Bank Adds Agricultural Agents Across Six Counties
The State National Bank of Decatur in fall 1948 expanded staff with five agricultural agents serving Limestone Cullman Marshall Dekalb Lauderdale and Blount counties. Agents visit farms on request to aid land use poultry and dairy housing and other farm problems while clarifying they assist existing agencies, not replace them. C T Doc Bailey in Limestone George Lehnert in Cullman Bill Alverson in Marshall and Dekalb Harry Buchanan in Lauderdale and M B Wilson in Blount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State National Bank of
Decatur
C. T
Doc’ Bailey
Limestone County
George Lehnert
Cullman County
Bill Alverson
Marshall
Dekalb
Harry Buchanan
Lauderdale
M. B. Wilson
Blount County
Planting Grain and Care for Cotton Farmers
Farmers are urged to provide grazing for livestock with oats wheat or mixtures including vetch. Choose land near barns and free of onions to avoid seed mixing. Early planting yields best results and proper harvesting boosts bale quality. Pick cotton promptly when mature and dry to ensure higher grades and premiums. keep bales between 450 and 550 pounds and separate grades by staple and quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartselle
Favorite Devil's Food Cake Recipe Restored
A historical recipe for Devil's Food Cake outlines creaming shortening with brown sugar, beating eggs, and folding in flour with baking powder and salt. It instructs to alternate dry ingredients with sour milk, then stir in boiling water with melted chocolate and vanilla for a rich chocolate cake batter.
Plant winter legumes to aid soil in poor nitrogen outlook
Farmers should plant winter legumes to improve soil nitrogen in 1949 as commercial nitrogen proves weak. Crimson clover in row crop middles tends to fail due to moisture competition. plant on a well prepared bed or use vetch or peas in row middles with basic slag. Austrian winter peas perform well on most soils, especially in row crop middles.
Carnation Company drives dairy herd expansion aid
Carnation Food Service staff visit farms seeking local demand for dairy cows. Interested residents may fill a coupon for breeds and numbers, then hand to route driver or mail to Carnation Milk Co. Decatur to secure cows for Valley herds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Service Department
The
Carnation Company
Carnation Milk Co
Decatur
Eva area farm tour highlights strong community farming
Farm tour attended by over 30 from Hartselle Falkville and Decatur visiting Eva farms. Sites include S C Alexander 120 acres with 80 cultivated and 75 000 chickens, Virgil Thompson 19 acres praised poultry project, and Danie 20 000 broilers. Eva High School projects and new school buildings noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartselle
Falkville
Decatur
Eva
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
S. C. Alexander
Virgil Thompson
Thompson
Danie
Henry G. Self
Eva High School
McDonald
W. T. McMullin
Morgan County
Mec Mullin
Falkville FFA Officers Plan Year Meetings Weekly
The Falkville FFA chapter held an officers meeting Monday at the vocational building with most officers present except Jack Couch. Three 100 lb hogs were purchased to grow out and sell for quick cash, to be processed in a moderate oven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Falkville
Jack Couch
Devil Food Icing
Recipe outlines a frosting method using two cups brown sugar and three to four parts water heated to a thread stage. Beat in stiff egg whites from two eggs, mix until creamy, then add salt and vanilla. Fold in one cup chopped nuts for flavor.
Soil Conservation Notes From Alabama Farms
K N Tucker reports on soil conservation efforts by A C Speake in Danville cooperating with the Northwest Alabama Soil Conservation District. Speake seeded 200 pounds of caley peas for grazing and soil improvement and planted six acres to white Dutch clover orchard grass and Kentucky bluegrass. C O Maner built a one acre fish pond near Decatur, surveyed by the Soil Conservation Service. W J Matkin planted 20 acres to fescue and white Dutch clover for grazing. Joe Crawford reports cattle grazing kudzu since July on a steep eroded field, praise for milk yield.
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Soil Conservation Service
A. C. Speake
Danville
Speake
Mr. Speake
Northwest
Alabama_ Soil Conservation District
C. O. Maner
Decatur
W. J. Matkin
Lacey Springs
Kentucky
Joe Crawford
Ryan
Balance in Rations Emphasized for Continuous Supply
The article stresses maintaining a well balanced ration at all times, ensuring steady nourishment and avoiding shortages. It outlines guidance on distribution, monitoring, and sustaining essential food supplies across communities.
Mrs Sam Hall to Speak at Austinville Church Services
Mrs Sam Hall will speak at the Austinville Church of God Thursday evening at 7 30 PM with the subject Prayer. Special singing is planned and Herman Linderman will direct a choir practice at 7 PM. A junior choir is hoped to develop for future services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Hall
Church of God
Austinville
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Farmers Exchange
Hillott Transfer
Berkshire
Mark Flack
Somerville
Ida G. Smith
Flavious W. Owen
Courtland
Bennie Keridge
Belle Mina
Prank Lee
Luther Sherrill
Nice Y. Co
Moulton
Danville Road
Neel School
Perkins Milam
John Morris
Albert Lamon
S House
Madal
Neithe
Haston el Mentory
W. C. Taylor
Town Creek
Royal
Aeacon
Robert McAbee
Route 2
Mae Selie
Annie
HFP
Pitageraid
Lacon Mountain
Highway
Robert—James
Lacon
James Douglas
Parkville
H. M. Blankenship
Route
Douglas
J. T. Wallace
Forrest Chapel
Clifton Tapscott
J. B. Robinson
Eve
Eva L. Brown
E. T. White
Rt. 3
Liberty School
John Deere Field
Sam P. Lyle
Trinity
Thomas A. Bowles
Treas
Morgan National Farm Loan Association
Lyster
Arrow Provisions
Tennessee Valley Flight Service
Pryor
Tennessee Valley Cooperative
Ala
North
Alabama
Alabama Flour Mill
Carnation Milk Company
Tennessee Valley
A. L. Johnson
R. S. Dickinson
Nebraska Consolidated Mills
Omaha
Neb
Mr. Johnson
Vern Melhuish
Carnation
Sam Farrington
Dadeville
Denver Alspach
Murfreesboro
Tenn
Sam Bourland
Opalona
Miss
W. D. Rigsby
Tupelo
Casto Jarvis
Alton Magers
Kaldwyn
Cecil White
H. L. Sutton
F. G. Weidrich
Hobbs
W.L. Rigby
Carnation Farm Service
Tupelo, Miss
Wilson
Buchanan
Bailey
Alverson
Faumen News
iHome
SION
Sullivan's Studio
Grant
Guernsey
Grace Jersey
FFA News
Farm Department
of the Home Insurance Co
DIXCO
Bank St
Soil Conservation News
K. N. Tucker
Edwin Francis
Ford Pickup
Knox McRae
Jericho
Palestine
W. Church ST
Purina
Purina Layena
Turner Com & Grain Co
Checkerboard Store
Moulton ST
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