A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.
This study concerns the contributions of publicly-supported agricultural research--that supported by federal and State governments--toward attaining and maintaining a balanced, progressive, and prosperous agriculture. It includes research in forestry, home economics, and veterinary medicine. It considers research on the production of farm and forest products; the processing, distributing, and marketing of these products; the provision of materials, facilities, credit, and other requisites for these activities; and research relating to services to farm families, rural communities, missions of other public agencies, and to the general public.