★Just when you thought it couldn’t get any hotter, here we go into July! But is this any real surprise to us? Absolutely not. Are we ready? Sure we are! That’s why we’re here, to see to it that you have everything you need to get through this month and look forward to the first cool breezes that will be coming along before you know it. Let’s start with comfort for man and beast so both can go about their business a little easier under difficult circumstances.

★Fly control, fundamental to smoother operations and better health. We’ve assembled quite an arsenal for you to choose from, baits, traps, you name it, fly control for the house, the yard, the barn, and of course, your animals. Come in and see us, tell us what you’re up against, and will send you back to the place in great shape to take care of everything from cows to cats.

★We’ve also got plenty of permetherins and Sayonara, as well as Bayer Quik Bayt and pump up and hose and sprayers. And of course anybody who spent any time down here at Somerset knows all about those big grasshoppers that go snapping around in the middle of the day, and all the damage they can do, so we’ve got them covered to, try Martin’s Surrender dust, takes care of the big crazy grasshoppers and puts a stop to a lot of other bugs too.

★But when you get back you’ll see you again that most of the grass is either gone or too scraggly to do much good for nutrition, that is, if you’re raising cattle. Be glad that when you came to visit us for all the fly control that you loaded up plenty of range cubes to beef up the nutrition to go with the hay bales that we’ve got in quantity. Your horses will be happy too, like kids in a candy shop.

★And we’ve got some treats for you, too. We don’t guess that there’s anybody we’ve ever met that don’t like the taste of wildflower honey, home grown right here in South Texas. But if we did ever meet anybody like that, they probably wouldn’t have anything to do with Holdman’s Honey, a real treat for fans of nature’s candy, locally grown, an packed and shipped right to us by a great Texas family we take a lot of pride in doing business with. But what are we going to do with those folks that don’t like honey? Well, we think it would be pretty hard to resist some Miss Annie’s peanut brittle or good old Dot’s Pretzels, not to mention a lot of other goodies we’ve got right here in the store, yall come look!

★Even though there’s not nearly as much mowing and lawn care to do in July, you might want to have a look at your lawn equipment, and started up to see how the performance is for each implement. Check blades, filters, spark plugs, and your stocks of VP fuels to make sure you’ll be all squared away when the grass does start back up after a rain or two here in the next four or five weeks.

★JULY CONVENTIONAL FERTILIZERS
Crop and Pasture
APF 19-4-4 Crop and Pasture
APF 21-0-0 Lawn, Plant, Fruit and Vegetable

Garden & General Purpose
APF 13-13-13 All purpose, Lawns, Tree and Shrub
APF 10-20-10 Strictly Garden

Pasture and Lawn
APF 18-10-5 Long Term, Sandy Soil

★JULY ORGANIC:
Medina Growin’ Green
HastaGro Lawn
HastaGro Plant

★Until then, you will notice some lively plant life in the place of the grass you wish you could see instead. There it is again popping up where you used to have vegetables growing, there’s another one poking up through a crack in the driveway, and there’s a whole bunch that’s taken up residence in the corner of your yard, weeds and more weeds. We’re here to help on that front too, because we fight the same battle, a few of us right next door to you. For your lawn and garden, we can recommend a three-pronged strategy: Cyonara Lawn & Garden, HiYield Herbi24-DAmine and Martin’s Eraser, all 3 of which we keep on hand every day we’re open. And if you spot a woody weed or two that you missed when you made the rounds in the latter part of spring, come get a refill for Tryclopyr 4 and Dow Sendero.

★Last but not least, there are a few of you that are trying to do ag projects and make the rounds of some of the jackpot shows, or just generally get ready way ahead of time for doing a project late next month. We keep a good stock of grooming and hygiene items, clippers, brushes, whips, and so forth, all show grade, just what you would expect.

★We hope everybody has a great Fourth of July. Do some cooking, go for a stroll around dark 30 when the heat really starts running out of steam, and keep your watering hose ready if you decide pop a few firecrackers in honor of the special brand of Independence we get to enjoy down here in Texas. Yall take care, stay cool, pray for rain, and come see us!