Hicks Family Fully Owns 80 Acre Ashford Farm
Mr and Mrs W H Hicks of Ashford now own the Bixere farm after completing a Farm Ownership program purchase begun five years earlier. Their 1940-41 application showed a three member family with a two horse operation and a modest debt. They secured a $260 option on the Sacre farm and funded home and outbuilding improvements. By 1947 net worth rose to 1839 above debt, and by 1945 incomes diversified to seven sources. The couple built a balanced program including crops, livestock, garden, canning, and a home life, despite wartime limits and Mrs Hicks' work.
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W. H. Hicks
Ashford Revie
Bixere
Bankhead - Jones
Hicks
Houston County Farm Securty
Delores
Lawyers Title Insurance Company
Hicks family buys farm outright with Farm Ownership aid
A farm couple used Farm Ownership program funds to repay a 53960 loan early. With favorable prices they cleared 424.7 in savings versus 681.60 if paid over 30 years, paying off debt while avoiding foreclosure. They now own a well equipped home with electric pump water and furnishings. They plan to finish house improvements when materials become available.
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Beavhear
Nent
Hicks
Oves
Farm Reminders LIVESTOCK by W H W Gregory
Reminders cover cattle hogs sheep and gloves care. Cattle guidance includes feeding until spring grazing is abundant vaccination for blackleg under two years old removing cattle from small grain with nitrogen, dehorning and castrating in North Alabama, watching weak cattle and selling long fed cattle. Hog notes urge spring farrow, shelter, grazing crops. Sheep tips include turning flock to permanent pasture and salt and phenothiazine mix. Instructions also describe cleaning fluid gloves care with paraffin add to mixture for luster.
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Alabama
Senator Bankhead Explains Peanut Crop Outlook
Senator Bankhead outlines wartime and postwar peanut policies, noting parity loans at 90 percent for two years after the war and a later rise to 92.5 percent for cotton. He stresses strong edible peanut demand postwar, historic production gains during World War II, and the government’s 1943 price support program through the Commodity Credit Corporation, with the 1946 crop priced at 80 percent of parity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bankhead
Bankhead -Steagal
South
Commodity Credit Corporation
Alabama Leads in Army Recruits and Peanut Crop Plans
Maj. Joseph R. Pickett says Alabama ranks high among recruiting states as of mid 1946 and outlines war to peacetime shifts. National goal sets 2.5 million acres to be picked and threshed, with Alabama aiming for 330,000 acres in 1946. Peanut production remains a major cash crop with continued war-era demand though to ease.
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War Department
Joseph R. Pickett
Dothan
Alabama
United States Army Reenlistment Efforts Highlighted
Amid wartime mobilization local stations report enlistment tallies and discharges. Major Pickett urges area recruiters noting Dothan Birmingham and Alabama stations show varied acceptance while many veterans receive bonuses and extended benefits for reenlistment before the July 1 deadline. Tidal observations and animal notes follow these military updates.
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Birmingham
Noha
Fay
Land Defense Command
Pickey
Pickett
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Ashford Farm
Woodall Optical CO
E. Troy St
W. H W. Gregory
Poyner
Georgia
Florida
Poyner Seed Company
Cross
Solomon
St. Andrews Street
Benator Bankhead
Pvert Amr
West
Faulkner Packing Co
Kingan & Company
Montgomery Highway
Dothan, Alabama
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