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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1948
Page
6
A compilation of local ads offering 70 acres of land with improvements to trade for labor work and housing in 1949. Additional listings include used gas refrigerator for sale, a 1942 Chevrolet with 1947 motor, lost dogs and hounds, trunks, stoves, a sawmill, a mare mule, a baby buggy, poultry requests, and livestock trades across Danville Decatur Hartselle Athens and surrounding routes.
A blue goose was added to the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge pen near its headquarters. The bird, donated by H T eres of Falkville Alabama, was rescued in fall 1945 after being wounded on Elk River. Blue geese migrate through North Alabama and differ from Canada geese with blue bodies and white heads.
Sericea pioneer Clyde Crawford of Center Grove expanded from two to 100 acres of sericea on his Morgan County farm with a Soil Conservation Service district plan guiding rotations. He harvests seed, hay, and grazing from the crop, runs a seed business, and rotates oats crimson clover grain sorghum and fescue.
The Huntsville Production Credit Association will hold two stockholders meetings August 4 at the Tennessee Valley Experiment Station 2 PM and August 5 at the Crossville Sand Mountain Experiment Station 10 AM to elect directors hear reports and feature Steve Voelker of Production Credit Corporation. About 4100 stockholders from Cullman DeKalb Jackson Limestone Madison Marshall and Morgan counties supported by 1947 loans totaling over 312 million. directors J E Hays T Herman Vann Guntersville and others oversee loans to farmers and conservation efforts led by Clyde Crawford with TVA and PMA aid.
Alan Kline now president of the American Farm Bureau visited Decatur twice, recalling his 1945 trip. The Alabama Angus Association Field Day on August 11, starting at Sim Howell’s Falkville farm, includes tours of Horton Greenbrier and Maples North Limestone, with a judging contest and barbecue featuring leading state breeders.
Last night the Carnation group held its first Valley meeting at Woodall's with section haulers as guests. It marks a step in developing milk in the area. Officials say steady meetings with various groups, not a magical fix, will build the region into a significant milk producer by August 1948.
A. L. Johnson, son of the Flour Mill, reports this week that crops across the midwest corn belt are at peak. He toured the region and says last week showed unprecedented good conditions from western to eastern edges, better than any prior year.
John Davis returns from the corn belt impressed by a bumper crop declaring the best corn crop seen. Cotton analysts project a 14 million bale national crop with the Valley likely to share in the bumper cotton yield.
The Morgan County Board of Education Decatur Alabama invites sealed bids for the Maple Grove School building site five miles east of Priceville land not included. Bids due August 26 at 10:00 am with public opening. Sale contingent on State Superintendent and Governor approval.
Morgan County farmers receive PMA aid for conservation practices with a regular allotment of $1 per acre plus 10 cents for non crop land. Special allotments double for terraces liming and drainage ditches. Minimum farm allotment is $15.
The article explains that farmers must obtain approval from the County Agricultural Conservation Committee before starting a practice. Approval can be obtained by contacting the PMA office in Hartselle by mail, telephone, or in person, or alternative methods are available.
After a farmer has obligated his farm allocation he can secure a conditional approval for any approved practice he may carry out. The policy allows flexibility in implementing approved methods while meeting allocation requirements.
The guidance describes regular and conditional PMA allotments for farmers including basic slag, vetch seeding, and terrace work. It notes regular payments such as 22.40 for standard allotment and 5.60 per ton for slag, with conditional approvals like 15.40 for 200 pounds of vetch and 44.80 special allotments. Decisions depend on remaining PMA funding and agricultural conservation practice allowances.
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