Cotton crop insurance in Houston County offers guaranteed income
County Agent explains that cotton is the sole crop in Houston County with price and production protection under the crop insurance program. Growers can insure 50 or 75 percent of expected yield, covering natural hazards from planting to gin. Indemnities top up income to insured amounts, with cottonseed insurance optional and premiums based on past risk.
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C. Mlling
Houston
Houston County
Flour Turns Out Good Biscuits in Wartime Auburn Homemaker Says
Auburn Alabama homemaker Elizabeth Forney says new 80 percent extraction flour yields a wheaty flavor with the same food value as enriched flour and without changing bread methods. She notes homemakers can help by using this flour to meet President Truman's order raising extraction to 80 percent, increasing milled flour per bushel. A Mobile freezer locker plant with 1,000 lockers and processing, freezing, curing, and storage facilities for meat and seafood is planned to open soon.
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Auburn
Alabama
Elizabeth Forney
Egeri
Pont.ng
Truman
Mies
Mobile
Crop insurance aids South cotton growers with low cost
Crop insurance made available to farmers at actual cost with government covering all administrative expenses. Premiums cover only actual losses, and funds go to losses. The 146 contract remains in force until canceled in writing before January 31. The program has grown popular with cotton growers, with 113,000 insured in 1845.
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Insurance Corporation
South
Early cantaloupes and farm meetings led by Houston agents
Eugene West of Mu Enen Community crowns cantaloupes with hot caps to gain meron two weeks early. His sons raise tomatoes as a 4H project. Boy and girl club meetings across several schools cover dairy foods and corn and peanut production. Forestry perfector Antonie plants 40 acres near the Choc tawhatchee River. 4H health champions chosen. county champions to be elected. Drainage and blasting demos planned at Hobson Knowles farm and other home demonstration club meetings discuss rural house planning and drainage.
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Eugene West
Mu Enen
Mr. West
David
Kenneth
Will
Boon
Solowing
Brannon
Jellico
Vicksburg
Jr. High
Sr. High
Rehobeth
Ardita
Cowarts
H. Antonie
State Division of Forestry
Hubert Espy
Choctawhatchee River
Mr. Antonie
Barmon
Kent Davis
Route J
Gordon
Dupree
Jacklyn Drinkwater
Rt. 2
Ashford
Webb
Roger Davis
Rt. 4
Dothan
Taylor
J.C. Lee
Hicks- Beulah
C. Clearman
Pansey
D. P. McCall
Hobson Knowles
Pilcher
Hatchery
Frank Pilcher
P.Q
Ala
D. C
J. Harrow
Cass Hammer Mill
John Deere H. Tractor
John Deere Bush
Boy Harrow
H. J. Maddos
Bainbridge
Snell's
Cottonwood Road
WL. Croley
Nusard
Enoch Singletary
Ani Aa Hia
Full Feed Steers For Stock Shows
Auburn steers are being fed out for spring stock shows by Alabama 4H Club and FFA members. W H Gregory says use home mixed feeds such as 8 pounds cracked corn 2 pounds cracked oats and 1 pound cotton seed meal. if oats unavailable use 10 pounds corn and cob meal with 1 pound cotton seed meal. Full feed means a trough 14 inches high with a salt box alongside.
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Auburn
Alabama 4H Club
FFA
W.H. Gregory
API Extension
Gregory
Home Labor Must Meet Farm Demand
Auburn Alabama farmers must rely on on farm labor and local helpers to plant and harvest this year. Earle Williams, extension farm labor supervisor, says migrant and foreign worker help will be scarce after June 1. He urges farmers to pool machinery and labor on an exchange basis to maximize use of resources, noting many communities solved labor issues this way last year.
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Auburn
Alabama
Earle Williams
API Extension
Williams
Manure Improves Garden Yields, Says API Experiment Study
Auburn researchers report six years of trials on loam and sandy soils show manure plus fertilizer boosts tomato and sweet corn yields. Vetch and cowpeas changed outputs for lettuce carrots cabbage and beans with 1000 pounds of 6-10-6 and 0-104 fertilizers. higher rates sometimes outperformed lower.
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Auburn
API Experiment Station
Maine
Electric wiring program meetings announced for March dates
Jay A Hodges of Grimes urges grazing for dairy cows and warns only thirteen days remain to buy crop insurance. Public meetings at Wueksoarg High School March 19 at 7 3 pm Cottonwood High School March 30 at 7 38 pm Woodman Hall Pausey March 7 30 pm Coward Senowl March 2 7 30 pm discuss electric service rollout.
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Wueksoarg High School
Cottonwood High School
Excines
Woodman Hall
Coward Senowl
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Hs Tah
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OS News
Houston County Extension Agents
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Dodon
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Piza
Aubrey Loyd
SCS
Ve. Bullodo
Drummon
Jay A Hodges
Grimes
N. Foster
Associated Seed Growers, Inc
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Wayne
Dothan Milling Company
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Mgr
Pieter
Chiveland Clatt
Brown
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Mra
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Malvern
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Register
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John Desers
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Hovss
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North Carolina
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Slocombe
Hartford Highway
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Route 1
Newton
Enterprise Road
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Columbia
Headland
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Herper Church
B. E. Wells
Olig Als
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