FOR SALE OR TRADE RAILROAD RUSTIC ADS SUMMARY
Classified ad fragment listing various rural sales and trades. Items include a bicycle trade offer for a wrist watch by Adam Roberts Route 4, several farm and livestock listings such as eight 6 week old pigs and young calves, a mixed timber acreage in Morgan county advertised by Wm L Keyes Route 3 Athens, and equipment like a large oil brooder and a Good Home Comfort cook stove. Also notices for rent pastures and requests for seeds.
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Adam Roberts
Bush Squash Growth Provides Early Summer Harvest
Gardeners learn bush squashes yield quickly with a two month seed-to-table window and continue bearing until frost. Plant in hills three to four feet apart with ample water, fertilizer, and warm soil. Protect young plants from squash borer and cucumber beetle with dusts. Winter squashes also mature after about 100 days, including Butternut Buttercup Sweet Potato Acorn and more.
For Sale Farm Items and Plants in Alabama Listings
Multiple classified items list farm produce and livestock for sale across Cullman Hartselle Decatur and Trinity with tomato plants potato slips peppers and livestock including a blue Jersey bull and veal calf. Also exchange offer for a Ford pickup and stray mule noted. The fragment ends with a historical aside about ancient Egypt feeding honey to Nile crocodiles.
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Howard Ferguson
Route 1
Box 209
Changes in Plant Foods in Auburn Ala Farmers Use Fertilizers
Auburn Alabama area reports farmers still heavy users of fertilizer with shortages feared as demand rises nationwide. Agronomists W A Albrecht and W H Pierre urge increased nitrogen and overall fertilizer use to support grain production amid rising domestic and foreign demand. Third National Practice Survey shows postwar fertilizer consumption rising and crop yields up 20.5 percent from 1939 to 1944 based on interviews across farmers, fertilizer firms, and schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auburn
Ala
Alabama
W.A. Albrecht
University of Missouri
Kansas
Albercht
Ibrecht
Iowa
W. H. Pierre
Iowa State College
Dr. Pierre
Alberch
Pierre
National Fertilizer Association
NFA
Canada
Local Candidates Seek Votes in Morgan County Primary
Announcements note candidates for Circuit Court Clerk Sheriff and Board of Revenue and Control in Morgan County seeking support for the Democratic Primary on June 4 1946. Names include A Harrison Cline Thompson and B Gumperey among others.
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Morgan County
A. Harrison
Ill
Decatur, Ala
Tennessee farm notes on wheat shortages and Shorthorns
Cullman County fruit growers hear progress on Tennessee strawberry festival and berry records. A Decatur Chamber group will study the 45th Middle Tennessee Farmers and Homemakers Institute in Columbia. Global wheat shortages threaten local markets as France Italy North Africa and India report declines. The Breeders Gazette notes 100 years of the Shorthorn Herd Book service and a top Scottish Shorthorn price of 61335. Louis Bromfield critiques OPA government regimentation and inflation.
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Cullman County
Tennessee
West Tennessee
J. B. Forsythe
Forsythe
Agricultural Committee
The
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Columbia
Middle Tennessee Farmers and Homemakers Institute
North
Alabama
France
Italy
North Africa
India
China
Japan
Australia
the Breeders Gazette
New York State
Shorthorn Association
Scotland
Louis Bromfield
OPA
Calf Show Sale Yields Record High Prices and Weights
Calves sold at the Birmingham calf show averaged 795 pounds each, bringing 29.71 cents per pound for a total of 188,919.29 dollars. Buyers praised the offering as the best in the Southeast, while 300 calves were slaughtered in Birmingham with 60 percent dressing. The report highlights prime, choice, good, and medium grade totals and notes strong market demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auburn
Ala
Birmingham
Southeast
J. A Beaty
Alabama Extension Service
Ozark Mountain Tonic Praised for Rheumatism Relief
A letter from Mrs. W. M. Berry of Mariha Kentucky lauds Ozark Mountain Tonic for curing years of rheumatism in her arms and shoulders after fourteen months of use. She also notes stomach relief and recommends the product, sold at Thompson's Drug Store in Decatur.
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W. M. Berry
Thompson's
Decatur
Agricultural gains shown in 1945 records
The report highlights increases from 1936 to 1945 including small grain acreage rising from 2650 to 35000 acres, lint cotton yield up from 200 to 350 pounds per acre, fertilizer use jumping from 550 to 6350 tons, and dairy improvements with 466 pure bred animals and milk sales reaching 9,444,762 pounds valued at 324,818.59 dollars while livestock auctions moved 1,115,598.51 dollars.
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Nore
Limestone farmers lead in soil improvement efforts in 1945 Alabama
According to official Auburn figures Limestone county farmers had the highest participation in soil building practices among Alabama counties, earning the largest share of farmers involved in soil improvement programs in 1945.
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Auburn
Alabama
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Farmers Exchange
Gilbert White
Belle Week
P. B. Lowery
Five Points-on- Moulton-Decatur
Reed
Avery Mower
Belle Mina
John Deere
T. ¢. Almon
Somerville
Fred Murphree
Tanner
Jules Brannon
Addison
Pive
Lawrence County
P _Murphree
Harris No
Ingraham
Cleyee
Cullinan
D. T. Light
Lacon
Morganounty
Wm. L. Keyes
Athens
Mrg
J.D. Onds
Danville
Joe G. Wear
Moulton Road
H. O. Walter
Union Grove
C. S. Greene, Jr
Joppa
H.T. Mitchell
Mt. Hope
Duroc
Poland
Vna
James _ Moore
U.S
U. S
White Rocks
Barred Rocks
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Blizzard’s Hatchery
Tenth Ave
Hammer Mill
Farmers Gin. Co
Callal St. & Wilson Ave
Makem
VITA
E. Moulton St
Hermitage
Famous Feed Mills of
Nashville
Paul C. Davis
W. Church St
Hillsboro
Hillsborg Road
Joe Wheeler
Pryers
RH. Puller
Route 3
Hartselle
H. Shanerfelt
Guernsey
HH. Shanerfelt
Rutgers
Marglobe
New Stone
Red Rock
P. P
Beulah Moore
Cullman
M-8
Porta Rica
Margrove
J. H Moore
M. J. Ferguson
Guntersville
Simcoe
Poole, Hartselle
Phone
Dark Bay
Fannie’ Vance Grisom
Baileyton
Blue Horse
J. B. Robinson
Priceville
Blount Robinson
Route 2
Pordson
John B. Garner
Boar. C.M
Crow
Moulton
Percy Kenum
White Rock
Mart Johnson, Jr
Danville Rd
Nile
Ilehay
Ine
Grant
Wayne
Blackwell's
Circuit Court
Cline Thompson Martselli
Morgen County
Gumperey Decatur
Als
Morgas County
Board of Revenue and Control
Hariselle
Ente
Wool and
Appei
Hecmay
219 Johnston
St. Cloud
Alexander of
Macedon
Decatur Produce Company
E. Wilson Ave
S.S. Co
Firestone Supply Store
Home and Auto Supplies
E. G. Hamilton
Plastic
Firestone Car Service
Firestone
Johnston St
Tom Hamilton
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