Farm notices and livestock sale advertisements listed
Classified style listings show multiple farm related items: four room ho barn with outbuildings on Moulignee Route 3 Necatur. farm rental wanted 50 to 80 acres with tractor and two house sets for Billy Boles Route 1 Danville. beef type short horn calves and two milking heifers listed by Eldred Elkins Mt Hope. Allen filmy and horse aged two, pair of raw gray mules for sale trade by Eldred Elkins. buyer sought for cedar posts and rabbit dogs by Bl ted Elkins Mt Hope. one registered black Allen mare five years old bred to Wilson for sale.
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Hartselle
Pleasant Valley Baptist Church
Bird Spring Road
Flint
Willis E Speakman
Billy Boles
Danville
Mt. Tabor Church
W. C. Tucker
Eldred Elkins
Mt. Hope
Ted Elkins
Wilson
Portable calf pens reduce calf mortality with weekly moves
U S Department of Agriculture scientists report movable five by ten foot wire pens with aluminum covers keep calves on clean ground and reduce disease exposure. Calves are moved weekly along a hillside to prevent buildup of pathogens while covered feeders and rain washing help. The system cut mortality in tests from near 100 percent to about 1 percent at the Florida State Mental Hospital farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Carey
Associated Press
Auburn
Ala
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
A. H. Groth
Florida State Mental Hospital
Groth
L. R. Davis
Dale A. Porter
Davis
Georgia
Cotton program guides Valley farming into 1949
A year end stock take of Valley agriculture focuses on cotton. The writer notes the crop was good but many producers earned little after costs. California moves ahead of Alabama in production, signaling shifts in the cotton belt. The piece endorses the National Cotton Council plan for balanced crops, livestock, and poultry, with markets for cotton, milk, beef, grain, and poultry, and predicts the Valley can adopt the program with ease in 1949.
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California
Alabama
National Cotton Council
Cotton Belt
The
Tennessee
Fred Stewart
Belle
Mina
Cotton Council
Senator Hill Named Man of the Year in Alabama Agriculture
Senator Lister Hill earns recognition for rural education electrification and support of agricultural health programs. The Farm Page features Hampshire hogs highlighting livestock progress and references Decatur's first OIC Show and Sale as historical context in Alabama agriculture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Hill
Lister Hill
Alabama
OIC
Decatur
Army Ammonia Allotted To Fertilizer Plants And Agencies
The Commerce Department says Army produced anhydrous ammonia will be allotted to three plants in Charleston Oakland and Seattle for three months totaling 188 tank cars. Additional tank carloads will then be allotted to several companies including Lion Oil Spencer Chemical TVA Commercial Solvents Du Pont Barrett and Mathieson to reimburse fertilizer they produced. Also a Dec 29 report notes fertilizer supplies may be tighter next year with nitrogen up about seven percent from 1948 while phosphate rises about five percent and potash up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
TVA
Department of Commerce
A. F. Pringle and Co., Inc
Charleston
S. C
Farm Service Company
Oakland
Calif
Columbia Metals Company
Seattle
Wash
Auburn
Ala
Foy Helms
Crop association meeting set for Jan 11 in Auburn
A Alabama crop improvement association annual meeting is scheduled for January 11 in Auburn. Secretary announces the event and invites members to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auburn
Ala
Alabarhea Crop Improvement Association
Prize Leghorn Breed to Net Bigger Eggs And More Meat
Auburn scientists unveil the Polytech Leghorn, a strain bred over 14 years costing about 85 thousand dollars. In Alabama tests it outperformed five rival Leghorn strains on disease resistance, egg size and meat yield, with 68 of 100 chicks alive after 520 days. Hatching eggs will be released Jan 1, expanding nationwide by year end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Carey
Associated Press
Auburn
Ala
Alabama Polytechnic Institue
Institute
Alabama
Polytech
Alma Mater
New York
Minnesota
California
Florida
D. F. King
Agricultural Experiment Station
King
United States
U.S. Poultrymem
Association to review last year's work and plan next year
Ralph Jor stated the association will review last year's work and consider more efficient methods for next year. Jones noted about 100 members will attend with commercial seed men and agricultural workers. Speakers include Robert McDonald of Birmingham, Alabama Seedsmen's Association president, and Howard Smith of Prattville, ACIA president, urging producer dealer coordination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Jor
Association
Jones
Robert McDonald
Birmingham
Alabama Seedsmen's Association
Will Howard Smith
Prattville
ACIA
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Farmers Exchange
Jay Maddox
Némont
Virgil Batley
Nance Pord Road
Atley Grantland
Route 2
Corley
Ocis
Lacon
D. W. Thaxton
Bath
Paul Verner
J. D
Nellie
R. F. Clark
Route 1
Hillsboro
Chalybeate School
Shady Grove Lane
W. R. McMeans
W.T. Murphree
Tanner
Floyd C. Terry
Bei A . de
F. S
Plant
Trinity
Parmall
J. O. Gartner
Somerville
Goodyear
Mamie Norman
Moulton
Aaron
Terry
Luther Sherri'l
Moulton-Decatur
Luther Shegrill
Tes
Athens
R. D. NeSmith
Parkville
Battery Sentinel
Guy Fowler
Center Grove
Bull
A. W. Lee
Falkville
Massey School
Dewey Hogan
Massey
Bush
Bob Harrow
W. A
Crawford
Baileyton
W. A. Crawford
Ballerton
J. T. MecCaghren
Marvin Parker
Oak Ridge School
Texas Saddle
C. H. Landrum
Hartsebeck
John Deere Tractor and Equipment
Luther Wallace
J. W. Byars
Five Points
Effie Ridgeway
Moulton Heights
Plymouth
John B. Ready
R- la
Bee John
Moulignee
Route 3
Necatur
Ralph McAbee
Poland
Everwear
12Th Ave. E
Market St
Decatur, Ala
Ima
Hampshire Hogs
Hampshire
Athens-Huntsville
America
G. L. Steadham
Madison R. F. C
Memphis
Sorenson
Dearborn
Michigan
Aliyn Jr. Eldred
Highway
W. P. Evans
W. B. Evans
E. F. Pepper
P J. Balentine
Harris
C. C. Berry
Marvin McElroy
Hartselle Mountain
J. H. Preuit
Leon Wallace
Johnson Chapel
John Earl Smith
Hulaco
Ford Tractor
Leroy Murpary
Mein Way
Brookerinie
Arthur Coury
Reuwte
Somervil'e
Mesmer
Crop Association Meets
J.S. Walker
C. D. Patterson Gin CO
Auburnites
Turner
Coal & Grain CO
Checkerboard Store
Moulton St
Canal Pao
Turner Cont & Gran Co
Ceresan
John D. Davis
Fred S. Hunt, JR
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