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Denton Record-Chronicle from Denton, Texas • Page 3

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tt. THE PENTON "RECORD.CHRONICL Livestock Men Plan Banquet For Jan. 14 A general membership meeting ind banquet will be held by the Denton County Livestock Association Monday evening Jan. 14, How- ird Gibbs. president, has announced.

The event will be held in Hubbard Hall on the campus of Texas State College for Women, beginning at 7 p.m. The dinner will be free to members, vyhile a charge will be made wives and other guests. Arrangements for the banquet being made by committee composed of Mark Hannah, Al Petty, Pat Roberts and Hal Bylander. The committee was to meet this afternoon in the office of Mayor Hannah to complete program plans. The association have voted to contribute $500 toward Hie expenses of a government trapper for Denton County.

Similar sums are to be put up by the Denton County Farm Bureau and the County Commissioners Court, under present plans. A final report on the availability a trapper will be made by Walter Peterson, a director of the association, jit the monthly meeting of the commissioners court next Friday. Peterson, Hayes Armstrong, another director, and Clarance Matthews, president of the farm bureau, met with the commissioners discuss the problem last week. Monday, April 7, 1952, has been set as the date for holding the annual Livestock Clinic sponsored by the association. A committee composed of J.

Heath, Petty and Allen Eogan will work out let ails of the clinic program. Plans have been discussed by he directors to sponsor a Feeder iale at the annual Denton County A report from Petty, the county agriculture agent, on the possibility of holding such a sale, was studied at length. It is proposed that the sale include calves weighing from 400 to 500 pounds, be classified and graded accord- ng to quality, and then auctioned off. The committee to shirty the possibility of such a program is corn- of Fred Freeman, James Began, Rylandcr and Petty. Brighten up thi inside and protect the outside of your home.

Come by, let us explain why it will cost you less to "Dutch Boy." GEO. NEWTON PAINT COMPANY 117 E. Hickory Phone 735 Cotton Fertilizer Tests Successful A cotton fertilizer demonstration conducted last year by B. B. Ashley of Millsap, Parker County, shows the value having soil tested for plant food ztd applying fertilizer on the basis of the ana lysis.

According to county agent H. C-. l.aw, the demonstration was located on deep sandy loam soil in the Brazos River Valley. Cotton, corn and peanuts had been grown on the land for many no soil building crops and little, if any, fertilizer used. Soil tests showed Hie soil to he slightly acid and low in organic matter, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.

Four hundred pounds of 8-8-8 fertilizer per acre were recommended on the basis of ihe test. Ashley set up 10 plots of cotton and used a different fertilizer treatment on each. These ranged from a check plot with no fertilizer applied to 400 pounds of 8-8-8 plus 100 pounds of ammonium nitrate as a sidedressing. Best returns were obtained from 400 pounds of 5-10-5 and 400 pounds of 8-8-8. Both of these treatments returned nearly four dollars for each dollar spent for fertilizer, reports Law.

A soil testing laboratory is operated at'ColIege Station by the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. Directions for taking and mailing soil samples can be obtained from local county agricultural agents. Cotton Acreage Reports Sought By PMA Office J. T. Donald, chairman of the Denton County Production and Marketing Administration Committee, has announced that reports on acreage planted to cotton in 1951 should be made by every cotton grower in the country as soon as possible.

The information on individual farms is needed by the county PMA office so that such acreage figures will be available for use in the event of any future cotton acreage allotments and marketing quota programs, Shirley Taylor, county PMA secretary, said. Each grower may have his 1951 acreage measured in order to establish more accurate cotton acreage records, Taylor pointed out. In case the farmer decides that the acreage should be measured, he should notify the Denton PMA office, which will arrange to have some of its field men obtain the information. The farmer must bear the cost of the operation, Taylor said. Maximum charge is $3 for each farm, plus $1 for each lot over one.

Growers who do not plan to have the acreage measured are urged to enter the reported cotton acreage on the card furnished by the local PMA office and return it at once, Donald wanred. Down On The Farm In tropical and sub-tropical forests, no one month produces a mass of color splendor such as Is usually seen in the northern fall season. Warfarin Halts Damage By Rats Warfarin, the new rat and mouse poison, has enabled a northeast Texas poultryman to make a considerable saving in chicken feed, according to the 1351 annual report of the Rodent Control Service. Rats were eating an average of 32 pounds of feed per day, worth $1.60 if valued at five cents a pound. Fifty-eight pounds of war- farin bait, which costs $14.50, killed 306 rats in a two-week period.

This is a typical example of the result obtained with this new poison, which prevents blood from clotting and causes rats and mice to die from internal hermorrhages. Information on controlling rats wilh warfarin is given in a new publication prepared cooperativelj by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the U. S. Department of Interior and the Texas College Extension Service. Leaflet 148, "Use of Warfarin for Rat and Mouse Control," contains safety precautions for using war farin, four warfarin bait formulas and instructions for mixing them and instructions for putting the bait out.

This leaflet is available from county Extension offices. Warfarin can be obtained in the concentrate or the ready-tn-use form from local drug, feed and in secticide stores. Bait prepared by the Rodent Control Service, San Antonio, is distributed through county agricultural agents am their co-operators who are con ducting county-wide rat contro programs. Py ALLEN BOGAM Two Denton County agriculture are showing what on be done through co-opera tiou. The County Livestock Associa- ton and the Denton County Farm iureau are working together on Hans for hiring a government wolf trapper for Denton County.

They are going to share the financial responsibility of hiring the trapper, ilong with the county commissioners court. The livestock group and the farm bureau each have decided to put up $500, to be matched by the commissioners court, for hiring a trapper. The only had part about Fiiring a government trapper is that he can't be everywhere at the same Ranchers in the west part of the county are sure that they need the trapper worse in their area, while it's the same thing in the north and east sections of the county. But, from all we hear, the Federal trappers like to trap that's their business. So, they'll go wliere they think they can get the most animals.

When they clean 'em out, they are ready to move on. They can't stand idleness. hallicrafters allicrafters TV the ONLY set with the Rich Mahogany VtnccfS. Size 3014'x 40J4'v 24V4'. NEW LOW PRIC1S ONLY HiUicraftcfS gives you the Dyniniic Tuner with the precision printed circuit based on a cop secret World II development.

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Pay your dues, men, and the dinner won't cost you a cent. And Claude Castleberry can really dish out a good meal. Wonder why it is that most of us wait until the horse has disappeared before we lock the barn door? 'Way last February, when we had a hard freeze, the water pipe from the overhead tank at our place froze and broke. I had to repair the damage and in doing so, had to lake the towsack "insulation" from around the pipe. We didn't have any more cold weather, so I didn't re-wrap the pipe immediately, figuring to get that job done some warm summer day.

Well, summer went by and other chores took priority over the wrapping job You guessed it I had to do the wrapping in bitter cold weather last Friday, as the coldest weather of the season swept over the county It's like that on nearly every farm. II seems that the only time the water supply gets out of whack is in sub freezing weather. Overhead tanks cut-offs, windmills and even pres sure pumps have an uncanny way of getting out of commission when the north wind is blowing a gale and the fey wind cuts you to shreds. Milk Output Shows Decline In N. Texas Milk production and Class 1 sales were slightly less in November than in October, Byford W.

Bain, market administrator, has announced. Milk producers delivering milk to the North Texas Milk Marketing delivered an average of 1,214,322 pounds of milk daily during November. This was 1.44 per cent less than the 1,232,047 pounds delivered daily during October. There were 2,496 producers in the market which was 46 more than last month. Each producer delivered an average 487 pounds daily as compared with 504 pounds daily in October.

The average butterfat test for all producer milk was 4.4T5 per cent in November which was higher than the 4.283 per cent average in October. Total production for the month of November was 36,429,659 pounds, of which 35,787,232 pounds were classified as Class I. Total Class I sales (bottled milk, buttermilk, chocolate milk, skim milk, and cream) amounted to 41,880,963 pounds as compared with Wheat growers who contracted for Federal Crop Insurance on their 1951-52 crops must report their wheat acreage by Dec. 31, Shirley Taylor, administrative officer for the Denton County Production and Marketing Administration, has announced. Even if they didn't plant the wheat, because of drouth conditions or for other reasons, they must report the fact to the PMA office.

POLITICS SAfD MAJOR PROBLEM OF FARMERS SANTA FE, Dec. 18. top official of the American Farm Bureau Federation places politics at the top of the list of farmers' problems. The remark was in a talk Monday night at the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau convention ay Roger Fleming of Washington, secretary-treasurer of the American Farm Bureau Federation. He said problems such as supplies of machinery, fertilizer, insecticides and labor are less important than political matters.

He declared farmers have reached the point where they, with business and labor, are "in a very strategic position to have influence on public policy in the United States." DENCRETE. DOINGS By BERT MOORE. DENTON- CALL 2119 TODAY "Willie stop acting like your ana let us explain the building of economical, fire proof and, folki, ft a lifetime. Crouch Ayr shires Set Records For Milk Production Ueade-Ayr Kellarney, a junlor- four-year-old; Glen's High Annette, a junior-four-year-old; Isabella Direction's Chjrmer, a Junior-four- year-old and North Texas White Heither, a junior-three-year-old, owned by Raymond Crouch, North Texas Ayrshire Farm, -Denton, have completed respectively, actual records of 11,507 pounds o( 4.2 per cent miUc and -Iff) pounds of butterfat, 11,817 pounds of S.7 per cent milk and 442 pounds of 43,718,571 poundi fn October. November daily Class I sales were down 1.01 per cent from last month.

Class I sales were US per cent of producer receipts in November and were 114,5 per cent of producer receipts in October. The minimum uniform price to paid producers by handlers for November deliveries of 4 per cent milk was $6.07 per hundredweight. The minimum uniform price last month was. J6.01 per hundredweight for cent milk. The Class I price to handlers (price paid for milk sold as bottled milk, buttermilk, chocolate milk, skim milk ami cream) was $6.118 per hundredweight for 4 per cent milk.

butterfat, pomdf 4.9 per cent milk and 448 pwiodf of butter- rat, 11,817 pounds of 1.7 per" cent milk and pounds of botterfat in SOS days on strictly day milking schedule. According to C. T. Cooklin. Executive Secretary of the Ayrshire Breeders' Association, these records are equal to 12,188 pounds at milk and S08 pounds of butterfat, 12,301 pounds of milk c-nd 4CO pounds of butterfnt, 11,679 pounds of milk and 466 pounds of butterfat, 13,318 pounds of milk and 493 pounds of butterfat when figured on a mature equivalent basis.

The records were made in accordance with the rules of the Ayrshire Herd Test Plan. The Ayrshire Breeders' Association Herd Test Program if recognized and used by Ayrshire breederds from coast to coast. Monthly production tests are made and supervised in cooperation wilh the Kxtensive of agricultural colleges. Soaking Are Still deeded Over Texas AUSTIN, Dee. II.

H) tad tod nrfetcr (air to cood drrdopmt to the eastern dUrd of TOM Hjht ant. tend rains added to ntettare reserves lait week. Soaking nins an needed mod of tfae state, the U. S. Department at Agriculture said to weekly crop report today.

Snow ever much of the Northern High late ia the veck beted the wheat crop hold its OWL Ear); flax feneraBy war up to a good stand fa Sooth Texas. Condi- lions favored contuRMd Vegetables made good progress, particularly ia non-irricatad sections. CHICKEN FEED FEED "Che finest money can buy at Snow's Bring Us Your Custom Grinding SNOW'S FEED STORE McKinney PENNEY'S STILL TIME TO SAVE PLENTY AT PENNEY'S! ALWAY FIRST ONLY MORE SHOPPING DAYS! TILL 8:00 P. M. TO-NIGHT OPEN AT 9:00 M.

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