English Peas Suit Alabama Soils Better Than Alaska Varieties
Auburn trials show Victory Freezer Wanda Dark Skinned Perfection and Little Marvel as top English pea choices for Alabama home gardens. Mid season, cold tolerant with varying blight resistance. yields cited with Dark Skinned Perfection leading in 1950. Planting dates advised around January mid month for central Alabama.
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Everal
Alabama
Alaska
Thomas Laxton
Victory Freezer
Wanda
Little Marvel
Auburn
Victory
Cornell
Hallinta
Charleston
South Carolina
Hale’s Red Land Dairy Thrives in Hale County
County Agent John Deavours notes one Hale dairy, Chandler and Sons of Moundville, stands out amid scarce red land dairying. The Chandlers run 47 cows, milk 15, and deliver 115 quarts of grade A milk daily to local customers.
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Black Belt
Hale
John Deavours
Bee
W. J. Chandler
Elmore Four-H Hog Chain Marks 13 Years of Impact
The Elmore County 4-H pig chain began in 1937 and has placed 2 100 purebred pigs with members over 13 years. Top winners receive prizes including an all expenses paid trip to the All American Jersey Cattle Show in Dallas and 100 baby chicks.
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Jimmy Garner
Deatsville
Rt. 2
Elmore County
Jimmy
W. L. Keeble
Tommie Farmer
Douglas Nobles
Mountain Creek
James Farmer
Dallas
Texas
Louis Culver
Colbert County Home Demonstration Club Tour
Colbert County women joined a Fall tour of home demonstration projects with 24 club members showcasing kitchen improvements dairying and frozen foods. Marie Hollingsworth notes 21 clubs in the county conduct biannual results tours for farm women totaling over 600 participants. A large frozen food display at Mrs. G C Mason’s Margerum home featured more than twenty fruit vegetable and meat items.
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Colbert County
Marie Hollingsworth
G. C. Mason
Margerum
Mack Hurd
Christa Jean Locke
Melvin Harris
Mason
William H. Harris
Sheffield
Rt. 1
Harris
Edward Brewer
C. W. Whitlock
Hellingsworth
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W. H. Greenleaf
A.P.I. Agricultural Experiment Station
Hale’s Red Land Dairy
Elmore
Colbert Club
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