4-H Sweet Potatoes Project Yields Banquet of Numbers
Billy Ray Granberry of the Webb 4-H Club reported income from 5000 sweet potato plants in 1947. Green potatoes sold from the mother patch brought 107.40 dollars. potatoes from nine cuttings totaled 449.29 dollars. total project income was 358.70 dollars. Instructions urged future planning for mother patches in early April and June vine cuttings with specified fertilization. Also notes Snell Reeves of Vicksburg 4-H Club reports his purebred O I C Spring Hill Girlie hogs produced thirteen piglets last week and outlines disease prevention and readiness for breeding stock.
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Granberry
Webb 4-H
Snell Reeves
Vicksburg 4-H Club
Spring Hill
Snell
Beef Calves and Farm Topics Highlight Local News
Beef calves are being prepared for the Tri-States Fat Stake show with lead training, bathing, water access, and careful feeding. A new leaflet on cotton insecticides by Arant and Ruflin offers updated recommendations. Tomato transplanting continues with potential early yields. 4-H Club meetings feature personality development in children and sewing demonstrations, with dress revue entries due by March 29.
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Bobby Wall
Ashford 411 Cluo
Tri-States
Obby Wan
F. S. Arant
Agricultural Experiment Station
W. A. Ruflin
Extension Service
Houston County Home Demonstration Club
Taylor
Daisy Taylor
New Harmony
N. F. Guy
Cowarts Creek
H. D. Atkins
Memphis
G. T. Hollis
Pleasant Plains
Lila Armstrong
Hicks-Beulah
J. C
More Tobacco Grown Last Year Than Ever
The 1947 world crop of flue cured tobacco totaled 1,824,000,000 pounds. The United States produced 73 percent of the total, about 1,331,000,000 pounds, up from 76 percent before the war.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
United States
U. S
Arsenal shelters deer near Ravenna amid munitions
Deer and pheasants roam in a 22,000 acre reserve beside the Ravenna Army arsenal, a site loaded with tons of high explosives and largely free from hunter activity.
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Ravenna, O
Ravenna
Program Pushes Improved Cattle in Houston County
Agricultural officials in Houston County push an artificial insemination unit to raise dairy stock. W F Knight and Edward Bruner, with County Agent C M Ling, lead effort. 950 cows pledged, minimum 1,200 within 20 miles required. Semen from Auburn sires to improve small farms, with inseminator trained there and office established for members.
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Houston County
C. M. Ling
Ffouston County
W. F. Knight
Ashford High School
Edward Bruner
Veterans Vocational Ag
Houston
Knight
Auburn
Jerseys
Ling
County Insemination Program Aims to Boost Milk Supply
The local association will charge $5 per cow for artificial breeding services with $2 remitted to Auburn and the remainder to the inseminator. Officials say Houston County residents currently use only about 60 percent of needed milk. The program seeks to raise milk production toward balanced diets before a potential surplus develops as purebreds rise.
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Association
Auburn
Houston County
Rosalind Russell Misses Oscar Glow At 20th Ceremony
Rosalind Russell sat in the 3 d row with fingers in her ears as Loretta Young received the best actress Oscar for The Farmer's Daughter. The 20th Academy Awards honored Gentleman's Agreement as best picture while Ronald Colman won for A Double Life and Edmund Gwenn earned a supporting nod in a night of forecasts fulfilled.
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Rosalind Russell
Lorells
Mise Young
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
Rosalied
Lavinia
Gray
Ronald Colman
Edmund Gwenn
Veteran agriculture group plans cattle unit sign up
Knight projects 1200 cows to be signed up for a new cattle unit now under discussion among about 600 veterans agriculture students and high school classes. Interested parties are urged to contact Knight or Bruner at Ashford or the county agent's office.
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Knight
Veterans Agriculture
Association
Bruner
Ashford
Fleischmann's Fast Rising Dry Yeast No Refrigeration
Fleischmann's announces a new dry yeast that requires no refrigeration and can be stored for weeks. Sold as Fleischmann's Fast Rising Dry Yeast, it works like compressed yeast with one package equal to one cake and needs no new recipes. Available now at grocers.
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Fleischmann’s
Fleischmann
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