The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 2, 1928 Page: 2 of 8
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tween these sections are left untouch-
ed, resulting in a peculiar network.
After the foliage is destroyed, the in-
sects may attack the pods and
the stems, and when abundant they
bzhavo been known to completely des
troy the bean crop in about four
weeks. Considerable work * on con-
trol measures has shown that the mat-
erials which will give best results
in control without injuring the plants
are magnesium arsenate or a good
grade of calcium arsenate with lime,
applied as a dust or spray to the un-
In the face of the short-sighted idea that the farmer I der-8ides of the leaves.
U a legitimate victim for skinning, and that the seedman Cooked -i.d,
is out for his hide, the meeting at Dallas the other day|combined with sliced cucumbers.
Droves that have common interests and can work toget-
to the advantage of both—when both are sincere,
the same meeting were the law-enforcement of-
ficers of two States whose duty it is to scotch the crooked
seed dealer as much as the law allows, and strange as
g. McGRAIN, Pros. WILLARD PROCTOR, S*c.-Trsa*.|
WILLARD PROCTOR, Editor and Business Manager.
| Second Class Mail Matter at the Postoffke of Grand Saline, Tex^ |
under the Act of March 3, 1173.
A PULL ALL TOGETHER
Pineapple und cream cheese sand-
wiches are dainty for afternoon tea.
fresh or
lerve with
Broiled peaches, either
canned, are appetizing to
it might seem, seedmen present voiced their demand for I meat or #or dessert,
better law enforcement, instead of trying to have the AIways successful for a porch sup-
seed laws weakened, and joined the general demand I 8 8andwicheSi iced tea( and any
for more inspectors and more teeth in the law, which is | fruit shortcake,
another way of saying that those who are trying to do
Cottage cheese contains all the
constituents of milk excepting the
the cream. It is therefore high in food
value and is a particularly rich source
of protein and minerals.
Miss Opal Fugate of Wills Point
took supper with Miss Ester Reader,
Friday. ,
The singing at Central Friday
night was very light. The weather
conditions prevented the people from
coming. ,
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Moore’s infant
babe was laid to rest in the Creaglc-
ville cemetery Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Cullen Tunnell of
Jones spent Sunday night with Mr.
and Mrs. Bailey and attended church
here Sunday night.
Mr .and Mrs. Hallie Cherry spent
part of last week in this community.
Mr .and Mrs. Jim Abram of Sand
Flat attended church here Sunday.
Mr .and Mrs. A. E. Fagg of Dawson,
Texas, are visiting friends and relat-
ives in this community.
Miss Gussie Fagg took dinner with
Miss Jewel Armstrong Sunday.
In summer time give the refriger-
ator extra care, and wash it thorough-
ly with hot water and soda once or
twice a week. See that anything
spilled is promptly wiped up, that the
drainpipe is not clogged or slimy, and
that the ice chamber is clean. Keen
the doors shut tightly and do not open
them oftener than necessary. Do
not wrap the ice in paper or cloth.
an honest business need have no fear of law.
While frank criticism was freely offered on all sides,
the will to find common ground was strong enough that
those critcisms were taken in a spirit of tolerance and
each group showed its willingness to assume its own
responsibilities in bringing about the production, dis-
tribution, and planting of good seed. It is a good omen.
When the seedmen knows the farmers’ just grievances,
and the farmer understands and appreciates the legiti-
mate services of the seed breeder and the seed dealer,
and each shows a willingness to put his own hopse in
order, nothing but good can come of it.
It was agreed that the use of good seed of the right
kindon all Texas farms would raise the farm income
.$100 per farm at the least calculation. This would am-
ount to a total of $43,500,000 per year. Apply the same
conservation figure of $100 per farm increase from good
seed, and Louisiana would have $13,000,000 more to
spend, New Mexico more than $3,000,000, Oklahoma
nearly $20,000,000, and Arkansas over $22,000,000. These
figures add up like the profits of the famous—or infam-
aus—oil deal of Messrs. Stewart, Doheny, and Sinclair,
yet they can be added to the income of the Southwest
in a perfectly legitimate way.
Since the supply of good seed is far short of the am
ount necessary to plant our farm, there is wide room. ..Ear]y Developrnent of Demon8tration
for every farmer, seed breeder, and seed dealer to play Work”. Dr. Connell, who was con-
his part in producing such seed and making it possible |nected with A- & M- 88 Sector of
for good farmers to get good seed with assurance.
—Farm & Ranch
Mr. and Mrs.
while Sunday e>
Boyles.
A. W. Grier spent a
re with Uncle Joh.i
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RIVERSIDE
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/Gertrude Rodden, 'who has beta
working in Online spent the week-end
with home folks hers.
Mrs. L. D. Rodden nnd Gertrude
spent Sundny evening with Mrs. Mol-
lie McLain of Grand Saline.
Mrs. J. T. Mlay spent Sunday with
Mrs. Howard Cooper.
POULTRY EXPERT ADVISES
CULLING OF POULTRY FLOCK
College Station, Texas, July SI—
The year round system of culling
the poultry flock, that is, culling four
times a year, is a practical method
of getting a check on production
since it will indicate what hens are
mark in the form of a leg band.
With a year roud system of culling
the farm flock, will come the Texas
‘Four Band Hen’, the only kind or
hen that can be profitable with low
priced eggs, because she will be
all season layer”.
This culling should be carried on
in the fall, winter, spring and summer,
the speaker added. At each culling
the layers should be banded with a leg
band of different color while the nOn-
layers and other culls are not banded.
In this manner each time the flock is
culled the layers are given a good
Hen’, th* only kind of
profitable with low
cause she will be an all i
One thousand Texas fanners i
ing on egg poduction placed
average for the year from 180 to
eggs to the hen, Mr. Holmgreetv said.
“While this flock average la not
particularly high”, he said, ‘4* is
much higher than the atate average
of around 70, and it repeaenta the
additional eggs that mean the differ-
ence between profit and loaa. Anyone
who wants to reach this, or a still
higher average, will have to follow,
as these poultrymen did, some method
of removing the poor layer from the
flock.”
Records of county agents show
that in 1926 were 12,612 farmers in
137 counties of the state who culled
347,261 chickens and removed 102,065'
non-profitable hens, Holmgreen said.
These figures, he added, represent
only those who report culling their
flocks and only in 137 of the 264
counties of the state. “While there
is no way to check positively the
actual number of farmers who did
th^s work, it would be conservative
toIV that ten times as many as
actually cifiied their flocks”. s
& A
We got several big rains here the
last of the week. The meeting w
closed on account of so much rain,
but it will start again Saturday night.
A. &. M. SHORT COURSE
BRINGS TO MIND
FIRST MEETING
College Station, Texas, Aug. 1--
The first meeting of organized far-
mers at the A. & M. College of Texas
was in July, 1898, thirty years ago,
in what is known as the Texas Far-
mers Congress, Dr. J. H. Connell, for-
president of the Oklahoma /.
& M. College, recalled in an address
before the general assembly at the
nineteenth annual Farmers Short
Course in session here. He spdke on
* PAGE, LINE, PARAGRAPHS
8y U. S. Department of Agriculture
When sending in a sample of seed
to the United Staes Department of
Agriculture, or elsewhere, to be an-
alyzed for purity and viability, it is
important to send enough seed to rep-
resent the bulk of the seed in question.
Send at deast 2 ounces of grass seed,
white or alsike clover, or of • seeds
smaller than these; bounces of red or
crimson clover, alfalfa, ryegrasses,
brome grasses, millet, flax, rape, or
seds of similar size; and 1 pound of
cereal, vetches, or seeds of larger
size.
Careful handling of potatoes, par-
ticularly where they are to be held
for storage, will largely prevent
loss from Fusarium rot. This disease
is responsible for the loss from 5 to
10 per cent of theh annual crop, and
in some cases individual growers have
lost 60 per cent of theircrop. Meehan
and skin abrasions, caused by improp-
erhandling, are the chief source of
FusFusarium rot. Even minute skin
abrasions may become the seat ol
fungus infection. Moving a liberal
puaiity of soil with the tubes and
protecting them from the sharp edges
of the forks, sha shakers, etc. of thc
diggers by rubber or burlap will
duce mechanical injury.
The collection and destructior
of peach “drops” is an aid in prevent-
ing the development of the adult plum
curculio, the most serious insect pest
Attacking the peach and one which
is especially abundant in the Southern
Statea. There are often two genera-
tions of the curculio, the second-brood
adults merging from the soil in Aug
nst. Most of the small peaches that
are punctured early in the season
by the curculio fail to the ground,
and the collection of these drops will
get about 80 per cent of the worms
that fall to the ground during the
an0 will also leave fewer
the orchard after harvest
to hibernate and attack the crop the
year. All drops should
he buried in a trench ahd cov-
. quicklime before the soil
should be submer
where the people do not wear shoes so
much. The United States is not self-
supporting in the matter of leather
and leather goods, and in case of war
the chances are that many of us would
go without shoes if imports of raw
materials were interrupted. The U. S.
Department of Agriculture believes
that our dependence upon foreign sup-
plies can be very greatly reduced
through better practices in the dom-
estic production of leather-making raw
materials, through more judicious
common-sense selection by the public
of leather goods, and finally through
proper care of such leather goods,
with elimination of their abuse and
nisuse. The hide, leather, and tanning
investigations carried on by the de-
partment all aim at conservation a-
long these lines. Each year millions
of dollars are lost in this country in
hides and skins, much of which can
be prevented by the application of cor-
rect method of preparation and mar-
keting, which would result in making
available to the tanner not only more
hides and skins but better ones, from
which in turn would result more and
better leather. ,
The Mexican Bean Beetle
The Mexician Bean Beetle, formerly
known principally in the Southwestern
States, has spread rapidly during the
past ten years through the Eastern
States; in many localities it has been
abundant for a season and then sub-
sided, only to reappear in injurious
numbers two or three years later.
It is the most serious insect enemy of
edible beans wherever it appears in
the United States and attacks all
kinds of common garden beans, tepary
beans, Lima beans, and kidney beans.
The Mexican bean beetle when fully
mature is copper-colored and bears
16 black dots on its wings. It ap-
pears in the field about the time the
earliest planted beans show above the
ground, and all stages of the pest may
be found throughout the entire sum
mer if not controlled. The Injury
caused by the beetle is easily distin-
guished from that of other insect
pasts. The beetles and larvae feed on
the under surface of the leaves, the
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experiment stations and professor of
agriculture from 1893 to 1902, had au
active participation in the develop-
ment of demonstration work. He was
president of the Texas Farmers Con-
gress for ten years, was formerly an
agricultural editor of Texas, was pres-
ident of Oklahoma A. & M. College
for seven years and chairman of ths
Dallas County agricultural extension
committee for a number of years. He
is now located in Dallas as excutive
secretary of the Dallas Automotive
Trades Association.
“The early development of the ag-
ricultural extension work in its rela-
tion to the Texas Farmers Congress,
the State Farmers Institute, the Far-
mer Boys and Girls Leagues, the Tex-
as Bolhvevil Convention and E. H. R.
Green Demonstration Farm of Terrell
is a subject of more than historic in-
terest since it holds a promise of
greater and better things to come”,
the speaker said.
“The alarm and damage caused by
the bollwevil in the cotton fields of
Texas constitited the justification and
the immediate cause for the creation
of cooperative extension work in the
South”, he went on to say. “This
agency of our State and Federal Gov-
ernments has since that time been
most active. Working quietly as
educational influence, it has steadily
lifted the material and social condit-
ions of the rural South to higher
planes.”
The Farmers Short Course at A. &
M. is the natural successor to the Tex-
as Farmers Congress, formed of ten
distinct State organizations in 1898,
Dr. Connell said.
“Financial aid was first granted by
Congress”, he added, “for the support
of the agricultural extension work by
appropriation of $40,000 provided at
the urgent and desperate request of
those atteading the second annual
Bollwevil Convention at Dallas in
November, 1903, at which the then
Secretary of Agriculture, the Hon.
James Wilson, Dr. B. T. Galloway,
Prof. A. S. Knapp and W. D. Hunter
were present with 1200 bankers, far-
mers and merchants from all states of
the South participating.”
Charlie Hobbs and sons, George
and Clarence, together with their
families, came Sunday for a visit with
friends here. The home of the visitors
is in Abline.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Wiempie and
Leroy Flower of Dallas are visiting
J. H. Lucas and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Worden spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Cooper.
Red Garner of near Central spent
Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. W.
J. Bryant.
Marvin Flower of Wills Point spent
Satuurday night with J. H. Lucas
and family.
George Conner and family of near
Edgewood visited Mr. and Mrs. Bur-
ford Connor, Sunday.
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Jess Byford and family of near
Fruitvale spent Sunday with Dr. By-
ford and family.
K. W. Hewitt and family spent Sun-
day with Mrs. Frankie Magee.
Archie Green and family of Kansas
have been visiting with Mr. Green’s
mother, Mrs. Nora Green.
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Proctor, Willard. The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 2, 1928, newspaper, August 2, 1928; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1003990/m1/2/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Van Zandt County Library.