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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1947
Page
9
Classified notes show farm equipment for sale including a No. 70 Oliver tractor, a Chevrolet 1937 truck, a Parmall tractor and various farming tools. Also offered are goats, pigs, collie pups, a two-horse wagon, a farm house rental, and small items like a boat and eggs. Listings identify contact names and routes in Danville Moulton Parkville Hartselle and Decatur with prices and conditions.
Jersey bull Sig nal Sonny Design registered with selective registration based on progeny and ancestry classification. Price listed as 308 dollars.
Collection of old kitchen recipes detailing frozen cheese salad with whipped cream lemon juice and pineapple dates and cherries, a custard style dessert with egg yolks butter flour milk and corned beef style dish, a turkey bread crumb ring mold bake and a decorative peas mushroom garnish.
A compact local notice lists sale items and a help wanted ad. Prentice Clark seeks a colored family for farm and house work at Route 1 Decatur. Other ads include a 200 bushel white corn sale, pure bean hay, an Oliver 70 tractor with plow disc and cultivator used one year, by T. K. Johnson Route 2 Harty.
With hunting season approaching, quail populations rise where farmers practice conservation farming. J A Crawford of the Ryan Hulace community provides food and cover by planting unproductive field borders to esped eza bicolor and sericea. Bicolor seeds feed quail through winter, and coveys are common in bicolor patches.
A visiting Decatur delegation praised Tupelo for its strong civic spirit and locally funded development programs. The effort shifted Lee County from cotton to milk and crop diversification, with over 3,500 dairy farms and annual milk income surpassing 5 million dollars.
The article details a sharp drop in the national corn crop from 3.3 billion bushels in 1946 to an estimated 2.46 billion this year, prompting a push to feed wheat and other byproducts to livestock. It outlines measures to stretch feed: preferential use of cottonseed meal and grain by products, selective feeding based on milk output, grazing and legume hay, and maintaining water and comfortable cow housing. The piece also notes local FFA activities in Danville, including ceremonies, films, and a visit to the Morgan County mill for grain moisture testing.
Practical hog feeding tips emphasize grazing, protein supplements when legume grazing is unavailable, and mineral mixtures to boost efficiency. An Auburn trial shows mineral use reduces feed per gain by about 18 pounds per 100 pounds gain, with savings of corn and peanut meal over 90 days. Slaughter meat hogs at 200 to 250 pounds. Feed on clean dry premises with proper sleeping quarters and parasite control.
Feed one pound of cottonseed meal daily when stock are idle and two pounds when at work. One pound of meal replaces two pounds of corn. Have workstock checked and treated if necessary for bots worms and bad teeth.
Instructions advise removing all nonlayers from the flock and culling roosters unless kept for breeding. The note emphasizes reducing feed waste by excluding nonproductive birds and maintaining a breeding rooster only when needed.
Falkville FFA members worked on lighting and fencing at the football field. They dug nine 18 inch diameter holes seven feet deep, set posts, and nailed boards. The project advances toward completion as the crew continues the install.
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