Newman High School - Yucca Gloriosa Yearbook (Sweetwater, TX)

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KING COTTON-These are only a few of the 'thousands of bales of fine quality coHon produced in Nolan and surrounding coun- iies. Farmers bank heavily on ihe cash income from coHon. . . . from I'he Good Earlh According to Mother Goose, Old King Cole was a merry old soul . . . But Old King Cottonl' is the merriest old soul around Sweetwater, Cotton is the leading cash crop for the thousands of farmers in the Sweetwater area. Farmers, however, do not put all their eggs in one basket, as wheat and maize are also high-ranking money crops. Ranching and Texas go together like bread and butter. Sweetwater has a large cattle raising industry, with three meat packing houses to supply a market for the fine beef and pork grown in this area. BOOTS AND SADDLES-Caille ranch- ing has always played an imporiani' part in +I1e hisiory of Texas, and Swee+wa+er is no exception. Each year 'Ihousands of fine Nolan couniy beeves 'Find +I1eir way fo ihe na1ion's slaughlerhousos. THIS LITTLE PIG WENT TO MARKET . . . -The old Moiher Goose nursery rhyme comes fo life as this IiHIe pig is readied 'for ihe breakfast fable of hungry Sweeiwaier area residenis. Pace Packing Company, Midwesi Packing Company, and Texas Packing are repre- senlafive of fhe packing indusfry in Sweefwafer.

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