The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1937 Page: 3 of 8
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. rorNTY PAPER
THE FAIRFIELD RECORDER, FAIRFIELD, TEXAS AUGUST 26, 1937
PAGE THREE
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FARM AND HOME DEPARTMENT
► ►
It Pays To
keep Annual
{arm Records
I * farmer accompanied two car-
Lj, of his livestock to market to
f .old On the way in, he picked up
| newspaper and noted that one of
|iirpl. banks was advertising
looey a: Per cent' After the
((tlJ were sold, he went to that
I; and asked about the 3 1-2 per
nt money. “1 have,” he said, “300
tad of pood beef cattle, and I would
ke to borrow $3,500.00 on them. Do
oU consider that' sufficient sucuri-
... He was told that they would
( speculating if they loaned money
„ cattle. By the time the banker had
>ld his position relative to good loans
,is farmer was ready to quit farm-
igand open up a peanut stand. “You
can to tell me,” he asked, “that a
iloonkeeper is a better risk than
ittlc?" He was told it was the case,
ecause the saloonkeeper knew to a
raction of a cent his margin of pro-
knew all the factors that went
fcto the cost of the product he is
[piling; while the farmer might have
high market one day and allow
ne the next, and his margin of pro-
t was so uncertain that a loan on
Lttle would reduce itself to a specu-
ftion. “You know,” said the farmer,
came away from that bank thoro-
ghly convinced inai the big banker
s not thinking very much about the
urns that feed the city’s industries
ith their raw mlaterial and are a
larket for the goods they sell and
roduce. Any other kind of business
in get money at lower interest rotes
lan the farmer.”
J There is another angle to this,
inly a few farmers out of every thou-
and keep books or have records cov-
ring a period of years from which a
anker can make up his mind as to
,-hat kind of risk he is. Even a
icyele repair shop is able to give
I better analysis of its business than
average farm. Undoubtedly when
lie farmer begins to treat his busi-
less with the same attention to keep-
f.g records, he will be able to go in-
any bank and get the flame rate
If interest and get his loan through
nth the same speed as any other
I’.-iness man.
Resettlement
Efficiency In
Texas-Oklahoma
Texas Farmers
Show Interest In
Quality Cotton
Figures Favor
Long Staple
Cotton In Texas
Figures presented by the regional
office of the Resettlement Adminis-
tration in Dallas indicate that farm
units are being built in Texas and
Oklahoma much more economically
than in Virginia. The average cost
here is $2,312, or less than one-thrd
the cost of the Virginia projects as
reported by Senator Byrd. The Texas
figures includes dwelling, barn
chicken house and outdoor toilet.
These farm homes are being built
by the lowest bidder among twenty-
five Texas contractors, and the cost
represents everything except admin-
istrative overhead. The overhead ex-
pense is now being reduced by the
release of nearly a hundred executive
and technical employees. The land
for Resettlement projects has been
bought at low prices, and some sel-
lers have tried to cancel their con-
tracts because of higher bids receiv-
ed later from prospective private
buyers.
Those who buy Resettlement homes
should be able to pay for them from
farm income derived from crops
grown, provided reasonable crop
prices continue to prevail. While the
Resettlement Administration has not
had enough funds to reach more
than a small part of those who need
help toward home ownership, n 1ms
done an admirable job of rehabilita-
tion for thousands of depressed farm-
ers in the Southwest.
Formula For Fall Garden Success Given
By Extension Service Horticulturist
Removing Rust
From Farm Tools
lay Hill
1H Club News
Rust may often be removed from
saws and other tools by the use
of sandpaper or emery cloth of a fine
grit which will not leave scratches on
the surface. Even the most stubborn
rust cun be removed by wetting the
surface with water and rubbing with
rock pumice stone. The pumice stone
may be obtained at most drug stores.
Wood bits may be cleaned by clamp-
ing in a vise, wrapping diagonally
with a small rope or a single strand
of a larger rope which has been
been oiled and covered with powdered
pumice stone, and then pulling the
ends back and forth. All tools that
are not in everyday use should be
covered with a thin coat of oil to
prevent rusting.
The Clay Hill 4-H Club met in
Jtgular session Monday night, Aug-
ust 23 with County Agent J. W.
liihards, Jr., and Assistant County
fgent T. E. Huddleston present. |
jlans were discussed with the boys '•
In getting their exhibits ready for j
Jt 4-H Club Show to be held the [
Put Saturday in October and each j
ley reported to the county Agent;
Jhe kind and number of items h«
fould have ready for exhibit. In-
fractions were also given the boys
i making a halter out of their Home
fanned Leather they have made for
|isPlay in the show. The boys were
<>nght how to make various sizes of
hread for sewing leather and also
lev. to use the gauge knife in cutting
Jt of leather in uniform widths,
•minus articles made by the Clay
JH Club as well as other clubs in the
funty will be on display in the coun-
: cent's office from time to time
f"' •aimers are invited to come in
ImI see what the 4-H Club Boys can
Burlap bags were used to canvas
the bedroom of Vera Mae Owens,
Montague county 4-H club girl. “I
selected the very best bags I could
find, washed and pressed them, tacked
them to the bare walls, and covered
them with paper," she said.
“Texas farmers are exhibiting more
interest in the production of ‘quali-
[ ty’ cotton than ever before,” E. A.
j Miller, agronomist of the Texas Ex-
| tension Service, reported at the end
of a series of county wide meetings
at which the Texas cotton situation
i was discussed.
Miller, in the company of F. E.
Lichte, extension cotton gin special-
ist, and Roy Saunders, of the feder-
al cotton experiment station at Green-
ville. held a series of 41 meetings in
as many counties. More than 5,400
cotton farmers and others interested
in the cotton industry attended the
sessions.
For a number of years various
agencies connected with the Texas
cotton industry have made uncoordi-
nated drives to improve the quality
of Texas cotton. Early n 1937, the
agencies united in a tacit agreement
to fully inform Texas farmers of the
situation. Miller believes that the
movement will bring about a definite
improvement in 1938. He sees consid-
erable evidence of such improvement
during the current season.
At the meetings, Miller reviewed
the cotton season of 1936. He point-
ed out 21 per cent of the crop had
a steple length of 7-8 inch or less;
and that 62 per cent was less than
15-16 inch staple. Exportors want
cotton of 15-16 to one inch staple to
compete with the tremendous amount
of good quality cotton now being pro-
duced in foreign countries.
Some farmers at the meetings re-
membered the time when a Texas
waybill on a bale of cotton assured
that bale of a premium above the
market. Spinners wanted the inon
staple and uniformity of Texas cott-
on. and thev were wiling to pay for
j it. Now foreign spinners look else-
where for quality cotton.
Many persons connected with the
cotton industry tend to the belief that
| the greatest obstacle in the in prove-
f ment of the quality of Texas cotton
is the “hog round” system. Miller
quoted A. M. Dickson of the Division
of Marketing and Marketing Agree-
ments of the United States Deparrt-
1 ment of Agriculture as saying. “Ex-
perience has shown that when farm-
ers are unable to bargain for and ob-
tain better prices for the better quali-
ties of cotton, they become discour-
aged and tend to abandon efforts to
improve quality.
J. W. RICHARDS, Co. Agt.
The Bureau of Agricultural Econo-
mics of the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture has compiled a
table showing the lengths of staple
and the grades of cotton grown in
Texas. They have divided the State
into eleven districts for this purpose.
Freestone County is located in Dist-
rict No. 8 with thirty other North-
east counties.
Thus far this season District No. 8
shows to have 23.5 per cent of its
staple shorter than 7-8 inch, 37.4 per
cent 7-8 and 29-32 inch; and 34.1 per
cent 15-16 and 31-32. As a compari-
son, District 9, just south of District
8 shows to have only .2 per cent
shorter than 7-8 inch; 10.1 per cent
7.18 and 29-32 inch; and 45.7 per
centl5-16 and 31-32.
The nearest approach that any dist-
rict mal^s toward competing with
District No. 8 for short staple cot-
ton is District 4 in Southwest Texas
which has 8.5 per cent staple shorter
than 7-8 inch. This still leaves our
home district with 15 per cent more
short staple cotton than any other
district in the State. Is there any
wonder then that we cannot get the
J better price for our cotton that some
areas are getting ? Last week 50 bales ;
of long staple cotton produced by
one farmer in this county sold for
100 points (or a cent a pound) above
the market price. Think of what it
i would mean to the farmers of Free-
I stone County if all of the cotton
sold this year brought lc above the
i market price. A 15,000 bale crop
1 would mean $75,000 or almost as
much as the Government paid Free-
stone County farmers for participa-
1 tion in the Agricultural Conservation
Program last year. Surely this is a
way that farmers couia help them-
t selves in addition to the help being
given by the Farm Programs.
Use a tablespoon of salt in your
j starch and it will not stick to your
I iron. It will also preserve colors in
clothes.
A new idea in mirrors is to make
them from pink tinted glass. Mir-
rors of this kind are said to give
flattering reflections.
As the beginning of an orchid, 150
small peach trees grown from seed
have been set in rows by Mrs. Bob
Nelson of Cooke county. She set them
on slightly sloping ground to give air
thoroughly pulverized and the trees
and water drainage. The soil was
set out. She plans to re-set them into
i an orchid next year.
Club Women-Girls
Stress Bedroom
Improvement
Central Texas home demonstration
club women and 4-H club girls, work-
ing under the supervision of county
home demonstr&tion agents, are stres-
sing bedroom improvement work at
present.
A room that once had whitewashed !
walls, rough floors and many holes
where rats entered has been changed
into a comfortable room for her
daughters by Mrs. Clark Newson of j
Tarrant county. The holes were cov-
ered with tin and the walls were can-
vassed and papered for the first
time since the house was built more
than 25 years ago.
The floors were scraped, sanded
and varnished a light oak. A clothes
closet was built of scrap lumber, and
seven pieces of furniture were refin-
ished. The work cost only $9.50.
A standard bed is the outstanding
achievement in the bedroom of La-
Nelle Wall of Burnet county. A new
mattress was made from 50 pounds
of cotton by club women and girls in
the county. Extra slats were added
so that there would be one for “"eh
row of coils in the springs. LaNelle
made her spring cover of old cotton
sacks and her mattress cover and
spring protector were made out of
feed sacks.
An old fashioned bed with high
headboard was made to look modern
by Mimmie Marion, Collin county
4-H club girl who used the footboard
for the headboard and cut down the
high headboard to match. From the
pieces left from the original head-
board she has a magaz:ne r»rl; made
tor her room.
In making a stool for her dressing
table, a table leaf was used for the
top and four legs were obtained
fr .'rn an cld worn out incubator, l'be
stool was stained and varnished to
match the other furniture in her room.
COLLEGE STATION. — "Fresh
vegetables, as supplied by fall gar-
dens, are necessary to supply variety
in the fall and winter I diet,” says
J. F. Rosborough, horticulturist of
the Texas Extension Service, who
gives a series of suggestions which
will make the fall garden more suc-
cessful.
Rosborough divides vegetables in-
to three groups on a basis of maturi-
ty. South Texas gardens may contain
all three groups, early, medium and
slow maturing plants. Central and
North Texas gardens may carry the
medium and early maturing plants.
Only the early group can reasonably
be expected to mature in the Pan-
handle and Plains section.
Included in the early group arc
mustard, radishes, turnips, leafy let-
tuce, and similar vegetables which
will be ready for harvest in around 45
days. The medium group is made up
of Irish potatoes, beets, onions from
sets, Swiss chard, collards, and the
like, which will mature in 60 to 70
days. The slow maturing group in-
cludes spinach, cabbage, carrots,
beans, and similar types, which re-
quire about 100 days to reach maturi-
ty.
Summer weeds should be cut and
removed from the garden site, Ros-
borough said, as they will dry out
the soil through heat generated by
decay. From three to four wagon
loads of well rotted manure per half
acre of garden will hold moisture
and help growth.
Rosborough warned that fall gar-
dens should not be planted until rains
! had provided plentiful subsoil mois-
1 ture. To isure a fair stand of fall
! vegetables thicker Tate than is nec-
| essary in the spring.
-o-
About 10 years ago Guy Powell,
I county agricultural agent, top work-
I ed a small pecan tree for Knowles W.
Howard of Wise county. From this
small beginning, and the inspiration
gained, Howard now has betwwen
800 and 900 trees producing improved
! varieties of paper shell pecans which
he has top worked himself.
never beeore
CAR « SRCAAPWtt
access In
fulling Walnuts
fVith Corn Shelter
REAL ICE
Best!”
ordinary corn sheller found on
■' average farm makes an excellent
niloimnt for shelling walnuts and
r~*r buts, without the annoyance of
I*......I fingers. The sheller should be
|Ul’nwl slowly, and the walnuts al-
T""1 run in one at a time, just
r ’h"ugh they were ears of corn.
J *vy nuts will fall down, while
[ i't'hter hulls will be thrown out
I ’2rr?s
|! th«*
"lachini* ju*t iik the* corncob*
[" 1" make the hulling easy, the
?' should be turning black, but
not lie dried to utiv groa' ex-
' Pair of old gloves will pre-
* ’ "tiing the hands when feed-
'' nuts into the huller.
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1937, newspaper, August 26, 1937; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1119876/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.