Country Lifestyles
Goodbye to a Champion – Meta Adams
By Judy Wade
Perhaps you knew Meta Adams as a neighbor, farmer, rancher, teacher, coach, substitute teacher, or friend.
What you may not have known is that she was a Girls Rodeo Association World Champion Bull Rider—not once, but four times—in 1957, 1958, 1959 and 1960.
Adams never received the recognition she deserved, was never inducted into any halls of fame, but she was a very private person, never seeking the limelight. However, she rodeoed with some of the legends of women’s rodeo, women like Jackie Worthington, Dude Barton, Patsy Powell, Thena Mae Farr, Rhea Beach, Fern Sawyer, Wanda Harper, Florence Youree, Betty Abby, Viola Stinson and Nancy Binford.
Born on the Doss Ranch in eastern Clay County, she attended school at Ringgold before the family moved to the Cashion area where she went to school. Sister-in-law Robbie Adams related how Adams’ job as a young girl was to herd the family’s flock of turkeys to keep them from straying too far.
Adams graduated from Burkburnett High School and began attending Hardin College where she met Robbie Harvey, who would soon become her sister-in-law, married to brother O.T. (Twain). The two began attending church at Cashion Baptist where she met another young girl, Patsy Powell, who shared Adams’ interest in sports and rodeo.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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