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IN SEARCH FOR ALTERNATE CASH CROP
Research Foundation Begins Work On Sesame
REPORT
Conservationist Discusses
Soil Survey Importance
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a^9lJ> Soil Conservation Service
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«i 'fi* Briefly, a soil survey is an
inventory of the soil resour-
-'‘Blu ces in a given area. A soil
rtxuu'i survey tells us the kinds of
soils and their individual char- plying the results of research
iirt acteristics. It tells us how the 'to individual farms and fields,
dim : soils are distributed and where Results from a given soil in
soils to grow plants, and their
response to use and manage-
ment.
Research workers use soils
information to set up crop and
fertilizer studies. A soil sur-
vey serves as a basis for ap-
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alls/ they come from and how they
Jimrcr behave.
tin tt Soils differ greatly in their
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ical composition. These differ-
ences have effects on water
—__movement, erosion susceptibil-
ity, fertility, and plant growth.
Soils that look alike on the
surface often have distinct dif-
ferences in the various layers
below the surface.
.In a soil survey, soils are
classified and named just as
are plants, animals and rocks.
one area can be applied direct-
ly to the same kind of soils
in another area with confiden-
ce.
Land appraisers find soil sur-
veys a valuable source of infor-
mation on which to base land
values. Investors, bankers, and
loan companies find soil
surveys helpful in determining
sound investments in land and
farming enterprises.
Conservation engineers use
■oil surveys to iay out terraces
and irrigation and drainage sys-
soils acre by acre and field by
field.
They dig numerous holes and
examine the different layers of
soil carefully noting the thick-
ness, color, texture and var-
ious other properties having
to do with soil behavior and pro-
ductivity.
Land Sales
Increase
In Volume
Part of the Texas farm and
ranch land market has done a
sudden about-face, according to
a survey released by Texas
They are classified intodefin- terns. They are used to deter- A&M University.
mine how fast water will enter
the soil, and how much runoff
will occur on various soils
when designing dams, water-
ways, and flood retarding struc-
tures.
Urban planning officials are
w ed units Msed on the import-
•*' ant properties such as depth,
texture, structure, color and
J number and arrangement of lay-
ers developed within them.
Soils are named after towns
or localities near the place
where they were first mapped finding soil surveys quite use-
and defined. ful in locating desirable sites
Tl: Soil surveys have many uses, for housing, schools, industry,
* Farmers can use soil surveys recreational areas and other
’"to learn the extent and location urban development.
■R of the different kitzls of soils Soil surveys are made by soil
they have, the ability of these scientists who examine the
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ft Economists at Texas A&M
$ /a miiiir am mu n m r itkw & »*y reason for steadily in-
The survey was done by F.B.
Andrews, Extension resource
development specialist, and
A.B. Wooten, professor of agri-
cultural economics, both at
A&M.
Since 1949 , Texas agri-
cultural land prices have risen
each year, but the volume of
sales has consistently declined.
In the A&M study, land prices
continued to rise—but for the
first time since 1949, the
volume of sales also increas-
reversing th^downward
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creasing prices is the urban in-
X fluence on farm and ranch land.
Urban demands of land for hob-
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rural homesites,
on and recreation
ces higher each year,
economists.
5; The'abrupt increase in volume
X of sales comes from a grow-
g ing population, with more
Income and better transporta-
tion to take them to land in the
country.
Dr. E4rl H. Collister, exe-
cutive. vice-president of the
High Plains Research Foundat-
ion at Halfway, announced that
research with the sesame plant
-one of the world’s earliest
sources of human food—will be
expanded at the Foundation dur-
ing 1966.
He stated that the Foundat-
ion’s expansion in this field of
research is necessary in order
to help meet the needs of many'
areas of Texas for alternate
cash crops which can be grown
in a diversified system of farm-
ing.
Sesame is one of the world’s
oldest food crops for humans.
Seed produced by the ancient
sesame plant is a source of
good quality vegetable oil, and
the cake or meal provides an
excellent protein for human
foods, poultry, and livestock.
The high quality sesame pro-
tein can be used in the enrich-
ment of many human foods.
Sesame meal is rich in vita-
min B, calcium, and phospho-
rus. Sesame seeds contain ap-
proximately 50 percent oil, 25
percent protein, 11 percent car-
bohydrates, 5 percent ash, 4
percent crude fiber and 5 per-
cent moisture.
In addition to being an excell-
ent oil for cooking, oleomar-
gerine and shortenings, sesame
oils can be used in the manu-
facturing of paints, soaps, cos-
metics, perfumes, insecticides
and pharmaceutical products.
The seeds are used in garnish-
ing bakery products and in the
manufacturing of food snacks
and candies.
The objective of the Foun-
dation’s research program with
sesame is to develop high yield-
ing non-shattering varieties
adapted to harvesting with
a grain combine. In all of the
countries throughout the world
where sesame is grown, it must
be hand-harvested when the
seeds ripen since the plants
will shatter their seed.
500 experimental strains will
be used in the Foundation’s re-
search work with this important
world food crop during 1966.
These experimental strains
have been developed in the
Foundations’ research work
with sesame during the past
9 years.
New sources of breeding
material are currently being
received from scientists in 20
countries; These seeds are
being furnished at the Foun-
dation on a direct exchange
basis so that desirable gene-
tic traits can be selected for
use in the breeding work at
Halfway.
Seeds of several sesame
strains are being irradiated
at the Atomic Energy Labor-
Wildlife Dept.
Begins Count
Panhandle and West Texas
field men have begun accumu-
lating population data on wild
turkeys, antelope, deer , big-
horn sheep, aoudad sheep and
pheasants, according to Jack
K. Parsons, regional wildlife
supervisor for the Texas Parks
and Wildlife Department.
Springtime counts are import-
ant since they tell wildlife work-
ers how many animals surviv-
ed the rigors of winter and will
be available to participate in the
springtime reproductive effort.
atory at Oakridge, Tennessee
by Dr. Osborne, associate pro-
fessor, plant genetics.
The purpose of this work is to
induce mutations by breaking
the chromosomes with a source
of irradiation energy, and
thereby possibly bring about
new and unusual plant types.
The Foundation’s goal is to
develop high yielding varieties
adapted to complete mechani-
zation for production under ir-
rigated and dry land conditions.
The paper-shell, non-shattering
pod characteristic is being used
in developing impfbved var-
ieties. The paper-shell pod can
be threshed easily with a regu-
lar grain combine.
In commenting further about
the Foundation’s research work
with sesame, Collister said,
“Sesame offers a possibility
of aleviating some of the hun-
ger and starvation throughout
the world by providing a good
source of protein, minerals, a very definite opportunity to
and vitamins as a natural food, be used as a world food crop
Since it can be grown through- at the future.”
out many countries, it affords
Texas Homemaker
Picked As Tops
Big Decline Figured
In Cotton Production
LUBBOCK (Special) Farmers
in the 23 Texas High Plains
counties have signed up toplant
1,451,407 acres of cotton in
1966—28.2 percent or 570,223
acres less than the 2,021,630
final planted acres on the Plains
in 1965. This will be by far
the lowest planted acreage for
the area in many years.
The 1966 planting intentions
were given to PCG by the State
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service office at
College Station. The figures
were compiled from county AS-
CS reports on farmer sign-up
in the 1966 cotton program
through April 1. The actual
sign-up period was extended
through April 8, but virtually
all Plains farmers who intend-
ed to participate in the program
had signed up by April 1, so
for all practical purposes, the
figures are final.
Producers in the area indicat-
ed they would divert 704,809
at the 2,156,216 acres that were
eligible for the wmual program.
That comes to 32.7 percent,
as compared to the state aver-
age diversion of 21.6 percent.
' Many observer*, including the
writer, had previously calculat-
ed that the overall 1966 acreage
reduction from 1965 would be
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COTTON MARKET PRICES
Spot cotton prices quoted on the Lubbock market on April 22,
1966 as reported to the Cotton Division, Consumer and Market-
ii« Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture and comparable
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1965 Loan Value
27.61
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28.96
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Raisin Supply High In May
What’s your favorite use of
raisins? Whatever it is, May’s
a good time to use lots of rai-
sins, says Texas Agricultural
Extension Service.
They’re the featured item on
the May list of plentiful foods.
Also included on the "plenti-
tols” list of the U.S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture are honey,
grape juice, scallops, crabs,
and crab meat.
Honey and the two grape pro-
ducts are carryovers from the
April plentifUls list, as supplies
continue In unusual abundance
on into May. Honey stocks are
slightly less than the 1964 near-
record level, but well above
1962 and 1963 figures.
Raisin production is estimat-
ed at the largest In 13 years.
And production of American
type grapes used for grap*‘
juice was five percent larger
than the previous year.
Scallops In cold storage figure
at 5 million pounds, twice as
much as last year. The sea-
food Industry has adjusted
prices In favor of the consum-
er.
USDA’s Consumer and Mar-
keting Service also reports
plentiful supplies of crabs and
crab meat this month—the ans-
wer to meals that are really
different and delicious.
The Chicago Cubs won eight
games from the Los Angeles
Dodgers in 1965. Pitcher Dick
Ellsworth won four of them.
WE'RE NOW IN THE
DIRTWORK
BUSINESS
WATER OR LAND
CONSERVATION WORK
TERRACING, LAKE PI MP INSTALLATION
_AND MAINTAINER WORK.__
LEVELLAND IRRIGATION SUPPLY
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LEVELLAND PHONE 894-5445
very close to the 35 percent
maximum diversion permitted
under the new law. And the
drop from the 1965 effective
allotment for the area is, in
fact, 803,738 acres or a little
over 35 percent.
But this figure is not too
meaningful in view of the fact
that 233,615 acres of the area’s
allotted 2,255,245 acres were
not planted in 1965, but were in
the old soil bank or were divert-
ed under the 1965 domestic al-
lotment program.
And In all likelihood, all of
the acreage that farmers have
said they intend to plant in
1966 won’t actually be planted.
There will be some degree of
underplanting by most farmers
to avoid the stiff penalties at-
tached to any acreage planted
above the producer’s signed in-
tentions.
This will amount to no more
than an acre or two per farm-
er, however, and final planted
acres should still add up to
over 1,400,000.
It was necessary this year to
include several new factors in
the average calculations. The
original 23-county allotment
was 2,122,770 acres, but there
were 13,324 of these in the soil
bank or in the new cropland ad-
justment program, leaving only
2,109,446 acres of the base al-
lotment eligible for the annual
slgn-up.
Still, the total acreage avail-
able for the slgn-up was report-
ed by the state ASCS office to
be 2,156,216- considerably
more than was eligible from
the base allotment.
This fact is presumably ac-
counted for by a net gain of
46,770 acres on the Plains from
purchases or leases of allot-
ments or from acreage trans-
fers between farms of the same
ownership. Such transactions
were permitted for the first
time this year under the new
cotton law.
It had been estimated that the
Plains got somewhere between
50,000 and 60,000 acres through
purchases and leases, and that
estimate is probably about right
even though the “net” gain In
acres was only 46,770.
Hils is because virtually all
allotment transfers within the
area between farms of the same
ownership were from low-yield
farms to high-yield farms, cau-
sing a reduction of the transfer-
red acreage. For example,
three High Plains counties act-
ually lost acres by way of
owner transfers.
Dickens County’s total acre-
age dropped 1,205, Garza show-
ed a loss of 505 and Motley
County went down 219 acres.
However in terms of bales pro-
duced, there should be no loss
because of the higher expected
per-acre production from
farms to which acres were
transferred.
Not Included In the acres pro-
ducers Intend planting in 1966
are any that may be planted un-
der the export acreage provis-
ions of the program. But these
are not expected to total enough
to materially affect the Plains
output for 1966. Also to be con-
sidered is the fact it isn’t too
late for allotments to be plac-
ed In the cropland adjustment
program. But his isn’t likely
to have any great effect either.
There are some who predict
that substantial increases in
per-acre yields from the redu-
ced acreage this year will
soften the effect on number of
bales produced. Others main-
tain that, with a big portion
of their incofhe from direct
government payments, produc-
ers will cut to the bone costs
on planted acreage and per-acre
yields may actually go down.
Both schools are probably right
In some Instances and wrong In
others.
So, for such an early product-
ion estimate, tt’s probably Just
as well to assume yields simi-
lar to those of 1965 and reduce
production by the same percen-
tage as the Indicated acreage
cut-28.2 percent.
A petite Bowie County farm
wife, Mrs. Jewel C. Ham age of
Route 1, Hooks, has been nam-
ed Texas’ champion conservat-
ion homemaker for 1966.
She helps her husband oper-
ate their 375-acre farm and
also applies many conservat-
ion measures in her home man-
agement program.
The conservation homemaker
recognition program is part of
the annual “Save the Soil and
Save Texas” awards program,
which seeks outstanding farm-
ers, ranchers and homemakers
of the state. Mrs. Ramage and
other state winners will be hon-
ored at a dinner program May
6 in Fort Worth.
Five regional winners also
have been selected in the con-
servation homemaker program
according to Mrs. Florence W.
Low, Texas A&M University
Agricultural Extension assist-
ant director for home econom-
ics, who coordinates this phase
of the awards program.
Mrs. Jimmie White of Route
2, Muleshoe, Bailey County,
is the winner in Region I. Mrs.
White helps her husband oper-
ate an irrigated cotton and grain
farm while applying time and
energy conservation measures
in the home. Mrs. White and
other Region I winners will
be honored at a program in
Hereford, May 17.
Claiming the award in Reg-
ion D is Mrs. Elmer Lich,
Route 1, Comfort, who assists
her husband in operating a 2,-
486-acre ranch just inside Kerr
County, and a farm near Fred-
ericksburg. Region II winners
will be honored May 13 in Ea-
gle Pass.
The Region III winner is Mrs.
J ames E. Seay, Atascosa Coun-
ty homemaker who assists her
husband in operating a 200-
acre irrigated farm and a 470-
acre livestock farming ope rat-
No Benefit
For Cattle
From Drugs
“You can’t look across the
fence and tell if an animal
is suffering from parasites, or
an empty feed trough,” said
Dr. R.R. Bell of Texas A&M
University’s College of Veteri-
nary Medicine.
Bell was speaking at the Sheep
and Goat Field Day at A&M’s
Livestock and Forage Resear-
ch Center near here.
Using drugs without good care
and feeding will not control
parasites. Controlling internal
parasites still depends on good
management and good nutrition,
said Bell.
He continued, “When an ani-
mal is suffering from para-
sitism, it’s fine to treat the
animal, but it’s even better to
correct the conditions that led
to the problem. There is no
benefit to treating with drugs-
in fact, it Is harmful—when the
animals are hungry, rather than
suffering from parasitism.”
Presently, said Bell, we rec-
ommend Thibenzole and Pheno-
thiazine as treatments. Pasture
rotation will help in Internal
parasite control if the pastures
are left vacant for at least 60
days.
ion in the Blacfchill Commun-
ity of the county. The Seay
farm address it Route 3, Flor-
es vi lie. A dinner at Eagle Lake
on May 14 will honor Mrs.
Seay and other Region III wliw
ners. '
Top conservation homemak-
er in Region IV is Mrs. Ralph
Metcalf, Beckville, ”
County, who assists
band in operating a---
farm in the Harris Chapel u—
munity. A dinner at Marshall
May 10, will honor Region IV
winners.
Region V winner is Mrs. Ro-
ger A. George, Stephenvtlle,
Erath County, who helps her
husband operate a beef enter-
prise and peanut farm. Mrs.
George and other Region V
winners will be honored at a
dinner May 21 at Mineral Wells.
Weight Gain
Determines
Profit, Loss
How efficiently a beef ani-
mal utilizes its feed or forage
can make the difference bet-
ween profit and loss to s cattle-
man.
Research being done at Tex-
as A&M University’s Livestock
and Forage Research Center,
McGregor, shows rapid gain-
ing cattle are also the most
efficient In terms of feed eaten
per pound of gain.
Naturally, animals which put
on more weight in a specified
period of time eat more-taut
this A&M research shows they
use the extra feed more ef-
ficiently to put on weight.
The research is being done
by Walter Kruse, animal hus-
bandman at McGregor, T.C.
tfMUVSUu
King, meat investigations spec-
ialist at A&M.
What does the feed efficiency
research mean to the cattle-
man? To a cow-calf operator,
it means he should select rapid
gaining animals tor his breed-
ing stock according to D.D.
Thompson, Extension ani-
mal husbandman. Since gaina-
bility is highly heritable, the
offspring should also be rapid
gainers, he says.
In view of this, heavier cal-
ves at weaning appear to be
the better bets tor feedlot cf-
ficiency or to keep as
stock.
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What Everyone
Should Do
BEFORE
STARTING
Home Remodeling Work
First Get estimates from reliable contractors in the
interest of good work at a fair price.
Second, if credit help is needed, get the details on a
title one FHA home improvement loan from the Level-
land Savings and Loan Association - in the Interest
of really ecomomlclal financing.
Why not see the 1 eve Hand Savings and Loan soon
for YOUR home remodeling project?
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Loan Association
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