Garden Planting Guide for War Time Farmers in August
The article urges farmers to grow Wali garden crops to support food production and war effort. It gives soil tips for fall gardens, advises planting tomatoes now from ripened fruit, outlines potato planting with vine cuttings, and recommends rotating crops. It also covers pest control with rotenone talc dust and arsenate bait, and encourages continuing planting through July and August with a list of crops.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Alabama
Agriculture Industry Meetings To Be Held In Alabama
Auburn, Alabama plans eight agriculture industry meetings in late July and early August. The sessions aim to discuss collaboration between agriculture and industry to benefit all state groups, announced by P C Davis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auburn
Ala
P. C. Davis
Tension director schedules statewide meetings in Alabama
The tension director of Alabama Polytechnic Institute outlines a series of meetings in Dothan on July 17 Mobile on July 18 Montgomery on July 24 Demopolis on July 31 Tuscaloosa on August 1 Florence on August 7 Huntsville on August 8 and Gadsden on August 9. A larger meeting is planned at Auburn with a tentative date of September 6.
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Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Dothan
Mobile
Montgomery
Demopolis
Tuscaloosa
Florence
Huntsville
Gadsden
Auburn
Alabama Harvests Timber and Pulpwood for War Material
Alabama farms supplied about 45 percent of the states 1 841 397 board feet of saw timber cut in 1944 and about 400 000 cords of pulpwood as part of wartime material effort Yeo notes that despite labor shortages farmers planted 921 000 forest trees to prevent shortages
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auburn
Ala
Alabama
Yeo
Free cotton classing under 5-D Act aids Alabama farmers
Alabama farmers can again obtain free cotton classing by government appraisers under the Smith-Doxey Act. Growers must apply via county agents to form a one-variety community group. ginners must submit both-side base samples and be bonded. Applications should reach the Birmingham office by July 15 to ensure supplies arrive before ginning starts.
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Auburn
Als
Alabama
Oie
J T. Belue
Belue
Birmingham
Uly
Syrup Heating Method and Dusting Piano Underneath
Prepare a solution by heating equal parts sugar and water until boiling. Cool the syrup before use to sweeten any drink. For cleaning under a piano, wrap an oiled cloth around a yardstick and wipe away dust.
Soil Erosion Aid Boosts War Timbers 32 Counties
The Extension Service through the Farm Woodland Marketing Project assisted farmers across 32 counties by advising 846 farmers on 186,337 acres of farm woodland to reclaim land and produce a future timber crop for the war effort.
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Extension Service
Farm War News Side Dressing Corn Increases Yields
Alabama faces a 10000 ton slag shortfall with 30 days to catch up. Side dressing corn with 150 to 200 pounds of nitrate of soda per acre 40 to 50 days after planting can boost yields by seven to nine bushels per acre. Extension agronomists note statewide demonstrations and advise farmers to obtain Class 3 slaughter permits before July 1 1845.
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Alabama
T. H. Martin
AAA
OPA
Auburn
Ala
J. C. Lowery
API Extension Agronomist
Agricultural notes on fertilizer timing and storage guidelines
The excerpt discusses fertilizer practices with mentions of phosphate and potash amounts, timing of applications to boost yields, and side dressing techniques. It also covers storage guidance for jars, including cool dry dark conditions and shelving spacing, plus comments on sweet corn harvest timing to avoid starch flavor development.
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Verawe
Greece
Skeeters
Flige
Gurmsent
Sita Oul
BES Bleerns Hart
Jrat Het
Sa Bols B
Miiss Babb
Faolener Packing Company
Kingan & Company
Faulkner Packing Co
Kingan & CO
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N. Foster
Buckeche
DR. Ie
Kagen Teny
Carey
Aree
Teaoacee
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T. C. Davis
Gothan
RFD
Barlow Johnson
J. W. Varnum
Harper Church
Eugene Berger
Ashford
Route 1
Mike Cook
Coily Nowell
Bay 15
W. E. Pate
A. D. Hatton
Route 5
John P. Lott
Campbellton Highway
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Jersey
L C. Kelly, Jr
Rehobeth Church
Fryers
Shelby L. Tate
Slocomton
W. P. Thomas
M. G. Chapman
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Romano Farm
Delwood
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Star Route
Inez Windsor
Webb, Ala
New Hampshire Red Flyers
J. E. Fowler
Cameron's Mill
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Lucille Hicks
Bonifay
Fla.cw
Beulah Church
R. Brackin
O.1.c
Campbellton
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N. L. Christmas
Florida
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L. J. Varnum
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Dennis
Genana
Eugene E. Baker
Columbia
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