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1982 TEXAS SORGHUM TRIALS
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Jimmy Christie Seed C.
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We Are Yaking Orders Now for Preferred Varieties.
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Top Yeilder of the Texas Agricultural
Extension service for 1982 in Deaf
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irrigation specialist Leon New, left, watches a
guage while Texas A&M grad student Mike
Coad runs an experimental pump engine
powered by hydrogen. The engine, tested on
the Charles Schlabs farm, flashed a 58 on
horsepower meter, nearly twice the power
needed to draw water. Coad and A&M's
Hydrogen Research Center manager Bill
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Sorghum s serious business You put
a big investment into the ground and
you expect a big yield out of it.
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The main thing is if we
can find a way to make the
hydrogen, we can use it in the
engine," Christie said.
Craven said he sees use of
solar cells to split the H2-0 to
just H withing five to 10
meticulously honored in 1981
and 1982. right down to the
penny," he said.
"This only guarantees a
continuing backlog of loans al
a lune when a hopeful rural
America needs assurance
that the essential resources of
electric power will be ade-
quate to meet a long-awaited
resurgence in the rural and
agricultural economy."
• This is history!' ’ exclaim-
ed Deaf Smith Extension
agent Juston McBride, after
the demonstration "This is
the first irrigation engine to
run on hydrogen fuel."
Kenneth Christie, a farmer
from Summerfield, came out
to watch. He just shook his
head and said, "Its not sup-
posed to work.”
With utility costs zooming
up, Ray Joe Riley of the
Texas Com Growers in Dim-
mitl approached the A&M
research center in November
with his concern for the need
of an alternate fuel and an in-
quiry of how hydrogen might
be used for irrigation.
Meanwhile.the researchers
had a breakthrough with the
catalyst.
Hydrogen fuel now costs
about three tunes that of gas.
but Craven said getting this
engine to work is only step
one
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Hereford
BOOK THE
VARIETY
were down to five thousand-
ths
Several times during the
experiment, the horsepower
meter rocketed to 58 - over
twice what is necessary to
draw water up from an
average well here. Average
gas well horsepower is 37.
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Kenneth Christie
364 4027
Jimmy Christie
357 2556 or 357 2523
GAMEZ
CONSTRUCTION
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Medium - Late Maturity
2660 Grain Sorghum
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A.J. Urbanczyk
Craven explained that now that they know a
pump engine can be tuned to run on hydrogen,
the next step is to seek inexpensive ways to
produce that fuel. Hydrogen costs about three
times more than gas, but the center is testing
solar and wind power to run electolyzers
which separates the H from the O in water.
That Gets
More Life
From The Land
NC
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TEST LOCATION
TEST TYPE
Halfway TX
Single Row
Irrigated
Halfway. TX
Double Row
Irrigated
Halfway TX
Single Row
Limited Irr
Lubbock TX
Commercial
Irrigated
By JERI CURTIS
Staff Writer
It sounds like something an
Aggie would do
Try to run an irrigation
pump with water.
The Texas A&M chemistry
department is actually trying
to do that.
Bill Craven, general
manager of the Hydrogen
Research Center at College
Station, and graduate student
Mike Coad were in Hereford a
few weeks ago testing a
hydrogen energy powered
pump on the Charles Schlabs
farm.
Craven used a conventional
engine with timing retarded
about 45 degrees to prove
hydrogen could power a
pump. The spark plug gapr
WIRING & REPAIR
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Grain stockpile at record levels
NC,
( Smith, Castro, & Palmer Counties.
had a .surplus grain problem
for some time, says USDA's
Foreign Agricuitural Service.
In addition, the fishmeal
content in feed rations lias
become so high that eggs and
pork have begun to acquire a
fishy taste," the agency sid
in a recent trade report
Fanners have been induc-
ed to increase soybean im-
ports out of fear that con-
sumers might develop a
distaste for eggs and pork.
Choosing the right seed is like choosing a wife.
You got to live with the choice.
—AARing Around Seed .........—
C More Life from the Land
ENERGY
I ELECTRIC
Uprn
WASHINGTON (AP) -
When the Reagan ad-
ministration submitted its
budget to Congress last
January, it asked for $500
million to finance the Hui al
Electrification Administra-
tion's direct loan program for
the fiscal year which will
begin next Oct. 1.
That would be down by
more than 40 percent from
the level of $850 million the
agency spent for direct loans
in each of the two previous
years.
The $850 million was the
minimum mandated by Con-
gress for direct electric loans
handled by the agency
In the administration's
budget, officials said changes
would be sought which would
eliminate the minimum and
make other changes in the
formula designed by Con-
gress.
The REA has been in
business since the mid-1930s
and was the prime mover in
bringing electric power to
rural America Supporters of
the agency say it still has a
major role in helping local
and regional cooperatives
build new facilities and to
generally upgrade services.
Robert D Partridge, ex-
ecutive vice president of the
National Rural Electric
Cooperative Association,
says the administration s
proposals are "totally
unrealistic" and are not in
line with the needs of a real-
world. 1980s rural America
The association is the na-
tional lobbying organization
for about 1,000 rural electric
systems, which sene more
than 25 million people in 46
states
Schlabs said We had
several people from Dimmitt
that apparently had some
pretty good ideas on how the
9 engine would perf < rm
REC exec calls proposals
from 1.04 billion a year ago
Soybeans are not eligible for
the reserve.
The quarterly inventory
report also said that April 1
stocks of oats totaled 132
million bushels, up 40 percent
from a year ago. barley, 297
million bushels, up 31 per-
cent: rye, 7 96 million
bushels, up 38 percent; and
flaxseed. 4 69 million bushels,
up 32 percent.
In a separate report, USDA
said April 1 unmilled rice in-
ventories were estimated at
109 million hundredweight,
up 21 percent from a year
ago
WASHINGTON (AP)
Finland is boosting its im-
ports of soybeans for use in
poultry and hog feed at the
expense of fish meal im-
poried from Norway, says the
Agriculture Department
One reason is that the price
of fishmeal las risen.
Another is that for years
Finland had t import
Norwegian fishmeal in ex-
change for shipping grain to
Norway Hut Finland has not
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WASHINGTON AP
The Agriculture Department
says the nation's grain
stockpile is at record levels
this spring, including 6.36
billion bushels of corn as of
April 1. up 25 percent from
5 13 billion bushels a year
ago
officials said Thursday
that half of the com was
under government control"
by being owned outright by
Hopper bolioms, boot-pits
dump pits, feed bunk
repair, water drinker
slabs. driveways,
sidewalks, patios All types
concrete work. large or
small.
YIELD % TEST
BU/AC AVERAGE
1496 112%
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DISASTER
To Growing Crops
Its so easy to obtain
h,til insurance lor your
growing crops at lens
net cost-a dividend
has been paid to Crop
Hail Polic yholders
eight of the past
twelve years and for
1981- 15". DIVIA-
HON OH OI IIXAS
CROP HAIL RATES.
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SMITH - OLDHAM
COUNTY FARM BUREAU
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Agency Manager
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Partridge made nis com-
ments Thursday in testimony
for the Senate appropriations
subcommittee on agriculture
and rural development
As of mid-April, he said,
there was a backlog of loan
applications in REA of more
than $500 million. About $440
million had already been
committed by REA as of
April 1.
Partridge asked that Con-
gress authorize a minimum
of $850 million and a ceiling of
$1.1 billion for insured"
loans — those which are
made directly by REA -
available to electric distribu-
tion borrowers.
Further, Partridge asked
for a floor of $3.25 billion in
REA guarantees for power
supply cooperatives and a
ceiling of $4 billion.
The Reagan budget pro-
posal calls for a single
amount of $3,235 billion in
loan guarantees
Partridge sharply criticiz-
ed what he said was the ad-
ministration's past practice
of honoring only the
minimum floor of $85(
million, although Congress
also had authorized $1.1
billion ceilings for HE?
direct loans.
"Unfortunately , we are fac-
ed with the prospect that o
Sept 30. 1983, we will one
more see the total of REA
loan approvals netting a neat
figure of $850 million — just
as that bare minimum was so
LICENSED. BONDED. INSURED, EXPERIENCED
IRRIGATION SPRINKLER REPAIR. WELL MOTOR
8 CONTROL PIT PUMP MOTORS. GRRIN
HANDLING WIRING. OVERHEAD 8 UNDER
GROUND SERVICES. INDOOR 8 OUTDOOR
LIGHTING. NOUSEWELL WIRING. COMMERCIAL
EQUIPMENT WIRING 8 REPAIR . RESIDENTIAL
WIRING (LARGE OR SMALL)
years. Research has shown
an 8 percent achievement ef-
ficiency with solar power He
said fanners could use com-
mon materials to build a
windmill powered generator
to produce electricity, which
in turn would run an elec-
trolyzer to render hydrogen
from water
"A big advantage is no
pollution," Schlabs said.
The big pollution is waler, if
any pollution. It's amazing. It
would certainly be a clean
fuel.
The purpose here is to find
new fuel," says Leon New.
Extension irrigation
specialist, who set up the ex-
periment on Schlabs' land.
"We were real pleased to
see how it performed.”
the department's Commodity million bushels Of the total.
Credit Corp 472 million 82 percent was under govern-
bushels or in the fanner- ment control, with 460 million
owned reserve under federal bushels under loan in the
price support loan 2.7 reserve, and 46 6 million own-
billion bushels ed by CCC.
When fanners have grain - Wheat totaled 1.87 billion
under loan, they retain bushels. up 20 percent from
ownership but cannot sell the last year's 1.56 billion of the
commodities without repay- total. 68 percent was under
ing the loans government control, with 1.1
The report also showed that billion bushels in the reserve
as of April 1 and 182 million bushels owned
Sorghum totaled 618 by CCC.
million bushels, up 34 percent Soybeans totaled 1.2
from the year-ago level of 462 billion bushels,, up 15 percent
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Nigh, Bob. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 208, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 24, 1983, newspaper, April 24, 1983; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1430238/m1/25/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.