The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 30, 1948 Page: 4 of 6
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THE BOERNE STAR
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Thursday, Dec. 30, 1948
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May Yours Be a Most Happy
and
Prosperous New Year 1
YOUR
PRESCRIPTION
DRUG STORE
EBNER’S
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HARRY MOORE CRIGHTON
Mr. Crighton passed away
early Tuesday morning in a San
Antonio hospital. He will be in-
terred at Conroe, the former
home of the Crightons on Wed-
nesday. He is survived by his
wife, Mrs. H. Crighton; a dau-
ghter, Mrs. Theo. Pinson; three
grandchildren and a sister, Miss
Elbur Crigton of Houston.
Mr. Crigton had manw friends
here who will be sorry to learn
of his passing.
Make your table reservations
early for the New Year’s
Dance. Call 246.
| Mr. and Mrs. Warren Ingen-
huett of Comfort are rejoicing
over the arrival of a 6V2-I6. baby
girl, born December 23rd at the
Keidel Hospital at Fredericks-
burg. The grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. Peter Ingenhuett of
Comfort and Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Ranzau of Boerne.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Duncan
were visitors in Houston over
the week-end.
Big time, lots of fun. Dance
with Top Hands at the Fair
Grounds, Dec. 31«t.
WEATHER AND
WINTER WEEDS
By Meril G. Carter, Soil Conser-
vation Service, Kerrville
Every rancher is familiar with
the effects of rainfall on the
pasture vegetation. After a good
rain, everything seems to green-
up like magic, the stock is less
restless and quickly make up
weight lost during the preced-
ing dry period.
Such results are so common-
place they seem worthy of little
comment. However, there are a
few features that deserve close
observation if only for the rea-
son that correct interpretations
may make considerable differen-
ces in the management of pas-
tures.
Most ranchers welcome a good
crop of green winter weeds on
their pastures. These weeds us-
ually make their first appear-
ance with the fall rains when
the seed germinate. They re-
main green through the winter,
often growing close to the
ground in the form of a rosette,
and then blossom and set seeds
either in spring or summer. A
very common weed of this kind
is the plantain. Plantain is
known by a variety of local
names including tallow weed,
sheep weed, and white man’s
foot. This last is a illusion to
the fact that the Indians recog-
nized that this weed seemed to
spring up wherever the white
man settled.
In all the literature of range
management, especially that
dealing with areas comparable
to ours, an abundance of winter
weeds, especially the winter an-
nual type, is associated with a
decline in the original good for-
age of the range. It is borne
out by observations and experi-
ments that such weeds gaon
their foothold in a native range
when the perennial grasses and
other plants are weakened or
killed, usually by overgrazing.
In most cases along with the in-
vasion of the winter weeds,
there is a serious decline in for-
age production.
In their favor, winter weeds
do supply some green forage
that is relished by livestock. Yet
if a close observation is made of
areas supporting a growth of
winter weeds, it will be noted
that once the cool season is ov-
er and the weeds have seeded,
there remains little if any
ground cover for forage for a
major part of the year. Such
areas are usually subject to ero-
sion and loss of water by run-
off and evaporation because of
the thin ground cover.
One important drawback to
the winter weeds and also to the
anuual grasses such as Japanese
brome, rescue grass, and six-
weeks fescue is their growth
during a dry winter. A short
walk in any of the pastures at
this time will bring out the point
that the winter weeds and an-
nual grasses have made little or
no growth this season. This is
one of their worst features. It
has been shown that the forage
they produce may vary as much
as 90% between a dry winter
like the present and a winter of
normal rainfall.
To produce the maximum am-
ount of forage even during a
dry year there is no substitute
for the exceldent perennial
grasses and forbs. In an excel-
lent grass stand, of which there
are only a few remaining areas
today, there are many grasses
and perennial forms that remain
green in the winter, suplying
some succulent feed for live-
stock as well as supplyinb am-
ple amounts of dry forage.
In springtime, the weakness
of the winter weeds and annual
grasses is more apparent. At
that time they give a premature
green look to the pasture. This
is an apparent advantage only
because the greenness is usually
revealed by a complete absence
of old plant material. A good
pasture may appear slow in
greening up in the spring, yet
an examination will reveal great
amounts of green growth hidden
by the old vegetation of the past
year. This old vegetation ful-
fills its functions by providing a
good ground cover, literally
soaking up rainfall like a sponge
and providing a natural humus
to the soil.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McCutch-
eon of Yancey, Texas, are spend-
ing the holidays in Boerne and
San Marcos.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Perdue
and Mrs. Bess Perdue of Kansas
City, Missouri, visited Mr. and
Mrs. Jack Davis Christmas.
Patronize our advertisers.
VISITS WITH KENDALL
CO. 4-H CLUB MEMBERS
Everywhere in 4-H Club cir-
cles in Kendall County the big
rush is to get lambs, pigs, chick-
ens' and calves ready for the
Kendall County 4-H Club and
FFA Fat Stock Show which is
to be held Saturday, January
15th, beginning at 8:30 a. m.
Starting at Comfort, we find
Marcial Knapp feeding three
three good Delaine mutton
lambs from the Geo. P. Walker,
Jr. flock. From there we go to
Carlton Biermann’s, who has a
cross-bred Southdown fat lamb
and an outstanding Southdown
ram lamb to show. He also has
some fat barrows which are go-
ing to give some of the other
barrow owners plenty of compe-
tition in the show ring.
Going up to Block Creek,
James Marquart has a good
Southdown fat lamb, and his
cousins, Maxine and Roy Mar-
quart, each have a dandy Here-
ford baby beef. Roy also has
an outstanding gilt in the Swine
Production Program which he
may show.
On the Block-Creek-Sisterdale
road, Harvey Lee, Victor and
Max Zoeller have capons, fat
lambs and Jersey heifers, and
these boys will be showing for
the first time but they have
some good ones. Going up to
Sister Creek above Sisterdale,
Olin Dean Scheele has some good
cross-bred mutton type fat
lambs, four of them, and his
cousin Jimmy has two South-
down cross-bred fat lambs which
will offer real competition. Jim-
my also has some Southdown
breeding ewes. This is the first
year for these fellowg but they
are doing a good job in 4-H
Club work.
From there we cut across to
Kendalia were Ralph Kn'eupper
is trying hard this year to feed
out a steer to top the Kendall
County Show-. He has one fat
calf from the A1 Buchanan He-
reford Ranch, a neighbor, which
is very thick and weighs over
1000 pounds now, and he also
has a good one from the Thorn-
ton Ranch at Boerne. Ralph
also is feeding a cross-bred lamb
given him by the Boerne State
Bank last fall for his good record
in Club work. Then he has three
Corriedale cross lambs on feed.
Besides the 4-H Club work Ralph
os feeding out ten market calves
raising hogs and farming 100
acres of crops.
Over at Van Raub, Harriet
and Mary Ann Grosser are each
feeding a baby beef from their
home herd, and have nine fat
lambs, three Suffolk crosses and
six Corriedale crosses. All their
animals are home raised.
Getting to the Hugo Zoeller’s
we find Harold Zoeller carrying
some 4-4 Club projects and some
FFA. Harold is enrolled in the
FFA classes at Boerne and is
gradually transferring all his
livestock activities to FFA. He
has a very god dry lot babw beef
and some swine that he will
show in the 4-H division. As a
4-H Club member Harold show-
ed the Champion fat calf at
Boerne last year and the Cham-
pion dry lot calf and fat barrow
at the Hill Country Show at
Kerrville. Harold has done an
outstanding job in the 4-H
Swine Production Program.
(Continued next week.)
Do you like good slab bacon?
A fresh batch came out of the
Locker Plant Smokehouse today!
NEW YEAR’S
DANCE
At FAIRYLAND
SATURDAY, JAN. 1st
Comfort, Texas
Music By
HILL COUNTRY PLAYBOYS
EVERYBODY WELCOME
FASHIONS IN DRESS FOR
HAVING LUNG X-RAY
PICTURES MADE
This is the time to leave those
fancy frocks with their metallic
and glittering front hang in the
closet and appear in the very
simplist blouse or pull over
sweater you possess. T shirts
are ideal for the men; however
any dress, blouse or shirt with
a few (not too large) buttons
down the,center front is perfect-
ly all right. Dress shirts or
wofk and sport shirts with the
buttons on side pockets snipped
off for the occasion will do nice-
ly. Better not pin up your gar-
ments with safety pin lest the
doctors think it is inside your
body.
Miss Roberta Shumard of
San Antonio visited here with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. A.
Shumard during the week-end.
Mrs. Maggie Tynes spent
Christmas with Miss Vivian
Tynes in McKinney.
Miss Betty Anderson of Cor-
pus Christi spent Christmas
with Lorraine Martin.
Mrs. Eddie Vogt, Mary Pau-
line, Fred and John, Mr. and
Mrs. Frafiklin Dacy and daugh- ...
ter spent Christmas day with
Mrs. Bitterman in San Antonio. -
Mrs. Wm. Saenger of Beau-
mont and Mrs. Alf. Saenger of
Houston are the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Kendall Ehman for the
holidays.
Mr. J. Coughran Office
Tel. 225
BOERNE, TEX.
Income Tax Service
W. A. SPRINGALL
SAN ANTONIO, TEX.
1613 W. Magnolia Ave.
Tel. P-29190
MOUNTAIN TOP DINNER CLUB
11 Miles South of Boerne on
Fredericksburg Road
PRESENTING
Farewell All Night Gigantic
New Year's Eve Celebration Party
Reserve your table now. Limited to 400
guests
■ Two Floor Shows—11 and 1 O'clock
FEATURING
★ HARRY OTTO
The Funny Man With Tricks
★ PEGGY THOMAS
- The Only Lady of Magic
A Thrill Every Minute!
★ MISS ANNA DELL
Sophisticated Acrobat
~ ALLURING, BEWITCHING
★ JOYCE
IN Her 1949 Enticing Tap Dance
DANCING 8:30 to ???
MUSIC BY
PHIL BUSCHE
AND HIS ORCHESTRA PLAYING
MODERN RHYTHM WITH SWEETNESS
ALL ABOVE FOR $3.00 PER PERSON PLUS TAX
Dinner served 8 to 1 a. m_ A great big turkey dinner
with all the trimmings plus dancing and all the mix-
tures you can use, hats, noise makers, plus floor show.
All of this for $6,00 plus tax
For reservations Dial 110, ask for Mountain Top or
write Capt. F. A. Tallmadge, P. O. Box 1765,
San Antonio, Texas
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Davis, Jack R. The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 30, 1948, newspaper, December 30, 1948; Boerne, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth856505/m1/4/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Patrick Heath Public Library.