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URGEFARMERS' RAISE FEED Demonstration Proves Val ue of Fitting Livestock And Crops Together \ (Special to The Herald) > COLLEGE STATION. May 18 — | Acre inc^nes from feedstuff can f often be doubled and sometimes i treblef5 by using livestock to market own feed, according to O. * W. Barnes, beef cattle specialist in | the extension service. "Farmers are ! ) fast realizing this as evidenced by the fact that in the last six years. V exclusive of club boys. 5,000 farmers lave demonstrated the feeding of eef cattle; 10.000 the feeding of ogs; and 20.000 the feeding of \ dry cattle. Based on a spread of fluence of five neighbors working ' ‘ In their own ways an idea they I/* seen demonstrated, that are iv probably 100.000 farms in Texas are crop and livestock production fitted together to raise the farm wne. vjjdiat can be accomplished may Ridged by the story of W. D. I j%ms in Dawson county. He shit a 8Quare mile of farm land . jn cultivation, of which half is "" ton and half in feed. The 400 of grass land keep up 35 good BaJord cows. He has recently com **< a demonstration in coopera shajvith his county agent. W. W. ers’ in feeding out a car of farm of ved calves on farm-grown feed. * wan eleven months of age they thiryatlng 17 1-2 pounds of ground I - vtllend 2 1-2 pounds of cottonseed dent1**1, da? aPl*CP- together with part bundles of sorghum. When mail1 Fort Worth at 12 cents per lrvih they weighed 800 pounds each, ^deducting $50 per head as the of the calves at thp beginning *”a“ feeding period. Mr Williams 7 hQ that he had netted $48 per ii his milo maize instead of the Tie market offered.*’ callt VENTION REPORT co mi is ufADE AT LUNCHEON bets - He * Business and Professional “*en’s club of Edinburg met at Befs’ Blue Bonnet for their reg by luncheon hour. About twelve wsnbers were present. After the mcheon. Mrs. Emina Magee. who <js lately returned from a trln In { a^ntucky gave a short talk, she cfd some interesting things about yr trip and particularly about the ,ate convention of Business and 1 Professional Women’s club which I was lately held in Temple. Texas. # Mrs. Maeee cave a very Inspiring f report of the convention. A short f business session was held. In which plans were made for attending the 1 quarterly meeting of the district which will be held in Weslaco on Jjp^rsday. May 23. \ * BUYS OLD SHIP MODELS \ SOUTHAMPTON. Eng.. Mav 18 — 1 —The fine private collection of models of old ships, long exhibited in the training vessel “Mercury’s" vtmuseum. has been purchased bv Sir James Caird. shipowner, for $150,000. \ 'Some of the models are said to have jelonged to Samuel Pepys, the fa 1 nous diarist. t AaXaaiaiai Friends Aid Former Governor In Retrieving Lost Fortunes . ; (By Central Press) INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. May 18 — “Orchard Lake Stock Farm—Home of Pure Bred Herefords." Back of this sign, marking an exhibit of sleek cattle at the Indiana state fair this fall, will be the dra matic story of the greatest “come back” ever staged by a Hoosler farmer. It will be the hard-earned triumph of Warren T. McCray, elected governor of Indiana in 1920. McCray was caught in a .financial debacle of falling farmland prices after the war and his personal for tune of more»than one million dol lars was swept away. He went from the governor's mansion to serve the minimum of a ten-year sentence in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., convicted of using the mails to defraud. While former Governor McCray Is staging his “comeback" on the farm, faithful friends in Washington are urging that President Hoover grant him a complete pardon, as he is now on parole. "Making my own farm relief.” is the term that McCray applies to his efforts on the 2.640-acre stock farm, which be now operates in Newton county, near Kentland *T mright in my element. We have shipped ten carloads of cattle that brought approximately $50,000 and five loads of hogs bringing $12. 000. This season we have in 1.570 acres of com, wheat or oats." says McCray modestly when questioned as to whether Orchard Lake Stock Farm is paying since he took pos session last September. McCray returned from prison slightly more than seven months ago. broken In health. He was without funds to support his familv. those who had waited for the day he would return. A group of faith ful friends learned of his condition and banding themselves into a stock company financed his start on Or chard Lake Stock farm. This was the home place that he had operated before his troubles came. A friend had purchased and saved for him “Fairfax’s Last." a Hereford bull sired by "Perfection Fairfax.” from which the McCray herd had be*n built and become famed through out stock raising circles. The fr^nd sent the bull to McCrav prenaid as a gift. He shed tears over his hap piness If McCrav permitted his books to be kent looselv prior to his fall, no such charge cBn be made with fair ness now. "This sum for improve ment." he says with a thumb on a total In the cost sheet, showing where every penny goes. His latest purche*" was a hack to carrv twen tv-one little children of tenants of the farm to Sunday school in Kent land each week. The*-e Is something more impres sive than the money this 63-vear old man. starting from scratch to build a fortune, reports. The finest thine of all. according to those who know him. Is that Warren McCray, who went from the eovemor’s man sion to a cell In Atlanta prison, is not vindictive. ORDERS MACARONI LETHBRIDGE. Alberta. May 11 — (Ab—Shanghai has ordered a car load of macaroni from Canadian wheat by a local firm. The shipment will be the first of its kind to the Orient. ' v ' 'it ..." \ . , • * " =XLar7*r—~-jIjs Warren T. McCray as he appears today, and some of his stock. Suburban Entrants Carry Off Prizes In Audition Tests (Special to The Herald) WASHINGTON. May 18. —The application' of John R. Miller, a farmer’s son. to enter the Penn sylvania state elimination tests of the National Radio Audition of the Atwater Kent Foundation has serv ed to draw attention of musicians to the fact that, during the two years the Foundation has been searching the nation for young singers, no national finalists have come from the so-called “Center of Music" in America—New York—and but one finalist has qualified from Chicago. This does not mean that singers from the two big cities have j not entered the contest There [ have been auditions in those places as well as smaller sections. But the fact is that Philadelphia is the largest city from which a finalist has come. Three out of four of the young men and young women who won first honors in the 1927 and 1928 auditions were from cities of medium size, while many of the twenty national finalists came from obscure small towns. % Agnes Davis, who captured the honors for voung women in 1927. was a school teacher In Denver. Ted Roy. second in the 1927 con test. is known over the extreme northwest as “the singing black smith. ’ having worked for years as helper in his fathers blacksmith shop in Pilot Rock. Oregon. Emilia da Prato, of South San Francisco, was second among the girls in 1927 —the daughter of an Italian immi grant and a native of Luca. Italy. The chief idea of the Atwater Kent Foundation In these auditions is to reach out among young peo ple with real vocal talent, but who have no chance to demonstrate their voices, and to open for them an opportunity for recognition and the means with which to continue their studies. Furthermore, ob servers point out, the Foundation recognizes the value of popular opinion as to musical worth in the 1929 audition, in that provision is made for larger cash awards to all except the national champions and that all finalists are assured of at least one year’s training under a recognized master. To accomplish this, the cash ar-^ds have been in creased from $17,500, as in previous years, to $25,000. MOROCCAN THIEF GETS FAST FRENCH JUSTICE RABAT. Morocco. May 12.—W— French justice, if slow at home, is rapid enough tn its protectorate of Morocco. An Arab caught in the act of rob bing at Morocco City was arrested, haled before the district, magis trate. awarded six months imprison ment and taken straight off to jail. The elapsed time between the commission of the misdemeanor and the incarceration of the culprit was exactly twenty-five minutes. TO FORM VETERAN POST HAVANA, May 18.—<P*—Steps are being taken to form here a post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, an American organization. DEVELOPERS 1 PVALLEY 1 1 "" « Engelman Gardens Develop- \ er Says Next Problem Ta Market Fruit _______ The developers of the Rio Grande Valley are thinking, planning and building now as never before, as shown by the new department open ed in the organisation of Engelman Gardens. In an interview given out before leaving for the North. J. C. Engel man. Jr., developer of Engelman Gardens stated. “Our next big prob lem is that of fruit marketing. It is folly to produce a fine article and put it beside your gate for sale and be at the mercy of Whomever may drive by with an offer. Can you imagine the manufacturers of fine rugs, furniture or motor cars trans acting their sales in that manner?” “It is true that it will be eighteen to twenty months before we market our first fruit, and that will possibly run from 50 to 70 cars. But each year following will see larger trees and expanding acreage until more than 9000 acres will be in produc tion.” continued Mr. Engelman. With the exception of ten or twelve Valley residents, the pur chasers of groves in Engelman Gar dens are business and professional men from the North and East, who after deliberate invesitgation Into matters pertaining to irrigation, drainage, orchard development and all that concerns a grove are making solid investments in this fine de velopment. It is looked upon by many of them as being an invest ment similar to stocks in a pros perous manufacturing concern un der good management, and not re nuiring their attention. Most of them however plan to be Valley residents at some future date, de pending upon their onnortunities to dispose favorably of their northern holdings. At the head of this marketing de partment and te investigate the market’ng.cf oiner fruit and berry crops throughout the North Amer ican continent is J. W. Osborne, for merly secretarv-manager of the Donna Chamber of Commerce. While in that position It will be re membered bv Valiev residents. Mr. Osborne worked out plans to assist Donna fanners in the matter of hog raising and dairying along with other good projects. “Tn employing Mr. Osborne We feel that we have secured the services of an energetic and resourceful young man whose three vears of activities in the Valley justify our faith in him being the right person to con duct these investigations and help formulate the best marketing plan possible for our fmits,” said A. L. Cramer, manager of Engelman Gar dens. GYPSIES FILE SUIT BUDAPEST. May 18—Two of Hungary’s largest gvosy tribes, the Yoschigen and the Kumanen. have filed suit against the roval House of Hapsburg for $10,000,000. The nomads charge that Emperor Leo pold in 1702 expropriated their lands without giving any compen sation. ^ - --- North and South America Attract Italian Emigre* ROME, May 18.—<tfV-There were 3.706,116 Italians resident in the United States at the beginning of the second half of 1927. the Central Statistical Institute here computes, after haring gone through all con sular reports. In Canada, the in stitute estimates, there were a rough 200,000. For South America the figures were: 1.839.579 Italians in Brasil: 1,797,000 in the Argentine: 65,000 in Uruguay; 23.000 in Chile; and 13.000 in Peru. In what the Institute terms “Oceania.” or the islands of the Pacific. 27,857 Italians were accounted for. of whom approxi mately 27,000 were settled in Aus tralia. Prance, according to the same statistics, drew most of the Italians emigrating to European countries, there being 982.593 across the Al pine border. Next in attraction was Switzerland, which harbored 135.943. Great Britain’s share was 39 430; Germany’s 21.205; Austria’s 18.700; Belgium’s 15,700; and Jugoslavia’s 14,329, the latter figure not includ ing Italians of Jugoslav citizenship. In Asia Minor the Italians had a sizeable colony of ftJOt In Ttsrkayf but only 1M to Syria. In Asia pror • er they numbered only til In all China. In Africa, outside Balya own colonial poaaenkm, there ante 97.000 in the French protectorate of Tunisia, ta.100 In Egypt. 9031 it Algeria and 10.412 In Morocco, A resume of the flgtsrea showed that there were 8,188.887 I taller* resident outside the kingdom and colonics. Of these 7J74J83 were m the two Americas; 001,141 ta Eu. rope: 181.703 m Africa: f»J*f In Oceania; and 1.8T4 In Asia. Taking the population of the mother to** try at roughly 41 000.000, that mama that there ' are about ld.flOa.O0l Italians in the world. MRS. SAVER TALKS ABOUT FLOORS (if * . .. %IF OrtLV l COULD HAVe ATLAIN CtQZGN FL00? TO MATDM TW€ . 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