The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, September 15, 1939 Page: 4 of 10
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FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER
The Alvin Sun. Alvin and Brazoria County's Oldest —Established 1S90,
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School Board
OK’s Mustang
Bus; Pay Bills
Poultry Industry Gives Texas
$44,000,000 Income Each Year
State
and Industrial Guide
st Class
ew Offic
School Boarders
And Commissioner
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in recent
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County Fair To
Offer $1200 In
Prizes, Awards
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By W. O. COX
Manaxrr Agricultural Drpt.
Houston ChaiiitM-r of Commerce
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•n this week
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highway
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for the taxpayers I
important know-1
having al
properly,!
gentlemen:,
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is in better
from the us.
i ntil it is saved, and It
when stored for fu-
consumed by It'*
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conditio
when harv
and
Buddy Holland-*
(continued fiom page one)
FORD 1
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Vailace Urges
Farmers To Go
Easy On Planting
VISITS* HER
nd Mrs Fran
Wren of Chocc
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ihd .Mrs J L»ot!
! be an mere
BRING OR SEND YOUR $1.50 TODAY
For Moil DeHver,.. of t(ie TEXAS ALMANAC, Add ,5c f J
ALVIN SUN
OLDEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN SOUTH TEXAS— j
iion oi the _ ____r_ _ _
able certainly not in the near fu-
ture In any cam* the need for
increase in supplies can be an-
ticipated in ample time to make
any mcenary increases in acreage i
-->ar> wheat carryover t
at 254 million bushels , ]
1)
the.Ir oni
Magnolia. Texas and Gulf
Manolind Hastings Field
Stu noli mi completed one
this week when
the Pete MeDoni
feet N-
run hut
and is fl
ing pre-
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OFFERING,
NOTICE .TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS AND
dion test has been
I being swabbed
11® the pits Tub -t
New Representative
For TSES In Alvin
Texas
they
lace's letter;
"There is little likhhood
..... . uv miKvi nrxi year if mn
Any substantial increase in produc- than this year, and continued heavvltinn
nun oi me major crops is desir-
vs of the value
I Allow plenty
cate the proper
trench silo be-
your fet'd is ready to harvest
county argicul-
ational teacher,
either of whom will be pleased to
you in |
build al
ith the I
I construction of a
rved as ■ drove in per-
nties of .south and Cm-
thaf with a few excep-
od fe«*d crop has been
Texas has less acreage
his year than any time
and much of the re-.
ifef
p
.. To
live
news J
and
it of Nannie Mat
etary to Kuperinten
as approved
as
w.
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Answers practically all questions asked
about Texas. It contains 512 pages of up-
to-date information about the state's re-
sources, industries, finance, commerce,
transportation, politics and governmenT
arts, population, etc.
An adjustment by nations, by
»te», and by individual farms, is
finitely taking place To elab-
e change in argicultura!
would necessitate giv-
which an* available to
government pamphlets,
often appeared in the
J. H.
“Franklin D. Rouse
name of Tyler s n.-w,
invention of rose gr
McClung The n< .
ented and it first an
sport of the well k
U prichard rose bush. :
] says.
The bloom of the n<
a large, double-petal
bright red color that
long straight stems or c
K open the bloom is
and one-half inches in aianMil
The buds arc oblong and very m
This new rose occurs both
■--1 »nd as a sem i-climber. M
of the plants produced from -hj
buds will grow to a height of J
or three feet, while other pM
from th" buds Wil! gr •■. ;.:n tjJ
or seven feet I
ed by Mr :
>g the old!
for valun
Home Town
Today the corn h
cows arerrf*m a on
ten. and b*v
(and breei
r akd st*«
Z' 6U,II{ j
a more!
Is there I Confpr wUh y,
e to be-.turaJ afi.(.nt or
‘d ays-1 -
other | supply details and assist
a, making your plans to
I”‘/' trench silo
It is said that the first trench
silo was constructed in the United
jstati-s in 1915. but it was not until
,e 1923 that the trench silo became
'n J well know n a» a practice of stor-
Making the crop is not
and that is the feed
duction on the fan
IS tM'Jieved that th
i’y- Pmfesior D ,
the A and M
WHIH
i COSO
j all Texas eggx but d»:
• df-mami
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New Tyler Rose
Named for FDI
truck whirl
ward Houst-
Businessmen, students, teachers, investors-
farmers—anyone who is likely to need fac-
tual information about the state will find
the Texas Almanac invaluable A copy
should be in every home, on even’ busi-
nessman’s desk, in every schoolroom and
library, on every reference shelf.
oultry Texas has an Indus ment in quality
vt grosses around S44.OOO.OtX) Reid, head of t«,«-
i and the state has come try Department.
iowh<r. in the national pic- one out of every
rank fifth in number of produced for ma
ns. fifth in total value of This high pent
reduced, and eighth in value eggs not only low
Itry produced for market. “ ~
industry, often fuigulLcii be
of Texas' predominam
oductiun of ( uttun and llve-
contribtrtes an annual gross
to the sale of a million bales
on at eight cents per pound, j
is poultry producers have an |
nent ot Sl.i.imO.UUu in their
chickens, and in 1938
W.000.000 from sale of
0.000 from turkeys, and
from dressed poultry.
11 H. Williamson of
A. and M College Ex-
vice points out that this
able rating when it is
that Texas is a long
eastern markets and
of the advance has been!
he past 25 years.
,lnw- J' t7"|XS
re to got what they L-.,
of poultry, there must L
ease in the quantity and«
poultry and poultry pro-! *”
ed for market." th" di - (i^us^
J of xurvival of Southern
I The great demand fur
I stocker calves and t:
existed on al! the st
• many months past m t
I dence of what U ta
(Thousands of calves m
going from tne rahen
j may be termed the "cc
; in past years there 1
I pen entage of the crop
i purchased animals to c
j surplus feed produced
i have been known as I
! in most cases, fed 10O oi
| of live stock each yt
I these feeder calves an
{going out in lots of fn
! fifteen.
A young farmer in a c
' than 100 miles from Houston, who
I has produced a surplus of feed for
I his normal needs, told me last
| week that he had purch.
j calves which he plans
the next several mon)
i than sell his feed for
that he had been offered. This J 3 m
| is his first attempt to feed calves. '' "n. Mr<
II not only advised him. but urged *'’ls
Ithat he "Atari his county agent. " „ M
land to also discuss his feed meth- v ’’ ■*’>****• "hei"
. ™ji with some gucceaafui feeder a ^pw days visit with Mrs.
individual problems , jn hi, community
fflcul! In many cases!— -------■ *
efficiently solve. This shift ingj
enterprise seems io l>e e w-o"-1'*
influence!*ide movement and at what point
tion to profit more-
trench silos than is j
t area. From the |
this fertile region ' *
tr-*d principally in
cat tie. With
and. South Te
its efforts to 1
it
Um I
*
Urge J
llfrM n 1 r
ki *
,,h"
STAYS SOfRtSH 3 *1
I ANOSWUT
pass up this opportunity to get Your
Paper and the Texas Almanac
at this bargain price.
i ,<k business read like an adven- I
, ture story, and the men who are j
j 1 -<|»ons)hte for its developments.)
! ->ss0M all those characteristics I
! hich win admiration for the he-1
>es of fiction and history “
'cornmend the feeding of
stock on Texas farms is not 1
l he same story has beer, told 1
. irgi-rl in every county in this state I
I H Hammack of Angleton and! The Texas Extension Service.
Navasota has been aptxiinted re-i',r>g a proponent of a balanced!
preventative for the Texas State f 'tm program, has pointed out the
Employment Service in Alvin to 1’vantages of having on all farms,
si.jH-n .-de W A Hatnrkk, who haa 1 sufficient number of live stuck 1
been serving in that capacity for efficiently uiillrr the feed pro-
over h year I luced The Texas Experiment
The Employment Service bureau! ',a’lon has been engaged in a
is open every Thursday morning 1 program to determine the most
-n the City hall for the purp.,* of -fn^tent f»wttng practice* using
raking registrations from persons' angularly and tn combination, the
wanting work, and assisting themjl'finclpal kinds of feeds produced
to find positions in this state. Other agencies, par
-----7------- ticularly farm magazines have
•r than th" 1938-39 supply added to the campaign to Interest
Supplies of meal animals are.the farmer in an animal produc-
expected to be larger next yearltu
• la this tire, advanced construc-
tion provides greater safety,
silence and beauty. New type tire
body gives greater protection
against tire knling heat. Dual type
tread provides sure-footed trac-
tion and quicker, straight-line
Inn and crop production comblXU. stops. You11 feel safet and look
oruducti 11 of n.HL ”th,r’faii”’.’ ' rt * ■“ >u««ticr widi liicsc new Mansueid
l.pX rariS l L. “ * SuP*r'or Tire,. Sn them iod.,1
.it 3u, (Hies oi,.tame and a xu»tai::ing system. !
cotion seed oil. lard and th.. «.y.lA|| 0( m, work has laid a splendu I
bean oil available tor home eon- toundalion tor the tran«itlon which I
sumption will be larger during the condition, have battened !
■. . - -.........- I!”* ,h" >',r ‘n'’ 1SM0 '*>•» In the tac- ot lhew heu. It Ul
3.771?*^. k-mnarj are avaHabl.U monf .crew to :
to 1928 Th/ll.i.'nt'l ,r°m |,rrv'"1 prl" Theyltrom cMton In the >e.ra to tob'
10 1928. rhe pmnt l«.-g.. supplyican prevent such n diouter t"ll»w—the p-oM a----..., 1
nt corn prr.N.My will make .he t.rmrr, betcll cotton grower.ltlt.ble m^ket to.I
total rapply tor 1939.M even lar*. ta -.JU-IJ- product open, but I
who is llv ing at E
of the accident
The body of Hol!
funeral arrangeme
XTe^t^rm'en'.
the adjustments al this tii
be the first to return to
stable farming system” I
iny evidence to cause one
ckuell After hearing the old!11* '’' 1 * r”»urn to the old
u»tlon and i-iu.-.l lor v.hm vlfw’ On lh-’
t by Judge Rucks a compromise hunf* have we not learned (hai
i re,i< hod [continued increase in cotton pr
: E. I homjMon. termite control dur,,on in for','Kn countries, is In j
n of Wharton told the ta»ard‘p,us,‘*H ’ ’,u*r'‘by creating even a!
I termites .sere infesting thei*r‘‘a,''r need ,o Either adjust the
h school building and offered!?,1 r*’*g’ ’l,ante<1 ,o cotton in the
do the work on a five year ‘ State*,, which, as has been
rantee The need for t< rmite'p”‘n,P<1 <>ut’ ,,rinS* about adjust-!
trot was <lix, ii««ub| py th" Iw-ard nu’nl* an£* **♦* problems for the)
referred to the Grounds an--,i,ndiv’dutt* f*’rni
■I ■■ . ci..... t.» imihc, in 1 'Ici'i'Miig venr 11 "" ■ —
to feed crops of a wide!
Although TWxas has led!
lorn states in corn pro-
•tion for many years, from ob-
v at ion. I am of the opinion that
busses on [the yield and acreage will be much
Richmond, greater than heretofore. Forage
(crops have done well in most parks
and an- available in greater quan !
Cities than the farmer Is
tomed to handling
1 he adjustment by nations hasjods with some successful feeder
- rented new individual problems .jn hi, community 1 believe that
that will be difficult in many cases|one would find this procedure »»
This shift mg |a beginner, profitable
- l»e a world- There is known to Texas farm-
exert.d his influence I wide movement and at what point ers, a method of storing latg<
A headquarters m,production of agricultural crops, quantities of fe.M at a minimum
it - '. t<x.k th" Alvin-[by nation- will again "level off" cost Th" trench silo has been S’’nd;
ami showed them11 have not been able to satisfy my-1 tried and proven as a «af. sure h<
great mg way Has" wl «ifh an answer. | and economical way to store feed m
ratlin broadcasts and* j'm» proper utilisation of the| It Is gaining rapidly in popularity
•■re part of the cour- iexas feed crops will necessitate | throughout the country as a prac-
e-t the ha|M*r'<>nes (h<> following of new practices on i t cal method to save a big feed
The crop until it is needed, be it six
many. | months or six years, and it will be
un my ■; well to use the trench silo at thia
sale" (time to maintain
uoted th" 19'15 farm ccn-
ires showing that the aver-
xiuctic-n of hens on Texas
x as only 53 eggs per hen.«__
Mie. poultry demonsrators
: with county argicultural t
me demonstration agents •
ought their flocks' average f
ion up to 176 eggs a hen. [:
r 75.000 Texas farm fami-11
ve no poultry flocks, and |
round 50 laying hens re-1
t-> produce enough eggs for il
-rage family .there is room
additional 4.000.000 chick- g
! th" f arket
from improvement of
g flocks and flock manage-
her. belies e
Commenting on a statement from
Secretmy of Agriculture Henry
Wallace. George Slaughter, chair-
man of the State Agricultural Con
•creation Committee of the AAA
says farmers have every reason to
operate MS though the peaie of
Europe had not been shaken
’’Agriculture is in better shape
to withstand the impact of war.
Slaughter asserted, "than it wa«
•n 1914. and the same machinery
wMch farmers have used to ad-
hiat their acreage to slackening
demand can be used just as ef-
fectively to increase production
should the need arise”
He Rooted as follows from Wai-
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Bray, Robert I. The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, September 15, 1939, newspaper, September 15, 1939; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1251892/m1/4/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alvin Community College.