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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1948
Page
6
Lost pointer female with lemon markings and collar, reward offered. Several farm for sale and rent notices including land, houses, and equipment. Listings include vehicles, livestock, and tools from multiple Alabama towns and routes.
A collection of notes on strange January weather trends from 1940 and 1948, blossoming signs in Decatur, and speculation on meat rationing and farm economics. Mentions figures Ives Lodge Baldwin Watkins Flanders and options for feeding versus selling cattle amid price changes.
The article argues meat rationing by Congress will shape the Decatur Fat Calf Sale in spring. If rationing passes before the sale, prices will be normal. if not, calves may fetch a strong price depending on demand. The legislative decision is pivotal for local buyers and sellers.
Walter Durham, director of The Plant To Prosper program, reported to the Memphis Agricultural Club that extra crops raised by participants totaled 9 632 871 dollars, with a noted gain near 10 million. The program served 99 854 farm families in 1947 and aims for 125 000 in 1948.
An editorial from Wellington Texas stresses soil conservation and water control. It warns that soil erosion and depletion threaten national welfare, citing historical losses from Rome to Athens and urging joint action to rebuild and sustain fertility.
Ossie H. Dick Bowden, formerly Alabama farm products agent, is named farm products marketing agent for Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Company. He succeeds the late D. D. Whitcomb and hails from Cullman Alabama. The move was announced by LeRoy Holt.
Bowden earned a B S in Agriculture at Auburn College in 1940 before joining the Tennessee Company as farm products agent for Alabama and the Alabama Extension Service in Heflin as county agent. He married Julia Batastini in 1941 and the couple lived at 306 Kenilworth Drive, Homewood. The Vikings reportedly started a Labrador coast lumber camp around 1010 and operated it for three years.
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