Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7258 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7258

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether teachers employed in public schools of Eastland County may accept part-time employment as teachers in the Eastland County Vocational Schools for G.I.'s.
Date: October 18, 1946
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of 4 rows of crotolaria for wind erosion control and soil improvement alternating with 8 rows of peanuts. Mr. J.R. Grydor, father of J.W. Grydor, examines the crotolaria seed crop. TX-41-307.
Date: October 6, 1943
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Contour Farming

Photograph of wind and water erosion control on peanut field. Contour strip crops of soy beans (4 rows wide) with 8 rows of peanuts in intervals. Peanuts have been dug and lay in shanks for curing. TX-41, 844.
Date: October 6, 1944
Creator: Webb, Gordon
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

G. G. Gross Cover Drilling and Vetch Plowing in Pecan Orchard

Photograph of G. G. Goss on a tractor drilling cover and soil improving crop of vetch in a 26-acre pecan orchard. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Drilling cover and soil improving crop of Vetch in a 26 acre Pecan Orchard. In the same operation, Goss is applying 100# super phosphate per acre. Nimrod Fine Sand."
Date: October 7, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of W.A. Maples farm land. Wind strips on Contour. 4 rows of crotolaria alternating with 8 rows of peanuts on 20 acres of Texas field. Next year, Maples plans to use a 4-row strip with 2 rows of crotolaria on the outside of two rows of peas. Crop residue is from last year's strips of sorghum. Peanuts on the field last year yielded 24 bushels per acre. The 74 acre field is all planted on the contour and stripped for wind erosion. 30 acres are protected with 2 rows of peas plus a row of sorghum on each side; 5 acres with 4 row strips of peas; 19 acres with 4 row strips of sorghum; 20 acres with 4 row strips of of crotolaria. Peas and crotolaria were fertilized with 100 pounds super phospate per acre. TX-41-302.
Date: October 6, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History