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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1951
Page
8
Column notes that weekend guests stress the unused extra bedroom which soon becomes a study or sewing room. The piece likens weekend house parties to English mystery fiction and recalls local classifieds. It also includes several small local notices and ads.
The essay describes weekend hosting as a demanding test of household efficiency and diplomacy. It notes hosts must maintain spotless homes, ample supplies, and social poise while guests disrupt routines, often arriving with gifts, many being city dwellers seeking sun and a tan, ending with fatigue and relief Monday night.
E L Drinkard completed another step in his soil and water conservation plan last week by planting twenty acres of class 2-e and 3-e land to sericea for hay pasture and erosion control. The land is well drained but slope limits crop potential. he prepared the sericea site by disking and using a cultipacker to firm soil before and after seeding. After two growing seasons he plans to overseed with Rescue grass.
Steve Walder aided George Neville in laying out a drainage ditch with a four to one slope. A group of Morgan county farmers including G. 8. Glassgow and Leo Pettit received help in drafting whole farm soil and water conservation plans. They intend terraces drains pasture grasses Sericea crop rotation and outlet meadows to curb erosion on fertile topsoil.
County agent L. T. Wagnon urges corn worm control with about 20 pounds per acre of 10 per cent DDT dust and a second application five to seven days later. A third may be needed. alternative cotton dust requires 30 pounds per acre. For more information contact L. T. Wagnon in Hartselle, Alabama.
Marc Ray Clement of Tuscaloosa was installed as president of the Alabama Tuberculosis Association at the annual meeting, succeeding Ray L. Hickman of Birmingham. The event took place yesterday in Birmingham.
American cows produced 120 million pounds of milk last year near a record, with 1945 marking the best year at 121 million pounds. Government dairy statistics show the margin to the peak.
Maynard Layman farm editor of The Daily has been sidelined over two months with two broken ankles from a courthouse porch fall while photographing a livestock exhibit. He plans a Birmingham trip Friday for cast removal and leg length reduction to aid soon return.
A five thousand name petition was presented to Probate Judge Tom Garner seeking a special election on Birmingham acquiring the Birmingham Water Works Co. It was sent to the Jefferson county registrar for verification of qualified voter signatures.
Albert Coburn, 45, of near Duncanville, was killed when several large logs rolled from a truck and crushed him at a local lumber company yesterday.
J. C. Ford an Auburn specialist in gardens and orchards will visit the county agent's office in Hartselle on Thursday June 28 at 1 30 PM to discuss a program for home and market vegetable production including insect and disease control. County agent L T Wagnon extends the invitation to all interested.
The highest post office in the United States is located in Climax Colorado at an altitude of eleven thousand three hundred twenty feet, marking a record for elevation in the postal service.
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