The Canton Herald (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 10, 1937 Page: 10 of 24
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Resume of Agricultural Agents’ Work in Van Zandt County
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that time Vocational
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Almost a million dollars has been three
hundred
county through schools.
brought better farming practices.
More terracing and
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WE CONGRATULATE YOU
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Our Friends and Neighbors
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Van Zandt County
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Completion of Your
“FINE NEW COURT HOUSE”
county will open next week,
V. O. TEDDLIE,
release given
When in Terrell we invite you to visit us.
The Edgewood cannery will op-
The most complete Department Store
Martin-Jarvis Co
Terrell, Texas
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We Are Proud of Our
FREEZES ICE CUBES
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And of Citizenship in Van Zandt County.
egg money every week.
SERVEL ELECTROLUX
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world’s greatest improvement in refrigeration:
The ELECTROLUX
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Endorsed by the Great American Gas Industry for use in city or
farm homes.
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First County Agent
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OWN IT ON EASY PURCHASE PLAN
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
DEALER’S NAME AND ADDRESS
At This Location For Twenty Years.
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Whitton, W. A. Haynes, and Lee Robinson.
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Agriculture
to around
runs on Kerosene (Coal Oil)
at amazing low cost!
better pastures. Farmers through-
out the county are developing bet-
ac-
here
Canton Herald is now only 50c
and with Wills Point Chronicle for
18 months is $1.50.
First Agent Went on His
Rounds With His Office
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to make farming their business and
who find it impossible to continue
their education, offers a wonderful
opportunity for vocational agricul-
ture.
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M. B. HILL, VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE
TEACHER IN CANTON HIGH SCHOOL GIVES
ward to keep our most brilliant and
energetic boys on the farm.
Van Zandt County boasts of the
largest enrollment and highest per-
centage of 4-H Club completions of
any county in the state.
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Some of the activities carried on
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Present County Agent
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CANNERIES WILL
OPEN IN COUNTY
Gentlemen: Please send me, without obliga:
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Electrolux, the Kerosene Refrigerator.
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completing it. Practically all these
boys were from the farm. Last year
ninety-six boys enrolled with seven-
ty-three completing. This was an
increase of twenty students mak-
ing it the second largest class in
the state of Texas.
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course of study designed for those
soil improve- boys in the high schools who plan
ment has been carried on since the1 ■ - -
program than ever before.
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Gabbert’s Bakery in Canton or at my Store at Tundra six miles
Last year the second year class
carried on a hog feeding experi-
ment in which the value of a bal-
lanced ration in feeding was learn-
ed. One hog fed a balanced ration
gained forty pounds. From this ex-
periment and the class building a
few self feeders several hogs were
i fed out enabling the boys and their
dads to realize considerable profit
from their efforts.
In connection with the vocation-
al agriculthre work an active Fu-
ture Farmer of America Chapter
And also we are proud of being able to offer for sale the
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planting and as
burned up.
Extension work
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brought to the
„ benefit payments.
run it is only a few cents a AHe)
day! Write for free literature! KE
en Monday; Ben Wheerler, Tues-
day; Phalba, Wednesday and Can-
ton Thursday.
Those who have vegetables to be
canned are requested to contract
your supervisor for date of can-
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a result crops
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Besides it has
Father-Son banquet at which time
the boys bring their dads and
guests out for an evening of enter-
tainment. The first banquet was
attended by eighty people, the sec-
ond by one-hundred-fifty peope.
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But better stock makes it neces-
sary to have more feed and better
feed. The high-bred cow requires
better attention than did the scrub. !
This has brought a demand for
science as well as the practice of
agriculture. This 18 one of the
greatest forces ever brought for-
The canneries In Van Zandt
began in the
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gopher control, pruning, budding, 200 pounds paradichloro-benzene, the one looked forward to with the
grafting, castrating, vaccinating, 20 ounces strychnine, attending and greatest interest every year is the
dehorning, rope making, butcher- participating in the East Texas
ing caponizlng, culling, setting cut Fair, Fort Worth Fat Stock Show,
young fruit trees and various oth- Texas Centennial, Area and State
er things they are called on to do. Judging Contests, State Future
The approximate scope of this kind Farmer Conventions, putting in
of work done in the two years vo- show window and fair exhibits, en-
cational agriculture has been tering recreational contests, and
taught is as follows; -------—----------------
Terracing, 150,000 yards. _____________________
Gopher control, 3,000 acres.
Pruning, 3,000 trees.
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is maintained. This is a national
organization of farm boys taking
Vocational Agriculture. Through
this organization the boys learn the
value of cooperation, organization,
recreation, and are able to keep up
with what other chapters in the
state are doing. The Canton F. F.
A. has been 100 per cent during the
VVEN though you live miles from gas
_A mains and power lines, you can still
enjoy the conveniences and savings of
modern city refrigeration! Servel Elec-
trolux, the Kerosene Refrigerator, dupli-
cates in all important ways the famous
Gas Refrigerator that has been the choice
for hundreds of thousands of fine city
homes during the past ten years.
Picture this modern refrigerator in
your kitchen! It will add be auty to your
home. More important, it will keep you
supplied with ice cubes . . . freeze deli-
cious desserts . . . help you : rve more
In connection with the class
work of agriculture, each student
is required to carry on and com-
plete from one to three projects.
Through these projects the boys
put into practice some of the
things they learn in class, develop
confidence in themselves by hand-
ling something of their own and
have the opportunity of getting
started in business for themselves.
Last year the students averaged
around thirty dollars profit from
their projects.
In addition to the work done by
the boys for themselves a large
amount of work is done for other
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Van Zandt County is primarily
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an agricultural county. In early
days of the county open range was
conducive to small farms and stock
raising. Little consideration was
given to protecting the soil, as oth-
er land could be clearol when the
farmers. These include terracing, two years it has had its chapter
ditching, sodding, gulley control, and this year was recognized as the
in 1918 the Smith-Hubes bill was
passed in Congress creating a fund
for promoting vocational training
The Agricultural Adjustment in the high schools of Texas. Since
Program has been of inestimable
benefit to farmers of the county, has grown
, second largest chapter in the state, carrying on organized recreation in
of Texas, the chapter meetings.
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In the fall of 1935 Vocational
Agriculture was established in the
Canton high school. During that
year seventy-eight boys enrolled
for the course with fifty-three
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neighboring county, Kaufman. M. 1 . .. . . . .
t-m omc a trench silos; the farmers feed
H. Van Diver was the first agent .. _ ’ . 1 . .. ,
in Van Zandt County. He began to problem of this county should be-
try to demonstrate better farming come very simp e. .
by having farmers over the coun- , Perhaps the most promising out-
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T . and 4-H Club activities. With six
Instead of getting in his car and .2 , 1 , 2,
1.7 . vocational teachers in the county
running terrace lines in several , ... . . .
different communities each day, he and an assistant county agent to
drove up in his buggy, look hl, do exclusive club work, hundreds
. I . . 1 . , . ... of boys are being trained in the
horse out, fed him and stayed with 5
the farmer until all the work was —-e-
done. His difficulty was to mmanananuuausmmunaasaaama
convince the farmer that it was "
better to take the water off his
land gradually than to let each row
carry its own water. Most farmers
believed that if each row drained
down the hill so that it would car-
ry its own watar that erosion was
not as bad as if gullies were made
through the field.
Contrasted with the old method
of farming are many new prac-
tices. Instead of the cotton, corn
and oat system, farmers have turn-
ed to diversification.
Truck crops have become one of
the important farm practices of
the county. In 1936 T. J. Mitchell
of Ben Wheeler bought more than
one million pounds of vegetable
peas. This was, only a small per-!
centage of this crop raised in this
county. Tomatoes, watermelons, cu-
cumbers, beans and almost all oth-
old field became impoverished. I
Erosion was not considered serious I
as long as the mules could cross ;
the gullies.
Crops were limited to cotton,
corn and oats in most cases. Feed 1
crops were not quite so important,
as hogs were supposed to fatten on ]
the mast. Of course that gave us
scant meat supply when there was I
poor mast. The value of legumes i
was not well understood in those ]
day, however, farmers noticed a
better crop following peas.
Commercial fertilizer was un-
known and most farmers were
skeptical of its value. Cotton seed
were allowed to pile up in the gin
'til the ginner must beg the farm- j
ers to haul them home. Their use
as a fertilizer was misunderstood
because they were put directly un-
der the plants immediately before I
er truck vegetables arc grown in
large quantities.
Instead of farmers borrowing
money or running an account at
the store with the expectation of
making a big cotton crop, getting
a good price and paying off in the
fall, farmers are able to sell some-
thing most every moth in the year
and in this way having some
spending money al! through the
year.
It is impossible to tell just how
much money is brought into the
county by dairy and poultry. Since
better cows and better poultry has
been brought in, a majority of far- ‘
mers have a cream check or some 1
BRIEF SUMMARY OF WORK BEING DONE by the F. F. A. chapter include
______ __________________________I buying and selling 2,500 fruit trees,
Vocational Agriculture is a
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Budding and grafting,
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Castrating, 100 head.
Dehorning, 50 head.
Butchering, 15 head.
Rope making, 1,000 feet.
Culling, 3,000 hens.
Setting out young fruit
2,500 trees.
ter pastures by planting more ’
clovers and grasses. A pasture con-1
taining different kinds of clovers
and grasses will supply the cow1
eight or ten months in the year.
Sudan planted as a field pasture
crop is giving the farmers an
abundant supply of good sweet
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The present county agent and
his force has led this part of the
state in getting contracts complet-
ed and as a result farmers of this
county have been a,ble to secure,
their checks far in advance of
neighboring counties. They have I
been found to stand at the top in 1
courtesy and efficiency.
A larger area has been signed
up in 1937 than was signed in
1936. It is hoped that the 1937 pro-
gram will exceed all others.
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SALESMEN: Luke Gabbert, C. U. Sides, Theo Lumpkin, L. R.
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Lumpkin, Ila. The Canton Herald (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 10, 1937, newspaper, June 10, 1937; Canton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1515669/m1/10/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Van Zandt County Library.