Green Week and Southern Trees Feature Auburn Gifted Herd
A long piece celebrates a green week with blooming magnolia mimosa and butterfly bush in the South, notes on river history from Tennessee to Decatur, and a first Alabama cotton mill. It highlights Taylor's Garden Guide butterfly bush, and ends with Dr Milton H. Goldrath gifting 76 registered polled hereford cows calves and heifers to Auburn University.
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South
Sidney Lanier
America
New York
Seaboard
New England
Mid-West
South Carolina
Georgia
Uncle Jim
Tennessee
Decatur
United States
Hudson
Mississippi
Rochester
Utica
Farmers and Mechanics Journal of
Vincennes
Ind
Alabama
Flint River
Madison County
Bell Factory
Three Forks of Flint
Riverton
Taylor's Garden Guide
D. van Nostrand Co
Auburn
Milton H. Goldrath
Franklin
Michigan
Auburn University School of Agriculture and Agricultural Experiment Station
Arkansas Post Cotton Preceded 1776 Discovery Claim
The first Arkansas cotton rumors stretch back to 1746 when Vaudreuil noted imports from Illinois via New Orleans. At Arkansas Post, established 1683, early planters like Notrebe, Davidson, Mooney, Curran, and Barkman produced cotton. By 1836 Arkansas cotton fetched top New Orleans prices, with 23 bales by Francis Vaugine selling at 18 cents a pound in New Orleans markets.
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Arkansas
Marquis de Vaudreuil
Louisiana
France
New Orleans
Illinois
Yazoo River
National Cotton Council
Arkansas Post
Mississippi Rivers
Henri de Tonti
LaSalle
William Penn
Philadelphia
Col
Frederick Notrebe
Napoleon
Davidson
Mooney
Curran
Lewis Randolph
Little Missouri
Terre Noir
Jacob Barkman
Kentucky
Notrebe
Arkansas Gazette
Antoine Baraque
Jefferson County
Washington Irving
Francis Vaugine
Crescent City
Bull-Punchers Pinch Hitters For Steamboats
In Sevier County Arkansas during the late 1860s drivers used longhorn cattle to haul cotton to Shreveport by land when rivers were too low for steamboats. Teams of two or three carried about eight bales each trip, returning with 4,000 pounds of dry goods. Each load paid about £3 per hundred.
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Arkansas
Sevier County
Shreveport
Alabama Ginning Cost Lowest In Nation
Alabama led the nation in ginning and wrapping costs for 1975 76 with an average of 23.47 dollars per 480 pound net weight bale down 33 cents from 1974 75. Belt average rose to 32.13 dollars, production reached 312000 bales, yield per harvested acre dropped to 405 pounds, and machine harvesting exceeded 99 percent. Warehousing costs were up slightly with receiving 1.91 per bale and 1.00 monthly storage, versus national averages of 1.36 and 0.94 respectively.
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Birmingham
Alabama
U. S
Cotton Division
AMS
USDA
Frontier community giving hands and social ties in cotton era
A historical note details how frontier neighbors helped each other with chores, a social custom that faded after Eli Whitney and the cotton gin transformed cotton growing. Before mechanization, youths held cotton picking contests, spreading cotton on the floor by the hearth to quicken seed separation.
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Eli Whitney
National Cotton Council
No of producers and buyers listed
The article item notes 81 producers and 11 buyers in the recorded figures.
Birdwatchers report Great Crested Fly catcher nest
Dear Mr Layman writes from Hartselle Alabama to share bird observations from a retired farm couple. They note a Great Crested Fly catcher nesting in a bluebird box and collecting snake skins for nesting material. They mention ten bird species including robins.
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Mr. Layman
Decatur Daily
Irvin Lynch
Alabama 30 Day Weather Outlook From Auburn University
The National Weather Service outlook from Auburn University covers mid June to mid July in Alabama. Temperatures are expected to run below normal with above normal rainfall, ranging from four inches in the north to five to six inches in the south and over six inches along the coast. Crops show recovery from cool spring conditions and irrigation needs should be reduced.
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Auburn
Alabama
National Weather Service
Environmental Studies Service Center
Auburn University
Cotton Among Louisiana's Earliest Farm Crops
Cotton became an early Louisiana export crop as settlements formed after 1800 and a thriving trade grew in New Orleans. By 1830s North Louisiana produced about 500,000 bales annually, with New Orleans' presses and warehouses handling vast exports. Steam boats arrived in 1812 and by 1850 thousands of boats came yearly, cementing New Orleans as a leading cotton market with over 2 million bales exported annually by century's end.
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Louisiana
San Domingo
Maurepas
East Indies
Natchitoches
National Cotton Council
Emmanuel Prudhomme
Cane River
Prudhomme
France
Mississippi River
New Orleans
Orleans
Carondelet Street
Cotton Mills First To Adopt Steam and Electric Power
Cotton textile manufacturers pioneered steam power with mills like Samuel Slater’s 1827 Providence plant and Mt Hecla in Greensboro, the first Southern steam mill powered by local wood fuel. A landmark 1893 electric motor drive debuted at Columbia mill.
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Samuel Slater
Providence
R.I
Mt. Hecla
Greensboro
N.C
Columbia
S.C
County Agent Garden and Beef Cattle Advice
The county agent offers pest control and crop guidance for garden beans corn and soybeans. Recommendations include malathion orLevin WP for bean pests, row covers and early planting for corn, bags against birds, and careful cultivation to manage weeds. Beef cattle performance testing notes heritable traits growth reproduction feed efficiency and meat quality with BCIA program support. Egg consumption trends and dogwood borer control with lindane or Thiodan are discussed.
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Lima
Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement Association
BCIA
Alabama
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Ene
Goldrath
R. Dennis Rouse
School of Agriculture and Agricultural Experiment Station
Eli
Huntsville
County
Cooperative Extension Service
United States Department OF Agriculture
Megmusair
R. O. Magnussof
County Extension
Chmn
Hartselle
Ala
Douglas Street
Paul C. Davis
Vel
Woultor
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