The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 260, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 4, 1931 Page: 3 of 6
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THE CUERO RECORD, CUERO, TEXAS
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1931
THE CUERO RECORD
Each Afternoon (except Saturday) and Sunday Morning by
THE CUEKO PUBLISHING CO.
Id the post office ai Cuerc, Texas, as second class matter
onder Act of Congress., March 3. 1897.
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TOE TURKEY SITUATION
ith the opening of the 1931 turkey market, bringing
ranging from 10 to 12 cents, much complaint on the
of the grower has been heard. We can't exactly blame
» turkey grower for complaining about ten cent prices, but
we look at the situation from another angle we can
it 11 or 12 cents is a fairly good price. Turkeys have
;d on cheaper food this year. Corn has been
r, other feed has been cheaper. Therefore the cost of
ion” has been cut down. And then we must rtmem-
11 cents today is almost equivalent to 22 cents last
:k up on food prices, prices of clothing. You will
dollar today is worth almost as much as two dol-
ly. Buyers can’t be blamed for the low price
The old influence of production and demand
Buyers nave stated that unless turkeys
in New York for 25 cents per pound New York
turkeys this year, and New York is the greatest
all the world for turkeys. The price of turkeys
with the price of other commodities which are
ly than ever before. Prices of turkeys this sea-
1, we admit, but when we compare prices of food
of last year, with prices of food and clothing of
and then compare these prices with the prices of-
and 1931 for turkeys, we find that this year’s
are Just about in line with the value of other
bales of cotton from the market is
most commendable. This is espe-
cially true of the smaller country
banks that have had their credit
somewhat strained by general fi-
nancial conditions. It now looks like
Texas will at least do its part with
bank cooperation, to restore cotton
to its place as a profitable farm
crop. Farmers, however, to get
Texas' White Population bank support... will have to live up
The white population of Texas’ in- jto tbe provisions of Texas cotton
creased 22.8 per cent in the ten-; acrea£e restriction laws, and the
year period from 1920 to 1930, * thebanks should make it clear that
lars. is one of a number of recent f fered for sale on liberal terms. The j states that he cannot buy in the
transactions showing confidence in whole city is behind the movefhent territory near the mills any cotton
Texas. This land is to be resold in it is said. | cf a one and one-sixteenth inch
tracts of about 1.000 acres. and —-<--- staple and that less than 200 bales
these in turn subdivided into small . Avoiding Gas Taxes cf the hard, fine staple used is sup-
tracts. The Maverick county irriga- 1
Weimar tomato growers have em-
ployed a special instructor to teach
them how to grow and handle to-
matoes profitably.
About 50 men will be employed
Petroleum marketers of Texas al- : phed by tne entire state. To pro- ,n construction of two large
tion system will ecst 87.000.000 when lege that XeitP_s Ls deprived of from cluce this cotton, proper seed, culti- j bridges to be erected near Uvalde,
completed and will comprise about s2.0oo.000 to S4.000.000 every year! vation and ginning axe required.) Xhe State o{ Xexas has let con_
67.000 acres of land, all as rich as
is to be found in the world.
negro population 15.3 per cent. The
largest percentage of increase was
in the Mexican population—71.6 per
cent—this attributable largely to
the extraordinary demand for com-
mon labor in the Rio Grande Val-
ley. Within th^ last year many
thousands of Mexican laborers
have returned to Mexico attracted
home by improved conditions in
that country. The failure of the ne-
gro population to maintain an equal
ratio of increase with the white
was due to the removal of large
numbers of negroes to the factory
centers of the North and East,
where wages were better than on
Texas farms. Unless farming con-
ditions improve many more negro
and Mexican tenants and laborers
will leave Texas in Ure next ten
years and the averagT
increase of 25 per cent wiTNnot be
maintained.
credit will not be extended to them
unless they agree to do this. Most
of the banks will add a require-
ment that farmers agree to plant at
least enough garden crops to sup-
ply- their families throughout the
year.
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Doing Big Things
Despite all the unwarranted
croaking, big projects are under way
and big ^things are being accom-
plished in Texas on a scale never
before undertaken. Notice the vast
road building almost everywhere,
the giant utility and irrigation
projects, the Federal canalization
and building plans, the steadily in-
creasing number of factories Big
undertakings move slowly, but fine
is to be seen by all who
Banks To Aid Farming
The readiness with which Texas
Large Ltind Sale
The sale of 12.500 acres in the
Maverick county irrigation district
banks are agreeing to assist in- the j now under development, for a con-
movement to withdraw 7.00,000 sideration involving millions of dol-
by evaders of gasoline taxes and One of the mysteries about farming tracts totaling $367,000 on addition-
have volunteered to assist in run- is why inferior cotton is produced aj buildings at various state institu-
-- j ning them down. This vast sum when, the demand is for better | tj0ns.
Trinity Navigation \ would greatly increase the road grades. Read contracts recently let by the
Dofi't decide, just because the pa- i building and add materially to the - State Highway Commission run
pers are not full of it every day. school fund. Cantaloupe Crop frem 25 to 40 per cent under esti-
thaf the Trinity river navigation -- Pecos cantaloupes have gained a mates based on previous costs.
movement is not going forward Who Oicns the Roads? national reputation. About 125 cars! Corsicana, has completed im-
with the promoters ccnfid nt of , Now a court has issued an in- —nearly 40.000 crates have been provements giving the city one of
success. It is not contemplated, of junction to; prevent peace officers j shipped this season. The demand the most modern water plants In
course, that great ocean liners are ■ from enforcing the truck regula- for the melons will probably result Texas.
to go up the Trinity, but that small tions. the injunction has been dis- in doubling thee rop another sea- At Point Isabel sufficient grounds
vessels will navigate the
with loads of heavy,
freight, and it is estimated
stream; solved by another court and con- son. and it is predicted that with-j have been acquired .to meet
slow-moving | tempt proceedings and other trou- j in a few years the melon trade will Government requirements for har-
that
some $16,000,000 will be saved Tex-
ans annually in freight charges.
bles have arisen. Truck operators i be worth more to PeCcs than all the
appear to think that the roads have . other industries combined.
j been built and are being maintained -
- j for their exclusive use. Those who Prosperity Pointers
Wichita Falls Irrigation Plans J travel the highways in smaller j A Californian has bought a four-
Wichita Falls may have been too cars complain that trucks monopo- year_old citrus orchard Df ten acres
prosperous in years past for its own . iize the roads and make it danger- near M^on for a consideration of
good. The major part of an irriga- ous for all travel, showing little or $27 500 practicaliy all cash
tion project covering some 200.000 no regard for the rights of others
New roads are being worn out
acres has been completed for eight
years, but land prices have been
high with indicerence shown about
settling the area with small farm-
ers and trucksters. Things are
changing. An organization has been
created recently to bring about ac-
tual development of this large acre-
age this fall and winter. Prices of
lands are to be reduced
Twenty-five acres planted to ar-
‘ ... . . ,. ,___ , , tichokes in the Pecos Valley will
qmckls bj the heavy truck traffic. [ w ^ ((> ^ ^ Artl.
chokes will do well in most parts of
Possibly the best remedy would be
some kind of a toll for vehicles
using highways for commercial
purposes. •
Better Cotton Needed
The manager of the New Braun-
and I fels cotton mills complains that he
thousands of acres are to be cut in- I has to go elsewhere to buy the kind j Cameron county, that will employ
to tracts of 30 tq 80 acres and of-1 of cotton’.required by the mills. He) about 100 hands.
Texas.
Banner banana crops are being
produced in the Lower Rio Grande
Valley this season.
A Chicago concern has started a
leather goods factory at Fresnos,
bor terminal facilities and turning
basin of sufficient capacity to last
some 50 years.
Bids will be asked December 20
on a $200,000 courthouse at Long-
view.
Hale Center parties will soon be-
gin erection of a fifty-barrel floor
mill with necessary warehouse* and
elevators..
Beaumont will erect a $100,000
port cotton warehouse following a
municipal bond issue for that pur-
pose.
Citizens of Stockdale are plan-
ning the organization of a new
bank.
A solid train load of flour—IASS
tons—has been shipped by a Bher- '•*
man flour mill to Pennsylvania,
York and New England bakeries.
of the fanner, many observers of world condi-
re that the farmer is better off than most of his
The farmer like most of us may owe a few
and there which he will be unablp to pay this
many DeWitt county farmers are going to lack
year. Bow many DeWitt county farmers will be in
this year. How many farmers are going to suf-
of proper clothing. We are not suffering. We
be thankful for. We have food and clothing,
of oar luxuries perhaps, but when-we compare
..with that of some of those starving thousands in
our bed is. a bed of roses.
NEW COTTON USE
Congressman J. J. Mansfield with the first notable
the endeavor to find new and substantial uses for
of Southerh cotton. Mr. Mansfield has been urg-
Office Department to substitute cotton for the
quantities of hemp twine customarily used, ar\d
his persistence was rewarded. The Department
for bids on 1,300,000 pounds of cotton twine, in the
of which more than 2,600 bales of cotton will be
is considered to be an experimental purchase. If
lent finds the twine satisfactory, thousands of
fcton will be necessary to supply its annual require-
every ounce will represent new consumption.—
itz.
DEWITT COUNTY’S COTTON CROP .
county’s 1931 cotton crop is more than 21,000 bales
the 1930 yield. The total crop of Texas was only a
red thousand bale* short of the 1930 yield. Prices
around 6 and 7 cents. That means that thousands
of DeWitt county land did not produce enough cot-
^ j»y taxes on, the land. Will farmers join in the cot-
te reduction move. Looking over the situation we
ly say yes. . . *
BEAUTIFUL CABBAGE FIELD
at the beautiful cabbage field on the Buchel
west of this city will convince even the most skeptic
ition on a large scale may mean a clearing of the
for the DeWitt county farmer. Buchel should be able
a rich profit from his cabbage this year The pro-
1,hit the market ahead of the Valley shipments when
re at the top and the crop should bring fancy prices,
is no longer an experiment on the Buchel farm,
has made that farm as it could make other DeWitt
'farms. Perhaps DeWitt farmers who have found cot-
>r money crop could get some real information from
and his tenants as to "irrigation and its benefits.”
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Howerton, J. C. The Cuero Record (Cuero, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 260, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 4, 1931, newspaper, November 4, 1931; Cuero, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth999589/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cuero Public Library.