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By staff writer Jessica Bartel
Back in the time of bare-foot summer days, running in the creek when your phone number resembled 40-F-2, Myrtle Gaisford offered young boys the opportunity to be
boys. Myrtle English Gaisford was born in 1900. She was the youngest of six children born to John and Ella English. Myrtle was born and raised in Dallas. Being a city girl, she would come to move to the rural area between Ponder and Justin and grow very close to the lifestyle.
Myrtle was married at the young age of 18. At the time a war was raging. Following her marriage and deployment of her husband, Myrtle found out she was expecting her first child. As in many instances of the era, Myrtle would lose her first husband during WWI. For being so long ago, and in such a dire time, very little is known about this man, even his full name. It was guessed that Myrtle never spent time on the subject due to the traumatic conclusion.
A few years later Myrtle met an English man by the name of Richard “Dick” Lush Gaisford . The two were married in 1922. In 1929 the two moved their growing family to the country. The eldest of the family was Keith, next came Jonny, Marie, Barbara, Richard, Greta and then baby Hugh.
To read more pick up the March 2014 issue of North Texas Farm & Ranch.
By Krista Lucas Wynn
Each year, when the professional rodeo season wraps on Sept. 30, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and Women’s Professional Rodeo Association announce the Nutrena Horse of the Year, presented by the American Quarter Horse Association, in each event. This is a prestigious award, voted on by the members of the associations. To be named Horse of the Year by fellow competitors is a high honor only a few achieve.
To read more, pick up a copy of the November edition of North Texas Farm & Ranch magazine, available digitally and in print. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By Heather Welper
Husband and wife duo, Heather and Calvin Welper, are the Co-Owners and Operators or Two C Livestock, located in Valley View, Texas.
The pair’s operation has a show cattle focus where they raise and sell purebred heifers of all breeds and club calf Hereford steers.
When it comes to show cattle, the Welpers know a thing or two including how to prepare for the cold winter months and the Texas major show season run.
To read more, pick up a copy of the November edition of North Texas Farm & Ranch magazine, available digitally and in print. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By Tony Dean
Snow on the Mountain is an annual forb that is part of our landscape almost every year.
It is adapted to most of Texas and grows north to Montana and Minnesota and south to Mexico.
Although is seems to be most adapted to clay soils, this plant can be found on a wide variety of soil and moisture conditions.
To read more, pick up a copy of the November edition of North Texas Farm & Ranch magazine, available digitally and in print. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
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