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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1959
Page
10
Mixed ads listing livestock old cars farm equipment real estate and requests for items buyers seek. Entries include registered Angus calf 12 months from Judge Hortens stock and a 1990 Oldsmobile four door with two new tires along with asks for tin, kittens, hounds, plants, a marble top dresser and a 16 room house.
In a Washington radio discussion Senator Sparkman and Congressman George Grant of Alabama discuss cotton farmer allotments. Grant cites small grower incentives and leasing to preserve Alabama acreage, noting 89 percent have ten acres or less and praising forest and pulpwood growth in Alabama.
At the Tennessee vocational agriculture teachers conference Dr. Thomas Whatley outlined why starting in farming is hard now. Since 1940 output per hour and land values have surged while investment in equipment and farm size rose, making profitable entry require inheritance or marriage into wealth.
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