in Cuero. Thus provided
as a
this section
came from the small 1 an year cash market
ranches, with the aver- their ^^gys and chickens, pro-
lans producing slightly
100 turkeys for market,
birds are held back for
stock, and thousands of
still roam the broad
DeWitt county, the start
great turkey crop in
practically all in-
tile new crop from
by birds already on
ducers began the growing of turk-
eys on a large scale. The Cuero
market at that time was the lone
market in this section, and farm-
ers within an area of
50 ^ miles
brought their poultry to this city
to be marketed, Cuero in 1906 ship-
ping a total of 112 car-loads of
dressed turkeys,
190,000 birds.
high school. Only through the ef-
forts of each and every citizen cf
Cpero and the farffiers of the sur-
rounding tracfe territory can this
work be made a success. Cooperation
supervised practice jobs within the
is
the main pregram for the agricul-
ture class.
The boys enrolled in ^vocational
agriculture are organized into an
organization called “Future, Farm-
general use can be traced directly to
the results produced by some enter-
prising Future Farmer, who under
the guidance cf his leader, broke
away from the traditional proce-
dure and tried some “new fangled
idea" which his college of agricul-
ture had recommended.
In addition to individual home
projects, these groups often give di-
rect assistance to farmers on many
phases of farm work, being able as
a grpup to do many things which he
could not do alone. In so doing, the
boys secure valuable practice and
develop “doing ability” on practical
jobs and at the same time do their
found in practically eve» town of entire county'. a number of years previous, and
importance in this sectipn, and all Growers report that barring un- growers are planning to go into the
contribute to the total number of forseen setbacks, DeWitt county business on a gigantic scale,
cars shipped out of the county. will produce one of the largest Thousands of these birds will, of
Cuero still holds the spot-light of turkey crops in the history ot this course, be among those playing the
approximately j attention, however, with plants in county in 1936. A larger number principal roles in Cuero’s spectac-
j this city shipping ‘mofe than 35% of turkeys were held , back for ular Turkey Trot on November
Now poultry dressing plans are of all turkeys shipped out of the breeding stock during 1935 than in 10th, 11th and 12th of 1936.
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BRANTLEY’S TEXACO SERVICE STAB
Bunk Brantley, Mgr. on Broad
Phone 69
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NATIONWIDE MARKET
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71,5 ao*>IY PACK!* av
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at your door
Through our Cuero plant we offer the producers of this community a de-
pendable, year ’round, nationwide cash market for their turkeys, poultry, eggs
and produce. Our distributive facilities extend practically from coast to
coast and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. -To supply the ever increasing de-
mands made upon us, our producing plants, of which our Cuero establish-
ment is an important unit, are kept busy every working day.
We extend local farmers and dairypien a cordial invitation to cooperate
with us in meeting the needs of this vast market. We want them to consider
our establishment their Cuero headquarters and to bring us their turkeys,
poultry, and eggs, with,assurance of courteous, efficient service and prompt
cash payment.
It is a pleasure for us to extend our best wishes for a Happy New. Year to
the people of Cuero and surrounding territory and to say that it is our pur-
pose to work with them in promoting the progress of the city and the adjacent
farming and producing areas.
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CUDAHY PACKING COMPANY
Cash Buyers of
T u r key s-Poult ry-Eggs
CUERO, TEXAS
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Successors to
The Cuero Packing Co.
COOCCCOCCCS?CCCCN2CCCC
Farmers Cold Storage Boxes To Rent. Feeds and Poultry Remedies For Sale.
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Putman, Harry C. The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 301, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 31, 1935, newspaper, December 31, 1935; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth999409/m1/13/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Cuero Public Library.