Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1932 Page: 3 of 4
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Mrs. Alice Peterson and sons spent
Sunday at the Wilson home.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Abraham and
sons of Olivio, visited friends here
Sunday.
Carolyn Slaikeu is spending this
week with the Girl Reserves at Casa
del Mar,
Mrs. Richard Holman and children
of Houston are visiting at the Loff
home this week.
Gladys Frankson went back to
Louise Tuesday, after a week spent
with home folks.
Mr. John Neusteil of Houston Is en-
joying an outing in his cottage at
Carancahua Beach,
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Abraham and
children and Miss Ruth Abraham vis-
ited kinfolks in Olivia Monday.
Mr. B. S. Avenell and family came
in from Houston Saturday for a two
weeks' outing in their cottage here.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Turner went to
Houston Sunday on a business and
pleasure trip. They returned Tues-
day.
Texas Cream Goes A Traveling
W. H. HUNT TELLS OF SOME OF ITS WANDERINGS OUT OF THE
STATE AND BACK AGAIN AND ASKS SOME VERY PERTI-
NENT QUESTIONS ABOUT SUCH CURIOUS BEHAVIOR
(The Texas Weekly) | find one tag directed to a Texas cream-
Long lines of cream cans sitting ! ?ry' This, it seems, is not as it should
empty, in the railroad station, waiting Je;
for farmers for miles around to haul The Texas Weekly has, at various
them home for another fill. A plat- times, brought out some interesting
form truck outside loaded with full facts about the manufacture of dairy
cans of cream, each can tagged for products in Texas. Creameries have
some creamery, waiting to be picked helped build communities. Checks from
up by the next train. The particular cheese factories have paid off mort-
station in mind is Quinlan, a little gages, while milk condenseries have
town of five hundred population in the built up dairy empires.
southern part of Hunt County. How-! From 1928 to 1930, Texas increased
ever, there are hundreds of similar her milk production 100 per cent. Five
scenes at various stations in North' million dollars were invested in milk
and East Texas. ; plants, while 39 creameries were in
Quinlan has built up quite a reputa- operation, employing 403 wage earners
tion as a cream shipping point in the and Paying $456,925 each year in wag-
last few years. One mei'chant has been es- The cost of raw materials for
rather aggressive in the sale of cream these creameries was $8,635,457 while
separators. He and others, including the value of the manufactured product
Mrs. John Giles and son, Charles the local banker and the county agent, was ^^f^r:^
Summer, of Houston, arrived Tuesday have Poached more cows and better »pm i manufactui mg ot more than one
for a few davs' visit with Mrs. H. F.' cows- more Pastures and greener pas- million dollars.
Green and sons. j tures, larger barns and better barns, The state also has 975,000 milk cows
Auu r -i ji/r till the results of such propoganda can that are valued at an average of $56
i JSer branam family, Mr. easj]y seen. In fact, this one small each, or a total of $54,544,000 invested
and Mrs. Maynard Frankson and sons station ships, on the average, about in dairy cows. Of course, these cows
and Miss Ruth Abraham spent Sun- t,wenty-five cans of cream per day, not only produce cream for cream-
day at the Will I( rankson home. [ or yggg cans 0f crearn eacj, yPar. This eries, but milk to supply milk distrib-
Lawyers Sample and Rose and fam-! cream, from this one small place, has utinp companies in cities, cream for
ilies of Edna called at the Slaikeu a net weight of about 312,000 pounds ice cream, milk for cheese and milk
home Sunday afternoon and were look- and will make approximately 110,000 for condensed and powdered milk and
ing over some property purchased a pounds of butter. Each week, more a generous supply for the farm fami-
short time ago. j than one hundred farmers receive a lies of the state.
A jolly crowd of young people from I weekly cream check that makes them fov several weeks newspapers have
Palacios enjoyed a bathing party and feel like they are on a weekly salary, been running stories about an over
weiner roast near the Slaikeu home The local merchants do not have to supply of whole milk in Texas cities,
last Saturday night. Mrs. Nester worry about these farmers if cotton j in fact, due to luxuriant pastures!
chaperoned the party. [is low, the cream check will take care' fresh cows and heavy production, only
H. F. Green and family of Houston j the grocery bill. | about 80 per cent of the milk is being
arrived last Friday and will spend two j This is as it should be. The state J consumed at some points. This natur-
weeks in their home here. Mr. Green could stand a great deal more of the | ally puts the price of whole milk at a
and Sydney returned to Houston Sun- same thing. However, in looking over very low level. It will change later,
day but will be back for the week end., the cans, going out, we see something when pastures begin to dry up, but it
Ladies' Aid Society met with Mrs ' eIse> The first ttt£ is addressed to remains a fact that the prices of whole
I off last Thursday afternoon The some creamery in .Missouri, the second milk fluctuate considerably during the
afternoon was spent in visiting and tag to a creamery in Iowa. On down year. The producer may sell at a high
stamning towels, after which delicious the line we find another to a creamery figure in the late summer and fall and
ic= cream and cake was served. There ln Illinols- 0ut of the entire twenty- at a very low figure in the spring.
i five or thiry cans, you will probably
were thirteen ladies present.
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Weve Just Begun!
Recent adversity has caused some
'people U develop misapprehension as
to. the futc.e of South and Southwest
Jexas. To those I would say: The future
rpf this section is not in doubt—it is
'assured.
In the Central Power and Light
(Company organization, we have taken
an attitude of justified optimism, de-
termining to continue, to the fullest ex-
tent of our abilities, the extension of lines
and improvement of facilities. In fact,
we have become firm in the belief that
[we have a wide field before us in the
continued development of an efficient
utility system serving thousands of^
people in a substantial, productive ter-J
(ritory.
•That this belief is well-founded is
mile of rich, fertile lands and the steady
growth of such industries as dairying,
poultry raising, petroleum, wool and
mohair, and shipping.
With such natural advantages in^
soil, climate, mineral resources and lo-:
cation as this section has, and with the
continued application of intelligent
minds and willing hands to the task be-
fore us, every vestige of doubt can but
be banished, making the successful fu-
ture of South and Southwest Texas a
definite, positive fact!
'evidenced by the increasing importance
of_the agricultural output of mile after
CENTRAL POWER
AND
LIGHT COMPANY
^'The Future of This Section ls„Not in Doubt—It Is Assu^ 1"
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On the other hand, there is a eom-
I paratively steady market for butter,
j The man who sells cream to a cream-
ery may get a low price now, but it is
j due to a general low price level in all
| commodities, and not to any over sup-
ply. The situation could be remedied
by the whole milk producer buying
a cream separator, separating twenty
per cent of his milk, keeping the skim
milk as a valuable feed for calves, pigs
or poultry, selling his cream and then
the 80 per cent of his whole milk could
be sold for profit, The distributing
companies would not be wondering
what to do with their surplus, while
the farmer dumbly scratched his head
over the problem of no profit.
While the cities complain of too
much milk, you can go into almost any
grocery store and find creamery but-
ter made in Wisconsin or one of the
corn belt states. While there is no
way to identify cream after it leaves
the producer, it is highly probable
that some of that Iowa or Missouri
butter displayed in the Texas grocer's
j refrigerator is made from Texas
cream, shipped from some point in
East or North Texas and then shipped
back again as butter. This may not
sound so good to the enthusiastic Tex-
an but let that same individual check
up on cream shipped out of the state
and then look at his local grocer's
shelves, then he will go home and won-
der what is the advantage of carrying
charges on raw products North and
finished products South, when the en-
tire process could be completed at
home. While it is not the purpose of
this article to go into the cost of dis-
tribution, some expert could bring
much food for thought in an article
on the unnecessary freight and ex-
press charges that are being paid out
each year by Texas people.
Why does all this happen? There
are various reasons. In the first
place, there are many Texas commun-
ities that try to build up dairy herds.
The banker and the merchant help
some, although this help frequently
consists most of enthusiastic talk. In
the North, when a community shows
an interest in dairy cattle, the local
business men usually establish a small
creamery, thus providing him a mar-
ket right at home.
The Texas banker and business man
frequently stop at half-way measures.
After getting the farmer started in
production they stop. The Northern
creamery then steps in, buys the cream
and incidentally keeps the added value
due to manufacture while the express
company takes the charges for its
hauling the cream to Iowa, Illinois
or Nebraska and then gets another
fee for hauling the empty can back
to Texas ai. collects lor bring-
ing the buttei k to the local grocer.
It docs not cost, much to finance a
small creamery, one large enough to
take care of the cream for five hundred
to fifteen hundred cows. However,
if such a proposition was put up to
the small town Texas banker, about 90
per cent of such bankers would want to
know how much cotton you could put
up as collateral. Of course this is
not always the case. The existence of
thirty-nine creameries in the state
prove that it can be accomplished.
The Wisconsin or corn belt dairy
community is usually centered around
a local creamery. The Texas dairy
community is too often centered
around a cream shipping point. It is
not the farmers' fault. He is looking
for a market after he produces the
cream. If a Northern creamery can
convince him that they are the best
bet, who is to blame?
The Texas farmer has had but lit-
tle inducement in many communities to
produce dairy products, except news-
paper and agricultural magazine arti-
cles and plenty of verbal support from
local merchants. The Northern busi-
ness men usually organize a creamery,
then if a farmer has plenty of feed
for dairy cattle, they will hunt him up
and ask him about milking some cows.
No money to buy cows? That is all
right, we will sell you as many a'
you can feed, on the installment plan,
take a certain percentage out of each
cream check and let you pay for the
cows that way. After that proposition
is put. up to them, about the only ex-
cuse a farmer could offer is that he is
too lazy to feed and milk cows, and
very few will admit this. The North-
ern cream producer feels that he has
a logical reason to produce all the
cream he can because his local cream-
ery, usually financed by his local bus-
iness men, is standing squarely be-
hind him to help him produce cream.
Communities built in this way are so
common in the North that they do not
attract even a passing comment while
the few times such things have hap-
pened in Texas it was thought worth
while to write columns of news, tell-
ing about the Texas Greazy Butter
Company selling Bill Jones cows on the
installment plan.
Why is the local banker afraid of a
creamery? Frankly I do not know,
but suspect that his skull has been
stuffed with cotton for so many years
that he can not see a dollar in any-
thing else, and only about a nickle in
that, at the present time. Butter is a
regular established commodity with an
established market price. It can be
kept in storage for long periods. The
demand is steady and in fact it is
considered excellent collateral by
banks in established dairy communi-
ties.
Although prices ai-e low at tho
present time, butter is no lower than
many other commodities. Cows are
also at a low level, and the farmer
can get started with a few dairy cat-
tle at a very small figure. There nev-
er was a better time to lay the foun-
dation for a high-class herd.
The farmer lacks the money? The
banks do not want to loan money for
more than ninety days? When the
automobile industry faced the prob-
lem of selling more cars and going in
for mass production they did not want
to extend long time credit and low
down payments to the buyer. How-
ever, they at once set about and rev-
olutionized installment buying.
The finance corporation was the se-
cret of the whole thing. The indi-
vidual bought the car, made his small
down payment and signed the notes
for a certain number of installments.
The automobile company at once car-
„
ried that ipte to the finance corpora-
tion, which vas usually a subsidiary of
the manufacturer, and raised the cash
on that note to produce and sell a
new car in the same way. The finance
corporation, if necessary, could en-
dorse this note and use it as collateral
at some large, central bank and thus
get the money to finance another au-
tomobile. This is putting the trans-
action into small terms. What was
actually happening was that millions
of cars were thus sold every year. It
was not long until this system was ap-
plied to almost everything that a high-
powered salesman could induce the
consumer to buy, radios, vacuum clean-
ers, trucks and in many instances even
tires were thus sold.
If this system would work in selling
articles for pleasure, why would it not
work in selling high grade dairy cows
to a farmer to be milked at a profit?
Quinlan was not cited as a horrible
example in shipping cream all over
the central part of the United States.
There are hundreds of Quinlan3 in
Texas and will continue to be until
small town business men have the
nerve to put up dollars as well as
words to show they are actually in-
terested in the local farmers getting
a weekly cream check.
Jack: "When I was around twenty-
om' I made up my mind to get rich."
Zack;—"And yet you're not rich."
Jack:—"No, I decided it was a lot
easier to change my mind than my
fortune."
Doctor:—"You know married men
make much better patients than sin-
gle men?"
Nurse:—"Why do you say that?"
Doctor:—"Because they are used to
taking orders."
A small boy went to school for tfe"®
first time. He came home and was
questioned as to his experience.
"Nothing much happened," he said.
"There was a woman there who want-
ed to know how to spell cat, and I told
her."
Political Announcements
The announcements which appear in
this column will be subject to the ac-
tion of the Democratic Primaries:
For District Clerk:
A. D. HENSLEY
For Countv .Judge:
W. E. McNABB
For County Treasurer:
C. LANGHAM
For Tax Collector:
R. A. KLESKA
For Tax Assessor:
OSCAR BARBER
For Sheriff:
HARRIS MILNER
For County Clerk:
MRS. RUBY HAWKINS
For County Commissioner
Precinct No. 3:
G. A. HARRISON
For Justice of Peace, Precinct No. 3:
W. H. (PETE) WILLIAMS
For Constablo Precinct No. 3:
E. P. (ZEKE) NOBLE
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
ANNOUNCEMENTS
For Representative,
Matagorda and Brazoria Couuties:
J. S. JACKSON, of Alvin
E. C. HILL, of Angleton
Cotton Seed Meal
—AND OTHER COTTON SEED PRODUCTS—
—Lower in Price Than Ever Before—
And taking into consideration that they make the Best Dairy and
Cattle Feed on the Market Because the Protein Content is Higher
than in Any Other Feed You Can Buy at the Same ^rice.—Cotton
Seed Meal and Cake are the Cheapest Feeds on the Market Today!
Our Prices at the Mill Until Further Notice Are As Follows:—
—(Packed in Cotton Bags)—
43% PROTEIN COTTON SEED MEAI Ton Lots - -
13% PROTEIN COTTON SEED MEAI 100-lb Sack -
43% CRACKED COTTON SEED CAKE—Ton Lots -
13% CRACKED COTTON SEED CAKE—100-lb Sack
—(Packed in Burlap Bags)—
25% PROTEIN COLD PRESS CAKE—Ton Lots - -
25% PROTEIN COLD PRESS CAKE—100-& Sack - - -
COTTONSEED HULLS—(LOOSE)—Ton Lots
COTTONSEED HULLS—(LOOSE)—Small Lots—per 100-lb
—(These Prices Subject to Change Without Notice) —
—WE WILL MAKE SPECIAL PRICES IN CAR LOTS—
Also Special Prices to the Farmer Who Trades His Seed For Feed
WEIGHT AND QUALITY GUARANTEED
WHARTON COUNTY
COTTON OIL MILL
Slf .00
.95
18.00
.95
$13.00
.75
■ 4.00
.25
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