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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1966
Page
8
Classified style ad listing multiple items for sale including a 1952 Plymouth 50, a 1965 Chevelle Malibu, a 1964 Ford Galaxy 500, tractors, machinery, and assorted household goods. Various contact numbers and locations across Decatur Trinity and surrounding areas.
Rural life and nature’s balance are celebrated in a reflective piece. The writer recalls beacon moments of winter, wind, and moonlight at Mud Tavern, noting how farmers feel the wrath of cold and cherish peaceful nights. Lake Bates emerges as a longtime friend sending gourds for martins, with a 35 year friendship and shared progress in their valley.
TVA says developing countries face chronic food shortages and urgently need to import or produce more fertilizers. The Muscle Shoals center report to AID notes North America and Western Europe have excess capacity while Asia and other regions fall short. It pins improvements on farmer education and fertilizer distribution, with 1970 capacity projected at 85.5 million tons, about 18 million above minimum needs.
Washington AP reports a tighter milk outlook with no surplus, as 1965 production fell 1 percent from the 1964 peak and January showed another decline. High costs and beef incentives push farmers to shift, prompting government options to raise fluid milk prices, blue-prints for higher product supports, and optional above-market purchases to stabilize the dairy sector.
A reminiscence from Lake Bates and neighboring families in Limestone County recalls generations of Bates, Davis, Brackeen, and Grisham. The land across Elk, once Horton country before TVA, fostered lifelong friendships, rural schools, and a lineage of educators and community life spanning thirty years.
The department has ordered that price declines usually seen in regulated markets on March 1 be postponed. This action suspends anticipated reductions and maintains current pricing under the regulatory framework.
Washington AP brief cites Agriculture Department data showing seed prices paid by farmers in the last month slid about four tenths of 1 percent from a year earlier. Largest gains were 18 percent for open pollinated grain sorghum and 17 percent for sericea lespedeza, with declines noted for seed potatoes at 24 percent and Korean lespedeza down 20 percent.
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