Country Lifestyles
Profile on James Wood
By Jessica Bartel, editor
Coming from a small town, people know your name, your parents and relatives. When returning to start a life there, it can work in your favor. People want to know who they do business with and associate them with a common interest. With it, forges a relationship of trust and forms a bond, a testament to hard work and dedication to your hometown.
This was no different for lifetime Wise County resident and hometown boy of Decatur, James Wood. Born in 1937 to parents Frank and Lela Wood, he was the youngest of five children. From his experience growing up in Decatur, he said, “It was nice. Everyone knew everyone. There weren’t as many temptations as there are now, but it still made it harder to get out of line!”
Wood left his hometown once at age 18, in 1956, when he took a job in Louisiana at a ship yard on the Harvey Canal. It was a big difference for the small town boy raised in the country. After working in Louisiana a short time, Wood served three years in the U.S. Army and was over seas 30 months.
Wood would come to date an ex-classmate, Shirley Stanley. The two were engaged while Shirley visited Wood when he was in basic training in Massachusetts. Although Wood admitted he was not a good note writer, he kept in contact with both Shirley and his parents through letters while deployed. On November 7, 1959, the two were married and made their home in Decatur, TX. To read more pick up the August 2014 issue of North Texas Farm & Ranch.
By Martha Crump
That old adage, “What you don’t know won’t hurt you.,” may have some basis in truth when applied to minor situations. However, when what you don’t know is presented in the form of a “Trojan Horse” and is what amounts to an incredible attempt to fleece American property rights, it becomes a different story altogether.
To put this unbelievable tale together, we need to step back to Joe Biden’s 2021 Executive Order which pledged commitment to help restore balance on public lands and waters, to create jobs, and to provide a path to align the management of America’s public lands and waters with our nation’s climate, conservation, and clean energy goals.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By Lacey Vilhauer
Ingredients:
1 whole lemon, seeded and roughly chopped
2 cups sugar
2 pounds strawberries, hulled
Juice of 1 to 2 lemons
¼ cup water
Directions:
Place the chopped lemon and sugar in a food processor and pulse until combined. Transfer to a large bowl. Puree the strawberries in a food processor and add to the lemon mixture along with juice of one lemon and water. Taste and add more juice as desired.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By Nicholas Waters
As winter plods along – come Spring and gopher mounds – homeowners and farmers find themselves playing a familiar song – fiddling while Rome is burning.
Let’s make a mountain out of a molehill. Those mounds on your lawn and pasture could be moles, but they’re more than likely gophers; Plains Pocket Gophers to be pragmatic – Geomys bursarius to be scientific.
These rodents dig and chew, and the damage they can do goes beyond the mounds we mow over. Iowa State University cited a study in Nebraska showing a 35 percent loss in irrigated alfalfa fields due to the presence of pocket gophers; the number jumped to 46 percent in decreased production of non-irrigated alfalfa fields.
The internet is replete with academic research from coast-to-coast on how to curtail gopher populations, or at least control them. Kansas State University – then called Kansas State Agricultural College – also published a book [Bulletin 152] in February 1908 focused exclusively on the pocket gopher.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
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