The Tyler Journal (Tyler, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, April 2, 1926 Page: 2 of 16
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HENRY EDWARDS «c CO.
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There used to be, and maybe there
jb yet, a big bank in New York known
-as the “Chemical National Bank."
We suppose the name was given be-
cause its stockholders and patrons
were chemist and dealers in drugs and
chemicals. Therefore, The Journal
puts its readers on notice that it is
going to organize a “Poultry & Egg
National Bank.” It will start on the
job within ten years from thiis morn-
ing—which will be six years after we
have gotten on our subscription list
every home-owner within the “charm-
ed circle” the center of which is the
“Heart of East Texas” and whose cir-
cumference is described by the 36-
mile radius shown on The Journal’s
map.
Of course, we have all the banks
here that we need now and they are
as strong as the Rock of Gibraltar,
have more money than the treasury
of Rhode Island, more obliging than
the princes of Ancona, Minorca or
Andalusia—and more efficient than
any Leghomese, or Spanish, or Dutch
or Danish knight. However, when all
of our readers get to producing on a
proper scale Plymouth Rocks, and
Rhode Island Reds, and Anconas, and
Minorcas, and Andalusians, and Leg-
horns and Spanish, and Dutch, and
Danish chicken of the best types—
why then they can establish the
“Poultry A Egg Bank”—or even buj
any of the banks already here.
It’s just thataway. Don’t you
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Owing to the fact that the Smith
County Agricultural Council is work-
ing out a number of new projects up-
on which it will offer premiums this
year, and to the fact that it requires
study and great care in working out
score cards for the new contests, de-
tailed announcements have not yet
been made.
It is desired, of course, that hun-
dreds of farmers will enter the cot--
ton contests, both those of the Dallas
News and those sponsored by the Ag-
ricultural Council. The rules of the
local contests and the scoring methods
will be the same as those adopted by
The Dallas News—and it is hoped
that every entrant for the local cot-
ton prizes will also enter the Dallas
News’ contest. This is for the reason
that Smith county farmers ought as-
suredly to aspire to retain for the
county that same high position it
took last year.
There arg- prizes for corn, for
feed and food, for balanced farming
projects, for poultry, and also con-
tributions to the boys’ and girls’
club 'wofR.' “Just'S# soon a# every
possible problem can be anticipated
and worked out with respect to each
and all of the new projects the local
rules and scoring methods will be
published. In the meantime any
newspaper or any member of the
Smith County Agricultural Council,
or any of the three County Agents
(Mr. Elbert Gentry, Miss Huffhines,
or Prof. Crouch, Colored) will take
your application for entry into any
of the contests. This paper has
blanks already for the Dallas News
Contest. Come and sign one and get
ready to win some of that $10,000
that The News is offering, not for
more cotton—but for “More Cotton
on Fewer Acres.” :■
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COTTON PRICE WILL DEPEND
UPON SPINNING VALUES
There is an article in this issue
under a Washington date line, which
every cotton farmer in the country
ought to read carefully. It was sent
to us by the Department of Agricul-
ture—and it must be accepted as au-
thentic. Read the article. It takes
the position that cotton prices must
be determined henceforth by the spin-
ning value of the lint—and, more
than that, tests which have been
made of at least five varieties of
Texas cotton indicate that the De-
partment of Agriculture will lend
the weight of its influence toward
the movement to buy raw cotton
henceforth upon the basis of its
spinning values. If that happens, it
will certainly mean that hereafter
the short staples, the half and half
and other similar types, will have less
show in the markets of the United
States and most other countries of
the world than these inferior types
are having oven now.
If you sit down at set of sun
And count the acts that you Have
done,
And, counting, find
One self-denying deed, one word
That eased the heart of him who
heard—
One glance most kind
That felt like sunshine where it
went—
Then you may count that day well
spent.'— George Eliot. :
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IFTING FROM YOUR FAMILY
H Have you drifted away from your
kinfolks 7
Perhaps you have been more suc-
cessful than other members of your
family, you move in a higher grade
of society.
They are not accustomed to the
class of people who are congenial to
you and with whom you mingle, so
you don’t Want them to visit you.
You fear that you might lose the
' standing you now have, if you had to
utroduce certain members of your
at
It is said that one reason the
farmers of the Corn Belt have so
much corn on hand which they can't
sell at a profit is that usually near-
ly half of our coni, as well as other
feedstuffs, is “marketed on the hoof.”
That means that these feeds are
first fed to livestock and then the!
livestock are marketed. Following
the decline of hogs and cattle after
the World War, livestock men quit
producing cattle and hogs. Now this
shortage of meats for the nation is
being felt. It hurts two ways: first
there is no way profitable to use the
surplus corn of the Corn Belt, the re-
sult being that meat products are
high and corn unprofitable to the ex-
clusive corn growers. The other way
it hurts is that the scarcity of cattle
and hogs makes meat so high that
the exclusive cotton farmers are
hard hit in providing these necessi-
ties for their tables—and they, too,
have produced a great cotton surplus
which, while it is out of their hands,
is making the production of cotton as
an exclusive crop as unprofitable to
them as the bumper corn crop is to
the exclusive corn farmer. The sit-
uation confronting the all-corn and
the all-cotton farmers shows the
weakness of the one-crop system. So
fhr as we know there is not a one-
crop system of farming anywhere
that has proven profitable year in
and year out; while, on the other
hand, we have never heard of a di-
versified farming system in any sec-
tion, or upon any individual farm,
that isn’t profitable taking the re-
sults thru a series of years. :
Governor “Ma” says she is in the
race because Jim needs some more
vindication. We agree with her—
Jim'does need a whole lot more vin-
dication. :
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All you want of your family is to
let you alone.
In a word you are denouncing those
whom you are bound by ties of
od which should be the strongest
ties in the world.
And for what? For friendships
may not be more than a pass-
ing interest to you, something soon
to fade, especially should you lose
financial standing you have gain-
or you were in need of physical
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In case of want to whom would you
go, to relatives or to friends?
True it is that in some cases
strangers would do more for you
than your relatives, but those cases
you would long for the lovs and
"“""MumY"
was a time when cotton
should “shy off of” the shorter sta-
ples, that time is now.—---------
In this connection you will recall
that when the first government cot-
ton reports, or estimates, began to
come in last fall, all the farmers
and most everybody else said the
Government was wrong, that the es-
timate of more than 14,000,000 bales
was wrong. Later the estimate in-
dicated a crop of around 15,000,000
bales. Cotton, of course, went down
—and we all got madded and madder
at the government. This attitude
of mind was reflected in Congress
when some member of that body in-
troduced a bill to abolish the govern-
ment estimates, and when another
member introduced a bill to issue
these estimates twice per month and
make them simultaneously with the
publication of the ginners reports.
The final result showed a production
of over 16,000,000 bales, which fully
vindicated the accuracy of the gov-
ernment estimates. That’s a bit of
history to show that the government
has better facilities in these matters
than are available otherwise.
Now then, with all this fresh in our
minds, we must conclude that if the
Government is issuing warnings
against the production of shorter
staples, and is providing tests and
assembling data whereby it will be
easy for the cotton trade to buy all
the cotton upon the basis of its spin-
ning values, the producers of half
and half jbad better take warning;
and the presumption is that in the
results that this movement will bring
about we short staple producers will
have another opportunity to “cuss”
the Government—and the Govern-
ment is as apt to be right in the mat-
ter as it was in the matter of crop
estimates for the 1925 cotton crop. :
Of the power of printer’s ink, the
Calumet Baking Powder Company
says:
“We attribute a big share of our
success to newspaper advertising.
“We know form our own exper-
ience that housewives are usually
susceptible to newspaper advertis-
ing.
“We use practically every form
of advertising, but with an appro-
priation of $1,400,000 for newspapers
tteftftVUig even now. _ alone, it can readily be seen that we
It appears to us that if there ever favor the newspaper a# an advertis-
— - *--- when cotton growers
ing medium for our product.’
WILLS POINT MAN BUYS
NINE CARS OF CATTLE
Wills Point, March 30—Jim Wil-
son, local ranchman, has received
nine carloads of cattle, bought for
grazing on his ranch sooth of town.
This is the largest single shipment
in some time. *
Talking about dreams that are pos-
sible or realization—what about put-
ting Smith county into the class of
counties that produce annually three
million dollars worth of poultry and
eggs ? There are a few counties in
the United States in this class—and
Smith county can get into that class
within four or five years. Of course
we cotton farmers wont put her there
—but if we’ll get out of the way of
the Woman’s and Girls’ Home Demon-
stration Clubs and of the Farm Boys’
Clubs, they’ll put over the job.
CARING FOR YOUR HAIR
You may, with the ut-
most safety and Confi-
dence, place the care
of your HAIR in our
hands. All modern ap-
pliances, together with
a complete knowledge
of latest cuts, place ns
in a position to render
you most satisfactory
service at all times.
HAIR CUT 35c
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Whenever you get the women and
girls interested in a proposition
things get lively, “business picks up”,
and the thing goes over. That’s why
Smith county will be shining bright-
er in five years as a poultry-produc-
ing county than she does now’ as a
truck center, or even as a 3-bale-per-
acre cotton champion. :
The poultry yard is the one all-the
year-round revenue producer of the
farm—that is, when the poultry flock
is given a fair chance. Trouble with
most of us is that we still regard the
production and sale of poultry and
eggs as beneath the dignity of a cot-
ton farmer. :
Another highly efficient use has
been discovered for newspapers. An
exchange says: “When your car gets
stuck in the mud and the rear
wheels merely spin around and your
friends advise you to call for help,
get a bunch of newspapers, slip them
under the rear wheels, turn on the
gas and see the car come out of the
mire”. Probably the influence of the
advertisements. Many a business
concern stuck in the mire has been
pulled out by advertising.—Publish-
ers’ Auxiliary. :
Actions speak louder than words,
and sometimes clothing speaks loud-
er than actions.—Harrisburg Tele-
graph.
Spraying
Materials
CALCIUM ARSENATE
LEAD ARSENATE
BORDO MIXTURE
DRY LIME SULPHUR
We are prepared to help you take
care of your crops
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In the United States illiteracy is
not half so great a problem as is the
amazing number of people who can
but do not read.-
er.
-Editor and Publish-
When hog* and cattle went down j
an unprofitable price after the | j
I World War farmer* and cattle-
men quit growing them to a large
extent. Hog* and cattle are now go-
‘ - id fair to go higher,
The more cotton the
, the lower the price
carry-over
the mo
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Edwards, Henry. The Tyler Journal (Tyler, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, April 2, 1926, newspaper, April 2, 1926; Tyler, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth620189/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Smith County Historical Society.