The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 10, 1959 Page: 4 of 6
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Our store is loaded with a wonder-
ful selection of gifts for the entire family,
The very best in Style, Price and Fabric,
SHOP EARLY
BE SMART
.... 5c and 10c
.. 25c and $1.00
. $1.00 and $2.98
... 10c to $1.19
... 25c to $1.49
25c, 39c and 89c
Seals and Tags
Tin Tea Sets . .
Plastic Tea Sets
Plastic Trucks .
Pistols.......
Puzzles.......
... $1.00 to $3.49
.......5c to 79c
.. $1.00 and $1.25
25Ci 50c and $1.00
Aluminum Tea Sets
Rubber Balls......
Musical Chimes . ..
Bow and Arrow Sets
89c to $2.98
2 for 5c, 5c and 10c
; 29c, 59c and $1.98
............$1.98
.......10c and 25c
......29c to $2.98
Tree Light Sets
Xmas Cards
Box Cards.....
China Tea Sets . .
Tinsels and Snow
Metal Trucks . ..
59c to $6.95
........10c
10c, 25c, 39c
89c to $1.95
.. 5c and 10c
........25c
Dolls ..............
Angel Hair......
Xmas Wrapping Paper
Holster Sets .....----
Tree Ornaments.....
Foil Roping .........
Boxed Handkerchiefs — Ties — Sox — Ladies Hose Military
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Sets — Comb and Brush Sets — Perfume Sets Towel Sets —
Xmas Boxes, all sizes —Xmas Candy.
Many other items too numerous to mention
BOERNE, TEXAS
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THE BOERNE STAR
COUNTY AGENT’S
CAPSULE COMMENTS
By John Campbell
BEEF CATTLE. The Nordan
77 Ranch of Boerne has 5 yearl-
ing Santa Gertrudis bulls on
gain performance test at the
McGregor Substation. There av-
erage age is 846 days.
First period results showed
they gained an average of 3.7
pounds per day as compared with
3.0 average daily gain for the to-
tal 30 bulls of Santa Gertrudis
bulls on test.
The first period weighing re-
sults also revealed the Nordan
bulls have an average of 2.5
pounds gain per day for their
tota age as compared with the
group average for entire life of
2.3 pounds. Also their gain ra-
tios was 122 percent as compar-
ed to 100 for the average of the
total 30 head. .
The ranch operates with 175
cows. A great amount of effort
has been spent on improving the
certified herd of Santa Gertru-
dis catle. Gain performance test-
ing of Kendall county beef cat-
tle is recommended by the coun
ty program building committee.
A reminder to those planning
to enter cattle for future test—
weaning weights must be taken
between 5 and 8 mnoths of age.
Ration fed at McGregor now
include 30% sorghum grain, 10
percent oats, 10 per cent cotton-
see dmeal and 50% grass or sor-
ghum hay. A second group test-
ing will be Jan. 1, 1960, for en-
try application, with cattle being
delivered Jan. 14, 15 or 18. For
further information contact any
county agent.
fact has been proven and farm-
ers are quickly taking advantage
The commercial use of hybrids
sorghum seed in this country has
increased in four years from al-
most nothing to about two-
thirds of the acreage in 1959.
CO PROGRAM. Here are
some objectives of the county
program building committee to
raise the weaning weights of
calves 50 pounds; increase the
county average of mohair two
pounds; raise wool clip 1% lbs
per ewe; to have each dairyman
raise his replacement cows and
increase milk production 2,000
pounds per cow. Objectives also
include weaned pigs to average
8% per litter; poultrymen to
produce high quality eggs that
will average 80% hatch or bet-
ter; to increase the use of rec-
ommended grain varieties by 50
percent.
Ranchers to include wildlife
when determining range carry-
ing capacity. For 4-H their goal
is to have 50% of members re-
main active in 4-H until through
high school or 18 years of age.
For adult leaders they are trying
for 1 for each 4 4-H club mem-
bers.
XMAS GIFTS. Here are
some gusgestions for Christmas
gifts for your kitchen! home-
made fruit cakes, cookies and
candies; a box of homemade
jams, preserves or jellies put in
uniform jars and wrapped in
holiday attire. Also special yeast
breads — tea rings, Jule Kaza
and loaves of bread attractively
wrapped.
Bottles of homemade salad
dressing; gala popcorn balls,
wrapped in bright cellophane
and tied with ribbons for child-
ren. Wooden bowls with Texas
pecans and a nut cracker. A Mex-
ican basket filled with colorful
fruits. Also canned chicken or
other meats from your pantry
shelf.
CROPS. Do you get your mon-
ey’s worth from winter grazing
crops ?
New growth on pasture plants
is produced at the expense of pre
viously stored organic food in
the plant and over-grazed plants
cannot develop sufficient leaf
area to produce food for storage.
It is better to keep livestock
off of winter crops until there is
enough growth to provide con-
tinuous grazing for at least two
hours each day or until the
plants are about six inches high.
Even cool season crop s stop
growing when temperatures
drop below 50 degrees.
Dairy specialist point out that
dairy cows grazing two or three
hours daily and fed high quality
hay will produce about as much
milk as cows grazing all day.
NEW BULLETINS. These are
new extension bulletins you may
be interested in: L-451, Local
Market and Home Garden Vege-
table Varieties. L-453, Growing
Vegetable Transplants. USD A
Leaflet 409, Bird Control Devic-
es. B-935, Control of Mesquite
On Grazing Lands.
BRUCELLOSIS. Qut. If feed-
er cattle are brought in for a 90
day feeding period and then sold
are these cattle required to be in
the brucellosis program? Ans.
Such cattle would be exempt un-
der provisions of the'program if
they are brought in under per-
mit, held under quarantine, and
will be sold for slaughter.
Q. What will happen to a coun
ty that doesn’t do anything?
Nothing will be done to a county
that does not engage in a pro-
gram. Any pressure that oomesc
to bear will be the reseult of re-
luctance of buyers in bidding on
their cattle.
Q. Will a dairy herd already
tested and clean, be re-tested?
Ans. It will be tested in the same
manner as other herds.
Q. If a man has 100 cows in 3
or 4 pastures will they test all
pastures? Ans. Representative
numbers from each pasture must
be tested within the required
20%.
Misc. Each post office and
bank have been given a few
copies of the 1960 edition of
“Farmers Tax Guide.” They are
free from the Internal Revenue
Service.
Thursday, Dec. 10, 1959
More than a third of Ameri-
ca’s farmers now work 100 days
or more off their farms. The
trend toward off-the-farm em-
ployment is likely to continue,
USD A experts say.
Be glad to supply you with
hunting lease forms published by
the extension service. They are
free.
Quote: No one of us is as
smart as all of us.
A very nice letter has been re-
ceived from Mrs. Denver Cooper,
who recently moved to Houston.
She wishes all her friends here
a Merry Christmas and many
good things for the New Year.
Mrs. Stella Perrin of San An-
tonio is spending several days
here with friends.
PAINT SPECIAL
Quality white house
$4.79 per gallon.
McQuinn Building Materials
paint
Weigh your buck free on Riv-
erside’s big game scale. 7tc
SCHOOL LUNCH
ROOM MENU
Monday, Dec. 14:
14 pint milk
Hot Dogs on bun
Pickles
Tomato wedges
Pork and Beans
Cherry cobbler
Tuesday, Dec. 15:
i/2 pint milk
Pork sausage patties
Gravy
Green beans
Buttered rice
Bread and butter
Applesauce
Wednesday, Dec. 16:
pint milk
Hamburger on bun
Pimiento cheese sandwich
Lettuce and tomatoes
Onions and pickles
Potato chips
Butter cookie
Sliced pineapple
Thursday, Dec. 17:
14 pint milk
Turkey and gravy
on dressing
Cranberry sauce
Buttered peas
Bread and Butter
Canned peaches
Friday, Dec. 18:
14 pint milk
Fish sticks
Catsup/pressed ham
Green vegetable salad
Buttered potatoes
Bread and butter
Xmas cookies
Stick candy.
SORGHUM. Hybrid sorghum
will produce higher yields than
open pollinated varieties. This
The Spanish otwn of Lliva was
left out in the cold—of France—
when the boundary line between
the two nations was drawn.
World Book Encyclopedia ex-
plains that the boundary was
draw nalong the Crestline of the
Pyrenees Mountains, leaving
Llivia, to the north, entirely sur
rounded by France.
RENT OUR EQUIPMENT
Floor sanding machines, floor
polishers, vacuum cleaners, elec-
tric hand sander, lawn mowers.
McQuinn Building Materials
GOOD FOOD OUR SPECIALTY
Regular dinners served. Short
orders, home-made pies and pas-
tries.
We cater to parties by reser-
vations.
German Chocolate Cake and
Pastries by advance orders.
Ranch House Cafe
PHONE 9509
STEP FORWARD NOW
AND CONTROL EROSION
By.Martin E. Vavra
Soil Cinservation Service
Have you been thinking about
that water running off or thru
your field ? Maybe it has already
made a ditch, or will in the near
future. Or what about that
small witch along the side of the
field that water breaks out of
quite frequently. If these thou-
ghts have been running through
your mind now is the time to
start planning and doing some-
thing about it.
The most common thought is
to “build terraces and all of my
troubles will be solved.” This is a
far fetched thought since most
cultivated fields that have wat-
er problems will need some type
of a water course to dispose of
the excess water.
The natural depression in a
field is the best and most com-
monly used area as a drainage-
way for the excess water. This
drainageway or waterway, as it
is commonly referred to, may be
used to carry outside water thru
the field, or carry water dis-
charging from terraces, or both,
provided some form of vegeta-
tion is established in it to pro-
tect the soil from erosion.
The waterway should have
vegetation established in it be-
fore any additional water is di-
verted into it. This may delay
the construction of terraces a
year or two. If vegetation is not
present, the concentration of
water will cause scouring and
gullying will soon develop.
The type of vegetation used in
waterways will depend upon lo-
cation and type of soil. There
are several locally adapted gras-
ses such as comman Bermuda,
King Ranch bluestem, and na-
tive grass mixtures that may be
seeded. Coastal and common
Bermuda grass is sometimes
sprigged in waterways also.
For information on seedbed
preparation and planting dates,
contact your local Soil Conser-
vation Service technician or Dis-
trict Supervisor.
The size of the waterway will
depend upon the area draining
into it and it is desirable to have
it large enough so that is can
be managed for economical re-
turns.
The waterway area should be
the hoghest producing area in
the field because being in the
natural depression, the slope is
the flattest and the soil is the
deepest. Also, the waterway be
ing a collecting area for the ex-
veess runoff water, it is receiv-
ing a supplemental irrigation
which in turn will give more pro
duction than an adjoining area.
It is not lost acreage and the
cost of establishing a water-
way should be charged against
the acreage draining into it and
not the acreage in the waterway
itself.
Besides carrying excess run-
off water without causing eros-
ion, the waterway may be used
for grazing, hay crops, and grass
seed production. When used for
grazing, caution must be taken
to avoid over-grazing.
Waterways should be inspect-
ed after each heavy rain. Re-
pairs made then may prevent
failure of the waterway later on.
Proper mowing, shredding, or
grazing of the vegetation tends
to develop a cover and root sys-
tem that is more resistant to
erosion than rank vegetation.
Avoid using the waterway for
cattle lanes and roadways.
Inspect your farm for erosion
and by stepping forward now,
erosion can be controlled easier
and cheaper thanby postponing
it a few years.
FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS
—• MAKE IT SAFE
It would be interesting to dis-
cover, in this era of motivation
research, what the word “holi-
day” means to most people,
what is the first thing that
flashes to mind when the word
is mentioned?
Time off from work? A trip?
excuse to celebrate? A tra-
gic accident toll ?
Unfortunately, truthful ans-
wers probably would place all of
those higher on the list than the
true meaning of the holiday. And
it’s especially unfortunate that
holidays must have an acsosia-
tion with high accident tolls.
Christmas, with the deepest
spiritual significance, is the
deadliest holiday of all, accord-
ing to the National Safety Coun-
cil. Ironically, it achieves this
terrible distinction precisely be-
cause we want it to be such a
wonderful occasion.
It is a sentimently holiday.
People will drive long distances
for the traditional family reun-
ion, undaunted by the worst wea
ther. More travel—especially win
ter travel at highway speeds —
means more accidents.
It is a caonvivial holiday. The
joyous spirit of the accasion is
too often sought in liquid form.
This de adly conjunction of
the throttle and bottle has dim-
med the true radiance from the
star of Bethlehem.
The National Safety Council
and Texas Safety Association
have asked for church leadership
during this Christmas season to
point out that accident preven-
tion is practical religion, and
that good will toward men can
find no finer expression than be-
hind the wheel of a car.
Mrs. Nelson Oliver of Corpus
Christi spent Thanksgiving with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Krause and Mr. and Mrs. B. F.
Swope and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Krause
spent the past weekend in Junc-
tion.
Mrs. J. P. Corley is spending
some time here with her sister,
Mrs. Joe Saunders.
Among the lucky hunters are
L. E. Jungmichel and his sops,
Lothar Jr. and Milton. They each
got a buck.
Babe Leidl and Betty Horan
attended the National Hairdress-
er's Assn., meeting at the Gun-
ter Hotel, Monday night where
they selected the Queen of Unit
5, to represent San Antonio in
the Dallas Show in February.
NOTICE
The Episcopal Thrift Shop
will be closed from Wednesday,
December 23, until Monday, Jan
uary 4th. Make your purchases
before that date.
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