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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1936
Page
8
A guide to making mousse at home using a mechanical freezer or ice and salt. It explains the role of fat and air in creating small ice crystals, and provides a recipe with double cream, milk, gelatin, sugar, egg whites, vanilla, and method steps for a light textured mousse.
W H Gregory farm agent warns Morgan county farmers to guard against cotton leaf worm in second cocoon stage with near future infestations. He notes one army worm sighting west of town and urges timely use of calcium arsenate or lime calcium arsenate mixtures, stored in steel containers for future use.
Prairie View Texas August 12 P C A Cobb Southern division director of the agricultural adjustment administration told a meeting of negro farm leaders that new deal agricultural policies had improved the economic status of the negro farmer in an address prepared for delivery today.
A guide to plain vanilla and French vanilla ice creams, Ices and sherbets. Explains cream ratios, sugar, salt, and flavorings, plus freezer action to prevent large crystals. Notes custard base for French vanilla and stresses continuous dasher motion and ripening in ice.
FOR SALE Grade A Porto Rican sweet potato plants 90 cents per thousand three thousand and over 80 cents per thousand post paid Both bunch and running variety Full count and prompt shipment guaranteed Mrs E C Bottcher Pineview Farm Hance ville Alabama FOR SALE One rolling chair good as new Ola Tucker Hartselle R 1.
The Daily invites farmers to submit sale ads to the Farm Editor. Ads run free for three insertions upon approval by the Farm Editor. Notify The Daily when you want the ad stopped after achieving results.
Three market notices advertise a three year old trained black horse for 100 dollars from J. F. English in Decatur Route 4. Six farms ranging 30 to 320 acres near Caddo in Lawrence county listed by J. N. Sheets. Thirty English Leghorn pullets offered at fifty cents each by Mrs. H. M. Smith in Somerville, Alabama.
Prof Sam J Hocking of University of Alabama extension service plans to return to Decatur soon to work with local interests on final details for establishing a University Center. Dr R E Tidwell, director of University extension, reports the plan via a letter to Gilbert G White secretary of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce.
Auburn Alabama August 12 applications for cotton price adjustment payments on cotton sold before August 1 1936 must be made by Saturday August 15 announced Walter L Randolph administrative officer in charge of AAA program in Alabama.
On October 18, 1935, twenty eight Center Point women gathered to quilt for a motherless family and form a community club. Miss Rowe, the county home agent, approved the project, with plans to meet biweekly and pursue home improvement, garments, foods, and school aid through organized efforts.
The Decatur curb market operates weekly at Grant street and First Avenue with Tuesday Thursday and Saturday sales. The Kiwanis Club and WPA are ready to fund a permanent market site, awaiting a stable location.
An auto parts salesman Lindsey Redmon aged 28 died in Enterprise Alabama yesterday when a vulcanizing tank exploded. A piece of metal pipe pierced his skull during the blast. Redmon had moved to Enterprise five months earlier from Samson Alabama.
Enthusiasm runs high in Decatur for a stockyard facility to market cattle from Morgan Limestone and Lawrence counties. A proposed corporation has $500 invested to raise $2,500 to $3,000 for building the stockyard to help farmers earn more money from livestock products.
County agents outline methods to eradicate nut grass Johnson grass and Bermuda grass on farms. Recommend sowing oats and Italian rye grass between September 15 and October 15 plus repeat plowing every two weeks after harvest. Smother crops and cowpeas help control Bermuda grass. oats alone or with rye grass aid winter grazing.
Weather service in New Orleans on August 12 predicted a tropical disturbance roaming in the western Gulf of Mexico may move toward the coast. The report notes the unsettled weather could bring increasing rain and winds as the system gathers strength near the Gulf.
Four days would pass inland this afternoon or early tonight north of Tampico Mexico. It noted fresh winds and a 5 meter area near the center as the system lingered offshore.
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