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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1958
Page
7
Classified items include pasture for rent, six room house on sale, bees and plants, hogs and cattle for sale, a Gibson riding tractor, two Polled Hereford calves, 150 bushels beans, and a 60 Oliver tractor with implements. Listings show contact names, routes and phone numbers around Decatur Hartselle Morganton Courtland Moulton.
Senator Herman E. Talmadge proposes a bold five point plan to reform farm policy by ending federal price supports and controls. He calls for compensatory payments, free enterprise farming, and returning marketing to farmers and private enterprise to restore competitiveness of U S agriculture.
Alabama wheat acreage will be reduced next fall under government crop controls as Alabama is classified a commercial wheat area. The tentative state allotment is 30 000 acres with final totals likely higher, and growers with allotments above 15 acres face marketing quota penalties if they exceed their limits.
Dr. Frank J. Soday of Chemstrand Corp urges at the Southern Research Institute conference that pine stands can fuel future Southern industry once oil wells run dry. He notes pine residues can yield liquid fuels and many oil products, and stresses the South’s ocean resources and need for trained engineers.
Washington May 24 eight Alabama farm owners were paid more than 10000 dollars each under the soil bank program last year. The largest payment totaled 18124 dollars to E W Buffington of Boaz for removing 412 acres from cotton and corn production. I Schiffman and Co Huntsville also received over 10000 dollars.
Notes report heavy erosion from excess rain with parallel terraces and drought protection. Bahia grass seeding and crimson clover seed harvest urged. A flowering multiflora rose hedge near Hartselle is praised as a rare living fence. Tennessee time zone talk notes a seven minute sunrise difference between Nashville and Chattanooga and support for Eastern Standard time in Middle Tennessee.
Mr. Farmer advertises Breeder's Foundation Cotton Seed Empire and DPL-15 plus Blue Tag Certified and Acid Delinted cotton seed in popular varieties.
Seed corn varieties highlighted include Pioneer Hybrid Seed Corn Funk's McCurdy's and U S 13 Hybrid Seed Corn along with open pollinated options noted in the listing.
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