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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1955
Page
8
Classified notice offers a 20 foot aluminum boat for sale with or without a gas motor. Located on Half James Fener Route 2, Decatur. Contact phone gy 2 for details.
In a survey of U.S. agriculture Times magazine criticizes Secretary Benson and the farm program. The 1955 crop forecast shows bumper yields across corn, soybeans, cotton, and more, stressing higher efficiency but a weakening farm income and surplus stocks. Benson shifts to expanding overseas sales via the Commodity Stabilization Service with Frank C. Daniels appointed to lead a global sales push.
The North Central Soil Conservation District of Alabama held its annual meeting on August 11, 1955, with about 300 attendees. Delegates toured Geo Stiefelmeyer's cattle farm near Fairview, as Congressman Carl Elliott spoke on Soil and Water Conservation at Fairview High School. A fried chicken lunch followed in the high school cafeteria.
The report details farm field activities in 1955 including a grass base rotation on good cropland, 15 acres of Costal Bermuda planted June 25 1955, and 21 acres Arlington sericea. A trenches silo will receive sorghum cut with an ensilage machine, followed by crimson clover and future Bermuda transplants.
Forsale listing details a room house with electricity in Falkville and a fall feed offer priced per bale. J B Robinson of Priceville and Decatur advertise dairy farm help and a farm worker position on Route 2, Decatur.
In 1940 the United States held sixty million dollars in the form of ten thousand dollar bills circulating among banks and financial institutions, a high denomination used for large transfers before wartime economic adjustments.
D. B. Mooneyham of Somerville operates a bulldozer to shape land and waterways. He fills gullies into a 50 ft wide water disposal meadow and plants a grass sod to prevent erosion. Others like Wylie Allbright and Jerry Brown implement terraces and water disposal systems with Soil Conservation Service help.
Salem W S C S met Tuesday at 1 30 p.m. with president Mrs Ruel Foote presiding. Opening hymn Stand up for Jesus followed by a study from The Methodist Woman led by Mrs Walter Dale. Devotional read by Mrs Minnie Anders from the 13th Corinthians. Assisting were Mrs Nina Roberson and Mrs Thomas Simmons who spoke on Cherokee Methodist. Closing prayer by Mrs Anders. An estimated 216 million people live in Africa.
The county agent warns that weevils migrate now and can devastate cotton if not watched. Inspect fields daily, sample 100 squares, and separate damaged from intact ones. If 15 to 20 perforated squares appear, apply 15 pounds of cotton dust per acre, four days apart for up to three applications.
Farmers urged to plant crimson clover rye and other oats barley rye vetch alfalfa and clover grass mixtures this September. Emphasis on good seedbeds fertilization and cost sharing through AS&C Office by September 1 1955 to aid seeding winter cover crops for grazing hay silage soil erosion control.
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