The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 22, 1952 Page: 5 of 12
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Friday, August 22, 1952
TH* CALDWELL NEW*
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Editor'* N< te: The forciiiitiif
111 ry appeared in the Aujfunt
i. uc «if l-'roKri-NHi^i1 Parmer and
tlnNcwK w.i- granted special
ii by «bat nniMXinu to run
thi f< ntur ■ article, giving the
I n.piT d,i to tho author and
thi publii-ati i H'lievmg thnt the
atory has a very Htmng local ap-
peal this ic-wspaper is happy to
re puMixh it here for our readeri
nod wi*li. tc c*pri'«n «¡mere
thanks and appreciation In IMIO-
(,HKS I \ 11 l-'AUMKK for Hit?
courtesy extended.
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I ;n illy, the
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I Ik v • ci pi i me! -n
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I''r>ai ilii' Cdini
County, iri '' M\m
Maid A i ■ i' 111111 and
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II, Tl'MIt, «1,11
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I i ni h it upon b> aid ' Curl
Civcii under m> band and •«•nl
nf aid Court, at tux nfficc in I1' '
<'11\■ of Caldwell tbi'i I I day nf
Aiu'iüd A I I'.ifrJ
.lidin J, Tniipal.
Clerk County Court Hurli son
County.
A Truo Copy, I Certify.
F.ewif I, Will It'll
Sheriff Hurlevin County
Hy J. !,. Pounder, Ireputy
Sheriff.
ííkttiní; paid
FOR
QUALITY
EGGS
of our Texan hen ar,1
Ihei* If respe. i I ro.n
time ni.un Mini i.il thi hi ii h I -. i.
11,y i i,' good i-gg.- tin kind ' t
innki ' breakfait worth waking up
for 11t, Kb. Hindi? a init-tn' .
Sin •uriii-d mi ( gr '.'t !■
n; un- A f' e: I III, inn g ■! t hi ■ - a.
|. oling itli til. egg>, im
re pi i tilo: lien would claim til 'r.
A || t "f people Wouldn't • at
till 111 eltln r.
Nu a 1 t moll people ale be
limning tn ii p«'Ct tbe hell ai d
I . 11 lo i Tie i ■ ->lt tb.it I i • ,
f , ■ uiei Plan\ place*., arc
j. . ' • i paid wh I their I KK ai"
v. f I, and, li addition, con-ninei
hi • );• 1' in/ , na iltt x pr odui '
I un I i, • ntl> , few far no i "
paid much .ittentioi to the cha
ir, I . ira i. and • gg in pa it.
lar " What i ■ t he u. e." t i • x
nuked, "in Ixth'-nnir much «i'h
■ gg - * If w take good >'gg to
t- wn, we d 't get paid for them,"
Tbe de.ib i 'n turn said, "We can
l,.rdl) I it* > any way but on <u:
i t receipt it hasi* hi i ausc • 'gj? -
hi. ■ p...,r"
! hi obviouj aa-xver to t h •
problem vi- to buy e(fif« on u
jr-aip buai-
Mm litt' wax done to get a
(fiad. I ejrg market going Some
fi■ \v tried, bit the deals flopp.,1
eXIl- egg'* I" •'
M inbloiisoni, (• '
tiled of seel i,(f (food ik'^' (!■1 1 id.
It, iuiblo«Mnm, a stocky, intense
f.dow, i« tin poiilttx niarketini;
*picin!i*t of the Texas Extension
Servio Aftei a lot of mimioii..ry
work in on, place and another,
bis app. al mi a «railed i^k mar-
ket fell on fértil" ground Tbe
\\ eingartcn Store* of Houston de
elded to iHtahlmh a grui!"d ej:c
marki t at llallettsville, I. xa
II! K ST ATI-' OK TKXAK,
Ti Aid -ii- 'iff or \n> Con
St.Me Wilhin Till St it I of |e\ | ,
t • >' i t in^'
M ■ M.,r v N all-ill I, , <; 11 a • • I • .
of tin I- • • i of William S.-hu. • .
n per n of und mind, have >?
fil. I in our l '.-lint y < 'ourt h r
I ' al \ . ,-",t f • I -.It i n .,f
I hi Flute ..f aid W ill i i in
Shalt/ numbered
l.ei* to right. Hurleson County
A Kent V. C. Andrews; ( a.ldwell
Produce Hi aler Caxper Seibert;
Federal Grader Joe ííast figure
that prodi.iers got an extra
S2IÍ.0C0 for e«({H aa reault of
their uradrd market.
(iraded egg mar
kels hriiiK ex-
tra dhidends to
everyone — pro-
ducer, bu>er, and
house ife. Tex-
as farmers w ha
sold oil Kfade
basin in lUál ar«
a half million
dnllars better off
M> ( . ScruuKs
!'t t he j I in 1' -J S" The opio a
11. ■ v\ .sm i i isfi.il W. i - cart ei,
I'l.t a qil.lllt V e¡. tf i hat hi hi ••.
w,v, i^raobed off the shohi .
Fanners in the area K°t paid fiC
wat thel: e^|¿- v.'-m Worth.
N■ of the II a 1 li-t -\ ill. sue. -
pread M.anhlossom talkiil nunc
buy. is into a graded deal C uín
• \ agents, coca: ion,il agricul' ur■'
c¡ i i.ei s, fe >¡ dealel . hatcuery
eien, and farmers in many areas
. .( i, geth. r and discus ed what
I - ! CI ■■ a: ... to gi t and ki ep I-J.— Ü
•i top , on,ni ¡..i. Buyer .iy. i ei, d t
buy oil .. traded basis This pal
tori - pi . id I oda . f inner ■ an
ell heir eifgs on a graded bttHn
Ilalletisvi'le, La (¡range, Cald-
v ell, Cameron, Yoakum, Seg in,
i oiuf rt, Fredericksburg, I) e
!.ii" lUiiuii., Stephenville, Hanul
ten. Valley Mills, Meridian, W ho,
alcKnin-y, Jacksonville, Industry,
(¡rami l'raiii , hallas, and pro!i
i ■ 1 v la the time you read thi •,
:ii tv-o or 'hree additional towim.
A . a di) i c! result in 1951, T.
j egg producers Bold some 10
million egg 1 oil a grade basis My
i ib ng ihey received an av. :
• g. of 5 1 11 *: 11 s more p. r d t
gg than h.al b.-y sold n:i a
-.i rent receipts basis.
l'h un in o'.ei half a nnlli u
o llar mor in Tex. egg producers
| , , ¡-.el s A lei Tc\:. ho'.. '.-W|-
v.' II t llettei I I.' I' to |, .(.it I!'
b)o Hill U ill <)Ulekl> call V .r
band if you i ¡I tin - • st!.. iii .tn"
piimi'ir. "It l.-n't a premium,"
in ays ' I'loduc r.s are in i. ly
g< tting p. : I for the kind of p*••
duct they pi' duie. The fellow w ...
gits tin ,>r niiuni i. the oin who
■■ells his ;> i-r eggs • -ri a cui-ent
ri i eipts ha is'"
The i xperierici of Casper So.
l.i it of Snuth and Seibert I'l -
duce Co III I 'aldwell 11111 St rst. ■
what Is happening. Ill tells till-
siorv tins way "I bought • ggs
on current receipts b.a i . t o'
il.out 1(1 y i ir- I figured e\ci\
,*o( 1 \ va in.■ ie sat! 'icd th..t way
Vi rn Andrewa, Burleson County a-
'i nt, wori.ed on me for seven or
¡ght year.i to start on a graded
asi it. Finally things trot to the
point where 1 couldn't sell the
eggs I gol on current receipt ,
even if I handled them. Then 1
decided to change over to the
graded basis
"We held three or four com-
munity meetings and explaiivj
what mu.it be done to get the
program started. Producers
-eenied willin to cooperate. Some
fc.dks griped and groaned at firs.,
until they found out what ♦lie
program stnr.ed. I Wouldn't g i
111( k to the , Id wax now." County
Agent Andrews poincd out that
many producers had told him "it
win- the best thing that ever
luippened around here."
He:, are some of the results
of the Caldwell egg grading pr<<-
F. /. Mean blossom is called "the
• •cu's best friend" beco.iise of
his energetic crusade for (jrad-
ed markets.
gram:
Seibert handled 13,000 cases if
. i.gs the first year. On the aver-
age, producers got between S arid
it cents more per dozen for h ir
ergs, 'T an extra $26,000. Word
•rol ou: that Seibert had good
l'i" H b'-'iran to get'phone culls
from grocery store suppliers who
anted good eggs. He has since
had trouble selling eggs.
Producer.! have done a better
job too Fede ral Grader Joe (¡a-t
says, "We ret mostly Grade A
e^i's now. At first, most were
t rade ("s or 'mudballs,' as xve
Called them."
Hatcherymnn and Kgg Pe.di r
Leo Fuchs of Cameron, Texas
point; out that hatching egg and
graded egg deals work well to-
:.{i ther. He saya, "When produc-
i|iiit ielling hatching eggs,
they sell their roosters and start
dlit.g their eggs on • gradu
basis. By doing that producers
can count on good egg incoiae
the year-rouna." Milam County A-
gent J. D. Moore estimates %12,~
( 00 extra or about 0 cents per
dozen went to egg producers in
that county because of the grad-
ed program.
That is the story you get wheie
i ver there is a graded egg mar-
ket:
"Kgg quality has consistently
improved."
"Larger flockH."
"Kggs gathered several times
a day and brough to town two or
three times a week."
"My hens are making money
for me now."
"Other buyers in town forced to
go grade basis to get eggs."
"Feed business has picked up. '
"I bought and paid for my farm
by selling eggs."
Beanblossom explains the pro-
gram's success this way: "We
have always had a good mai'Ket
for good eggs. The man who
buys eggs from the farmer isn't
the market. The consumers are
the market. Their need for good
eggs hasn't and doesn't change
much the year-round. What ha*
been done in this program is that
producers, through theincentive of
getting paid for what they pro-
duce, have turned out quality
eggs. And then the buyerB have
provided .. facility whereby a
producer can sell good eggs and
the consumers who are really Up-
market get quality e«(fs."
What happens after a graded
program is in operation for o-v-
eral years? Ralph Horton, mana-
ger of Weingarten operation at
Hallettsville, supplies the answer
to that question. "Production
levels out We know just about
how many eggs xve can get every
week. Quality consistently goes
•ip. When we first started buy-
ing xve only got from 25 to :<0
per cent Grade A eggs. New we
get 75 per cent Grade A's. The
sise of flockt has gone up, eggs
are brought in more often, and
folks take better ear* of their
hens now. And, too, people who
trade at our stores have confi-
dence in our eggs. Sales have
gone up. The graded program is
the reason for that."
With graded programs starting
in so many places, Is it likely that
producers might same time lose
the 6 to 10 cenia per dozen mote
they get over current receipta
prices? Beanblossom doesn't think
so. He say.*, "We've gone back-
wards on per capita egg pro-
duction. Why, carload after car-
load of eggs are shipped into
Texas during our peak spring
production months. As long as
Illinois and Minnesota can come
in and take our egg dollars, they
will do it. It is up to us to pro-
duce enough good eggs right here
at home to supply our needs. To
do that w• must nave a partner-
ship proposition — a producer
who does an efficient job, and a
middleman to market them right.
If we'll do that, Mrs. Housewife
wil take care of the future. Who
doesn't like good eggs?
William Faulkner, Burlington,
Texas, left, has been selling
eggs lo Leo Fuchs of Cameron
on a graded basis for over a
year and likes it fine.
líov.l ver, I
<\aet 1> f.
leftlued that It
Mi Mi-aM loss
a a .-
Ill a
i 1
I won't uxor a thing
until I tee the new
SUMMER PRESSES
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That by pul, beat ion of thi Wit
riot b .j tin. ten days Ii. fore th'
fiturn day herof in the Caldwell
New ■ in a .New spaper printed i.i
tin Count) of Itul 11■ ii you - ivi
due not ii e t > all person • interest
ed in III ' elfaie of Willi 11M
St In 111 r.. a pei son o' unsound
mind, and tie Ac. "iinl for F n d
S' tt li'Meiit ,i' said l\ late, to ip
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mu Im.uk! ol Ivor .tlu-r .mother — looking
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lot us. most people stick to 1 OiST SI \R
once they trv it I li.it's m.ulc I ONI M AR
the I .litest growing br.mil ol Invr in the U S.1
P. S. Sales «i| I ONI: STAR h.ive grown
SShfi (.ister than sales ol the nevt fastest growing
br.mil ol Ivvr in America — from 1^41 through 1951.
In II years — I ONIi STAR'S s.iles have grown 1403^1
Anil its popularity grows and grows' Lone Star
Brewing Company, San Antonio, Texas.
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The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 22, 1952, newspaper, August 22, 1952; Caldwell, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth176026/m1/5/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library.