Texas Week, Volume 1, Number 3, August 24, 1946 Page: 17
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Dog Beats Man
The old argument as to which is bet-
ter at herding sheep-dog or man-has
been answered, but possibly not for all
time, at Kerrville.
Dog beat man.
Five-year-old Pesky, owned by Volney
Snodgrass of Mountain Home, out-
shown his horseback riding opponent,
Jack Hoggett, by penning the five sheep
in one minute 55 seconds compared to
two minutes 15 seconds. Previously
Pesky had won top honors by negotiat-
ing the course with 48 1-2 points out of
a possible 55.
With his triumph Pesky joined the
ranks of the famed among sheep dogs,
bred for brains and' physical stamina
rather than for any point of physical
perfection, working dogs invaluable to
the sheepmen of West Texaa.
Insuring the Future
Rio Grande Valley citrus growers
this week took a peek into the future,
wondered if they hadn't better take steps
to make sure they'll still be in business
when that future arrives.
Like most other agricultural indus-
tries, the citrus industry slowly is get-
ting research-minded, but so far little
has been done to provide the research
facilities everybody knows are needed.
But research advocates now have
come forth with a definite plan by which
the facilities could be acquired. Back
from a trip to Florida where he attended
sessions on citrus disease research, T.
M. Melden, Valley representative on the
Texas-Florida citrus disease research
program committee, suggested a one-
cent-per-box tax on grapefruit.
That tax, he declared, would provide
$230,000, enough to employ the best man
in the country and enough assistants to
get the job done.
Scientific methods of care, as prac-
ticed in Florida, would result in vastly
improved production and would pay
back the penny a box many times over,
he contends. Florida growers 10 years
ago saw their groves get into such bad
condition that abandonment had seemed
the only alternative, but a research
program had saved the industry.
Valley growers whose marketings
this year are running at new peaks
might not see too clearly any danger
for the immediate future, but chances
were research for the Valley would be
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Agricultural Roundup
Scheduled to expire November 1, the
government's wool-buying program will
continue until April 15, 1947 ... One of
the largest Valley real estate transac-
tions of the month was recorded when
57.88 acres of citrus land were trans-
ferred at a reported price of $60,000.
Seller was Harley Williams, buyers
were William Carson and H. W. Eakle. .
Outlook for the Texas pecan crop is off
one-fifth from last year, the USDA re-
ports. Indicated production is 25,500,000
pounds compared with last year's 32,-
250,000 pounds... COLLIN County's E.
B. Moore was reported as having gar-
nered $92.25 per acre on an 18-acre
alfalfa field-and with a seed crop yet
to be harvested.
The annual cotton stalk chopping
campaign got underway in the Valley
with CAMERON County leading the
way. Stalks must be off the ground by
August 31 as a pink bollworm control
measure ... Livestock receipts at Texas
stockyards continued heavy during the
week ... 11-year-old Eddie Mae Gembl-
er, CONVERSE, is helping Texas pre-
pare for Thanksgiving. She is the lead-
ing turkey raiser in the production cam-
paign being sponsored by the SAN AN-
TONIO Chamber of Commerce . . .
C o t t o n leafworms were spreading
the area of their attacks, appeared in
nearly all northern and western coun-
ties. Bollworms, too, were on the in-
crease, according to the Texas A. and
M. College Experiment Station.
Texas broomcorn production is run-y on Horseback
ning four percent over last year, USDA
reports ... A dairy herd improvement
program got underway in Collin county
... Clara Mae Portman, 15-year-old 4-H
Club girl, was declared winner in HAR-
RIS County's bedroom demonstration
contest ... And 13-year-old John Powell,
BRADY, took championship honors at
KERRVILLE'S Texas Junior Angora
goat show ... Clint Brown, HARPER,
was elected president of the Texas De-
laine Breeders' Association in Kerrville.
Somehow the state always comes
through with "bumper" harvests re-
gardless of weather ... THE VALLEY
celebrated its annually big citrus yield
with a Texas Citrus Fiesta at MISSION
... The first carload of Hubam clover
ever to be shipped from Lamar County
was loaded at PARIS for destination St.
Louis ... Although the fawn crop in
KERR and MASON Counties will be late
because of drouth and adverse weather
conditions last fall, deer and turkeys in
the area are plentiful ... The one-year-
old Red River County Soil Improvement
Council at CLARKSVILLE takes credit
for a 2,300-acre increase in 1946 winter
crops planted ... The pea market at
BLOSSOM opened with growers receiv-
ing $90 per ton as against contract price
(when acreage was planted) of $65 ...
M. C. Gulledge, COMMERCE dairyman,
led the Hunt County Dairy Herd Im-
provement Association in milk produc-
tion with a month's average of 33.9
pounds of butterfat per cow ... The
cattle trend was strong at HOUSTON
stockyards ... Frank Bedrick of LONE
STAR, for the second year in a row,
had the first bale of cotton ginned at
KAUFMAN.TEXAS WEEK 17
24 AUGUST 46
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