Mud Tavern Creek Winter Wonder and Farm Reflections
A western North Carolina style column praises Mud Tavern Creek as a winter wonder while recounting the year 1976 for local farmers. It notes cotton weather losses, corn and bean yields, varying prices, and optimism for 1977, ending with a poem about friendship and gratitude from John J. Moment.
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Highway 24
Dancy’s Chapel
West Flint Creek
Means Bridge
Joe Taylor Robinson
Moulton
Mud Tavern
Montgomery
Carter’s farm man shares doubts on stability and credit
Rep Bergland recalls a Crookston conference warning that small farms face fragile credit, variable wheat prices, and an unstable system. He argues for stability and predictable policy to enable young farmers to invest, borrow, and endure price swings while urging a shift toward prudent, science-based governance.
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Bob Bergland
Representative Bergland
Crookston
Minnesota
National Public Radio
Young A
Soil and Lime Improve Alabama Crops and Ponds
County guidance urges soil testing and lime application per results. Alabama apple counties Tallapoosa Chilton Blount Madison Coosa Chambers Limestone harvest 192000 bushels on 867 acres with Red and Golden Delicious as main varieties. Pollination notes warn on self infertile fruit like Red Delicious and Blueberry pears Muscadine guidance details perfect flower and male plants. Winter lime for fish ponds boosts water quality and production when combined with proper fertilizer. sample mud, lime before filling ponds, and use bulk lime via boat platform.
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Alabama
Tallapoosa
Chilton
Blount
Madison
Coosa
Chambers
Limestone
Black Belt
Fisheries Research Unit
The
Agricultural Experiment Station
Soil Testing Laboratory
Auburn Extends Three Staff Retire Amid Dec 31 Date
Auburn University marks the retirement of three Alabama Cooperative Extension Service staffers effective December 31. Lucile Mallette retires after 40 years as district agent home economics. Myrtle Love Good completes 37 years as administrative assistant. Worth Lanier leaves after 17 years as Extension veterinarian. Dr. J Michael Sprott praises their major contributions and dedication to Extension work.
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Auburn
Alabama Cooperative Extension Service
Auburn University
Lucile Mallette
Myrtle Love Good
Worth Lanier
J. Michael Sprott
Mallette
Dozier
Alabama
Miss Mallette
Extension Service
Randolph County
Pike County
University of Minnesota
P. C. Davis
Administrative Service Office
Good
Lowndes County
Henry George Good
Lanier
Poplarville
Ils
Auburn University School of Veterinary Medicine
Stock Yard Report and local notices blend in odd mix
Cattle and Calves market data shows week-to-week changes with steers and heifers price ranges, feeder class movements, and replacement cows values. Interspersed text advertises a veterinary columnist profile for Dr. Lanier and a contact line for Daily Want-Ads mixer services.
U S Wheat Crop Hit Record 2.147 Billion Bushels
Special to The Washington. Dec 10. Agriculture Department final production report estimates U S wheat harvest at 2.147 billion bushels, surpassing last year's 2.135 billion. Corn output eyed at 6.06 billion bushels. cotton 10.26 million bales. Fall potatoes 302.8 million hundredweight, rice 117 million, oats 562 million, barley 377.3 million, rye 16.7 million. Winter wheat planted this fall for next year is in fair to good condition amid cold and dry conditions.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
United States
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John J. Moment
New York Times
Catherine Ursillo
Iowa
Carter
Congress
Brazil
Angola
Guatemala
U.S
Europe
Dept. of Agriculture
Stock Yard Report
Moulton Stockyard
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
University of Alabama Medical Center
Mississippi State University
York
S. C
William Robbins
York Times
Paul C. Davis
Ace Hardware
East Moulton St
Ewer
Beltline
Hwy
Decatur
Earl C Brewer
Mgr
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