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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1956
Page
10
A collage of small ads lists items for sale including a 26 inch girls bicycle, a 20 inch reversible two speed window fan, and multiple farm related offerings. Names include B Pea Blevins Audrey D Watkins Liova Burch J D Moore G H Curbow with locations Hart selle Moulton Danville Somerville and contact phones 6351 2178 and WH.
A brief note mentions 26 pigs aged eight weeks at a Penn location with a referenced person Harry and an outlay related to Danville.
Elmer McClure argues Western farmers face a continued cost-price squeeze. He notes limited relief from land bank proposals, wheat plan veto setbacks, and rising credit costs, with small family farms most at risk as 1955 farm income falls.
County Attorney William P. Mahoney Jr. suffered a broken right arm after being pitched from a horse in Phoenix. He reported to work with his arm in a sling and quipped that this is a fine way to start his fall campaign for office.
Alabama's 28 FHA delegates represent 13,725 members at the National FHA Convention in Chicago July 2 6. The five day program includes registrations, group discussions, officer elections, a patriotic program The Blessings of Liberty and reports from 1955 56 national officers. Delegates include Earline Beasley Kathryn Biddle Betty Blount Madelyn Carlton Evelyn Colney Nyla Duck Clara Jo Dunn Cynthia Ford Mary Bowling Glover Elizabeth Granade and Barbara Hawkins among others.
Grover Hunt on a 60 acre farm north of Fairview demonstrates improved crop yields and color in corn after using Grandiflora vetch as a reseeding winter legume. He rotates to Sweet Sudan and follows with corn or cotton, finding sustainable erosion control and soil fertility gains.
Senator John Sparkman sponsors in the Senate a bill to require the Department of Agriculture to create a price reporting service for forest products. He notes Alabama forest products sold in 1954 were worth 8.5 million dollars and argues current market information will aid small producers and boost forest production nationwide. The bill, under Senate Agriculture and Forestry review, would extend price reporting to timber.
Auburn Alabama July 24 25 livestock expert Robert J Norrish will headline the Alabama Cattlemen's sixth annual Short Course speaking at an evening banquet in the Union Building He is associate director of Armour and Co Livestock Bureau and will discuss beef processing and marketing Salmon heads animal husbandry department at API Agricultural Experiment Sta
Col Chas A Anderson toured Decatur to view 4H club gifts for the Friend Ship for Korea Drive and urged readers to donate old bicycles through The Daily. A cattlemen short course in Thach Hall will open with Salmon delivering The Forward Look for Purebred Cattle and feature experts, demonstrations, and talks by industry leaders.
Readable fragments list numerous women and places including Goodwater Riverton Montgomery Phenix City Orrville Arab Kinston Montgomer y and homemaking teachers Mrs Jessie Matthews Mrs Christine Poe Mrs Annie Wigley. The clipping preserves names with no clear event or dates.
A farm editor letter argues farm leaders push for price squeezes to squeeze out rivals, criticizing officials for using efficiency as a shield. The writer cites May speeches by Benson Morse and Garver suggesting lower price supports and land value deflation to fit a permanently reduced farm price scale. The letter urges leaders to work for farmers rather than aid higher efficiency at others expense.
Hudson Iowa July 10 George M Strayer executive director of the new Soybean Council of America will return from Western Europe with recommendations for an export market development program for U S soybeans Strayer surveyed 10 European countries to boost soybean demand and the council aims to broaden markets in Asia Europe and South America with funding from P L 480 and private groups Collections of 10 cents per 100 pounds start Sept 1 on the 1956 crop soybeans to apply to sales after July 15 The council is chaired by Strayer who is also executive vice president of the American Soybean Association
A group of farmers including Bramlett Massey Carl Walker and others agreed to work with the Northwest Alabama Soil Conservation District to develop land use plans and conservation practices. Raymond Lawrimore requested drainage help and district staff laid out two W type ditches on his farm, as shown on the conservation plan map from early 1955.
Charley Keaton near Simcoe combined his rescue grass seed last week. Other farmers planning to save rescue grass seed should check readiness before combining. After curing seeds must be well dried before storage. Seeds overheated during curing are usually unfit for planting.
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