Better Breeding Stock Boosts Local Hogs
Farmers in Ardila Brannon Stand Piney Grove and Kinsey communities purchase purebred boars to improve stock. Dan Newton, Kinsey president, announces regular Kinsey community farm meeting Thursday night with all families invited. Free hog cholera serum and peanut program to be offered, picture side show and wholesome recreation planned.
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G. T. Hollis
Ardila
Clarence Hollis
Brannon Stand
Boyd Roberts
Bazemore Mill
Howard
Enon
W. M Williamson
Piney Grove
Dan Newton
Kinsey
Fall garden tips and urban farming council advice
ARM AND HOme notes from WOUSTON COUNTY EXTENSION AGENTS urge a fall garden with ten vegetables including turnips muss tard radishes and cabbage to cut living costs and boost health. They urge soil conservation by incorporating crop residues this winter to reduce erosion and warn on rat control with red squill bait, detailing a method and dosage.
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Deese
Canamesty
Fence Post Preservation and Local Home Demonstrations
Fence posts cut and peeled last spring or early summer respond to tar creosote and pentachlorophenol oil base solutions to extend life. Demonstration on fence post preservation and a week of Home Demonstration Club meetings with speakers from various communities across November 17 to 19 1939.
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Memoter
Mendy
Mres
Otho Shelleyved
Farmers Study Ways To Save Food And Feed
Farmers and homemakers seek reductions in losses of food and feed crops. County Extension workers advise storing canned goods properly to prevent freezing, using leftovers, stretching meat, and substituting cheaper vegetable proteins. For farmers, tips include growing winter forage and hay to cut concentrate needs, ensuring water salt and minerals, cattle dairy beef hens and hogs fed to profit, and using parasite control and waste reducing feeding equipment.
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Fara
Dentist's Fish Tale Nets Bigger Than Life
ST LOUIS AP Dr Vincent Jacobi a Ferguson dentist known as a fisherman hooked a four and a half pound bass. The line broke and he leaped into the lake without shedding his coat to grab the fish before it escaped.
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ST. Louis
Vincent Jacobi
Ferguson
Americans Assist Greece Aid Effort In Reconstruction
In Athens AP dispatch Dwight G. Griswold AMAG chief says about 700 Americans have been employed to handle administrative and reconstruction phases of the American Mission for Aid to Greece. He adds 341 Greeks have also been hired and thousands more will be employed on roads railways and ports projects.
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Athens
Greece
Dwight G. Griswold
AMAG
Griswold
Less Food In 1948 Is USDA Prediction
USDA statisticians forecast slightly lower total food while higher than wartime levels. Foy Helms of the Agricultural Production and Extension group notes reductions in beef veal pork and other meats though overall supply remains above prewar amounts.
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USDA
U. S
Foy Helms
APL Extersion
US &, Department of Agriculture
USDA predictions on postwar meat and supplies
The USDA forecasts show about 10 pounds less meat per person than this year, with roughly 20 pounds below prewar averages. They anticipate a bit more butter, less lard, and good fruit supplies this winter and next spring, but no increase in vegetables over last winter.
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USDA
Birmingham Seeks Improved Air Service With Florida
Mayor Cooper Green said Birmingham has filed a petition with the Civil Aeronautics Board seeking reargument of its September decision on air service expansion. Birmingham representatives pressed for detour service to Kansas City via Memphis and Springfield and for direct Birmingham to South Florida flights, arguing the board’s ruling does not provide the needed air connections.
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Cooper Green
Civil Aeronautics Board
Washington
Kansas City
Memphis
Springfield
South Florida
Green
Three Year Old Negro Boy Struck and Killed by Train
In Talladega Alabama a three year old boy named Phillip Johnson died after being struck by a Southern Railway passenger train. Police said the aunt was cutting firewood nearby when the child, frightened by the approaching train, ran in front of it.
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Talladega
Phillip Johnson
Farm Programs Need Strongest Leaders
Auburn report quotes Crawley, chairman of the state Production and Marketing Administration committee, urging robust farm leadership for the ACP. He warns of tough decisions ahead, emphasizes county level influence, and calls every eligible farmer to vote in upcoming elections.
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Wlr
Crawlexs
State Production and Marketing Adminisratiion Committee
Crawley
Mineral Mixtures Cut Hog Feed Needs, Alabama Says
Phillips promotes a mineral mixture for hog fattening in Alabama arguing three pounds of basic slag and one pound salt fed constantly saves grain and peanuts. Alabama Experiment Station notes hogs with mix fatten with less feed, stronger disease resistance, and potential millions saved. alternative mix uses equal parts salt, silt, limestone, and coal.
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Wamma Husbandry
Phillips
Alabama
Feed Grain Shortage Faces State Farmers
Alabama farmers face a looming feed and grain shortage says APT extension agronomist J. C. Lowery. He urges late planting of oats, vetch and wheat to provide grazing and hay, with oats yields helped by top dressing next spring, and notes higher feed prices next year demand aggressive planting, especially in north Alabama.
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Auburn
Alabama
J. C. Lowery
Chartered flight to Sydney brings Greeks aboard
Fragmentary text notes 38 Greeks scheduled to sail to Sydney in two weeks aboard a chartered Trans Oceanic Sirways Sunderland flying boat with additional Europeans expected. Details are incomplete and partially garbled.
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Arnes
Sydrry
Sydney
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