Rain light in state but farms stay saturated
Little rainfall occurred across most of Alabama last week while farm lands remained thoroughly saturated. Warm mild weather and moisture spurred rapid growth of oats and winter crops. grazing still limited due to wet fields. cided buyers list items for sale in Decatur and Hartselle. various farm gear and household goods advertised for sale. Syracuse University boxing schedule mentioned at end.
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Montgomery
South Alabama
E. D. Enright
Enright
Morgan County Agricultural Conservation Committees Elected 1948
Morgan County Alabama selects 1949 Agricultural Conservation Committee leadership and community boards. The county committee includes Joe T. Robinson as chairman and George E. Beall as vice chairman, with several regular and alternate members across P.M.A. districts. The program plans a $129 701 expenditure by the Federal Government for approved conservation practices in 1949.
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Morgan County Agricultural Conservation Association
Hartselle
Alabama
Joe T. Robinson
George E. Beall
Herman F. Bailey
Karl E. Hough
John A. Lile
Morgan County
Association
Imaginative inventor claims vitamin paint for toys
A quirky figure described as highly imaginative boasted of creating a paint containing vitamins intended for coating toys popular with children. The statement suggests potential health or safety concerns and invites further discussion on the call.
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Hira
State Leaders Visit Madison Farm Program
Senator J Bruce Henderson and a party of 10 plan to visit Edwin and Carl Jones farm in Madison County this week to view Kentucky 31 rescue crops and farm operations. Henderson, who runs about 14 000 acres in Wilcox county, has sought seed and will tour fields of fescue and a 100 acre cow maintaining plot, plus meadows and gating projects.
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Bruce Henderson
Montgomery
Jones Place
Madison County
Huntsville Times
J. Bruce Henderson
Edwin and
Carl Jones
Kentucky
Henderson
Wilcox County
South Alabama
G. W. Jones and Sons
Senator Henderson
Jones Farm
Big Spring
Lily Flagg Gin
Coker
Parity and Prices Weigh on Farm Groups in Atlantic City
Farm Bureau discussions in Atlantic City focus on parity as prices sag, with Labor Statistics reporting a 76.1 percent cost of living increase since 1939. Farmers watch dwindling prices for staples like flour sugar bacon onions and potatoes as Congress considers farming policy.
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Morgan, Limestone
Lawrence
Congress
Washington
Gulf Coast
Atlantic City
Farm Bureau
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Alabama
Southern States Fight On 90 Parity At Farm Bureau Meet
Atlantic City N J December 15 Farmers at the American Farm Bureau Federation Convention rejected a plan to shift price support away from government backing toward market driven parity with government payments only to top up income to a fair level. The resolutions committee reaffirmed the current policy that farmers deserve full income from the market, not mixed payments, and indicated re endorsement of the Enk en Hope law support system.
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Atlantic City
N. J
American Farm Bureau Federation
Frank K. Wooley
Agriculture Department
Production and Marketing Administration
Convention Resolutions Committee
Bureau
Aiken-Hope
Reading the Alabama Forest Fire Law seven misdeeds
Woods by John F. Kelly explains Alabama forest fire law with seven misdemeanor offenses. Key acts include starting fires on another’s land, letting fire escape, failing to prevent spread, disposing of smoking embers, using fire devices near woods, defacing forest posters, and burning new ground without notifying the forest ranger. The piece urges readers to notify the ranger with time and place before burning.
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Alabama
Lawmakers debate crop price supports shift toward parity
Congress discusses changing price supports for basic crops wheat corn rice cotton and peanuts. Southern delegates push to avoid lowering the 90 percent level and warn that reduced supports could depress farmer sentiment.
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Congress
Resolutions Committee
Representative Wood Returns as Administrative Assistant
J Emmett Wood of Washington county is rehired by the Governor as an administrative assistant at 300 dollars per month. He has prior payroll experience with Governor Folsom as a special investigator. Payments come from the temporary clerk hire fund, a source involved in a court suit over spending limits.
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Montgomery
Ala
J. Emmett Wood
Washington County
Wood
James E. Folsom
Notice to forest users on burning safely in Morgan county
Citizens are urged to notify the forest ranger before burning on their property. Visit, call, or write the ranger with time and location details and ask for guidance. Morgan county contains 120000 wooded acres and the ranger aims to help prevent wild woods fires.
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Morgan County
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