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AUSTIN — A Netherlands firm
ently purchased 9,206 acres of
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SAT,’Ha reign Investment Disclosure Act
agency la 1978.
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sstheboti ux of buyers from West Ger-
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linin 1981 to place limitations on
red avenftign ownership of land in-Texas,
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legislation prohibiting or placing re
strictions on foreign ownership of
agricultural land.
The Delta County land purchase
by Sulphur Bluff Realty amounts to
5.2 percent of that county’s total
land area, and an even larger per
centage of its usable farm land.
The same firm purchased 4,753
acres of land in Hopkins County,
and 117 acres in Franklin County.
Rep. Dan Kuhiak, D-Rockdale,
who was a co-sponsor last session of
unsuccessful attempts to restrict
foreign ownership of agricultural
land in Texas, said it is time the
state placed limits on foreign
buyers.
“It’s a frightening situation when
we see so much of our land starting
to he purchased by the Germans,
for instance, and the Japanese,
Arabs and others that are coming in
and buying up our resources,’’
Kuhiak said.
Kuhiak contends the strongest
opposition to proposed controls on
foreign land purchases in Texas
came from Shell Oil Co. He said
about 75 percent of Shell’s owner
ship is in the Netherlands, and said
the firm went all out to block pas
sage of a bill limiting purchases of
agricultural land by foreigners.
“They were really ruthless and
wanted no compromise,” Kuhiak
said.
“We asked them why they were
so interested in agricultural land,
and they said they didn’t want to go
into agricultural production, but
didn’t want to be prohibited from
doing so.”
Records on file in the office of Ag- i
riculture Commissioner Reagan
Brown show West Germans were
the heaviest investors in Texas lands
in a recent six month period, paying
an estimated $7.2 million for 8,456
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Blue butterflies
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United Press International
LONDON — Scientists say the
! large blue butterfly — a wonder of
nature that could live only if kid
napped by hungry ants — is extinct
in England because the last known
batch of its eggs failed to hatch.
“The loss illustrates the extreme
vulnerability of wildlife to the
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The strange butterfly was abun
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changes in England’s farmlands led
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A research program in 1972 found
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Young blue caterpillars oozed a
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caterpillars would feed on ant lar
vae. In spring, they changed into
butterflies.
But the last-known batch of eggs
didn’t hatch, the environmental
, groups said this week.
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acres of land, including more than
1,000 acres in citrus groves in
Hidalgo County and 3,548 acres in
Zavala County.
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purchased 14,030 acres of land in
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