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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1950
Page
16
Farmers in North Alabama reported buying beef cattle in October or November, grazing them 182 days, and selling at a profit of 58 dollars per animal. The group averaged 431 pounds at purchase and 626 pounds at sale, gaining 195 pounds, with feed value totaling 10 dollars per animal.
Instructions encourage using abundant green feed to rear pullets and keeping them on land unused by chickens for two years. Buy feed may be reduced by at least 20 percent if pullets receive sufficient green feed.
A tour by 750 Morgan County farmers of the Tennessee Valley sub experiment station at Belle Mina examined several feed and livestock trials. Key findings cover two year cotton corn rotation with and without nitrogen, buy and sell steer units, cotton beef cow hay, dairy hog management, hog feed efficiency, and must guidelines for grazing, fertilization, seed quality, and weed control.
Experiments by the A P I Agricultural Experiment Station show that most Alabama winter legumes grow best with lime on moderately to strongly acidic soils. On Norfolk loamy sand, lime raised crimson clover seed yield as lime rates increased. two tons per acre improved cotton seed and corn yields in multi year rotations across sites in La Fayette Albertville Crossville Atmore Hackleburg and Jackson.
The Tennessee Valley Substation reports each cow yields 6,300 pounds of milk annually for four years on grazing and hay. Milk sales for manufacturing purposes return over $63 per acre.
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